1/19/25 - 1/25/25

[gwydion]

* I had hopes of posting this earlier, but between the news firehouse and computer situation, this is the best I could do. Sort may be a little rough (see news firehouse).

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share

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* "Updates: Israel’s deadly West Bank raids continue as Gaza ceasefire holds:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/23/live-israeli-raid-forces-palestinians-to-flee-jenin-as-aid-flows-to-gaza

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* "Syria's de facto leader says country ready to welcome UN forces in buffer zone with Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrias-de-facto-leader-says-country-ready-welcome-un-forces-buffer-zone-with-2025-01-16/

* "First Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners freed in ceasefire deal with Hamas:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43571/ceasefire-goes-into-effect-in-gaza

* "How Biden’s Middle East policy tarnished his legacy:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/how-biden-s-middle-east-policy-tarnished-his-legacy-229729861817

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* "Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and sanctions if it does not agree to end war:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270883/trump-threat-russia-ukraine-war-tariffs-sanctions

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* "Shadow fleet of tankers keeps Russia’s oil money flowing despite Western sanctions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-sanctions-shadow-fleet-oil-baltic-ukraine-76b66900d599d6e49692643674907fc0?

* "South Korean court orders formal arrest of President Yoon over martial law decree:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/18/g-s1-43538/south-korean-president-yoon-arrest-martial-law

* "There’s a very popular explanation for Trump’s win. It’s wrong.:" https://www.vox.com/politics/395344/why-trump-won-2024-election-harris-democratic-turnout

* "Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 panel. It’s a guard against potential ‘revenge’ by Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-fauci-milley-pardons-january-6-3cba287f89051513fb48d7ae700ae747

* "Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency by President Biden:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/01/19/leonard-peltier-indigenous-activist-clemency-released-by-president-biden

* "The exit interview: Karine Jean-Pierre on misinformation, the White House, and making queer history:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/karine-jean-pierre-exit-interview

* "Dr. King's wisdom can guide us through a dark time:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/martin-luther-king-donald-trump

* "Black America in a 'state of emergency': Civil rights leaders brace for Trump's return:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/black-america-in-a-state-of-emergency-civil-rights-leaders-brace-for-trump-s-return-229727813546

* "Keep your head up: Snyder's advice for resisting an autocrat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/keep-your-head-up-snyder-s-advice-for-resisting-an-autocrat-229826629785

* "US military to send additional 1,500 troops to border:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-preparing-send-additional-1000-troops-border-official-says-2025-01-22/

* "A Murky Setback for DACA: An appeals court ruled that DACA is unlawful but limited the scope and stayed the ruling, so students shouldn’t see any immediate changes.:" https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/01/22/murky-setback-daca-no-immediate-changes

* "Iran has a hit list of former Trump aides. The U.S. is scrambling to protect them.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/11/iran-trump-assassination-plans-00183488

* "Trump revokes protections for former Secretary of State Pompeo and top aide threatened by Iran:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-pompeo-hook-iran-security-protections-987ca371756f48028ebd34ca7111f1c5

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* "How the world is reacting to Donald Trump’s inauguration:" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/20/2025/world-reacts-to-donald-trumps-inauguration

* "Trump’s Inauguration Revealed Whom He Really Serves: the Billionaires and the Crypto Bros:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-inauguration-billionaires-row-crypto/

* "Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk’s Straight-Arm Salute: “Incredible things are happening already lmao,” wrote Gab founder and Hitlerbot innovator Andrew Torba:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-salute-reaction-right-wing-extremists-1235241866/

* "Elon Musk's trans daughter, Vivian Wilson, calls out his Nazi salute: 'Call a spade a spade':" https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trans-daughter-vivian-wilson

* "Elon Musk: How could anyone NOT SEE this coming?:"

Watch on YouTube

* Some of the wording around the Autism/Ableism accusations is not ideal, but it's otherwise good and his point in that area is correct. "Did Elon Musk Make a Fascist Salute? Fascists Think So.:"

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* "With fewer protesters and a renewed focus, activists plan for a second round of Trump:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5258481/trump-protest-peoples-march-womens-march-inauguration-presidency-policies-agenda

* "Thousands converge on Washington for a march days before Trump takes office:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/peoples-march-washington-trump-inauguration/3818307/

* "Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde confronts Trump in sermon:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5270031/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-confronts-trump-in-sermon

* "Bishop who confronted Trump led ceremony honoring Matthew Shepard:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mariann-budde-matthew-shepard

* "Judge excoriates Trump for pardoning January 6 'poor losers' as debacle grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/full-interview-rachel-maddow-talks-with-the-bishop-who-asked-trump-directly-to-show-mercy-230028869613

* "A running list of Trump’s planned executive orders, actions, proclamations and legislation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/21/trump-executive-orders-actions-proclamations-legislation-00199725

* "Trump signs executive actions on Jan. 6, TikTok, immigration and more:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-43698/trump-inauguration-executive-orders-2025-day-1

* "Churches, schools are no longer off limits to agents rounding up undocumented migrants:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5269859/churches-schools-are-no-longer-off-limits-to-agents-rounding-up-undocumented-migrants

* "Trump won’t ban immigration arrests at school. Some families are now weighing school attendance:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-ice-raids-school-2d899678264f44fe1021847ee385fd15

* "What can CPS schools and parents do in the face of Donald Trump’s mass deportation threat?:" https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/01/22/what-can-cps-schools-and-parents-do-in-the-face-of-donald-trumps-mass-deportation-threat

* "US agents raid New Jersey worksite as Trump escalates immigration crackdown:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-agents-raid-new-jersey-business-detaining-migrants-citizens-mayor-says-2025-01-24/

* "Trump's immigration crackdown met with defiance from local police:" https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/police-departments-immigration-raids-trump

* "'It's very scary to see': KKK flyers spark concern in Northern Kentucky neighborhoods:" https://local12.com/news/local/very-scary-kkk-flyers-spark-concern-northern-kentucky-neighborhoods-bellevue-fort-mitchell-ft-wright-cincinnati-ku-klux-klan-racist-racism-hate-fearmongering-deportation-immigration-propaganda-naacp-police-investigation

* "Trump fired four top immigration court officials hours after taking office:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-fired-four-top-immigration-court-officials-hours-taking-office-rcna188637

* "22 Democratic-led states sue over Trump's birthright citizenship order:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/lawsuits-challenge-trumps-birthright-citizenship-other-orders-2025-01-21/

I legitimately can't figure out how the president can repeal the 14th Amendment of the constitution with a stroke of the pen instead of following the repeal process from the Constitution. Apparently a federal judge agrees:

* "U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g-s1-44411/birthright-citizenship-immigration-trump-border

* "‘Boggles my mind’: Judge eviscerates Trump executive order after blocking it:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-boggles-my-mind-judge-eviscerates-trump-executive-order-after-blocking-it-230130757508

* ""Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court:" https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/excluding-indians-admin-questions-native-americans-birthright-citizenship-in/

* "Authoritarianism 101: Maddow explains how Trump's embrace of violence follows a type:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/authoritarianism-101-maddow-explains-how-trump-s-embrace-of-violence-follows-a-type-229822021927

* "DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials for resisting immigration enforcement:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5271541/doj-immigration-trump-memo-prosecution

* "'Appalling': Current and former prosecutors lament Trump's Jan. 6 pardons:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/appalling-current-former-prosecutors-lament-trumps-jan-6-pardons-rcna188548

* "A January 6 House committee member on the threat of Trump's pardoning 1,500 insurrectionists (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/politics/zoe-lofgren-january-6-pardons

* "Trump's pardons will embolden Proud Boys, other far-right groups, say experts:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-pardons-will-embolden-proud-boys-other-far-right-groups-say-experts-2025-01-21/

* "Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Come As a “Betrayal” to Former Capitol Police:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/trumps-jan-6-pardons-come-as-a-betrayal-to-former-capitol-police/

* "‘American people responsible’ for vile crime against my mom, J6 cop says:" https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/01/american-people-responsible-for-vile-crime-against-my-mom-j6-cop-says.html

* "QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley Is Buying Guns After Trump Pardon:" https://www.newsweek.com/jacob-chansley-pardon-donald-trump-jan-6-guns-2018480

* The Pardons included a dangerous terrorist leader. Trump has a violent army now who know there will never be any consequence for future terrorism. "Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/stewart-rhodes-convicted-of-seditious-conspiracy-and-released-by-trump-visits-capitol-hill

* "'Appalling': January 6 prosecutor voices outrage at Trump pardoning 'very dangerous people':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-appalling-january-6-prosecutor-voices-outrage-at-trump-pardoning-very-dangerous-people-230254149673

* I'm not convinced Republicans are capable of shame. "Republicans choke on defense of Trump's pardon of Jan. 6 rioters. Could it be shame?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-choke-on-defense-of-trump-s-pardon-of-jan-6-rioters-could-it-be-shame-229938245635

* "Our first “Why are you complaining?”:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2022782.html

* "Trump picks "Stop the Steal" activist Ed Martin to oversee Jan. 6 cases: Ed Martin, who was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, was named by Trump as interim U.S. attorney for DC:" https://www.salon.com/2025/01/21/picks-stop-the-steal-activist-ed-martin-to-oversee-jan-6-cases/

* "Trump kicks off potentially messy fight over Biden’s infrastructure money: One of Trump’s executive orders could imperil billions in funding for projects that states have already begun working on, some experts said.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/21/trump-fight-biden-infrastructure-money-00199796

* "Trump's energy emergency is a gift to fossil fuel firms. It's likely headed to court:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5269717/trump-energy-emergency-climate

* "Trump is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement (again), reversing U.S. climate policy:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5266207/trump-paris-agreement-biden-climate-change

* "Trump’s Project 2025 White House orders mass firings of DEI employees across federal government:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-orders-mass-dei-firings

* "Federal employees are told to name colleagues who work in DEI roles or risk 'adverse consequences':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/federal-workers-told-name-dei-colleagues-risk-adverse-consequences-rcna188871

* "Trump revokes LBJ-era civil rights protections in federal government contracting:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-revokes-some-workplace-protections

* "Donald Trump’s government declares that transgender and nonbinary people don’t exist:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-invalidates-transgender-identities

* "Trans Rep. Sarah McBride debunks Trump's gender policy with science:" https://www.advocate.com/sarah-mcbride-trump-science

* "let’s talk about trump’s first declaration of war:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2022479.html

* "Trump 'two genders' exec order will hurt millions of Americans: study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/williams-institute-trans-order-study

* "Donald Trump has begun eroding federal LGBTQ+ protections through executive orders:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-rolls-back-lgbtq-protections

* "Marco Rubio's State Department won't issue passports with X gender markers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/no-x-markers-passports

* "Trump revokes Biden's order that lifted trans military ban, clearing way for new ban:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-transgender-military-ban-likely

* "Trump administration erases mentions of LGBTQ+ & HIV resources from government websites:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-strips-hiv-lgbtq-websites

* CW: Rape. "Trump will ban trans women from women's prisons by removing trans inmates from rape protections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-bans-trans-women-prisons

* "Trump tells the world to show him the money:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-davos-invest-00200231

* The Federal reserve is meant to be independent. "President Donald Trump says he’ll ‘demand that interest rates drop immediately’:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/president-donald-trump-says-hell-demand-that-interest-rates-drop-immediately.html

* "Trump orders administration to evaluate potential for 'national digital asset stockpile':" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-bitcoin-digital-asset-stockpile-strategic-reserve-cryptocurrency-rcna188921

The goal is to sell off our gold reserves to buy scam cryptocurrencies as a tax payer funded give away to the billionaires who've been bribing Trump at a million a pop.

* "The Trump Memecoin’s ‘Money-Grab’ Economics: When he launched his own cryptocurrency, Donald Trump produced unimaginable wealth from thin air. But it will come at a cost to someone.:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-trump-memecoins-money-grab-economics/

* "Trump's entry into crypto opens new doors for those seeking political influence:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g-s1-44341/trumps-entry-into-crypto-opens-new-doors-for-those-seeking-political-influence

* "Sam Altman, the gay OpenAI CEO who once called Trump 'terrible,' is the latest tech titan to bow to him:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sam-altman-stargate-donald-trump

* "Sam Altman said he wants queers to be comfortable in his industry; supporting Trump goes against that:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/sam-altman-donald-trump

* "Maddow: Why Trump-style corruption is bad and makes governments suck:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-why-trump-style-corruption-is-bad-and-makes-governments-suck-229820997565

* "What DOGE actually is now:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/01/23/what-doge-actually-is-now-00200306

* "Bannon berates Musk over his attacks on Trump’s AI infrastructure project:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/bannon-musk-trump-ai-infrastructure-00200126

* "Trump pulls back Biden drug pricing action:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/prescription-pulse/2025/01/22/trump-pulls-back-biden-drug-pricing-action-00199717

* Obeying in advance did not save them. ABC settled a lawsuit they surely would have one to kiss up to Trump presumably in hopes he wouldn't do this. "FCC reinstates complaints over ABC presidential debate, Harris TV appearances:" https://archive.ph/dGLgo

* "Hegseth heads to Pentagon with plans to upend it:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/24/hegseth-confirmed-defense-secretary-senate-00200603

Hegseth is a major threat to national Security. Only three Republicans (McConnell, Collins, and Murkowski) loved America enough to stand with Democrats in opposing him.

* "McConnell vote against Hegseth, defying Trump, raises eyebrows:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-vote-against-hegseth-defying-trump-raises-eyebrows-230251077829

* So she couldn't testify. "Affidavit by Hegseth's ex-sister-in-law makes new claims about his behavior:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5270039/hegseth-senators-affidavit

* "NEW: Hegseth divorce papers bar 2nd wife from publicly 'disparaging' statements:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-hegseth-divorce-papers-bar-2nd-wife-from-publicly-disparaging-statements-230141509534

* "VA Declares 300,000 Health Care Jobs Exempt from Ordered Freeze on Federal Hiring:" https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/23/roughly-300000-va-jobs-exempted-federal-hiring-freeze-bid-protect-veteran-services.html

* "Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring:" https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring

* "National Institutes of Health cancel scientific meetings after Trump directives:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272398/nih-trump-hhs-cancer-research

* "‘Who voted for this?’: Trump admin obstructs cancer research funding:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-who-voted-for-this-trump-admin-obstructs-cancer-research-funding-230130245610

* "Trump cuts communication from health agencies despite growing bird flu threat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-cuts-communication-from-health-agencies-despite-growing-bird-flu-threat-230155845584

* "Trump says he may withhold federal aid for Los Angeles if California doesn’t change water policies:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-republicans-taxes-eea4754a0f580d451aa0588f0639d52c

47's "reasoning" is based on lies he made up.

* "Cracks emerge in House GOP after speaker’s threat to saddle California wildfire aid with conditions:" https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-conditional-aid-washington-trump-johnson-12c779b96e04d564802d4d06348aa0fc

No conditions have ever been put on any other state after a disaster let alone ones based on imaginary shit.

* "Trump proposes ‘getting rid of FEMA’ while touring disaster areas:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-first-trip-california-north-carolina-nevada-b906880254ce7bf249c3dcefa45bf846

* "‘Project 2025 is here’: Trump says he plans to overhaul or eliminate FEMA:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-project-2025-is-here-trump-says-he-plans-to-overhaul-or-eliminate-fema-230242373683

The plan is either to privatize and enshittify it to put more money in billionaire pockets, or get rid of the US disaster response entirely as that will only harm people who are not billionaires.

* 47 was going to do it anyway, hence the pardons. "Trump suggests Biden and those he pardoned should be investigated:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/trump-hannity-takeaways-fox-interview-00200167

* "The U.S. Constitution Delivers a 404 Now:" https://gizmodo.com/the-u-s-constitution-delivers-a-404-now-2000552847

On the nose as far as symbolism goes.

* "Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-spanish-language-website-62224890c5b05c8ce0878358ba4a5266

* "Trump orders declassification of JFK, RFK, MLK assassination files:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/jfk-assassination-trump-declassification-006225

* "Trump officials asked over a dozen senior career diplomats to step down, sources say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-officials-asked-over-dozen-senior-career-diplomats-step-aside-sources-say-2025-01-20/

Here comes the partisan purge as part of the Republican war on good government and expertise.

* "160 national security staffers are sent home as the White House aligns its team to Trump’s agenda:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-security-council-staffers-d167985d61c96dd278b0e58a402ff865

Remember how W insisting all intelligence briefings should be tailored to what he wanted to hear led to 9/11 being successful? They are planning competent non-partisan people with integrity from our intelligence services so they can do that on a large scale for 47.

* On a related note Ratcliffe has basically vowed to do just that at the CIA, which is why 47 picked him. It's also why he wants Kash Patel for the FBI. "Senate confirms John Ratcliffe as Trump's CIA director:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g-s1-44389/john-ratcliffe-cia-director

* "Heads of TSA, Coast Guard fired on Trump’s first full day in office:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heads-of-tsa-coast-guard-fired-on-trumps-first-full-day-in-office

* He is replacing vetted, competent people with people he didn't bother to vet and is giving them security clearances willy nilly. "Trump grants temporary security clearances to officials who have not been fully vetted:" https://www.kten.com/news/politics/trump-grants-temporary-security-clearances-to-officials-who-have-not-been-fully-vetted/article_d685fb4c-72f7-5c9a-b814-4ae0787b050a.html

* "Trump moves to revoke clearances of ex-intel officials who signed letter on Hunter Biden laptop:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-intelligence-hunter-biden-laptop-9d49578c70e3de03e628d0d0cf6592f0

* "Trump accused of 'decapitating' U.S. national security by appointing 'crackpots and fools' :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-accused-of-decapitating-u-s-national-security-by-appointing-crackpots-and-fools-229935173879

* "Trump administration reassigns close to 20 Justice Department officials, sources say:" https://archive.ph/HFHOM

* They'd already had the job offers and had mostly turned down opportunities to become public servants. They have massive college debt and had made plans, like moving to be close to their new jobs. "Trump hiring freeze hits law students headed to the U.S. Justice Department:" https://archive.ph/Hkxfs

* "Agent who rushed to Trump’s aid in shooting will lead Secret Service:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/agent-rushed-trump-aid-rally-shooting-lead-secret-service-00200153

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* "Supreme Court will rule on allowing parents to ban students from LGBTQ+ lessons:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-lessons-opt-out

* "Congress clears GOP-led immigration enforcement bill, with Democrats on board:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5253926/congress-laken-riley-act

Charged with" means that police can arrest anyone brown and get them deported without due process. Just getting arrested for any reason no matter how bullshit is enough.

This is scary police state stuff.

"Even though studies show that recent immigrants in the United States commit crimes at a lower rate than U.S.-born citizens, Riley’s murder became a rallying cry for conservative lawmakers to adopt stricter immigration laws."

* "Legal expert says the bipartisan Laken Riley Act is unjust, wasteful and a Trojan horse:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/11/nx-s1-5254134/legal-expert-says-the-bipartisan-laken-riley-act-is-unjust-wasteful-and-a-trojan-horse

* Please contact your senators and ask them to reject dangerous and unqualified cabinet picks. I don't have a lot of hope at this point, but better to fight than roll belly up. If nothing else ask them to resist Pam Bondi, RFK Jr., Russel Vought, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.

Usually they just log for or against. If they want a reason, I've listed some below. Use reason for Democrats. For Republicans: Stress military readiness, national security, and the integrity and morale of the military, law and order, etc..

All of these are terrible. Complain about whatever you have energy for (most important bolded):

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LAST WEEK's Cabinet of Deplorable Candidates:

* TUESDAY:

* Doug Collins, Veterans Affairs - Very conservative Trump Loyalist. Could be far worse.

* Elise Stefanik, U.N. ambassador, entirely self agendaed with zero principles. Could be far worse and gets her out of congress. Will likely sail through like shit through a goose as she has some democratic support. Don't waste your energy.

* WEDNESDAY:

* Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget, is a Project 2025 person with absolutely disastrous plans. He plans to purge the civil service on political grounds and replace honest non-partisan people with right wing extremists as part of implementing autocracy. he also plans to overthrow Congress' power to allocate funds by illegally preventing the disbursement of Medicare, Social Security, EBT, Housing, Education, etc. funds in order to destroy the social safety net. He will likely get away with it as the SCOTUS are so in the bag for kleptocratic fascist autocracy that they've been declaring black letter parts of the constitution un constitutional and thrown out ideas like precedent and rule of law. This guy is terrifying and he's barely getting any coverage or notice.

* "Democrats grill Project 2025 co-author over ‘illegal’ Trump funding move:" https://www.kron4.com/hill-politics/democrats-grill-project-2025-co-author-over-illegal-trump-funding-move/

"Russ Vought wants to make Congress obsolete:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-cabinet-russ-vought-project-2025-rcna187838

"Trump’s budget pick is famous for defying Congress. GOP senators want to confirm him anyway.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/omb-vought-confirmation-trump-00199974

* THURSDAY:

"What to know about Brooke Rollins, Trump’s pick for agriculture secretary:" https://www.wnct.com/news/politics/ap-what-to-know-about-brooke-rollins-trumps-pick-for-agriculture-secretary/

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THIS COMING WEEK:

WEDNESDAY:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Heath and Human Services. He murdered hundreds of children in Samoa and plans to scale that up in the US, buy completely outlawing vaccines and dismantling our entire infectious desease response infrastructure. I beg of you, fight this one. Plenty of Republicans are old enough to remember how bad polio was. McConnell is a polio survivor. We have a chance here. Push hard.

"How would RFK Jr. handle bird flu? His record on vaccines has experts on edge:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/16/nx-s1-5254733/rfk-vaccine-bird-flu-trump-cabinet-picks

Kelly Loeffler, Small Business Administration nominee, is wildly corrupt.

This is from December, but I'm putting it up as a refresher:

"Kelly Loeffler’s Conflict of Interest Is Even Worse Than Reported: The senator had power over regulators whose work directly affected her own financial interests.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/kelly-loefflers-conflict-of-interest-is-even-worse-than-reported/

THURSDAY:

* Kash Patel, FBI. He published an enemies list and has promised to purge all the honest people with ethics out of the FBI, replacing them with Trump loyalists, so he can weaponize the FBI to persecute anyone Trump doesn't like. No innocent person will be safe.

* Tulsi Gabbard, Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She is in the bag for Russia and has ties to Bashar al-Assad. She is generally considered a major intelligence threat. None of our secret intelligence or that of any allies foolish enough to share information with us will be safe. I beg of you fight this one.

"Files detail bid to contain fallout from Tulsi Gabbard meetings with Assad:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-AA1xAxpB

UPCOMING:

* "Brent Bozell, anti-LGBTQ+ activist and father of January 6 rioter, to head U.S. media agency:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/brent-bozell-homophobe-trump-nominee

This breaks my heart. VOA has been so important as a source of good reporting that often reaches places that don't have free media. The goal is to make it part of the Republican propaganda machine.

* "Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm:" https://www.propublica.org/article/david-fotouhi-donald-trump-epa-pollution

This guy is going to be a disaster for the planet.

* "Commerce Nominee Lutnick Is Backer of Outlaws’ Favorite Cryptocurrency:" https://archive.ph/ivmIC

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* "GOP Fears Jan. 6 Probe Will Expose Their X-Rated and ‘Embarrassing’ Texts:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-fears-jan-6-probe-will-expose-their-x-rated-and-embarrassing-texts/

* "Anti-trans Legislation Is on the Rise:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2025/01/17/anti-trans-legislation-is-on-the-rise-00198932

* "As the first out trans person in Congress, Sarah McBride is ready to fight for us:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/sarah-mcbride-transgender-congress-history

* "Lauren Boebert & Nancy Mace confront woman they thought was trans in ‘predictable’ Capitol bathroom incident:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mace-boebert-bathroom-mcbride

* "Queer Congresswoman Emily Randall opens office bathroom to everyone in defiance of anti-trans Capitol rules:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/emily-randall-capitol-bathroom

* Shameful. "The Ohio AG says he ran a ‘scam’ East Palestine charity. A congressman just hired him:" https://www.cleveland.com/open/2025/01/the-ohio-ag-says-he-ran-a-scam-east-palestine-charity-a-congressman-just-hired-him.html

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* Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* "North Carolina Judge Denies Republicans’ Request To Toss 60,000 Ballots:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-judge-denies-republicans-request-to-toss-60000-ballots/

* "Eight times Kyrsten Sinema let down the LGBTQ+ community — and others:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/eight-times-kyrsten-sinema-disappointed#rebelltitem1

* "Vivek Ramaswamy to leave DOGE and launch a run for Ohio governor:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/vivek-ramaswamy-doge-launch-run-ohio-governor-rcna188397

* "Arienne Childrey on becoming Ohio's first trans city council member:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/arienne-childrey-transgender-ohio

* "Mississippi lawmaker introduces 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-rcna188938

* CW: Rape. Now would be an excellent time to protest. "Proposal would outlaw use of abortion pills and tighten rape exception:" https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/01/08/proposal-would-outlaw-use-of-abortion-pills-and-tighten-rape-exception/

* "​Anti-LGBTQ+ groups in Florida urge legislators to extend preferred pronoun ban to city, county governments:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-lgbtq-florida-pronoun-ban

* "Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-forcibly

* "Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor:" https://archive.ph/uOWD0

* "There Are Many Programs Trying to Reduce Recidivism. This One Works.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/grip-there-are-many-programs-trying-to-reduce-recidivism-this-one-works/

* "Apple, Costco stand behind DEI programs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/apple-costco-support-dei

* "How Pornhub and Sniffies are responding to state restriction laws:" https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-pornhub-sniffies-onlyfans-restrictions

* "Why putting free period products in men's bathrooms is good for everyone:" https://www.advocate.com/news/period-products-men-bathrooms

* "Government website offering reproductive health information goes offline:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-website-offering-reproductive-health-information-goes-offline/

* "Gynecologists who will perform a tubal sterilization:" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/edit?gid=1318374028#gid=1318374028

* Good Riddance. "Atheism Should Leave Its Transphobia Behind in the New Year:"

Watch on YouTube

* "Couples wed as landmark same-sex marriage law takes effect in Thailand:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g-s1-44322/thailand-same-sex-marriage-law

* "Will Marriage Equality Be Safe Under Trump? Here's What You Need to Know:" https://www.them.us/story/will-marriage-equality-be-safe-under-trump-heres-what-you-need-to-know

* "Michigan teen sentenced for 'execution-style' killing of Black trans woman Ashia Davis:" https://www.advocate.com/ashia-davis-killer-sentenced

* "The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship:" https://thetransfemininereview.com/2024/11/13/a-practical-guide-to-resisting-censorship/

* "Executive Function Deficit in Patients with Long COVID Syndrome: A Systematic Review:" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9935808/

* "As flu cases spike in Florida ERs, the CDC issues new guidance to identify bird flu:" https://www.wusf.org/health-news-florida/2025-01-23/flu-cases-spike-florida-cdc-issues-guidance-identify-bird

Left over from Biden. 47 has barred all communication about infectious disease because the numbers might make him look bad. Republicans broadly believe it is better to let large numbers of people die than to warn them about risk so they can take precautions.

I'm including animal stuff in here because it crosses species.

* "Bird flu outbreak in Georgia threatens US chicken exports, trade group says:" https://archive.ph/mgEhQ

I noticed the forage boxes contained no eggs this week. I know the price is skyrocketing because of the bird flu. I am worried we won;t be able to get Livia's special food. Meanwhile Trump and RFK Jr. want to let people sell infected raw milk and don't care who is harmed or killed.

* CW: Dead Animals. "Long Island farm forced to euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after bird flu detected:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/long-island-farm-forced-euthanize-100000-ducks-after/story?id=118015774

* CW: Dead Pets. "More than a dozen cats dead or sickened by bird flu in raw pet food, FDA says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cats-dead-sickened-bird-flu-raw-pet-food/

* "Milk from Minnesota dairy farms to undergo mandatory testing for bird flu:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/01/11/milk-from-minnesota-dairy-farms-to-undergo-mandatory-testing-for-bird-flu

* "Women are far more likely to develop autoimmune diseases. A new study may have finally cracked why:" https://www.salon.com/2024/02/02/women-are-far-more-likely-to-develop-autoimmune-diseases-a-new-study-may-have-finally-cracked-why/

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* "Hughes Fire in LA County burns 10,000 acres, containment rises as some evacuations remain:" https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/hughes-fire-castaic-los-angeles-county-updates/

* "Homes were burning and roads already jammed when Pacific Palisades evacuation order came, AP finds:" https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfires-evacuation-alerts-69f10d320df14c6394fc2c646d1ff0ce

* "Evacuating from the Los Angeles fires? Here are some resources to help:" https://www.advocate.com/news/los-angeles-wildfires-evacuation-resources

* "Staying safe in a wildfire: What to pack and when to evacuate:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfiresafetyevacuationtipsmap-1b3bdaa19fc990bceacd60cf074eda41

* "Important Resources for Pet Owners Affected by the California Wildfires:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/important-resources-for-pet-owners-affected-by-the-california-wildfires-000111204.html

* "Pasadena Humane is seeking food, water bowls, crates, and more:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/pasadena-humane-donations-food-bowls-crates-blankets-eaton-fire/3598139/

* "Disaster Recovery Resources:" https://www.ms-demeanor.com/wiki/page_title/Disaster_Recovery_Resources

* Free documents for disaster preparedness and disaster claims: https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/772232788373012480?source=share

* Black Phoenix alchemy Lab, which is L.A. based is doing a fundraiser for fire relief and has good links to organizations helping people on the ground there. "City of Angels Fundraiser:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-city-of-angels/

* "Where your donations to L.A. fire victims will do the most good:" https://www.advocate.com/news/donate-los-angeles-fire-victims

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* "What Happens When a Plastic City Burns:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/01/los-angeles-fire-smoke-plastic-toxic/681318/

* "Hong Kong struggles to improve conditions in tiny, crowded homes:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/hongkong-property/

* "Driving blind: NYC subways steered by 1930s tech, paper maps and a lot of hope:" https://gothamist.com/news/driving-blind-nyc-subways-steered-by-1930s-tech-paper-maps-and-a-lot-of-hope

* "Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/judge-ends-mans-11-year-quest-to-dig-up-landfill-and-recover-765m-in-bitcoin/

* "JAXA’s First Wooden Satellite Deploys from Space Station:" https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/jaxas-first-wooden-satellite-deploys-from-space-station/

* "World's oldest ice core could solve mystery of ‘flipped' ice age cycles:" https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-ice-core-could-solve-mystery-flipped-ice-age-cycles

* "‘Dinosaur highway’ tracks dating back 166 million years are discovered in England:" https://apnews.com/article/uk-dinosaur-tracks-discovery-9fd0499419db0950099e6413a1936488

* "Immigration in Anglo-Saxon England:"

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* "Inside Oak Ridge: Rare Photos of the Secret Atomic City That Fueled the Manhattan Project:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/oak-ridge-atomic-city-photos/

* "A Small Town In Georgia, A Shocking Murder, and a Well-Liked Killer:" https://crimereads.com/a-small-town-in-georgia-a-shocking-murder-and-a-well-liked-killer/

* "The police couldn’t figure out how the perpetrator ripped off two banks at the same time. Until they discovered there wasn’t just one robber but a pair of them: identical twin brothers.:" https://magazine.atavist.com/the-after-dark-bandit-australia-bushranger-robbery-morgan-doug-peter/

* "The Caribbean and African Roots of Southern Cuisine:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/recipes/the-caribbean-and-african-roots-of-southern-cuisine/ss-AA1qHWUT

* "Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died at 67:" https://www.advocate.com/news/cecile-richards-dead

* "Amazon is selling RADIOACTIVE products with no warnings! | Ann Reardon:"

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* In case it's not obvious, I stayed up Sunday to try to clear as much as I could before the 20th and push the aggregate out. I burned too many spoons, but the Millennials took good care of me and even made me protein in the evening.

I think the new computer will be here this week. Switch over will take a bunch of time, so I can't guarantee what posting will be like this week, but will be worth it. Right now I'm trying to clear as much as I can on poor Klaus laptop ahead of switch over. Right now I have hopes of Klaus holding up through change over. *fingers crossed*

* We did get the computer Tuesday, but the set up process is incredibly enshitified. I was forced to take windows eleven and it is a nightmare. (I have been resisting the "Upgrade" since it dropped because I heard the reviews). Apparently you are no longer to allowed to set up a new laptop without a second computer and a smart phone. I do not own a smartphone that works. (I had a terrible government one for emergencies, but the Republicans killed that program). I have no idea how to use QR codes anyway.

I spent more than a hour following Edward Laptops orders for uploading Klaus to "One drive" which I've been resisting since I was given Klaus because I do not like having microsoft own all my shit, but there was no helping it. It was long and complicated and required many temp and permanent passwords and five tries because Klaus understandably di not want to upload things to the cloud so I kept having to start over to coax him unto uploading another section. Edward refused to sync with that.

Bonus, this force changed Klaus' open the laptop security code which I don't want or need because Klaus never leaves the house. I spent a long, stupid, frustrating time trying to break into Klaus because I had no idea which of the passwords they forced me to change was the one it was asking for. Then later I got to play the same long frustrating game with Edward laptop.

I was too frustrated and upset to sleep properly and got up in horrible pain and weepy exhausted to start Wednesday with no pain resistance left and everything hurting. bonus for random sharp stabbing pains and my ankle popping out while I was hobbling about. Fun!

Goth Millennial and I did errands and normal about the house things. New Millennial showed up and was here until after midnight dealing with set up new computer enshittification, which involved multiple attempts to trick us into horrible things like A.I., fingerprint unlocking, and paid services I do not want or need and can't afford, while asking complicated questions I didn't understand. Then there was a complicated thing where we tried to get Klaus' content back from the cloud and stored properly and the disabling and/or removal of shit I did not want or need. Downloading and properly setting things like Avast and real browsers, Downloading essential apps, properly setting up the thing to look right and not making it hard to use, putting things back that Windows 11 undid, convincing browsers to reopen tabs, fixing assorted settings, putting things back that Windows 11 undid again because it is enshittified, etc..

Firefox is my "real" browser, but I do some stuff where it's easier if I have a different function I'm switching back and forth to things where I don't want to log in and out, or I'm doing things like posting the aggregate, where one browser holds the version before I clean the scaffold in case there is a problem (Great cat disaster, crash, or the like) while I'm in the middle of prepping to post, so I don't get reverted as often and then spend hours reconstructing.... I've been hassled on the multiple browser thing before, but it's a belt and suspender situation. It would be better with two computers so one is holding the draft in case of outage, but Tavy killed Aidan Laptop, so here we are. In the period before Aidan fails for good I can do that kind of back up, but soon, I'll have to rely entirely on Edward, and I need him set up to start doing the aggregate once I spool all of this week's horrors off Aidan.

I was still sorting things out on Edward when I stopped to write this a little after 1AM. New Millennial and I will likely be tinkering.

A bright spot was discovering waterfox kept my old settings instead of defaulting. Good job Waterfox!

I would like to thank New Millennial for sacrificing so much time and energy. I remember a time I could take a computer out of the box and set it up myself in the course of an evening, much of that being automatic updates and downloads, but we live on the bad timeline, so it is absolutely impossible for me and takes a huge amount of work and patience for someone else.

New Millennial is a Superhero.

I would also like to thank the person sending me emergency kibbles and the person who sent the extra money. The computer breaking after the glasses were ordered was incredibly expensive and I keep getting nickeled and dimed and running out of things and am generally flailing about. I messed up my maths somewhere and if these two people hadn't stepped in there would be hungry cats and an overdrawn bank account when car insurance auto-withdraw hits.

You are both Super stars.

I would also like to thank the person who spotted a news item and commentary tag mismatch on tumblr from Sunday which was a horrifying and embarrassing juxtaposition. Thank you for saving my ass.

Last, but not least, I would like to thank everyone for being patient with me this terrible, terrible week. I promise you that I am aware. I have been mourning it. I have been working on what's next. I just really need to get things properly set up before posting properly on politics.

All of you who have been here, supporting me, reading my stuff, you matter so, so much to me. I've no idea how I could have managed the last half decade without you.

All my Love, Gwydion

* Thursday: I did make kit to the dentist on time, despite exhaustion, my horrible hip joints, and the too many things of it all.

I am still working on setting up Edward and migrating functions. Part of the issue is that Tavy killed Aidan Laptop without warning, so I had to migrate functions fast in whatever way was easiest at the time. I Am reorganizing as I move across to Edward so things are more logical, but they aren't where they are on Klaus. Plus, I realized there are almost none of the extensions I'm going to need on Waterfox for Waterfox's new job, which is doing all the GwydionMisha tumblr stuff. I am needing to set up everything for both main blog and sideblog, add extensions to assorted browsers, customize Xkit rewrittens for both tumblr browsers (I like to be able to flip between tumblrs without logging in and out constantly. it's faster) load standard pages, etc. It is a mess; it's going to be wonderful. In a week or two. Time consuming for right now.

Edward's performing really well now we got him past the enshittification. He's fast and bright. Screen size is smallish like Klaus', but performance is better than my beloved Aidan's was.

Bonus: At some point since I last checked, Xkit Rewritten added an accessibility function that solves a problem I've been having ever since the last catastrophic upgrade. Go Team Xkit!!!

* Saturday morning: I'm trying to migrate functions across from Klaus to Edward Laptop. Inevitably, I keep finding problems I need to solve and things I need to tweak, so everything takes longer. Still it is faster than trying to do everything on a failing computer. I still need to do more work on extensions and the like.

Putting out the aggregate this week feels like running a marathon.

* "Jon Stewart on Trump’s Inauguration and Elon Musk's Nazi Salute | The Daily Show:"

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* "Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jordan Klepper Crashes Trump's Inauguration Weekend | The Daily Show:"

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* "President Trump Takes The Oath, Skips The Bible | Manifest Destiny In Space | A New Golden Age:"

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* "Biden's Shock Pardons | Did Trump Save TikTok? | Snoop Dogg Plays The Crypto Ball - More Monologue:"

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* "Insurrectionists Go Free | Elon's Nazi Salute | Trump's Worst Executive Orders:"

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* "GOP Cowards Duck J6 Pardon Questions | Brave Bishop Budde | Hegseth's Drinking Problems:"

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* ""FBI: CIA" On CBS | Jan 6 Revisited | GOP Sex Texts | Woman Fired For Calling Musk A "Nazi":"

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* I love introducing people too young to have seen it to this film. "Horror Queers: Bound (1996) feat. Kay Lynch:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bound-1996-feat-kay-lynch/id1449041559?i=1000628542995

* "That Time Dracula Sued Nosferatu:"

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* "Tech Billionaires Bend The Knee To President Trump:"

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* "Give Donald Trump Your Money:"

Watch on YouTube

* "The Cult Of Cthulhu:"

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* ""What Is Taxes?" - Stephen Answers Real Questions From Real Kids:"

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* If I told you what this was it wouldn't be as fun.: https://www.tumblr.com/highladyluck/773388832755318784/dragonheartftherpays

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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.

* "Evacuating from the Los Angeles fires? Here are some resources to help:" https://www.advocate.com/news/los-angeles-wildfires-evacuation-resources

* "Staying safe in a wildfire: What to pack and when to evacuate:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfiresafetyevacuationtipsmap-1b3bdaa19fc990bceacd60cf074eda41

* "Important Resources for Pet Owners Affected by the California Wildfires:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/important-resources-for-pet-owners-affected-by-the-california-wildfires-000111204.html

* "Pasadena Humane is seeking food, water bowls, crates, and more:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/pasadena-humane-donations-food-bowls-crates-blankets-eaton-fire/3598139/

* "Disaster Recovery Resources:" https://www.ms-demeanor.com/wiki/page_title/Disaster_Recovery_Resources

* Free documents for disaster preparedness and disaster claims: https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/772232788373012480?source=share

* Black Phoenix alchemy Lab, which is L.A. based is doing a fundraiser for fire relief and has good links to organizations helping people on the ground there. "City of Angels Fundraiser:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/the-city-of-angels/

* "Where your donations to L.A. fire victims will do the most good:" https://www.advocate.com/news/donate-los-angeles-fire-victims

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

* ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "Legal Services for Your Reproductive Life:" https://reprolegalhelpline.org/

* "National Abortion Hotline:" https://prochoice.org/

* "Plan C: Abortion pills by mail in every state:" https://www.plancpills.org/

* "Resources for Accessing Abortion Care:" https://reproductivefreedomforall.org/resources/resources-for-accessing-abortion-care/

* "Contraception and Birth Control Resources:" https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/contraception/more_information/resources

* "Gynecologists who will perform a tubal sterilization:" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/edit?gid=1318374028#gid=1318374028

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* What to do if you encounter an immigration official. "Know Your Rights:" https://unitedwedream.org/resources/know-your-rights/

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/



* "Buy Native List:" https://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

* Natural fiber fabric sources to buy from for sewing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/768880596478984192?source=share

* Ethical Elephant sanctuary disaster relief: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/769847233453719552/emergency-flood-relief?source=share

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Riot Medicine:" https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

* Passport links for Americans: https://www.usa.gov/renew-adult-passport

https://www.us-passport-service-guide.com/passport-name-change.html

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-apply/forms.html?os&ref=app

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/change-correct.html

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/have-passport/change-correct.html

* How to order free COVID Tests: https://special.usps.com/testkits

* Trans support organization: https://www.pointofpride.org/

* "Transanta: An opportunity to directly support trans youth:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/291573.html

* Florida Abortion Funds: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/766419765318270976?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* Want to help Journalists without Borders? https://donate.rsf.org/us/donate/~my-donation

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6

* 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

* Indivisible Guide for Trump 2.0 "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* 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.
Senate: https://contactsenators.com/senator-phone-numbers/
Congress in General: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive.  Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help.:

SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

They are also trying to GM for pay. They are an excellent GM. Here's where to sign up: https://startplaying.games/gm/1617744454089x564714756631343740

* What to help support all of us all here at the Cat Asylum? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls