Only About Half of Prepared Links

[gwydion]

* This is scary. "Boris Johnson pledges to to target crime and anti-social behaviour:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-57978618

* "Indians turn to crowdfunding to pay Covid bills:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57981252

* "Lebanese PM-designate Mikati aims to form gov't to implement reform plan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanese-president-meets-businessman-mikati-set-be-designated-premier-2021-07-26/

* "Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's website blocked by regulator before election:" https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-critic-navalnys-website-blocked-by-russian-regulator-2021-07-26/

* "Tunisian democracy in turmoil after president sacks government:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/tunisian-democracy-crisis-after-president-ousts-government-2021-07-26/

* "Hong Kong Protester Is Convicted in First Trial Under Tough Security Law:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/world/asia/hong-kong-trial-security-law.html

* "Vatican's Cardinal Becciu on trial in $412m fraud case:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57981508

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* "'Severe' Covid-19 cases surge in Tokyo during Olympics:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/olympics/severe-covid-19-cases-surge-tokyo-during-olympics-n1275109

* "Brazil reopens amid looming threat from delta variant:" https://apnews.com/article/soccer-sports-health-caribbean-coronavirus-pandemic-9d2767ca1c99c774a13b760c5d39b8c9

* "CDC reverses indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people and kids should wear them indoors:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/cdc-to-reverse-indoor-mask-policy-to-recommend-them-for-fully-vaccinated-people-in-covid-hot-spots.html

* "New Covid variant data prompts change in CDC mask guidance:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-covid-variant-data-prompts-change-in-cdc-mask-guidance-117494341636

* "Dr. Fauci explains updated mask guidance for vaccinated folks:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-explains-updated-cdc-mask-guidance-for-vaccinated-people-amid-covid-hotspots-117489221538

* "New Vaccine Mandates Are Coming For Government Employees And Health Care Workers:" https://www.npr.org/2021/07/26/1020709931/nyc-will-require-vaccines-or-weekly-tests-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-city-work

* "DOJ says federal law doesn’t bar businesses, agencies from mandating Covid vaccines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/26/va-vaccine-health-care-workers-500750

* "NYC mandates Covid vaccines or weekly testing for city workers :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyc-mandates-covid-19-vaccines-or-weekly-testing-for-city-workers-117426245839

* "A Missouri hospital just hit its all-time high for Covid cases. But the county fair that attracts thousands won't be canceled:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/us/missouri-covid-ozark-empire-fair-trnd/index.html

* "Mayor of Florida county home to Disney World sounds alarm on surging Covid cases:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/26/politics/florida-jerry-demings-covid-warning-amusement-parks/index.html

* "Southwest Missouri sees increase in COVID infections among children:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/southwest-missouri-sees-increase-in-covid-infections-among-children/article_9ce3af06-43e1-508f-beb0-4324b9ab36fc.html

* "More than 6,000 more COVID cases confirmed in Louisiana, marking one of largest increases:" https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_35ecf746-ee1e-11eb-bc25-7beed54eaf33.html

* "Louisiana's COVID-19 surge starts to stall other surgeries:" https://www.wdsu.com/article/louisianas-covid-19-surge-starts-to-stall-other-surgeries/37134799

* "In Louisiana, Vaccine Misinformation Has Public Health Workers Feeling ‘Stuck’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/us/politics/louisiana-covid-vaccine-misinformation.html

* "Louisiana prisons suspend visitation again as COVID-19 cases soar in the state:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-louisiana-prisons-suspend-visitation/

* "Rep. Crist slams DeSantis: We have a governor that's not leading on COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-19-surging-amid-low-vaccination-rates-analyzed-by-rep-crist-dr-pernell-117426757577

* "The Bye Line: Jonathan Capehart has some tough love for the unvaccinated:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-jonathan-capehart-has-some-tough-love-for-the-unvaccinated-117356613594

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* "Biden, Iraqi prime minister to announce end of U.S. combat mission in Iraq:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-iraqi-prime-minister-announce-end-u-s-combat-mission-n1274992

* "Michigan Republicans will return Covid relief funds used to pay own bonuses:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/25/michigan-republicans-covid-relief-funds-bonuses

* "Trump pressures McConnell, GOP to ditch bipartisan talks until they have majority:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/564801-trump-pressures-mcconnell-gop-to-ditch-bipartisan-talks-until-they?rl=1

* "End to COVID-19 hotel housing for homeless raises worries:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-travel-health-4f457e6f8d42d6f542baa8db5103fdf0

* "It’s Time for Biden and Senate Democrats to Save Voting Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/7/13/its-time-biden-and-senate-democrats-save-voting-rights

* "'That is how democracy dies': Single-party power grab flagged by voting rights advocates" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-that-is-how-democracy-dies-single-party-power-grab-flagged-by-voting-rights-advocates-117434949865

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely 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/

* "Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson among 39 people arrested in protest at Sen. Sinema’s Phoenix office:" https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/rev-jesse-jackson-william-barber-arrested-released-while-protesting-sen-sinemas-office/75-b2a6e012-9c25-412c-a1a9-bf3d9cf8c96e

* "Arizona Republicans Subpoena Routers Amid Cyber Ninja's Shambling Election Audit:" https://gizmodo.com/arizona-republicans-subpoena-routers-amid-cyber-ninjas-1847373051

* "Storm causes water leaks in building where Maricopa County ballots are being reviewed:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/07/23/weslin-bolin-building-leaking-maricopa-county-election-ballot-audit/8076589002/

* "In one quote, the core of the effort to undermine the 2020 election is revealed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/23/one-quote-core-effort-undermine-2020-election-is-revealed/

“What’s the point? I mean, all the small counties are red.”

* "Texas civil rights attorney Lee Merritt is running for state attorney general:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/texas-civil-rights-attorney-lee-merritt-is-running-for-state-attorney-general-117355589540

* "DOJ being careful in applying domestic terrorism law to Trump-supporting Capitol rioters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-being-careful-in-applying-domestic-terrorism-law-to-trump-supporting-capitol-rioters-117498437520

* "Democrats look to move past partisan rancor and set serious tone for Jan. 6 investigation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jan-6-committee-cheney/2021/07/26/2380e54e-ee1a-11eb-ab6f-b41a066381df_story.html

* "Pelosi appoints 2nd GOP critic of Trump to Jan. 6 committee:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-committee-pelosi-kinzinger-b211da687cfba78f43ffb4042f9bd5db

* "Rep. Bennie Thompson joins Jonathan Capehart to discuss the Jan. 6 select committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-bennie-thompson-joins-jonathan-capehart-to-discuss-the-jan-6-select-committee-117354565699

* "'This is how I'm going to die': Officers tell Jan. 6 stories:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-capitol-riot-hearing-aquilino-gonell-michael-fanone-96fd6e07e1d2700417575880df2fde69

* "Trumpist gaslighting and downplaying of 1/6 shattered by committee testimony, factfinding:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trumpist-gaslighting-and-downplaying-of-1-6-shattered-by-committee-testimony-factfinding-117497413815

* "Capitol officer to Jan. 6 committee: This is America :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/capitol-police-officer-harry-dunn-to-jan-6-committee-this-is-america-117489221581

* "Schiff: With no ‘McCarthy disrupters,’ Jan. 6 testimony went as hearings should:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-adam-schiff-says-jan-6-testimony-went-as-hearings-should-with-no-kevin-mccarthy-disrupters-117486661989

* "Rep. Murphy: Select committee will follow evidence to whomever it may lead:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-capitol-testimony-of-officers-who-were-attacked-discussed-by-select-committee-member-murphy-117488709921

* "A Refugee Falsely Accused of Murder Won His Case and Still Faces Deportation:"

Watch on YouTube

* "Prisoner Who Got Life for Stealing $250 Finally Wins Freedom:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rolf-kaestel-prisoner-who-got-life-for-stealing-dollar250-finally-wins-freedom

* "Texas Senate Bill Drops Teaching Requirement That Ku Klux Klan Is 'Morally Wrong':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-senate-education-bill-white-supremacy_n_60f50cf6e4b01f11895b2dc3

* "The Rise of Black Homeschooling:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/the-rise-of-black-homeschooling

* "LGBT+ Labour calls for Rosie Duffield to lose the whip after 'LGBT-phobic behaviour':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/26/rosie-duffield-lgbt-labour-trans/

* "Family 'bullied, harassed and isolated' gay teen in disturbing conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/22/conversion-therapy-survivor-scotland/

* "Reclaim Pride march demands Boris Johnson 'stop stalling on LGBT+ rights':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/25/reclaim-pride-march-london/

* "British queer man shot in armed robbery on way back from drag show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/06/29/queer-man-uk-shot-robbed-san-diego-drag-gay/

* "Four men arrested for breaking sodomy law in Maryland police raid:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/07/four-men-arrested-breaking-sodomy-law-maryland-police-raid/

* "Biden says long-term effects of covid-19 can be considered a disability under federal civil rights laws:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-ada-long-covid-disability/2021/07/26/972f2a04-ee20-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html

* "‘Everything is on fire’: Siberia hit by unprecedented burning:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/20/everything-is-on-fire-siberia-hit-by-unprecedented-burning

* "Wildfire burns in northeast Spain; summer camp evacuated:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-fires-environment-and-nature-spain-1417ecadfaddf1c711bf3d42fa7573e9

* "'The sky has fallen': Chinese farmers see livelihoods washed away by floods:" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/sky-has-fallen-chinese-farmers-see-livelihoods-washed-away-by-floods-2021-07-26/

* "Scores Die in India as Monsoon Rains Swamp Towns and Send Boulders Tumbling:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/world/asia/india-landslides-floods.html

* "How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/19/big-oil-climate-crisis-lobby-group-api

* "Another dangerous “heat dome” is about to descend on the US:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/07/another-dangerous-heat-dome-is-about-to-descend-on-the-us/

* "Firefighter goes missing battling wildfire in Montana as more than 86 wildfires burn across US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/26/weather/us-western-wildfires-monday/index.html

* "California's largest wildfire is threatening thousands of structures:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/25/weather/dixie-fire-california-update/index.html

* "The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jun/22/the-real-urban-jungle-how-ancient-societies-reimagined-what-cities-could-be

* "The treasure inside beer lost in a shipwreck 120 years ago:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210622-how-shipwrecked-yeasts-could-change-the-taste-of-your-beer

* "Learn the Shadow Puppetry of Japan's Edo Period with Hiroshige's Delightful Woodblock Prints:" https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/utagawa-hiroshige-shadow-puppets/

* CW: Suicide "The Sky Thief:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/beebo-russell-seattle-plane-theft-true-story-1187023/

* "Pandemic Olympics Endured Heat, and Now a Typhoon's En Route:" https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/pandemic-olympics-endured-heat-and-now-typhoons-en-route

* "Tom Daley just won his first-ever Olympic gold medal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/26/tom-daley-olympics-gold-medal-diving/

* "‘Legend of the movement’: The story of civil rights activist Bob Moses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-remembers-civil-rights-activist-legend-bob-moses-117426245716

* "I’ve Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life. Now I Know It Was.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/07/cat-person-kristen-roupenian-viral-story-about-me.html

* I love that this is a movement. "Inked Mummies, Linking Tattoo Artists With Their Ancestors:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/science/mummies-tattoos-archaeology.html

* "Kim Jong-un Has An Alternative For K-Pop:"

Watch on YouTube

* "Chip Manson Has Some Thoughts On Who Won The Election:"

Watch on YouTube

* "Feeling Angry? Fly Ignited Airlines:"

Watch on YouTube

* They think they have entirely removed McConnellville from my interior. We will need to keep an eye out in case more of them spring turn up , but this is very much a future me problem. They decided Manchinville is not worth the danger of removing so he will continue to be in the way of functioning, but they decided he's not going to kill me after all, so we shall have to learn to live with each other.

Here endeth the medical emergency.

* "Cthulhu Hunter:" https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/ms2kn5/hunting_cthulhu_hunter/

* "Sunday Sweets: Wonderland Treats:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/7/25/sunday-sweets-wonderland-treats

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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.

* Hey! Want to propose Washington State geographical features to be renamed? "Committee on Geographic Names:" https://www.dnr.wa.gov/about/boards-and-councils/board-natural-resources/committee-geographic-names

* Want to help get Rand Paul out of the senate? Support Charles Booker:" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/cb-ads-dd-google-senate-launch?source=ads_ms_CHB_20210701-DD-GS-SenateLaunch_brandedkw-Natl-1865U-MF_a003-CHB-cbfuss-gstxt-txt&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxJqHBhC4ARIsAChq4auMxkyB4EqbiJYINuvQfZwWndHRj6juSW_B_MPhbIc8BhM8dJPkZbEaArBaEALw_wcB

* "Aid for German Flood Victims:" https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/657095101707911168/aid-for-german-flood-victims

* Chicksaw bead artist and cool person has Kiamichi Beading suitable for non-native sale: https://www.instagram.com/kiamichi_beading/



* Mutual Aid Link Round Up: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/645696532415447040/popss-great-big-mutual-aid-masterpost

* Want to help the Asian Community?
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/

* Cat Rescue Fundraiser: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/642429918533304320/design-a-tea-where-tea-leaves-dream-custom

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

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

* 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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely 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

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

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[psybelle]

Yay for successful surgeries! (Oh, if only Congress was that simple to fix...)