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[gwydion]

* "Iran scientist linked to military nuclear program killed:" https://apnews.com/article/dubai-iran-united-arab-emirates-nuclear-weapons-israel-28d7c6e4abec1b82f2d2f3ad649bbe01

* "Nearly 250 million workers start strike in India:" https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=62212&SEO=nearly-250-million-workers-start-strike-in-india

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* "Moderna to seek emergency FDA authorization for coronavirus vaccine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-emergency-use-authorization-441339

* "‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna’s vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/absolutely-remarkable-no-one-who-got-modernas-vaccine-trial-developed-severe-covid-19

* "Sri Lanka coronavirus prison riot leaves eight dead, over 50 wounded:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/asia/sri-lanka-covid-19-prison-intl/index.html

* "No COVID-19 vaccine, no normal life, UK minister suggests:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-britain-vaccines/no-covid-19-vaccine-no-normal-life-uk-minister-suggests-idUSL8N2IG4TT

* He turned their nursing homes into killing fields. "As second COVID wave spreads, Sweden’s anti-lockdown top doc sidelined:" https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-sweden-doctor-coronavirus-second-wave-sidelines-20201128-fmmqxn4rhzfiffeqnphxmahz4m-story.html

* "Italy's Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the mafia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55098415

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 11/30/20 are 13,512,000. The official death toll is 268,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "Covid Overload: U.S. Hospitals Are Running Out of Beds for Patients:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/health/covid-hospitals-overload.html

* "Fauci Warns Of 'Surge Upon A Surge' As COVID-19 Hospitalizations Hit Yet Another High:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/29/939863068/fauci-warns-of-a-surge-upon-surge-as-covid-19-hospitalizations-hit-yet-another-h

* "US air travel sets a pandemic-era record despite calls to stay home for Thanksgiving:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/covid-air-travel-thanksgiving-trnd/index.html

* "Millions travel over holiday weekend as hospitalizations reach new high:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/millions-travel-over-holiday-weekend-as-hospitalizations-reach-new-high-96898629576

* "Federal system for tracking hospital beds and COVID-19 patients provides questionable data:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/federal-system-tracking-hospital-beds-and-covid-19-patients-provides-questionable-data

* It turned out the CDC had been using a science and math based approach, but Azar decided to go another way. "'It's just a total mess.': HHS botches takeover of Covid-19 data:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-just-a-total-mess-hhs-botches-takeover-of-covid-19-data-96906821931

* "Dr. Scott Atlas, Special Coronavirus Adviser To Trump Resigns:" https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940376041/dr-scott-atlas-special-coronavirus-advisor-to-trump-resigns

* "Health care workers say patients don’t believe they have Covid-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/health-care-workers-say-patients-don-t-believe-they-have-covid-19-96900165613

* "Latest on COVID-19 in MN: Walz expects no-gather guidance for Christmas:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/30/latest-on-covid19-in-mn

* "Results from North Dakota's COVID-19 testing events delayed as country sees cases spike | Grand Forks Herald:" https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6781850-Results-from-North-Dakotas-COVID-19-testing-events-delayed-as-country-sees-cases-spike

* "COVID-19 in South Dakota: 564 new total cases; Death toll rises to 946; Active cases at 17,184:" https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/covid-19-in-south-dakota-564-new-total-cases-death-toll-rises-to-946-active-cases-at-17184/

* "NEW: Nevada reports nearly 3,000 COVID-19 cases, record-breaking streak for hospitalizations continues:" https://www.8newsnow.com/news/health/coronavirus-health/new-nevada-reports-nearly-3000-covid-19-cases-record-breaking-streak-for-hospitalizations-continues/

* "With COVID-19 deaths in Missouri topping 3,800, anti-vaccination proposal surfaces:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/with-covid-19-deaths-in-missouri-topping-3-800-anti-vaccination-proposal-surfaces/article_2917c4b6-4ab5-5081-83e7-3379a2ba8360.html

* "Rhode Island hospitals are full. Covid field hospital opening today.:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/healthcare/2020/11/30/covid-field-hospital-cranston-begin-accepting-patients-monday/6461763002/

* "Many Colorado Republicans go maskless during special session on COVID-19 relief:" https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/30/colorado-gop-legislature-masks-covid/

* "Party With Nearly 400 People Is Shut Down in Manhattan:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/nyregion/party-400-people-coronavirus-nyc.html

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* "Ex-Trump adviser files $75 million suit against FBI, DOJ over Russia probe surveillance:" https://www.axios.com/carter-page-lawsuit-fbi-doj-comey-63a14cc6-dca6-4c1e-a5cd-c367aac6c5c2.html

* "Trump commits to stepping down if electoral college votes for Biden:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-will-leave-if-electoral-college-votes-for-biden/2020/11/26/7883351c-303b-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

* "20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-overturn/2020/11/28/34f45226-2f47-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

* "Wisconsin and Arizona make it official as Trump fails to stop vote certification in all six states where he contested his defeat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-wisconsin-certify-election/2020/11/30/ec161756-3338-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html

* "Kemp to Trump: Georgia law blocks him from ‘interfering’ with elections:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/kemp-to-trump-georgia-law-blocks-him-from-interfering-with-elections/V6FQECEXMNGBNJJVOELKPN7BVE/

* "GOP governor sends White House to voicemail, certifies election results:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-governor-sends-white-house-to-voicemail-certifies-election-results-96906821957

* 45 paid 3 million to find an extra 87 Biden votes. "Wisconsin recount confirms Biden’s win over Trump, cementing the president’s failure to change the election results:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-recount-over/2020/11/29/b4896ade-30c9-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html

* "Biden to nominate Janet Yellen as US treasury secretary:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55136504

* "'Smart, qualified, serious progressive credentials': Krugman on Biden's new economic team:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-smart-qualified-serious-progressive-credentials-krugman-on-biden-s-new-economic-team-96906821879

* "Biden announces all-female White House communications team:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/29/biden-all-female-communications-team-441264

* "Trump administration to ease rules on companies killing birds:" https://www.axios.com/trump-regulation-companies-killing-birds-environment-b883dc0d-0241-45fd-9e5b-7d12f5559d32.html

* "E.P.A.’s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/climate/epa-trump-biden.html

* "Trump's FCC chief leaves legacy of deregulation and 5G fights:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/fcc-chief-ajit-pai-to-depart-agency-the-day-biden-is-sworn-in-441379

* "Millions may be getting shortchanged on unemployment benefits, GAO finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/unemployment-payment-problems-gao-report/index.html

* "U.S. weekly unemployment claims data flawed: government watchdog:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-unemployment/us-weekly-unemployment-claims-data-flawed-government-watchdog-idUSKBN28A2O1

* "Both Republican candidates in Georgia runoffs face questions about stock trades:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/both-republican-candidates-in-georgia-runoffs-face-question-about-stock-trades-96901189754

Want to try to flip the Senate?

Donate to Raphael Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff
Donate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff

* "Supreme Court Looks For Ways To Wait Out Trump On Key Census Question:" https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940116088/supreme-court-weighs-trump-plan-to-cut-undocumented-immigrants-from-census

* "New York AG calls Trump’s efforts to subvert the census ‘more anti-immigrant rhetoric’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/new-york-ag-calls-trump-s-efforts-to-subvert-the-census-more-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-96898117795

* "Behind Trump’s final push to limit immigration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/30/trump-final-push-limit-immigration-438815

* "New Rule Would Allow U.S. to Use More Methods for Executions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/politics/executions-firing-squads-electrocution.html

* "University Student's Union BME officer told to stop being a 'gay n****r' in student feedback form:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/27/lancaster-university-bme-officer-max-kafula-student-union-racism-homophobia-gay/

* "High school put in lockdown after shooting threatened on social media, targeting LGBT+ students:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/26/new-zealand-wellington-high-school-shooting-lgbt/

* "Trans woman violently beaten, stoned and left to die by the road as violence spirals in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/26/trans-woman-violence-crime-estefane-stephanie-borges-jair-bolsonaro-brazil/

* "Being non-binary can be grounds for asylum, court decides in historic ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/25/non-binary-asylum-seeker-el-salvador-upper-tribunal-transphobia-home-office/

* "Lush admits donating thousands to anti-trans pressure group Woman’s Place UK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/01/lush-anti-trans-group-womans-place-uk-grant-charity-pot-transphobia-backlash/

* "Five tired and outdated myths about HIV that have no place in 2020:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/01/world-aids-day-hiv-myths-transmission-virus-testing-kissing-death-sentence/

* "Massive Drop in HIV-Related Deaths During 2010s:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/11/30/massive-drop-hiv-related-deaths-during-2010s

* "Nine of the Weirdest Penises in the Animal Kingdom:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-weirdest-penises-animal-kingdom-180976274/

* "'World's loneliest elephant' arrives for new life in Cambodia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55132839

* "Brazil's Amazon: Deforestation 'surges to 12-year high':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55130304

* "Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/21/science/artificial-intelligence-fake-people-faces.html

* "Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed at the Age of 88:" https://www.tor.com/2020/11/30/legendary-science-fiction-author-ben-bova-has-passed-at-the-age-of-88/

* "Mike Tyson Returns, Biden Breaks Foot & Canceled SantaCon:"

* "Donald Trump: Go Big and Go Home - Last-Minute Cruelty:"

* "Count On It with Dulce - The Cost of Climate Change:"

* "Imperial March - Carol of the Bells:"

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* On the Thatcher Statue: https://twitter.com/WelshDalaiLama/status/1332701116614791171

* "Sunday Sweets: A Gingerbread Jam!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/11/29/sunday-sweets-a-gingerbread-jam

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* The Flooding in Vietnam and Cambodia is devastating. Want to help? https://linktr.ee/lvndhy

* "Protect the Results - Organizing to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election:" https://protecttheresults.com/

* Want to try to flip the Senate?

Donate to Raphael Warnock: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/warnockrunoff
Donate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff



"The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund!:" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/midwestibf

* The Blackfeet are under Covid lockdown and need food pantry donations: https://www.fastblackfeet.org/campaigns/fast-blackfeet/

* What to help fight for queer people in Africa? Try the Initiative Sankofa D’Afrique de l’Ouest www.ISDAO.org

* Things you can do to help save the post office: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/626472377433358336

* "When and how to vote in all 50 states:" https://www.axios.com/how-to-vote-by-state-2020-307c3d17-ee57-4a1b-8bad-182ca1cdb752.html

* Want to help people in Beirut? https://karolinadeaen.tumblr.com/post/625576504313741312

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html