3/16/26 - 3/22/26
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gwydion* I'm well over a month behind. Sorry.
* Why would they? "Trump demands ‘about 7' countries join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/trump-demands-about-7-countries-join-coalition-to-police-irans-strait-of-hormuz-00829416
* "Trump demands NATO and China police the Strait of Hormuz. So far they aren't joining:" https://www.npr.org/2026/03/16/nx-s1-5749109/trump-threatens-nato-strait-hormuz-iran-war
* "'Not our war': U.S. allies balk at Trump's Strait of Hormuz demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-allies-respond-trump-strait-of-hormuz-demands-nato-iran-war-rcna263650
* "‘Never heard him so angry’: Trump is furious that global allies aren’t pitching in in Iran:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/trump-iran-nato-allies-assistance-00831355
* "Trump frantic over Iran mess as rival nations take advantage of his poor planning:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-frantic-over-iran-mess-as-rival-nations-take-advantage-of-his-poor-planning-2492382787955
* "Trump Says Iran War Will End 'When I Feel It In My Bones':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-war-ending-iran_n_69b4382ee4b09d87d02711b7
* "‘Flat-out sociopath’ Trump is leading a war with no end in sight, says Hayes:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/flat-out-sociopath-trump-is-leading-a-war-with-no-end-in-sight-says-hayes-2492876867755
* "Former Presidents Deny Donald Trump’s Iran Claim:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-barack-obama-george-bush-bill-clinton-iran-war-11688326
* "‘They’re losing ground’: Bernie says Trump in a ‘panic’ as Iran war spirals:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/they-re-losing-ground-bernie-says-trump-in-a-panic-as-iran-war-spirals-2492888131593
* "Ukraine is using its drone expertise to help 5 countries against Iran attacks, Zelensky says:" https://archive.ph/EL0Zq
* "Trump snubs Zelensky’s offer to help US with drone tech and lashes out at him for not making deal with Putin:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/zelensky-trump-iran-drones-ukraine-russia-peace-b2939105.html
* "‘Whiplash’: Hayes warns Trump’s Iran message is total chaos:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/whiplash-hayes-warns-trump-s-iran-message-is-total-chaos-2493049923751
* "‘A logic of escalation’: How Trump’s ill-defined war risks spinning out of control:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/a-logic-of-escalation-how-trump-s-ill-defined-war-risks-spinning-out-of-control-2493078083512
* "Trump administration denounces CNN for airing messages from Iranian leaders:" https://apnews.com/article/khamenei-trump-cnn-iran-criticism-speech-war-6c5d24c0de5469d01c4c41b2b432a879
* "Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud:" https://newrepublic.com/article/207760/pete-hegseth-iran-war-patriotic-media-coverage
* "FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/fcc-broadcast-permits-iran-war-news
* "Hegseth offers word salad on U.S. goals in Iran:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hegseth-offers-word-salad-on-u-s-goals-in-iran-2492917827611
* "Pete Hegseth's Holy War:"
* "Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might:" https://archive.ph/nqZ71
* "Judge Sides With New York Times Against Pentagon’s Press Restrictions:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-new-york-times-pentagon-press-credentials-lawsuit-judge-ruling-defense-department-pete-hegeseth/
* "Judge hands Hegseth huge defeat on media restrictions as Trump continues to wing it on Iran:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/judge-hands-hegseth-huge-defeat-on-media-restrictions-as-trump-continues-to-wing-it-on-iran-2493075523691
* "Intel chief Gabbard declines to say if Iran posed an 'imminent threat' to U.S. :" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/intel-chief-gabbard-declines-say-iran-posed-imminent-threat-us-rcna264077
* "Gabbard caught omitting key Iran line that contradicted Trump:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/gabbard-caught-omitting-key-iran-line-that-contradicted-trump-2492699203957
* "Gabbard makes an embarrassing show of avoiding contradicting Trump:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/gabbard-makes-an-embarrassing-show-of-avoiding-contradicting-trump-2492741699728
* "Trump spins weird Iran fantasy narrative contradicted by reports:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-spins-weird-iran-fantasy-narrative-contradicted-by-reports-2492555331978
* "Trump’s top counterterrorism aide resigns, citing Iran war:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war-00831187
* "Joe Kent’s Secret:" https://archive.ph/To5ka
* "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/
* "‘Insidious’: Online gamblers threaten reporter over Iran war bets:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/insidious-online-gamblers-threaten-reporter-over-iran-war-bets-2492537923906
* "Strikes hit world’s largest natural gas field in Iran, and Tehran retaliates with more attacks:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-18-2026-d7ca062ba1bf99d1f8dc00c8073cf10f
* "Israel hits Tehran with airstrikes on Persian New Year as war jolts energy markets:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-19-2026-52e94398f2432b3aba9b02b51fbe5000
* "Pentagon weighs sending more troops to Middle East:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/19/pentagon-weighs-sending-more-troops-to-middle-east-00836468
* "Iran attacks wipe out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says:" https://archive.ph/08h2N
* "Brent crude briefly tops $119 per barrel, before receding, and shakes stock markets worldwide:" https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-oil-iran-trump-1abeddf7c4bf19d1dc96b3f23c1de402
* "Trump officials rule out oil export ban in meeting with industry execs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/19/white-house-crude-export-ban-oil-iran-00836300
* "Trump temporarily waives shipping restrictions amid surging oil and gas prices:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/trump-jones-act-waiver-00833820
* "How much worse will Trump’s energy crisis get? And when will it end?:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/how-much-worse-will-trump-s-energy-crisis-get-and-when-will-it-end-2492914243702
* Sure looks like open bribery. "Jared Kushner Reportedly Seeks $5B From Middle East Governments for His Firm While Serving as Envoy:" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/jared-kushner-reportedly-seeks-5b-from-middle-east-governments-for-his-firm-while-serving-as-envoy/
* "Trump’s Son-in-Law Accused of Grifting at U.S. Peace Talks:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-son-in-law-accused-of-grifting-at-us-peace-talks/
* "Turkish Bank Accused of Laundering Billions for Iran Gets a Reprieve:" https://archive.ph/CvHkm
******
* "Denmark reportedly flew blood bags to Greenland in preparation for a US attack :" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/denmark-prepared-for-us-attack-donald-trump-greenland
* "Denmark planned to blow up Greenland runways if US invaded, reports say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33ln4mp1p2o
* "Trump makes Pearl Harbor remark in meeting with Japan's PM:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dlpr074q3o
* "Concerns over US travel visas sees huge event moved to Europe for first time in 35 years:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-visas-ig-nobel-prizes-europe-trump-b2935119.html
* "Rubio beclowns himself dancing to Trump’s tune; U.S. security suffers with Rubio’s distractions:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/rubio-beclowns-himself-dancing-to-trump-s-tune-u-s-security-suffers-with-rubio-s-distractions-2487579715575
* "Ex-DOGE Employee Exploited Americans' Private Data, Whistleblower Claims:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-whistleblower-complaint-data-breach_n_69b09a66e4b07e0eaa23d70e
* "Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361
* "Rescuers Responding to Storms Were Left Without Key Tornado Tracker After Kristi Noem’s Team Let Contract Expire: Report:" https://people.com/rescuers-didnt-have-tornado-tracker-after-contract-expired-under-kristi-noem-report-11925823
* "JBS workers launch first US meatpacking strike in 40 years, union says:" https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/jbs-workers-launch-first-us-meatpacking-strike-40-years-union-says-2026-03-16/
* "Republican in Congress resist calls for Iran war hearings, creating a new standoff with Democrats:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-in-congress-resist-calls-for-iran-war-hearings-creating-a-new-standoff-with-democrats
* "‘Monumental strategic stupidity’: Trump faces wrath of Senate Democrats over Iran:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/monumental-strategic-stupidity-trump-faces-wrath-of-senate-democrats-over-iran-2492388931769
* "Congress braces for $200B Iran war request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/19/congress-braces-for-200b-iran-war-request-00835914
* "True to form, Trump’s new DHS pick comes with baggage, promising a lively confirmation hearing:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/true-to-form-trump-s-new-dhs-pick-comes-with-baggage-promising-a-lively-confirmation-hearing-2492567619934
* "Rand Paul beef with Markwayne Mullin adds surreal layer to bizarre hearing:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/rand-paul-beef-with-markwayne-mullin-adds-surreal-layer-to-bizarre-hearing-2492737091529
Tell Your Senators to Block Markwayne Mullin from Taking Over I.C.E.. There isn't much chance of permanently blocking him because senators like to rubber stamp other senators no matter how horrible, dangerous, or incompetent they are, but we can try to delay the process.
Tell your Senators to filibuster him until I.C.E. reforms go through.
* "Capitol agenda: Thune kicks off SAVE showdown:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/16/congress/save-america-act-thune-senate-vote-debate-00829442
* Republicans are thinking of nuking the filibuster so they can disenfranchise married women, trans people, and the poor. "Fact Check Team: Filibuster fight intensifies as Republicans push for action on SAVE Act:" https://katv.com/news/nation-world/fact-check-team-filibuster-fight-intensifies-as-republicans-push-for-action-on-save-act-department-homeland-security-legislation
* They aren't even pretending anymore about the real goal. "White House press secretary ties voting bill to unrelated anti-trans Trump agenda in Fox News appearance:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/karoline-leavitt-transgender-save-act
* "Senators must reject Trump’s expanding anti-trans agenda in SAVE America Act, advocates warn:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/senators-reject-save-act-letter
* "Senate blocks Trump-backed trans sports ban in Republican voting bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/senate-rejects-trans-save-act
I beg you to fight hard on this one because it's likely game over for American Democracy and absolutely deadly for trans people if they win this one.
* The goal of the SAVE Act is to make it illegal on a federal level for married women and trans people and people who can't afford expensive ID to vote.
I am really alarmed I am about to be stripped of my right to vote, that a large portion of Americans are about to be stripped of their right to vote.
Resistance in the Senate is Weakening. Please contact your Senators!
Please contact your US Senators to tell them to vote AGAINST the SAVE ACT
* Here is a model email: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2767709.html
* "Congressional Republicans advance federal ‘don’t say trans’ school bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trans-identity-education-ban
* Our until Midterms 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.
"Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide. https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:
Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html
"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/
White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/
ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives
This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/
"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share
"Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/
Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/
"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
"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/
* We are in primary season now. States vote at different times, so I beg ALL of you to check when your state is voting. If you are in an in-person vote state, research ahead of time so you can vote for the candidate with views closest to your own. If you vote by mail, take the time to look them up when your ballot comes.
THIS is how you move the party further LEFT.
Primary schedule here:
* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/
I don't know where you live, so I can't link this for you, but I find the Progressive Voter Guide online very helpful in narrowing down candidates in the often packed primaries where I live.
I also suggest looking at things like volunteer work and endorsements, because it really, really helps with things like sheriff and judicial elections, but can be useful in all sorts of primaries when you have multiple good options.
REMEMBER: Don't just vote for the big things like US Congress. Vote in every State and local race down to the smallest and on all the referendums.
State and local elections have a massive impact on your quality of life.
* Arkansas! Don't forget to vote in the Run Off Election March 31st!
* Indiana! Ohio! Don't forget to vote in the Primaries May 5!
* "LGBTQ+ Task Force’s Evan Low: What’s at stake this midterms:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gay-democrat-evan-low-midterms
* "Election Live Updates: Juliana Stratton Wins Illinois Democratic Senate Primary:" https://archive.ph/A97ah
* "Who is Daniel Biss, the Democrat who narrowly beat Gen-Z star Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/who-is-daniel-biss
* "Democratic incumbent fends off progressive Army captain & trans rights ally in Illinois primary:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/nikki-budzinski-beats-dylan-blaha
* "Mississippi Senate Primary Results 2026:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/mississippi-senate-results
* "Trans tech executive could become first out officeholder in western Tennessee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/transgender-candidate-lena-chipman-tennessee
* "Mayor Matt Mahan - His Vision as Democratic Candidate for Governor of California | The Daily Show:"
* "Idaho Republicans pass bill making it a felony for transgender people to use public bathrooms:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/transgender-bathroom-ban-felony-idaho
* "Christian ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson admits to porn obsession he denied while campaigning:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/mark-robinson-admits-porn-obsession
* "Demolition underway at Pulse nightclub, site of one of the deadliest U.S. mass shootings:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pulse-nightclub-demolition-underway
* "Afroman prevails in cops' music video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial:" https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5753563/afroman-lemon-pound-cake-trial
* "‘I will not comply’: Tennessee librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/rutherford-library-director-refusal
* "Fewer young Americans support LGBTQ+ protections, survey finds:" https://www.advocate.com/young-americans-opinions-lgbtq-rights
* "How Ozempic is impacting gay men's body image—and ability to bottom:" https://www.advocate.com/health/mental-health/ozempic-gay-body-image-explainer
* Long Covid Awareness Day: "Willful ignorance:" https://janetgunter.net/willful-ignorance
* "Have the gay tech titans turned their backs on us?:" https://www.advocate.com/cover-stories/gay-tech-billionaires-betray-lgbtq
* "Apple CEO Tim Cook swears he is ‘not a political person’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-tim-cook-apple-ceo
* "Tim Cook wants you to touch grass. That's rich:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/tim-cook-nature
* "'Agent of chaos' Peter Thiel is lecturing on the Antichrist at the Vatican's doorstep:" https://www.advocate.com/news/religion/peter-thiel-antichrist-vatican
* "Possible meteor seen over Southeast Texas:" https://www.khou.com/video/news/local/fireball-seen-over-part-of-southeast-texas/285-f278dee0-51ad-4994-95f8-069e3282c8b9
* "32,000 Year Old Plant Brought Back to Life:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120221-oldest-seeds-regenerated-plants-science
* "Anne of Cleves Wrote a Letter to Her Brother Politely Declining to Return to Cleves to Become a Political Pawn Again:" https://themedievalbeekeeper.com/2026/03/19/anne-of-cleves-wrote-a-letter-to-her-brother-politely-declining-to-return-to-cleves-to-become-a-political-pawn-again/
* "6 Black Suffragettes Who Made a Difference:" https://blackgirlnerds.com/6-black-suffragettes-who-made-a-difference/
* "My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/07/paul-kutchinsky-egg-obsession-destroy-marriage-family-fortune?
* "Robert Mueller, who investigated Trump and tested limits of presidential power, dies at 81:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/robert-mueller-dead
* "Donald Trump cheers former special counsel Robert Mueller’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-celebrates-robert-mueller-death
* "Officials say it’s ‘disgusting’ that Donald Trump is celebrating Robert Mueller’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-robert-mueller-death-celebration
* "Punch the orphan macaque is outgrowing his plushie and making friends:" https://apnews.com/article/japan-baby-monkey-zoo-7911e0597837b97199a810601f91c35d?
* Monday was a symphony of frustrations. I also had four separate calls from the insurance company that is trying to fuck up my medicare while I was asleep. They have a lot of auto dialers and no matter how many I block. They are getting desperate. I lost several hours of sleep as a result.
I still had to drag myself out for library. I'd promised myself the special seasonal potato cheddar bread as a treat, but it was sold out.
Came home to find housing threatening bureaucracy in the mail. I really fucking hate that they replaced the perfectly functional automated system at SSI with shitty AI designed to try to force me to use their broken website I can't get into and a cell phone I don't have.
The auto tax bill never came, and I am nearly out of time. They have made paying online impossible and have closed the place I used to go in person to pay. I don't understand why they couldn't A. send the bill in January like usual. B. have a website that lets you log in. Oh there are lots of boxes you can click and type into, but they require you to receive an email to actually log in and they do not send the email. Yes, I checked the spam filter and trash.
* We've been prepping for the annual inspection where they decode if I need a nursing home whether I want to live in one or not. I do not, of course, and I hate it, the intrusion, the inherent initialization. New Millennial was an absolute Superhero with the cleaning, and Techie Millennial was also a help.
Squirrel and I did get trash and recycling out in the middle of the night after the rain stopped. (It was pouring in that soak you in seconds way earlier).
I am exhausted. Was it five phone calls or six today? Two of them were real and important. One was a thing that may actually be a medicare thing, but I don't trust them because they are on that sketchy bubble and won't go off script to answer a simple question. (Sometimes real medicare does that and I once spent months hanging up on a legitimate thing because they were not willing to clearly say who they were and why they were calling and wouldn't go off their long rambly script. So I kept hanging up after two sentences until a supervisor called and said please don't hang up, identified herself clearly and said what she wanted. Just saying). The rest was yet more insurance company scammers. I have added a third voice to the list of ones that have been harassing me often multiple times a day for over a month. (Insurance Companies can afford a LOT of autodialers and tricking the elderly is a lucrative business). Luckily, the new one has a distinctive voice, so it should speed up the hang up and block the number process. (The other two are local accented white lady voices with very common pitch and delivery for around here. I learned to distinguish them mostly because one was and asshole and the other easy to discourage.) I also got one with a different voice and trying to trick you sales pitch, but the scam was obvious enough I could hang up and block one sentence in. Her voice was also distinctive, which will make the hang up and block process faster. I wonder if this is a different insurance company also trying to scam seniors or the first company trying out a different script. Sigh.
And then there was physio and cleaning and starting the stupid housing bureaucracy paperwork. (I was too tired to tackle the complicated second page directions, but I have Squirrel started on getting their documentation, so setting it aside for when my brain wasn't mush made more sense, since neither their documentation nor mine will be ready until likely next week). Then more cleaning, including futzing with the fish tanks so I could get the filter parts off the table ahead of inspection. The filter for the 20 gallon is kaput, which is not a surprise given its age and the fragility of filter propellers. (I miss when I could just switch them for one salvaged from another with a dead motor, but that company went out of business ages ago). At least the 50 has the filter back in after a cleaning. The tanks really need changing and I need to move some plants from the 50 to the twenty, but at least this is progress. Both tanks are dirt (not stones), with air pump and live plants. Going an extra week without a change will be okay. I just could not be hauling that much water around and be dealing with all this cleaning this past week and physio and at least three extremely low spoon days. I did at least top them off a couple days ago, and pop in a little extra stability.
All of this would be so much easier if people would just let me sleep instead of constantly trying to trick and/or threaten me into fucking up my Medicare for their profit.
As I wrote this it was less than too hours until inspection Thursday morning and I mostly just want to go to bed, but I can not, especially as I should really try to sort out the car tax thing after inspection because truncated ours. Sigh.
* The nurse practitioner/ inspector was about 4 hours late without calling.
When they were half an hour late, i did lungs. When they were more than an hour late I brushed my teeth and went to bed in my clothes, on the grounds that she might turn up. My money was on reschedule, but I hate keeping someone waiting while I try to scramble into my clothes.
Livia was already warey because all the intensive clening,buclothes in bed is a dead give away, and she is a clever girl and keen observer of human behavior. She was up and checking the window, ready to run for herhide at every odd sound from ouside or upstairs. I couldn't sleep anyway between this and phone scammers.
Nurse/inspector called I think 11:24AM, asked if she could come in 15 minutes. I said yes. My day was blown anyway, and we'd just have to clean all over on a reschedule. People are often late here because they can't find close parking or thy pick the wrong building. The buzzer doesn't always work, so some people do not come unless they have sense to call us. This late, I suspected a medical emergency at whoever her first visit was with. This was correct. I did not ask if she shipped her lunch break to squeeze me in, but I don't doubt she did.
I was grateful to be squeezed in and not mad at all. Someone could have died if she hadn't sorted it and it was exactly the sort of situation you can't leave until everything is stabilized and care is passed on to someone else. Like I said, I'd guessed something like this was what was going on and I don't waste angry in the absence of Malicious. I definitely don't get at angry about Kind and at no point did I think I'd been blown off without cause.
The upshot is I was too tired to be driving downtown for car tax crap I didn't get to bed until nearly one and have had Not Remotely enough sleep. I have massive headache and I am not enough butter on too much bread.
She was nice though. She skipped the cognitive exam, "You are intelligent, cheerful, and clearly your memory is fine."
Squirrel is now in a battle with the people doing the partial pay for work related injury time people to get the stupid piece of paper we need for the Housing Bureaucracy stuff, but they ae being diligent about it.
* Friday, I stayed up to do the car tax thing. Disabled parking was full, so it went from a walk the length of the building situation to most of a mile each way walking. I couldn't breath and I very nearly collapsed. So I'm laid up from that.
* "Allies Pass On Helping Trump Fight Iran | MarineTraffic Is Amazing | Taking Cuba:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZiRkfHzPRg&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv_1xFlP0NLPIhviSnmDs4S8&index=2
* "Jon Stewart Invites Panel of Trumps to Debate Iran War | The Daily Show:"
* "MAGA Spins High Oil Prices Into Patriotism & Rand Paul Beefs with Markwayne Mullin | The Daily Show:"
* "Trump: I'll Bomb Iran "Just For Fun" | Hegseth Wants A Patriotic Press | Dig We Must?:"
* "Trump Pisses Off Japan with Pearl Harbor Joke & Afroman Cucks the Police in Court | The Daily Show:"
* "Un Forever | Iran Posed No Imminent Threat | Not The Smartest Person | Florida's Cousin-Couples:"
* "Revisiting Ode to Billy Joe—and the boy who jumped—50 years later:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/ode-to-billy-joe-50th-anniversary
* "Bryan Fuller on Dust Bunny, Clive Barker & Going To Hell?:"
* "Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o
* "‘The Pitt,’ as Told by Its Patients:" https://www.theringer.com/2026/03/12/tv/the-pitt-behind-the-scenes-patients
* CW: Rape "The Tragic Mulatto: An American Lie:"
* "Sorrowful Scipio (Africanus):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZZmNGMSF7g
* "Ides Ideals:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g47zLpq95iE
* "Pious Peddlers:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkOvcCBroaA
* "Angry Angevins:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hIncHmWfc_A
* "Belligerent Bromances:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wX_9GL4V6yw
* "Horrendous Hapless Habsburgs:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eId7P_hwoPc
* "Typical Tanks:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JamCE1GygRI
* "Devastatingly Dystopian Dating:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sWYLsKUUGkw
* "Lore-ndry:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZqC5hgEi3u4
* "Sleep Sanity:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qG9KF26LF_E
* "Introducing Free Speech Plus: Pay What You Need to Say What You Want! | The Daily Show:"
* "Bombing Iran? Try Havinaplan:"
* "Baseball Diplomacy:"
* "Action Is The Antidote To Doomscrolling Anxiety - Edward Norton EXTENDED INTERVIEW:"
* ""Nobody's Side" - Lea Michele and the Broadway Cast & Orchestra of "Chess" (LIVE on The Late Show):"
* In other news, I am entirely enjoying The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, which is blowing me right the fuck away. So many ancient Greek reimaginings drive me right up a wall because of my academic background. This? This is genius built on a monumental knowledge of art history, archaeology, surviving sources, and modern scholarship all wrapped up in a good story and a really fun narrative voice.
I have a ways to go yet, but Natasha Pulley clearly knows what she is doing with Dionysus.
This is So fun!
I know this is something I'm going to want on my shelf.
*****
* 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.
* "Transcontinental Pipeline:" https://tcpipeline.org/steps/
* "Donate to Kansas ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/support-aclu-kansas
* "Project Salt Box:" https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/
* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers
* "MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807223113540599808?source=share
* "Here are Minnesota groups that need your help organizing against ICE and DHS operations:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mutual-aid-groups-ice
* Links to Help organize in advance of ICE Occupation: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807226885129060352?source=share
* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/
* Contains link to trans girl sales pages. "Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-on-cookie-list
* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/
* "The List of Shame: People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it!:" https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html
* Suggestions for crafts a person can do in bed are in the notes: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/809534727291912192?source=share
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/
* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available
* "State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies:" https://rsa.ed.gov/about/states
* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network
* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:
Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigtrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
* Help Lambda Legal Continue their fight: https://support.lambdalegal.org/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app30130a?df_id=6680&mfc_pref=T&6680.donation=form1&NONCE_TOKEN=D3311163DF16F06EEA5520010BAF90B5&_gl=1*n53ras*_gcl_au*MTMxNDYxNjc0LjE3MzgxODExMzg.*_ga*MTY0NDY4OTM4NC4xNzM4MTgxMTM4*_ga_290ZG8GMP3*MTczODE4MTEzOC4xLjEuMTczODE4MTIwMi41OC4wLjA.
* Glad Law is fighting for trans service members. Want to help? https://givebutter.com/donatetoglad?utm_src=webheader&_gl=1*1qhxi1q*_ga*NDM3MjM0Mzk1LjE3NDEwMDk5NDA.*_ga_PCJHHSV2G7*MTc0MTAwOTk0MC4xLjAuMTc0MTAwOTk0MC4wLjAuMA..
* "Donate to the ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/now
* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
* "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/
* Want to help Virginia get a Democratic Governor? "Support Abigail's Campaign for Governor of Virginia!" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/blu-asfg-2025-gs-dd?refcode=BLU_ASFG_DD_GS_NT_NTL_Q1_01&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt4C-BhBcEiwA8Kp0CcaXXWdWpVI1uyoauFCRFgrY9hsEMA4pbxF_TO6ZPHAdhNzOmcwHTxoC8lgQAvD_BwE
* 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/
* "Legal Services for Your Reproductive Life:" https://reprolegalhelpline.org/
* "National Abortion Hotline:" https://prochoice.org/
* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/
* Trans support organization: https://www.pointofpride.org/
* "Transanta: An opportunity to directly support trans youth:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/291573.html
* 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
* Indivisible Guide for Trump 2.0 "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:
Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
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
* Want 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
* Why would they? "Trump demands ‘about 7' countries join coalition to police Iran’s Strait of Hormuz:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/trump-demands-about-7-countries-join-coalition-to-police-irans-strait-of-hormuz-00829416
* "Trump demands NATO and China police the Strait of Hormuz. So far they aren't joining:" https://www.npr.org/2026/03/16/nx-s1-5749109/trump-threatens-nato-strait-hormuz-iran-war
* "'Not our war': U.S. allies balk at Trump's Strait of Hormuz demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-allies-respond-trump-strait-of-hormuz-demands-nato-iran-war-rcna263650
* "‘Never heard him so angry’: Trump is furious that global allies aren’t pitching in in Iran:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/trump-iran-nato-allies-assistance-00831355
* "Trump frantic over Iran mess as rival nations take advantage of his poor planning:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-frantic-over-iran-mess-as-rival-nations-take-advantage-of-his-poor-planning-2492382787955
* "Trump Says Iran War Will End 'When I Feel It In My Bones':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-war-ending-iran_n_69b4382ee4b09d87d02711b7
* "‘Flat-out sociopath’ Trump is leading a war with no end in sight, says Hayes:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/flat-out-sociopath-trump-is-leading-a-war-with-no-end-in-sight-says-hayes-2492876867755
* "Former Presidents Deny Donald Trump’s Iran Claim:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-barack-obama-george-bush-bill-clinton-iran-war-11688326
* "‘They’re losing ground’: Bernie says Trump in a ‘panic’ as Iran war spirals:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/they-re-losing-ground-bernie-says-trump-in-a-panic-as-iran-war-spirals-2492888131593
* "Ukraine is using its drone expertise to help 5 countries against Iran attacks, Zelensky says:" https://archive.ph/EL0Zq
* "Trump snubs Zelensky’s offer to help US with drone tech and lashes out at him for not making deal with Putin:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/zelensky-trump-iran-drones-ukraine-russia-peace-b2939105.html
* "‘Whiplash’: Hayes warns Trump’s Iran message is total chaos:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/whiplash-hayes-warns-trump-s-iran-message-is-total-chaos-2493049923751
* "‘A logic of escalation’: How Trump’s ill-defined war risks spinning out of control:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/a-logic-of-escalation-how-trump-s-ill-defined-war-risks-spinning-out-of-control-2493078083512
* "Trump administration denounces CNN for airing messages from Iranian leaders:" https://apnews.com/article/khamenei-trump-cnn-iran-criticism-speech-war-6c5d24c0de5469d01c4c41b2b432a879
* "Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud:" https://newrepublic.com/article/207760/pete-hegseth-iran-war-patriotic-media-coverage
* "FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/fcc-broadcast-permits-iran-war-news
* "Hegseth offers word salad on U.S. goals in Iran:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/hegseth-offers-word-salad-on-u-s-goals-in-iran-2492917827611
* "Pete Hegseth's Holy War:"
* "Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might:" https://archive.ph/nqZ71
* "Judge Sides With New York Times Against Pentagon’s Press Restrictions:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/trump-new-york-times-pentagon-press-credentials-lawsuit-judge-ruling-defense-department-pete-hegeseth/
* "Judge hands Hegseth huge defeat on media restrictions as Trump continues to wing it on Iran:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/judge-hands-hegseth-huge-defeat-on-media-restrictions-as-trump-continues-to-wing-it-on-iran-2493075523691
* "Intel chief Gabbard declines to say if Iran posed an 'imminent threat' to U.S. :" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/intel-chief-gabbard-declines-say-iran-posed-imminent-threat-us-rcna264077
* "Gabbard caught omitting key Iran line that contradicted Trump:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/gabbard-caught-omitting-key-iran-line-that-contradicted-trump-2492699203957
* "Gabbard makes an embarrassing show of avoiding contradicting Trump:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/gabbard-makes-an-embarrassing-show-of-avoiding-contradicting-trump-2492741699728
* "Trump spins weird Iran fantasy narrative contradicted by reports:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-spins-weird-iran-fantasy-narrative-contradicted-by-reports-2492555331978
* "Trump’s top counterterrorism aide resigns, citing Iran war:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war-00831187
* "Joe Kent’s Secret:" https://archive.ph/To5ka
* "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-trying-to-win-a-bet-on-polymarket-are-vowing-to-kill-me-if-i-dont-rewrite-an-iran-missile-story/
* "‘Insidious’: Online gamblers threaten reporter over Iran war bets:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/insidious-online-gamblers-threaten-reporter-over-iran-war-bets-2492537923906
* "Strikes hit world’s largest natural gas field in Iran, and Tehran retaliates with more attacks:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-18-2026-d7ca062ba1bf99d1f8dc00c8073cf10f
* "Israel hits Tehran with airstrikes on Persian New Year as war jolts energy markets:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-us-israel-trump-march-19-2026-52e94398f2432b3aba9b02b51fbe5000
* "Pentagon weighs sending more troops to Middle East:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/19/pentagon-weighs-sending-more-troops-to-middle-east-00836468
* "Iran attacks wipe out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says:" https://archive.ph/08h2N
* "Brent crude briefly tops $119 per barrel, before receding, and shakes stock markets worldwide:" https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-oil-iran-trump-1abeddf7c4bf19d1dc96b3f23c1de402
* "Trump officials rule out oil export ban in meeting with industry execs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/19/white-house-crude-export-ban-oil-iran-00836300
* "Trump temporarily waives shipping restrictions amid surging oil and gas prices:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/trump-jones-act-waiver-00833820
* "How much worse will Trump’s energy crisis get? And when will it end?:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/how-much-worse-will-trump-s-energy-crisis-get-and-when-will-it-end-2492914243702
* Sure looks like open bribery. "Jared Kushner Reportedly Seeks $5B From Middle East Governments for His Firm While Serving as Envoy:" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/jared-kushner-reportedly-seeks-5b-from-middle-east-governments-for-his-firm-while-serving-as-envoy/
* "Trump’s Son-in-Law Accused of Grifting at U.S. Peace Talks:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-son-in-law-accused-of-grifting-at-us-peace-talks/
* "Turkish Bank Accused of Laundering Billions for Iran Gets a Reprieve:" https://archive.ph/CvHkm
******
* "Denmark reportedly flew blood bags to Greenland in preparation for a US attack :" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/denmark-prepared-for-us-attack-donald-trump-greenland
* "Denmark planned to blow up Greenland runways if US invaded, reports say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33ln4mp1p2o
* "Trump makes Pearl Harbor remark in meeting with Japan's PM:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dlpr074q3o
* "Concerns over US travel visas sees huge event moved to Europe for first time in 35 years:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-visas-ig-nobel-prizes-europe-trump-b2935119.html
* "Rubio beclowns himself dancing to Trump’s tune; U.S. security suffers with Rubio’s distractions:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/rubio-beclowns-himself-dancing-to-trump-s-tune-u-s-security-suffers-with-rubio-s-distractions-2487579715575
* "Ex-DOGE Employee Exploited Americans' Private Data, Whistleblower Claims:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doge-whistleblower-complaint-data-breach_n_69b09a66e4b07e0eaa23d70e
* "Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361
* "Rescuers Responding to Storms Were Left Without Key Tornado Tracker After Kristi Noem’s Team Let Contract Expire: Report:" https://people.com/rescuers-didnt-have-tornado-tracker-after-contract-expired-under-kristi-noem-report-11925823
* "JBS workers launch first US meatpacking strike in 40 years, union says:" https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/jbs-workers-launch-first-us-meatpacking-strike-40-years-union-says-2026-03-16/
* "Republican in Congress resist calls for Iran war hearings, creating a new standoff with Democrats:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-in-congress-resist-calls-for-iran-war-hearings-creating-a-new-standoff-with-democrats
* "‘Monumental strategic stupidity’: Trump faces wrath of Senate Democrats over Iran:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/monumental-strategic-stupidity-trump-faces-wrath-of-senate-democrats-over-iran-2492388931769
* "Congress braces for $200B Iran war request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/19/congress-braces-for-200b-iran-war-request-00835914
* "True to form, Trump’s new DHS pick comes with baggage, promising a lively confirmation hearing:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/true-to-form-trump-s-new-dhs-pick-comes-with-baggage-promising-a-lively-confirmation-hearing-2492567619934
* "Rand Paul beef with Markwayne Mullin adds surreal layer to bizarre hearing:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/rand-paul-beef-with-markwayne-mullin-adds-surreal-layer-to-bizarre-hearing-2492737091529
Tell Your Senators to Block Markwayne Mullin from Taking Over I.C.E.. There isn't much chance of permanently blocking him because senators like to rubber stamp other senators no matter how horrible, dangerous, or incompetent they are, but we can try to delay the process.
Tell your Senators to filibuster him until I.C.E. reforms go through.
* "Capitol agenda: Thune kicks off SAVE showdown:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/16/congress/save-america-act-thune-senate-vote-debate-00829442
* Republicans are thinking of nuking the filibuster so they can disenfranchise married women, trans people, and the poor. "Fact Check Team: Filibuster fight intensifies as Republicans push for action on SAVE Act:" https://katv.com/news/nation-world/fact-check-team-filibuster-fight-intensifies-as-republicans-push-for-action-on-save-act-department-homeland-security-legislation
* They aren't even pretending anymore about the real goal. "White House press secretary ties voting bill to unrelated anti-trans Trump agenda in Fox News appearance:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/karoline-leavitt-transgender-save-act
* "Senators must reject Trump’s expanding anti-trans agenda in SAVE America Act, advocates warn:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/senators-reject-save-act-letter
* "Senate blocks Trump-backed trans sports ban in Republican voting bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/senate-rejects-trans-save-act
I beg you to fight hard on this one because it's likely game over for American Democracy and absolutely deadly for trans people if they win this one.
* The goal of the SAVE Act is to make it illegal on a federal level for married women and trans people and people who can't afford expensive ID to vote.
I am really alarmed I am about to be stripped of my right to vote, that a large portion of Americans are about to be stripped of their right to vote.
Resistance in the Senate is Weakening. Please contact your Senators!
Please contact your US Senators to tell them to vote AGAINST the SAVE ACT
* Here is a model email: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2767709.html
* "Congressional Republicans advance federal ‘don’t say trans’ school bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trans-identity-education-ban
* Our until Midterms 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.
"Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/
Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide. https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:
Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html
"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/
White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/
ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives
This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/
"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share
"Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/
Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/
"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
"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/
* We are in primary season now. States vote at different times, so I beg ALL of you to check when your state is voting. If you are in an in-person vote state, research ahead of time so you can vote for the candidate with views closest to your own. If you vote by mail, take the time to look them up when your ballot comes.
THIS is how you move the party further LEFT.
Primary schedule here:
* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/
I don't know where you live, so I can't link this for you, but I find the Progressive Voter Guide online very helpful in narrowing down candidates in the often packed primaries where I live.
I also suggest looking at things like volunteer work and endorsements, because it really, really helps with things like sheriff and judicial elections, but can be useful in all sorts of primaries when you have multiple good options.
REMEMBER: Don't just vote for the big things like US Congress. Vote in every State and local race down to the smallest and on all the referendums.
State and local elections have a massive impact on your quality of life.
* Arkansas! Don't forget to vote in the Run Off Election March 31st!
* Indiana! Ohio! Don't forget to vote in the Primaries May 5!
* "LGBTQ+ Task Force’s Evan Low: What’s at stake this midterms:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gay-democrat-evan-low-midterms
* "Election Live Updates: Juliana Stratton Wins Illinois Democratic Senate Primary:" https://archive.ph/A97ah
* "Who is Daniel Biss, the Democrat who narrowly beat Gen-Z star Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/who-is-daniel-biss
* "Democratic incumbent fends off progressive Army captain & trans rights ally in Illinois primary:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/nikki-budzinski-beats-dylan-blaha
* "Mississippi Senate Primary Results 2026:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/mississippi-senate-results
* "Trans tech executive could become first out officeholder in western Tennessee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/transgender-candidate-lena-chipman-tennessee
* "Mayor Matt Mahan - His Vision as Democratic Candidate for Governor of California | The Daily Show:"
* "Idaho Republicans pass bill making it a felony for transgender people to use public bathrooms:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/transgender-bathroom-ban-felony-idaho
* "Christian ‘Black Nazi’ Mark Robinson admits to porn obsession he denied while campaigning:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/mark-robinson-admits-porn-obsession
* "Demolition underway at Pulse nightclub, site of one of the deadliest U.S. mass shootings:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pulse-nightclub-demolition-underway
* "Afroman prevails in cops' music video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial:" https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5753563/afroman-lemon-pound-cake-trial
* "‘I will not comply’: Tennessee librarian refuses to move LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/rutherford-library-director-refusal
* "Fewer young Americans support LGBTQ+ protections, survey finds:" https://www.advocate.com/young-americans-opinions-lgbtq-rights
* "How Ozempic is impacting gay men's body image—and ability to bottom:" https://www.advocate.com/health/mental-health/ozempic-gay-body-image-explainer
* Long Covid Awareness Day: "Willful ignorance:" https://janetgunter.net/willful-ignorance
* "Have the gay tech titans turned their backs on us?:" https://www.advocate.com/cover-stories/gay-tech-billionaires-betray-lgbtq
* "Apple CEO Tim Cook swears he is ‘not a political person’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-tim-cook-apple-ceo
* "Tim Cook wants you to touch grass. That's rich:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/tim-cook-nature
* "'Agent of chaos' Peter Thiel is lecturing on the Antichrist at the Vatican's doorstep:" https://www.advocate.com/news/religion/peter-thiel-antichrist-vatican
* "Possible meteor seen over Southeast Texas:" https://www.khou.com/video/news/local/fireball-seen-over-part-of-southeast-texas/285-f278dee0-51ad-4994-95f8-069e3282c8b9
* "32,000 Year Old Plant Brought Back to Life:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120221-oldest-seeds-regenerated-plants-science
* "Anne of Cleves Wrote a Letter to Her Brother Politely Declining to Return to Cleves to Become a Political Pawn Again:" https://themedievalbeekeeper.com/2026/03/19/anne-of-cleves-wrote-a-letter-to-her-brother-politely-declining-to-return-to-cleves-to-become-a-political-pawn-again/
* "6 Black Suffragettes Who Made a Difference:" https://blackgirlnerds.com/6-black-suffragettes-who-made-a-difference/
* "My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/07/paul-kutchinsky-egg-obsession-destroy-marriage-family-fortune?
* "Robert Mueller, who investigated Trump and tested limits of presidential power, dies at 81:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/robert-mueller-dead
* "Donald Trump cheers former special counsel Robert Mueller’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-celebrates-robert-mueller-death
* "Officials say it’s ‘disgusting’ that Donald Trump is celebrating Robert Mueller’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-robert-mueller-death-celebration
* "Punch the orphan macaque is outgrowing his plushie and making friends:" https://apnews.com/article/japan-baby-monkey-zoo-7911e0597837b97199a810601f91c35d?
* Monday was a symphony of frustrations. I also had four separate calls from the insurance company that is trying to fuck up my medicare while I was asleep. They have a lot of auto dialers and no matter how many I block. They are getting desperate. I lost several hours of sleep as a result.
I still had to drag myself out for library. I'd promised myself the special seasonal potato cheddar bread as a treat, but it was sold out.
Came home to find housing threatening bureaucracy in the mail. I really fucking hate that they replaced the perfectly functional automated system at SSI with shitty AI designed to try to force me to use their broken website I can't get into and a cell phone I don't have.
The auto tax bill never came, and I am nearly out of time. They have made paying online impossible and have closed the place I used to go in person to pay. I don't understand why they couldn't A. send the bill in January like usual. B. have a website that lets you log in. Oh there are lots of boxes you can click and type into, but they require you to receive an email to actually log in and they do not send the email. Yes, I checked the spam filter and trash.
* We've been prepping for the annual inspection where they decode if I need a nursing home whether I want to live in one or not. I do not, of course, and I hate it, the intrusion, the inherent initialization. New Millennial was an absolute Superhero with the cleaning, and Techie Millennial was also a help.
Squirrel and I did get trash and recycling out in the middle of the night after the rain stopped. (It was pouring in that soak you in seconds way earlier).
I am exhausted. Was it five phone calls or six today? Two of them were real and important. One was a thing that may actually be a medicare thing, but I don't trust them because they are on that sketchy bubble and won't go off script to answer a simple question. (Sometimes real medicare does that and I once spent months hanging up on a legitimate thing because they were not willing to clearly say who they were and why they were calling and wouldn't go off their long rambly script. So I kept hanging up after two sentences until a supervisor called and said please don't hang up, identified herself clearly and said what she wanted. Just saying). The rest was yet more insurance company scammers. I have added a third voice to the list of ones that have been harassing me often multiple times a day for over a month. (Insurance Companies can afford a LOT of autodialers and tricking the elderly is a lucrative business). Luckily, the new one has a distinctive voice, so it should speed up the hang up and block the number process. (The other two are local accented white lady voices with very common pitch and delivery for around here. I learned to distinguish them mostly because one was and asshole and the other easy to discourage.) I also got one with a different voice and trying to trick you sales pitch, but the scam was obvious enough I could hang up and block one sentence in. Her voice was also distinctive, which will make the hang up and block process faster. I wonder if this is a different insurance company also trying to scam seniors or the first company trying out a different script. Sigh.
And then there was physio and cleaning and starting the stupid housing bureaucracy paperwork. (I was too tired to tackle the complicated second page directions, but I have Squirrel started on getting their documentation, so setting it aside for when my brain wasn't mush made more sense, since neither their documentation nor mine will be ready until likely next week). Then more cleaning, including futzing with the fish tanks so I could get the filter parts off the table ahead of inspection. The filter for the 20 gallon is kaput, which is not a surprise given its age and the fragility of filter propellers. (I miss when I could just switch them for one salvaged from another with a dead motor, but that company went out of business ages ago). At least the 50 has the filter back in after a cleaning. The tanks really need changing and I need to move some plants from the 50 to the twenty, but at least this is progress. Both tanks are dirt (not stones), with air pump and live plants. Going an extra week without a change will be okay. I just could not be hauling that much water around and be dealing with all this cleaning this past week and physio and at least three extremely low spoon days. I did at least top them off a couple days ago, and pop in a little extra stability.
All of this would be so much easier if people would just let me sleep instead of constantly trying to trick and/or threaten me into fucking up my Medicare for their profit.
As I wrote this it was less than too hours until inspection Thursday morning and I mostly just want to go to bed, but I can not, especially as I should really try to sort out the car tax thing after inspection because truncated ours. Sigh.
* The nurse practitioner/ inspector was about 4 hours late without calling.
When they were half an hour late, i did lungs. When they were more than an hour late I brushed my teeth and went to bed in my clothes, on the grounds that she might turn up. My money was on reschedule, but I hate keeping someone waiting while I try to scramble into my clothes.
Livia was already warey because all the intensive clening,buclothes in bed is a dead give away, and she is a clever girl and keen observer of human behavior. She was up and checking the window, ready to run for herhide at every odd sound from ouside or upstairs. I couldn't sleep anyway between this and phone scammers.
Nurse/inspector called I think 11:24AM, asked if she could come in 15 minutes. I said yes. My day was blown anyway, and we'd just have to clean all over on a reschedule. People are often late here because they can't find close parking or thy pick the wrong building. The buzzer doesn't always work, so some people do not come unless they have sense to call us. This late, I suspected a medical emergency at whoever her first visit was with. This was correct. I did not ask if she shipped her lunch break to squeeze me in, but I don't doubt she did.
I was grateful to be squeezed in and not mad at all. Someone could have died if she hadn't sorted it and it was exactly the sort of situation you can't leave until everything is stabilized and care is passed on to someone else. Like I said, I'd guessed something like this was what was going on and I don't waste angry in the absence of Malicious. I definitely don't get at angry about Kind and at no point did I think I'd been blown off without cause.
The upshot is I was too tired to be driving downtown for car tax crap I didn't get to bed until nearly one and have had Not Remotely enough sleep. I have massive headache and I am not enough butter on too much bread.
She was nice though. She skipped the cognitive exam, "You are intelligent, cheerful, and clearly your memory is fine."
Squirrel is now in a battle with the people doing the partial pay for work related injury time people to get the stupid piece of paper we need for the Housing Bureaucracy stuff, but they ae being diligent about it.
* Friday, I stayed up to do the car tax thing. Disabled parking was full, so it went from a walk the length of the building situation to most of a mile each way walking. I couldn't breath and I very nearly collapsed. So I'm laid up from that.
* "Allies Pass On Helping Trump Fight Iran | MarineTraffic Is Amazing | Taking Cuba:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZiRkfHzPRg&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv_1xFlP0NLPIhviSnmDs4S8&index=2
* "Jon Stewart Invites Panel of Trumps to Debate Iran War | The Daily Show:"
* "MAGA Spins High Oil Prices Into Patriotism & Rand Paul Beefs with Markwayne Mullin | The Daily Show:"
* "Trump: I'll Bomb Iran "Just For Fun" | Hegseth Wants A Patriotic Press | Dig We Must?:"
* "Trump Pisses Off Japan with Pearl Harbor Joke & Afroman Cucks the Police in Court | The Daily Show:"
* "Un Forever | Iran Posed No Imminent Threat | Not The Smartest Person | Florida's Cousin-Couples:"
* "Revisiting Ode to Billy Joe—and the boy who jumped—50 years later:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/ode-to-billy-joe-50th-anniversary
* "Bryan Fuller on Dust Bunny, Clive Barker & Going To Hell?:"
* "Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o
* "‘The Pitt,’ as Told by Its Patients:" https://www.theringer.com/2026/03/12/tv/the-pitt-behind-the-scenes-patients
* CW: Rape "The Tragic Mulatto: An American Lie:"
* "Sorrowful Scipio (Africanus):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZZmNGMSF7g
* "Ides Ideals:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g47zLpq95iE
* "Pious Peddlers:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fkOvcCBroaA
* "Angry Angevins:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hIncHmWfc_A
* "Belligerent Bromances:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wX_9GL4V6yw
* "Horrendous Hapless Habsburgs:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eId7P_hwoPc
* "Typical Tanks:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JamCE1GygRI
* "Devastatingly Dystopian Dating:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sWYLsKUUGkw
* "Lore-ndry:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZqC5hgEi3u4
* "Sleep Sanity:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qG9KF26LF_E
* "Introducing Free Speech Plus: Pay What You Need to Say What You Want! | The Daily Show:"
* "Bombing Iran? Try Havinaplan:"
* "Baseball Diplomacy:"
* "Action Is The Antidote To Doomscrolling Anxiety - Edward Norton EXTENDED INTERVIEW:"
* ""Nobody's Side" - Lea Michele and the Broadway Cast & Orchestra of "Chess" (LIVE on The Late Show):"
* In other news, I am entirely enjoying The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, which is blowing me right the fuck away. So many ancient Greek reimaginings drive me right up a wall because of my academic background. This? This is genius built on a monumental knowledge of art history, archaeology, surviving sources, and modern scholarship all wrapped up in a good story and a really fun narrative voice.
I have a ways to go yet, but Natasha Pulley clearly knows what she is doing with Dionysus.
This is So fun!
I know this is something I'm going to want on my shelf.
*****
* 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.
* "Transcontinental Pipeline:" https://tcpipeline.org/steps/
* "Donate to Kansas ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/support-aclu-kansas
* "Project Salt Box:" https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/
* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers
* "MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807223113540599808?source=share
* "Here are Minnesota groups that need your help organizing against ICE and DHS operations:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mutual-aid-groups-ice
* Links to Help organize in advance of ICE Occupation: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807226885129060352?source=share
* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/
* Contains link to trans girl sales pages. "Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-on-cookie-list
* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/
* "The List of Shame: People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it!:" https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html
* Suggestions for crafts a person can do in bed are in the notes: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/809534727291912192?source=share
* If you need help with chest binders:
* "Free Chest Binders:" https://www.pointofpride.org/free-chest-binders
* "Brother 2 Brother Binder Program:" https://blacktransmen.org/binder-program/
* "Morebinders:" https://www.morebinders.com/about
* "The Queer Trans Project :" https://queertransproject.org/
* "Free Gender Affirming Gear Program:" https://www.ftmessentials.com/pages/ftme-free-youth-binder-program
* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/
* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available
* "State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies:" https://rsa.ed.gov/about/states
* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map
* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network
* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:
Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigtrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
* Help Lambda Legal Continue their fight: https://support.lambdalegal.org/site/Donation2;jsessionid=00000000.app30130a?df_id=6680&mfc_pref=T&6680.donation=form1&NONCE_TOKEN=D3311163DF16F06EEA5520010BAF90B5&_gl=1*n53ras*_gcl_au*MTMxNDYxNjc0LjE3MzgxODExMzg.*_ga*MTY0NDY4OTM4NC4xNzM4MTgxMTM4*_ga_290ZG8GMP3*MTczODE4MTEzOC4xLjEuMTczODE4MTIwMi41OC4wLjA.
* Glad Law is fighting for trans service members. Want to help? https://givebutter.com/donatetoglad?utm_src=webheader&_gl=1*1qhxi1q*_ga*NDM3MjM0Mzk1LjE3NDEwMDk5NDA.*_ga_PCJHHSV2G7*MTc0MTAwOTk0MC4xLjAuMTc0MTAwOTk0MC4wLjAuMA..
* "Donate to the ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/now
* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/
* "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/
* Want to help Virginia get a Democratic Governor? "Support Abigail's Campaign for Governor of Virginia!" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/blu-asfg-2025-gs-dd?refcode=BLU_ASFG_DD_GS_NT_NTL_Q1_01&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAt4C-BhBcEiwA8Kp0CcaXXWdWpVI1uyoauFCRFgrY9hsEMA4pbxF_TO6ZPHAdhNzOmcwHTxoC8lgQAvD_BwE
* 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/
* "Legal Services for Your Reproductive Life:" https://reprolegalhelpline.org/
* "National Abortion Hotline:" https://prochoice.org/
* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/
* Trans support organization: https://www.pointofpride.org/
* "Transanta: An opportunity to directly support trans youth:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/291573.html
* 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
* Indivisible Guide for Trump 2.0 "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:
Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/
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
* Want 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