gwydion | 4/24/26 - 5/1/26 May Day Protest!

* "Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-general-strike

* "Security incident prompts Trump evacuation at White House Correspondents' Dinner:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-evacuated-correspondents-dinner

* "WHCD shooting suspect faces assassination attempt, firearms charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/27/correspondents-dinner-shooting-hearing-00892838?8

* "Maddow: Security breach adds new layer to crisis at Trump’s DHS:" https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-security-breach-adds-new-layer-to-crisis-at-trump-s-dhs-2498004035987

* "False flag conspiracy theories swirl around White House Correspondents' Dinner attack:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/conspiracy-theories-staged-white-house-correspondents-dinner-rcna342212

* "Trump lashes out at ‘60 Minutes’ anchor for reading alleged gunman’s manifesto:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/26/trump-odonnell-60-minutes-manifesto-00892550?aid=529383&cid=5420268&crid=225246149&event=complete

* "I Think I Know Why Melania Trump Really Just Went After Jimmy Kimmel:" https://slate.com/life/2026/04/melania-trump-jimmy-kimmel-assassination-attempt-news.html

* "FCC challenges ABC broadcast licenses:" https://www.semafor.com/article/04/28/2026/fcc-prepares-review-of-disneys-tv-licenses

* "Jimmy Kimmel targeted by Trump again as FCC opens sudden ABC review:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/jimmy-kimmel-targeted-by-trump-again-as-fcc-opens-sudden-abc-review-2498129987535

* "No, Trump Doesn’t Need a New Ballroom to Protect Himself:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-demands-support-ballroom-corresondents-dinner-attack-1235554167/

* "Asking taxpayers to foot Trump ballroom bill is a huge misstep:" https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/asking-taxpayers-to-foot-trump-ballroom-bill-is-a-huge-misstep/

* "Rand Paul proposes White House ballroom bill amid security concerns and funding debate:" https://www.whas11.com/article/news/politics/rand-paul-lindsey-graham-trump-white-house-ballroom-funding-bill/417-7f242138-bc02-45d6-be4c-500ad7136852

* "The U.S. Supreme Court strikes another severe blow to the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting

* "5 things to know about the Supreme Court's landmark decision on the Voting Rights Act:" https://abcnews.com/Politics/5-things-supreme-courts-landmark-decision-voting-rights/story?id=131396119

* "Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scotus-further-guts-voting-rights

* The republican majority didn't quote the Dred Scott v. Sanford case where it says that "blacks have no rights that whites are bound to respect," but it sure feels to me think they were thinking it.

* "What the Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling is really all about:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/what-the-supreme-court-voting-rights-act-ruling-is-really-all-about-2498316867899

* "Hayes rips Supreme Court ruling: Back towards ‘policies of Jim Crow’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/hayes-rips-supreme-court-ruling-back-towards-policies-of-jim-crow-2498266691823

* "Hayes rips Supreme Court ruling: Back towards ‘policies of Jim Crow’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/hayes-rips-supreme-court-ruling-back-towards-policies-of-jim-crow-2498287683629

* "Jodi Kantor - Supreme Court Coverage & "How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work" | The Daily Show:"

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* "Supreme Court sides with crisis pregnancy centers in subpoena battle:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/supreme-court-crisis-pregnancy-centers-new-jersey-00898122

* "Congress ends record-shattering DHS shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/congress-ends-record-shattering-dhs-shutdown-00900777

* "Senate Rejects Measure to Restrict Iran War Hours Before Key Legal Deadline:" https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/senate-rejects-measure-to-curb-iran-war-hours-before-key-legal-deadline/

* "Tlaib pushes bill to ban ICE from using warehouses as detention centers:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/23/rashida-tlaib-ice-romulus-warehouse-ban-detention-center/89753912007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z115046p115450l004450c115450e1159xxv115046d--47--b--47--&gca-ft=22&gca-ds=sophi

* "Senate Republicans reject attempt to end Trump's blockade of Cuba:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-republicans-reject-attempt-to-end-trumps-blockade-of-cuba

* "Pentagon Pete Blows Up at Hearing Before Being Shut Up by Republican:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth-blows-up-at-hearing-before-being-shut-up-by-republican-committee-chair/

* "As Iran war drags on, Hegseth labels Dems obstacle to peace:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/hegseth-attack-democrats-unpatriotic-iran-00898688

* "Congress passes 45-day FISA extension, sends to Trump for signature:" https://abcnews.com/Politics/house-passes-3-year-fisa-reauthorization-face-challenges/story?id=132516696

I beg you to fight hard against the SAVE America Act 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

* "After failing in Senate, Josh Hawley urges House to ban funding for trans youth healthcare:" https://www.advocate.com/josh-hawley-trans-youth-healthcare

* "Tillis says he will vote to confirm Kevin Warsh as Fed chair:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/26/tillis-confirm-warsh-fed-chair-00892345

This is disastrous. You think the economy is bad now? Republicans are basically like "Hold my Beer!"

Last chance to complain, folks!

* 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/

* "Republicans push to redraw maps after Supreme Court deals blow to VRA:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/voting-rights-act-2026-midterms-republicans-gerrymandering-redistricting-00899022

* "Florida Republicans pass DeSantis-backed gerrymandered congressional maps:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/ron-desantis-gop-gerrymander-passes

* "DeSantis pitches a ‘very illegal map’ in desperate bid for Trump’s favor:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/desantis-pitches-a-very-illegal-map-in-desperate-bid-for-trump-s-favor-2498149955890

* "Redistricting battle ignites as MS Democrats warn of 1960s-style backslide:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2026/04/30/redistricting-will-march-mississippi-back-to-1960s-before-voting-rights-act-democrats-say/89871372007/

* We are in primary season. 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.

PLAN YOUR VOTE!!!

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.

* Indiana! Ohio! Don't forget to vote in the Primaries May 5!

* "Maryland to Become First US State to Ban Surveillance Pricing That Charges More After Mining Personal Data:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/maryland-to-become-first-us-state-to-ban-surveillance-pricing/

* "Lil Nas X assault case to be dismissed if he completes mental health programme:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew7nqn5rqgo

* "US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon?

* 4/24/26 10:42AM: I feel like it's too early for 4th of July fireworks, but here we are.

* As I read this really excellent book on yersina pestis, I keep catching my brain attempting to choreograph a ballet around the second Pandemic. I wish the ballet existed for me to actually watch, but I suspect I am the only one who would love this thing.

There is this whole thing with rat dancers enacting the epizootic phase with them mostly collapsing in a heap towards the end. Now picture two men dancing a pas de deux sword fight. Then a sick rat dances out of the seething mass of rat dancers all artistically dying. She pulls the Gold horde dancer away and they to an infection pas de deux. The rat dancer spins into the arms of the Genoese Soldier, and the Golden horde guy pulls the velcro on his costume and it flips down to show the buboes and blotches on the body suit underneath. The rat dancer collapses at the end of the second pas de deaux and gracefully dies, to be carried off stage by more rat dancers.

You get the idea. A group of dancers for the city, the swirl around, gather together, hiding a dancer in the middle and when they pull apart again the top costume is gone and it's the bubo body suit again. The dancers whirl in and out, one by one, infected, the first infected dancer slowly slowing and collapsing. All these little vignettes….

I know, I know, it's just for me. My brain will NOT let it go even as I read the details on the spread through the Iberian Peninsula.

* Wednesday I did the library run and they did have cat grass at the cheap grocery this time as I discovered on the way back. Livia's eaten the batch I grew her down to the nubbins and the new crop isn't up yet. She had the blerps twice while I was gone, poor thing.

I got back in time to do lungs before the "webinar" about new state laws in effect this year and next for HoAs. Management lady: "We hate this law." Me, rubbing my hands gleefully: I bet you do. It requires you to give proper notice, tell people living here what you are planning to do and it requires votes on anything not an extreme emergency. You know like the fucking gate we don't need and don't want that I told them wouldn't work, but they wasted the emergency funds on that should have gone to dealing with indoor waterfall damage and getting us up to fire code.

Pretty much all the abuses last year are now illegal. They kept complaining about how time consuming and onerous it was to let us vote on things effecting our lives. Fuck those people.

Next Tuesday I need to get my shit together to fight to save window plants and lights. I hate these people so much. so much.

* CW: CSA, Suicide "AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* On Lestat's name. "Occitan: l’estat (noun) the state, the estate:" https://www.tumblr.com/lasgalendil/815368413133389824?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* The public comment period is open now through May 22, 2026: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/19-41

* "Transcontinental Pipeline:" https://tcpipeline.org/steps/

* "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

* Links to Help organize in advance of ICE Occupation: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807226885129060352?source=share

* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/

* "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

* "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

* "Keep Android Open:" https://keepandroidopen.org/

* "Taking action against AI harms:" https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/

* "Resist and Unsubscribe:" https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

* 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

* 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

* 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/

* 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

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