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May. 9th, 2022 12:34 am
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* "Sri Lanka president declares state of emergency after day of protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/anti-government-protest-strike-sri-lanka-shuts-schools-businesses-2022-05-06/

* "‘I saw my son’s body on Facebook’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-61327821

* "Path to victory: the seats that will decide the 2022 federal election:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/06/path-to-victory-the-seats-that-will-decide-the-2022-federal-election

* "Clive Palmer's Big Piss Billboards Are Copping A Very Deserved Facelift Across Australia RN:" https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/clive-palmer-uap-billboards-defaced/

* "French Greens, leftist Mélenchon form alliance ahead of parliamentary elections:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220502-french-greens-far-left-leader-m%C3%A9lenchon-form-an-alliance-ahead-of-parliamentary-elections

* "In the Philippines, grass-roots campaign takes on the Marcos juggernaut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/06/philippines-election-leni-robredo-marcos/

* "Philippines election: 'Politicians hire me to spread fake stories':" https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61339293

* "Tiny Loans Were Going to Solve Global Poverty. Then Big Money Got Involved:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-microfinance-banks-profit-off-developing-world/

* "Powerful blast at Havana hotel kills at least 9, injures 40:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/strong-blast-havana-hotel-kills-people-injures-40-84548952

* Universal Basic Income Petition. "European Citizens' Initiative:" https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/683566200335286272

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* "Here’s why people with allergic asthma are at lower COVID-19 risk:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-asthma-allergic-immune-response

* "Nearly 15 million deaths related to covid-19, WHO estimates:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/05/covid-excess-global-deaths-nearly-15-million/

* "Covid's toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covids-toll-us-reaches-1-million-deaths-unfathomable-number-rcna22105

* "Racial split on COVID-19 endures as restrictions ease in US:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-pandemics-public-race-and-ethnicity-6d512d62a6aadf9f1777bc4a4e0f29a9

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* "The AP Interview: Belarus admits Russia's war 'drags on':" https://apnews.com/article/belarus-alexander-lukashenko-ap-interview-9bc1f6524eb65841b924883705684b7f

* "EU takes major step toward Russian oil ban, new sanctions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-global-trade-moscow-europe-c6c7a1960b88c363ce5f3eaf0ea07dcd

* "Russia accuses Israel of backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Kyiv as diplomatic row grows:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/russia-accuses-israel-backing-neo-nazis-kyiv-diplomatic-row-grows

* "Biden call with Zelenskyy says ‘America is not forgetting Ukraine’ expert explains:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-forces-continue-brutal-assault-on-azovstal-steel-plant-in-mariupol-139492421741

* "U.S. provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink Russian warship:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/05/us-intelligence-ukraine-moskva-sinking/

* "Why the battle for Mariupol is important for Vladimir Putin.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/putin-war-mariupol-ukraine.html

* "Evacuation operations continue from Mariupol with 40 civilians rescued on Friday – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/may/06/russia-ukraine-war-rescue-operations-to-resume-in-mariupol-hellscape-un-says-amid-rumours-russia-wants-to-claim-city-for-victory-day-live

* "A grinding artillery war in Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/briefing/a-grinding-artillery-war-in-ukraine.html

* "Britain says Russia deploys 22 battalion tactical groups near Izium:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-says-russia-deploys-22-battalion-tactical-groups-near-izium-2022-05-04/

* "Missiles hit power stations in Lviv and along crucial railways in central and western Ukraine.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/world/europe/lviv-ukraine-russia-missiles.html

* "Ukraine: Intense shelling as troops battle to regain Kharkiv region:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61364217

* "In battered Kharkiv, cold, dark basements are the last safe refuge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/07/ukraine-kharkiv-basement-refuge/

* "In Ukrainian villages, whispers of collaboration with the Russians:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/04/ukraine-collaborators-chernihiv-fear-paranoia-villages/

* "Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as Putin's bloodthirsty war rages on:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/gay-alliance-ukraine-russia-war-trans/

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

* "Odesa locks down over fears of Putin's saboteurs on painful anniversary:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/odesa-fears-russian-saboteurs-may-2-euromaidan-protests-anniversary-rcna26865

* "Wives of Mariupol soldiers dispersed by police at Kyiv protest:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/wives-mariupol-soldiers-dispersed-police-kyiv-protest-ukraine-russia

* "'They thought they were safe.' AP investigation reveals 600 likely died in Mariupol theater airstrike:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/they-thought-they-were-safe-ap-investigation-reveals-600-likely-died-in-mariupol-theater-airstrike

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* "White House names Karine Jean-Pierre as first Black and openly LGBTQ+ press secretary:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/karine-jean-pierre-white-house-press-secretary-lgbtq/

* "U.S. Supreme Court's Alito cancels conference appearance after abortion ruling leak:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-courts-alito-cancels-conference-appearance-after-abortion-ruling-leak-2022-05-04/

* "'Inflation is much too high': Powell puts the hammer on price spikes:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/04/fed-inflation-new-era-economy-00029928

* "U.S. added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/06/u-s-jobs-april-inflation-00030647

* "How the NCAA Avoided Paying its Players:"

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* Illegal lies employers tell: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/683722366774280192

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* Republicans decided to ignore the ruling so as to run out the clock on the grounds that Republicans are by definition above the law. They are likely going to get away with it. "Ohio Redistricting Commission reconvenes with looming court-ordered deadline:" https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2022-05-04/ohio-redistricting-commission-reconvenes-with-looming-court-ordered-deadline

* "J.D. Vance, with a Trump boost, clinches Senate GOP primary in Ohio:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/03/ohioans-head-polls-senate-primary-tests-trumps-sway/

* "A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jd-vance-win-ohio-primary-00029881

* CW: Rape. "GOP candidate who told women to "enjoy" rape suffers surprise loss:" https://www.newsweek.com/robert-regan-gop-candidate-told-women-enjoy-rape-loses-race-michigan-1703331

* This is where I am on this. "Madison Cawthorn Thrusting His Naked Body on Another Man’s Face Doesn’t Tell Us Much About His “Gayness”:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/05/madison-cawthorn-video-leak-lingerie-election-republicans.html

* "In the Georgia governor’s race, Perdue tries to push Kemp on abortion.:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/05/us/midterms-primary-elections

* "The Jolt: Leaked audio reveals David Perdue’s post-Trump runoff strategy:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-leaked-audio-shows-david-perdues-post-trump-runoff-strategy/AF3WSBMB2BD4FDWJQTLT5KRW3I/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene is qualified to run for re-election, Georgia official says:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/06/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-reelection-georgia-judge-raffensperger

* "Attorney reacts to judge approving Marjorie Taylor Greene’s re-election bid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/attorney-reacts-to-judge-approving-marjorie-taylor-greene-s-re-election-bid-139486277645

* "A glaring omission from Trump’s Pennsylvania rally speech: Abortion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/06/glaring-omission-trumps-pennsylvania-rally-speech-abortion/

* "Senate Candidate Praises Trump’s 'Awesome Idea' to Buy Greenland During Debate: 'He's a Deal Guy':" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/senate-candidate-praises-trumps-awesome-idea-to-buy-greenland-during-debate-hes-a-deal-guy/

* "Chris Hayes: What to do when the system isn’t working:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-to-do-when-the-system-isn-t-working-139398725599

* "DHS watchdog says Trump's agency appears to have altered report on Russian interference in 2020 election in part because of politics:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/donald-trump-russian-interference-election-politics/index.html

* "Donald Trump’s dangerous view of state violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/02/donald-trumps-dangerous-view-state-violence/

* "Former defense secretary says Trump proposed bombing Mexico:" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/05/06/esper-new-book-trump-bomb-mexico-drugs-haberman-newday-vpx.cnn

* "Defense Secretary Esper: Trump wanted to ‘quietly’ bomb Mexico:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/defense-secretary-esper-trump-wanted-to-quietly-bomb-mexico-139483717813

* "Rep. Raskin: Esper revelations show Trump’s ‘fascination with violence’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-raskin-esper-revelations-show-trump-s-fascination-with-violence-139486277506

* "$750,000 settlement reached with DC attorney general in case involving funds used in 2017 Trump inauguration:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/trump-organization-inauguration-funds/index.html

* "Court denies Trump effort to pause $10,000 daily fine for contempt:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-contempt-court-denies-halt-10000-dollar-daily-fine/

* "Donald Trump Jr. met with the House January 6 committee on Tuesday:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/donald-trump-jr-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Rudy Giuliani backs out of interview with Capitol attack committee:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/rudy-giuliani-house-january-6-committee-interview-donald-trump

* "Jan. 6 was worse than you remember. It must define our politics.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/07/jan-6-was-worse-than-you-remember-it-must-define-our-politics/

* "Who was the Oath Keepers leader talking to from Trump’s inner circle on Jan. 6?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/who-was-the-oath-keepers-leader-talking-to-from-trump-s-inner-circle-on-jan-6-139397189634

* "New report says officials ignored social media companies' warnings about Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/facebook-parler-reportedly-gave-advance-warning-to-government-officials-about-jan-6-139404357583

* "Pacific Northwest court case endangers tribal rights nationwide:" https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/pacific-northwest-court-case-endangers-tribal-rights-nationwide

* "Texas governor says the state may contest a Supreme Court ruling on migrant education:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/06/1097178468/texas-governor-says-the-state-may-contest-a-supreme-court-ruling-on-migrant-educ

* "How a Polarizing Best Seller Became Required Reading for Orthodox Jewish Women:" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/orthodox-judaism-laura-doyle-the-surrendered-wife/629663/

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* "Louisiana Republicans advance bill that would charge abortion as homicide:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/05/louisiana-republicans-advance-bill-that-would-charge-abortion-homicide/

* "The long, scary history of doctors reporting pregnant people to the cops:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/04/self-induced-abortion-herrera-texas-murder-hospital/

* "Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-south-dakota-07c1bcbcb3f6b466100acedb28723069

* "What the end of Roe v. Wade would mean for Texas’ past, current and future abortion laws:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/03/texas-abortion-law-roe/

* "Senate Republicans' circulate draft abortion talking points on Roe decision:" https://www.axios.com/2022/05/03/senate-republicans-abortion-talking-points

They are claiming that doing what a consistent clear majority of American voters want by keeping 50ish years of settled law is in place is "radical" while throwing out settled law, nullifying the ninth and fourteenth amendments of the Us Constitution, and stripping away the basic human rights to bodily autonomy and privacy from approximately half of the citizenry while vowing to use that to strip away human and citizen rights from other minority groups they don't like is somehow not radical in comparison to keeping the statis quo..

* "8 legal reasons to hate Justice Alito's draft opinion on abortion:" https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/roe-v-wade-overturned-supreme-court-abortion-draft-alitos-legal-analys-rcna27205

* "Crowds protest at Supreme Court after leak of Roe opinion draft:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/03/protests-roe-v-wade-supreme-court/

* "Harris on GOP’s anti-abortion push: ‘How dare they’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/kamala-harris-supreme-court-abortion-00029813

* "VP Kamala Harris delivers remarks at gala hosted by abortion rights group Emily’s List:"

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* "See protests grow across the country as the Supreme Court deals with Roe v. Wade leak:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/05/04/1096525936/see-protests-grow-across-the-country-as-the-supreme-court-deals-with-roe-v-wade

* "LAPD, protesters clash downtown after rally against overturning of Roe vs. Wade:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-03/downtown-los-angeles-roe-wade-protest

* "This is a giant step backwards for women as free people in America:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/draft-of-supreme-court-decision-that-would-overturn-roe-v-wade-slammed-by-planned-parenthood-ceo-139232325580

* "Joy Reid: McConnell’s stolen right-wing Supreme Court poised to rip away 50 years of rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-opinion-draft-showing-intent-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-sparks-calls-for-immediate-action-from-democrats-139232325805

* "Warren: Plan of GOP extremists was always to ‘blast Roe v. Wade to pieces’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-plan-of-gop-extremists-was-always-to-blast-roe-v-wade-to-pieces-139226693724

* "Traister: Democrats' stance on abortion is popular—they should talk about it. :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/traister-democrats-stance-on-abortion-is-popular-they-should-talk-about-it-139310661825

* "Why Stacey Abrams ‘converted’ to an unequivocal abortion rights supporter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-stacey-abrams-converted-to-an-unequivocal-abortion-rights-supporter-139311685902

* "Why the right doesn’t want to talk about abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-why-the-right-doesn-t-want-to-talk-about-abortion-139321413788

* "Experts depict the grim reality of a post-Roe America:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-overturning-roe-v-wade-would-criminalize-women-undermine-women-s-health-experts-say-139314245903

* "Women driving ‘a thousand miles’ to access reproductive rights decried by Sen. Duckworth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-obsessing-over-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-decision-draft-leak-discussed-by-sen-duckworth-139316805670

* "Alito's draft opinion for overturning Roe v. Wade cites 17th century misogynist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-justice-alito-s-draft-opinion-for-overturning-roe-v-wade-cites-17th-century-misogynist-multiple-times-139401797952

* "Women who fought for US abortion rights in the 70s call for mass global protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/08/women-who-fought-for-us-abortion-rights-in-the-70s-call-for-mass-global-protests

* "Abortion Rally Draws Thousands in Houston:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us/abortion-rights-rally.html

* "Abortion-rights protesters rally in U.S., spurred by draft Supreme Court opinion:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-court-draft-abortion-opinion-sparks-protests-both-sides-debate-2022-05-03/

* "The Fight for Roe:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/05/photos-abortion-rights-supporters-protest-usa/629757/

* "Alexis McGill Johnson - Planned Parenthood's CEO on Abortion:" https://www.cc.com/video/60d2bb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-alexis-mcgill-johnson-planned-parenthood-s-ceo-on-abortion

* "Burn It All Down:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1832770.html?view=6950722&posted=1#cmt6950722

* "Oklahoma GOP governor signs 6-week abortion ban modeled after Texas law that allows civil enforcement:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/oklahoma-heartbeat-act-abortion-governor-stitt-signs/index.html

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

* "What Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Mean for Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/5/03/what-scotus-overturning-roe-v-wade-could-mean-marriage-equality

* "Joe Biden warns LGBTQ+ kids will be next after Roe v Wade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/joe-biden-roe-v-wade-lgbtq/

* "‘Roadmap to take away rights’: Plaintiff in case legalizing same-sex marriage on Roe draft opinion:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-draft-opinion-overturning-roe-v-wade-roadmap-to-take-away-rights-obergefell-says-139491397944

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* "Queer Nigerians stage defiant protest as government tries to ban ‘crossdressing’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/03/nigeria-lgbt-trans-crossdressing-bill/

* "19 States Plan to Offer Refuge to Trans Youth & Families:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/03/19-states-plan-offer-refuge-trans-youth-families

* "Tennessee governor signs cruel bill banning trans athletes from competing in collegiate athletics:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/07/tennessee-trans-sports-ban-college-bill-lee/

* "‘It’s Been a Nightmare’: Man Lived for Six Years With a Penis Grafted to His Arm:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/malcolm-macdonald-lived-for-six-years-with-a-penis-grafted-to-his-arm

* We had six hours of homework most nights starting from 2nd grade it was abusive and counter productive. "The Real History of Homework:"

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* "What Happened to Jilly Juice? (It's Not Good):"

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* CW: Sexual Assault"How The Cruise Industry Played Us All:"

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* "The Sad Truth About the Supplement Industry:"

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* "Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda:" https://www.wired.com/story/drones-have-transformed-blood-delivery-in-rwanda/

* "Garbology: How to spot patterns in people's waste:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-garbology-how-to-spot-patterns-in-peoples-waste

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* "Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/28/mass-marine-extinction-event-science/

* "‘We are living in hell’: Pakistan and India suffer extreme spring heatwaves:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/pakistan-india-heatwaves-water-electricity-shortages

* "Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India's coal usage:" https://apnews.com/article/science-business-environment-india-heat-waves-c55052c758ef86e1a51b709426594abe

* "Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/12/backed-up-pipes-stinky-yards-climate-change-is-wrecking-septic-tanks/

* "Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/food/ng-interactive/2022/apr/14/climate-crisis-food-systems-not-ready-biodiversity

* "How New York City Plans to Soak Up the Rain:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/the-impossible-battle-to-flood-proof-new-york-city

* "Sinkholes: The Hidden Terror Beneath Your Feet:"

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* "Why Yellowstone is One of the Most Monitored Volcanoes:"

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* "Canopy Soil Is an Exciting Frontier in Forest Science:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/canopy-soil-pacific-northwest

* "Animal crossing: world’s biggest wildlife bridge comes to California highway:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/09/wildlife-bridge-california-highway-mountain-lions

* "Cherokee Nation Members Can Now Gather Plants on National Park Land:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cherokee-nation-members-can-now-gather-plants-on-national-park-land-180979965/

* "The French town where the lighting is alive:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-the-living-lights-that-could-reduce-energy-use

* "The Centuries-Old Fish Ladder That Feeds Maine's Lobster Industry:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fish-ladder-maine-lobster-industry

* "Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-spacex-technology-entertainment-business-62848dbcffc7df4892233414d359a025

* "Illegal loggers in Vietnam train as jungle tour guides:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/illegal-loggers-vietnam-train-jungle-tour-guides-2022-04-25/

* "How to resurrect a coral reef:" https://www.vox.com/recode/23016412/coral-reef-restoration-climate-change

* "Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvm5b/scientists-discover-method-to-break-down-plastic-in-one-week-not-centuries

* "How the Shipping Industry Sails through Legal Loopholes:" https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-the-shipping-industry-sails-through-legal-loopholes/

* "Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/muon-subatomic-particle-volcano-pyramid-physics

* "Jellyfish invade northern Italian port of Trieste:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jellyfish-invade-northern-italian-port-trieste-2022-04-28/

* "Program helps Congo families protect endangered gorillas:" https://apnews.com/article/science-travel-business-animals-wildlife-ebf52eb254f1dc867fe5d98288e5ff69

* "Grindr users' precise location data was sold to the highest bidder for years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/04/grindr-sold-data-location/

* "NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla:"

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* "Tech Support Scams Need to be Stopped:"

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* "Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44B and will privatize company:" https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/elon-musk-buys-twitter-for-44b-and-will-privatize-company/XP2WOVZCARHGHJ6JPIPB7WP42A/

* "Musk's Twitter ambitions to collide with Europe's tech rules:" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-boris-johnson-technology-business-online-safety-f687d652d41678e25575ba67119bba6b

* "Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/unprecedented-phoenician-necropolis-osuna-spain

* "A woman bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $34.99. It actually was a missing ancient Roman bust.:" https://phys.org/news/2022-05-woman-bought-sculpture-goodwill-ancient.html

* "Renaissance Antics – History Hijinks:"

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* "The Curious Tale of the Voynich Manuscript:"

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* "Sex Educators React to Sex History of Yore!:"

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* "History Summarized: Poland:"

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* "The Tragic Life of The “Monster” of The Palace | Eugenia Martínez:"

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* "Tulips and Onion Futures: The Gold and Silver you never knew:"

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* "Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet: The True History Behind Our Flag Means Death:"

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* "Exploring The Willard Asylum's History:"

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* "The Black Aerialist Who Dazzled Gilded Age Paris:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/04/19/the-black-aerialist-who-dazzled-gilded-age-paris/

* "The History of The Boycott:" https://thenib.com/boycott-history/

* "The History (and Return) of Company Towns:"

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* "Here's 9 LGBTQ+ Directors from Old Hollywood and the Lives They Lived:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2022/4/21/heres-9-lgbtq-directors-old-hollywood-and-lives-they-lived#media-gallery-media-9

* "11 (Fortunately) Retired Girl Scout Badges:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/retired-girl-scout-badges

* "Her Comics were Everything Jim Crow America Never Wanted Black Women to Be:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/03/18/her-comic-strip-characters-were-everything-jim-crow-america-never-wanted-black-women-to-be/

* "Kindertransport: Saving children from the Holocaust, 1938-1939:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kindertransport-historical-photos/

* "Looking at the Worst Towns in America: Sundown Towns:"

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* "The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii

* "Now We Know Their Names:" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2022/02/america-lynching-history-reckoning/621320/

* "The Dark Past of the Hollywood Blacklist:"

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* "Lee Grant Overcame the Blacklist and Won an Oscar:"

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* "There Were Lesbian Books in the 1950s?:"

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* "Emmett Till: Crash Course Black American History #34:"

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* "The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Crash Course Black American History #35:"

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* "Why JFK's Casket Stayed Closed:"

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* "The Real Life Silent Hill: Centralia:"

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* I really loved her as a kid. "Ruth Gordon's Unique and Defiant Journey to Oscar:"

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* "See the bold buildings that sprang up after South Asia regained independence:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/23/1088675284/photos-see-the-bold-buildings-that-sprang-up-after-south-asia-regained-independe

* "How Women—and Their Hair—Transformed South Korea:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-hair-wigs-south-korea

* CW: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Eating Disorders "The Life and Death of Judy Garland:"

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* "How Murderer John Wayne Gacy Ruined a Young John Casey’s Life:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/27/how-murderer-john-wayne-gacy-ruined-young-john-caseys-life

* "Yuba County 5:"

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* "A Black Women's History of Pinup and Burlesque:"

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* "These Pet MLMs are Selling Untested Supplements:"

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* "Why Is Florida At War With Arithmetic? | Tucker's Testosterone Doc Is Too Stupid To Ignore:"

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* "Abortion Ruling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Weekend Update: Roe v. Wade Leaked Draft Opinion, Vladimir Putin to Undergo Cancer Surgery:"

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* "Weekend Update: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Overturning Roe v. Wade:"

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* "Israel Condemns Russia's Anti-Semitic Claims & Trash on Mars:" https://www.cc.com/video/m5vsny/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-israel-condemns-russia-s-anti-semitic-claims-trash-on-mars

* "Republicans Duke It Out in the 2022 Ohio Primary:" https://www.cc.com/video/9b0ues/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-republicans-duke-it-out-in-the-2022-ohio-primary

* "Roe v. Wade Overturned?:" https://www.cc.com/video/qhdgmx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-roe-v-wade-overturned

* "SCOTUS Leak Speculation & Archaic Abortion Laws:" https://www.cc.com/video/nbj8kp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-scotus-leak-speculation-archaic-abortion-laws

* "CP Time - The History of Black Jockeys:" https://www.cc.com/video/oahthc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-the-history-of-black-jockeys

* "Are Progressive Reboots Any Good?:"

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* "The Tucker Testicle Tanner Is The Perfect Way To Re-Juice Your Carlsons:"

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* "It's A Covid Celebration:"

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* "Rescue Dog Rescue with Oscar Isaac:"

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* "The Understudy - SNL:"

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* "Chain Gang - SNL:"

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* "Hello Birmingham - Ani DiFranco:"

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* Monday I stayed up to get the aggregate out and for phone bureaucracy reasons. I have so many things I need to go before I go into semi-seclusion on May 26th. Assuming I don't get moved up, surgery is June 8th. I can't afford to catch anything, not even a cold, in advance of it of I spend all Summer in this hell awaiting another opening. Yes, head Millennial will still be working, but I am going full infection prevention at that point, so no grocery shopping even masked. No visitors except Head Millennial, who strictly masks in public for my protection in regular life. Windows open and masks when Millennial is here except for quick sips, that sort of thing. Squirrel's work has strict infection prevention protocols, he's triple vaxxed and is strict about masking when he's around Not Us. Given he didn't give me COVID last January, I am not that worried, but still, we will be careful, especially as thing like rhinovirus can linger on surfaces.

When I woke, my body was terrible for a host of reasons, all of them predictable, all made worse by the ongoing health crisis, but none life threatening, just ranging from nuisance to obnoxious. (For example: I lose two options for heading off/dealing with torso spasms, for example because the drugs are dangerous right now. This means for spasms I am left with things like bananas for limb spasms, hot epsom bath for body spasms, etc.. none of these are as fast or sure as meds. Ah well.) I think I counted like 6 things wrong when I woke up. My policy on these occasions is to do what I can to head off big things, which trying to sort out as many small ones as I can peel off. It's... time consuming and really unpleasant.

Still I schlep on. It's what my family has always done.

* We are planning to use most of Squirrel's tax rebate to get a working oven, but the dishwasher is also broken. (The dishwasher is a safety thing because I am medically fragile. Not having a working oven is playing havoc with my nutrition.) My share of the oven plus fixing the dishwasher will likely be in the $600-700 range.

(I am disabled and queer in at least three senses of the word and on a fixed income).

Why not all of his tax refund? he’s in a medical insurance gap and is having an emergent health crisis. He couldn’t have paid for both things anyway.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* Re: the slow catch up. I am still slow from the covid booster, plus it is allergy season, plus the whole ongoing medical crisis, plus my ongoing attempts to properly cover both the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Abortion ban news, which are understandably labour intensives. As you can see, I am making progress. I made it well into the history section this time, with the Aidan laptop back log. Why are their things after the 1970's section? Because I pull out time sensitive things lower in the sort and because i scroll a bunch of stuff, particularly comedy and political comedy and about a third of the fluffier stuff every day or two off Klaus. Klaus and Aidan have mostly different jobs, but they do intersect where it comes to the aggregate post and a few other places, in part as a back up so I don't lose 2/3rd done aggregate posts.

Look, I have a lot of both in put and output going on and this is how work flow shook out after the last computer death a little over a year ago. Trust me, I have a system, which mostly works with my brain design and physical challenges.

If the balance seems weird the next week or two and there is a clump of older, lighter stuff, that is my finally gnawing through the back log. Knock wood.

* Timely. "ILU-486:" https://amandaching.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/67/

* All I really want to watch lately is queer people having adventures and Korean zombies. Why does no one make something with both?

In related news, yes, I watched Heartstopper. It reminded me a lot of the YA Book Boy Meets Boy, even though there is more stress around coming out and social acceptance in this. It is sweet and fluffy and happy for the middle and high schoolers who get to have something so warm and fluffy to watch.

Also in related news, I thought I was out of of Korean zombies, but I found another one hiding on Tubi. It means commercials (Yuck), but it also means I have Korean historical drama zombies to watch before bed. (I have seen Train to Busan, Peninsula, Seoul Station, Alive, All of Us are Dead, kingdom, and the kingdom prequel. I just started Rampant. Other suggestions? At this point I will happily branch out into other quality Asian zombies.

Similarly, Queer People Having Adventures suggestions? I have seen Black Sails. Trust me, my Byzantine Black Sails exegesis is still out there. I have seen Our flag. I have seen a TON of classic queer cinema. I watched Torchwood. Over and Over. Genres: historical drama, comedy adventure, Science Fiction, fantasy. suggestions?

* Bailey and Rowling at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1522978030062239744

* Gobbits: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/683653354177560576/limnaia-prismatic-bell-pens-and-paperbacks

* Mad Max and Blackbeard: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/683655725319340032/it-may-also-be-worth-pointing-out-that-the-main

* The importance of the talent show subplo ib Our Flag Means Death: https://chucktaylorupset.tumblr.com/post/681290680024334336/it-is-actually-extremely-important-to-me-that

* "Vico Ortiz Talks 'Our Flag Means Death,' Being a Non-Binary Actor & Working with Taika Waititi:" https://remezcla.com/film/vico-ortiz-interview-our-flag-means-death-non-binary-taika-waititi/

* I loved Wilderpeople. "How Taika Waititi Expresses His Love for New Zealand in ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’:" https://collider.com/taika-waititi-hunt-for-the-wilderpeople-love-for-new-zealand-why-its-good/

* "Not Jared Leto: Meet Frederik Robertsson the Met Gala 2022 Standout:" https://www.out.com/fashion/2022/5/02/not-jared-leto-meet-frederik-robertsson-met-gala-2022-standout

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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.


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

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

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* "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/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

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

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "The young rebels fighting for democracy:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-61151314

* CW: Rape "Myanmar Regime Forces Accused of Serial Sexual Assaults:" https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-forces-accused-of-serial-sexual-assaults.html

* "Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi handed five year jail term for corruption:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/asia/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-corruption-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Russian General Lets Slip Secret Plan to Invade New Country:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-general-lets-slip-a-secret-plan-to-invade-moldova-and-seize-ukraines-entire-coastline

* "The West can’t afford to neglect Moldova — because Putin won’t:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/russia-putin-united-states-must-keep-eye-on-moldova/

* "Explosions in Moldovan region near Ukraine spark war worries:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-romania-moldova-0a18c5f703075d7913f5cf49f6bf2493

* "Tory whips ‘asking questions’ to find MP behind Angela Rayner claims:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/25/angela-rayner-sexism-misogyny-tory-whips

* "Tory MP accused of watching pornography in Commons chamber:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61245040

* "Five UK police face misconduct hearing over treatment of two Black athletes:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/five-uk-police-face-misconduct-hearing-over-treatment-two-black-athletes-2022-04-27/

* If only we would do the same. "New law raises minimum marriage age to 18 in England and Wales:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-61228240

* "Parliament passing 'deplorable' borders bill 'is a devastating blow to LGBT+ people':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/28/nationality-and-borders-bill-lgbt-asylum-seekers/

* "Bermondsey: Joshua Jacques in court over four family members found dead:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61223288

* "UK set to impose direct rule on British Virgin Islands as premier faces cocaine charges:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/british-virgin-islands-direct-rule-andrew-fahie-drug-arrest

* "France’s Macron wins presidency, holding off Le Pen’s far-right threat to upend Europe and relations with Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/24/french-election-2022-results/

The Russian funded literal NAZI lost.

* Another victory against fascism. "Janez Janša suffers heavy defeat as newcomer party wins Slovenian election:" https://www.politico.eu/article/janez-jansa-suffers-heavy-defeat-as-newcomer-party-wins-slovenian-election/

* "Australian election briefing: Albanese out of iso and Morrison’s war of words with Solomons PM — plus lettuce prices tip of the iceberg:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/29/australian-election-briefing-albanese-out-of-iso-and-morrisons-war-of-words-with-solomons-pm-plus-lettuce-prices-tip-of-the-iceberg

* "Labor’s message that Morrison is ‘all announcement no delivery’ resonating with voters, poll shows:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/29/labors-message-that-morrison-is-all-announcement-no-delivery-resonating-with-voters-poll-shows

* "Gay MP's home targeted by ruthless vandals night after night:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/gay-australian-mp-tim-wilson-targeted-by-vandals/

* "Philippines presidency frontrunner praises ‘genius’ dictator father:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/philippines-presidency-frontrunner-ferdinand-marcos-jr-praises-genius-dictator-father

* "Is the Philippines ready for another Duterte?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/27/sara-duterte-philippines-presidential-election/

* "India Is Stripping Muslims of their Homes and Rights:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzTAjFGWJQ

* "Facing international criticism, Singapore defends Malaysian's execution:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/facing-international-criticism-singapore-defends-malaysians-execution-2022-04-28/

* "‘Voice of April’: Chinese netizens get creative to keep censored film on social media:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/sound-of-april-chinese-netizens-get-creative-to-keep-censored-film-in-circulation

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* "Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids:" https://apnews.com/article/moderna-vaccine-kids-update-fbf1b5e31c973bc09ced30ea590092ba

* "Philippines starts rollout of second booster dose against COVID:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-starts-rollout-second-booster-dose-against-covid-2022-04-25/

* "Court says UK’s nursing home COVID-19 policy was illegal:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/court-says-uks-nursing-home-covid-19-policy-was-illegal/?amp=1

* "COVID-19 third leading cause of death again in 2021- U.S. study:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/covid-19-third-leading-cause-death-again-2021-us-study-2022-04-22/

* "Some travelers, faced with fewer colds, will still mask in flight:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/travelers-still-masking-wellness/index.html

* "Harris positive for COVID-19, Biden not a 'close contact':" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-kamala-harris-dadf170fbacfd57922cdf51d59e87cdb

* "Taking Flight:" https://thenib.com/taking-flight/

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* "U.S. sends more military aid to country Putin's depravity in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-sends-more-military-aid-to-country-putin-s-depravity-in-ukraine-138986053691

* "Cracks emerge in Russian elite as tycoons start to bemoan invasion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/29/russia-oligarchs-ukraine-invasion-dissent/

* "Russia halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria:" https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-bulgaria-face-russian-gas-cut-ukraine-crisis-escalates-2022-04-26/

* "Moscow confirms attack on Kyiv during UN chief’s visit:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russia-carries-out-airstrike-on-kyiv-during-un-chief-visit-ukraine-antonio-guterres

* "UN works to broker civilian evacuation from Mariupol:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-business-antonio-guterres-978fb92a44aad8f4fc297b9454ed7c0f

* "Why Mariupol matters to Russia in three maps:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/21/ukraine-russia-mariupol-fall-maps/

* "Mariupol holds out while EU calls for the opening of humanitarian corridors:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220422-live-fate-of-mariupol-s-trapped-residents-is-in-putin-s-hands-mayor-says

* "Ukraine says mass graves in Mariupol were 20 times bigger than Bucha burial site; Biden to send more weapons and aid to Ukraine:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Civilians in southern Ukraine are trying to get away from the assault in Mykolaiv:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094240407/civilians-in-southern-ukraine-are-trying-to-get-away-from-the-assault-in-mykolai

* "As Russian rockets rain down on Kharkiv, its paramedics are risking their lives to save others:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/europe/ukraine-kharkiv-paramedics-intl/index.html

* "‘It was killing me’: Ukrainian mother says her son was forcibly deported to Russia:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-mother-son-forcible-deportation-mariupol-nizhegorod-rcna25371

* "Russia hits rail, fuel facilities in attacks deep in Ukraine:" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/25/russia-hits-rail-fuel-facilities-in-attacks-deep-in-ukraine/

* "Russia bombards Chernihiv hours after pledging to halt shelling:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/ukraine-russia-bombards-chernihiv-hours-after-pledging-to-halt-shelling

* "Missiles hit a residential neighborhood in Odesa, killing at least eight, officials say.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/world/europe/missile-strikes-odesa-ukraine.html

* "Odesa missile attack: 'My world was destroyed by a Russian missile':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61210699

* "Russia's 'victory' in Mariupol turns city's dreams to rubble:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-victory-mariupol-turns-citys-dreams-rubble-2022-04-26/

* "Ukraine updates: More mass graves unearthed near Kyiv as Russia moves troops south:" https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/LIVE-russia-ukraine-updates-more-mass-graves-unearthed-near-kyiv-1.10732318

* "They Flooded Their Own Village, and Kept the Russians at Bay:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-flood-infrastructure.html

* "The Belarusian railway workers who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/23/ukraine-belarus-railway-saboteurs-russia/

* "As bombs fall, a Ukrainian professor teaches economics — and survival:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/25/kharkiv-university-ukraine-students-bombs/

* "How Ukraine's mud became a secret weapon in its defense against Russia:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/how-ukraines-mud-became-a-secret-weapon-in-its-defense-against-russia.html

* "Russian forces were driven out of this village outside Kharkiv, Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/04/22/1094271807/photos-russia-invasion-ukraine-military-mala-rohan-kharkiv

* "Police say 269 bodies recovered in Ukraine's war-torn Irpin:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/police-say-269-bodies-recovered-ukraines-war-torn-irpin-2022-04-18/

* "Another mass grave found near Mariupol:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3467194-another-mass-grave-found-near-mariupol.html

* "Dozens of Bucha civilians were killed by metal darts from Russian artillery:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/dozens-bucha-civilians-killed-flechettes-metal-darts-russian-artillery?fbclid=IwAR2dpR4hkUcn-CKdvKp4bKzBQ9Ped_0TjkW1eNMzM14yRouAi8NzKM6NT-M

* "'You can't imagine the conditions' - Accounts emerge of Russian detention camps:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61208404

* CW: Rape "Russian troops use rape as 'an instrument of war' in Ukraine, rights groups allege:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/22/europe/ukraine-sexual-violence-allegations-russia-cmd-intl/index.html

* "To save a life: Refugees make protective vests for Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-migration-prague-e960abbce8ff8662f20c9e6b850e5ef9

* "Biden announces new program for Ukrainian refugees to enter US on humanitarian grounds:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/politics/biden-administration-ukraine-refugees/index.html

* "A small country is accepting a large portion of Ukrainian refugees. Russia watches closely.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/refugees-flee-moldova-russias-shadow-looms-large-rcna25529

* "Thousands flee Russia over government crackdown on protests, news outlets: "I'm a refugee again":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russians-flee-country-over-crackdowns-on-protests-news-outlets/

* "Ukraine war protesters in kayaks chain themselves to Russian oil tanker:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/25/greenpeace-protest-russia-oil-tanker/

* "On Earth Day, climate activists call for ban on buying Russian oil:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/earth-day-climate-activists-set-rally-against-fossil-fuels-2022-04-22/

* "Alleged Russian sting operation uncovers ‘The Sims 3,’ guns, grenade:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/04/26/russian-assassination-sims-3/

* "Rand Paul ignites clash at Senate hearing by suggesting Ukraine is 'part of Russia':" https://www.rawstory.com/rand-paul-2657217736/

* "U.S. Senate candidate for Kentucky Booker slams Rand Paul for parroting Putin's talking points:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rand-paul-parroting-putin-s-talking-points-slammed-by-kentucky-democratic-candidate-for-u-s-senate-charles-booker-138699333512

* "‘We Ukrainians know how to turn suffering into strength’: Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz on his musical resistance:" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/28/gogol-bordello-eugene-hutz-russian-cultural-thefts-ukraine-punk-soviet-musicians

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* "A member of Islamic State group known as 'Beatles' is convicted in Americans' deaths:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092869545/islamic-state-beatles-hostages-guilty

* No credit until he actually does it. Now is time to put the pressure on. "Biden signals he’s open to canceling student loans:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/biden-cancel-student-loans/

* "Chris Hayes: Why Mitt Romney’s take on student debt is ‘oddly comforting’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-why-mitt-romney-s-take-on-student-debt-is-oddly-comforting-138882630000

* "Bernie Sanders pushes back on Romney's comments bashing student-loan forgiveness: 'I know he thinks corporations are people, but does he know people are people?':" https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-mitt-romney-spar-on-student-loan-forgiveness-2022-4

* "White House seeks more power to counter use of drones in US:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-federal-aviation-administration-congress-90c34d902cacb04d0d7369356d9706c1

* "Biden blocks sales of inefficient lightbulbs, reversing Trump-era policy:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/biden-blocks-sales-of-inefficient-lightbulbs-reversing-trump-policy-.html

* "FDA to issue plan banning menthol in cigarettes, cigars:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-issue-plan-banning-menthol-cigarettes-cigars-rcna26477

* "US economy shrinks, threats loom, but growth likely to last:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-economy-shrank-14-q1-consumers-spending-84367864

* "Conservative Pundit Says Trans People Are to Blame for Inflation:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/14/conservative-pundit-charlie-kirk-says-trans-people-are-blame-inflation

* "Biden seeks a dramatic increase in aid for Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/28/biden-russia-oligarchs-assets-ukraine/

* "Jamie Raskin slams Marjorie Taylor Greene for likening NATO allies to Nazis:" https://www.newsweek.com/jamie-raskin-slams-marjorie-taylor-greene-likening-nato-allies-nazis-1701951

* "'Last chance': Greens push climate compromise with Manchin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/greens-push-climate-compromise-manchin-00027511

* "Trump officials overruled Pentagon to approve pandemic loan, emails show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/27/trump-officials-loan-yellow-trucking/

* "Families brace for potential end of universal free school meals:" https://nbc-2.com/news/2022/03/17/families-brace-for-potential-end-of-universal-free-school-meals/

* "US school 'sorry' for foster care threat over lunch debt:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49117936

* "Alec Baldwin: Rust film producers were indifferent to gun safety:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61169495

* "What Happened to the VA?:"

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* "Is Collegeboard Taking Advantage of High Schoolers?:"

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* "Chris Smalls - Building and Leading the Amazon Labor Union:" https://www.cc.com/video/kdwb3m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-chris-smalls-building-and-leading-the-amazon-labor-union

* "Rich companies are using a quiet tactic to block lawsuits: bankruptcy:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/02/1082871843/rich-companies-are-using-a-quiet-tactic-to-block-lawsuits-bankruptcy

* "In NYC, ads for jobs will have to say what they pay:" https://apnews.com/article/pay-transparency-new-york-city-b1ad9cb696ff57932d9aed39305f8b55

* No back pay for generations of worker’s required to work for free though. "Delta to begin paying flight attendants during boarding:" https://apnews.com/article/delta-flight-attendants-pay-boarding-f43909f3e2b050cd61c3bf1acdd74bd6

* "Boeing 'probably shouldn't have taken' Trump-negotiated Air Force One deal, CEO says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/air-force-one-boeing-trump/index.html

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Florida approves DeSantis-backed congressional maps that dismantle Black lawmaker’s seat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/21/floridas-gop-led-legislature-approves-new-congressional-maps-over-democrats-protests-00026950

* "Kansas judge rejects congressional map; appeal expected:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/25/kansas-judge-rejects-congressional-map-00027508

* "N.Y. congressional map is illegal and must be redrawn, court says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/ny-congressional-map-is-illegal-must-be-redrawn-court-says/

* Republicans refused to follow the law or the court ruling, so the courts gave up so as to let them cheat in the election becauasew that was easier than keeping the rule of law. "Ohio federal court plans to intervene without legislative redistricting plan by May - Ohio Capital Journal:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/04/21/ohio-federal-court-plans-to-intervene-without-legislative-redistricting-plan-by-may/

* "The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/opinions/gop-blueprint-to-steal-the-2024-election-luttig/index.html

* "Michigan GOP in chaos as fealty to Trump's Big Lie defines party:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/michigan-gop-in-chaos-as-fealty-to-trump-s-big-lie-defines-party-138802245782

* "Why a 'Big Lie' is so powerful and so hard to undo:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-a-big-lie-is-so-powerful-and-so-hard-to-undo-138899525579

* "How populations are lured into tolerating previously unacceptable behavior in politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-populations-are-lured-into-tolerating-previously-unacceptable-behavior-in-politics-138897477876

* "Maddow: Right-wing war on journalism part of a tactic worth recognizing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-right-wing-war-on-journalism-part-of-a-tactic-worth-recognizing-138898501946

* "Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 'evidence':" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-breaches/

* "Local Republicans compromising voting systems in pursuit of Trump's Big Lie: Reuters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/local-republicans-compromising-voting-systems-in-pursuit-of-trump-s-big-lie-reuters-138982981915

* "GOP plans to ‘take the next election regardless of who wins’ Harvard constitutional scholar says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-are-planning-to-steal-2024-election-conservative-judge-warns-138979909665

* A third state has emerged. "Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/22/mark-meadows-was-simultaneously-registered-vote-three-states/

* "‘Rich guy voter fraud’: Meadows was registered to vote in three states at once:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-rich-guy-voter-fraud-meadows-was-registered-to-vote-in-three-states-at-once-138367045832

* "Exclusive: Local election chief threatened by Republican leader seeking illegal access to voting equipment:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-local-election-chief-threatened-by-republican-leader-seeking-illegal-2022-04-23/

* "Val Demings decries opponent Marco Rubio's statements on DeSantis Disney battle:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-taxpayers-facing-1-billion-debt-bomb-if-disney-s-special-status-revoked-decried-by-val-demings-138791493725

* "Crist on DeSantis: Whatever happened to less taxes, less government, more freedom from GOP?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-embrace-of-authoritarianism-embodied-in-desantis-dem-candidate-for-florida-governor-charlie-crist-says-138612805722

* "Madison Cawthorn photos reveal him wearing women’s lingerie in public setting:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286

* "Cawthorn cited for loaded handgun at TSA checkpoint:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/madison-cawthorn-cited-loaded-handgun-airport/index.html

* "Madison Cawthorn's Problem Is That He Picked a Fight With a Koch Brother Mini-Me:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39841527/madison-cawthorn-insider-trading-airport-gun/

* "Hayes: Targeting of Madison Cawthorn reveals where Republican red line is:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-targeting-of-madison-cawthorn-reveals-where-republican-red-line-is-138973765917

* "Doug Mastriano campaigned at an event promoting QAnon and conspiracy theories about 9/11:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/doug-mastriano-teddy-daniels-qanon-conference-gop-candidates-20220427.html

* "With no evidence, Rebecca Kleefisch, Wisconsin candidate for governor, says 2020 election was 'rigged':" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/04/27/rebecca-kleefisch-says-2020-election-rigged-compares-deflategate/9551852002/

* "Michigan GOP has put two election-deniers on the November ballot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/25/michigan-gop-has-put-two-election-deniers-november-ballot/

* "Michigan GOP moves forward with 2020 election-denying secretary of state and AG:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/23/1094474805/michigan-gop-karamo-secretary-of-state

* He’s proudly endangering the lives of innocent children for political gain. "GOP Candidate Targets LGBTQ+ Children in ‘Disgusting’ Campaign Ad:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/14/gop-candidate-targets-lgbtq-children-disgusting-campaign-ad

* "Nev. Politician: Gays Are Unconstitutional Since They Can't Procreate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/18/nev-politician-gays-are-unconstitutional-they-cant-procreate

* CW: Sexual Assaut. The credibly accused pedophile and rapist endorses a credibly accused rapist. "Trump goes all in for candidate accused of sexual assault:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/28/trumps-risky-primary-play-rallying-for-a-longtime-ally-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-00028611

* "Trump silent as Tenn. GOP kicks his candidate off ballot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/20/tennessee-gop-morgan-ortagus-trump-off-ballot/

* "Federal judge says Georgia voters can challenge Greene's reelection run:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093479545/federal-judge-says-georgia-voters-can-challenge-greenes-reelection-run

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene admits to calling for Nancy Pelosi's execution:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/22/marjorie-taylor-greene-hearing-nancy-pelosi-capitol-riots/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t ‘recall’ if she urged Trump to impose martial law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-doesn-t-recall-if-she-urged-trump-to-impose-martial-law-138366021602

* "Saturday’s Utah State Republican Convention would be a great place for Mike Lee to come clean, Editorial Board writes:" https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/04/19/saturdays-utah-state/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene texted Trump chief of staff urging martial law to overturn election:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/26/marjorie-taylor-greene-texts-mark-meadows-martial-law-2020-election

* It’s still going on despite no evidence of wrong doing. "Wisconsin's GOP-ordered election investigation will continue:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-steve-bannon-business-donald-trump-b029853f6796cb34c9465fb3b0806fd3

* "GOP texts cast renewed spotlight on post-2020 election efforts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/25/greene-text-meadows-raised-topic-martial-law-keep-trump-power/

* "Chris Hayes on the ‘perpetual grievance machine’ of right-wing politics :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-perpetual-grievance-machine-of-right-wing-politics-138695749705

* "Fulton DA clarifies timeline for witness testimony in Trump probe:" https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/fulton-da-clarifies-timeline-for-witness-testimony-in-trump-probe/QPKS7EJWYZHDRDXYH5NOR3KXGE/

* "Trump Fears Hecklers Wielding ‘Very Dangerous’ Killer Fruits:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-warns-of-killer-tomatoes-pineapples-and-bananas-in-court-docs

* "Deposition transcript reveals Trump fear of flying fruit:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/deposition-transcript-reveals-trump-fear-of-flying-fruit-138799173942

* "Donald Trump no less dangerous for being a ridiculous buffoon:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-no-less-dangerous-for-being-a-ridiculous-buffoon-138802757572

* "New York grand jury hearing evidence in DA's investigation into Trump Organization expires this week:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/trump-organization-investigation-grand-jury/

* "Judge Says Real Estate Giant Broke Rules for Trump:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-says-real-estate-giant-cushman-and-wakefield-broke-rules-for-donald-trump

* "Judge finds Donald Trump in contempt in New York legal fight:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-held-in-contempt-in-ny-legal-fight-409f6571e9d74c76055c8e0a57249163

* "Trump says he won't return to Twitter if account reinstated after Musk takeover, he tells Fox News:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-says-he-wont-return-twitter-if-account-reinstated-after-musk-takeover-2022-04-25/

* "‘I’ve Had It With This Guy’: G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/politics/trump-mitch-mcconnell-kevin-mccarthy.html

* "Beschloss: If we don’t like how powerful Trump is today, thank Kevin McCarthy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/audio-showing-kevin-mccarthy-planned-to-urge-trump-to-resign-after-jan-6-analyzed-by-politics-experts-138370117716

* "Rep. Dean: "Mr. McCarthy has shown himself to not be able to lead… He's a follower":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-dean-mr-mccarthy-has-shown-himself-to-not-be-able-to-lead-he-s-a-follower-138440261640

* "Donald Trump brags about the incriminating video of him on Jan. 6 that Congress has obtained:" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jan-6-2657203491/

* "Rep. Debbie Lesko attended White House planning meeting to avert Trump's 2020 loss:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-debbie-lesko-attended-white-house-planning-meeting-to-avert-trump-s-2020-loss/ar-AAWwnsj?ocid=msedgdhp&cvid=deb89c89a92a4034861886c64d4fc3a5

* "Meadows was warned of violence ahead of Jan. 6, new court filings show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/23/meadows-jan6-secret-service-committee-testimony/

* "McCarthy feared GOP colleagues would incite violence after Jan. 6 :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-audio-mccarthy-feared-gop-colleagues-would-incite-violence-after-jan-6-138693701776

* "Swalwell on new McCarthy audio: ‘He put America first—for a couple of hours’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-on-new-mccarthy-audio-he-put-america-first-for-a-couple-of-hours-138694725664

* "Meadows' texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/politics/mark-meadows-texts-scott-perry-key-role-overturn-election/index.html

* "Kimberly Guilfoyle meets with Jan. 6 committee:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-ivanka-trump-donald-kimberly-guilfoyle-a7ea316cf62f4950b6bfbcd3634767fd

* "Alex Jones Reaches Out to Justice Dept. About Jan. 6 Interview:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/alex-jones-jan-6-interview.html

* "Talk of martial law, Insurrection Act draws notice of Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/talk-martial-law-insurrection-act-draws-notice-jan-6-committee/

* "Mark Meadows' 2,319 text messages reveal Trump's inner circle communications before and after January 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/mark-meadows-texts-2319/index.html

* "New details on why Pence refused to get in Secret Service car on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-why-pence-refused-to-get-in-secret-service-car-on-jan-6-138609733788

* "Raskin: Pence said ‘six of the most chilling words’ in U.S. history on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/raskin-pence-said-six-of-the-most-chilling-words-in-u-s-history-on-jan-6-138611781523

* "Text message trove shows Oath Keepers discussing security details for Trump associates:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/oath-keepers-security-trump-jan6-00026157

* "Jurors reject array of defenses at Capitol riot trials:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-new-york-city-riots-3d6b7ea4fc5ebc78738505cca5c15f0c

* "Adult Film Entertainer Arrested for Role in Jan. 6 Insurrection:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/14/gay-adult-film-entertainer-sergeant-miles-arrested-role-jan-6-insurrection-capitol

* "In a D.C. jail, Jan. 6 defendants awaiting trial are forming bitter factions:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092580753/capitol-riot-january-6-insurrection-defendants

* "Why Some Democrats and Republicans Want to Keep Title 42:"

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* "Hayes: America's current border policy is Stephen Miller's dream come true:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-america-s-current-border-policy-is-stephen-miller-s-dream-come-true-138975301802

* "Grand Rapids police chief names officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/us/grand-rapids-police-christopher-schurr-patrick-lyoya-shooting/index.html

* "Texas Court Halts Execution of Mother Convicted of Killing Child:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/us/melissa-lucio-execution-texas.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

* "The LA sheriff now says no charges for the reporter who wrote about a cover-up:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094952916/los-angeles-sheriff-la-times-cover-up-reporter

* "Report calls out abuse of social media by Minneapolis police:" https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-police-minnesota-minneapolis-social-media-f6ce6422d81d365daddaa650b43243cc

* "Georgia Gov. Kemp signs bill into law that limits discussions about race in classrooms:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/politics/georgia-bill-limits-race-discussions-classrooms/

* "Tennessee lawmaker suggests burning banned books:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/tennessee-burning-banned-books/

* Oh look, it was all cover for a massive kickback for his donor. "As DeSantis administration rejects textbooks, only one publisher allowed for K-5 math classes in Florida:" https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/04/19/desantis-textbooks-florida-woke-one-publisher-allowed-k-5-math-classes/7357965001/

* "Florida and Maths Texts:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1831331.html

* "Tim Scott says "critical race theory" teaches kids they are "oppressors" or "victims":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/tim-scott-says-critical-race-theory-teaches-kids-they-are-oppressors-or-victims-138439237896

* "Hayes: How the right disguises their quest for power as ‘free speech’ protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-the-right-disguises-their-quest-for-power-as-free-speech-protest-138786373669

* "Brooklyn Public Library offers young readers free library cards and access to banned books:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/us/brooklyn-library-banned-books-access/index.html

* "Kansas Gov. Vetoes Anti-Trans Sports Bill, 'Parents' Rights' Measure:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/18/kansas-gov-vetoes-anti-trans-sports-bill-parents-rights-measure

* "Okla. legislature approves bill banning abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/28/abortion-oklahoma-republicans/

"During the Senate debate on the wider abortion ban, state Sen. Warren Hamilton (R) questioned why the bill should include an exception for ectopic pregnancies, a life-threatening condition in which the fetus grows outside the uterus. “I wonder how we square that with the idea of justice for all,” said Hamilton, who also opposed the measure’s exceptions for rape and incest."

* "US Surgeons General call for an end to intersex surgery:" https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/us-surgeon-generals-call-end-intersex-surgery/

* "Missouri lawmaker goes viral for a speech against an anti-trans sports bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/missouri-lawmaker-goes-viral-for-a-speech-against-an-anti-trans-sports-bill-138440261679

* "Democrats may have a new weapon in the fight against the GOP's culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrats-may-have-a-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-the-gop-s-culture-war-138451525896

* "Canada finally lifts archaic, homophobic ban on queer men donating blood:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/28/canada-lift-queer-men-blood-donation-ban/

* "America’s Pandemic Orphans Are Slipping Through the Cracks:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/04/covid-orphan-kids-lost-parent/629436/

* "Mental health trust branded 'inadequate' for fourth time in damning CQC report:" https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/bury-st-edmunds/news/mental-health-trust-branded-inadequate-in-damning-cqc-repo-9251571/

* "Norfolk mental health: Coroner raises concerns after death of patient:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-61245928

* "Second death reported in new Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/africa/second-ebola-death-drc-intl/index.html

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* "Fierce winds drive wildfires in U.S. Southwest:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wildfires-widespread-parched-us-southwest-2022-04-22/

* "Thick smoke over Indian capital after landfill site catches fire:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/27/thick-smoke-over-indian-capital-after-landfill-site-catches-fire

* "How Military Jet Fuel Leaked Into Hawaii's Drinking Water:"

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* "The Fight Against A US Mining Company in Jamaica Continues:"

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* "The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/the-worlds-oldest-pants-are-a-3000-year-old-engineering-marvel/

* Louisa May Alcott was likely Trans: https://twitter.com/peytonology/status/1516612189687324673

* "Survivors unite to deliver message on Holocaust remembrance:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-lifestyle-religion-europe-949c98b505d8e14f5099fc4569a47bfa

* CW: Suicide. "Outside the Supreme Court, a life of purpose and pain ends in flames:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/26/wynn-bruce-fire-supreme-court-climate-activist/

* "The world's oldest person, Japan's Kane Tanaka, dies at age 119:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094630648/the-worlds-oldest-person-japans-kane-tanaka-dies-at-age-119

* "Orrin G. Hatch, longest-serving Republican in Senate history, dies at 88:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/orrin-g-hatch-longest-serving-republican-in-senate-history-dies-at-88/2022/04/23/df938ada-0483-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

* "Former Kenyan President Kibaki is dead at 90:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/kenyan-president-kibaki-dead-90-84239593

* "Gay Cyclist Killed in Hit and Run During AIDS/LifeCycle Fundraiser:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/18/gay-cyclist-killed-hit-and-run-during-aidslifecycle-fundraiser

* "Gay Adult Film Star Steve 'Titpig' Hurley Has Died at Age 64:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/21/gay-adult-film-star-steve-titpig-hurley-has-died-age-64

"Outside of porn, Steve was a registered nurse who tirelessly volunteered for various HIV prevention organizations,” Mitchell continued. “He had the innate ability to make every fan he met feel like they were already friends.”

* "Rio carnival: Tribute to Afro-Brazilian god wins title:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61241879

* "This Challah Is Key to Good Fortune After Passover:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/key-shaped-challah

* "Tucker Carlson’s Cock Doc and the Far Right’s Bogus “War on Masculinity”:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obUFIqkr-iI&list=PLur87nTwD0BtTFxSkad7-nTALsJ52QXUf&index=3

* "The Case For Universal Free Lunch:"

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* "Mark Meadows' 2,319 Texts Are Absolutely Bonkers:"

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* "Greg Abbott Buses Migrants to D.C. & Rihanna's Vogue Cover:" https://www.cc.com/video/ud6frb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-greg-abbott-buses-migrants-to-d-c-rihanna-s-vogue-cover

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - CPAC 2022 in Orlando, FL:" https://www.cc.com/video/aq1ps7/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-cpac-2022-in-orlando-fl

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Hungary Goes Hard Right :" https://www.cc.com/video/j7d8qj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-hungary-goes-hard-right

* "America: WTF - Taxes:" https://www.cc.com/video/vgz3rr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-america-wtf-taxes

* "Florida Bans Math Books & AriZona Iced Tea Won't Raise Price:" https://www.cc.com/video/t9azga/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-florida-bans-math-books-arizona-iced-tea-won-t-raise-price

* "Netflix's Stock Plummets & Ron DeSantis-Disney Feud:" https://www.cc.com/video/37eq1h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-netflix-s-stock-plummets-ron-desantis-disney-feud

* "January 6 Amnesia:" https://www.cc.com/video/quwyf0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-january-6-amnesia

* "Trump Won't Return to Twitter & Youth Referee Shortage :" https://www.cc.com/video/2m7lex/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-won-t-return-to-twitter-youth-referee-shortage

* "Russia Cuts Off Gas & Delta Changes Flight Attendant Pay :" https://www.cc.com/video/vnupt3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-russia-cuts-off-gas-delta-changes-flight-attendant-pay

* "Porn-Watching U.K. Politician & Trump's Protester Testimony:" https://www.cc.com/video/8j4di4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-porn-watching-u-k-politician-trump-s-protester-testimony

* "Fringe-Watching - Madison Cawthorn's Scandal Spree:" https://www.cc.com/video/01i2ey/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-fringe-watching-madison-cawthorn-s-scandal-spree

* "CP Time - Black Classical Music:" https://www.cc.com/video/8b759k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-classical-music

* Hannah Gadsby Interview:

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* "Florence + The Machine - Free:"

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* I spent a lot of the last week and a half dealing with bureaucracy. I had it really streamed lined in the prep phase. I should have known it was too easy. They literally moved the office where i was supposed to turn it in, plus all the associated proceedures. my sleep cycle is a mess.

Friday I stayed up to do phone calls. Later, I realised too late I'd forgotten half of them. I'm also dealing witrh yet more appartment management company bullshit, plus physical stuff related to the reason i need surgury.

I got my Covid second booster, so expect to be a mess for the weekend. I wrestled with it ethically. I am in the high risk group (for three reasons now), but also there are countries where people have had no shots at all. What decided me not to wait until August was Omicron BA variant contagiousness plus my upcoming surgury. This is agony and my shoulder is deteriorating badly thanks to the extreme limits on my physio. I don't want to lose another two to three months for a posative COVID test right before surgury.

I still feel like an asshole snatching a shot someone likerly needs more than I do.

* We are planning to use most of squirrel's tax rebate to get a working oven, but the dishwasher is also broken. (The dishwasher is a safety thing because I am medically fragile. Not having a working oven is playing havoc with my nutrition.) My share of the oven plus fixing the dishwasher will likely be in the $600-700 range.

(I am disabled and queer in at least three senses of the word and on a fixed income).

Why not all of his tax refund? he’s in a medical insurance gap and is having an emergent health crisis. He couldn’t have paid for both things anyway.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* "Rare Gowns Found in Trunks Unpack Important Fashion History:" https://www.antiquetrader.com/collectibles/rare-callot-soeurs-gowns-found-in-trunks?fbclid=IwAR1AX6ovnca7fcbaBcqUVL9qF6vOBsCtSXlfMb5b3uifEVt75f0B-QQmEmA

* Ed Teach and Face Touch: https://amuseoffyre.tumblr.com/post/679907872835076096/im-having-so-many-emotions-right-now-about-ed-and

* Stede Bonnett and Trauma: https://quillyfied.tumblr.com/post/680380418533539840/a-point-id-like-to-see-being-addressed-more-the

* Izzy Hands Toes: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/682420648650358784/has-anyone-done-a-gifset-thats-just

* Masculinity in Our flag Means Death: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/682416233167060992

* "How ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Built a Realistic but Farcical Pirate Ship:" https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/our-flag-means-death-pirate-ship-revenge-1234705721/

* "Mockumentary set in medieval England with no explanation as to why or how a camera crew is there:" https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/682098665979002880

* "Entwives:" https://xkcd.com/2609/

*****
* 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.

* "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/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

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

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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Apr. 2nd, 2022 06:32 am
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* What is going on with the news postings? Basically, between the War and my health stuff, I not managing to post fast enough and I've got a ridiculous amount of the non-war links piling up. I am doing my best to rectify it, particularly where it comes to election, legislative, coup attempt, and LGBTQIA+ news, bit it always comes down to a race between the stuff already scaffolded, the stuff prepped, and the stuff coming in. I'm going to have to cut off the aggregate without most of the LGBTQIA+, science etc. news, but I am too tired to do that as of 4/1. I must sleep sometime. Anyway, that's why there is an above average amount of older stuff tucked in here. Apologies.

* "Taliban cancels higher education for girls despite pledges:" https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/asia-and-australia/taliban-cancels-higher-education-for-girls-despite-pledges-1.10693832

* "Taliban hard-liners turning back the clock in Afghanistan:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-70bf3af0a3ee5d7e876b1f1e35f71682

* "World Bank freezes Afghan projects after Taliban bans girls from high school:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/world-bank-freezes-afghan-projects-after-taliban-bans-girls-high-school-2022-03-29/

* "Jamaica PM tells royal couple island will seek independence:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/jamaica-pm-tells-royal-couple-island-seek-independence-83630705

* "No 10 lockdown parties: what do police fines mean for Johnson and Tories?:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/29/no-10-lockdown-parties-what-do-police-fines-mean-for-boris-johnson-and-tories

* "Britain to force ferry firms to pay minimum wage after P&O row:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-force-ferry-operator-wage-changes-after-po-row-2022-03-28/

* "Boris Nemtsov: Murdered Putin rival 'tailed' by agent linked to FSB hit squad:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60878663

* "Russia Navalny: Putin critic given nine-year jail sentence in trial branded 'sham':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60832310

* "Putin's Support of JK Rowling Highlights Anti-Trans Movement's Harm:"

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* "Chinese Court to Try Chinese Australian Journalist Next Week:" https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-court-to-try-chinese-australian-journalist-next-week-/6503659.html

* "Suicide vest of Paris attacks defendant was faulty, expert tells court:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/paris-attacks-2015-defendant-salah-abdeslam-trial-suicide-vest-questions

* CW: Torture, Rape "Beatings and forced abortions: Life in a North Korea prison:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60870739

* "Singapore appeal court upholds death sentence for intellectually disabled man:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/singapore-appeal-court-upholds-death-sentence-for-nagaenthran-k-dharmalingam

* "Indigenous tell pope of abuses at Canada residential schools:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article259850460.html

* "‘Kill more’: Report finds Facebook still failing to detect hate against Rohingya:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/kill-more-report-finds-facebook-still-failing-to-detect-hate-against-rohingya/

* "Dozens of Bodies in Kenyan River Shed Light on Epidemic of Police Murders:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dnmx/police-brutality-kenya

* "Kenya's Police Killing Epidemic:"

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* "Moderna says its low-dose COVID shots work for kids under 6:" https://apnews.com/article/moderna-low-dose-vaccine-children-c7702f93e863d74b712791b55e54bdc1

* "Why Kids’ COVID Vaccines Aren’t Performing Like Adults’:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/how-effective-are-kids-covid-vaccines/629419/

* "Omicron is trouncing the argument for “natural immunity” to COVID:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/omicron-is-trouncing-the-argument-for-natural-immunity-to-covid/

* "Scans reveal how Covid may change the brain:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60591487

* "Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-business-health-europe-778444506a72e8f9c3be327640b1929d

* "WHO says several European countries lifted Covid-19 measures too ‘brutally’:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220322-who-says-several-european-countries-lifted-covid-19-measures-too-brutally

* "Shanghai rules out full lockdown despite sharp rise in Covid cases:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/china-shanghai-rules-out-full-lockdown-despite-sharp-rise-in-covid-cases

* "Hong Kong to ease strict COVID curbs after business backlash:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kong-leader-says-covid-flight-ban-9-countries-no-longer-necessary-2022-03-21/

* "Germany hits record Covid infection rate since start of pandemic:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/germany-hits-record-covid-infection-rate-since-start-of-pandemic

* "US opens second COVID boosters to 50 and up, others at risk:" https://apnews.com/article/fda-authorizes-second-covid-booster-33e81ee1daddd9ff04c136db620aa1ae

* "A new federal website aims to solve a key COVID problem: where to get antiviral pills:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089608854/covid-gov-new-website-offers-a-single-stop-for-covid-info-tests-and-treatment

* "The pandemic has been deadlier in red states:" https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-pandemics-politics-masks-vaccines-deaths-2644f22b-fa77-4e34-a6fe-8b492172dff2.html

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* "U.S. formally accuses Russian military of committing war crimes in Ukraine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/23/us-accuses-russian-military-war-crimes-ukraine-00019746

* "Biden pledges new Ukraine aid, warns Russia on chem weapons:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-biden-business-g-7-summit-9f6705e72533496f513c3540881d348e

* "Biden’s game plan in Brussels: Punch Putin and hug the West:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/24/biden-russia-removal-g-20-00020169

* "U.S. announces new Russia sanctions over Ukraine invasion:" https://www.reuters.com/world/g7-eu-announce-measures-stop-russia-avoiding-sanctions-us-official-2022-03-24/

* "Leaders add sanctions on Russia, warn against chemical weapons:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/24/biden-nato-europe-russia-ukraine-war/

* "Amna Nawaz: If there’s concern about use of chemical weapons, where is the line?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-warned-by-biden-against-using-chemical-weapons-we-will-respond-136186437504

* "Lavrov’s stepdaughter targeted as UK announces 65 new Russian sanctions:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/uk-widens-russian-sanctions-list-to-target-key-industries-and-individuals

* "Russian supply chains next in line for sanctions:" https://www.reuters.com/business/us-allies-aim-sanctions-more-russian-sectors-supply-chains-treasurys-adeyemo-2022-03-29/

* "Russian Weekly Oil Exports Drop 26% as Buyers Look Elsewhere:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/russia-weekly-oil-exports-drop-26-as-buyers-look-elsewhere

* "Putin misled by 'yes men' in military afraid to tell him the truth, White House and EU officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-advisers-too-afraid-tell-him-truth-ukraine-us-official-2022-03-30/

* "U.S. intelligence reveals Putin’s military advisors fear telling him about Ukraine failures:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russia-s-pledge-to-scale-back-military-operations-in-kyiv-met-with-skepticism-by-ukrainian-u-s-officials-136622149581

* "Biden says of Putin: 'For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power':" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/26/1089014039/biden-says-of-putin-for-gods-sake-this-man-cannot-remain-in-power

* "Putin spokesman refuses to rule out use of nuclear weapons if Russia faced an 'existential threat':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/europe/amanpour-peskov-interview-ukraine-intl/

* "Ammonia Leak Contaminates Area in East Ukraine:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-20/live-updates-zelenskyy-suspends-parties-with-russian-links

* "Russian forces are occupying city housing Chernobyl workers, mayor says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/26/slavutych-chernobyl-occupied-ukraine-russia/

* "Russians leave Chernobyl site as fighting rages elsewhere:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-united-states-nato-5863ad1d740cdd04ba42a25de0d31449

* "Chernihiv mayor urges Zelenskiy not to swap captured Russian pilots for Ukrainian PoWs:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/chernihiv-mayor-captured-russian-pilots-ukrainian-pows-zelenskiy

* "More Russian Mercenaries Deploying to Ukraine to Take On Greater Role in War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/politics/russian-mercenaries-ukraine-wagner-group.html?referringSource=articleShare

* "NATO: 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops dead in Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-nato-e35e54b40359e52f3ffd4911577b669a

* "Russia begins to mobilize military reinforcements for Ukraine as casualties mount, Pentagon says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/25/russia-reinforcements-georgia-ukraine/

* "Russian troops’ tendency to talk on unsecured lines is proving costly:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/27/russian-military-unsecured-communications/

* "Counteroffensive in Ukraine Shifts Dynamic of War:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/24/world/russia-ukraine-war

* "Kyiv suburb Irpin now 80% under Ukrainian control, mayor says:" https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-23-22/h_002c58c0274484214f4750382a367581

* "Russia Abandons March on Kyiv, Focuses Embattled Troops Instead on Donbas:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-03-25/russia-abandons-march-on-kyiv-focuses-embattled-troops-instead-on-donbas

* "The drone operators who halted Russian convoy headed for Kyiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/the-drone-operators-who-halted-the-russian-armoured-vehicles-heading-for-kyiv

* "Inside a Ukrainian town's bloody battle to keep Russian invaders away from a nuclear plant and the vital port of Odesa:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-voznesensk-battle-mykolaiv-defend-nuclear-plant-odesa-port/

* "With front lines on 3 sides, Ukraine's Dnipro sharpens its focus on the war:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089146927/russia-war-ukraine-dnipro

* "Multiple rockets hit Lviv city in western Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/three-powerful-explosions-heard-near-ukraines-western-lviv-city-says-governor-2022-03-26/

* "Ukraine’s Mykolaiv has held off Russian forces. Bodies are piling up anyway.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/23/mykolaiv-bodies-ukraine-war/

* "Missiles hit Ukrainian military unit near Dnipro, governor says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/missiles-hit-ukrainian-military-unit-near-dnipro-governor-says-2022-03-25/

* "Russian forces cut off Ukraine's Chernihiv city, mayor says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/ukrainian-city-chernihiv-cut-off-by-russian-forces-regional-governor-2022-03-25/

* "In Chernihiv, civilians are trapped as hospitals and schools attacked:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60860197

* "Twelve killed in Ukraine's Mykolaiv as rocket blasts hole in regional HQ:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-rocket-blasts-hole-mykolaiv-administration-building-southern-ukraine-2022-03-29/

* "In Kyiv Suburb, Ukrainian Military Claims a Big Prize:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/world/ukraine-russia-kyiv-irpin.html

* "Almost 5,000 killed in Mariupol since Russian siege began, mayor's office:" https://www.reuters.com/world/mariupol-mayor-fears-humanitarian-catastrophe-says-city-must-be-completely-2022-03-28/

* "Parliament member says Ukrainian forces won't surrender—including her own family:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/parliament-member-says-ukrainian-forces-won-t-surrender-including-her-own-family-136276549564

* "Putin is being humiliated on the battlefield in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-generals-warned-invading-ukraine-would-be-pointless-dangerous-new-york-times-reports-136089669916

* "Ukraine's zoos: what is happening to all the animals:" https://theconversation.com/ukraines-zoos-what-is-happening-to-all-the-animals-179147

* "Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/26/ukraine-russan-generals-dead/

* "Mutinous Russian troops ran over their own commander, say western officials:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/russian-troops-mutiny-commander-ukraine-report-western-officials

* "Ukrainian sailors tried to block a Russian oligarch's yacht from docking in Turkey:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/23/1088210977/russian-oligarch-yacht-turkey

* "Ukraine reports 300 dead in airstrike on Mariupol theater:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-moscow-b56759e5d40db18e94bef8e42db23e47

* "Deadly shelling in Ukraine’s Kyiv flattens shopping mall:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/3/21/photos-smouldering-scenes-of-shelling-close-to-central-kyiv

* "Lady Anastasia's chief engineer decided to sink the yacht: 'I tried to sink the boat as a political protest':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/business/ukrainian-crew-member-sabotaged-russian-oligarch-linked-yacht-invs/index.html

* "Once the Children Got Hungry, ‘the Fire Was Gone From Their Eyes’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/world/europe/mariupol-ukraine-russia-war-food-water.html

* "Putin’s climate envoy steps down from his Kremlin post, reportedly over the Ukraine war.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/world/europe/russia-anatoly-chubais-quits.html

* "Russian soldiers release Ukraine town’s mayor and agree to leave after protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/russian-soldiers-release-ukraine-towns-mayor-and-agree-to-leave-after-protests

* "Ukraine says Russian forces violently disperse Kherson protest:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/21/ukraine-says-russia-shoot-at-protesters-in-occupied-kherson

* "Thousands of Russians in Prague protest against war in Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-russians-prague-protest-against-war-ukraine-2022-03-26/

* "Russian activists sign open letter calling for end to war in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/russian-activists-sign-open-letter-calling-for-end-to-war-in-ukraine

* "Tanya’s Sister Was Trapped in Mariupol. This Is Their Story.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-family.html

* "March in support of Ukraine in London: everything was turning blue and yellow:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/27/march-in-support-of-ukraine-in-london-everything-was-turning-blue-and-yellow

* "Gay Russian man 'ashamed' of his country says Putin 'disconnected from reality':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/russia-ukraine-war-lgbt-gay/

* "Biden meets with U.S. soldiers in Poland as refugee crisis intensifies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/25/biden-poland-ukraine/

* "Ukrainian refugees from Moldova arrive via air bridge in Germany:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-refugees-moldova-arrive-via-air-bridge-germany-2022-03-25/

* "Macron: France, Greece and Turkey to attempt Mariupol evacuation plan:" https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/25/ukraine-war-latest-zelenskyy-tells-eu-sanctions-came-a-little-late

* "Ukraine Refugees Near 4 million. Will Exodus Slowdown Last?:" https://news.wttw.com/2022/03/28/ukraine-refugees-near-4-million-will-exodus-slowdown-last

* "Holocaust survivors flee from Ukraine to Germany for safety:" https://apnews.com/article/holocaust-survivors-flee-ukraine-to-germany-55fae67ceebbe88e8edf04ce387d374b

* "'It is terrible': For Ukraine's Jews and Roma, war revives old traumas:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60613433

* "Refugees in Quebec will have to learn French within 6 months:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/bill-96-quebec-refugees-french-1.6355756?cmp=rss

* "How Polish & Hungarian Activists Are Helping Queer Ukrainian Refugees:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/3/12/how-polish-hungarian-activists-are-helping-queer-ukrainian-refugees

* "Brave Polish activists helping LGBT+ Ukrainians flee Putin's cruel and barbaric war:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/poland-ukraine-russia-war-lgbt-warsaw-pride/

* "Steve Bannon Praises Putin and Texas for Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/24/steve-bannon-praises-putin-and-texas-anti-lgbtq-actions

* "ABC’s James Longman on Russia Bringing Back the Iron Curtain:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/3/03/abcs-james-longman-russia-bringing-back-iron-curtain

* "Head of Russian Orthodox Church blames Ukraine war on 'sinful' Pride parades:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/08/russia-ukraine-war-orthodox-church-kirill-lgbt-pride/

* "A familiar plot but truth may never be known about latest ‘Russian poisoning’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/truth-may-never-be-known-about-latest-russian-poisoning-roman-abramovich

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* "Putin’s war is the first conflict in a new global era:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-putin-s-war-is-the-first-conflict-in-a-new-global-era-136175685819

* "Ukraine is canary in the coal mine in battle between tyranny and liberty Marie Yovanovitch says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-s-trip-to-europe-over-ukraine-crisis-analyzed-by-marie-yovanovitch-john-brennan-136280645852

* "NATO set to boost forces on its eastern flank, chief says:" https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-ukraine-russia-stoltenberg-summit-forces-eastern-flank/

* "FCC says Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky poses risk to U.S. national security:" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/03/26/fcc-says-russian-cybersecurity-firm-kaspersky-poses-national-security-risk/8901648337432/

* "American freed from Venezuela says his ‘nightmare’ has ended:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-venezuela-caracas-daae694f5984d418627cbb3cb1885c43

* "US trial for member of Islamic State group begins in Virginia:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/the-beatles-trial-isis-terror-group-virginia

* "Paul Manafort stopped from boarding plane to UAE over revoked passport:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/manafort-passport-revoked/index.html

* "The Supply Chain Crisis Is About to Get a Lot Worse:" https://www.wired.com/story/supply-chain-crisis-data/

* "Vice President Harris on Russia: We are not into regime change, period:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vice-president-kamala-harris-interviewed-on-crisis-in-ukraine-and-more-by-joy-reid-136813126001

* "Vice President Harris "experienced great joy" as Judge Jackson "cut through political gamesmanship":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vice-president-kamala-harris-praises-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-s-supreme-court-hearings-testimony-136814149928

* "Biden eyes using wartime powers for minerals needed in clean energy push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/30/biden-expected-to-use-wartime-powers-for-minerals-needed-in-clean-energy-push-00021693

* "Biden requests Mehmet Oz and Herschel Walker resign from presidential council or be terminated:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/biden-requests-resignations-mehmet-oz-and-herschel-walker/index.html

* "Justice Clarence Thomas Discharged From Hospital, Court Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/us/politics/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-discharged.html

* "Manchin says he'll back Jackson for Supreme Court, likely assuring confirmation:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/manchin-says-hell-back-jackson-for-supreme-court-likely-assuring-confirmation

* This means we have the votes even if someone buys off Sinema. "Collins says she will back Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/susan-collins-ketanji-brown-jackson-vote/

* "Explaining Lindsey Graham’s Many Interruptions of Ketanji Brown Jackson:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/lindsey-graham-interruptions-ketanji-brown-jackson.html

* "Blackburn to Jackson: Can you define ‘the word woman’?:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/blackburn-jackson-define-the-word-woman-00019543

* "Sen. Padilla on Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: "She deserves better":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-padilla-on-supreme-court-nominee-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-she-deserves-better-136343109909

* "GOP Senators seem to pander to QAnon base in Judge Jackson hearings:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-senators-seem-to-pander-to-qanon-base-in-judge-jackson-hearings-136178245971

* "Expert hopes ‘sorry excuse for confirmation hearing’ sparks conversation on Jackson’s treatment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-confirmation-hearings-end-with-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-remaining-poised-despite-gop-maltreatment-136091717711

* "Why Ketanji Brown Jackson's Work History Matters to LGBTQ+ People:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/3/08/why-kentaji-brown-jacksons-work-history-matters-lgbtq-people

* "SCOTUS Nom Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Nearly Flaw-Free LGBTQ+ Record:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/25/scotus-nom-ketanji-brown-jackson-has-nearly-flaw-free-lgbtq-record

* "Biden will tap oil reserve, hoping to push gasoline prices down.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/energy-environment/biden-oil-strategic-petroleum-reserve.html

* "Biden's budget plan: Higher taxes on rich, lower deficits:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/bidens-budget-plan-hhigher-taxes-rich-lower-deficits-83720420

* "Vice President Kamala Harris visits Greenville in support of small businesses:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2022/04/01/harris-said-small-business-like-ones-greenville-deserve-support/7247112001/

* "Bipartisan deal struck 'in principle' on $10 billion Covid-19 aid package, Romney says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/politics/covid-relief-negotiations-congress-mitt-romney/index.html

* "Ukraine crisis could derail drive to limit U.S. defense spending:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ukraine-crisis-could-derail-drive-limit-us-defense-spending-2022-03-23/

* Don't hold your breath. Manchin's been paid to vote against this sort of thing. "Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/03/30/biden-energy-efficiency-homes-climate/

* "Community college enrollment is down, but skilled-trades programs are booming:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1086454046/2-year-skilled-trades-programs-booming

* "A battle over schools rages in Michigan — and Betsy DeVos is at the center of it:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/betsy-devos-private-school-vouchers-michigan-rcna21384

* "Sacramento teachers strike as Minneapolis walkout continues:" https://www.kttc.com/2022/03/24/sacramento-teachers-strike-minneapolis-walkout-continues/

* "Email Prompts Several Applebee's Managers To Walk Off the Job:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/25/applebees-managers-walk-off-job/

* "Amazon Labor Union wins historic election at New York City warehouse:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/04/amazon-labor-first-union-win-warehouse-staten-island-historic-smalls-jfk8/

* "Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to form company’s first U.S. union:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/amazon-workers-on-staten-island-vote-to-form-company-s-first-u-s-union-136815173740

* "Joe Biden signs landmark law making lynching a hate crime:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/emmett-till-anti-lynching-act-biden-signs

* "Violence Against Women Act Expands Services to LGBTQ+ Survivors:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/17/violence-against-women-act-expands-services-lgbtq-survivors

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "DeSantis vetoes new Florida congressional map and calls for special session:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/desantis-vetoes-florida-congressional-map/index.html

* "Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in Case on Wisconsin Redistricting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/us/politics/supreme-court-wisconsin-redistricting.html

* "Judge strikes down parts of Florida election law; cites race:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-florida-voting-elections-tallahassee-b0c486301fd6c22eeea6af7e55225c5a

* "Reporting on Conspiracy Theorists Trying to Take Over Elections:"

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* "Cawthorn’s ‘orgies’ line shows how right-wing politics can boomerang:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/29/madison-cawthorn-orgies/

* "Rep. Cawthorn’s ‘cocaine’ and ‘orgies’ remark finally too much for GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-cawthorn-s-cocaine-and-orgies-remark-finally-too-much-for-gop-136621637630

* Re: Cawthorn's Orgies: 1. Madison Cawthorn is a known and frequent liar. That being said, 2. He has corroboration from admittedly very shady roger Stone.

3. This is from the '80's and I have zero ways of knowing if it is still the case, but I knew a guy who used to do gigs as a bartender/sex worker at DC Parties involving lawmakers and the claims Cawthorn is making. Before you ask, no, I don't know which lawmakers of the period went to these parties as he never named names. He just said Republicans and democrats hired him. Again, hearsay from the late eighties, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm just saying that it is possible that Cawthorn's claims are at least partially true. This is not the same as saying they are, just that I wouldn't be surprised.

4. I admit that the way the republicans are reacting looks more like panic at getting called out on something at least partially true than innocent people reacting to lies, but again, this is a subjective response.

5. The contrast between this total freakout, whatever the veracity of the claims, and their lack of reaction reaction to literal Nazi and Nazi adjacent statements and behavior within their caucus is in itself a kind of indictment. Just saying.

* "His Record: Fla. Sen. Baxley Is a Notorious Anti-LGBTQ+ Lawmaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/10/florida-senator-dennis-baxley-anti-lgbtq-record-history-bill-law-dont-say-gay#media-gallery-media-5

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests Pete Buttigieg wants to use girls' bathrooms:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-pete-chasten-buttigieg-donald-trump-save-america/

"One Twitter user wrote: “I’m a woman, and honestly, I’d rather Pete Buttigieg in the bathroom with me than Marjorie Taylor Greene.”"

* "Buttigieg Slams Rep. Greene's Taunt to 'Stay Out of Girls' Bathrooms':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/30/buttigieg-slams-rep-greenes-comment-keep-out-girls-bathrooms

* "GOP Candidate Sought Russian Help to Unseat Gay Rep. David Cicilline:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/23/gop-candidate-sought-russian-help-unseat-gay-rep-david-cicilline

* "Watch: Anti-Trans Jeff Younger Heckled as "Fascist" by Students:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/03/watch-anti-trans-texas-politician-jeff-younger-heckled-fascist-college-students

* "Gay Democrat Challenges GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert With Vow to End 'BS':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/08/gay-democrat-alex-walker-challenges-gop-lauren-boebert-vow-end-bs

* "GOP Lawmaker Retracts Claim Students Were Self-Identifying as Cats:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/31/gop-lawmaker-bruce-bostelman-retracts-claim-students-were-self-identifying-cats

* "Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is found guilty in contributions probe:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088715862/nebraska-rep-jeff-fortenberry-is-found-guilty-in-contributions-probe

* "'Revenge': Georgia GOP primaries test Trump's power, voter fraud lie:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/revenge-georgia-gop-primaries-test-trumps-power-voter-fraud-lie-rcna21354

* "How White Victimhood Fuels Republican Politics:" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-white-victimhood-fuels-republican-politics/

* "‘Old-school bigoted’: Why Republicans seem to be regressing on LGBTQ issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-old-school-bigoted-why-republicans-seem-to-be-regressing-on-lgbtq-issues-136719429508

* "White House rebukes Trump after he calls on Putin to smear Hunter Biden:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/white-house-trump-claim-putin-hunter-biden

* "Trump committed ‘numerous’ felonies, said resigning New York prosecutor – report:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/donald-trump-crime-accusation-prosecutor-mark-pomerantz

* "White House staffer says her gay teen son was 'ashamed' she worked for Donald Trump:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/10/stephanie-grisham-donald-trump-gay-son-florida/

* "Judge says Trump ‘likely’ committed crimes in bid to block Biden victory:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/28/john-eastman-trump-lawyer-capitol-attack-emails

* "Ted Cruz's efforts to keep Trump in office went far deeper than we knew:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ted-cruz-january-6-trump-election/

* "8-hour gap in Trump's Jan. 6 White House phone records:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-dd00501687003ec2ad3b4929a80ba83a

* "Rep. Luria: Missing Jan. 6 phone logs have ‘overtones’ of Nixon cover-up:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-luria-missing-jan-6-phone-logs-have-overtones-of-nixon-cover-up-136531013658

* "Trump used White House phone for call on January 6 that was not on official log:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/trump-used-white-house-phone-call-capitol-attack-jan-6-not-official-log

* "Jan. 6 panel votes to recommend contempt charges for Trump aides Scavino, Navarro:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jan-6-panel-votes-to-recommend-contempt-charges-for-trump-aides-scavino-navarro-136447045503

* "Garland could be creating 'biggest failure of an attorney general in American history' expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/former-trump-aides-dan-scavino-peter-navarro-face-criminal-contempt-of-congress-charges-136450117652

* "Donald Trump’s disloyalty may finally come back to bite him:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/24/mo-brooks-turns-on-donald-trump-endorsement-jan-6-committee/

* "Mo Brooks: Trump asked him to ‘rescind' 2020 results, hold new election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mo-brooks-trump-asked-him-to-rescind-2020-results-hold-new-election-136087621920

* "Jared Kushner expected to appear before Jan. 6 committee this week:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/jared-kushner-expected-jan-committee-week/story?id=83723385

* "Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/

* "Texts show wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged election overthrow to Mark Meadows:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texts-show-ginni-thomas-urged-election-overthrow-to-mark-meadows-136186949823

* "Ginni Thomas actively tried to install losing candidate as president legal expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ginni-thomas-sent-29-texts-to-trump-s-chief-of-staff-to-justify-overturning-2020-election-136281669678

* "Warren: Justice Thomas must recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-justice-thomas-must-recuse-himself-from-jan-6-cases-136532037995

* "Impeach Thomas? House Dems can go there, but most won’t.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/clarence-thomas-congress-fallout-00021167

* "Cult expert claims this never-seen-before footage features Ginni Thomas discussing Lifespring experience:" https://www.rawstory.com/ginni-thomas-lifespring-cult/

* "Justice Dept. expands Jan. 6 probe to look at rally prep, financing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/30/jan-6-fbi-subpoena-justice/

* "Threat assessment experts highlight danger posed by 'involuntarily celibate' men | CNN Politics:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/tallahassee-hot-yoga-shooting-misogynistic-extremism-report/index.html

* "Alex Jones faces fines for skipping Sandy Hook deposition:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/alex-jones-faces-fines-skipping-sandy-hook-deposition-83769130

* "Initially Rejected by the US, Russians Are Secretly Hustled Over the Border:"

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* "Biden administration plans to end pandemic border restrictions in May, sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/immigration-title-42/index.html

* "How Putin's war in Ukraine can advance immigration policy in the United States:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-putin-s-war-in-ukraine-can-advance-immigration-policy-in-the-united-states-136343109884

* "More than half of the Texas House wants to stop the execution of Melissa Lucio, convicted of killing her toddler:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/24/texas-legislature-melissa-lucio/

* There remains no proof that any crime was committed at all. "‘Only the hand of the Governor can halt’ Lucio’s execution, judge says:" https://www.valleycentral.com/news/state-news/only-the-hand-of-the-governor-can-halt-lucios-execution-judge-says/

* "California Assembly advances involuntary servitude amendment:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-22/california-assembly-advances-involuntary-servitude-amendment

* "Prison Labor: Inmates Exploited for Profit:"

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* "The real story about crime Republicans won’t tell you:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/crime-murder-rates-republican-cities/

* "Study: states with high murder rates more likely to be Republican:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/study-states-with-high-murder-rates-more-likely-to-be-republican-136344645535

* "83-Year-Old Trans Woman Indicted Over Killing and Dismembering Victim:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/11/83-year-old-brooklyn-trans-woman-harvey-marcelin-indicted-over-killing-and-dismembering-victim

* "The Murderer's Little Boy:" https://www.texasobserver.org/the-murderers-little-boy/

* "'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler speaks out after being mistakenly suspected of attempted robbery:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/entertainment/ryan-coogler-arrested-bank-robbery-mistaken/index.html

* "Can Kyle Rittenhouse Sue Everyone Who Called Him a Murderer?:"

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* "Washington OKs 1st statewide missing Indigenous people alert:" https://apnews.com/article/united-states-washington-jay-inslee-4ecb8e8b8dd600861307b0a176d0dfee

* "How the Atlanta Spa Shootings—the Victims, the Survivors—Tell a Story of America:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/how-the-atlanta-spa-shootings-tell-a-story-of-america

* "It Never Seems to Be a Good Time to Talk About Teachers’ Racism:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/03/teacher-racism-in-classrooms-and-curriculum.html

* "5 Christian School Staffers Charged Over Alleged Sex Abuse Cover-Up:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/18/5-christian-school-staffers-charged-over-alleged-sex-abuse-cover

* CW: Extreme Child Abuse. "Mother Confesses She & Her Girlfriend Starved Her Daughters to Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/18/mother-confesses-she-her-girlfriend-starved-daughters-death

* CW: Abuse "One in three LGBT+ Brits abused by their family, disturbing report finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/lgbt-family-abuse-galop/

* "Gay Ex-Amazon Employee Claims He Was Hit On by Female Boss, Then Fired:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/2/23/gay-ex-amazon-employee-claims-he-was-hit-female-boss-then-fired

* "Guatemala Moves to Ban Same-Sex Marriage, Increase Abortion Penalties:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/3/10/guatemala-moves-ban-same-sex-marriage-increase-abortion-penalties

* "While red states restrict abortion, blue states are voting to protect access:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/1088238619/legislation-abortion-bans

* "Arizona governor signs 15-week abortion ban into law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/arizona-governor-signs-15-week-abortion-ban-into-law-2022-03-30/

* "Kentucky legislature approves sweeping abortion bill, sending it to governor's desk:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/kentucky-omnibus-abortion-bill/index.html

* "DC Police Find 5 Fetuses In Home Of Anti-Abortion Activist Lauren Handy:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-police-fetuses-anti-abortion-activist-lauren-handy_n_6245e9a5e4b068157f749d7f

* "The many, many countries that have banned conversion therapy – no ifs or buts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/conversion-therapy-bans-countries-uk-boris-johnson/

* "Plan to criminalise gender 'fraud' dubbed 'licence to harass trans people':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/scottish-gender-recognition-bill-fraudulent/

* "Boris Johnson slammed for ‘despicable betrayal’ after dropping conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/31/conversion-therapy-boris-johnson-betrayal-ban-leak/

* Them not being able to find housing in the town where they are mayor is a perfect symbol for something fundamentally wrong with the housing market for anyone younger than a boomer really. "World's first non-binary mayor to stand down after 'change of circumstances':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/15/owen-j-hurcum-not-standing-re-election/

* "Wales and Scotland vow to press on with trans-inclusive conversion therapy bans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/wales-scotland-lgbt-conversion-therapy/

* "Man stabbed outside of queer bar in 'targeted' attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/12/bar-stabbing-sheffield-anti-lgbt/

* "'Whistleblower' says her life was destroyed after exposing 'homophobic abuse':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/10/sellafield-nuclear-homophobia-racism-sexism/

* "US confirms X gender markers for passports to be rolled out imminently:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/31/x-gender-markers-neutral-passports-antony-blinken-joe-biden/

* "SCOTUS: Bisexual Lawyer's Suit Against Christian Group Can Go Ahead:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/22/scotus-bisexual-lawyers-suit-against-christian-group-can-go-ahead

* "Iowa High Court Recognizes Anti-Trans Discrimination in Historic Win:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/01/iowa-high-court-recognizes-anti-trans-discrimination-historic-win

* "More Than One-Third of Trans Kids Are at Risk of Losing Care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/22/more-one-third-trans-kids-are-risk-losing-gender-affirming-care

* "Justice department issues stark warning over attacks on trans rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/01/department-justice-anti-trans-healthcare-bills-federal-law/

* "Arizona, Oklahoma Governors Sign Anti-Trans Bills Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/30/arizona-oklahoma-governors-sign-anti-trans-bills-law

* "Kansas Senate Passes Anti-Transgender Sports Bans:" https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/kansas-senate-passes-anti-transgender-sports-bans

* "Utah Lawmakers Override Gov.'s Veto & Pass Anti-Trans Sports Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/25/utah-lawmakers-override-govs-veto-pass-anti-trans-sports-bill

* "Fla. Gov. DeSantis Signs Historic 'Don't Say Gay Bill,' Enabling Hate:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/28/fla-ron-desantis-signs-historic-dont-say-gay-bill-enabling-hate

* "FL gov's office said those opposing “Don’t Say Gay” bill complicit in pedophilia activist says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-don-t-say-gay-bill-passed-in-florida-despite-widespread-opposition-to-desantis-bill-136536645660

* Sigh. "Gay Republicans Call DeSantis Press Sec. 'Gay Icon' After Homophobia:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/16/gay-republicans-call-desantis-press-sec-christina-pushaw-gay-icon-after-homophobia

* "A Gay Florida Educator on the Terror of What's to Come:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/3/25/gay-florida-educator-terror-whats-come

* "First Federal Suit Against Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Law Filed:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/31/first-federal-suit-against-floridas-dont-say-gay-law-filed

* "GOP Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb Vetoes Anti-Trans Sports Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/3/23/gop-indiana-gov-eric-holcomb-vetoes-anti-trans-sports-bill

* "Texas Superintendent Pulls 130 LGBTQ+ Books from District Libraries:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/24/texas-superintendent-pulls-130-lgbtq-books-district-libraries

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton Says LGBTQ+ People and Allies Are 'Predators':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/28/texas-ag-ken-paxton-says-lgbtq-people-and-allies-are-predators

* "Prosecutor Says Kidd Creole Killed Man in 'Gay Panic'; Rapper Says No:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/30/prosecutor-says-kidd-creole-killed-man-gay-panic-rapper-says-no

* "Chicago Trans Activist Elise Malary Found Dead on Lakeshore:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/3/21/chicago-trans-activist-elise-malary-found-dead-lakeshore

* "Trans Woman Tatiana Labelle Found Dead in Trash Can in Chicago:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/3/21/trans-woman-tatiana-labelle-found-dead-trash-can-chicago

* "Police: 19-Year-Old Trans Woman Kathryn Newhouse Killed by Father:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/28/police-19-year-old-trans-woman-kathryn-newhouse-killed-father

* "Gang Savagely Attacks Three Gay Men Leaving Drag Show:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/01/gang-savagely-attacks-3-gay-men-leaving-drag-show

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton says Austin schools' Pride Week is "immoral" and "illegal":" https://www.salon.com/2022/03/25/texas-ken-paxton-says-austin-schools-pride-week-is-immoral-and-illegal/

* "What Being Black Has Taught Me About Being Nonbinary:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/3/31/what-being-black-has-taught-me-about-being-nonbinary

* "Ex-GOP Candidate Calls for ‘Firing Squads’ for Trans Rights Supporters:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/29/ex-gop-candidate-robert-foster-calls-firing-squads-trans-rights-supporters

* "Christian University Allegedly Fires Professor for Hosting Gay Speaker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/15/christian-university-allegedly-fires-professor-hosting-gay-speaker

* "Seattle Pride Cut Ties With Amazon Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Donations:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/3/24/seattle-pride-cut-ties-amazon-over-anti-lgbtq-donations

* "Stephen Fry opens up about terrifying homophobic attack by 'furious skinhead':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/09/stephen-fry-homophobia-attack-wembley-celibacy/

* "Trans cyclist Emily Bridges barred from major championship in last-minute U-turn:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/31/emily-bridges-uk-cycling-trans-ban/

* "Why a White-Led LGBTQ+ Org and a POC-Led Queer Group Are Teaming Up:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/01/why-white-led-lgbtq-org-and-poc-led-queer-group-are-teaming

* "Transgender Adults Face Disproportionate Food Insufficiency:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2022/3/29/transgender-adults-face-disproportionate-food-insufficiency

* "Doctors learned how to save premature infants’ lives. They forgot about pain.:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22949159/nicu-babies-pain-treatments-podcast-unexplainable

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* "Louisiana twister carved destruction in mere moments:" https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-storms-new-orleans-hurricanes-weather-1b01d30a0719a44489b159cd6ba92a45

* "Searchers in China find wing, engine parts after plane crash:" https://apnews.com/article/china-6b7c4a15978ff73c82c59f5c32cc6730

* "Planned Obsolescence: The Right to a Product:"

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* Do Not Want. "The Plan to Put Bitcoin in Mouse DNA With a Genetically Engineered Virus:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg5az/the-quest-to-put-bitcoin-in-mouse-dna-with-a-genetically-engineered-virus

* "The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck:" https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/3/9/22969054/endurance-shipwreck-deep-sea-animals

* "A 40,000-year-old Chinese stone tool culture unlike any other:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/a-40000-year-old-chinese-stone-tool-culture-unlike-any-other/

* "A Struggling Actress’s Greatest Role Was as a Real Civil War Spy:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pauline-cushman-spy-american-civil-war

* "The Truth About the Winchester Mystery House:"

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* "Kirby Vacuums Suck:"

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* "Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state and feminist icon, dies at 84:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-secretary-state-madeleine-albright-has-died-family-2022-03-23/

* "Tireless campaigner George Montague, the ‘oldest gay in the village’, dies aged 98:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/19/george-montague-oldest-gay-village-brighton/

* "Concerns about Bruce Willis' declining cognitive state swirled around sets in recent years:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-03-30/bruce-willis-aphasia-memory-loss-cognitive-disorder

* "Russian figure skaters banned from world championships but not for reason we expected:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2022/03/01/russian-figure-skaters-banned-world-championships-putin/6981404001/

* Here's an idea: Don't hold major sporting events in countries where being queer is an imprisonable offense. "LGBT+ Pride flags could be confiscated at 2022 World Cup in Qatar:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/02/qatar-lgbt-world-cup-2022-pride-flags/

* "Va. Antique Store Posts Bizarre Anti-Trans Screed — Hundreds Respond:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/3/27/va-antique-store-posts-bizarre-anti-trans-screed-hundreds-respond

* "Will Smith punches Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes says 'gay': Biggest Oscars moments:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/28/oscars-2022-will-smith-chris-rock-wanda-sykes/

* "Ariana DeBose makes Oscars history as first queer woman of colour to win:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/28/ariana-debose-oscar-west-side-story/

* "In Alaska, Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Traditional Face Tattoos:" https://www.vogue.com/article/in-alaska-indigenous-women-are-reclaiming-traditional-face-tattoos

* Is that a snake in your pants or.... "Border authorities find 52 lizards and snakes hidden in man’s clothing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/border-authorities-find-52-lizards-snakes-hidden-mans-clothing-rcna19270

* "Gay Couple Adopts Dog Abandoned for 'Being Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/3/23/dog-abandoned-shelter-because-owners-say-hes-gay-adopted-couple

* "Harm Reduction:"

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* "The Spy Who Called Me: Alexander Vindman and the Call That Sparked the Russian War on Ukraine:"

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* "What Recent HBCU Bomb Threats Say About the State of Racism in America:"

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* "The Postmodern Horror of TikTok's Encanto Discourse:"

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* "Dumped By Your Accounting Firm? Call Manston & Manston:"

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* ""Fight Club" Isn't The Only Movie China Altered:"

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* "Taboo: White Fragility Edition:"

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* "This Is Why Kanye Is Beefing With Peppa Pig:"

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* Our best reconstruction of what happened was the injury Wednesday caused serious inflammation, which caused bits to pop out again. I iced it and when the Doctors offices opened, i phoned in my symptoms to the surgeon. They ordered me to the emergency room. By the time they'd imaged me my bits had popped in again.

This is likely to keep happening if I'm unlucky or careless until the surgery sorts it. Sigh.

The cats were terrified, poor things. I kept seeing Livia's panicky face popping up over or around furniture to stare at me. Tavy was in the rarest of modes, the Angel Mode. He guarded from a distance for the three hours of the really bad stuff, and once things calmed down, very carefully stepped onto me, avoiding the damaged areas, made pillow biscuits instead of clawing my chest and stomach in hopes of milk, and settled sweetly in for a cuddle nap while I waited for phone time. he didn't hurt me even accidentally once.

I basically needed to spend about 36 hours in bed, only getting up for essentials like food, meds, and hydration. I still need to lie down at random with little warning, but I'm recovering.

* What with various emergencies, disruptions, and most of a month lost to quarantine, we got pretty far behind on myriad things here at the cat asylum. As of Sunday evening, the Head Millennial's pay is sorted, they have caught up on the back log of essential things to keep the household running, and they have gotten things cleared and planted so that the container garden is ready for spring.

They really went above and beyond this week, coming in for short shifts on more days to make sure I was all right during the medical emergency.

I tire easily, and for safety's sake am not bending or lifting, but my shift is considerably more together. I hate this, but I think the time bomb could have gone off at any point in the last couple of years. It just happened to be at the end of a particularly shitty two years medically. Ironically, none of my medical stuff was COVID which is absolutely a miracle of science and kindness on the part of the Millennials. Let us hope things improve and we can avoid further excitement until my surgery slot opens.

* Me explaining on Tumblr why so much Secondary school teaching of history is bad in the US:

The real answer is English Teachers. They hire English teachers to teach Core instead of hiring English Teachers to just teach English and Social studies teachers to teach History in a lot of places in the US school system.

English teachers are not trained how to teach History well; they are trained to teach English. A lot of them don’t like or care about history, so they just teach whatever often ancient text book the underfunded school system hands them in a half assed way.

If you are hiring one teacher to teach both subjects, see, you hire the English teacher because Republican “Back to Basics” school reform is designed to emphasis English and Math and do everything possible to fuck up Social Studies/History and Science teaching because the last thing they want is an educated electorate well versed in things like research, evaluating evidence, analysis, and critical thinking.

They’d abolish both disciplines if they could in public schools. They are actively trying right now with the wave of censorship laws that make it illegal to teach students anything factual about US history. see also the endless attempt to ban evolution being taught and “teach the controversy” bullshit intended to give parity to religious texts in science classes. It’s all part of the same thing.

People who are dual certified in Social studies/History and English are rare and most of those come from an English Literature academic background instead of having a bunch of history degrees like I do. Those of us who really love teaching Middle School History/Social Studies have an extremely hard time getting hired, since we aren’t getting hired for core positions no matter how good we are, which leaves those schools that separate their English and History. My strong academic background in history made me a less attractive and more expensive hire than a mediocre English teacher with no teaching experience for those core jobs.

So there’s the real answer.

English teachers are not the villains here by the way. They need to eat and pay back student loans too. It’s just they are trained to teach English. That’s where their passion is. I’m angry at the policies that fuck over generation after generation of students.

* Me watching Moon Knight: Seriously? He can't get a date? Trust me the leg restraint Would Not Stop Me.

“I'll help you rise from the dead Osiris!!! “

* "Street Photography by Juri Nesterov Documents Ukrainian Life Across Decades:" https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/03/juri-nesterov-photographs/

* NWS "The Art of Felix d'Eon:" https://felixdeon.tumblr.com/post/680261091522215936/its-international-transgender-day-of

* I feel this in my Medievalist bones. "Medievalists HATE Him: What Is Your Field's "A World Lit Only By Fire"?:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/medievalists-hate-him-what-is-your?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MTIyOTk0MCwiXyI6InM0WDU5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ4NjM0MjIyLCJleHAiOjE2NDg2Mzc4MjIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.mk8DJTt6FA5iDSw0f-C-pbAezVky025RcFNLr9vQNto&s=r

* "How To Tell If You're In A Folk Horror Film:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/how-to-tell-if-youre-in-a-folk-horror?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MDY5NTQxMSwiXyI6InM0WDU5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ4MDAzMzQ1LCJleHAiOjE2NDgwMDY5NDUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.R6aDIrC99a0TbQfoJhn0rzXmCRdw9XdD51rONo2Yeks&s=r

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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.

* "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/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

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

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* Note: Ali Velshi is my least favorite of MSNBCs current selection of substitute hosts for a bunch of reasons. He is currently covering for Rachel Maddow who is away on a long hiatus to work on other projects. I have no reason to think she's reviewing everything that is going on the air over there given how incredibly busy she is right now. If more information comes in suggesting she personally okayed everything in the 3/11 broadcast, I will reassess, but right now I'm working on the assumption that it's her bookers, research staff, etc., but that Ali Velshi is responsible for what he says and what goes out on the air.

Absent information to the contrary, I'm done with Ali Velshi, but reserving judgment on Rachel Maddow's involvement unless and until more information comes in suggesting she actually had some direct involvement.

What happened on air in the 3/11 episode is NOT okay, and I don't condone it.

* "Zara, Nike, and Abercrombie’s Indian Factories Weren’t Fully Paying Workers:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvny4/garment-workers-karnataka-india-wage-theft

* "Putin's agents reportedly threatened a top Google executive in Moscow with a 24-hour ultimatum – Take down Russia protest vote app or go to prison:" https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-agents-threatened-google-exec-to-remove-voting-app-moscow-2022-3

* "11 years into Syria's civil war, this is what everyday life looks like:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/11-years-into-civil-war-what-syrian-life-looks-like

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* "How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/covid-us-death-rate/626972/

* " Biden administration set to extend travel mask mandate for another month:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/travel-mask-mandate/index.html

* "As masks become optional, kids take their health into their own hands:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/health/kids-masks-optional-school-decisions-wellness/index.html

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* "Zelenskyy Predicts Putin Will Negotiate: ‘I Think He Sees That We Are Strong’:"

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* "Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Putin: "There isn't much of an off-ramp, because autocrats don't negotiate":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/ruth-ben-ghiat-on-putin-there-isn-t-much-of-an-off-ramp-because-autocrats-don-t-negotiate-135268421588

* "U.S. to Send Arms to Ukraine, as Russia Intensifies Campaign of Destruction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/world/europe/ukraine-russia-kyiv.html

* "UK minister warns Russia against using chemical weapons in Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/11/uk-minister-warns-russia-against-using-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine

* "Right-wing media amplifies unfounded theory promoted by Russian state media:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-wing-media-amplifies-unfounded-theory-promoted-by-russian-state-media-135194181621

* "Can International Law Stop Putin's War on Ukraine?:"

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* "Hayes: Why the idea of ‘mutually assured destruction’ is as relevant as ever:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-why-the-idea-of-mutually-assured-destruction-is-as-relevant-as-ever-135092293950

* "Ukrainian embassy draws US citizens seeking to fight in war:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-d0243a1708a3115e5ad0ac40aed99b9f

* "“Please help us save our children and our parents”: Member of Ukrainian Parliament:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-s-army-advances-toward-ukrainian-capital-of-kyiv-135198277883

* "Russian forces regroup near Kyiv after setbacks:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/us-steps-up-pressure-russia-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-03-11/

* "Drone footage shows Ukrainian ambush on Russian tanks:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/drone-footage-russia-tanks-ambushed-ukraine-forces-kyiv-war

* "Russia says military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk taken out - agencies:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-military-airfields-lutsk-ivano-frankivsk-taken-out-agencies-2022-03-11/

* "‘We are ready and united’: Lviv residents prepare for Russian advance:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/ukraine-lviv-residents-prepare-for-russian-advance

* "How a Line of Russian Tanks Became an Inviting Target for Ukrainians:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-russia-fighting.html

* "Satellite images show Russian artillery firing as homes burn near Kyiv:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/11/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "The mayor of Melitopol, Ukraine, has been abducted, officials say:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1086153544/melitopol-mayor-abducted

* "Putin's forces bombing Mariupol, Ukraine called ‘depraved’ by UK prime minister:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-s-forces-bombed-mariupol-ukraine-on-wednesday-drawing-condemnation-135006789913

* "“Putin won’t stop with Ukraine, believe me”: Mariupol city council member:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukrainian-city-of-mariupol-contains-at-least-400-000-trapped-citizens-as-russia-attacks-135098437892

* "Russia widens attack on Ukraine's cities, striking western airfields and Dnipro:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/europe/russia-invasion-ukraine-03-11-intl/index.html

* "Besieged Ukrainians endure bombardments, with no breakthrough in talks:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-accuses-russia-genocide-after-bombing-childrens-hospital-2022-03-10/

* "Russia criticized after Kyiv airstrike hits near Holocaust memorial site:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/babi-yar-russia-criticized-ukraine-strike-holocaust-memorial-rcna18245

* "Inside Kyiv During Putin's Invasion:"

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* "Ukraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters, camouflage classes and, yes, books:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085220209/ukraine-libraries-bomb-shelters

* "Woman who survived siege of Leningrad as a girl now trapped in Kharkiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/woman-who-survived-siege-of-leningrad-as-a-girl-now-trapped-in-kharkiv

* "'Don’t Worry, Be Happy': Behind sandbags, Odessa waits to see if it's next:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dont-worry-be-happy-behind-sandbags-odessa-waits-see-if-its-next-2022-03-08/

* "To evacuate or not? In Odessa, some older residents cannot flee war.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/08/ukraine-odessa-russia-war/

* "Russia shells a Kharkiv care home for 330 adults and children with disabilities:" https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-shells-kharkiv-care-home-for-adults-children-with-disabilities-2022-3

* "Russian forces fire on evacuees, leaving 4 people dead outside Kyiv.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-irpin-civilian-death.html

* "War in Ukraine: 'It's hell, it's really hell' - Families flee bombs in Irpin:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60651801

* "The 11-year-old boy who fled Ukraine alone was displaced by war before — he fled Syria as a baby:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/ukraine-refugee-boy-travel-slovakia-syria-war/

* "Ukraine says Russian forces kill seven civilians in evacuation convoy:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/fighting-rages-outside-kyiv-ukraine-says-it-hopes-humanitarian-corridors-can-2022-03-12/

* "Moscow accused of targeting civilians fleeing Ukrainian cities:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/mar/07/ukraine-news-russia-war-latest-news-vladimir-putin-zelenskiy-kyiv-russian-invasion-civilian-attacks-irpin-ceasefire-live-updates

* "Ukrainians fleeing war 'can't leave' pets behind:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-lifestyle-europe-6d0f493e6cab1e5c9b16c108ad13377d

* "Ukrainian couple on holiday when Russia invaded fear loved ones could be dead:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/11/ukraine-russia-gay-couple-france/

* "Under threat of Russian bombs, Lviv hides away its priceless heritage:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60707531

* "“They never had so many people to arrest”: Inside Russia’s anti-Putin protests:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ukraine-russia-war-anti-putin-protest-movement/

* "Twitter, Facebook remove Russian embassy tweet on Mariupol hospital bombing:" https://www.reuters.com/world/twitter-removes-russian-embassy-tweet-mariupol-hospital-bombing-2022-03-10/

* "Russians being told their soldiers are ‘incredibly generous, careful with civilians’ expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russians-see-new-iron-curtain-descend-as-putin-s-war-against-ukraine-continues-135098949915

* "‘Hypocritical’: What young people in Russia think about Putin’s invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-hypocritical-what-young-people-in-russia-think-about-putin-s-invasion-135195205615

* "Ukraine’s Zelensky appeals to moms of Russian troops: Don’t let your kids go to war:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-11-2022/

* "Sole Black MP in Ukrainian parliament: "We don't support racism here":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-s-forces-bombed-a-maternity-hospital-in-mariupol-ukraine-wednesday-wounding-17-135007301635

* "Amb. Yovanovitch: Handling of Ukraine under Trump gave Putin 'encouragement’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/amb-yovanovitch-handling-of-ukraine-under-trump-gave-putin-encouragement-135097413680

* "Yovanovitch: Trump White House insiders say he would've pulled U.S. out of NATO:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-s-admiration-for-putin-apparent-obsession-with-weakening-ukraine-discussed-by-former-u-s-ambassador-to-ukraine-yovanovitch-135198789939

* "Moldova’s Leader Wants to Stay Neutral—But Her Country Could Be Putin’s Next Target:" https://time.com/6156227/moldova-russia-ukraine-natalia-gavrilita/

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* "Oil Workers On Foreign-Flagged Ships Are At The Mercy of Corporations:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oil-gas-offshore-foreign-flags_n_621d1ccce4b0afc668c49a92

* "U.S. inflation soared 7.9 percent in past year, a fresh 40-year high:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/10/us-inflation-soars-to-40-year-high-00016043

* "New York City will stop collecting Social Security money from children in foster care:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1084620883/new-york-city-will-stop-collecting-social-security-money-from-children-in-foster

* "The Dark Side of Amazon:"

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* "Reporting on People Living Rent-Free Next to Millionaires:"

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* "Stacey Abrams - "Level Up":" https://www.cc.com/video/d0pm9c/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-level-up

* "Garland says the Jan. 6 investigation won't end until everyone is held accountable:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/1085016383/garland-says-the-jan-6-investigation-wont-end-until-everyone-is-held-to-account

* "RNC sues Jan 6. committee over subpoena of data from software vendor Salesforce:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/10/rnc-sues-jan-6-committee-salesforce-vendor-republicans/

* "Michael Flynn testifies in closed-door meeting with Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/michael-flynn-testifies-closed-door-meeting-jan-6-committee-rcna19570

* "Census undercounted Black people, Hispanics and Native Americans in 2020:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/10/2020-census-undercount-black-people-hispanics-native-americans-00016138

* "Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened?:" https://theintercept.com/2022/03/05/melissa-lucio-texas-death-penalty/

* I hope she wins. "Woman whose rape DNA led to her arrest to sue San Francisco:" https://apnews.com/article/science-technology-health-sexual-assault-san-francisco-161af8660d515c1ca2248dee3dcba833

* "Jussie Smollett starts 150-day jail term in protected status:" https://apnews.com/article/jussie-smollett-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-crime-race-and-ethnicity-5da4570bbf9add7f16d7f196873d8cb4

* "Tennessee bill would ban most abortions, allow private residents to sue providers:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/08/tennessee-abortion-bill-would-ban-most-abortions-allow-civil-penalties/9429403002/

* "Is Marriage Equality the Conservative Target After Abortion Rights?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/16/marriage-equality-conservative-target-after-abortion-rights

* "NHS urged to drastically expand trans youth healthcare by independent review:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/11/hilary-cass-review-nhs-england-report-trans-kids/

* "Labour leader Keir Starmer emphatically says ‘trans women are women’ and that ‘is the law’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/12/keir-starmer-trans-rights-women/

* "Police chief's JK Rowling tweet not 'dignified or respectful' to trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/12/jk-rowling-twitter-surrey-police-crime-commissioner-lisa-townsend/

* "Florida students participate in massive walkout to protest the 'Don't Say Gay' bill:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/us/orange-county-florida-high-school-walkout-dont-say-gay-bill/index.html

* Finally!!!! "Disney CEO Bob Chapek finally pauses donations to 'Don't Say Gay' Republicans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/12/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-dont-say-gay-florida/

* "Georgia brazenly introduces 'Don't Say Gay' copycat. Here's what it means:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/10/georgia-dont-say-gay-bill-crt-florida/

* "Woman's 'light extinguished' as she is sixth trans person killed in US in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/12/trans-woman-texas-paloma-vazquez/

* "Homeless Man Brutally Beaten to Death 'For Being Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/16/homeless-man-brutally-beaten-death-being-gay

* "Gay Police Officer Wins $225,000 Settlement in Discrimination Suit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/16/gay-police-officer-wins-225000-settlement-discrimination-suit

* "'Scum of the earth': Drug victims face Purdue Pharma owners:" https://apnews.com/article/opioid-crisis-victims-purdue-pharma-settlement-8bd28d490d6b12b4cf93b4c1ff90cf41

* "After You Die, a Universe Eats Your Body:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39188066/necrobiome/

* "Lungs have their own microbiome – and these microbes affect the success of bone marrow transplants in kids:" https://theconversation.com/lungs-have-their-own-microbiome-and-these-microbes-affect-the-success-of-bone-marrow-transplants-in-kids-178746

* "Baby gets heart transplant with a twist to fight rejection:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-duke-university-heart-transplants-974dcf4d655c1dbb2c82f9e64794ccd3

* "I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it:" https://www.inputmag.com/culture/cyborg-chic-bionic-prosthetic-arm-sucks

* "The One-Legged Snowboarder Who Built an Ingenious Prosthetic for Himself—and His Opponents:" https://www.gq.com/story/paralympic-snowboarder-mike-schultz

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* "75% of Amazon rainforest shows signs of loss, a 'tipping point' of dieback, study shows:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/03/07/amazon-rainforest-dieback-deforestation-climate-change-study/9380372002/

* "Australia floods: 'I'm angry it's happening again':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60686223

* "Half of US adults exposed to harmful lead levels as kids:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-environment-and-nature-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-bec63d5a6e98f952ad6d111c90e5a1b2

* "Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air, 50 years after it ended:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/03/09/redlining-pollution-environmental-justice/

* "A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/crisis-in-particle-physics-forces-a-rethink-of-what-is-natural-20220301/

* "Finding a Retirement Home for 466 Frozen Flatworm Fragments:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/science/frozen-flatworm-retriement.html

* "How 'Talking' Corpses Were Once Used to Solve Murders:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-talking-corpses-solve-murders-cruentation-ordeal-science

* "Let's Try an Old Fashioned Ghost Grift:"

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* CW: Sexual Assault "The Evolution of Betty Boop:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-evolution-of-betty-boop-180979666/

* "The Rich and Poor Under Reaganomics:"

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* "Sesame Street star Emilio Delgado dies aged 81:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60705761

* "Gay Dads Adopt Six Siblings in Foster Care and Become a Forever Family:" https://www.advocate.com/family/2022/2/17/gay-dads-adopt-six-siblings-foster-care-and-become-forever-family

* "What Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Means for Ukrainian Women and Children:"

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* "Schmear Campaign: Cyberattacks Threaten Nation’s Cream Cheese Supply:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "Counting the Dark Sides of the Duggars:"

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* "Tickets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "War in Ukraine: Russia Ramps Up the Violence Amid Resistance:" https://www.cc.com/video/tqhyy8/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-russia-ramps-up-the-violence-amid-resistance

* "War in Ukraine - Humane Ukrainians & A Major Refugee Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/nkrs5p/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-humane-ukrainians-a-major-refugee-crisis

* "Histhery with Desi Lydic - Bras:" https://www.cc.com/video/sbibaq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-histhery-with-desi-lydic-bras

* "State of Black S**t 2022:" https://www.cc.com/video/2pbd24/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-state-of-black-s-t-2022

* "The Bumpy History of Fame 1980:"

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* Thursday, I was dealing with a headache all evening, then had a bad fall trying to feed the Emperor. it wasn't his fault. he was patiently waiting in his feeding station. It was just one of those things where my body randomly stopped working at the wrong moment. I yelled because it hurt rather a lot. Tavy and Livia are very bad with loud noises so him taking off like a shot was no surprise at all. So I'm on the floor, trying to assess if I broke any toes, and untangle myself from some furniture I took down with me when I'm surprised by a really loud and emphatically concerned "Mao!" at my elbow. He hadn't fled to hide in his room, he'd run around the back of the right side desk/shelving in the office area to see if I was okay. He was scared, but he was way more worried than scared for himself, poor button. For all his faults, he really is a sweet little guy.

I damaged a bunch of toes and several are swollen, but the only one I'm really worried about is the center right. Ironically, the fragile toe,the one that I break several times a year, is just fine. none of the toes snapped in half, which is good, and I'm not getting that nasty all too familiar bone grinding, so I'm calling it a win. I'll likely have a better idea tomorrow how fucked the toe is, but it's defiantly not medical attention level fucked. (I only take toes to the doctor when they snap in half or obviously need stitches or the like).

* When Head Millennial was over last Wednesday I did the thing I often do where I offer two things they could make for my dinner and let him pick which one. Usually it's one simple thing for if they have worn themself out and a more complicated or labor intensive option for if they're up to that after they've done the other stuff on the list for the day. In this case, I've been having the kind of cravings that suggest low grade deficiency, so the easy option was a protein thing and the other option was high in vitamin C and good for depleted electrolytes. I mentioned why it needed to be one of the two nutritionally. They insisted on making both, which is fine since I could eat the bocas while they started the sauerkraut and sweet biscuits and I could just reheat that sucker later for second meal, which I totally did. (They also prepped a salad with vegetarian friendly protein in it, knowing I would finish it with artichoke heats fore electrolytes. head Millennial is a super star.)

I mentioned before that the big cooking bible is full of handwritten notes and glosses from various of my family members including me, and that we generally translate the recipes with certain standard substitutions we generally don't bother to write in. This is why I am still using the stained, battered, and falling apart original and not the replacement I bought over half a decade ago. I really need to sit down and transfer all the glosses across, but... Anyway, the glosses and corrections that aren't mine were written by dead family members, which is another reason I've been slow to transcribe it all across.

So Head Millennial grabs the recipe book, finds the recipe that the real recipe is based on, but keeps double checking the changes since neither my grandmother, mother, nor I ever bothered to write the glosses in because it was obvious to us what to change or add. But of course it isn't for the Millennial who's never seen, heard, or smelled this before the night he made it the first time. So I answer the questions, but after I'm like, "It's totally fine if you want to check with me every time, but you are also welcome to write in the recipe changes in pencil. Everybody does it." So the Millennial asked for the pencil, and started writing in the changes, and I'm like, you know you can write in the sauerkraut and water proportions too if you like. Which they eagerly did.

It was a huge relief to them. They can confidently do it themself if they needs to, which is very much how they likes to work. They are very bright and independent, and like me back when I was working like to know all the things. It wasn't until Thursday evening that it dawned on me, Oh! They were having extra emotions about it because they were writing in my family book. It didn't occur to me that it would be odd, as really, my relationship with them is very much like Gran's relationship with me was, only in this instance, I am Gran. (Gran was my Mother's Maternal Grandmother who lived to be a hundred. she was one of the many gender nonconforming family members on that side of my family tree. I was very close to her. She died at the end of my first year at College). Of course Head Millennial can gloss away all they like in the cooking bible: they are family. (One of the older Millennials often reminds me of how my Mother and Grammy were together, with me being Grammy, my Mother's Mother, in this instance).

It is so strange to me still after all this time. I never expected to survive this long. I almost didn't because of Herberton, the tumor colony we removed in my mid thirties. I never expected to survive to be a queer elder at all. I very deliberately never had or adopted kids. (Skye and I thought seriously about fostering older queer kids, but it didn't work out for a bunch of reasons). still, here I am replicating the extended family multi generational dynamics of my mother's side of the family, the mutual aid and care and fundamental warmth of it, only from the other side of the mirror.

* Some one pointed me to the finder site, Thursday night. I'd already checked it, which is how I discovered they were only tax preparing at a place without free close disabled parking, but I tried again anyway just in case and a bunch of other free tax preparer sites had popped up literally overnight. I was able to catch one of the slots at the place they moved the library site too about a decade ago that is super accessible and has disabled parking right in front. It's also big, high ceilinged and well ventilated. The COVID protocols were an improvement. They had appointment slots instead of randomly showing up and it taking four hours. Inevitably, they were a little behind and even the simplest filing (mine) with no taxable income (They don't tax SSI) takes about half an hour for whatever reason, but because of COVID protocols I got to sitt by myself in the waiting area reading instead of sitting with the preparer after the initial double check and paperwork handover.

Can I do my taxes myself? Yes, obviously, but reading tax rules stresses me out and it's worth it to me to sit around reading while someone else does it.

I've been going there since around the turn of the century, back when I still had income. (I file for identity protection and because sometimes bureaucracy wants a completed tax form). It's run by AARP and it's mostly retirees manning the stations most years. My Grammy, who was an accountant professionally, used to volunteer for this back east after she retired. I know the faces of most of the people who come back and do this every year. Half of them weren't there this time. I hope the plague didn't get them and they are just being cautious. They've always seemed such nice people and iut's a huge service they do every year. They only manned two thirds the usual number of stations for safety as well.

A young woman in her twenties did my taxes, the youngest person I'd ever seen volunteering. It was good that some young people were there volunteering, but I worry about all the people i didn't see. For the last couple years, it has been heartening to see the older library workers and volunteers still there. I always exchange greetings with the help desk guy. I was extra happy to see him today. I've seen two of the fix it guys at the library getting books in the last six months. I've been quietly worrying about them all pandemic. I hope the other fix it cafe people are okay, because they are all superheroes in my book, and most of them were retirees too.

* Me watching any episode of Raised by Wolves: Wow, Ridley Scott really has Mommy AND Daddy issues. O.o

* "Sunday Sweets: A Dr. Seuss Celebration!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/3/6/sunday-sweets-a-dr-seuss-celebration

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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.

* "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/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

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

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Faced with disappearances, beatings and intimidation, Afghanistan’s women’s rights activists go quiet on the streets:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/08/afghanistan-taliban-women-protests/

* "The Betrayal:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/biden-afghanistan-exit-american-allies-abandoned/621307/

* "Life in the Taliban's Afghanistan:"

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* "Basic income pilot scheme for care leavers to be trialled in Wales:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/15/basic-income-pilot-scheme-for-care-leavers-to-be-trialled-in-wales

* "French-led western forces to withdraw from Mali:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/africa/france-withdraws-military-mali-intl/index.html

* "Bosnia shivers as ghost of nationalism returns:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60240767

* "UN court orders Uganda to pay $325m in reparations to DRC:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/un-court-orders-uganda-to-pay-325m-in-reparations-to-dr-congo

* "Paris attacks trial: 'How I persuaded Salah Abdeslam to open up':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60344480

* "Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled islands:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60378487

* "Swimmer dies after being bitten by shark at Sydney beach:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/australia/sydney-shark-swimmer-dies-intl-scli/index.html

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* "‘Game-Changer’ Pfizer Pill Is Easier to Find as Omicron Fades Away:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/-game-changer-pfizer-pill-easier-to-get-as-omicron-fades-away

* "Hong Kong Can’t Live With the Virus. It Can’t Stop It, Either.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/asia/hong-kong-covid-omicron-wave.html

* "As Alabama COVID numbers fall, ICUs across the state remained slammed:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/02/16/alabama-sees-dropping-daily-covid-cases-omicron-icu-capacity-montgomery-gadsden-tuscaloosa/6805348001/

* "'Such preventable loss': As more babies are hospitalized with COVID-19, these moms are grateful for the vaccine:" https://mississippitoday.org/2022/02/14/mississippi-moms-and-babies-covid/

* "COVID-19 cases down, but deaths remain high - Daily Leader:" https://www.dailyleader.com/2022/02/16/covid-19-cases-down-but-deaths-remain-high/

* Who needs that plague rat. "Unvaccinated Djokovic could skip French Open, Wimbledon:" https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/unvaccinated-djokovic-skip-french-open-wimbledon-82895044

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* "Ukraine crisis: Russia keeps troops in Belarus amid Ukraine fears:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60451955

* "US says Russia closer to invading Ukraine, agrees to meeting:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/shelling-east-ukraine-russia-nuclear-drill-raise-tension-83011700

* "U.S. sounds new alarms on Ukraine and details Russian invasion plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/17/blinken-to-deliver-remarks-on-russian-threat-to-peace-and-security-at-u-n-security-council-00009733

* "Russian government hackers have likely penetrated critical Ukrainian computer systems, U.S. says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/15/russia-ukraine-cyber-attacks/

* "Why the U.S. is ‘transparently’ laying out intel on Russia’s invasion plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-u-s-is-transparently-laying-out-intel-on-russia-s-invasion-plan-133438533691

* "Canadian police arrest 100, tow vehicles amid protests in Ottawa:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/police-arrest-two-leaders-protesting-truckers-canadas-capital-rcna16767

* "The Ottawa trucker protest is rooted in extremism, a national security expert says:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079842220/ottawa-trucker-convoy-protest

* "A Porno-Metal Song About Gay Cowboys Is Disrupting the Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-vax-trucker-convoy-porno-metal-ram-ranch-1297926/

* "How the 'Battle of Billings Bridge' attracted hundreds of volunteers, trapped convoy for hours:" https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/battle-of-billings-bridge-attracts-hundreds-of-volunteers-traps-convoy-for-hours

* "Ex-president arrested in Honduras as US requests extradition on drugs charges:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/us-honduras-arrest-extradite-ex-president-juan-orlando-hernandez

* I believe in harm reduction. They've made so much progress in Seattle and other places that take this approach. Reducing it to misleading racist dog whistles as an excuse to jail people instead of help them is the opposite of what we need, which is evidence based e+approaches and education. "The ‘crack pipe’ outcry was a huge missed opportunity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/17/crack-pipe-outcry-overdose-crisis-harm-reduction-policy/

* "GOP senators block measures to reduce inflation while whining about inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-senators-block-measures-to-reduce-inflation-while-whining-about-inflation-133438533968

* "Alec Baldwin sued by family of cinematographer killed on set:" https://apnews.com/article/alec-baldwin-entertainment-business-shootings-new-mexico-39573f76042e71fc5f4fba9f36743bbc

* "‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/magazine/traveling-nurses.html

* "Hospital Sues At-Will Workers for Getting Better Jobs:"

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* "Why Trucking Can’t Deliver the Goods:" https://prospect.org/economy/why-trucking-cant-deliver-the-goods/

* "Workforce at Alabama chicken plants includes migrant teens:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-alabama/

* "This School Is So Understaffed, The Principal Drives the Bus:"

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* "Rents Reach 'Insane' Levels Across U.S. With No End in Sight:" https://time.com/6149784/rent-u-s/

* "The Man Who Fought Homelessness and Won (Sort Of):" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/magazine/steven-banks-homelessness.html

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "New Texas GOP voting rules tie election system in knots; thousands of ballots rejected:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-texas-gop-voting-rules-tie-election-system-in-knots-thousands-of-ballots-rejected-133547077623

* "Data shows odd clusters of Florida voters switching to Republican Party:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/data-shows-odd-clusters-of-florida-voters-switching-to-republican-party-133441093683

* "Joy Reid: GOP continues to stoke rage, racialized cultural anxiety among Whites for political gain:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/school-boards-targeted-by-conservatives-in-nationally-coordinated-takeover-effort-133349445574

* "Pro-Trump local official under investigation announces bid for Colorado secretary of state:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/tina-peters-mesa-county-colorado-secretary-of-state/index.html

* "Election denier under investigation is running to oversee elections in her state :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/election-denier-under-investigation-is-running-to-oversee-elections-in-her-state-133252677616

* "Wave of new candidates eager to counter wave of right-wing activists in local elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wave-of-new-candidates-eager-to-counter-wave-of-right-wing-activists-in-local-elections-133265989776

* "Sen. Josh Hawley's campaign selling coffee mugs with image of his Jan. 6 fist pump:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republican-u-s-senator-josh-hawley-stonewalls-critical-defense-department-nominees-133258309915

* "GOP Politician's 'Jesus Guns Babies' Slogan Has Twitter Firing Off Jokes:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kandiss-taylor-jesus-guns-babies-campaign-slogan_n_620ebe89e4b0c94bb9a81845

* Oh, did you hear that Republicans are claiming Hillary Clinton used (presumably Obama’s time machine) to travel to the future to spy on 45 in the white house?

That really happened this week.

* "Trump and two of his children must be deposed by N.Y. attorney general, judge rules:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/17/trump-hotel-lease-probe/

* "With businesses failing, Trump taps his political supporters to maintain his wealth:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-businesses-failing-trump-taps-his-political-supporters-to-maintain-his-wealth-133545541836

* "For Trump, a Perilous Exclamation Point to Years of Wealth Inflation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/business/trump-wealth-mazars.html

* "Trump's legal and money woes snowball as his financial credibility crumbles:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-legal-and-money-woes-snowball-as-his-financial-credibility-crumbles-133450309543

* "Trump, deep in debt, faces dwindling options to preserve faltering business:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-deep-in-debt-faces-dwindling-options-to-preserve-faltering-business-133451333830

* "With Trump abandoned by accounting firm, House Oversight asks GSA to yank hotel lease:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-fraudulent-trump-financials-exposed-house-oversight-asks-gsa-to-yank-hotel-lease-133455941507

* "Trump expert Tim O’Brien: I think right now he’s very cornered:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/donald-trump-don-jr-ivanka-now-have-21-days-to-answer-questions-under-oath-in-new-york-investigation-133442117914

* "Donald Trump's Long Week of Legal Woes:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/donald-trump-s-long-week-of-legal-woes-133619781707

* "How Trump University Was Built to Scam People:"

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* "The Many MLMs of Donald Trump |Multi Level Mondays:"

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* "Doug Mastriano was subpoenaed by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/doug-mastriano-subpoena-jan-6-capitol-attack-20220215.html

* "House probe of Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenas Arizona GOP leader Kelli Ward, 5 others over 'alternate electors':" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/jan-6-capitol-riot-probe-subpoenas-arizona-gop-chair-kelli-ward-5-others-.html

* "New subpoenas show focus on Trump campaign officials in fake elector scheme :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-subpoenas-show-focus-on-trump-campaign-officials-in-fake-elector-scheme-133265989619

* "Fake elector probe spotlights veteran of bogus Republican election fraud claims:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-elector-probe-spotlights-veteran-of-bogus-republican-election-fraud-claims-133354565918

* "Biden orders release of Trump White House logs to Congress:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-united-states-congress-dana-remus-833698eba6e222cdc3dfa128c44b0c99

* "Classified docs found in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago stash, National Archives confirms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/classified-docs-found-in-trump-s-mar-a-lago-stash-national-archives-confirms-133535301834

* "Judge allows lawmaker Jan. 6 lawsuits against Trump to proceed :" https://rollcall.com/2022/02/18/judge-allows-lawmaker-jan-6-lawsuits-against-trump-to-proceed/

* "Trump the failed candidate lacks the privilege of Trump the president; can be sued: judge:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-the-failed-candidate-lacks-the-privilege-of-trump-the-president-can-be-sued-judge-133542469800

* "Federal judge: Trump had a ‘tacit agreement’ with Capitol attackers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/federal-judge-trump-had-a-tacit-agreement-with-capitol-attackers-133534277814

* "Jan. 6 congressional committee subpoenas Kelli Ward, Mark Finchem:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2022/02/15/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-kelli-ward-mark-finchem-over-2020-election/6804440001/

* "Text messages reveal new host of characters lobbying Trump before Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/text-messages-reveal-new-host-of-characters-lobbying-trump-before-jan-6-133344837946

* "Frantic January 6th texts to Mark Meadows only a 'sliver' of investigation's evidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/frantic-january-6th-texts-to-mark-meadows-only-a-sliver-of-investigation-s-evidence-133355589942

* "US Capitol attack panel discusses subpoena for Ivanka Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/17/us-capitol-attack-ivanka-trump-subpoena-discussion

* "Sandy Hook families reach $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/us/sandy-hook-shooting-settlement-with-remington/index.html

* "Sandy Hook families achieve major legal victory against gun maker:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sandy-hook-families-achieve-major-legal-victory-against-gun-maker-133263942002

* "Sandy Hook Promise CEO on families reaching $73 million settlement with gunmaker:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sandy-hook-families-reach-73-million-settlement-with-gunmaker-remington-133256773965

* "Kim Potter to be sentenced today for Daunte Wright's death:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kim-potter-trial-sentencing-02-18-22/index.html

* "Elie Mystal: Judge Chu cried out for sympathy for Daunte Wright’s killer in front of his mother:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/daunte-wright-s-killer-kim-potter-being-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-decried-by-elie-mystal-133538373516

* "Rep. Ilhan Omar to introduce legislation proposing new restrictions on no-knock warrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-ilhan-omar-to-introduce-legislation-on-new-restrictions-on-no-knock-warrants-in-name-of-22-year-old-amir-locke-133257285919

* "Use of rape-kit DNA to probe other crimes shocks prosecutors:" https://apnews.com/article/crime-california-san-francisco-sexual-assault-3dcd00bf0522ce7c39bb2a7ec53cf7d3

* "Video of New Jersey officers pinning down and handcuffing Black teen after mall fight draws criticism:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mall-fight-new-jersey-police-black-teenager-bridgewater-commons/

* "Black teen handcuffed by police at mall while white teen wasn't scared of what could've happened:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/black-teen-handcuffed-by-police-at-nj-mall-while-white-teen-who-also-fought-watched-speaks-out-133440581884

* "What the Backlash Over Alvin Bragg’s “Day One Memo” Gets Wrong:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-prosecutorial-discretion.html

* "New York’s Speed Cameras Aren’t Racist — But the City’s Road Design Is:" https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/02/14/analysis-new-yorks-speed-cameras-arent-racist-but-the-citys-road-design-is/

* "Life Is Hell On Riker’s Island Right Now:"

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* "Teens arrested after bomb threats at D.C. high schools; more threats reported Thursday:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/10/bomb-threats-schools-washington/

* "Delta passenger tried to open emergency door as attention-grab to share vaccine views, feds say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/02/15/delta-passenger-emergency-door-vaccines-demarre/

* As man recently literally endangered an airplane full of people so that his right wing extremist disinformation rant would go viral. He easily could have killed someone for his political views if the flight attendant hadn't been fast and lucky. How is this not a terrorist? "Eight Republican senators say they oppose ‘no-fly’ list for disruptive passengers because it would equate mask opponents to ‘terrorists’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/15/eight-republican-senators-say-they-oppose-no-fly-list-disruptive-passengers-because-it-would-equate-mask-opponents-terrorists/

* "‘Disgusting’: GOP senators try to link Innocence Project lawyer to rise in crime:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgusting-gop-senators-try-to-link-innocence-project-lawyer-to-rise-in-crime-133346885749

* "Republicans worry unruly passenger no-fly list casts anti-maskers as terrorists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-worry-unruly-passenger-no-fly-list-casts-anti-maskers-as-terrorists-133354565818

* "'Nowhere is safe': Asian women reflect on brutal New York City killings:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/nowhere-safe-asian-women-reflect-brutal-new-york-city-killings-rcna16173

* "Christina Lee's Alleged Killer Had Arrests but No Mental Health Intervention:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/christina-lees-alleged-killer-had-arrests-but-no-mental-health-intervention/3556359/

* "Murders of Christina Yuna Lee, Michelle Alyssa Go reflect unexamined perils faced by AAPI women:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/violent-crimes-against-asian-americans-and-women-in-particular-soar-during-pandemic-133352005595

* "How to Rename a Place:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/renaming-racist-places-board-on-geographic-names/621342/

* "Dan Patrick vows to ban teaching critical race theory at Texas universities:" https://www.mysanantonio.com/politics/article/Texas-critical-race-theory-schools-Dan-Patrick-UT-16923077.php

* "School boards get death threats over race, gender, mask policies:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/

* "Elon Musk and Tesla’s Many Missteps:"

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* CW: Suicide, Domestic Violence, rape. "NFL: Profit over Players and Their Families:"

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* CW: Descriptions of imaginary child abuse. "Understanding the Satanic Panic :"

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* "Manson's Home RAIDED + BDSM Cult Ringleader Arrested? (House of Cadifor):"

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* CW: Sex Abuse "Prince Andrew to settle sex abuse case, donate to charity:" https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-lawsuit-settlement-8b04c775aa46f761d81c05ef12e3a94f

* CW: Pedophilia "In Italy, a Call for a National Investigation Into Clerical Sexual Abuse:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/world/europe/italy-catholic-church-sexual-abuse.html

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel is found dead in a French jail cell:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/19/1081961087/jeffrey-epstein-jean-luc-brunel-dead

* "Telegram: Where women's nudes are shared without consent:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60303769

* "Cuomo sued by New York trooper who claims he sexually harassed her:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/18/cuomo-sued-trooper-sexually-harassed-00010102

* CW: Sexual Assault. "We Need to Talk About Choking.:"

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* "Inside Texas’s Underground Abortion Pill Network:"

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* "Three LGBTQ+ People Were Killed in Honduras on Same Day:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/07/three-lgbtq-people-were-killed-honduras-same-day

* "Cuba's first gay hotel reopens as human rights deteriorate:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60339741

* "New Zealand bans dehumanising conversion therapy in landslide vote:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/15/new-zealand-conversion-therapy-ban-3/

* "How Matt Walsh Vilifies Trans People (To Grift his Audience):"

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* "First woman reported cured of HIV after stem cell transplant:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/first-woman-reported-cured-hiv-after-bone-marrow-transplant-2022-02-15/

* "How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/brain-bleed-genetic-mutation-ccm2-deletion/621336/

* "66 years ago, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tried LSD — and ignited a controversy still raging today:" https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/alcoholics-anonymous-lsd-bill-wilson

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* "Extreme Heat in the Oceans Is Out of Control:" https://www.wired.com/story/extreme-heat-in-the-oceans-is-out-of-control/

* "‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/20/norway-arctic-circle-trees-sami-reindeer-global-heating

* CW: Animal Death "UN: Horn of Africa drought kills+ over 1.5 million livestock:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/horn-africa-drought-kills-15-million-livestock-82890758

* "UN: 13 million face hunger in Horn of Africa as drought worsens:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/8/13-million-face-hunger-in-horn-of-africa-as-drought-worsens-un

* "Brazil: Climate change, neglect contribute to deadly mudslides:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/18/brazil-climate-change-neglect-contribute-deadly-mudslides

* "A ghost village emerges from the cracked earth as drought empties Spanish reservoir:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spain-aceredo-ghost-village-emerges-reservoir-intl-scli/index.html

* "How Dubai is pushing back its encroaching deserts:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220125-how-dubai-is-pushing-back-its-encroaching-deserts

* "Mexico’s avocados face fallout from violence, deforestation:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexicos-avocados-face-fallout-violence-deforestation-rcna16555

* "The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/magazine/military-burn-pits.html

* "The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining:" https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redlining/

* "The Ticking Clock for Miami's Condo Empire:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/28/magazine/miami-condo-collapse.html

* "Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/02/facebook-hate-speech-misinformation-superusers/621617/

* "Famous Statistic Blaming Car Crashes on Human Error Is Wrong:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n3ym/famous-statistic-blaming-car-crashes-on-human-error-is-wrong

* "Tesla Faces Another US Investigation: Unexpected Braking:" https://www.voanews.com/a/tesla-faces-another-us-investigation-unexpected-braking-/6446566.html

* "Precopulatory oral sex found in darkling beetles:" https://phys.org/news/2021-12-precopulatory-oral-sex-darkling-beetles.html

* "These Animals Are Feasting on the Ruins of an Extinct World:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/sponges-arctic-worms-volcano/621621/

* "Once Thought Loners, Cougars Revealed to Have Rich Society:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/pumas-mountain-lions-cougars-society-social-cats-animals

* "World's first half-male, half-female, dual-gender stick insect discovered:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/19/stick-insect-dual-sex-gender-gynandromorph-charlie/

* "Rescued circus lions reach new home in South Africa:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60367417

* "Nearly half of US bald eagles suffer lead poisoning:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-animals-birds-bald-eagles-8aa5cb2aa77fe3d045cd72a724376e3c

* "French pet care firm stops selling fish bowls - they drive fish mad:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/french-pet-care-firm-stops-selling-fish-bowls-they-drive-fish-mad-2022-01-22/

* "Tut-Tut:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/why-king-tut-is-still-fascinating/amp

* "Black Women and the Wyoming Women’s Suffrage Act (1869- ) •:" https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/concepts-african-american-history/black-women-and-the-wyoming-womens-suffrage-act-1869/

* "The surprising ways that Victorians flirted:" https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220114-the-surprising-ways-that-victorians-flirted

* "Exploring the Queer History of the Old West... Yeehaw:"

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* "World War II: Black American History #31:"

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* "Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington: Crash Course Black American History 32:"

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* "MOVE 101: Why, 35 years ago, Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself:" https://billypenn.com/2020/05/11/move-101-why-30-years-ago-philadelphia-dropped-a-bomb-on-itself/

* "Bitcoins, Pigeons, and Russians: Three Ponzi Schemes You Need to Know About :"

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* "'A very rich language': Iqaluit woman begins teaching Inuktitut online :" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/allurvik-inuktitut-online-classes-iqaluit-1.6315826

* "Baptisms by Arizona priest presumed invalid due to error:" https://apnews.com/article/arizona-priest-baptism-catholic-church-208c6795fbf2dea911cf4488e8a5925e

* "Is This the End of the Cannonball Run?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannonball-run-cross-country-racing

* "NYC Mayor Equates Cheese to Heroin:"

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* "How Conservative Book Bans Don’t Protect Kids:"

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* "Power Naps: Black America’s Struggle To Sleep:"

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* "Allana Harkin Goes to the Super Bowl to Talk Politics:"

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* "Olympic Committee Wins Gold Medal For Bullshit:"

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* "We Know Who Biden Should Pick For SCOTUS:"

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* "SAND: The Sexiest Topic We’ve Ever Covered:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWGZFGr_xgE&list=PLur87nTwD0BvJxnqy0vtMfcdzOWB0CZ_X&index=1

* "Kinky GREEN Flags:"

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* "Shipping: A Nuanced Argument:"

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* "The Musical that Closed Before Rehearsals: Rebecca The Musical:"

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* "The Broadway Show that Closed in 3 DAYS: The History of Carrie the Musical:"

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* "Not for Girls | Pointlessly Gendered:"

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* Wednesday morning, City Guy and Honest Contractor were scheduled to come for a walk through as part of getting things going on the electrical fix. (The plan was for them to work out how bad the damage was and then I'd submit a claim to housing insurance. City was going to fund my... I think it was 2500.00 copay and the rest of the rewiring would hopefully be covered by insurance.) I stayed up for it, despite being exhausted and my legs being really bad. Getting electricity for the kitchen and bathroom was worth whatever it cost me physically in the short run.

Longtime readers will remember there was a massive delay caused first by Squirrel catching COVID at work the day after he got his booster, before the extra coverage could kick in. He was symptomatic in a way that closely mimicked my reaction to the booster early in December. We opted for longer quarantine than the five days for vaccinated people. I never caught it. yay, booster! By the time we were out of quarantine, City Guys kid had caught it in school and Honest contractor had caught it separately on a job. (Everyone's okay now.) Thus COVID ate a month on dealing with stuff.

Longtime readers will also remember that the city funded renovations two years ago overlapped the beginning of the pandemic by about a month. They wore high end construction masks, we hid in our rooms as by this point they were mostly finishing my bathroom off, and I think maybe painting living room dry wall, but don't quote me on that. As a result, the city final inspection was not entirely complete. They combined the inspection with the electrical walk through. This will come up later.

By the time they arrived I could barely walk and was using the crutches to hobble around when they needed me for stuff. They were almost done and the contractor was looking grim, on the grounds that this was likely going to be an incredibly expensive rewiring. They were impressed by the blue sparks when they tried to flick the switch in the electrical panel. He was emerging from squirrel's room where I didn't follow, preferring to sit in my office chair because legs shaky and extreme pain. It was at this point I described the initial incident back in late December in detail for the first time. (Three people handling things at the city office had heard the full thing but the contractor had only had bare bones). His face lit up.

Honest Contractor was like: It might just be a shirt behind the light switch panel in the bathroom! So he grabbed a tool out of my belt and i scrounged some office supplies from my desk area and he opened it up. At which point his was very O.o. If you know anything about how wiring works you will understand the horror the four of us felt at his discovery.

The wires had corroded right behind the switch. This is not the alarming part. The alarming part was that the low bid contractor who had royally fucked up the building from square one had, for reasons known only to himself, wrapped the grounding wire AROUND the live wire. Because of the corrosion, these to things were touching and it would arc blue every time you flipped the switch. So that was quite alarming. It is likely the same in every apartment in all three buildings. Holy Fire Hazard Batman! He sorted it out.

We have Electricity! I repeat, we have electricity!

This took all of the Wednesday and most of the Thursday spoons, but it was so worth it. Seriously, I couldn't make it out of my room until 2AM.

Thursday, I got a call from City Guy. Honest contractor will need to come back for a small pipe related revision related to the original city funded renovation. honest contractor has also agreed to fix a safety hazard in the kitchen for 50.00. The hope is to combine these missions. I've no idea when he's coming as he is a very busy man and his schedule is borked by his getting sick, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel on everything but the stove and maybe fire suppression.

So to some up, what we were all thinking was 20,000 of wiring damage is fixed. We are still in the air on fire suppression and stove. I am about 150.00 behind on bills because of Management Company charging us 160.00 to not fix the fire suppression leading and surprise medical bill, and car tabs all hitting in January, leading to late fees on a bill I haven't caught up as a result. Plus the 50.00 so no one will accidentally break a finger in the kitchen. The big housing tax bill is expected any day, but that, like a stove that can do more than boil water is on my next month problem list at this point.

We are substantially in a better position than we were in January despite a+everything, so I am calling it a win.

Want to help? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* Watching the women's singles event, I kept thinking about how flat and samey a lot of it was. I used to love the ladies events the same way I still love the men's events. Off the top of my head I could easily think of ten women I used to look forward to watching every time from earlier cycles.

My biases as well known. I'll take an all around skater over a jumper with privative choreography any day. I like character and artistry and I want to feel something when I watch. I'm that weirdo who loves watching the early flights at the big events as well as the top skaters. I love spotting folks just up from juniors full of potential. I love watching quirky older skaters who will likely never see a podium, but who are fun and/or magical in their expression. I love watching people who clearly love what they are doing even if they only get seen once a year at nationals or Europeans. (I would happily watch everyone's nationals if they broadcast them. At least broadcast Japanese Nationals over here? Pretty Please?).

I have a friend who'd stopped following skating this cycle, so I was bringing her up to speed on single skating stuff for this Olympics. I had this massive list of people to watch for in the earlier flights in the men's event: their strengths, their weaknesses, why I in particular liked them. I explained why I wasn't big on several of the big names as well. {Me: Grassl skates like a young Evgeni Plushenko (derogatory). See my opinion on jumpers with nothing much else to recommend them}. I had page after page of things to say about male figure skaters.

This was before the revelations about the Russian women's figure skating program and doping in particular. I explained my opinions of the three Russian skaters. None of it particularly relevant anymore, though I stand by my comparison of Alexandra Trusova to Evgeni Plushenko (derogatory), especially after her throwing an almost identical tantrum to the one he threw when even beat him in pretty much the same way. I explained that my current favorite woman single skater Mai Mihara wouldn't be there because she hadn't recovered from an injury fast enough to compete until Four Continents where she skated brilliantly. That Kaori was my second favorite by a hair and I was desperately rooting for her to get bronze, even though it would be very uphill and a bit long shot. I listed a few others I enjoy: Alysa Liu, Loena Hendrickx, You Young, Wakaba Higuchi. There are a few earlier flight skaters I'm vaguely fond of, but it wasn't what it would have been a decade and a half ago.

I watched it all, like I always do. I cheered on Mariah and Maddie. I watched with real concern as Zhu Yi skated, cheering her on with the Canadian commentators after all she'd been through and then.... sea of sameness. The Estonian had innovative costumes, which was cool, even though her skating didn't do much for me. The rest? Eh. until nearly the end.

I kept thinking about how dull it's all gotten, really, outside of a handful of performances. I think the Russians sucked all the air out of the room eight or so years ago, with there incredibly abusive and dangerous training methods. I've said before, I'm not angry at abused teenagers for living in a system designed to chew them up and spit them out in two to four years. I'm angry at the adults who built and perpetuated this system. My fury is inexpressible really, and I can only watch them skate in sorrow. I think it's the whole women's side of the sport that's been damaged though. All those young women tying to chase something impossible to catch and destructive if you do. It's like the life had been hammered out of the middle flights, and it just... breaks my heart.

I've loved women's skating my whole life. I watched Dorothy Hammill in real time as a child. My whole family wept for Debi Thomas when she fell. The part of my that wanted to dance like Mikhail Baryshnikov and was fascinated by Rudolf Nureyev, also loved figure skating. All of figure skating.

I want the sport I loved back. I want the IOC to grow a fucking spine and come down like bricks on Eteri Tutberidze, the Russian doping agency, and anyone in authority involved in the cheating and the abuse. I want an end to slaps on the wrist that only encourage them to do worse. I want clean skating and skaters who are allowed to eat and for women to be allowed to now interesting programs again. I want a sport that actually would have room for a modern Surya Bonaly without the racism and body shaming.

I want women's skating to be better than it was in the 20th century, not worse. I want to look forward to every event again like I used to.

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* "Afghanistan women: 'I felt anxious going back to university':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60236826

* "Evidence police in Belfast colluded with loyalists in the Troubles, report finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/08/evidence-police-in-belfast-colluded-with-loyalists-in-the-troubles-report-finds

* It sure looks like a transparent ploy to whip up a lynch mob against the opposition in order to distract from his COVID Party scandal. "MPs blame Boris Johnson’s ‘poison’ after protesters mob Keir Starmer:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/07/police-rescue-keir-starmer-after-protesters-surround-him-near-parliament

* "Misogyny in Met played key role in downfall of Cressida Dick:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/11/misogyny-in-met-police-played-key-role-in-downfall-of-cressida-dick

* "Cressida Dick steps down as Met Police commissioner amid scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/10/cressida-dick-metropolitan-police-resign/

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* "An Omicron subvariant gains in Europe, but is unlikely to alter the picture very much, experts say.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/world/europe/omicron-subvariant-ba-2.html

* "New Zealand authorities deploy Barry Manilow against Covid protesters:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/new-zealand-authorities-deploy-barry-manilow-against-covid-protesters

* "As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/14/1077689734/as-state-medical-boards-try-to-stamp-out-covid-misinformation-some-in-gop-push-b

* "Alabama hospitals still battling Omicron COVID-19 surge:" https://www.wbrc.com/2022/02/07/alabama-hospitals-still-battling-omicron-covid-19-surge/

* "3 Alabama inmates die shortly after testing positive for COVID-19:" https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/3-alabama-inmates-die-shortly-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19/

* "New Jersey, Connecticut, others to lift statewide school mask mandates:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-governor-end-school-mask-mandate-rcna15168

* "Louisiana Covid-19 cases are trending down, while Mississippi is seeing significant challenges in the ICU.:" https://wgno.com/news/health/louisiana-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-while-mississippi-is-seeing-significant-challenges-in-the-icu/

* "COVID-19 challenges persist in minority, rural communities in Tennessee:" https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/covid-19-challenges-persist-in-minority-rural-communities-in-tennessee/

* "Rep. Joyce Beatty discusses Rep. Hal Rogers apologizing after "Kiss my a**" comment regarding mask request:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-joyce-beatty-says-rep-hal-rogers-poked-her-said-kiss-my-ass-over-mask-request-132819013797

* Why would someone go to a plague rat for dentistry? "Cranston dentist who defied RI COVID vaccine mandate sues for right to see patients again:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/02/04/dentist-defied-rhode-island-covid-1-vaccine-mandate-health-workers-lawsuit/6650356001/

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* "U.S. says 'no wiggle room' on Lebanon holding May elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-no-wiggle-room-lebanon-holding-may-elections-2022-02-07/

* "Iran timeline to nuclear weapon 'frighteningly short' after failed Trump policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iran-timeline-to-nuclear-weapon-frighteningly-short-after-failed-trump-policy-132831301974

* "Ottawa truckers' convoy galvanizes far-right worldwide:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/ottawa-truckers-convoy-galvanizes-far-right-worldwide-00006080

* "Ottawa declares a state of emergency over truckers' growing anti-government protests:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078861392/ottawa-protest-state-of-emergency

* "Ted Cruz gushes: Canadian truckers ‘defending America’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ted-cruz-gushes-canadian-truckers-defending-america-132652101735

* "Canada afflicted with right-wing American Covid conspiracy chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/canada-afflicted-with-right-wing-american-covid-conspiracy-chaos-132832325668

* "Joy Reid explains American right-wing co-optation of Canadian anti-Covid vaccine mandate trucker protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/canadian-anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-trucker-protest-co-optation-by-american-right-wing-explained-by-joy-reid-132821061640

* "COVID-19 protests threaten border trade between Canada, US:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ottawa-truckers-canada-protest-c49a25da25cd2f5e81f1eac5664e37ad

* "US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-detroit-canada-20f273b32bfa8ef695fdabcc7e11321e

* "Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-response-protests-spotlight-after-key-bridge-us-cleared-2022-02-14/

* "U.S.-Canada bridge reopens but protests persist in Ottawa:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080548576/u-s-canada-bridge-reopens-but-protests-persist-in-ottawa

* "Anger and fear among Ukrainians in Russia's crosshairs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anger-and-fear-among-ukrainians-in-russia-s-crosshairs-133178437580

* "Lesson of 'little green men' prompts U.S. strategy of radical transparency on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lesson-of-little-green-men-prompts-u-s-strategy-of-radical-transparency-on-russia-133177925806

* "Volunteers and veterans train for war in Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/ukraine-russia-volunteers-training/

* I admit, I downgrade my assessment of any pundit's expertise if they pronounce Kyiv the Russian instead of the Ukrainian way. It is heartening to see so many presenters flipping their own pronunciations. I know it may seem like a small thing, but it shows bias, I think, if not outright ignorance.

* "White House approves plan for US troops to help Americans leave Ukraine if Russia invades:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/white-house-plan-troops-help-americans-leave-ukraine/index.html

* "U.S. sending 3,000 more troops to Poland amid fresh Ukraine invasion warnings:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/11/us-sending-3000-more-troops-to-poland-00008357

* "US suspends Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-global-trade-agriculture-drug-cartels-7c6bb7ef83bada375692ba890c413ce5

* "U.S. unveils $5 bln plan to fund EV charging network:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-detail-5-bln-plan-fund-ev-charging-network-2022-02-10/

* "Michael S. Regan - Seeking Solutions as Head of the EPA :" https://www.cc.com/video/jsv3ed/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-michael-s-regan-seeking-solutions-as-head-of-the-epa

* "Brilliant gender-fluid nuclear expert and LGBT+ activist lands key energy job:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/sam-brinton-gender-fluid-joe-biden/

* "Biden’s top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/eric-lander-white-house-investigation-00006077

* "House passes short-term government funding bill that would prevent shutdown, sends it to Senate:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/government-shutdown-house-passes-funding-bill.html

* "Joy Reid: Prices will keep going higher and higher until the consumer says ‘enough!’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/inflation-caused-in-part-by-corporate-price-raising-and-profit-seeking-expert-says-132911173796

* "Jill Biden acknowledges free community college has fallen out of her husband’s Build Back Better agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/jill-biden-says-free-community-college-out-of-bbb/

* "House OKs bill easing budget strains on Postal Service:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/house-oks-bill-easing-budget-strains-postal-service-82756382

* "Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi sued the Biden administration for raising federal contractors' minimum wage to $15 an hour:" https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-federal-contractor-minimum-wage-texas-louisiana-mississippi-2022-lawsuit-paxton-2

* "Nurses Who Faced Lawsuits for Quitting Are Fighting Back:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-02/underpaid-contract-nurses-who-faced-fines-lawsuits-for-quitting-fight-back

* "‘This is a national movement’: union drives surge at US Starbucks stores:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/11/starbucks-union-organizing-drives-across-us

* "Why Congress is moving against sexual harassment, 4 years after #MeToo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/congress-sexual-harassment-metoo-00007493

* "Rep. Porter on Congress stock trading ban: We must earn back public trust:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-porter-on-congress-stock-trading-ban-we-must-earn-back-public-trust-132819525583

* They are planning to make the entire Internet Child Safe: https://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/675770052789862400

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* Tuesday they nullified the Voting Rights Act and possibly the 14th Amendment on the Shadow Docket so as to allow racial gerrymandering for the Midterms. "Activists on Supreme Court declare open season on voting rights of people of color experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-ruling-validates-racist-gerrymander-in-alabama-132738117970

* "Supreme Court guts yet another provision of the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/supreme-court-guts-yet-another-provision-of-the-voting-rights-act-132735557936

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "The Push to Restrict Voting Rights Continues:" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/push-restrict-voting-rights-continues

* "North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/north-carolina-congressional-map-struck-down-00005974

* "Arizona panel votes to require excuse for early voting:" https://www.abc15.com/news/politics/arizona-panel-votes-to-require-excuse-for-early-voting

* "Supreme Court stops lower court order requiring Alabama to draw a new district voting map favorable to Black residents:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/supreme-court-alabama-racial-gerrymandering/

* "Supreme Court conservatives help Alabama GOP keep biased map for next election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-conservatives-help-alabama-gop-keep-biased-map-for-next-election-132660293929

* "Republicans see early success at damaging elections with new voting restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-see-early-success-at-damaging-elections-with-new-voting-restrictions-133179461628

* "As GOP seeks to usurp control of elections, Wisconsin Democrats are mobilizing locally:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-gop-seeks-to-usurp-control-of-elections-wisconsin-democrats-are-mobilizing-locally-132744773645

* "WWII Vet, 95, Says Mail-in Ballot Application Rejected Twice Under Texas Law: 'I've Never Missed a Vote':" https://people.com/politics/mail-in-ballot-application-rejected-veteran-95-texas-voting-law-sb1/

* "A judge has kept in place his ruling that says absentee ballot drop boxes can't be used in Wisconsin:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/21/wisconsin-judge-keeps-place-ruling-bars-ballot-drop-boxes/6584338001/

* "People Who Think Trump Won in 2020 Are Trying to Run Elections:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v57v/people-who-think-trump-won-in-2020-are-trying-to-run-elections

* Can we take a moment to appreciate that the only 'proof' Marjorie Taylor Greene has that Nancy Pelosi is somehow using cold tomato soup against Republicans is that after hours Capital police saw a congressman's door was a jar and checked to make sure there were no intruders before closing it? Like that's it. They didn't touch any of his stuff. It was exactly the sort of routine security check you'd want capital police to do if they spotted an open congress critters door. "Marjorie Taylor Greene says Nancy Pelosi leads ‘gazpacho police,’ causing collective spit take:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-gestapo/

* "GOP rep professes loyalty to Trump at his Tower after he endorses her opponent:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-professes-loyalty-to-trump-at-his-tower-after-he-endorses-her-opponent-132908101582

* "GOP candidate says her aides were among January 6 "heroes":" https://www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-lynne-torgerson-says-her-aides-were-among-jan-6-heroes-1678290

* "Meet the candidates running on 'explicitly pro-coup platforms':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-the-candidates-running-on-explicitly-pro-coup-platforms-132992581513

* "Republicans try to straddle the ‘pro-coup’ line after RNC censure:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-try-to-straddle-the-pro-coup-line-after-rnc-censure-132735557601

* "Gay Billionaire Peter Thiel Exits Meta Board to Fund Trump Candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/2/08/gay-billionaire-and-republican-donor-peter-thiel-leave-meta-board

* "How one small town fought off a QAnon invasion :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-small-town-fought-off-a-qanon-invasion-133166149895

* "With little evidence, felon tells Assembly committee there were thousands of illegal votes:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/02/10/with-little-evidence-felon-tells-assembly-committee-there-were-thousands-of-illegal-votes/

* "Republicans credulously present convicted fraudster to spin stolen election tale:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-credulously-present-convicted-fraudster-to-spin-stolen-election-tale-132921413827

* "Deputy Virginia Attorney General Resigns Over Posts Praising Capitol Rioters:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/deputy-virginia-attorney-general-resigns-over-posts-praising-capitol-rioters/2968067/

* "Trump backer, 4 others charged with voter fraud in Wisconsin:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-backer-charged-voter-fraud-wisconsin-82806728

* "Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/02/09/giuliani-antrim-prosecutor-voting-machines/

* "Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/trump-mazars/index.html

* "‘Big blow’: Accounting firm dumps Trump over dubious financial statements:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-blow-accounting-firm-dumps-trump-over-dubious-financial-statements-133163077859

* "Banker who tried to buy his way into Trump administration gets a year in prison :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/banker-who-tried-to-buy-his-way-into-trump-administration-gets-a-year-in-prison-132746309540

* "Stephen Calk: Banker sentenced to prison for bribery scheme in chase for Trump administration job:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/stephen-calk/index.html

* "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/trump-records-mar-a-lago/

* "Presidential Records Act: From Nixon’s Watergate tapes to Trump’s ‘burn bags’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/07/presidential-records-act-trump-nixon/

* "Trump flouting of Presidential Records Act leaves National Archives scrambling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-flouting-of-presidential-records-act-leaves-national-archives-scrambling-132663365612

* "Trump used ‘burn bags’ to destroy docs, took records to Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-used-burn-bags-to-destroy-docs-took-records-to-mar-a-lago-132651077571

* "Records retrieved from Trump by National Archives may include classified material: reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/records-retrieved-from-trump-by-national-archives-may-include-classified-material-reports-132828229549

* I bet if I’d stolen boxes of classified documents from the government they’d arrest me right away. Just saying. "New legal entanglement for Trump as DOJ, intel community assess mishandling of documents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-legal-entanglement-for-trump-as-doj-intel-community-assess-mishandling-of-documents-132919877762

* "Trump's odd toilet flushing fixation reconsidered after reports of document dumping:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-odd-toilet-flushing-fixation-reconsidered-after-reports-of-document-dumping-132920901985

* "Flush away the evidence?: The Trump toilet obsession takes a crooked turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/flush-away-the-evidence-the-trump-toilet-obsession-takes-a-crooked-turn-132905541770

* "Glenn Kirschner: Between Navarro and draft executive order this is like 'Sedition for Dummies':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/national-archives-asks-the-department-of-justice-to-investigate-donald-trump-for-handling-of-white-house-documents-132820037635

* "Steele: I don’t want to hear another word about Clinton’s emails after Trump doc eating allegation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-accused-of-eating-torn-up-documents-in-the-oval-office-according-to-former-white-house-aide-132910149987

* "New details on Trump’s reported document stealing, destroying, flushing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-trump-s-reported-document-stealing-destroying-flushing-132992581872

* "Trump denies flushing documents down White House toilet:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/trump-denies-flushing-documents-down-white-house-toilet-00007710

* "White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/trump-white-house-records/index.html

* "January 6 Committee adopts prosecutorial style in hope of prompting Garland to action: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6-committee-adopts-prosecutorial-style-in-hope-of-prompting-garland-to-action-nyt-132661829905

* "January 6th probe tracing chain of command despite resistance from Trump entourage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tracing-chain-of-command-despite-resistance-from-trump-entourage-133001797604

* "Federal judge orders John Eastman to detail legal work for Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/14/john-eastman-jan-6-investigation-00008560

* "Jan. 6 panel 'fully' expects Giuliani to cooperate with subpoena, Kinzinger says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-fully-expects-giuliani-cooperate-subpoena-kinzinger-says-rcna16059

* "January 6 committee subpoenas one-time Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/peter-navarro-january-6-subpoena/index.html

* "Prosecutor exposes another facet of Trump scheme to seize voting machines after 2020 loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prosecutor-exposes-another-facet-of-trump-scheme-to-seize-voting-machines-after-2020-loss-132832837738

* "Unifying power of January 6th for extremist groups being examined by congressional panel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unifying-power-of-january-6th-for-extremist-groups-being-examined-by-congressional-panel-132745285796

* "Capitol rioter gets prison as feds reach 100 sentencings:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-iraq-middle-east-elections-amy-berman-jackson-59d2550b3036ed48d8d4e41a84617d73

* "Anti-vax doctor Simone Gold reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/anti-vax-doctor-simone-gold-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-john-herbert-strand-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-americas-frontline/65-06593dc8-7f9a-47ec-93f0-f507e3c1b2a7

* "Anti-vax doctor reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anti-vax-doctor-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-132817989652

* "Amir Locke's family calls for a full ban on no-knock warrants as the Minneapolis mayor answers City Council questions about city's policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/us/no-knock-warrants-minneapolis-shooting/index.html

* "Amir Locke and the Second Amendment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/amir-locke-and-the-second-amendment-133066821537

* "School leaders say HBCUs are undeterred after a series of bomb threats:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079294424/hbcu-bomb-threats-black-colleges

* "FBI investigating HBCU bomb threats as a hate crime, suspects juveniles may be involved:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/02/fbi-hbcu-bomb-threats-investigation/

* "8 DC schools cleared following threats; police, FBI investigating:" https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/3-dc-high-schools-evacuated-after-threats/

* "Second gentleman Doug Emhoff evacuated from D.C. school following bomb threat:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-evacuated-dc-school-bomb-threat-rcna15403

* Anyone surprised Elon Musk is Henry ford level racist? "Tesla sued over alleged racial discrimination:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60330296

* "Elon Musk’s car company Tesla faces allegations of racist discrimination against Black employees:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elon-musk-s-car-company-tesla-faces-allegations-of-racist-discrimination-against-black-employees-133168709936

* "What about Black students’ ‘discomfort’?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/teaching-history-discomfort-black-students/

* "Nikole Hannah-Jones: These bills say we need to ensure White children are not uncomfortable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-desantis-proposes-stop-woke-act-132740677637

* "Parents organize to fight back against GOP's classroom culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/parents-organize-to-fight-back-against-gop-s-classroom-culture-war-133065797695

* "A Gay Man Burned a Bible in Protest at a Tennessee Book Burning:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/2/07/gay-man-burned-bible-protest-tennessee-book-burning

* "Super Bowl halftime show showcased Black artists yet NFL diversity issues persist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/super-bowl-lvi-halftime-show-sparks-right-wing-freak-out-133167685837

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "The Sheltered Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses:"

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* Tell me you get turned on by dead fish without telling me. "Ohio mayor concerned ice shanties could lead to prostitution:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-cleveland-bf6a9817a5d910411679a2781e23210c

* "Governor Glenn Youngkin accused of ‘toxic culture’ after aides attack teen on Twitter:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-aides-attack-teen-on-twitter

* "Fla. Republicans ditch Texas-style abortion law for what they call a ‘generous’ 15-week ban, drawing criticism from all sides:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/abortion-ban-florida-texas-roe-supreme-court/

* "Florida Republicans move toward abortion ban with new proposed restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/florida-republicans-move-toward-abortion-ban-with-new-proposed-restrictions-133003333930

* "Vermont moves forward on becoming first state to guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/08/abortion-roe-vermont/

* "BBC's 'transphobic reporting' called out in international human rights review:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/15/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/

* "Netherlands could be next country to ban 'medieval' conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/netherlands-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Staff quit UK's so-called equalities watchdog en masse over relentless 'transphobia':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/04/ehrc-baroness-falkner-staff-quit-transphobia/

* "Queer students feel ‘betrayed’ after Cambridge college bans Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/05/cambridge-college-pride-flag-gonville-caius/

* "The Importance of Seeking Social Security Survivor's Benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/04/importance-seeking-social-security-survivors-benefits

* "South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/2/03/south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-law

* I'm so happy for them both! "Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta Marries Fiancé Dr. Matthew Jordan-Miller:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/2/06/rep-malcolm-kenyatta-marries-fiance-dr-matthew-jordan-miller

* "Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60258620

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* "Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080302434/study-finds-western-megadrought-is-the-worst-in-1-200-years

* "Venezuela opens probe into table-top mountain 'party':" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220210-venezuela-opens-probe-into-table-top-mountain-party

* "Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60026748

* "The fast fashion graveyard in a desert:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-60249712

* "SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-space-launches-storms-science-business-4ac79ca2d9341f91f9c2897cb07363d4

* "Texas sues Meta's Facebook over facial-recognition practices:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/texas-sues-meta-over-facebooks-facial-recognition-practices-report-2022-02-14/

* CW: Animal Death. I really hope it works! "Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60222464

* "The Actual “Assassins” Were Not What You Think:"

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* "10 Facts: Black Patriots in the American Revolution:" https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-black-patriots-american-revolution?fbclid=IwAR23B3fedgZUszN1wcJgIypLZCIRumPBqPCxtKAKkNZBGJ-sgGp_eZwN6l4

* "Zora Neale Hurston: Crash Course Black American History #30:"

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* "Chernobyl, The Worst Nuclear Disaster in History:"

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* "432 Park Ave: Luxury Apartments From Your Worst Nightmares | Corporate Casket:"

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* "Why World’s Finest Chocolate Isn’t So Sweet :"

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* "Russian skater Kamila Valieva can compete, but medal ceremony won't be held | CBC Sports:" https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figure-skating/doping-hearing-russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-ruling-expected-mondady-1.6350402

* "Russian anti-doping agency allowed Kamila Valieva to compete in Olympics despite failed drug test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/sport/kamila-valieva-roc-drugs-test-olympics-spt-intl-hnk/index.html

They need a hard ban. Last time it was a slap on the wrist, so of course they are still doing it.

For the record, I don't blame an abused 15 year old for doing what her abuser told her to do. I blame every single adult involved.

* "U.S. Figure Skater Vincent Zhou Addresses COVID Diagnosis In Tearful Video:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vincent-zhou-covid-winter-olympics_n_6202353fe4b0500424322946

* Every time that piece of shit Dick Button would body shame Irina Slutskaya, I'd throw up in my mouth a little and think about stabbings. https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1492547898390708224

* We need to talk about Zhu Yi.

So here's the thing, in both the elite sports and the ballet world, people have been switching countries significantly longer than I've been alive. It a thing that happens. It's normal. There are a lot of reasons for it. sometimes, as during the Cold war, people outright defect(ed) because they think they will have a better life in the other country. This is an extremely familiar narrative even to people who don't follow figure skating (or ballet, or certain other sports), but it's not the only reason people do this.

In figure skating, it's incredibly common for people who are good, but live in a country with a large number of good skaters to, you know, move somewhere where they have more opportunities. People with duel citizenship will often pick the country with less competition for top slots because things like the Olympics max out a countries entries at three. If there are say four or even five of you vying for a limited number of slots at say Worlds or the Olympics, maybe it's worth staying, but what if you have an option to grab the one spot some other country has instead of fighting your way into those limited slots?

Keep in mind, a lot of those smaller countries very much want an elite skater to help build a program in their country and for the international prestige. They will welcome a duel citizen with open arms. Similarly, the child of emigres. Some of them will actively recruit athletes who've signaled an interest in leaving despite a lack of ties. (This happens in lots of Sports. Remember that Belarusian runner who defected in a Japanese airport who got taken in by a third country?) So if your country has no potential Olympians, or only very weak contenders, it really does make sense on both sides.

Last I checked eight Russian figure skaters were expected at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, five of them skating for other countries because the Russian women's single skate program is so incredibly dominant right now. If you are in the top four or five, might as well go be the best woman's single skater in some other nearby country.

You also get good skaters from smaller countries moving to live somewhere else without changing citizenship to be where the best coaches are. This is incredibly normal. you also get pairs and dance skaters who end up deciding to partner with someone from another country, who have to change citizenship so they can skate together. My point is, a lot of people live and train in one country and compete for another, or have moved between countries as they think is best for their development as skaters.

Would I want to pick China to switch to? No. Surveillance, genocide, concentration camps, rising anti-queer sentiment, etc., but I can see why the level of state support china gives their elite athletes might attract someone who was talented but not likely to get much support or exposure in the US. It's not the choice I would likely make, but I can understand someone who did, especially someone with her background. This really likely was her best option, possibly her only option besides skating here. Keep in mind, most athletes above a certain level have lived and dreamed and sacrificed most of their childhood and teen years to try to do this one thing very, very well. It's easy for people who never were that kind of choice to judge that choice harshly. I prefer exercising a little empathy.

Last winter Olympics, there was a Kazakhstani ladies single skater who was good enough to score two slots for her country. There were not two women at the right level to fill those slots and there was a controversy, because the second best Kazakhstani lady figure skater came anyway instead of that slot to the next eligible person from another country. and yes, it sucked that that other woman didn't get to go, but realistically, neither of these women were going to medal. So picture for a second if you were an amateur Kazakhstani skater and you had a once in a lifetime chance to travel to Korea to skate on televisions all over the world wearing your tiara. Realistically, I'd guess 99% of us would have been skating in our tiaras even if the world called us selfish. It's nice to say, oh, you'd cede that slot, but no one offered you one. I don't think any of us know we'd for sure say no.

Also, you know why Zhu Yi was skating for China in Beijing? They literally had no woman single skater better than her. No really. When I heard China was going to the team event, I thought, "Huh. Who's they get for the woman's single skate?" Because I could think of anyone this cycle at that level to take the slot. when I saw who it was, I was like, oh! I vaguely remember her from pre-pandemic. Which means she was good enough for me to have seen her and for to have made some sort of impression though not a strong one either way. If China had a woman with a 60+ short, she'd have been in that slot. Ask yourself seriously, in her place, given a chance for better coaching and a ticket to the Olympics, would you really say no? Because I think a whole lot of armchair skate fans would say yes, even with all the stuff going on in China.

And then there is the extreme cyber bullying which makes me furious. She was clearly doing her best in the short. I have been listening to Canadian skate commentators every year since I moved up here in '98 and I have never heard them as quietly furious as they were during the long program at the harm people on social media heave done to this young woman. She is nineteen. A teenager. her whole life has been about trying to do this one thing she loved. She's not a murderer, like Kyle Rittenhouse, or a monster. She is a teenager who wanted to skate more than anything in the world and now hate is pouring down on her from all sides with no thought at all to her humanity or her youth. The cruelty of it. I just have no fucking words.

Of course she couldn't skate well under those conditions. Could you? Could anyone?

I don't know her. I'll never meet her, but oh do I have empathy for her, because this is a terrible thing for anyone to have done to them, especially a young woman with all the pressures that the world piles on young women just in general.

Fuckssake, can we think before we pile on? Expend a little empathy like the Canadian Skate commentators, instead of being the gears of hate grinding up young athletes trying to do their best in one of the most high pressure situations is possible for an athlete to be in.

* "Kamila Valieva and Zhu Yi are victims in Winter Olympics’ puppet theatre of pain:" https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/11/kamila-valieva-zhu-yi-victims-winter-olympics-puppet-theatre-pain-beijing-2022

* "Vladimir Putin Blames the West & Inside the U.N.:" https://www.cc.com/video/jrahoy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vladimir-putin-blames-the-west-inside-the-u-n

* "The NFL's Black Coaching Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/nfqbdg/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-nfl-s-black-coaching-crisis

* "Tesla's Auto-Pilot Problem & Road Rage Ends in Gunfire:" https://www.cc.com/video/fx5bsb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tesla-s-auto-pilot-problem-road-rage-ends-in-gunfire

* "Sexual Harassment in the Metaverse & Pence vs. Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/9ztvhd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-sexual-harassment-in-the-metaverse-pence-vs-trump

* "Joe Rogan's N-Word Controversy:" https://www.cc.com/video/2kdhuy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-joe-rogan-s-n-word-controversy

* "Project Conspiracy - Sewer Tunnels:" https://www.cc.com/video/853gsx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-project-conspiracy-sewer-tunnels

* "Black in Business - Legacy Cereal Company's Nic King:" https://www.cc.com/video/qy6ri6/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-in-business-legacy-cereal-company-s-nic-king

* "‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Universalized the Trans Experience (& Why Its Great):"

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* "Why Gay Men Love WandaVision:"

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* "Andrew Lloyd Webber on Roller Skates!? | The Painful Spectacle of Starlight Express:"

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* "Drunken Ghost Hunters: Sydney Quarantine Station:"

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* "True Facts: Proboscis Monkey:"

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* I had one of my perennial plague dreams. (I'm a life long plague watcher. 1 was a 14th century specialist before I parted ways with academia. I was dreaming about epidemics since the mid-to late 70's. So no, it's neither an AIDS thing nor a Covid thing.) In this one there was an outbreak of a weaponized... okay, not really small pox, but best described as some sort of Anthrax/smallpox cross? But not really. It was sort of an Anthrax timeline on latency and infection, with both pox and lesions and a small pox like rash following the lesions by about 12 hours, and lung symptoms.

A High school was the target, so the authorities locked it down and were trying to do quarantine and triage, but given how infectious small pox is... yeah. which is why the small town also had perimeter quarantine, since people could be infectious before the fever started and airbourne pathogens are bad.

I was lucid dreaming as is often the case. so I took to the air on the theory that a couple stories up was safer, grabbed a bedroll, provisions, etc. and was setting up camp on a roof top with a structure that could provide an overhang, as is a thing I often do in zombie outbreaks and epidemic scenarios in my dreams.

So I'm up on this roof top watching a massive crowd of parents and families gather in the sports fields around the school, all breathing on each other without masks and trying to press up on the National Guard as they worked themselves into an angry frenzy and it suddenly dawned on me: Anti-vaxxers are panicky nonsense south Park parents.

Bear with me. I hate south Park. I used to watch it while I was teaching because the kids were watching it, and it's good practice to read, watch, and listen to what they are consuming. It was essential to watch south Park in particular because 1. They'd tried to get around you using stuff from there and catching them every time taught them you were hard to trick that way. the more pop culture one was up on, the more they assumed one was basically omniscient and it solved a lot of problems before they started, and 2. The middle Schoolers would come in Monday morning with serious questions and concerns about what they saw and if they knew you knew south Park they'd ask you and you could use it for teachable moments, and things like that were where I did some of my best work as far as media literacy and getting kids to really think about what they are consuming.

But I fucking hate South Park for all the ways it's regressive and toxic. It's fed antisemitism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and science denial and a whole host of toxic things in American culture. I hate it.

But, this connection I made in this dream has haunted me for two days. There's this thing the adults in South Park do where they hear something or something happens and they don't actually listen properly and they just panic and wildly over react and lose their shit and the next thing you know there's this mob of incensed nonsense spewing people who are violent or borderline violent.

I can't say one way or another if 25 years of this shitty regressive show being on the air and popular has caused this or merely reflects the shittiness always under the surface in American, but I saw that irrational nonsense and pathogen spewing crowd reacting exactly the wrong way in a pandemic and I thought of the anti-semetic South Park show with it's hysterical nonsense adults and the Neo-NAZIs making Ottawa unlivable right now and and Trumpist swastika waving anti-vaxxers beating up teachers and storming American state capitals and trying to overthrow the government and it just... felt like the same thing. idk. It's not deep, just an image stuck in my head from a dream.

* Classical Valentines: https://twitter.com/eduardo_garcmol/status/1492438829768269828

* Jorts and Jean, Please never change: https://twitter.com/JortsTheCat/status/1492226999360040960

* "Sunday Sweets: Be My Valentine:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/2/13/sunday-sweets-be-my-valentine

* "Reverse Plots:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/reverse-plots?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0ODc0ODkzOCwiXyI6IngwWHkwIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ0ODkwOTM2LCJleHAiOjE2NDQ4OTQ1MzYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rTPZ7J68L5ieYr9Zg329mFgOVZCx7LJN1XAL3eAyaRk&r=ykw2

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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.

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "UN condemns airstrike in Yemen that leaves more than 80 dead:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/un-condemns-deadly-airstrike-on-yemen-detention-centre

* "Kazakhstan's Shoot-to-Kill Policy Makes Its President Stronger than Ever:"

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* "Blurry Photos Are Getting Brazilians Jailed:"

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* "Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index

* "Liverpool bomber had asylum claim rejected six years before attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/24/liverpool-bomber-emad-al-swealmeen-asylum-claim-rejected-before-attack

* "The ugly truth about Tory Islamophobia: forget the assurances, it will happen again:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/ugly-truth-tory-islamophobia-nusrat-ghani-anti-muslim

* "UK state pension systems not fit for purpose – MPs’ report:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/21/uk-state-pension-systems-not-fit-for-purpose-mps-report

The plan is to hive the money the government stole back for only a years worth for a bunch of people and to deny the heirs of people who've died the money their family is owed.

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* "The kids are not alright: Data suggests 10% of children with COVID-19 become "long-haulers":" https://www.salon.com/2022/01/22/the-kids-are-not-alright-data-suggests-10-of-children-with-19-become-long-haulers/

* On Children and COVID related organ damage. "This is what I've been afraid of:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1820672.html

My sister had viral myocarditis at twelve. She spent most of a year in an ICU. She's been in and out of hospitals ever since. It changed her life forever and not in a good way.

Do not underestimate heart and organ damage. Vaccinate yourself and your kids. Seriously consider not sending your child anywhere congregate if ze's too young to vaccinate. Do Not fuck around with this sort of life altering disability if you don't have to.

* "Pfizer and BioNTech start trials of new Omicron-specific jab:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60131986

* "Moderna starts trial for Omicron-specific booster shot:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-starts-trial-testing-omicron-specific-booster-shot-2022-01-26/

* "How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not?:" https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

* "COVID cases reported on Australian aid vessel sailing to virus-free Tonga:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/covid-cases-reported-australian-aid-vessel-sailing-virus-free-tonga-2022-01-25/

* "COVID hits one of the last uninfected places on the planet:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/covid-hits-uninfected-places-planet-82523242

* "'A bridge too far': federal judge in Texas blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for federal workers:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/21/biden-vaccine-mandate-federal-workers-blocked-federal-judge/6610420001/

* "Vaccine Mandate to Kick in for First Wave of Health Workers:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-01-26/vaccine-mandate-to-kick-in-for-first-wave-of-health-workers

* "A Shrinking Band of Southern Nurses, Neck-Deep in Another Covid Wave:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/health/covid-mississippi-nurses.html

* "Crisis, what crisis? Florida Republicans deny Omicron is straining hospitals:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/06/florida-republicans-omicron-hospitals

* "Ron DeSantis keeps pushing Covid treatments that don’t work:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ron-desantis-keeps-pushing-covid-treatments-that-don-t-work-131694661845

* "Florida health official put on leave after encouraging staff to get Covid vaccine:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/19/florida-health-official-leave-encouraging-staff-covid-vaccine

"In the email, Pino wrote: “I have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it.”"

* "DeSantis unable to adapt as Covid conditions change; clings to obsolete treatments:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-unable-to-adapt-as-covid-conditions-change-clings-to-obsolete-treatments-131893317633

* "DeSantis surgeon general pick stumbles through evasions instead of straight answers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-surgeon-general-pick-stumbles-through-evasions-instead-of-straight-answers-131891781723

* "Alabama tops 45% COVID positivity rate, among highest in nation:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/alabama-tops-45-covid-positivity-rate-among-highest-in-nation.html

* "Tennessee among states leading in COVID-19 deaths and cases, but plateau could come soon:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/tennessee-among-states-leading-in-covid-19-deaths-and-cases-but-plateau-could-come-soon/

* "Coronavirus: House passes vaccine mandate bill, Indiana eclipses 1.5 million COVID-19 cases:" https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/coronavirus-house-passes-vaccine-mandate-bill-indiana-eclipses-15-million-covid-19-cases

* "New Jersey 'On The Backside Of Omicron,' But New Concern Grows About Children Getting Severely Sick With COVID-19:" https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/01/24/coronavirus-covid-omicron-new-jersey-numbers-update/

* "Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test:" https://www.bbc.com/news/59999541

* "'I'm a Full Anti-Vaxxer Now': How the Conspiracists Are Winning Over Fresh Converts:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-vaccine-rfk-jr-rally-washington-dc-1289458/

* "Hayes on the ‘dangerous’ growth of the anti-vax movement:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-the-dangerous-growth-of-the-anti-vax-movement-131603013779

* "Levitz: ‘Fox News is literally killing its viewers’ with Covid lies:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/levitz-fox-news-is-literally-killing-its-viewers-with-covid-lies-131787333992

* "The worst part about the party of plague:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1821651.html

* Response to anti-vaxxers: https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1821859.html

* "Oklahoma pastor faces criticism for rubbing spit on parishioner’s face:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/18/oklahoma-pastor-faces-criticism-for-rubbing-spit-on-parishoners-face

* Did no one ask a disabled person? https://twitter.com/jennie_kermode/status/1486668186615529472

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* "‘Little ground for optimism’: Kremlin says U.S. document doesn’t meet Russian security demands:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/27/russia-conflict-us-written-response-00002668

* "U.S., NATO send written responses to Russia on its demands over Ukraine crisis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/26/ukraine-russia-sanctions-biden-putin/

* "Ukraine tension: US 'lethal aid' arrives in Kyiv amid border build-up:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60096261

* "US draws down Ukraine embassy presence as war fears mount:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-antony-blinken-europe-evacuations-45d1a477929caefe1f0626a5ca42afd0

* "Sen. Murphy on where America stands in growing Russia-Ukraine tension:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-murphy-on-where-america-stands-in-growing-russia-ukraine-tension-131604037953

* "Fishermen plan to peacefully disrupt Russian drills:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/fishermen-plan-to-peacefully-disrupt-russian-drills-1.4785336

* "Irish fishermen plan to disrupt Russian naval war games: 'Our presence is our protest':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/irish-fishermen-plan-to-disrupt-russian-naval-war-games-our-presence-is-our-protest-131711045715

* "Russians deny fishermen’s claims on naval drills ‘buffer zone’:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/russians-deny-fishermen-s-claims-on-naval-drills-buffer-zone-1.4787859?localLinksEnabled=false

* "Belarus: US charges four government officials with piracy over Ryanair plane diversion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/belarus-us-charges-four-government-officials-with-piracy-over-ryanair-plane-diversion

* "Stalwart Irish fishermen uncowed by Russian threats and diplomatic games:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/stalwart-irish-fishermen-uncowed-by-russian-threats-and-diplomatic-games-131892293711

* "For Irish fishermen, confrontation with Russia is a matter of protecting their livelihood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/for-irish-fishermen-confrontation-with-russia-is-a-matter-of-protecting-their-livelihood-131983941610

* "Why Ukraine matters more than just Ukraine:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1821422.html

* "Florida man charged after 4 found dead at Canada-US border:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-canada-manitoba-winnipeg-minnesota-b219733df8c735d9778b8637bd99a15e

* "Biden administration cancels two mining leases near Minnesota wilderness, in reversal of Trump-era decision:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/26/biden-boundary-waters-canoe-mine/

* "Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/27/oil-gas-leasing-biden-climate/

* "Biden vows to nominate Black woman to succeed Breyer on Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/stephen-breyer-supreme-court-retire-live-updates/

* "Breyer retirement hands Biden open Supreme Court seat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/26/stephen-breyer-retirement-00002393

* "Democrats aim for quick confirmation of Biden nominee; alert to McConnell dirty tricks:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-aim-for-quick-confirmation-of-biden-nominee-alert-to-mcconnell-dirty-tricks-131801157875

* "Despite his best efforts, Breyer unable to avoid politics of his retirement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-his-best-efforts-breyer-unable-to-avoid-politics-of-his-retirement-131801157986

* "Breyer Supreme Court retirement puts spotlight on Biden campaign promise:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/breyer-supreme-court-retirement-puts-spotlight-on-biden-campaign-promise-131800133792

* "Joy Reid: Now President Biden will make his mark on the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-will-make-his-mark-on-the-supreme-court-with-black-woman-nominee-experts-say-131792453599

* "Vow to nominate Black woman to Court spurs ‘spiral of racist and sexist tirades’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/vow-to-nominate-black-woman-to-court-spurs-spiral-of-racist-and-sexist-tirades-131877445966

* "The Fed is getting ready to raise interest rates:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/economy/federal-reserve-powell-policy-update/index.html

* "U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021 in rebound from 2020 recession:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/27/u-s-economy-grew-2021-2020-recession-00002678

* "Biden delivered fastest economic growth since Reagan. So why don't voters feel it?" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-delivered-fastest-economic-growth-since-reagan-so-why-don-t-voters-feel-it-131971653920

* "Pittsburgh bridge collapses hours before Biden’s infrastructure speech in city:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-biden-infrastructure-speech

* "Human chain formed to help after Pittsburgh bridge collapse:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/human-chain-formed-to-help-after-pittsburgh-bridge-collapse

* "Auditor general: Pa. fuel tax money meant for bridges and roads went to state police instead:" https://www.phillytrib.com/news/state_and_region/auditor-general-pa-fuel-tax-money-meant-for-bridges-and-roads-went-to-state-police/article_a2ee0190-0c45-523b-a871-eca9f8b588cd.html

* "Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/child-tax-credit-brain-function.html

* "Ron Johnson’s message to parents: You are on your own:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ron-johnson-s-message-to-parents-you-are-on-your-own-131877445972

* "Sign-ups in Affordable Care Act marketplaces reach record 14.5 million:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/27/affordable-care-act-record-enrollment/

* "Arizona Democrats have censured Kyrsten Sinema over her pro-filibuster vote:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/22/1075088298/kyrsten-sinema-censure-arizona-democrats-filibuster-vote

* "Citing political betrayal, Voto Latino launches campaign to unseat Kyrsten Sinema:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/citing-political-betrayal-voto-latino-launches-campaign-to-unseat-kyrsten-sinema-131618373776

* "Bernice A. King - The King Center & "It Starts with Me":" https://www.cc.com/video/9fcsuh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-bernice-a-king-the-king-center-it-starts-with-me

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "We uncovered the impact of GOP voting restrictions in one key state. It's staggering.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/gop-voting-law-disenfranshised-georgia-voters/

* "Before Elections, Georgia Republicans Again Consider Voting Restrictions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/georgia-voting-laws-republicans.html

* "New ‘real world evidence’ that GOP voter suppression is already working:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-real-world-evidence-that-gop-voter-suppression-is-already-working-131971141798

* "‘Nakedly partisan.’ Explaining the lawsuit, objections to Ky. GOP’s redistricting maps:" https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article257595003.html

* "‘Everything was connected’: Why fake Trump electors could face criminal scrutiny:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-everything-was-connected-why-fake-trump-electors-could-face-criminal-scrutiny-131877957646

* "Fake Trump electors, Trump White House spokesman receive January 6th Committee subpoenas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-trump-electors-trump-white-house-spokesman-receive-january-6th-committee-subpoenas-131984965774

* "Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich turns a blind eye to fake Trump electors:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/01/24/arizona-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-ignores-fake-trump-electors/6633139001/

* "Fake Trump electors from Arizona under 'ongoing' investigation: Politico:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-trump-electors-from-arizona-under-ongoing-investigation-politico-131618373902

* "Arizona attorney general too busy kissing up to Trump to deal with fake elector referral:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arizona-attorney-general-too-busy-kissing-up-to-trump-to-deal-with-fake-elector-referral-131891781705

* "New Mexico AG believes seditious conspiracy charges ‘on the table’ for fake electors:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/fake-electors-who-submitted-falsified-documents-to-overturn-election-under-doj-scrutiny-131883077641

* "Sen. Larson: Open records regarding Wisconsin’s fake electors suggest Congressman Scott Fitzgerald played significant role in trying to overturn a free and fair election :" https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/sen-larson-open-records-regarding-wisconsins-fake-electors-suggest-congressman-scott-fitzgerald-played-significant-role-in-trying-to-overturn-a-free-and-fair-election/

* "Dem lawmakers to DA: Wisconsin must ‘prosecute sedition within its own borders’:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/01/11/dem-lawmakers-to-da-wisconsin-must-prosecute-sedition-within-its-own-borders/

* "Records request points to congressman's role in assisting fake elector meeting:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/records-request-points-to-congressman-s-role-in-assisting-fake-elector-meeting-131709509747

* "DOJ acknowledges investigation of fake Trump electors; clarifies scope of DOJ 1/6 probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-acknowledges-investigation-of-fake-trump-electors-clarifies-scope-of-doj-1-6-probe-131710021582

* "State Auditor opens inquiry of Otero County contract to audit 2020 election:" https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/community/2022/01/24/new-mexico-2020-election-state-opens-inquiry-otero-county-audit/6606403001/

* "Steve Schmidt: Madison Cawthorn one of many lawmakers implicated by own words:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/madison-cawthorn-s-candidacy-challenged-based-on-allegations-he-s-an-insurrectionist-131792965513

* "Dem U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers on his viral campaign ad featuring cannabis smoking:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-uphold-texas-abortion-ban-as-roe-vs-wade-reaches-49-131440709935

* "Republican Virginia attorney general fires Jan. 6 investigator from university post:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/republican-virginia-attorney-general-fires-january-6-investigator-from-university.html

* "Criminal investigation of Trump in Georgia continues with special grand jury approved:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/criminal-investigation-of-trump-in-georgia-continues-with-special-grand-jury-approved-131619909616

* "Georgia grand jury to probe Donald Trump’s attempts to ‘find votes’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-s-attempts-to-find-votes-to-be-probed-by-georgia-grand-jury-131698757800

* "Michael Cohen says Donald Trump told him if one of his kids had to go to prison to 'make sure' it was Donald Jr., not Ivanka:" https://www.businessinsider.com/cohen-trump-don-jr-prison-rather-than-ivanka-2022-1

* "Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572

* "What Trump docs about late Capitol officers might tell the Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-trump-docs-about-late-capitol-officers-might-tell-the-jan-6-committee-131696197713

* "Former Attorney General William Barr has spoken to Jan. 6 panel, chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/23/william-barr-jan6-committee-thompson-00000605

* "‘They have everything:’ Alex Jones meets with Jan. 6 panel, pleads Fifth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-have-everything-alex-jones-meets-with-jan-6-panel-pleads-fifth-131694661525

* "My Dad Attacked Cops at the Capitol Riot. I Turned Him In.:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n3m8/guy-reffitt-capitol-rioter-family-torn-apart

* "Conspiracy Conundrum: The Info Wars Story:"

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* "Supreme Court to consider landmark challenge to Harvard and UNC affirmative action policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/supreme-court-harvard-unc-affirmative-action/index.html

* "40 years of research shows race-conscious admissions benefits all students expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-to-hear-affirmative-action-challenge-131606597792

* "Mayor withholds $100,000 from libraries 'until homosexual materials removed':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/26/mayor-library-funds-homosexual-materials-lgbt/

* "After 10 days in office, Virginia Gov. Youngkin is facing blowback over new policies:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075624841/after-10-days-in-office-virginia-gov-youngkin-is-facing-blowback-over-new-polici

* "‘Stop the censorship’: Texas students push back on school book ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-stop-the-censorship-texas-students-push-back-on-school-book-ban-131785797714

* "Hannah-Jones: Book bans, anti-CRT laws ‘not the sign of a healthy democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hannah-jones-book-bans-anti-crt-laws-not-the-sign-of-a-healthy-democracy-131788357910

* "Creator of banned ‘Maus’ graphic novel: I just know the people that banned this are stupid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maus-graphic-novel-about-the-holocaust-banned-by-tennessee-school-board-131882053652

* "A Tennessee school district has voted to ban the Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus':" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076180329/tennessee-school-district-ban-holocaust-graphic-novel-maus

* "Joy Reid asks GOP: Wokeness is communism, but book banning isn’t?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/more-than-70-bills-in-17-states-seek-to-regulate-how-teachers-teach-131975749746

* "Help fight Book Banning:" https://www.change.org/p/north-east-independent-school-district-remove-the-krause-list-from-all-neisd-schools?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=e64da7a0-7fc0-11ec-aa58-bd60e522749a

* "Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton Introduces Anti-Trans Prison Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/20/arkansas-sen-tom-cotton-introduces-anti-trans-prison-bill

* "Florida bill would bar businesses and schools from making anyone "feel discomfort" or "guilt" about race:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-whites-discomfort-critical-race-theory-desantis/

* "PragerU Isn't Teaching Anyone Anything:"

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* CW: Sexual Violence. "Israel's LGBT+ community faces up to its 'Me Too' moment as survivors break silence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/21/israel-lgbt-me-too-sexual-violence-omri-feinstein/

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "The children groomed for the UK sex trade:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60091717

* "Cleo Smith: Man pleads guilty to kidnapping Australian girl:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60107053

* "Grace Tame and Scott Morrison’s frosty meeting sparks praise and condemnation:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/25/grace-tame-and-scott-morrisons-frosty-meeting-sparks-praise-condemnation-and-memes

* "Why young women aren’t smiling for you any more:" https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-young-women-aren-t-smiling-for-you-any-more-20220126-p59rd2.html

* "Young women like Grace Tame weren’t socialised to shut up when authority figures speak – and it feels like progress:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/25/young-women-like-grace-tame-werent-socialised-to-shut-up-when-authority-figures-speak-and-it-feels-like-progress

* "The Undoing of Joss Whedon:" https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.html

* "‘Buffy’ Star Charisma Carpenter Responds To Joss Whedon, Saying He Is Still Unable To “Just Apologize”:" https://deadline.com/2022/01/buffy-charisma-carpenter-joss-whedon-1234915732/

* "W. Kamau Bell - "We Need to Talk About Cosby":" https://www.cc.com/video/1zf3e1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-w-kamau-bell-we-need-to-talk-about-cosby

* "We Can No Longer Ignore the Murders of LGBTQ+ People in Jamaica:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/21/we-can-no-longer-ignore-murders-lgbtq-people-jamaica

* "MP stands trial for hate speech after saying gays have 'developmental disorder':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/24/finland-mp-hate-speech-paivi-rasanen/

* "Cost of living crisis leaves LGBT Brits scared, lonely and back in the closet:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/cost-of-living-crisis-lgbt-uk/

* "UK's so-called equalities watchdog condemned for 'troubling attack on trans equality':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/ehrc-trans-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Queer Texas Couple Found Tortured, Shot, and Dismembered in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/20/queer-texas-couple-found-tortured-shot-dismembered-mexico

* "New NCAA Policy on Trans Athletes Raises Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/1/20/new-ncaa-policy-trans-athletes-raises-concerns

* "HRC Slams New NCAA Constitution for Lacking Nondiscrimination Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/1/21/hrc-slams-new-ncaa-constitution-lacking-nondiscrimination-policy

* "How the Sackler Family Contributed to the Opioid Crisis :"

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* "Looking at Johnson & Johnson and Their Asbestos Scandal:"

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* "Tonga struggles with ash, psychological trauma after eruption and tsunami:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tonga-struggles-with-ash-psychological-trauma-after-eruption-tsunami-2022-01-23/

* "Tonga volcano: drinking water is priority as aid begins to arrive for stricken nation:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/tonga-volcano-drinking-water-is-priority-as-aid-begins-to-arrive-for-stricken-nation

* "Storm Ana Kills at Least Three in Mozambique and Malawi:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-01-25/tropical-storm-kills-two-injures-66-in-mozambique

* "Tonga eruption: Peruvians are using their own hair to clean oil spilled in Pacific Ocean:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60127676

* "Explosion kills 13, flattens village in Ghana mining region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-17-dead-after-explosion-ghana-mining-region-2022-01-21/

* CW: Child Death. "Parents of children killed in Arizona flood get probation:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-business-arizona-phoenix-child-abuse-10113b2fe339c40ca200d63a1c59ce15

* "California redwood forest to be returned to tribal group:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-25/california-redwood-forest-returned-native-tribal-group

* "False banana: Is Ethiopia's enset 'wondercrop' for climate change?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60074407

* "New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out:" https://apnews.com/article/nasa-james-webb-telescope-arrives-space-9ea15e4bddaead131d4fcb6b07c53529

* "Theranos: Fake it Until you Make a Lawsuit:"

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* "Peter the Great: Founder of the Russian Empire:"

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* "The History of Victorian Women in Sports:"

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* "Lucky Luciano: The Architect of the American Mafia:"

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* "Joy Reid on 1930s scheme by super-rich to allegedly topple U.S. government:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/plot-to-overthrow-u-s-government-from-1930s-shares-parallels-with-jan-6-expert-says-131698245743

* "What Happened to Flight 739?:"

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* "The History of Gay Panic:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digub0QVCho

* "World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-international-holocaust-remembrance-day-58c7a1864907d9a80762a20d3c960487

* CW: Torture "Nazis' heinous crimes against thousands of LGBT+ people must never, ever be forgotten:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/holocaust-memorial-day-lgbt-nazi-concentration-camps/

* "There are still important lessons to be learned from Nazi persecution of gay people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/holocaust-memorial-day-lgbt-gay-nazi/

* "6 of Thierry Mugler's most iconic collabs, from Bowie to Beyoncé:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/24/thierry-mugler-lady-gaga-david-bowie-beyonce/

* "SCOTUS Judge Stephen Breyer Announces Retirement:"

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* "Kyrsten Sinema: A Pain In The Butt For Years:"

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* "The Semi-Domestic Threat of Cat Misinformation Videos:"

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* "Dr. Fauci Rips Rand Paul Over "Fire Dr. Fauci" Fundraiser, Calls Sen. Marshall A Moron On Hot Mic:"

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* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - January 6: One Year Later:" https://www.cc.com/video/kj56ox/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-january-6-one-year-later

* "Trump Accused of Fraud & Amazon Train Robberies:" https://www.cc.com/video/ejlld9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-accused-of-fraud-amazon-train-robberies

* "Keep Calm and Party On - Boris Johnson in Hot Water:" https://www.cc.com/video/5z5p1u/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keep-calm-and-party-on-boris-johnson-in-hot-water

* "Votegasm 2022 - Voting Rights and Wrongs:" https://www.cc.com/video/g24zzq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votegasm-2022-voting-rights-and-wrongs

* "Beefzuz:" https://www.cc.com/video/psb7kt/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-beefzuz

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Stock Trading in Congress:" https://www.cc.com/video/k14t7w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-stock-trading-in-congress

* "Justice Breyer Retiring & Peter Dinklage Slams "Snow White":" https://www.cc.com/video/dzwoda/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-justice-breyer-retiring-peter-dinklage-slams-snow-white

* "Backlash to Biden's Supreme Court Promise & "Maus" Banned:" https://www.cc.com/video/slvk35/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-backlash-to-biden-s-supreme-court-promise-maus-banned

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - COVID-19 Chaos in Schools:" https://www.cc.com/video/kwzk0u/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-covid-19-chaos-in-schools

* "How We Don't Talk About Bruno Works & Why It's Amazing:"

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* "The BinaxNow Home Idiocy Test:"

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* Monday was bureaucracy and errands, all frustrating and fruitless. Tuesday I did get an answer on some of my phone tag, which was helpful, but not germane to the big questions. Nearby Millenial has quit, so I'm going to see about adjusting the hours back for head Millenial.

Wednesday, my social worker checked back in. No luck on stoves, but she's continuing to look, superhero that she is. Head Millenial postponed to Thursday, so I foraged alone and burned the tail end of my EBT on vegan cup of soups. Don't judge me, the trader Joe ones taste good and I can make them with hot water and I don't have a lot of spoons and the not being able to use the oven is still super hard on meal planning.

Thursday, I got a bunch of bureaucracy call backs. City guy's kid got infected at school and was seriously ill, though recovering. They are all quarantined. Honest Contractor is also ill, but hasn't been checked yet, so he's quarantined. I hope he's okay and that City Guy's kid doesn't get long term health issues. They were all so careful about infection and they are good people.

So the electricity is on hold for obvious reasons.

Tavy was so excited to see Head Millennial here. he is so worn out from all the excitement that he didn't even come out for lung time. HM got a lot done and stayed very late. Obviously, we are not caught up from quarantine, but it's very much progress.

* "'Eternals' star Brian Tyree Henry thought Marvel was going to ask him to lose weight to play a superhero. He was shocked to hear the director say, 'We want you exactly as you are.':" https://www.insider.com/eternals-brian-tyree-henry-wasnt-asked-lose-weight-2021-11

* Skywalker Reputation on Tatooine: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/674689274487193600/whetstonefires-jumpingjacktrash-kyraneko

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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.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Strike paralyzes Lebanon as economic conditions worsen:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/strike-paralyzes-lebanon-amid-worsening-economic-conditions/2022/01/13/9e80dedc-744f-11ec-a26d-1c21c16b1c93_story.html

* "Portraits of fear and loss:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/women-life-taliban-afghanistan/?itid=mr_world_1

* "Russia moves more troops westward amid Ukraine tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/moscow-russia-europe-belarus-ukraine-555703583c8f9d54bd42e60aca895590

* "Sen. Murphy: We should be very worried about war in Europe over Russia-Ukraine tensions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-facing-100-000-russian-troops-amassed-on-its-border-discussed-by-sen-chris-murphy-131253829691

* "The Day After Russia Attacks:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-01-21/day-after-russia-attacks

* "Biden predicts Russian invasion of Ukraine, but "minor incursion" may prompt discussion over consequences:" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/joe-biden-press-conference-01-19-22/h_699d89bb5c17489b49a54ae70409fbca

* "Tory MP claims No 10 ‘blackmailing’ rebels as Wakeford says funding was threatened before he defected – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jan/20/boris-johnson-conservatives-tory-labour-latest-updates

* This is from tumblr, but it's an excellent summary of the Boris Johnson cluster of scandals: https://becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys.tumblr.com/post/673901375516753920/hoo-boy-the-circus-is-in-town-this-week-lads-i

* "As an MP, I've had death threats and been attacked, but I will never be silenced:" https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/07/as-an-mp-ive-had-death-threats-and-been-attacked-i-wont-be-silenced-15881199/

* "Woman jailed for death threats to Bradford MP Naz Shah:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/14/naz-shah-mp-death-threats-sundas-alam-jailed

* "‘Unpalletable’: Scott Morrison hits reverse on plan to allow under-18s to drive forklifts:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/20/unpalletable-scott-morrison-hits-reverse-on-plan-to-allow-under-18s-to-drive-forklifts

* "Kenyan vigilantes taking on avocado gangs:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59989656

* "Belgian court jails trafficking gang leader for Vietnamese truck deaths:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belgian-court-jails-trafficking-gang-leader-vietnamese-truck-deaths-2022-01-19/

* "China's births fall in 2021, as workforce shrinks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinas-birth-rate-falls-2021-workforce-shrinks-rcna12446

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* "Study shows COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection:" https://uncnews.unc.edu/2022/01/12/study-shows-covid-19-vaccines-offer-lasting-protection/

* "Association of vaccination status with Long COVID symptoms:" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220110/Association-of-vaccination-status-with-Long-COVID-symptoms.aspx

* "COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near:" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00100-3/fulltext

* "Biden acknowledges his team should have done more COVID testing earlier:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/19/1073825012/biden-press-conference-covid-19-aid-infrastructure

* "White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/19/free-n95-masks/

* "“We’re about to catch on fire”: Inside a Texas hospital battling omicron and staffing shortages:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/17/texas-hospital-omicron-staff-nurses/

* "For Texas children, COVID-19 hospitalizations are outpacing vaccinations:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/14/texas-covid-19-children-hospitalizations/

* "COVID cases are at an all-time high in Mississippi. Are vaccination rates following?:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2022/01/17/covid-19-surges-mississippi-vaccination-rate-stays-stagnant/6539131001/

* "Alabama health leaders worried about youth COVID numbers:" https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/local/alabama-health-officials-concerned-rising-number-kids-covid/525-7f7f1e6f-5140-4789-b345-a5f86dbc302e

* "COVID not going away even after omicron wave peaks in Alabama, expert says:" https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2022/01/covid-not-going-away-even-after-omicron-wave-peaks-in-alabama-expert-says.html

* "Northeast TN COVID case rate up 86% in a week, just off record high:" https://www.wjhl.com/local-coronavirus-coverage/northeast-tn-covid-case-rate-up-86-in-a-week-just-off-record-high/

* "Indiana House passes bill restricting employer vaccine mandates despite COVID-19 surge:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/18/indiana-house-passes-bill-restricting-vaccine-mandates-hb-1001/6529347001/

* "'Everyone is so tired': Inside IU Health Methodist as it is overwhelmed by COVID patients:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/01/13/indiana-covid-19-patients-iu-health-methodist-overwhelmed-coronavirus-pandemic/9135493002/

* "Indiana schools buckling under weight of eye-popping new record for COVID-19 cases:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/01/18/covid-indiana-schools-cases-last-week-double-previous-record/6561727001/

* "COVID-19 hits Missouri nursing homes again; staff hard hit:" https://www.ky3.com/2022/01/14/covid-19-hits-missouri-nursing-homes-again-staff-hard-hit/

* "As COVID-19 surges, Rhode Island Hospital welcomes help from military medical team:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/01/13/us-military-medical-team-dispatched-by-biden-welcomed-ri-hospitals-covid-cases-surge/6512218001/

* "New Hampshire hospitalizations rise as COVID-19 cases continue to hit record levels:" https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-hospitalizations-covid-19-cases-january-13-2022/38760941#

* "What the Omicron Wave Looks Like at One Brooklyn E.R.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/nyregion/brooklyn-omicron-cases.html

* "Gorsuch didn't mask despite Sotomayor's COVID worries, leading her to telework:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either

* "Justice Sotomayor works remotely due to apparent occupational hazard:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/justice-sotomayor-works-remotely-due-to-apparent-occupational-hazard-131159109913

* Why Covid is so much worse than the death rate: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/674056022331162624

* "Have I finally found the right word?:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1819999.html

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* "Newly Declassified Video Shows U.S. Killing of 10 Civilians in Drone Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html

* "‘Give Manchin the pen’: Markey, Khanna on how to get climate in Build Back Better:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-give-manchin-the-pen-markey-khanna-on-how-to-get-climate-in-build-back-better-131437125850

* "Chris Hayes: Lawmakers must prioritize climate in the Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-lawmakers-must-prioritize-climate-in-the-build-back-better-bill-131437125721

* "Sec. Buttigieg: We’re focused on making infrastructure jobs more workers of color, women:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-s-first-anniversary-infrastructure-bill-administration-s-plans-discussed-by-transportation-sec-buttigieg-131351621575

* "BNSF Railroad Tries to Block 17,000 Workers From Striking:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2022-01-19/bnsf-railroad-tries-to-block-17-000-workers-from-striking

* "Wisconsin Judge Orders At-Will Employees to Stay at Jobs:" https://themountain.news/news/wisconsin-judge-orders-at-will-employees-to-stay-at-jobs

* "Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibuster:" https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-kyrsten-sinema-elections-voting-f6c2cfd9f79a1658c2998f3b7b14588d

* "Rep. Sewell: "A high sign of hypocrisy" that lawmakers who approved Voting Rights Act in 2006 won't act now:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-sewell-a-high-sign-of-hypocrisy-that-lawmakers-who-approved-voting-rights-act-in-2006-won-t-act-now-130992197829

* "Jonathan Capehart explains why he's worried about democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/jonathan-capehart-explains-why-he-s-worried-about-democracy-130994245730

* "Voting rights activists see hope in fight for access to the ballot:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/voting-rights-activists-see-hope-in-fight-for-access-to-the-ballot-130994757844

* "Congressional Black Caucus chair offers political warning to voting rights opponents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congressional-black-caucus-chair-offers-political-warning-to-voting-rights-opponents-131084869950

* "Dr. Bernice King: I think it's time for massive civil disobedience, noncooperation with evil:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/martin-luther-king-s-legacy-is-remembered-by-his-daughter-dr-bernice-king-131077189703

* "Marc Elias to GOP: Stop suppressing the vote, and I’ll stop suing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marc-elias-to-gop-stop-suppressing-the-vote-and-i-ll-stop-suing-131249221767

* "Senator Hassan shames Republicans for failure to stand up for democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-hassan-shames-republicans-for-failure-to-stand-up-for-democracy-131262533996

* "Protecting the Right to Vote: The Only Way to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/17/protecting-right-vote-only-way-safeguard-lgbtq-rights

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Idaho Supreme Court hears arguments over redistricting:" https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-idaho-redistricting-boise-voting-districts-daef27a4d91bc6892753e9c449d2baae

* "DeSantis shakes up Florida redistricting as veto concerns grow:" https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2022/01/18/desantis-shakes-up-florida-redistricting-as-veto-concerns-grow-1405811

* "Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html

* "A Wisconsin judge rules absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072929277/a-wisconsin-judge-rules-absentee-ballot-drop-boxes-are-not-allowed-under-state-l

* "Texas rejects hundreds of mail ballot applications under new voting limits:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-rejects-hundreds-mail-ballot-applications-under-new-voting-limits-2022-01-18/

* "Republican voting restriction strategy already bearing fruit in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-voting-restriction-strategy-already-bearing-fruit-in-texas-131084869857

* "Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html

* "New Mexico Republican who signed bogus electoral certificate says he has 'no regrets whatsoever':" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mexico-republican-signed-bogus-electoral-000924926.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAINyCQrzPs6hkXAdjAHESwULWpkF6JBU29FbN0LShN8riN81g1tyGOKl3cbQCPOB9DnGbzYL3Hhlh_eUooETlQqUvT1zObgjUyxOBJjTFqlaStzo86br1tM0CaItqT-XgDkik_xFiMySv2ejcKtvbAEGEOdQVPg4NhZ2FKdajvAX

* "Legal line crossed? Nevada GOP’s faux electors draw scrutiny:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/20/legal-line-crossed-nevada-gops-faux-electors-draw/

* "Milwaukee County prosecutor seeks to pass off case over fake electors to state or federal agencies:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/20/milwaukee-county-seeks-pass-case-over-fake-electors-wisconsin-ag/6591509001/

* "Michigan GOP co-chair says Trump campaign directed fake electors, per CNN audio:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2022/01/20/meshawn-maddock-donald-trump-fake-electors-cnn-audio/6599607001/

* "Will false Trump electors’ attempt to hijack the Georgia vote be punished?:" https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/01/18/will-false-trump-electors-attempt-hijack-the-georgia-vote-be-punished

* "Arizona's phony electors aren't patriots, they're traitors:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/01/14/phony-electors-jan-6-house-committee/6525978001/

* "Rudy Giuliani reportedly the ringleader of fake Trump elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rudy-giuliani-reportedly-the-ringleader-of-fake-trump-elector-scheme-131362373903

* "U.S. charges Texas man for threatening Georgia election officials:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-texas-man-threatening-georgia-government-officials-2022-01-21/

* "People Left Death Threats for Election Workers. We Called Them Back.:"

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* "DOJ task force brings first charges for threats against election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-task-force-brings-first-charges-for-threats-against-election-workers-131448389571

* "Republican hails infrastructure investment she bashed as 'socialism'; voted against it:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-hails-infrastructure-investment-she-bashed-as-socialism-voted-against-it-131449413701

* "One-on-one with outgoing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and lessons learned from "the yearbook incident.":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-outgoing-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-and-lessons-learned-from-the-yearbook-incident-130994757727

* "Dem U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers on his viral campaign ad featuring cannabis smoking:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-uphold-texas-abortion-ban-as-roe-vs-wade-reaches-49-131440709935

* "Republicans enter 'post-election' phase, blindly disputing vote outcomes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-enter-post-election-phase-blindly-disputing-vote-outcomes-131085381986

* "MAGA hats and QAnon: Inside Trump’s first rally of 2022:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/16/trump-first-rally-2022-maga-527206

* "Trump shares stage with self-proclaimed Oath Keeper at Arizona rally:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-shares-stage-with-self-proclaimed-oath-keeper-at-arizona-rally-131075141612

* "New York attorney general's office says it has identified numerous 'misleading statements and omissions' in Trump Org. financial statements:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/new-york-attorney-general-trump-organization-investigation/index.html

* "Trumps surprisingly uninsulated from sketchy accounting, court documents suggest:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trumps-surprisingly-uninsulated-from-sketchy-accounting-court-documents-suggest-131264581698

* "Court filings expose Trump pattern of exaggerating values of real estate holdings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-filings-expose-trump-pattern-of-exaggerating-values-of-real-estate-holdings-131264069797

* "DA for Atlanta area requests special grand jury to probe Trump's election interference:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/georgia-trump-grand-jury/index.html

* "Criminal investigation of Trump in Georgia takes key step with special grand jury request:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/criminal-investigation-of-trump-in-georgia-takes-key-step-with-special-grand-jury-request-131364421545

* "Even Trump’s Justices Rule Jan. 6 Panel Can See His Docs:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-allows-government-to-send-trump-docs-to-jan-6-panel

* "Draft document would have had Trump order seizure of voting machines, election equipment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/draft-document-would-have-had-trump-order-seizure-of-voting-machines-election-equipment-131448389745

* "Luria: 'Concerning' that Trump doc to seize voting machines was among official records:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/luria-concerning-that-trump-doc-to-seize-voting-machines-was-among-official-records-131437637513

* "Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/20/trump-secret-meetings-january-6-capitol-attack-stephanie-grisham

* "Rudy Giuliani among Trump allies subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-boris-epshteyn-bennie-thompson-donald-trump-subpoenas-871ecaecc54ffff987205684833850ed

* "Jan. 6 committee requests interview with Ivanka Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-bennie-thompson-elections-election-2020-b974bb17f8ce4ea0200f3b016e50176b

* "January 6th Committee uses evidence to paint Ivanka Trump into a corner on testifying:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-committee-uses-evidence-to-paint-ivanka-trump-into-a-corner-on-testifying-131365445516

* "January 6th probe tips its hand with eye-popping details in letter to Ivanka Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tips-its-hand-with-eye-popping-details-in-letter-to-ivanka-trump-131363397590

* "Mike Pence script change seems to address fake Trump elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mike-pence-script-change-seems-to-address-fake-trump-elector-scheme-131083845811

* "Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court

* "Justice Thomas ignores basic ethics where wife's activism, lobbying conflict with cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/justice-thomas-ignores-basic-ethics-where-wife-s-activism-lobbying-conflict-with-cases-131445829777

* "Elie Mystal: Justice Thomas is lone dissenter on issues that may implicate his wife in Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-must-recuse-on-issues-impacting-far-right-activist-elie-mystal-says-131439685792

* "Why Some Chinese Dissidents Love QAnon:"

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* "6 people have been injured in a mass shooting in Oregon:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073323357/six-people-have-been-injured-in-a-mass-shooting-in-oregon

* "What it was like inside the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue during the 11-hour hostage standoff:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/us/inside-texas-synagogue-hostage-standoff/index.html

* "The Invisible Violence of Carceral Food:" https://inquest.org/the-invisible-violence-of-carceral-food/

* "White Supremacy, 4 Years After Charlottesville:"

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* "The Necessity of Gay Crime | James Somerton:"

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* "The Spiral of John McAfee:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Catholic church suggests 12-year-old enjoyed abuse because he's gay :" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/16/catholic-abuse-poland-gay-priest-janusz-szymik/

* CW: Rape, Torture. "​​RAF accused of 'torturing' serviceman for days after finding out he was gay" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/17/raf-gay-torture/

* "Gracie Spinks death: Parents of 'stalking victim' call for law change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-59913331

* "Supreme Court deals a setback to abortion providers' bid to quickly block Texas law:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court-denies-bid-to-send-case-back-to-federal-judge.html

* "Afghan tradition allows girls to access the freedom of boys:" https://apnews.com/article/bacha-posh-Kabul-Afghanistan-ad82563ff1ddae630ca0e5b52236172b

* "LGBT+ activist flees Jordan and is finally ‘supported, seen and heard’ in Australia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/16/jordan-lgbt-activism-australia-alshaima-omama-alzubi/

* It is amazing to me they solved this after all that time and got a conviction. I’m glad there will be some measure of justice. "Australian Man Convicted Over the 1988 Murder of Gay American:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/13/australian-man-convicted-over-1988-murder-gay-american-scott-johnson

* "Anti-Trans Legislative Push Starts Again in 2022:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/1/13/states-anti-trans-legislative-push-starts-again-2022

* "Police open homicide investigation after LGBT rights hero found dead in landfill:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/jorge-diaz-johnston-police-homicide-florida/

* "Gay Adult Performer Cole Connor Beaten, Mugged by Group of Men:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/20/gay-adult-performer-cole-connor-beaten-mugged-group-men

* "High Schooler Censored By School Administration Over Saying He's Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/14/high-schooler-censored-school-administration-over-saying-hes-gay

* "NCAA Adopts New Policy for Transgender Athletes:" https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2022-01-19/ncaa-adopts-new-policy-for-transgender-athletes

* "Brave and beautiful 11-year-old trans girl is finalist for TIME's Kid of the Year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/20/kai-shappelly-trans-texas-time-kid-of-the-year/

* "Biden Admin Speaks Out About Blood Donation Policy for Queer Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/1/19/biden-admin-speaks-out-about-blood-donation-policy-queer-gay-bi-men

* "Locks of Love: Corporate Casket:"

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* "The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy’s Future:"

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* "The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/magazine/military-burn-pits.html

* "Telehealth changes ‘devastating’ for psychiatry patients in regional areas:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/04/telehealth-changes-devastating-for-psychiatry-patients-in-regional-areas

* "Specialist mental health unit failures exposed by patients:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59964353

* "No way to Grow Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html

* "Epstein-Barr virus may be leading cause of multiple sclerosis:" https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/epstein-barr-virus-may-be-leading-cause-of-multiple-sclerosis/

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* "Two-Spirit activists explain why LGBT+ folk must unite against climate disaster:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/indigenous-environmental-activist-two-spirit-lgbt/

* "How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/11/climate-change-insect-world-global-heating-species

* "All homes on one of Tonga's islands destroyed, three dead:" https://www.reuters.com/world/significant-damage-reported-tongas-main-island-after-volcanic-eruption-2022-01-17/

* "Three Tiny Islands Have Borne the Brunt of Tonga’s Tsunami:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/tonga-tsunami-volcano.html

* "‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project:" https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/unacceptably-high-risk-of-tailings-dam-failure-in-canadian-miners-amazon-project/

* "‘Like a work of art’: rare stretch of pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/20/like-a-work-of-art-rare-stretch-of-pristine-coral-reef-discovered-off-tahiti-age-of-extinction

* "New York's Central Park Becomes a Living Climate Laboratory:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-yorks-central-park-becomes-a-living-climate-laboratory/#

* "‘Tenants have no choice’: Racism in urban planning fuels high rate of Black fire deaths:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tenants-no-choice-racism-urban-planning-fuels-high-rate-black-fire-dea-rcna11986

* "Other Countries Have Gates That Would Have Prevented NYC’s Subway Killing:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn7y5/other-countries-have-gates-that-would-have-prevented-nycs-subway-killing

* "Citizen scientists discover planet the size of Jupiter that NASA algorithms missed:" https://www.cnet.com/news/citizen-scientists-discover-planet-the-size-of-jupiter-that-nasa-algorithms-missed/

* " Why Elizabeth Holmes Was Convicted (and Also Acquitted) :"

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* "After rain burst, California salmon reclaim old spawning grounds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-rain-burst-california-salmon-reclaim-old-spawning-grounds-2022-01-19/

* "Study: Dolphins Have Lots of Lesbian Sex Due to Evolved Clitorises:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/18/study-dolphins-have-lots-lesbian-sex-due-evolved-clitorises

* CW: Torture, Rape, Incest "Caligula – Rome’s Mad Emperor:"

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* "Tikal: The Mayan City of the Jaguar God:"

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* "Niccolo Machiavelli: "It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both":"

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* "A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Cook:"

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* I was happier not knowing, and it's speculative, but ymmv. "Cold case team believes it has solved the mystery of who may have betrayed Anne Frank:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073618330/anne-frank-cold-case-investigation

* "The Black Arts Movement’s Revolution in the South:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-smethurst-black-arts-movement/

* "White Shoes, WASPs and Law Firms:" https://daily.jstor.org/white-shoes-wasps-and-law-firms/

* "Martin Luther King's Gay Best Friend // Bayard Rustin:"

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* "Singer Meat Loaf dies aged 74:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60080934

* "Iconic Vogue Editor André Leon Talley Has Died at Age 73:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/1/18/iconic-vogue-editor-andre-leon-talley-has-died-age-73

* "Biden’s 1st Year as POTUS: The Yays and Mehs:"

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* "Insurrection Investigation Committee Reveals GOP's Batshit Plan To Overturn 2020 Election:"

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* "Put Down Your Pandemic Pet: We’ve Got a COVID Mental Health Crisis:"

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* "Ingraham Angle Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Message from the President Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Ranking Every 2021 Costume Drama on Historical Accuracy || "Ancient" - 18th Century:"

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* "What Hawkeye gets right about Deafness:"

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* "Winter Formal - SNL:"

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* "The Greatest Musical NEVER Made | Rogers the Musical the Documentary:"

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* "MacGruber: Coronavirus - SNL:"

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* "Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That):"

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* Rest in Peace, Man. "Rocky Horror Picture Show-Hot Patootie-Bless my soul:"

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* To our great surprise, I tested negative for COVID. I guess that booster shot, plus our best efforts at quarantine protocol worked. This means that last weekend's terrible cold symptoms really were a head cold. Which I thought I was mostly over, but apparently not. Sigh. Squirrel seems to have caught it despite masking and quarantining in his room. idk. Maybe the food and medicine packages I handed off by putting them outside his door?

By current CDC standards he'd have been out of quarantine earlier in the week, but we opted for the older, stricter standards because there is debate about the new ones. He was supposed to be out tomorrow, but his cold came with a sore throat and is significantly worse than mine was even last weekend, so idk.

Being out of quarantine, I did curbside library pick up, much to Tavy's delight and had an excellent game of cat in Bag followed by the Ribbon Game. The poor little button has been pining for Millenials and when he hears people passing outside in the late afternoon/early evening runs to the nearest window to check.

I actually did have enough to catch up bills and cover the medical copay thanks to all you benefactors, plus get kibbles for the cats, as Livia's special girl kibbles ran out last week. (Long term readers will remember Livia nearly dying as a teenager. She has to have a special diet to prevent a recurrence so I can just get them ocean friskies or the like.). I'm still expecting a car tab renewal bill and then it's time to work out how to pay this year's housing tax, but there is no point in panicking until the bills arrive. For now, the cat asylum is afloat. Ish.

I keep eyeing my last two burners with concern. I keep trying to work out what I want for dinner then remember I can't make the thing because the oven's dead. I've never lived with out an oven before; it's disturbing.

But for now, we are all alive if not well, and housed for which we are grateful.

* On Seward Johnson: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/673956797047013376/sam-i-have-an-important-chicago-question-just

* A Cool thing on costuming Geralt and Jaskier in the Witcher: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/673328227570384896

* I watch a lot of shows and movies not originally in English. I am one of those people who really likes subtitles. I use them with English language stuff anyway, because it helps cover if I have sensory processing issues with the dialog, so watching subtitled foreign language stuff isn't that different for me. Subtitles mean you keep the original vocal performance that can really matter.

At the same time there are problems. They with use white subtitles on white backgrounds or black subtitles on dark backgrounds, t which point, why subtitle at all? They will sometimes make them too small, as if everyone is watching on a massive screen. They will sometimes cover something essential with words that I kind of need to see. (some productions will move the subtitles around so they stay in negative space. Some subtitles with be white in a black band to cut down on the lack of contrast issue).

Then there are all the people subtitles don't work for. My Mother's eyes weren't good enough the last several decades of her life, which was unfortunate as she was also HoH for about that long. It sucked a lot of fun out of her life to have to give up anything with subtitles or accented English or muddy sound design. There are people who don't have the vision or literacy level. There are people with dyslexia and the like.

Yes, dubbing exists, but it's often, frankly a mess. No translation is ever going to be perfect. it's a fundamental problem with subtitles too. No language maps one to one on another. Information is lost and/or added inevitable. Ambiguity is created or lost. Often the dubbed performance is frankly bad voice acting.

Sometimes it is an adequate performance, but doesn't remotely match the tone of the original performance. I notice this a lot with things dubbed out of French. I'm no longer fluent and mostly only speak it to cats, but I was fluent once and as long as there isn't a thick regional accent or too much technical vocabulary or unfamiliar slang or they aren't going extremely fast, I can usually still follow.

There is a tendency to hire people with English received pronunciation type accents to do the voices for french costume dramas and the results are terrible. You have all these restrained upper class English performances that not only lose the class and regional nuances, but they are sort of flat and restrained vocals over often intense physical performances. It is so dissonant it hurts my head. They lose the tone siblings use to tease and bicker; they lose the angry arguments between heroine and villain; they lose the passion and warmth between friends or lovers.

A lot of the 19th century french literature I read back in the day would do these clever and often playful things with formal and informal language: describe something intimate in formal language, do something formal with bits of intimate language tucked here and there, that sort of thing. There is a flavour to it that I often find in the french dialog and performances, that gets utterly lost in translation. 18th and 19th century English language dramas tend to go either formal or informal. They don't play back and forth much. Inevitably I switch it back to french.

I don't know if it's this bad for other languages, but it wouldn't surprise me. But what if they decided to do better? The foreign language things I watch most often are either Korean or French. I frequently see people in major roles who I know also speak English well enough to act beautifully in English language productions. Why the fuck don't they spend the money to hire them to do the dubbing for their own characters? I know there are plenty of people who act in more than one language. Speak German and french? Why not dub the other language too? I bet the original actor would be better at preserving the tone of the performance than a stranger.

For monolingual actors, you could hire someone with a similar class and regional accent who comes from the original language group but also speaks the target language, so there'd be a better chance of carrying original emotional tone and meaning across even where the words can't quite convey by themselves.

And hire people who are good voice actors instead of doing it the cheap. Would it be perfect, no, but it would be better than some goofy sounding bad actor or a performance so off tone as to make it hard to watch. It would be something at least.

* I was not and am still not convinced that Peacemaker ought to be foregrounded by giving him a show, however, I am legitimately appreciating how queer the show is. There's marvel over there to scared to do anything like good representation, the little hints designed to be clipped out for China. (Do not start me on the people who wrote Loki not understanding what "gender fluid" means. yes, it's nice they tried, but it's not exactly hard to google that, or hire a nonbinary person onto the writing staff. just saying). Meanwhile DC is doing a Batwoman, a show full of queer women characters, Doom Patrol, etc., and now Peacemaker with multiple lesbian and bi characters. Watching the opening credits for the first episode I was wondering, "Is that bisexual lighting on purpose? Are they teasing me?" No, no they were not. So points there.

I am concerned about things like their uneven lighting for characters of color and a number of things about the basic show design. On the one hand, the horrible racist/misogynist characters are consistently called out by disgusted other characters, and the narrative seems to be of the same opinion. At the same time, having a horrible racist and misogynist right wing character as the main character the show is named after, even if they are clearly not the good guy has a messy history. Carrol O'Conner was a strong civil rights advocate, but an awful lot of right wing folks liked Archie Bunker and took that character as permission. Similarly, the Colbert Report was an elaborate mock of the Right, but a lot of the right didn't get the joke and took him for serious. The things Peacemaker and his father say are clearly terrible. That doesn't mean they won't reinforce that in our culture.

I like the women in this. A lot. I appreciate the horrifying psychopath friend/sidekick and associated humor. I appreciate the ruthless way the narrative and other characters treat Peacemaker. At the same time? I am afraid of where this is going. I do not want him to win over the blond agent. I am scared of an easy redemption arc that rewards him without drastic fucking change. Maybe it will be okay, but I don't trust like that. I'm sticking with it for now. Warily.

* "Sunday Sweets: Watercolor Cakes:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/23/sunday-sweets-watercolor-cakes

* "Stray Cats Save Osaka Restaurant from Going Out of Business During Pandemic:" https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/01/13/diorama-restaurant-stray-cats/

* "Sunday Sweets: Pretty as a Peacock:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/16/sunday-sweets-pretty-as-a-peacock

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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.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Ukraine is hit by a massive cyberattack that targeted government websites:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073001754/ukraine-cyber-attack-government-websites-russia

* "Ruth Davidson blasts Boris Johnson over 'indefensible' lockdown party:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/12/ruth-davidson-boris-johnson-downing-street-party/

* "'Pathetic' Boris Johnson accused of 'lies and corruption' by furious LGBT+ MPs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/14/boris-johnson-lockdown-party-resignation-lgbt/

* "South African parliament fire suspect charged with terrorism offences:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/11/south-african-parliament-fire-suspect-charged-with-terrorism-offences

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* "WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19:" https://www.who.int/news/item/14-01-2022-who-recommends-two-new-drugs-to-treat-covid-19

* "Thousands of Hindus take holy dip in India, defying COVID surge:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/14/india-hindus-holy-dip-makar-sankranti-covid-surge

* "Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for US businesses:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-vaccine-mandate-eb5899ae1fe5b62b6f4d51f54a3cd375

* "White House promises to provide schools 10 million free coronavirus tests per month:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/12/biden-covid-tests-schools-antigen/

* "19 states have fewer than 15% of ICU beds left as health care staffing shortages complicate care:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

* "Lab Sued Over Covid Test Fees By Another Blue Cross, Blue Shield Insurer:" https://khn.org/morning-breakout/lab-sued-over-covid-test-fees-by-another-blue-cross-blue-shield-insurer/

* "FEMA administrator to announce expanded flexibility for National Guard to help support hospitals:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/fema-national-guard-support/index.html

* "Crush of Covid on U.S. hospitals calls for 'thinking outside of dogma' for solutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/crush-of-covid-on-u-s-hospitals-calls-for-thinking-outside-of-dogma-for-solutions-130934853930

* "Dr. Fauci on why he ‘called out’ GOP Sen. Rand Paul: ‘Pure ad hominem’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-on-why-he-called-out-gop-sen-rand-paul-pure-ad-hominem-130647621751

* "Fox News' Tucker Carlson pushes Viagra as a COVID-19 cure, because of course:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/tucker-carlson-viagra-covid-19-treatment/

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* "Joy Reid: The fact that Guantanamo is still open after 20 years is a national embarrassment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/guantanamo-bay-received-its-first-prisoners-20-years-ago-this-week-130651717878

* "States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/27/1049811327/states-send-kids-to-foster-care-and-their-parents-the-bill-often-one-too-big-to-

* CW: Child Abuse. "“They Took Us Away From Each Other”: Lost Inside America’s Shadow Foster System:" https://www.propublica.org/article/they-took-us-away-from-each-other-lost-inside-americas-shadow-foster-system

* "Kyrsten Sinema preempts Biden, dashing Democrats’ illogical hopes she would move on the filibuster:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/14/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster/

* "How Biden swung for filibuster reform — and missed with Manchin and Sinema:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/manchin-sinema-sink-filibuster-reform-527082

* "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: The Dagger at the Throat of Democracy:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/14/sen-kyrsten-sinema-dagger-throat-democracy

* "Blurring Party Lines: The Democrats in Name Only:"

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* "Schumer says Senate will take up voting rights Tuesday as Democrats face grim odds:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/biden-voting-rights-senate-democrats/index.html

* "Biden calls on Senate to change filibuster rules to pass voting rights bills in forceful speech: 'I'm tired of being quiet':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/biden-atlanta-voting-rights-speech/index.html

* "Joy Reid: What leverage does Biden have to get voting rights bills passed now?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/voting-rights-legislation-passing-in-senate-promoted-by-biden-as-many-demand-plan-of-action-130653253541

* "McConnell makes racist argument to defend blocking voting rights Elie Mystal says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mcconnell-blasts-biden-for-saying-senate-gop-could-be-on-wrong-side-of-history-on-voting-rights-130743877806

* "Warren: We can launch voting rights bill, but don’t yet have landing gear:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-we-can-launch-voting-rights-bill-but-don-t-yet-have-landing-gear-130741317573

* "Voting rights is a democracy issue, not a niche issue for Black people Sherrilyn Ifill says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-challenging-senators-to-stand-up-for-voting-rights-discussed-by-sherrilyn-ifill-130651205836

* "Democrats work to convince Manchin, Sinema of the 'changed circumstance' needing new rules:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-work-to-convince-manchin-sinema-of-the-changed-circumstance-needing-new-rules-130666565860

* "Voting rights expert: GOP plotting next coup as Sinema, Manchin say they won’t stop it:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kyrsten-sinema-confirmed-opposition-to-changing-filibuster-despite-co-sponsoring-voting-rights-bill-named-after-john-lewis-130839621890

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Top Ohio court strikes down state's gerrymandered congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/14/ohio-congressional-map-struck-down-527116

* Bock, Bock, Bock! "RNC feud with presidential debate commission escalates with boycott threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/rnc-threatens-to-bar-candidates-from-presidential-debates-527037

* "The party of sabotage commits sabotage because it works:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1819401.html

* "Michigan AG asks feds to investigate fake GOP electors:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/michigan-ag-asks-feds-investigate-fake-gop-electors-82263515

* Why haven't they been arrested yet? "Similarities suggest coordination in fake elector letters from Republicans in five states:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/similarities-suggest-coordination-in-fake-elector-letters-from-republicans-in-five-states-130662469836

* "Fake elector struggles to explain role in scheme to submit false election papers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-elector-struggles-to-explain-role-in-scheme-to-submit-false-election-papers-130755653627

* "January 6th Committee documents suggest Meadows involvement in fake elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-committee-documents-suggest-meadows-involvement-in-fake-elector-scheme-130753093989

* "Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will win Florida special election to replace the late Alcee Hastings, CNN projects:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/florida-special-election-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick/index.html

* "Clay Aiken decided on Congress run after Republican's homophobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/clay-aiken-congress-north-carolina-homophobic-rant/

* "Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker promoted a ‘mist’ that he claimed would ‘kill any covid on your body’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-senate-candidate-herschel-walker-promoted-a-mist-that-he-claimed-would-kill-any-covid-on-your-body/2022/01/12/230ec9a8-73b9-11ec-bc13-18891499c514_story.html

* "Another cringey performance calls into question competence of favored Georgia Republican:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-cringey-performance-calls-into-question-competence-of-favored-georgia-republican-130753605896

* "Andrea Jenkins Is Nation's First Trans City Council President:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/11/andrea-jenkins-nations-first-trans-city-council-president

* "Read NPR's full interview with former President Donald Trump:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072176709/transcript-full-npr-interview-former-president-donald-trump

* "Donald Trump continuing to inspire GOP cult of personality critiqued by Joy Reid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-cult-of-personality-in-gop-slammed-by-joy-reid-in-the-absolute-worst-130840645705

* "Capitol attack panel subpoenas Google, Facebook and Twitter for digital records:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/13/capitol-attack-subpoenas-google-facebook-twitter-reddit-january-6

* "GOP leader McCarthy says he won't cooperate with 1/6 panel:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-mark-meadows-bennie-thompson-congress-92d310c0bb0232afc0c3d0a6b179874a

* "Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump Jr. advisers, Trump speechwriter:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/11/jan-6-panel-subpoenas-trump-jr-aides-trump-speechwriter-526916

* "Ted Cruz pushes far-right’s favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory to prove loyalty:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ted-cruz-pushes-far-right-s-favorite-jan-6-conspiracy-theory-to-prove-loyalty-130835013790

* "A year after Jan. 6, FBI still hunting for pipe bomber and other insurrection suspects:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-year-after-jan-6-fbi-still-hunting-for-pipe-bomber-and-other-insurrection-suspects

* "Justice Dept. creating unit focused on domestic terrorism:" https://apnews.com/article/united-states-national-security-terrorism-899caf47624dd8741d04f73e65659e68

* "Seditious conspiracy: 11 Oath Keepers charged in Jan. 6 riot:" https://apnews.com/article/stewart-rhodes-arrested-oath-keepers-jan-6-insurrection-70019e1007132e8df786aaf77215a110

* "'Seditious conspiracy' is tough to prosecute but couldn't be a more fitting case: McQuade:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-seditious-conspiracy-is-tough-to-prosecute-but-couldn-t-be-a-more-fitting-case-mcquade-130934853736

* "'Big deal': First ‘seditious conspiracy’ charge handed down to Jan. 6 suspect:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-deal-first-seditious-conspiracy-charge-handed-down-to-jan-6-suspect-130837061725

* "Joy Reid: Oath Keepers went from anti-government to pro-government with Trump’s election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes-charged-with-seditious-conspiracy-130925637913

* "New Braunfels police investigating after shovel-wielding woman smashes door of Democrats HQ:" https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/article_486ed54c-73d9-11ec-978a-db95131a66c7.html

* "All hostages out and safe at Texas synagogue, governor says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/15/us/colleyville-texas-hostage-situation/index.html

* "The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America’s Murder Spike:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/gun-sales-murder-spike/621196/

* "Queer Couple Flee After Being Charged With Murdering Young Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/11/queer-couple-flee-after-being-charged-murdering-young-woman-dallas-marisela-botello-valadez

* "Man free after 37 years due to 'sex for lies' false witness:" https://apnews.com/article/business-philadelphia-0f7a11db87d71a64f4acf07046b9e8be

* "Colston statue verdict ‘landmark’ in Britain's slave history:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-59892211

* "Path of resistance: a timeline of protest against Edward Colston:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/05/colston-timeline-of-protest-against-one-slave-trader

* "Homer Plessy, US civil rights pioneer, receives pardon 130 years on:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/homer-plessy-supreme-court-pardon-louisiana-new-orleans

* CW: Pedophilia. ""Christian Values": The Twisted Truths of the Duggar Family :"

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* CW: Sexual Assault "Prince Andrew loses military titles and use of HRH:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59987935

* "Gaetz's ex-girlfriend testifies before grand jury investigating the Florida congressman:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/matt-gaetz-grand-jury/index.html

* "McCarthy facing another possible Republican indictment as Gaetz case develops:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mccarthy-facing-another-possible-republican-indictment-as-gaetz-case-develops-130753605517

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Ghislaine Maxwell: Lawyers call for retrial over juror comments:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59884806

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Prosecutors willing to drop Ghislaine Maxwell perjury charge if no retrial:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/10/ghislaine-maxwell-retrial-perjury-latest

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Why Ghislaine Maxwell Was Convicted (And How A Juror Might Undo It):"

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* CW: Sexual Abuse. "I Will Not Be Silenced by the Army or My Alma Mater:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/18/i-will-not-be-silenced-army-or-my-alma-mater

* "Ashley Madison's Affair with User Data and Shady Practices:"

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* "Priest charged with hate speech for homophobic rant about murder suspect:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/08/malta-david-muscat-hate-speech/

* "Sejm passes horrific anti-LGBT+ bill in Poland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/poland-sejm-lgbt-propaganda-lex-czarnek/

* "South Korea rejects gay couple's lawsuit for equal healthcare benefits:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/09/south-korea-court-equal-healthcare-benefits/

* "Senegal rejects chilling bill targeting LGBT+ people and allies:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/senegal-lgbt-bill-homosexuality/

* "Judge tells gay man he can adopt his husband’s child in historic step for Taiwan:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/06/taiwan-same-sex-lgbt-adoption-gay-couple/

* "'Warrior' trans rights activist Thalía Rodríguez shot dead on her doorstep:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/honduras-trans-thalia-rodriguez-murder/

* "Man stabbed, beaten and called ‘batty boy’ by group of boys who suspected him of being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/09/ghana-man-stabbed-suspected-gay-tema/

* "Tory plot to gut human rights law should horrify LGBT+ Brits, law professor warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/tory-human-rights-act-lgbt/

* "6 reasons 'prime minister Liz Truss' is a terrifying concept for LGBT+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/10/liz-truss-prime-minister-lgbt/

* "Unelected Tory peer wants to force trans people into the wrong prisons:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/house-of-lords-trans-prison-lord-blencathra/

* "Biphobic boy stabbed woman in attack that has 'scarred victim for life':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/08/jack-green-bisexual-canterbury-england/

* "Trans man refused haircut by bigoted barber left feeling 'disgusted and ashamed':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/12/trans-man-barber-bolton/

* "Canada's armed forces to 'eliminate binary uniform' so all members feel 'safe':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/08/canada-armed-forces-gendered-uniforms/

* "Bid to outlaw forced genital surgeries on intersex children in California pulled:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/intersex-forced-genital-surgeries-children-california-scott-weiner-sb225/

* "Republican lawmaker rings in the new year with 'hateful' attack on trans kids:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/03/arizona-republican-wendy-rogers-trans-bills-2022/

* "Black Trans Woman Duval Princess Shot and Killed in Jacksonville:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/14/black-trans-woman-duval-princess-shot-and-killed-jacksonville-florida

* There are straight women's lacrosse coaches? "Monks Sever Ties With School Months After It Hires Lesbian Coach:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/05/monks-sever-ties-catholic-school-months-after-it-hires-lesbian-coach

* "Students take the gay out of Gay-Straight Alliance after parents' furious protest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/gay-straight-alliance-tennessee-lakeland-gsa-school-board/

* "Examining Chick-Fil-A's Strict Anti LGBTQ+ Practices:"

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* "Officials urged to throw out queer blood ban amid 'national blood crisis':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/14/queer-blood-ban-crisis-usa-officials-fda/

* "France Just Lifted Homophobic Blood Ban on Men Who Have Sex With Men:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/1/12/france-lifted-homophobic-blood-ban-men-who-have-sex-men-queer

* "Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/28/1064096741/black-owned-hospice-seeks-to-bring-greater-ease-in-dying-to-black-families

* "Psychiatrists are uncovering connections between viruses and mental health. They’re surprising.:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22783685/covid-19-depression-mental-health-risks-immunology

* "Can COVID-19 alter your personality? Here's what brain research shows.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/can-covid-19-alter-your-personality-heres-what-brain-research-shows

* "The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-weight-game-how-body-size-bias-can-hold-back-health-science/

* "‘It’s devastating’: how fentanyl is unfolding as one of America’s greatest tragedies:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/22/fentanyl-deaths-spike-us-tragedy

* "This Disability Activist Died After an Airline Broke Her Wheelchair:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/1/14/disability-activist-died-after-airline-broke-her-wheelchair

* "Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/climate/nasal-ranger-chuck-mcginley.html

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* "EU scientists say 2021 was world's fifth-hottest year on record:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-scientists-call-action-greenhouse-gas-levels-hit-high-2021-2022-01-10/

* "Nearly quarter of world’s population had record hot year in 2021, data shows:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/13/hot-year-temperatures-climate-crisis-2021

* "Beekeepers protest as Chile megadrought hits honey production:" https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/beekeepers-chile-megadrought-climate-crisis-b1986391.html

* "Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/climate/smithsonian-museum-flooding.html

* "Philadelphia house fire:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/philadelphia-house-fire-01-05-22/index.html

* "'Readiness and courage': Coast Guard rescuers pull body from car near edge of Niagara Falls:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/08/us-coast-guard-diver-body-car-niagara-falls/6437706001/

* "How Humans Are Changing the Oceans:"

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* "Hurricane Ida Recovery Reveals Climate Change Inequalities to Come:"

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* "The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-trap-carbon-in-stone-and-beat-climate-change/

* "These scientists want to solve the solar e-waste crisis:" https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22857157/solar-recycling-new-better-method

* "First space station tourist in ten years docks at ISS:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/tech/space-tourism-maezawa-soyuz-scn/index.html

* "This $10 billion high-tech detective will reveal the secrets of the universe:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/world/james-webb-space-telescope-infrared-scn/index.html

* Nope! Nopenopenope! Do not Want! "Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/taste-the-tv-japan-invents-lickable-screen-to-imitate-food-flavours

* "Hierotopia:" https://www.kierandodds.com/work/hierotopia/

* "World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/30/worlds-vast-networks-of-underground-fungi-to-be-mapped-for-first-time

* "This subterranean creature has 1,306 legs. Yes, that's a record.:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/this-subterranean-creature-has-1306-legs-yes-thats-record-2021-12-16/

* "An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/20/1065759563/extinct-millipede-car-northern-england-arthropleura

* "Saving Kyrgyzstan's deer from brink of extinction:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-59731003

* "A Gene-Tweaked Jellyfish Offers a Glimpse of Other Minds:" https://www.wired.com/story/gene-tweaked-jellyfish-neurology/

* "Impeccably preserved dinosaur embryo looks as if it 'died yesterday':" https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-embryo-fossil-egg-discovered

* "Lion Bones Are Popping Up in Some Very Unexpected Places:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/archaeologists-find-lion-bones-europe/621201/

* "The One-Eyed African Queen Who Defeated the Roman Empire:" https://narratively.com/the-one-eyed-african-queen-who-defeated-the-roman-empire/

* "Gold rings, ancient coins and early Christian art found in shipwrecks off Israel's coast:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/gold-rings-coins-and-early-christian-art-found-in-shipwrecks-off-israel-s-coast-1.10485635

* "Why was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages?:"

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* "Joan of Arc: The Maid of Orléans:"

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* "Gilles de Rais: Serial Killer or Victim of an Unjust System | Prism of the Past:"

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* CW: All the Things "The Real Story of Elizabeth Bathory:"

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* "Stede Bonnet: The Gentleman Pirate:"

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* CW: War Crimes "Henry Wirz: The Only Confederate Officer to Be Executed for War Crimes After the American Civil War:"

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* "An 1875 almanac, books and a coin were revealed in time capsule discovered in the pedestal of Robert E. Lee statue:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/virginia-lee-time-capsule-open-trnd/index.html

* "Chopin's last piano gets its 19th-century features back:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-arts-and-entertainment-poland-paris-warsaw-90d18cca1a8467a453ca880d26ce5068

* "The Disappearance of Japan’s “Third Gender”:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-disappearance-of-japans-third-gender/?preview_id=280817

* "The Completely Bonkers History of the Bathroom Scale:" https://elemental.medium.com/the-completely-bonkers-history-of-the-bathroom-scale-35ba54e04805

* "Harlem Hellfighters: Rare photographs of the African American regiment renowned for courage despite prejudice, 1917-1918:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/harlem-hellfighters-photographs/

* CW: Antisemitism, Racism "H.P. Lovecraft: A Titan of Terror:"

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* "The Fearless Mother-Daughter Duo Who Tamed Lions to Save the Circus:" https://narratively.com/the-fearless-mother-daughter-duo-who-tamed-lions-to-save-the-circus/

* CW: Animal Cruelty, Child endangerment. "Inside California Alligator Farm where kids could ride and play with alligators, 1920s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/california-alligator-park-photographs/

* "The First Soviet Five Year Plan:"

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* "These Forgotten Essays Reveal the Secrets and Dreams of Jewish Teens As Hitler Drew Near:" https://narratively.com/these-forgotten-essays-reveal-the-secrets-and-dreams-of-jewish-teens-as-hitler-drew-near/

* "These Photos Capture the Lives of African American Soldiers Who Served During World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/african-american-soldiers-served-during-world-war-ii-180974962/

* "He Bombed the Nazis, Outwitted the Soviets and Modernized Christmas:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/nyregion/bomber-pilot-christmas-trees.html

* "That Time the British Tried to Save Its Empire with Peanuts (And the Hilarity that Ensued):"

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* "The Somerton Man: Australia's Greatest Crime Mystery:"

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* "Did Anyone Escape Alcatraz?:"

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* "Wascally Wabbits: The Rabbit-Proof Fence That's Sealing Off Australia:"

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* "The Villisca Axe Massacre:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "One of the Most Disgusting Priests: Joseph Maskell :"

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* "Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened:" https://gizmodo.com/vacuum-sealed-container-from-1972-moon-landing-will-fin-1848234198

* "The Troubling and Disgusting Case of Luka Magnotta:"

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* "The Unfortunate Case of Otto Warmbier :"

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* "Pioneering chemsex activist and campaigner dies suddenly: 'We owe him a huge debt':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/12/david-stuart-chemsex-56-dean-street-hiv/

* "Naughty Children Get… EATEN? The Creepy History of Europe’s Christmas Folk Villains:"

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* "A Black People's History of Christmas:"

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* "Why Celebrities Are Getting Sued for Posting Photos of Themselves:"

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* "The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ordinalia-play-revitalize-cornish

* "Kidnapped as a Boy, This Man’s Hand-Drawn Map of Home Helped Him Find His Mom:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvkze/mans-hand-drawn-map-helped-find-mom

* "Real-life Ammonite fossil hunter to finally be honoured, 'righting historic wrong':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/ammonite-fossil-hunter-mary-anning-kate-winslet-lyme-regis/

* "Covering Up Hate:" https://thenib.com/covering-up-hate/

* "Maryland homeowner uses smoke to battle snakes, burns down house:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/03/snake-infested-house-fire/

* "11-year-old honored for saving fellow student from choking and woman from house fire all in one day:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/student-saves-two-people-davyon-johnson-trnd/index.html

* "Cat stuck inside chair that was donated to thrift store reunited with owners:" https://www.newsweek.com/cat-stuck-inside-chair-that-was-donated-thrift-store-reunited-owners-1666464

* "Woman reportedly breastfed her cat on flight to Atlanta:" https://www.nbc12.com/2021/12/06/woman-reportedly-breastfed-her-cat-flight-atlanta/

* "The Strangest Legal Defenses (That Worked!):"

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* ""Dressed Like A Man" aka The History Of Masculine Style In Women's Fashion:"

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* "The Problem With Asexual Representation:"

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* I'm not one hundred percent in agreement (call it 95%), but this captures the complexity of my thought in this area. "Why We Keep Retelling Persephone's Story:"

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* It’s funny, I used to teach this book as part of the middle School Curriculum here. It never once occurred to me it might not be intentional because the politics of it was so clear and thematic. "Holes & The Prison-Industrial Complex:"

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* "Ranking Every 2021 Costume Drama on Historical Accuracy || The 19th Century:"

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* "Freaks Isn't a Horror Film:"

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* "The Darkest Fairytale Ever Written:"

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* "Ben Shapiro's School Shooter Movie That No One Wanted:"

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* "When Gomer Pyle Married Rock Hudson: The Secret Life Jim Nabors:"

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* "The Right Still Can't Meme:"

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* "I've Got an Ace up My Sleeves | Asexual Memes:"

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* "Patton Oswalt - Christmas Shoes:"

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* "Jurassic Park but with a Cat:"

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* "All JASKIER Songs With Lyrics | The Witcher Season 2:"

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* Wednesday: Squirrel got his booster too late, looks like. (They take two weeks for full coverage). He gets tested at work and had yesterday off, so 2-3 days since infection. We resigned ourselves to the inevitability of infection when they informed him he'd be working with COVID patients. They've been taking all precautions, but Omicron is so terribly infectious.

He is staying entirely in his room; the cats and I are staying out here. I'm bringing him provisions and the like, and the plan is for us not to interact directly, but we must assume my exposure, given how terribly infectious omicron is. I was boosted in early December, so the risk to me is not that great. Either I'm in the unlucky 10% or I'm not. I must hope Pfiser will protect me. I told the Millennials to stay away, lest we infect them, because that is the far greater risk.

* Thursday I masked up with the best mask I had left and went out for provisions to tide Squirrel over in his room for quarantine, since someone had to go, and better me than him. Once I returned, I considered myself in quarantine too. This took all the Thursday spoons and likely some of Friday's.

Friday, I dealt with phone stuff and scheduled a Covid test for Tuesday. I dragged in forage delivery from the patio and sorted and put it away. I did the usual essential things. I am exhausted, but I would be in any case. I have a chronic sinus infection that comes in waves so is that mild stuffiness COVID or the usual? My lungs are in the normal range for this time of year and weather, though on the slightly goopier end of normal. COVId or just my CF Carrier/Allegries/COPD?

Squirrel was still recovering from the booster when he got COVID. We both are pretty sure his symptoms are all or mostly booster recovery, since his arc is pretty much the same one I experienced early December. He is noticeably better every day, but the other shoe could drop and he's higher risk than me.

Tavy can't understand any of this and is extra bitey. He doesn't understand why there are no Millennials. he can't understand why squirrel doesn't pet him. he can't understand why I won't crack the door so he can see what Squirrel is doing and maybe hang out with him. All the routines are in tatters. He gratuitously bit me so hard during lung time Thursday night that he left a dark bruise on my wrist. (The arm was innocently lying across my stomach a couple inches away. I was still. It was definitely nothing I did.) Livia is subtly unsettled and clearly missing his butt pets, but she is very much my cat, if you follow, and more cat social oriented than a people cat. This is so much harder on the emperor who is very much an extrovert.

* Not surprisingly, me having been a 14th century specialist before my break with academia and having been interested in yersina pestis since before even that other major plague struck like lightening and burned through the most vital and creative of two generations, I have thought about the Great Pestilence a lot in the past two years. I have written about that and the Great Plague of Athens in this space and others off and on.

What I haven't written of much or possibly at all is how much I've been thinking about wars. About all the soldiers marching into or later airlifted into meat grinders in places like the Somme or Galipoli or Gettysburg or Omaha Beach or Dien bien Phu. Really all of the Crimean War, or our American Civil War or WWI, and big chunks of all the wars after, once the gun tech reached a certain level.

I think about this when it comes to medical workers in the current Covid crisis. I think about two years of Doctors, nurses, and paramedics, exhausted beyond weeping begging over and over for people to where their masks and stay inside. I think of wave after wave grinding them down to burnt out nubs. I think of men baaing like sheep as they leave their troop transports because that was the only protest they were allowed as they were marched towards the meat grinder battles of WWI, most to come back badly damaged or not at all. You generally can't see neurological and cardiac damage the way you can see missing limbs or a ruined face, but oh the scars are their and so is the PTSD by whatever name an era chooses to call it.

In my highly vaccinated area, in the gap between the Delta spike and the Omicron wave that is drowning us now, the hospital sucked up 130+ nurses out of surrounding nursing home to fill the holes left by those leaving one way or another. (Burnt out, damaged irreparably, psychological damage, and those who don't care enough about other people that infecting and killing people for the Republican political cause made them no longer suitable for a profession that is fundamentally about empathy when practiced well). I kept thinking of the terrible stage in war where the old men and children are the only ones left to call up as a last defense. The healthy nurses went over the top long ago and the people left are people like Squirrel in the most vulnerable categories still able to work. Those nursing homes are now killing fields staffed by a skeleton crew.

Those people lost to death and disability and physical and emotional fatigue... We aren't getting them back. All that skill and intelligence and experience, they have moved on one way or another. The best case scenario here is things like private practice and medical bureaucracy. Far too many are gone for good. The first health care worker to die in NYC's first wave was a gay man. So many followed him.

The first wave could have been less deadly if people like 45 and Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsanaro weren't entirely devoid of ethics and empathy, but a lot of the early part couldn't be helped. It was better in places like the one where I live with responsible leaders who saw saving lives as the goal; it was a nightmare in most Republican controlled areas where killing as many people as possible for capitalism is a linchpin of the "pro-life" agenda. After that first wave though? That's all pretty much on purpose. Selfishness from the International down to the individual level.

Healthcare workers are being endlessly pushed into the meat grinder, and it is inexcusable and irreparable. We'll be lucky if the system recovers in a generation and that's an optimistic view. The people? So many of the people won't, and there's not really a token attempt anymore at saving them.

* "Stonehenge: History and Restoration through old photographs, 1880-1960:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stonehenge-history-restoration-old-photographs/

* A Romance Writer Asks a Doctor: https://twitter.com/sarahmaclean/status/1481757763999043586

* Iphegenia: https://twitter.com/mayadeanewriter/status/1472951601656700930

* Draculas: https://gothiccharmschool.tumblr.com/post/673494941662576640/cognitiveinequality-zooophagous-obsle

* Evaporated Milk: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/673391664499507200/can-someone-please-explain-to-me-what-evaporated

* Is Cum faery Food? https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/673219413102804992/thewinterotter-constant-instigator-audsbot

* "First Of All, There's Nothing Charlotte of "Charlotte's Web" Says About Wilbur That Isn't Also True Of The Virgin Mary:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/first-of-all-theres-nothing-charlotte?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NzAxMjkwNSwiXyI6IkhrV0dsIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQyMDQxMTU0LCJleHAiOjE2NDIwNDQ3NTQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.DFCo-zkCeHRvC2DQl2OdZhMQ25ja5J6WVTzlb-KnerM

* "Street Photographer Captures the Magical Moments That Happen When We’re Not Looking:" https://mymodernmet.com/eric-kogan-magical-street-photos/

* "'It broke something inside me,' writer says of bizarre meal at Michelin-starred restaurant:" https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-friday-edition-1.6281437/it-broke-something-inside-me-writer-says-of-bizarre-meal-at-michelin-starred-restaurant-1.6281479

* "A Food Critic Reviews the Swedish Chef’s New Restaurant:" https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-food-critic-reviews-the-swedish-chefs-new-restaurant

* "Making The News A Little More Fun:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/making-the-news-a-little-more-fun?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NTYzODYwOSwiXyI6Ilprb2d4IiwiaWF0IjoxNjM5ODA0MTM0LCJleHAiOjE2Mzk4MDc3MzQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.o9H7Sde1BoppRGR4nDVt2Yw-7nEq7OoAaHGM2T9YxgY

* "The Great Sphinx of Giza through vintage photographs, 1850-1940:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/great-sphinx-giza-old-photographs/

* "The 14 Best Moments In Willow, Ranked:" https://www.slashfilm.com/709595/the-best-moments-in-willow-ranked/

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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.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What's stopping aid getting in?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/57929853

* "The nine-year-old who teaches in a war zone:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-56212929

* "Cuban family finds welcome, refugee status in distant Serbia:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-russia-cuba-europe-migration-fee97ad2b57816e2e15a1cb7f0e431ae

* "Dozens killed after truck packed with people crashes in Mexico:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/dozens-killed-after-truck-packed-with-migrants-crashes-in-mexico

* "Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over Myanmar hate speech:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59558090

* "Uyghurs subjected to genocide by China, unofficial UK tribunal finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/uyghurs-subjected-to-genocide-by-china-unofficial-uk-tribunal-finds

* "Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai among three prominent democracy activists convicted on Thursday:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-prominent-democracy/story?id=81648043

* "Why is anyone surprised at Boris weaselling his way through another scandal?:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/boris-johnson-christmas-party-downing-street-covid/

* "Tory plot to weaken human rights law is 'unashamed power grab':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/human-rights-act-reform-dominic-raab/

“From Hillsborough, to Grenfell to the appalling mishandling of the recent COVID crisis in care homes, we have never so badly needed a means to hold the government to account and we know that the Human Rights Act does that extremely effectively."

* "'Sinister' Tory anti-refugee bill treats people seeking asylum as less than human:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/lgbt-asylum-seekers-refugee-nationality-borders-bill/

* "Russia planning massive military offensive against Ukraine involving 175,000 troops, U.S. intelligence warns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-ukraine-invasion/2021/12/03/98a3760e-546b-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

* "Putin keeps West guessing with dangerous brinksmanship:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-keeps-west-guessing-with-dangerous-brinksmanship-128074821878

* "Falsifying Russia’s History Is a Step Toward More Violence:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/putins-plot-against-russias-future/620930/

* "Six ways Russia views Ukraine — and why each should worry the West:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/11/russia-ukraine-putin/

* "Putin tests U.S., allies with belligerence toward Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-tests-u-s-allies-with-belligerence-toward-ukraine-128166469888

* "Sen. Chris Murphy on foreign policy and guns:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-chris-murphy-on-foreign-policy-and-guns-128524869950

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* "Pfizer says its booster shot can protect against Omicron:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/08/pfizer-booster-omicron-523935

* "What Johnson & Johnson Can Still Teach Us:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/vaccine-durability-annual-covid-boosters/620863/

* "Data indicate omicron is milder, better at evading vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-africa-south-africa-c8d09bed79be4a25f752237c0470961b

* "Covid Omicron: Time to consider mandatory jabs, EU chief says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59497462

* "Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-59498152

* "Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/14/omicron-us-spread/

* "Dr. Fauci on Omicron: Boosters promising in fighting off severe disease:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-on-omicron-boosters-promising-in-fighting-off-severe-disease-128838213900

* "As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/covid-deaths-elderly-americans.html

* "FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine booster shots for 16- and 17-year-olds amid omicron threat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/09/covid-vaccine-boosters-16-17-year-old/

* "How the Air Force will handle Oklahoma Guardsmen who refuse COVID-19 vaccinations:" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/12/08/how-the-air-force-will-handle-oklahoma-guardsmen-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccinations/

* "Senate votes to repeal key Biden administration vaccine and testing policy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/08/republicans-vaccine-congress-coronavirus/

* "Will new Head Start rules on masks and COVID-19 vaccines trigger another Texas lawsuit?:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/12/13/will-new-head-start-rules-on-masks-and-covid-19-vaccines-trigger-another-texas-lawsuit/

* "The Government Asked Us Not To Release Records From The CDC’s First Failed COVID Test. Here They Are.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/covid-test-false-positive-failure-cdc-documents

* "Buzzfeed News: Covid test failure revealed in secret CDC investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buzzfeed-news-covid-test-failure-revealed-in-secret-cdc-investigation-128358469657

* "Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

* "Three Northeast states deploy National Guard amid medical capacity crisis due to pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/us/maine-new-york-covid-national-guard/index.html

* "Florida’s governor celebrated his anti-mandate Covid laws. Now Omicron is here:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/04/covid-omicron-florida-republican-ron-desantis

* "University of Florida researchers pressured to destroy COVID-19 data, told not to criticize DeSantis: report:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/584909-university-of-florida-researchers-pressured-to-destroy-covid-19-data

* "University of Florida launches formal investigation after reports of pressure to destroy Covid-19 research data:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/us/florida-university-covid-19-data/index.html

* "More Alabama counties have high rate of COVID transmission:" https://www.wbrc.com/2021/12/03/more-alabama-counties-have-high-rate-covid-transmission/

* "Alabama has second largest COVID deaths per capita in nation, third least vaccinated:" https://www.alreporter.com/2021/12/14/alabama-has-second-largest-covid-deaths-per-capita-in-nation-third-least-vaccinated/

* "Dobbs: 'A challenging season' ahead as COVID-19 cases rise and flu kicks up in Mississippi:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/12/03/covid-19-flu-cases-rise-mississippi/8849562002/

* "‘We Can Get It Done’: How Jefferson County Became First In Mississippi For Vaccination:" https://www.mississippifreepress.org/18447/we-can-get-it-done-how-jefferson-county-became-first-in-mississippi-for-vaccination/

* "Michigan sets hospitalization record, leads nation in new coronavirus cases per capita:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/health/michigan-covid-cases-hospitalizations/index.html

* "Covid shows ominous signs as winter sets in; Omicron incidental to flare-up:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-shows-ominous-signs-as-winter-sets-in-omicron-incidental-to-flare-up-128169541802

* "Lee Norman, fired as Kansas health secretary, says he was 'Fauci'd' by COVID politics:" https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2021/12/03/lee-norman-fired-kansas-health-boss-says-covid-politics-crux/8852270002/

* "'Too much straight talk' on Covid forces Kansas health secretary out of office:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-too-much-straight-talk-on-covid-forces-kansas-health-secretary-out-of-office-128268357957

* "'Pretty stubborn population': Kansas health officials worry about vaccination rates as COVID worsens:" https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/12/08/kansas-covid-vaccine-rates-as-hospitalizations-cases-rise-coronavirus-updates/8891607002/

* "Missouri AG Eric Schmitt orders schools to drop COVID rules. They say he can’t do that:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256432276.html

* "NYC to impose vaccine mandate on private sector employers:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/mayor-vaccine-mandates-required-nyc-employers-81582082

* "Supreme Court declines to block New York vaccine mandate:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/13/politics/supreme-court-new-york-vaccine-mandate/index.html

* "Tenn medical board takes virus misinformation policy offline:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/tenn-medical-board-takes-virus-misinformation-policy-offline-81631746

* "‘My guy’: Trump was impressed Meadows carried Covid briefcase, book says:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-my-guy-trump-was-impressed-meadows-carried-covid-briefcase-book-says-128250949722

* 45 deliberately exposed more than 500 people than we know of to COVID when he was sick last year. "Seven days: Following Trump’s coronavirus trail:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-positive/2021/12/05/b1a55fda-544f-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html

* "The wide and dangerous gap between Trump’s covid recommendations and his treatments:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/07/wide-dangerous-gap-between-trumps-covid-recommendations-his-treatments/

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* "White House announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/white-house-boycott-beijing-olympics-523817

* "UK opens door to Assange extradition to US on spying charges:" https://apnews.com/article/julian-assange-espionage-extradition-87c7f8f5acf747bbddb7cb87005fded6

* Good. Finally. "US woman accused in high-profile road crash to face UK trial:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-woman-accused-high-profile-road-crash-face-81730323

* "The history of the metal box that’s wrecking the supply chain:" https://www.vox.com/recode/22832884/shipping-containers-amazon-supply-chain

* "'The crisis we face is real': Blinken on why Biden is convening a Summit for Democracy:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/08/president-biden-hosting-democracy-summit-here-why/6418307001/

* "As Biden rallies world's democracies, U.S. political right sides with authoritarians:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-biden-rallies-world-s-democracies-u-s-political-right-sides-with-authoritarians-128269893538

* "Biden elevates democracy as a value to the chagrin of China, Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-elevates-democracy-as-a-value-to-the-chagrin-of-china-russia-128371781713

* DeJoy's at it again. "USPS suspends delivery of mail to certain countries:" https://holiday-wishes.dreamwidth.org/93123.html

* "Lesbian Fox News Host Slams Biden for Saying Women and Men Are Equal:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/12/10/lesbian-fox-news-host-slams-biden-saying-women-and-men-are-equal

* "Biden order would make US government carbon neutral by 2050:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-technology-business-environment-and-nature-caee9ef67c7274ee2a9399f5c9b1976e

* "Gay Indian-American to Become Top LGBTQ+ White House Staffer:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/10/gay-indian-american-become-top-lgbtq-white-house-staffer

* "How Reggie Greer Fights for LGBTQ+ Rights From Inside the Biden Admin:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/12/08/how-reggie-greer-fights-lgbtq-rights-inside-biden-admin

* "Biden nominee withdraws name after GOP ‘red scare’ campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-nominee-withdraws-name-after-gop-red-scare-campaign-128252997939

* "Congress votes to raise the debt ceiling, punting the next fight to 2023:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064114046/congress-votes-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-punting-the-next-fight-to-2023

* "Senate sends $768B defense policy bill to Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/15/senate-sends-768b-defense-policy-bill-to-biden-524734

* "McConnell secures GOP support for new debt strategy:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/07/mcconnell-gop-raise-debt-limit-523878

* "Despite past objections, Senate adds filibuster exception for debt ceiling. So, what next?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-past-objections-senate-adds-filibuster-exception-for-debt-ceiling-so-what-next-128462405659

* "Manchin keeps Dems guessing on their megabill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/13/manchin-fiscal-concerns-524158

* "Senate Dems' choice: Election reform first, or Biden's megabill?:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/14/senate-democrats-wrestle-with-two-end-of-the-year-priorities-524217

* "‘Shameless:’ Republicans tout funding that passed with zero GOP votes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-shameless-republicans-tout-funding-that-passed-with-zero-gop-votes-128149573821

* "Elizabeth Warren to Elon Musk: The world's richest freeloader evidently has very thin skin:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elizabeth-warren-responds-to-elon-musk-tweeting-she-s-senator-karen-calling-him-world-s-richest-freeloader-128837189631

* "Who can still afford to live in the city?:"

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* "Starbucks workers at Buffalo store vote to unionize:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/business/starbucks-union-vote/index.html

* "‘Monumental victory’: Starbucks workers in Buffalo vote to unionize:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-monumental-victory-starbucks-workers-in-buffalo-vote-to-unionize-128357957671

* "Andrew Zimmern: We have enough food to reach people and desperately need Congress to take notice:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-exacerbating-the-food-insecurity-problem-in-this-country-discussed-by-andrew-zimmern-128450117954

* "Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid:" https://www.propublica.org/article/utahs-social-safety-net-is-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-what-does-that-mean-if-youre-not-one#1178670

* "If we made other professions ‘Dash for Cash’ like we do teachers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/dash-cash-teachers-dollar-bills-satire/

* "‘What have we come to?’: Mehdi on ‘dystopian’ contest for extra classroom funds:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-what-have-we-come-to-mehdi-on-dystopian-contest-for-extra-classroom-funds-128635973839

* "Banks slowly reconsider overdraft fees, amid public pressure:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/banks-slowly-reconsider-overdraft-fees-amid-public-pressure-81742084

* "How the Taxi Workers Won:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/taxi-driver-strike/

* "Two recent filibuster exceptions expose lie of filibuster as insurmountable hurdle:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/two-recent-filibuster-exceptions-expose-lie-of-filibuster-as-insurmountable-hurdle-128649797728

* "'These are no ordinary times': Warnock calls for action to stem erosion of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-these-are-no-ordinary-times-warnock-calls-for-action-to-stem-erosion-of-democracy-128756293942

* "Warnock to Senate Democrats: Bipartisanship at whose expense?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/warnock-to-senate-democrats-bipartisanship-at-whose-expense-128755269590

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "New York City poised to give voting rights to noncitizens:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-york-new-york-city-voting-state-elections-cb6067185112b9f3aca9f3f1ae14f11b

* "Biden administration sues to block Texas redistricting maps:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/doj-sues-to-block-texas-congressional-map-523819

* "North Carolina delays 2022 primaries to give redistricting challenges more time:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062542865/north-carolina-delays-2022-primaries-to-give-redistricting-challenges-more-time

* "How Utah Republicans ‘weaponized’ redistricting:" https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/11/17/how-utah-republicans/

* "Judge allows lawsuits against Georgia’s voting law to move forward:" https://www.axios.com/federal-judge-lawsuits-georgia-restrictive-voting-law-641137a5-3d1e-49e0-9c6a-afe89483ca05.html

* "Republicans overhaul election system in Georgia, purging Democrats; Black county targeted:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-overhaul-election-system-in-georgia-purging-democrats-black-county-targeted-128460358001

* "Fmr. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discusses the 2022 midterms and the battles over redistricting:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fmr-u-s-attorney-general-eric-holder-discusses-the-2022-midterms-and-the-battles-over-redistricting-128525893857

* "Republicans overhaul election system in Georgia, purging Democrats; Black county targeted:"https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-overhaul-election-system-in-georgia-purging-democrats-black-county-targeted-128460358001

* "Addressing Insider Threats in Elections:" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/addressing-insider-threats-elections

* "Trump, supporters not willing to risk 2024 outcome with a fair election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-supporters-not-willing-to-risk-2024-outcome-with-a-fair-election-128081477557

* "Rep. Schiff: GOP seems to be putting in place apparatus for overturning 2024 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/house-voting-on-mark-meadows-contempt-referral-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-128740933783

* CW: Death threats, Lynching. "Two election workers break silence after enduring Trump backers' threats:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-two-election-workers-break-silence-after-enduring-trump-backers-2021-12-10/

* "Kanye West publicist pressed Georgia election worker to confess to bogus fraud charges:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10/

* "Details of intimidation of Georgia election workers puts new scrutiny on Trump campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/details-of-intimidation-of-georgia-election-workers-puts-new-scrutiny-on-trump-campaign-128459845849

* "Election worker received threats, had to change appearance after being falsely accused by Trump of rigging votes:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-falsely-accusing-georgia-election-worker-ruby-freeman-of-rigging-votes-leads-to-threats-against-her-128451141544

* "Residents of Trump-Loving Retirement Community Arrested for Allegedly Voting Twice in 2020 Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/florida-three-arrested-vote-twice-the-villages-1271574/

* "Election officials gain defenders against Trump Republicans bent on corrupting democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/election-officials-gain-defenders-against-trump-republicans-bent-on-corrupting-democracy-128851013580

* "Republican rips colleagues for damaging, wasteful election spectacle:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-rips-colleagues-for-damaging-wasteful-election-spectacle-128848453845

* "Retired Army colonel who circulated election-denying PowerPoint speaks to Louisiana election commission:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-army-colonel-circulated-election-220900873.html

* "Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powell-defending-republic-donations/2021/12/06/61bdb004-53ef-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

* "Joy Reid critiques shadowy Utah Voter Verification Project going door-to-door looking for nonexistent voter fraud:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/utah-voter-verification-project-going-door-to-door-looking-for-nonexistent-voter-fraud-critiqued-by-joy-reid-128152133986

* "Republicans lay the groundwork to subvert the 2024 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/republicans-lay-the-groundwork-to-subvert-the-2024-election-128525893895

* "The Terrifying Future of the American Right:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/

* "Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/

* "Dana Milbank: Reporters should be partisan when it comes to democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-loyalists-leading-america-toward-authoritarianism-128069701544

* "Trump's 'propaganda ecosystem' priming supporters for violence: Gellman:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-propaganda-ecosystem-priming-supporters-for-violence-gellman-128078917725

* "Wherein Matt Lewis is madly ahistorical:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1812100.html

* "Joy Reid: The party of open hostility to democracy is the Republican Party:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-kick-off-first-summit-for-democracy-as-gop-voter-suppression-ploys-advance-128358469955

* "How Trump pushed Perdue into the Georgia governor's race, kicking off a bitter GOP fight:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-official-perdue-to-challenge-kemp-for-ga-governor-ensuring-divisive-gop-primary/2021/12/06/7f5fd94c-56a7-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html

* "Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue will announce primary bid against Georgia governor this week:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/05/perdue-georgia-governor-kemp-primary-523772

* "Chris Hayes: David Perdue’s governor bid is about one thing and one thing only:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-david-perdue-s-governor-bid-is-about-one-thing-and-one-thing-only-128063045727

* "What the GOP Does to Its Own Dissenters:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/peter-meijer-freshman-republican-impeach/620844/

* "Lisa Middleton Becomes First Trans Mayor in California:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/09/lisa-middleton-becomes-first-trans-mayor-california

* "Liliana Bakhtiari Is First Nonbinary Member of Atlanta City Council:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/06/liliana-bakhtiari-first-nonbinary-member-atlanta-city-council

* "Rep. Omar on calls for ‘condemnation and punishment’ for Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim comments:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/lauren-boebert-s-racist-anti-muslim-comments-condemned-by-rep-ilhan-omar-128151109982

* "Trump shell company faces SEC investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/trump-spac-sec-investigation-523795

* "In odd career move, Devin Nunes announces abrupt departure from Congress :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/devin-nunes-announces-abrupt-departure-from-congress-in-odd-career-move-128076869653

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Devin Nunes to Lead Donald Trump's Media Company:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/07/anti-lgbtq-rep-devin-nunes-lead-donald-trumps-media-company-trump-media-technology-group

* "Trump appeals judge’s ruling that tax records can be released by Treasury Department to Congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/14/trump-tax-records-treasury-release/

* "Trump inadvertently admits to obstruction of justice in new Fox News interview:" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/07/inadvertently-admits-to-obstruction-of-justice-in-new-fox-news-interview_partner/

* "Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro refuses to provide documents subpoenaed in House Covid-19 probe:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/politics/peter-navarro-documents-covid-19-probe/index.html

* "New York attorney general seeks Trump’s deposition as part of civil fraud investigation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-letitia-james-deposition/2021/12/09/01b10140-587f-11ec-a219-9b4ae96da3b7_story.html

* "Parallel criminal and civil cases put Trump in a legal bind:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/parallel-criminal-and-civil-cases-put-trump-in-a-legal-bind-128370245760

* "Tim O’Brien: NY attorney general seeking Trump deposition signals investigation’s end is near:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-sought-for-deposition-by-new-york-attorney-general-tish-james-128360005830

* "New Evidence: Trump White House May Have Worked With DOJ Official in Scheme to Overturn the Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jeffrey-clark-white-house-overturn-georgia-election-1267012/

* "House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress over Jan. 6 probe dispute:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-house-expected-hold-mark-meadows-contempt-congress/story?id=81745730

* "Meadows sues as Jan. 6 panel proceeds with contempt case:" https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/meadows-sues-as-jan-6-panel-proceeds-with-contempt-case/KAP2FTXTDVC5VC77MVS2IRFCR4/?outputType=amp

* "Meadows Jan. 5 email indicated Guard on standby to ‘protect pro Trump people,’ investigators say:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/12/meadows-jan-6-national-guard-trump-524133

* "New details show depth of Mark Meadows' role in effort to overturn Trump's 2020 loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-details-show-depth-of-mark-meadows-role-in-effort-to-overturn-trump-s-2020-loss-128271429559

* "New Meadows texts further implicate members of Congress in Trump plot to overturn election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-meadows-texts-further-implicate-members-of-congress-in-trump-plot-to-overturn-election-128754757912

* "Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republicans-congress-jan-6.html

* "Contents of texts to Meadows from Fox News hosts, Congress members revealed at 1/6 hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/contents-of-texts-to-meadows-from-fox-news-hosts-congress-members-revealed-at-1-6-hearing-128646725898

* "Meadows evidence appears to implicate members of Congress in plots to flip state elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/meadows-evidence-appears-to-implicate-members-of-congress-in-plots-to-flip-state-elections-128649797535

* "Potential crimes by Donald Trump seen as a focus for January 6th Committee at hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/potential-crimes-by-donald-trump-seen-as-a-focus-for-january-6th-committee-at-hearing-128648773600

* "Jan. 6 panel: Fox News hosts texted Meadows amid riot, urged intervention:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jan-6-panel-fox-news-hosts-texted-meadows-amid-riot-urged-intervention-128633925722

* "Fox hosts, Don Jr. texts reveal everyone was horrified by riot—except Trump :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-hosts-don-jr-texts-reveal-everyone-was-horrified-by-riot-except-trump-128738373993

* "Mary Trump: Trumpism has moved beyond Donald, is about undoing our democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-supporters-including-mark-meadows-kevin-mccarthy-scrutinized-by-mary-trump-128837701791

* "House committee subpoenas six people linked to Jan. 6 rally, including Trump-backed Ohio congressional candidate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/10/house-committee-subpoenas-six-individuals-linked-jan-6-rally-including-trump-backed-ohio-congressional-candidate/

* "January 6th Committee reveals what we already knew - it wasn't a group of rowdy tourists:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/january-6th-committee-reveals-what-we-already-knew-it-wasn-t-a-group-of-rowdy-tourists-128525381957

* "Top Pence aide cooperating with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/politics/marc-short-pence-aide-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to keep January 6 documents from House committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/trump-documents/index.html

* "Another Trump loss: Court affirms legitimacy of 1/6 investigation; fallout for Bannon?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-trump-loss-court-affirms-legitimacy-of-1-6-investigation-fallout-for-bannon-128370757686

* "Judge sets July 18 for Bannon ‘contempt of Congress’ trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/07/july-18-bannon-contempt-of-congress-trial-523885

* "'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777

* "Ex-D.C. guard official: Michael Flynn’s brother lied to Congress about Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-d-c-guard-official-michael-flynn-s-brother-lied-to-congress-about-jan-6-128064069660

* "D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/racine-jan-6-lawsuit/2021/12/14/4e581d00-5c51-11ec-bda6-25c1f558dd09_story.html

* "Army awards Purple Hearts to soldiers whose injuries were minimized by Donald Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/army-awards-purple-hearts-to-soldiers-whose-injuries-were-minimized-by-donald-trump-128268357931

* "Florida district to pay $26 million to shooting victims:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-district-pay-26-million-shooting-victims-81767791

* "California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/california-gun-control-texas-abortion-legal-tactics/index.html

* "Joy Reid slams Republicans who seem to lionize gun worshippers and lethal shooters:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/deadly-shootings-getting-the-rightwing-spin-treatment-slammed-by-joy-reid-128070725508

* "Are the Crumbley Parents Responsible?:"

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* "'No one is solvent': Coffee crisis in Central America fuels record exodus north:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/no-one-solvent-coffee-crisis-central-america-fuels-record-exodus-north-rcna8023

* "Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charge in Floyd’s death:" https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-race-and-ethnicity-st-paul-a8b12b1e3e0fedc1270c659e3428134e

* "Exonerated after 43 years in jail despite his innocence, Kevin Strickland opens up to Joy Reid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kevin-strickland-after-43-years-in-jail-via-wrongful-conviction-by-an-all-white-jury-is-exonerated-freed-128257093649

* "Police Trading Homophobic, Racist Texts Jeopardize Hundreds of Cases:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/09/police-trading-homophobic-racist-texts-jeopardize-hundreds-cases

* "The Police Killings Were Years Ago. New Prosecutors Are Reopening Cases.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/us/prosecutors-investigating-police-killings.html

* CW: Lynching "No new charges as Emmett Till investigation closed by Justice Department:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/emmett-till-investigation-closed-justice-department-523825

* "Keechant Sewell to be 1st woman, 3rd Black person to lead New York City police:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-12-15/new-york-police-sewell

* CW: Suicide "Family of Georgia Trans Inmate Wins $2.2M Wrongful-Death Settlement:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/08/family-georgia-trans-inmate-wins-record-two-million-dollar-wrongful-death-settlement

* "Violence & Protest | Philosophy Tube:"

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* "White Supremacy, 4 Years After Charlottesville:"

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* "How do you deradicalise an incel?:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-do-you-deradicalise-an-incel

* "Jussie Smollett was found guilty on 5 felony counts. Here's what comes next:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/us/jussie-smollett-trial-guilty-next-steps/index.html

* "‘Terrifying’ Nashville statue of Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest is removed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/07/nashville-forrest-confederate-statue-removed/

* "Fall of 'heinously ugly' racist statue marks another step in slow march of progress:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fall-of-heinously-ugly-racist-statue-marks-another-step-in-slow-march-of-progress-128167493824

* "A Confederate General's Remains Are Being Moved Out Of Memphis:" https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008371491/confederate-general-remains-memphis-moved

* "Virginia to begin removal process of Robert E. Lee statue pedestal in Richmond, governor says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/us/virginia-robert-e-lee-statue-pedestal-removal/index.html

* "The Mantra of White Supremacy:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/white-supremacy-mantra-anti-racism/620832/

* Spoiler: He's also super racist. "Rod Liddle 'transphobia' row proves students are being sacrificed for speech:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/durham-university-rod-liddle-transphobia-student/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Little Elm families want accountability after protest that led to clash between students and police:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/12/01/little-elm-families-want-accountability-after-protest-that-led-to-clash-between-students-and-police/

* CW: Pedophilia. "John Kricfalusi's Disgusting Behavior With Work and Minors | Corporate Casket:"

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* CW: Sex Trafficking. "The prosecution rests its case in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/10/1063224243/the-prosecution-rests-its-case-in-ghislaine-maxwells-sex-trafficking-trial

* CW: Pedophilia. "Reality TV’s Josh Duggar convicted of child porn possession:" https://apnews.com/article/josh-duggar-convicted-child-pornography-26436604345361733003627af33bda78

* "The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/children-sex-trafficking-conspiracy-epidemic/620845/

* "US groups behind bid to outlaw abortion linked to global attacks on human rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/07/homophobic-groups-fund-abortion-case-us/

* "SCOTUS allows clinics’ challenge to Texas abortion ban to proceed:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/10/supreme-court-allows-clinics-challenge-to-texas-abortion-ban-to-proceed-rebuffs-biden-admin-524083

* "LGBTQ+ Groups: SCOTUS Should Have Blocked Texas Abortion Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/10/lgbtq-groups-scotus-should-have-blocked-texas-abortion-law

* "Anti-abortion Supreme Court justices risk slippery slope with ruling on Texas abortion law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-abortion-supreme-court-justices-risk-slippery-slope-with-ruling-on-texas-abortion-law-128460869959

* "Jennifer Rubin: Women are on their own throughout pregnancy and childbirth in Mississippi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mississippi-governor-defends-anti-abortion-stance-as-his-state-is-ranked-50th-for-child-welfare-128068165812

* "Priest jailed after stealing £85k from church to fund drug-fuelled orgies:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/10/priest-stole-church-gay-sex-orgies-drugs/

* "Chile's Congress Approves Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/08/chiles-congress-approves-marriage-equality

* "Tokyo Plans to Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships Next Year:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/08/tokyo-plans-recognize-same-sex-partnerships-next-year

* "Here's The Current List of Countries That Recognize Marriage Equality:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2021/12/08/heres-current-list-countries-recognize-marriage-equality#media-gallery-media-1

* "LGBTQ+ Iranians Are Suffering and Dying While the World Yawns:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/10/lgbtq-iranians-are-suffering-and-dying-while-world-yawns

* "Barbados can 'wipe the slate' on LGBT+ rights as a republic, campaigners say:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/barbados-lgbt-rights-republic-colonial-laws/

* "Presbyterian Church goes after reverend for 'endorsing gay relationship':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/10/presbyterian-church-gay/

* "Police failings in case of evil Grindr killer Stephen Port 'probably' led to more deaths:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/10/stephen-port-inquest-jury-police/

* CW: Rape "BBC Transphobia? Or Just Terrible Journalism? (Or Both?!):"

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* CW: Rape. "J.K. Rowling Casts Transphobic Tweets Again:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/13/jk-rowling-casts-transphobic-tweets-again

* "JK Rowling (Again) Pushes Trans Women Predator Narrative:"

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* "JK Rowling Promotes Anti-Trans Doxers to Condemn Doxing:"

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* "More Than 20 Million Americans Identify as LGBTQ+, According to Report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/15/more-20-million-americans-identify-lgbtq-according-report

* "Here Are the 50 Trans Americans Killed in 2021 So Far:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/10/20/all-trans-people-killed-murdered-violence-2021-record-statistics

* "Florida Removes LGBTQ-Inclusive Antibullying Info From State Website:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/06/florida-removes-lgbtq-inclusive-antibullying-info-state-website

* "Catholic Diocese Says LGBTQ+ People Are Not Allowed Sacraments:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/12/10/michigan-catholic-diocese-says-lgbtq-people-are-not-allowed-sacraments

* Suspect Arrested After Gay Man Was Beaten with Metal Pole":" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/13/suspect-arrested-after-gay-man-was-beaten-metal-pole

* "Man Threatened to Attack NYC Pride, Eclipsing Pulse Massacre:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/07/man-threatened-attack-nyc-pride-eclipsing-pulse-massacre

* "Trans Woman Nikai David Killed in Oakland in Deadliest Year on Record:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/06/trans-woman-nikai-david-killed-oakland-california-deadliest-year-record

* CW: Suicide. "12-YO Dies by Suicide After Bullies Say He’d Go to Hell for Being Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/07/12-year-old-boy-kills-self-after-bullies-say-hed-go-hell-being-gay

* "Minnesota Town Rallies Around Outed Trans Child:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/07/minnesota-town-rallies-around-outed-trans-child

* "Trans Woman Wins Settlement in Suit Against California Gym:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/09/trans-woman-wins-settlement-suit-against-california-gym

* CW: Suicide "Study: Hormone Therapy Connected to Lower Suicide Risk in Trans Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/14/study-hormone-therapy-connected-lower-suicide-risk-trans-youth

* "These People Think Bleach Will Cure Autism:"

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* CW: Torture, Child Abuse "How Can Infrastructure Help Us Stop Outbreaks? Crash Course Outbreak Science #12:"

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* "The Horrors of Autism Speaks:"

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* CW: Child Abuse, Torture. " Autism Speaks' Electrifying Past :"

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* CW: Child Abuse "Is NEXT For Autism Just Autism Speaks Jr?:"

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* "What Is Outbreak Culture? Crash Course Outbreak Science #13:"

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* "4 Dead Infants, a Convicted Mother, and a Genetic Mystery:" https://www.wired.com/story/kathleen-folbigg-sudden-infant-death-mystery/

* "‘I’m blind but technology helps me animate’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-59429216

* "Supervised injection sites have reversed 9 overdoses since opening in NYC: Mayor de Blasio:" https://abc7ny.com/mayor-de-blasio-supervised-injection-needle-exchange-drug-addiction/11300973/

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* "Postcards From a World on Fire:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html

* "Conservatives Have a New Bogeyman: Critical Energy Theory:" https://newrepublic.com/article/164641/conservatives-new-bogeyman-critical-energy-theory

* "‘Critical energy theory’: Right wing declares war on ‘woke’ climate policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-critical-energy-theory-right-wing-declares-war-on-woke-climate-policy-128253509763

* "‘So Many Dimensions’: A Drought Study Underlines the Complexity of Climate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/climate/climate-change-madagascar-drought.html

* "The drought ravaging East African wildlife and livestock:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-59513118

* "The exact link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw. Here's why:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/13/1063676832/the-exact-link-between-tornadoes-and-climate-change-is-hard-to-draw-heres-why

* "More than 80 feared dead after tornadoes hit central and southern US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/weather/severe-weather-tornadoes-saturday/index.html

* "The full extent of weekend tornado damage might not be known for days, officials say:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063522811/emergency-response-continues-in-kentucky-after-deadly-tornadoes-in-south-and-mid

* "Candle factory had been 'going 24/7' to meet Christmastime demand. Then the storm hit:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/us/candle-factory-mayfield-ky-tornado/index.html

* "Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/13/kentucky-tornadoes-candle-factory-search-survivors

* "Crews search rubble after 6 die at Illinois Amazon facility:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/crews-search-rubble-after-6-die-at-illinois-amazon-facility/2021/12/12/5832affa-5b72-11ec-b1ef-cb78be717f0e_story.html

* "Survivors of deadly tornadoes may go weeks without heat, water, electricity, Kentucky officials say:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tornado-kentucky-storm-dec13-2021-1.6283500

* "Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-tornado-factory-workers-threatened-firing-left-tornado-employ-rcna8581

* "The U.S. Government Is Wasting Billions on Ineffective Wildfire Policy:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/fire-industrial-complex-wildfire-policy-suppression.html

* CW: Child Death. "Storm Drains Keep Swallowing People During Floods:" https://www.propublica.org/article/storm-drains-keep-swallowing-people-during-floods

* "British waste dumped in Romania:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-59557493

* "Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/urban-garden-rio-feeds-hundreds-families-former-crackland-2021-12-05/

* "California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/california-goes-war-food-waste-130026484.html

* "The ingenious living bridges of India:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211117-how-indias-living-bridges-could-transform-architecture

* "Pansexual Furry to Become 1st Out LGBTQ+ Person in Space This Weekend:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/10/pansexual-furry-become-1st-out-lgbtq-person-space-weekend

* "Every Night, Hordes of Sea Creatures Rise From the Deep:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/why-sea-creatures-migrate-surface-every-night/620979/

* "Museum Showcases Queer Relationships in the Animal Kingdom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/10/museum-showcases-same-sex-queer-relationships-animal-kingdom

* "Watch a stunning MIT video of butterfly scales forming inside a chrysalis:" https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-a-stunning-mit-video-of-butterfly-scales-forming-inside-a-chrysalis/

* "Reindeer’s Eyes Change Color With Seasons:" https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/10/reindeers-eyes-change-color-with-seasons.html

* CW: Animal Abuse, Dead Animals "Discussing the History of Animal Abuse in Hollywood | Prism of the Past:"

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* "Akhenaten - A Pharaoh Obsessed - Extra History:"

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* "Thermopylae:"

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* "King Herod: Mad Tyrant or Misunderstood Hero?:"

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* "Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/pompeii-still-has-buried-secrets

* "Creepy Archaeological Discoveries:"

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* " More Creepy Archaeological Discoveries :"

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* "Subutai: Genghis Khan’s Demon Dog of War:"

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* "Machu Picchu: The Lost City of the Incas:"

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* "Frederick the Great: Prussia’s Fabulous King:"

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* "A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Lady's Maid:"

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* "Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer:"

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* "Mary Seacole:"

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* "What Were Halloween Parties Like in the Early 1900s?:"

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* "That Time When a Shortage of Sausage and Beer Killed 1,000 People and Toppled an Empire:"

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* "Sleeping Sickness: The Terrifying Disease that Everyone Forgot:"

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* "Rhinelander v Rhinelander: The 1920s Race & Sex Scandal You've Never Head Of:"

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* " Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Black American History #27 :" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HY8d4ABHQA

* "The Great Depression: Crash Course Black American History #28:"

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* "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run:"

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* "What was Life Like for Women in the USSR?:"

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* "Magora Kennedy: Meet The 83-Year-Old Reverend And Stonewall Veteran:" https://www.advocate.com/lesbian/2021/12/13/magora-kennedy-meet-reverend-stonewall

* "Rita Moreno vs Hollywood: The Other "West Side Story" Rumble:"

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* "The Overlooked History of Berlin's Black Community:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-black-community-germany

* "Jay Toole: The Stonewall Veteran Reflects On 25 Years of Homelessness:" https://www.advocate.com/women/2021/12/07/jay-toole-stonewall-veteran-reflects-25-years-homelessness

* "Looking at the Cause of the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse of 1981:"

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* "Why Aren’t We Taking to the Streets for Canadian Women and Girls?:" https://www.flare.com/news/canadian-activism/

* "Vozrozhdeniya "Rebirth" Island: The Soviet Union's Bio Weapons Lab:"

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* "Don Decker: The Rain Man:"

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* "Legendary author bell hooks, who believed 'feminism is for everyone', dies aged 69:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/15/bell-hooks-death-tributes-author-feminism/

* "Steve Bronski, co-founder of pioneering gay band Bronski Beat, dies aged 61:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/steve-bronski-beat-dead/

That Smalltown Boy video meant so damned much when it was new. It was a promise that if you could hold on and survive, you could get out and it would be better.

* "Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy:"

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* "Anne Rice, best-selling novelist who helped launch a vampire revival, dies at 80:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/12/13/anne-rice-dead/

* "Anne Rice, Noted for Supernatural and Homoerotic Novels, Dies at 80:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/12/12/anne-rice-noted-supernatural-and-homoerotic-novels-dies-80

* "Michael Nesmith, Monkees Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 78:" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/monkees-michael-nesmith-dead-1270079/

* "Yemen: The woman saving a crumbling heritage:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59262086

* "The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/bogdanos-antiquities-new-york/620525/

* "Negro League baseball players earn spots in the National Baseball Hall of Fame:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/us/negro-league-players-baseball-hall-of-fame/index.html

* "The secret history of Sesame Street: ‘It was utopian – it’s part of who we all are’:" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/11/found-photographs-sesame-street-season-one-utopian

* "Cream cheese shortage hits NYC bagel shops amid supply chain issues:" https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/12/05/cream-cheese-shortage-hits-nyc-bagel-shops-amid-supply-chain-issues

* "Italian bishop apologizes for telling children Santa doesn't exist:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/europe/christmas-santa-claus-italy-bishop-apology-scli-intl/index.html

* "SCOTUS: Where Reproductive Rights Go to Die:"

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* "The Dangers of the Supreme Court Shadow Docket:"

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* "How Our Culture of “Fast and Free Returns!” is Not So Free:"

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* "Mark Meadows is Having a VERY Bad Week:"

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* "If You Don’t Know, Now You Know - U.S. Housing Demand Soars:" https://www.cc.com/video/kk62bw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-u-s-housing-demand-soars

* "Fringe-Watching - Lauren Boebert :" https://www.cc.com/video/l6mrai/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-fringe-watching-lauren-boebert

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Vaccination in SoCal:" https://www.cc.com/video/i0hd3o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-vaccination-in-socal

* "Boris Johnson Party Scandal & Hillary Clinton Victory Speech:" https://www.cc.com/video/5ax2mr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-boris-johnson-party-scandal-hillary-clinton-victory-speech

* "Elon Musk's TIME Feature & Gavin Newsom's Gun Law Gambit:" https://www.cc.com/video/1i23gl/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-elon-musk-s-time-feature-gavin-newsom-s-gun-law-gambit

* "Queerbaiting: Manipulating the LGBTQ+ Into False Representation:"

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* CW: Suicide "What Went Wrong with Dear Evan Hansen:"

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* "Richard Hunt: The Gay Man Behind the Muppets:"

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* "1000 Years of Hanukkah in Jewish historical costume! Celebrating the history of Hanukkah traditions:"

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* "500 Years of Correcting “Historical” Halloween Costumes:"

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* " Redesigning "Historical" Halloween Costumes According to Actual Historical Evidence: Men's Edition :"

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* "Landlords, Class Disparity & The People Under the Stairs:"

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* "How Adam West's Batman Lit the Way for the Dark Knight:"

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* "How Did the Whole Stan Lee Cameo Thing Start? (And the Hilariously Awkward Way He Met His Wife):"

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* "One Villainous Scene - Demona is Alone:"

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* "The World's Most Dangerous Musical: The Chaotic History of Spider-Man on Broadway:"

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* I wrote this in response to someone's post about a Christmas Carol. (Mildly Edited.)

My Father was Marley every year from when I was a few months old until the year before he died. (He missed the last pageant because he was literally on his death bed, dying Christmas Eve.) He loved doing it the way he loved being a ghoul every Halloween to give out candy. The make up was rather similar and he spent years perfecting and aging both costumes. This was a man who owned his own chains, real steel so the rattle would carry. (The School chapel had excellent acoustics. It was a theater in the round situation, with the whole school assembled on three sides. The building had a sort of raised stage in the center of the cross. (4th side had choir, organ, robing room, storage, offices). The acoustics were designed so an unamplified would carry beautifully from the center stage.

You say "Marley" and I see my Father in his dingy shroud and the make up designed to make him look haggard and dead, raising his chains, and his booming voice wailing the monologue that started, "These are the chains I forged in life," punctuated by rattling chains to which they had attached the coffers of greed. He somehow honed a combination of real soul torment and skin chilling warning.

This will always be the Christmas Carol in my head. It was truly Haunting and very much drawn from the original story in tone and design.

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes, plus the donations. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* I'm having a lot of extreme pain which is why posting is so irregular. Apologies.

* "Goofy 18th-Century Self-Portraits by Joseph Ducreux:" https://kottke.org/21/11/goofy-18th-century-self-portraits-by-joseph-ducreux

* "11 Profoundly Useless Educational Films From the 1940s-1960s:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653019/profoundly-useless-educational-films

* "8 Helpful Tips for Keeping Pets Out of Christmas Trees:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653446/how-to-keep-pets-out-of-christmas-trees?utm_content=infinitescroll2

* "Timey-Wimey Sweets:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/5/timey-wimey-sweets

* "Sunday Sweets: Polar Opposites:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/12/sunday-sweets-polar-opposites

* "A Comprehensive Account Of Every Feeling I Have Ever Had At A Medieval Times:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-comprehensive-account-of-every?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NTUzMDk0MSwiXyI6Ik1EdnZtIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM5NjU1ODAyLCJleHAiOjE2Mzk2NTk0MDIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.qFhrRLsLTBEyBfMnIOzGkKrcPUIfuoPwNyBhu4NrTqY

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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.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Fresh Violence in Darfur Adds to Sudan’s Crises:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/africa/sudan-darfur-violence-protests.html

* "Sudan's Burhan Dismisses Senior Intelligence Officers, Sources Say:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-28/sudans-burhan-dismisses-senior-intelligence-officers-sources-say

* CW: Child Death "Girl, 12, Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Kids at Christmas Light Show:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ava-white-allegedly-stabbed-to-death-by-kids-at-liverpool-christmas-light-show

* "Burkina Faso: Tear gas fired at protesters decrying Islamist attacks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59443521

* "No way out: The dangerous fields of India's impoverished sugar-cane cutters:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-08/india-sugarcane-cutters

* "Contending With the Pandemic, Wealthy Nations Wage Global Battle for Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/world/asia/immigration-pandemic-labor-shortages.html

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* "COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert:" https://apnews.com/article/omicron-variant-covid-africa-uk-netherlands-1b344a86ff359a552aa5a64899a57ff7

* "How vaccine makers plan to address the new COVID-19 omicron variant:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/27/1059534796/covid-19-vaccine-makers-combat-omicron-variant

* "Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/health-care-workers-long-covid-are-being-dismissed/620801/

* "In Peru's Amazon, 'forgotten' tribes discover COVID-19 as vaccines arrive:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-amazon-forgotten-tribes-discover-covid-19-vaccines-arrive-2021-11-02/

* "‘It's Coming': NY Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Potential Omicron Spike:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/omicron-variant-ny-declares-state-of-emergency-ahead-of-potential-spike/3421297/

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* "U.S. Military Training in Mexico Increased as Human Rights Waned, New Database Reveals:" https://theintercept.com/2021/11/17/mexico-military-pentagon-support-human-rights/

* "The Infrastructure Bill in Action:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-infrastructure-bill-in-action-127353925939

* "Republican Leader Backtracks on LGBTQ+ Outreach After Backlash:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/18/republican-leader-backtracks-lgbtq-outreach-after-backlash-ronna-mcdaniel

* "Gay Asian-American Lawmaker Sacked From Business Committee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/23/gay-asian-american-lawmaker-sacked-business-committee

* "Republican says LGBT+ people 'choose' to be beaten up:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/21/montana-senator-theresa-manzella-gay-choice/

* "Rep. Maxine Waters addresses extremism in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-maxine-waters-addresses-extremism-in-the-gop-127354437798

* "Jury finds 'Unite the Right' organizers liable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/jury-finds-unite-the-right-organizers-liable-127355461568

* "How US gun culture stacks up with the world:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/world/us-gun-culture-world-comparison-intl-cmd/index.html

* "How Race Impacts the Self Defense Argument:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-race-impacts-the-self-defense-argument-127355461607

* "“If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records:" https://www.propublica.org/article/if-everybodys-white-there-cant-be-any-racial-bias-the-disappearance-of-hispanic-drivers-from-traffic-records

* "Student 'needs police escort' after horrific homophobic, racist 'hazing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/21/southern-illinois-university-edwardsville-hazing-racist/

* "School Opens Hate Crime Probe After White Student Hits Black Classmate With Water Bottle:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/monroe-high-school-opens-hate-crime-probe-after-white-student-bashes-black-classmate-with-bottle

* CW: Pedophilia. "No phones, laptops allowed at Josh Duggar child porn trial:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/phones-laptops-allowed-josh-duggar-child-porn-trial-81373853

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Police Arrest Woman Over Fatal Stabbing of Her Girlfriend:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/11/20/police-arrest-woman-over-fatal-stabbing-her-girlfriend

* CW: Abuse. "Many Older Queer Adults Face Abuse Yet Rarely Report It, Study Says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/26/many-older-queer-adults-face-abuse-yet-rarely-report-it-study-says-oregon

* Orly? "Tory MP ridiculed for saying female lead in Doctor Who pushes young men into crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/26/tory-mp-doctor-who-crime-nick-fletcher/

* "Tanzania to lift ban on teenage mothers returning to school:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/26/tanzania-to-lift-ban-on-teenage-mothers-returning-to-school

* "Why We Aren’t Monogamous…:"

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* "Russia to Consider Restricting Gay Love Scenes, 'As With Pornography':" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/11/24/russia-consider-restricting-gay-love-scenes-pornography

* "Australia wants to protect religious people from so-called 'cancel culture':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/28/australia-scott-morrison-cancel-culture-lgbt/

"In reality, the bill would allow religious Australians to legally discriminate against minorities, including LGBT+ people and people with disabilities, advocates have warned.

Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre explained in a release that it would “allow people to make derogatory, offensive and harmful statements of belief, including in workplaces, schools and health services, and that override federal, state and territory anti-discrimination laws, thereby denying victims an important avenue for justice”, and well as “grant unprecedented licence to religious bodies, including schools and charities, to discriminate against people of a different faith or no faith in a range of circumstances”."

* "Marriage Equality Rejected by Thailand's Constitutional Court:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/11/18/marriage-equality-rejected-thailands-constitutional-court

* "Teacher sacked from Christian school for 'being gay' issues grave warning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/26/australia-teacher-gay-religious-discrimination-steph-lentz/

"The terrifying bill, the centre said, would “grant unprecedented licence to religious bodies, including schools and charities, to discriminate against people of a different faith or no faith in a range of circumstances”."

* "Thug terrifies staff with vile homophobic rant after being asked to wear a face mask:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/dublin-ireland-anti-face-mask-homophobic-rant/

* "Gay man 'thought he would bleed to death' after homophobic thug beat him at Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/leeds-pride-james-withers-homophobia-gay/

* "Saving Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/26/saving-two-spirit-and-indigenous-lgbtq-youth

* "Iowa Medicaid Program Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care, Judge Rules:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/11/24/iowa-medicaid-program-must-cover-gender-affirming-care-judge-rules

* "Straight People Are 'Superior,' Says N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/22/straight-people-are-superior-says-nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson

* "Drag queen’s home stormed by police after troll files false report accusing them of murder:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/28/elix-drag-queen-police-murder-troll-twitch/

* "Trucks Took to the Texas Streets With Signs Supporting Trans Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/18/folx-health-trucks-took-texas-streets-support-trans-lives

* "Court Revives Lawsuit After Gay Teacher Fired From Catholic School:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/24/court-revives-lawsuit-after-gay-teacher-fired-catholic-school

* "Catholic Students Rally Around Schoolmate Punished for Pride Shirt:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/11/23/catholic-students-rally-around-schoolmate-punished-pride-shirt

* "For the Trump Family, LGBTQ+ People Are Nothing but a Joke:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/19/trump-family-lgbtq-people-are-nothing-joke

* "Dave Chappelle 'jokes about identifying as a woman' in new comedy show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/dave-chappelle-trans-transphobia-madison-square-garden/

* "Trans Netflix Engineer Quits; Legal Case Against Company Withdrawn:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/11/22/trans-netflix-engineer-quits-legal-case-against-company-withdrawn

* "5 things to know about monkeypox after a new case appeared in U.S.:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/17/monkeypox-cdc-maryland-disease/

* "Egypt: Hundreds stung by scorpions after deadly floods in Aswan:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59274686

* "Peru's president pledges support for those affected by 7.5-magnitude earthquake:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/americas/peru-earthquake-intl/index.html

* "In fast-changing Dubai, once-isolated village to be razed:" https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-dubai-united-arab-emirates-4f4b5bbe9cf6ebf9695b74101cd4f7c2

* "A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/bradford-pear-tree-south-carolina.html

* "Michigan city on edge as lead water crisis persists:" https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-environment-and-nature-michigan-poverty-12586348a94d5d57de7de6e15df23421

* "This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/science/microbes-construction-bacteria.html

* "The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist:" https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-hacking-kytch-taylor-internal-emails/

* "The Early History of Human Excreta:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-early-history-of-human-excreta/?preview_id=279309

* "First they found a dead king's body. Now they've uncovered an ancient mosaic:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059341809/leicester-england-archaeologists-ancient-roman-mosaic

* "Looking at the Dark Side of Jamestown & John Smith | Prism of the Past:"

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* "Fabergé’s Secret Garden:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/24/faberges-secret-garden/

* "Karl I: The Last Emperor of Austria:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Seven Surprising Things You Probably Didn't Know about Josephine Baker:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/25/seven-surprising-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-josephine-baker/

* CW: Rape "Ivan Milat: Australia’s Most Notorious Serial Killer:"

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* "Close friend shares moving stories about 'force of nature' Freddie Mercury's final days:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/freddie-mercury-death-hiv-aids-mike-moran/

* "The cruel way newspapers treated Freddie Mercury's death will chill you to the bone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/freddie-mercury-death-hiv-aids-newspapers/

* "Even Rainbows Have a Dark Side:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-at-rainbows-taboo

* "The Rwandan Genocide:"

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* "The Wounded Warrior Project: Corporate Casket:"

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* "He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/arts/design/toek-tik-cambodian-artifacts.html

* "Egypt restores ancient road linking temples of Luxor and Karnak:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/26/egypt-restores-ancient-road-linking-temples-of-luxor-and-karnak

* "Italian street artist battles racism by turning swastikas into cupcakes:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/italian-street-artist-battles-racism-by-turning-swastikas-into-cupcakes-2021-11-24/

* "End Times Preacher: A Reptile Alien Imitating My Husband Tried to Sleep with Me:" https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/23/end-times-preacher-a-reptile-alien-imitating-my-husband-tried-to-sleep-with-me/

* "A Bunch of People Just Rode Horses to a McDonald’s Drive-Thru:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8dm/mcdonalds-drive-thru-horses-malaysia

* "What Is the 'Birds Aren't Real' Movement?:" https://www.snopes.com/articles/381287/birds-arent-real-movement/

* "Flynn, Powell Pushed The Military To Seize Control After T**** Lost The Election:"

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* "The Q Files: Q Faithful Are Still Waiting For JFK In Dallas:"

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* "Pfizer's Covid Pill Can Save Lives | Jon Batiste Stands Up For Big Bird:"

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* "Michael Cohen Is Kanye's Fixer | Roger Stone, Alex Jones In Hot Water For Roles In Jan. 6th Attack:"

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* "Billionaires, They're Just Not Like Us: Elon Feuds With Bernie, Bezos Would Turn Earth Into A Park:"

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* "Urinewhile... Singer Pees On Fan At Florida Festival, The Rock Pees In Water Bottles During Workouts:"

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* "C-SPANIME Covers The Censure Of Paul Gosar:"

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* "Love Crypto? Move To Bitcoin City:"

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* "Oh Christmas Lamp:"

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* "Sunday Sweets: Wedding Cakes in Chocolate:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/11/28/sunday-sweets-wedding-cakes-in-chocolate

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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.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

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* "Haiti crippled by fuel shortages as gang leader demands prime minister resign:" https://www.reuters.com/world/haiti-crippled-by-fuel-shortages-gang-leader-demands-prime-minister-resign-2021-10-26/

* "Sudan coup: Protests continue after military takeover:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59045020

* "Seven killed, 140 hurt in protests against Sudan military coup:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/military-forces-arrest-senior-civilian-figures-sudan-al-hadath-tv-2021-10-25/

* "Tigray crisis: How the West has fallen out with Ethiopia's PM:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58967302

* "In Colombia, shelters prepare for migrant families as Venezuela reopens border:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/colombia-shelters-prepare-migrant-families-venezuela-reopens-border-rcna3748

* "Aung San Suu Kyi Defends Herself During ‘Show Trial’ in Myanmar:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/world/asia/myanmar-coup-trial-aung-san-suu-kyi.html

* "Japan's Princess Mako marries commoner, loses royal status:" https://apnews.com/article/japan-princess-mako-wedding-royal-status-888700204e714145be58e320f1dc0fe0

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* "Merck will allow drugmakers in other countries to make its COVID-19 pill:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/10/27/1049587575/merck-covid-pill-countries

* "Brazil senators recommend Bolsonaro face charges over COVID:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/brazil-senators-to-vote-on-urging-charges-for-bolsonaro/2021/10/26/f34f0814-3677-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html

* "Facebook, YouTube take down Bolsonaro video over false vaccine claim:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/facebook-takes-down-bolsonaro-video-over-false-vaccine-claim-2021-10-25/

* "Poland may tighten COVID-19 curbs if cases keep growing, says minister:" https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-may-tighten-covid-19-curbs-if-cases-keep-growing-says-minister-2021-10-25/

* "FDA advisers endorse Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/26/fda-panel-endorses-covid-19-shot-for-kids-5-11-years-old-517236

* "Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/25/texas-universities-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/

* "As some police fight vaccine rules, DeSantis says Florida will pay them $5,000 to relocate: ‘We’ll treat you better’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/25/desantis-offers-5k-bonus-outofstate-unvaccinated-officers/

* "Republicans pitching Florida’s COVID-19 policies to businesses, including In-N-Out:" https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/republicans-pitching-floridas-covid-19-policies-to-businesses-including-in-n-out/

* "Mississippi reports nearly 23,000 positive COVID cases among students since August:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/10/26/mississippi-covid-19-cases-reporting-schools-declining/6176871001/

* "Alabama governor instructs state agencies to fight federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/politics/alabama-vaccine-mandates-executive-order-kay-ivey/index.html

* "TN lawmakers to discuss future of COVID mandates, restrictions at special session:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tn-lawmakers-to-discuss-future-of-covid-mandates-restrictions-at-special-session/

* "WV Gov. Justice reports average COVID death age continues to drop, state orders 50k vaccine doses for young children:" https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/watch-live-gov-jim-justice-schedules-virtual-covid-19-briefing-for-11-a-m-2/

* "Montana hospitals face looming choice between state law, federal vaccine requirements:" https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/montana-hospitals-face-looming-choice-between-state-law-federal-vaccine-requirements/article_f4e623e9-5359-5c2f-97bd-a5b6493d9a34.html

* "Why this doctor says Idaho has ‘lost the war’ against COVID-19:" https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/10/18/22732879/covid19-study-idaho-least-safe-doctor-says-state-lost-war-wallethub-worst-state-coronavirus

* "September was Alaska’s deadliest pandemic month. Here’s what that might tell us about the future of COVID-19 in the state.:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/23/september-was-alaskas-deadliest-pandemic-month-heres-what-that-might-tell-us-about-the-future-of-covid-19-in-the-state/

* "Birx: Trump adviser squeezed out health officials to downplay seriousness of Covid-19:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/26/deborah-birx-trump-covid-reponse-hearing-517188

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* "Biden heads to G20 bereft of ambassadors as Republicans hold up nearly all nominees:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-heads-to-g20-bereft-of-ambassadors-as-republicans-hold-up-nearly-all-nominees-124789829947

* Dejoy did this. "Consumers fume after US Postal Service suspends Australian deliveries:" https://247newsaroundtheworld.com/news/consumers-fume-after-us-postal-service-suspends-australian-deliveries/

* "In odd shortcoming for a major, modern nation, U.S.P.S. suspends deliveries to Australia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/in-odd-shortcoming-for-a-major-modern-nation-u-s-p-s-suspends-deliveries-to-australia-124791365796

* "Inside the World's Most Spectacularly Failed Coup:"

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* "Biden, second Catholic U.S. president, enjoys lengthy visit with Pope Francis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-second-catholic-u-s-president-enjoys-lengthy-visit-with-pope-francis-124966469886

* "Wildlife agencies to cancel Trump endangered species rules:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wildlife-agencies-cancel-trump-endangered-species-rules-80789075

* "Senate Democrats unveil corporate tax for Biden agenda:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/details-emerge-corporate-minimum-tax-plan-us-senate-democrats-cnbc-2021-10-26/

* "Robert Reich: Saying rich won’t invest if their taxes are raised ‘really a red herring’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-announced-corporate-minimum-tax-plan-on-tuesday-sparking-gop-opposition-124685893852

* "Progressives patient with negotiations as Manchin, Sinema sabotage Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-patient-with-negotiations-as-manchin-sinema-sabotage-build-back-better-bill-124792389844

* "Hayes: We have a Build Back Better deal. Now let’s remember how we got here.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-we-have-a-build-back-better-deal-now-let-s-remember-how-we-got-here-124872261739

* "Rep. Cori Bush to Manchin, Sinema: Let us see the vote, that’s how we know where you stand:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/progressives-demanding-that-infrastructure-bill-and-build-back-better-be-linked-discussed-by-rep-cori-bush-124874309972

* "‘Shockingly damning’: Hayes on America’s exceptional lack of paid family leave:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-shockingly-damning-hayes-on-america-s-exceptional-lack-of-paid-family-leave-124683845956

* "108,000 people will get medical debt relief after Stacey Abrams' PAC gifts $1.34M:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049675704/stacey-abrams-medical-debt-relief-pac-donation

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Wisconsin Republicans add mysterious 'Carol' to election review circus:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wisconsin-republicans-add-mysterious-carol-to-election-review-circus-124791365869

* "Senate highlights threats to election workers; emphasizes protections in voting bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-highlights-threats-to-election-workers-emphasizes-protections-in-voting-bill-124694597782

* Did you remember to vote?

* "At Least 12 Republicans Who Participated In Jan. 6 Are Running For Office Next Week:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/jan-6-republicans-ballot-election-day

* Virginians, please vote! "Trump unpopularity in Virginia a liability for Youngkin; McCauliffe hopes to benefit:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-unpopularity-in-virginia-a-liability-for-youngkin-mccauliffe-hopes-to-benefit-124695621811

* "Democratic Virginia governor candidate Terry McAuliffe calls GOP opponent Youngkin ‘dangerous’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-between-democrat-mcauliffe-and-trump-backed-republican-youngkin-enters-final-stretch-124781125880

* "Republicans Are Leaning Into MAGA to Win Virginia:"

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* "The Bye Line: The voters who really hold the key to what happens in Virginia on Tuesday:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-the-voters-who-really-hold-the-key-to-what-happens-in-virginia-on-tuesday-125038149940

* "Sen. Tim Kaine Weighs in on Close Gubernatorial Race in VA:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-tim-kaine-weighs-in-on-close-gubernatorial-race-in-va-125038149881

* "Hayes: Why Trump's anti-democratic push can't be ignored in Virginia election :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-why-trump-s-anti-democratic-push-can-t-be-ignored-in-virginia-election-125142597550

* "Democratic candidate Eric Adams likely to beat Republican Challenger Curtis Sliwa in NYC's mayoral election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democratic-candidate-eric-adams-likely-to-beat-republican-challenger-curtis-sliwa-in-nyc-s-mayoral-election-125039173614

* "Who’s afraid of India Walton?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/11/01/india-walton-socialist-mayor-buffalo/

* "National rightist money going into school board elections:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1807984.html

* "Burr’s Brother-in-Law Called Stock Broker, One Minute After Getting Off Phone With Senator:" https://www.propublica.org/article/burrs-brother-in-law-called-stock-broker-one-minute-after-getting-off-phone-with-senator

* "Despite free pass from Trump DOJ, Republican senator in hot water over sketchy trades:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-free-pass-from-trump-doj-republican-senator-in-hot-water-over-sketchy-trades-124886597807

* "GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who voted to impeach Trump, won't run for reelection:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/29/1050454729/gop-rep-adam-kinzinger-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-wont-run-for-reelection

* "Oklahoma's non-binary lawmaker has zero time for ignorant Republican dinosaurs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/25/mauree-turner-non-binary-birth-certificates/

* "Republican congressman suspended from Twitter for misgendering top trans official:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/25/jim-banks-dr-rachel-levine-twitter/

* "A man gave a Nazi salute at a school board meeting to oppose mask rules. Ted Cruz defended it as a form of protest.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/28/ted-cruz-nazi-salute-senate-hearing/

* "Facebook joins list of infamous companies hiding behind a name change:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/facebook-joins-list-of-infamous-companies-hiding-behind-a-name-change-124885573752

* "Joy Reid critiques Facebook for reportedly allowing right wing misinformation to thrive:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/facebook-reportedly-allowing-hate-speech-right-wing-misinformation-to-thrive-critiqued-by-joy-reid-124782662002

* "Prison or presidency, new Trump company factors in his uncertain future:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prison-or-presidency-new-trump-company-factors-in-his-uncertain-future-125156421763

* "Trump 'coup lawyer' caught on video boasting about quasi-legal memo; trashing Pence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-coup-lawyer-caught-on-video-boasting-about-quasi-legal-memo-trashing-pence-124694085949

* "Rep. Adam Schiff: GOP is now an anti-truth, anti-democratic cult of former president:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-attorney-john-eastman-caught-on-tape-discussing-jan-6-capitol-insurrection-124781125719

* "In new letter, tech expert's lawyer insists Alfa-Bank, Trump server data is no hoax:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/in-new-letter-tech-expert-s-lawyer-insists-alfa-bank-trump-server-data-is-no-hoax-124968005549

* "List of documents Trump wants to keep secret hint at January 6 presidential actions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/list-of-documents-trump-wants-to-keep-secret-hint-at-january-6-presidential-actions-125158981583

* "Rep. Lieu: Marjorie Taylor Greene should not be in Congress if she still disputes election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mo-brooks-denies-he-was-involved-in-planning-jan-6-rallies-implicates-his-staff-124688453586

* "How one GOP congressman went from barricading the doors to Jan. 6 apologist:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-gop-congressman-went-from-barricading-the-doors-to-jan-6-apologist-124682821531

* "‘The coup is ongoing’: Rep. Gallego on GOP whitewashing of Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-coup-is-ongoing-rep-gallego-on-gop-whitewashing-of-jan-6-124955717767

* "He reported an ‘avalanche’ of warnings before Jan. 6. So why wasn’t it heeded?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/he-reported-an-avalanche-of-warnings-before-jan-6-so-why-wasn-t-it-heeded-125144645976

* "'Cult-like': Riot suspect released over ‘toxic’ environment of jail's Jan. 6 wing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-cult-like-riot-suspect-released-over-toxic-environment-of-jail-s-jan-6-wing-124684357667

* "Hayes: How the Second Amendment is threatening the First:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-the-second-amendment-is-threatening-the-first-124774981860

* "Major settlement reached over failed background check on church killer's gun:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/major-settlement-reached-over-failed-background-check-on-church-killer-s-gun-124886597539

* "Charleston massacre survivor Jennifer Pinckney says ‘you never forget’ in wake of $88 million settlement:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/charleston-massacre-survivors-winning-88-million-settlement-discussed-by-survivor-jennifer-pinckney-125148229832

* "White Supremacy Is On Trial in Charlottesville:"

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* "Report: Charlottesville defendant watched Tucker Carlson to prep for trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-charlottesville-defendant-watched-tucker-carlson-to-prep-for-trial-124871749554

* "Stuart Stevens: Race is the original sin of the modern Republican Party:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-virginia-governor-candidate-ad-targets-novel-by-about-escaping-slavery-beloved-124686405678

* "Top critical race theory scholar calls attacks on Toni Morrison novel a ‘bait and switch’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/toni-morrison-novel-targeted-in-virginia-governor-race-ad-decried-by-critical-race-theory-scholar-124960325880

* "Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin seeks to clear her name:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/civil-rights-pioneer-claudette-colvin-seeks-to-clear-her-name-125040197723

* "Absurdity of Texas abortion law laid bare in Supreme Court arguments:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/absurdity-of-texas-abortion-law-laid-bare-in-supreme-court-arguments-125157445691

* "Legal expert on Texas abortion law: We need this law blocked immediately:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-abortion-ban-comes-before-supreme-court-via-challenges-from-doj-providers-125148741611

* "Billionaire plays architect, designs ‘nightmare’ dorm:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/billionaire-plays-architect-designs-nightmare-dorm-124957765694

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* "Meet the Vigilantes Trying to Wipe Out the Spotted Lanternfly:"

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* "Women Are on the Rise in Organized Crime:"

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* "How One Man In Egypt Is Keeping This 200-Year-Old Tile Tradition Alive | Still Standing:"

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* "Taiwan: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "West Virginia's Country Roads Will Soon Be Underwater:"

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* "New Jersey Is Paving The Way For Reproductive Rights:"

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* "Full Frontal Welcomes (Most Of) You to NYC!:"

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* "TikTok Misinformation is Spreading and it’s #Dangerous:"

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* "Homelessness: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Facebook Needs A New Name, And Bannon 'Might' Be Punished For Contempt Of Congress:"

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* "It's Already Too Late To Start Your Holiday Shopping:"

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* "Rainfall Swamps The West, And GOP Members Conspired With Jan. 6th Riot Organizers:"

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* "Food And Gas Prices Spike, And Rep. Mo Brooks Wore Body Armor At 'Stop The Steal' Rally:"

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* "GOP Ridicules Billionaire Tax Plan, Rude Shoppers Blamed For The Labor Shortage:"

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* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Ticket Quotas for Police:" https://www.cc.com/video/e111pz/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-ticket-quotas-for-police

* "SB 8 and the Future of Abortion Rights in Texas:" https://www.cc.com/video/mg2clq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-sb-8-and-the-future-of-abortion-rights-in-texas

* "Halloween Edibles & Democrats Agree on New Corporate Tax:" https://www.cc.com/video/agevgo/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-halloween-edibles-democrats-agree-on-new-corporate-tax

* "Mattress Stores React To The News That Vikings Beat Columbus To North America:"

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* "Together We Can Save Our Dongs:"

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* "Try NBA 2K22's New Unvaccinated Mode:"

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* "Mark Zuckerberg Has A New Strategy Team At Facebook:"

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* "Late Show's "How-Tooo-Weeeen: Pumpkin Carving Edition":"

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* "Rescue Dog Rescue with Nick Offerman, Halloween Costume Edition:"

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* "Stephen Colbert's Book Club For People Who Want To Sound Like They Read The Book:"

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* "Facebook's New Name Search Isn't Going Very Well:"

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* "Franzia Has A Message For Bottled Wine:"

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* "Forget Goop, Real Luxury Fans Are Signing Up For Summit-ton House:"

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* Saturday we went to the museums downtown as there were a couple of exhibits scheduled to be gone Monday we really wanted to see, and addition covers both buildings. (Thee is a third small museum in the cluster, but it's closed on weekends. Unfortunately, one of the exhibits we really wanted to see had left early, but the replacement was basically meditations on the human body by a very diverse group of artists. There were a number of interesting paintings, but the sculptures really stood out as a group. We went upstairs and looked at the Lummi and Nooksack exhibit, then over to see the small but extremely good 20th century fashion exhibit which was the other thing we were particularly wanting to see. Bonus, the dresses were free standing so you could walk all the way around to look over the construction and enjoy them from various angles. They also had a tone of hats mostly from the 20's and 30's, a nice array of shoes including some early twentieth century boots 18-35 year old be would have killed to have a pair of, and some lovely and deadly looking hat pins. We wandered around looking at the other permanent exhibits, then watched a surprisingly amusing educational film about our weird little... large town? Small City? (Population wise we are on the bubble. Signs insist it's a city, my instinct and the technical classification put it just under the limit in large town territory).

We left about fifteen minutes before turf out time take and bake pizza and baked goods were aquired and I passed out tea and the like.

Samhain went really smoothly. I got everything set up in time. I did the contactless individual bowls of mixed candy and did up my All ages welcome sign. I believe this holiday is fundamentally about hospitality to all comers living and dead. I also feel anyone who makes it all the way to my place deserves a fist full of candy. Last year adults kept furtively raiding the bowls. The sign dramatically increased the number of people quietly collecting their fist full. Yay, guilt free candy. The wind had been really high the last few nights, but it was gentle breezes tonight which really helped with the altar I set up back in the patio recess out of the way every year. With the hospitality table and the plants forming a barricade it was extra safe and I wasn't having to deal with making a make shift windbreak like I did the last few years.

Tavy kept trying to follow me out to search the bush he thinks Millennials come from, and succeeded after dark. He knows that today is usually a head Millennial day. (He's a bright guy. He knows sometimes the Head Millennial comes the afternoon after forage box delivery, so keeps an ear alert for patio sounds when it gets late enough, but he knows for sure Head Millennial comes the next afternoon and sometimes also Nearby Millennial. He knows the day after that there is usually another visit from head Millennial. Alas for the emperor for Halloween is a Goth national holiday, so he was off tending his own Pumpkins and the like. Poor little guy finally slipped out after dark. It was scary and there were strangers and a thing fell. He realized he'd made a mistake right away, but panicked a bit trying to get past the barrier to get back in. I made soothing sounds and he remembered he fit fine when he wasn't all bunched up and scurried in. He did enjoy people watching through the window.

Livia decided it was too much excitement for her after a while. I was up and down all night checking and periodically refilling bowls, checking candles. Going in and out the patio door. She's come out for pets, etc., but spent most of the night in her room where it was calmer.

Gothmas Exterior decorations: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/666615551576178688/halloween

* "On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet:" https://lithub.com/on-the-gleefully-indecent-poems-of-a-medieval-welsh-feminist-poet/

* Where I am on Y: the Last Man:

I am wary because the graphic novel was very transphobic and the premise is everyone with a y chromosome with tiny exceptions died.

However, they are pretty clearly trying to fix it as much as it can be fixed. They hired a trans man actor I like and made his part a lot bigger according to informants. He is very much treated and spoken of as a man, with the exception of some terfy villains (some people in that group very much see him as a man some don’t. They are very clearly depicted as villains). Multiple characters consistently mention there still being men at appropriate points, and occasionally when man child Yorick isn’t wearing his mask (see baby man), people take him for a trans man and are cool about transness. They mention Intersex people with Y chromosomes dying, some of whom likely didn’t know they are intersex, which implies intersex people without ys are alive.

It’s still messy. I’m not comfortable with the basic premise which is why I didn’t read the comics when they were new despite being an avid Vertigo reader. People who did read it described the contents and I decided I never wanted to read it. I’m basing my understanding of what’s been changed on that.

I actually do like several of the women characters. I do like the way non-villains have an easy acceptance of trans people. Elliot Fletcher‘s trans man is a whole character with flaws and his own perspectives and goals. They do address trans specific concerns like can you get hormones in a post-apocalyptic situation and some trans specific safety concerns. I really, really wish Yorick would grow the fuck up and take some responsibility for his own safety and examine the way his privilege harms other people. The villians are so horrible I have trouble watching certain sections because I get enough horrible Republican crap in the news. I’m never going to be comfortable with the premise.

But I keep watching. Warily.

YMMV

* "Sunday Sweets: Haunted Tour:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/10/31/sunday-sweets-haunted-tour

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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.

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

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

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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* Hardly any of the Sunday news made it onto this and i have a massive back up waiting to be scaffolded, but if I don't post it will get so much worse, so here we are.

* "Tensions flare as Chinese flights near Taiwan intensify:" https://apnews.com/article/tensions-flare-chinese-flights-near-taiwan-02b30ed449f663cf53ef0782482e35e9

* "Extremists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/africa-islamists-sahel-leaders/

* "An Asylum Seeker’s Wrenching Choice: Stay on the Run or Save His Child’s Life:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-crisis.html

* "Authorities call fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker terrorist act:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-london-england-eda5b4786c84e68a59de9075efecbcf7

* "ASEAN to exclude Myanmar junta chief from leaders' summit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-does-not-want-myanmar-junta-leader-summit-if-no-progress-minister-2021-10-15/

* "Beirut's worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/middleeast/lebanon-blast-gunfire-protest-intl/index.html

* "Lebanese firefighters put out fire at fuel facility:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-al-jadeed-tv-reports-fire-near-zahrani-oil-facility-2021-10-11/

* "It’s time to drop the curtain on Japan’s colonial legacy :" https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/

* "Justin Trudeau Tells International Conference Left-Wing ‘Extremist Groups’ Are ‘Pushing White Supremacy’:" https://pressprogress.ca/justin-trudeau-tells-international-conference-left-wing-extremist-groups-are-pushing-white-supremacy/

* "British football coach sentenced to 25 years’ jail in Dubai over CBD vape liquid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/british-football-coach-sentenced-to-25-years-jail-in-dubai-over-cbd-vape-liquid

* "Australia's Daintree rainforest returned to Aboriginal ownership:" https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/australia-daintree-rainforest-aboriginal-owners-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Inside the manic race to replace Duterte as the Philippines' leader:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/asia/philippines-election-president-duterte-marcos-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Help find this man wanted for BITING and assaulting Game Store Employees!:"

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* "Australia ends migrants housing deal with Papua New Guinea:" https://wtop.com/australia/2021/10/australia-ends-migrants-housing-deal-with-papua-new-guinea/

* "Austrian Chancellor Kurz resigns amid corruption allegations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/austria-kurz-resigns-corruption/2021/10/09/fd58ac5a-2927-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html

* "96-year-old German woman released after going on the run to skip Nazi war crimes trial:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/96-year-old-german-woman-released-after-going-run-skip-n1280876

* "Calls for investigation after court finds Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/calls-for-investigation-after-court-finds-dubai-ruler-hacked-ex-wifes-phone

* "Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/

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* "Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-mild-cases-of-covid-may-leave-a-mark-on-the-brain/

* "Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809

* "Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill:" https://apnews.com/article/merck-asks-fda-to-authorize-covid-pill-e731ada126414396b402c4dfc3cf8d2c

* "South Sudan: How to deliver Covid vaccines in a country with few roads:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58911911

* "New Zealand will phase out its zero-covid strategy, acknowledging it cannot eliminate coronavirus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/05/new-zealand-zero-covid-strategy/

* "As Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, vaccines offer hope worst is over:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-nears-600000-covid-19-deaths-vaccines-offer-hope-worst-is-over-2021-10-08/

* "Brazil pandemic probe to recommend Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, senator says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-pandemic-probe-recommend-bolsonaro-face-11-criminal-charges-senator-says-2021-10-15/

* "COVID Misinformation Has People Injecting Bleach:"

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* "US to reopen land borders in November for fully vaccinated:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-covid-19-pandemic-air-travel-health-c3f7e2b8feca4c8cdaf4301ae9c81a79

* "COVID-19 Vaccination:" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html

* "F.D.A. Panel Unanimously Recommends Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/health/johnson-johnson-vaccine-booster.html

* "FDA panel endorses lower-dose Moderna COVID shot for booster:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-moderna-booster-shot-fda-2de19cdff021ad11b95c6b67fd5d8617

* "J&J Covid vaccine recipients are better off getting Pfizer or Moderna booster, NIH study suggests:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/jj-covid-vaccine-recipients-are-better-off-getting-pfizer-or-moderna-booster-nih-study-suggests.html

* "Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations:" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-09-17/study-finds-big-gap-between-pfizer-moderna-vaccines-at-preventing-covid-hospitalizations

* "Getting a Booster Too Soon Could Cause This Serious Side Effect:" https://bestlifeonline.com/booster-side-effect-news/

* "Boosters and mixes: Health officials consider most beneficial combinations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/boosters-and-mixes-health-officials-consider-most-beneficial-combinations-123695685898

* "POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans support vaccine mandates for schoolkids:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/poll-support-vaccine-mandates-students-515657

* "Florida is only state not to submit school Covid-19 relief funding plan, US Education Department says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/florida-schools-covid-relief-funding-plan/index.html

* "Florida trying to block money Biden sent to school districts fined for mask mandates:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-working-block-money-biden-school-districts-mask/story?id=80419199

* "Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried urges Florida to speed up distribution of federal COVID relief dollars:" https://www.wptv.com/coronavirus/agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-urges-florida-to-speed-up-distribution-of-federal-covid-relief-dollars

* "Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with mask mandates compare to those without:" https://www.kxan.com/investigations/texas-school-covid-19-cases-how-those-with-mask-mandates-compare-to-those-without/

* "Texas order reflects growing GOP vaccine mandates hostility:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-nba-sports-business-aa6c30fa6270b735acafc69e2ce26766

* "Texas Republicans spar over who is more pro-Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-republicans-spar-over-who-is-more-pro-covid-123393605771

* "Study: Vaccines Helped Reduce COVID-19 Deaths in Oklahoma:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2021-10-05/study-vaccines-helped-reduce-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma

* "Stitt: Oklahoma ready to ‘take President Biden to court’ over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.koco.com/article/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-president-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/37963844

* "48 hours to live: An Oklahoma hospital’s rush to find an ICU bed for a covid patient:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/hospital-covid-patient/

* "This Teen's Community Rallied As She Fought COVID. But Many Still Shun The Vaccine:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/03/1032665979/child-near-death-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-mis-c

* "TN doctor warns of ‘death lag’ with younger people hospitalized for COVID:" https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/tn-doctor-warns-of-death-lag-with-younger-people-hospitalized-for-covid/

* "Tennessee physicians who spread COVID-19 misinformation could now face disciplinary action:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-physicians-who-spread-covid-19-misinformation-could-now-face-disciplinary-action

* "More than 20 Tennessee school staff members have died from COVID-19:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/more-than-20-tennessee-school-staff-members-have-died-from-covid-19/

* "Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-montana-8c47ca9308494b678f41f41764094800

* "Amid COVID crisis, Idaho health care workers grapple with burnout and misinformation: "I'm treating patients for their political views":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-health-care-workers-covid/

* This is in line with the findings from Brazil earlier in the year. "Pregnant women at risk with COVID-19:" https://idahonews.com/news/local/pregnant-women-at-risk-with-covid-19

* "COVID spike pushes Alaska’s health care system to brink:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-pandemics-18bd9ffb116ce59872451f11067e94eb

* "Alaska reports 3 deaths, 871 COVID-19 cases as delayed monoclonal antibody shipments begin arriving:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/05/alaska-reports-3-deaths-871-covid-19-cases-as-delayed-monoclonal-antibody-shipments-begin-arriving/

* "'Reckless': Parents sue school district for failing to protect kids from Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-reckless-parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-for-failing-to-protect-kids-from-covid-123396165875

* "Anti-Vax Protesters Confront Parents About Masks Outside Beverly Hills School:" https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/07/anti-vax-protesters-confront-parents-about-masks-outside-beverly-hills-school/

* A special place in hell. "10-Year-Old Died of COVID After Teacher Made Her Be ‘Nurse’ to Sick Kids, Parents Say:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-teresa-sperry-died-of-covid-after-teacher-made-her-be-nurse-to-sick-kids-parents-say?ref=scroll

* "'The mood is grim': Death threats and violence mark another pandemic school year:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-05/covid-vaccine-mask-fury-shakes-up-california-schools

* "Masks burned outside Brevard School Board meeting; board passes final budget:" https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/09/09/covid-19-masks-burnt-protest-outside-brevard-school-board-meeting/8264824002/

* "Cops Charge Zip-Tie Guys Who Ambushed School Principal Over COVID Rules:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/men-charged-for-ambushing-mesquite-elementary-school-principal-with-zip-ties-over-covid-rules

* "Marchers Attack Coronavirus Testing Station in Union Square:" https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/anti-vaccine-mandate-protest-new-york-city.html

* "Police unions across U.S. urge members to defy vaccine mandates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-unions-across-u-s-urge-members-to-defy-vaccine-mandates-123688005985

* "Death Threats, Trolling Common for Scientists Who Speak to Media About COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-14/death-threats-trolling-common-for-scientists-who-speak-to-media-about-covid

* "Man charged federally with threatening former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen over COVID vaccine support:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-wen-threats-charges-20211012-iiiutjgxyfbslh2zmlpv3yntlu-story.html

* "Republican lawmaker banned from Alaska Airlines over mask rules tests positive for COVID:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/14/alaska-airlines-lawmaker-banned-flights-tests-positive-covid/8455352002/

* "Hayes: How America is processing the trauma of living through a pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-america-is-processing-the-trauma-of-living-through-a-pandemic-123492421658

* "Police Cite Anti-Vaccine Motive in Killing of Pharmacist and 2 Others:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/jeffrey-burnham-pharmacist-brother-covid-vaccine.html

* "Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense--He's Bankrolling It:" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/

* "Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-allen-west-texas-pneumonia-health-03839ff2547c8895fb0e4f155705322a

* ""The tyranny of evidence-based medicine.":" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1806319.html

* "Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/us/texas-man-sentenced-covid-hoax/index.html

* "Fox News hosts deride vaccine mandates while complying with strict Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-hosts-deride-vaccine-mandates-while-complying-with-strict-covid-policy-122842693795

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* "Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58842793

* "Afghanistan: Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58807734

* "Global minimum tax effort moves forward as Ireland and Hungary join pact:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/08/minimum-corporate-tax-oecd-biden/

* "3 US-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs:" https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32

* "Maryland husband and wife arrested in nuclear submarine spy case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/10/maryland-husband-wife-arrested-espionage-case-515761

* "FBI: U.S. Navy engineer tried to sell nuclear submarine secrets :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fbi-u-s-navy-engineer-tried-to-sell-nuclear-submarine-secrets-123297861573

* "America Is Running Out of Everything:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/

* "Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/

* "Grocery store shelves aren't going back to normal this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html

* "Biden tries to tame inflation by having LA port open 24/7:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-los-angeles-health-48ff262b882a37308e4a3f15934b2ee4

* "Biden plan aims to untangle supply chain with focus on clearing backed up ports :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-plan-aims-to-untangle-supply-chain-with-focus-on-clearing-backed-up-ports-123505221529

* "US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-lawsuits-james-comey-jeff-sessions-2be69b9a619dcbeb64469edd485b1a1b

* "Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-utah-environment-and-nature-b763897fc47136339bd12360a90079c0

* "New HUD rule aimed at preventing public housing evictions:" https://apnews.com/article/public-housing-evictions-biden-ab3191da5dbb1bd0db5ae91856383be4

* "Biden's Supreme Court commission is leaving everyone unhappy:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/biden-supreme-court-liberals/index.html

* "Congress punts debt limit crisis into December:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/12/congress-debt-limit-december-515820

* "Senate advances short-term debt limit hike after GOP scramble:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/senate-leaders-strike-deal-on-short-term-debt-limit-patch-515578

* "Senate votes to extend debt limit after McConnell caves:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-votes-to-extend-debt-limit-after-mcconnell-caves-123040837854

* I admit, I’d hoped Manchin and Sinema would give up on the filibuster. Ah well.

* "Ted Cruz and John Cornyn opposed a debt-limit increase that will stave off economic catastrophe, but backed previous borrowing hikes:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/08/ted-cruz-john-cornyn-debt-ceiling/

* "Progressives focus on key priorities to narrow BBB bill for Manchin, Sinema:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-focus-on-key-priorities-to-narrow-bbb-bill-for-manchin-sinema-122854981959

* "Watch Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Supporters Confront Her in Restroom:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/04/watch-former-sen-kyrsten-sinema-supporters-confront-her-restroom

* "Sanders offers rejoinder to Manchin's "entitlement society" word games:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-offers-rejoinder-to-manchin-s-entitlement-society-word-games-122964549966

* "Sanders frustrated with lack of specificity of Manchin, Sinema objections to BBB bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-frustrated-with-lack-of-specificity-of-manchin-sinema-objections-to-bbb-bill-122963525955

* "'It's not a 50/50 deal.': Sanders critical of Manchin, Sinema obstructing popular will:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-a-50-50-deal-sanders-critical-of-manchin-sinema-obstructing-popular-will-122964549928

* "Chris Hayes to Kyrsten Sinema: What are you doing here?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-kyrsten-sinema-what-are-you-doing-here-123595845509

* "‘Biden agenda overwhelmingly helps working class White people’ Dem strategist says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-face-trouble-going-into-midterms-experts-say-123300933692

* "Manchin pulls plug on U.S. clean electricity ambitions in Biden budget bill: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-pulls-plug-on-u-s-clean-electricity-ambitions-in-biden-budget-bill-nyt-123694661824

* "Climate Program Likely to be Dropped from Build Back Better Bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/climate-program-likely-to-be-dropped-from-build-back-better-bill-123786821627

* "The reconciliation stalemate: when and how will this end?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-reconciliation-stalemate-when-and-how-will-this-end-123787333579

* "Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions:" https://web.archive.org/web/20211005070657/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/museum-workers-embrace-unions-after-pandemic-job-cuts

* "Elizabeth Warren backs Deere strike, saying workers have gotten the short end of the stick 'for decades':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/business/deere-strike-elizabeth-warren/index.html

* "Workers at all of Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants go on strike:" https://apnews.com/article/kelloggs-cereal-plants-strike-d9185eb8fa9054d34a078063c3db6c33

* "American workers gain upper hand to demand better working conditions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-workers-gain-upper-hand-to-demand-better-working-conditions-123693637949

* "USPS pilot expands postal banking services after years of skepticism:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/10/usps-pilot-expands-postal-banking-services-after-years-of-skepticism/

* "The ban on evictions has ended: Here's what to do if you're facing eviction:" https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/your-money/the-ban-on-evictions-has-ended-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-facing-eviction/

* "ITT Tech: Profit Over Education :"

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* "How This Recession Could Set Us Back 30 Years:"

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* "Activists keen to keep voting rights bill in spotlight of Biden's attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/activists-keen-to-keep-voting-rights-bill-in-spotlight-of-biden-s-attention-122858053542

* "Ending the Filibuster | Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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

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* "Pennsylvania AG Shapiro vows to use ‘veto pen’ to protect state if elected governor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-attorney-general-shapiro-running-for-governor-filed-motion-to-block-republican-election-investigation-123598917624

* "Republicans eyeing upcoming votes stack local elections boards with Trump loyalists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-eyeing-upcoming-votes-stack-local-elections-boards-with-trump-loyalists-123408453715

* "In Dead of Night, Texas House Approves GOP's Gerrymandered Map:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/13/dead-night-texas-house-approves-gops-gerrymandered-map

* "Congressional Redistricting Taking Place Across the Country:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/congressional-redistricting-taking-place-across-the-country-123205701796

* "Joy Reid: We're still feeling impact of Voting Rights Act being gutted in 2013:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-passes-proposed-map-increasing-majority-white-districts-decreasing-latinx-and-black-majority-districts-123490885908

* "Georgia ballot inspection case dismissed after no fraud found:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-ballot-inspection-case-dismissed-after-no-fraud-found/OUVOQ5I5ARHMBJ62CX3YBHRMYM/

* "Judge stomps out Trump Big Lie case in Georgia; triggers Trump tantrum:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judge-stomps-out-trump-big-lie-case-in-georgia-triggers-trump-tantrum-123505221632

* "Once central to Trump's Big Lie, Arizona conspiracy theory fizzles into incoherence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/once-central-to-trump-s-big-lie-arizona-conspiracy-theory-fizzles-into-incoherence-123148869589

* "Why the Cyber Ninjas CEO Skipped the Oversight Hearing on His Own Audit in Arizona:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/cyber-ninja-ceo-skips-oversight-hearing-on-arizona-election-audit.html

* "Rep. Steve Scalise repeatedly refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-steve-scalise-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-2020-election-wasn-t-stolen-123205189966

* "‘Stop the Steal’ Movement Races Forward, Ignoring Arizona Humiliation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/arizona-election-audit-analysis.html

* "'Shut this fake investigation down': Clumsy Republican 'audit' stunt elicits blowback:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-shut-this-fake-investigation-down-clumsy-republican-audit-stunt-elicits-blowback-123608645850

* "Joy Reid: The cancer of the Big Lie has spread through GOP ranks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-polls-her-supporters-on-potential-national-divorce-123400773762

* "Recap of the Trump-endorsed rally at the Michigan State Capitol:" https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/live-updates-from-the-trump-endorsed-rally-at-the-michigan-state-capitol/

* "Trump Allies Call for 'Audit' of 2020 Results in Michigan:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2021-10-12/trump-allies-call-for-audit-of-2020-results-in-michigan

* "Trump Tells Republicans Not to Vote in 2022 or 2024:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-in-2022-or-2024

* "Trump suggests he will back primary challenges to Michigan GOP lawmakers:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/trump-suggests-he-back-primary-challenges-michigan-lawmakers/8435061002/

* "Trump tells Republicans not to vote if his 2020 election loss isn't 'solved':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-if-his-2020-election-loss-isn-t-solved-123504709941

* "Head of GOP election inquiry compares Milwaukee newspaper to Nazi propagandist:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/head-of-gop-election-inquiry-compares-milwaukee-newspaper-to-nazi-propagandist/article_82287223-b974-5877-a297-990531bde8dc.html

* "Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Republican review of Wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/06/republican-reviewing-2020-vote-says-he-doesnt-know-how-elections-work/6020978001/

* "Gableman video puts a polished gloss on election nonsense:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/09/21/gablemans-taxpayer-financed-video-puts-a-reasonable-face-on-election-fraud-craziness/

* "Republicans seeking to discredit Wisconsin elections off to a bumbling start:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-seeking-to-discredit-wisconsin-elections-off-to-a-bumbling-start-123147333958

* "Republican threat to Wisconsin elections no laughing matter despite farcical clumsiness:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-threat-to-wisconsin-elections-no-laughing-matter-despite-farcical-clumsiness-123310149663

* "Impartial audit? Wisconsin Republicans tap Trump appointee, Trump lawyer:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impartial-audit-wisconsin-republicans-tap-trump-appointee-trump-lawyer-123612229601

* "Mike Lindell now claims he's found people as old as 850 years who voted in 2020 election: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-voter-fraud-2655251741/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates’ Domestic Abuse Allegations:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-shrug-off-candidates-with-domestic-violence-allegations_n_615cb61ee4b06f0ef2897f2b

* "Stacey Abrams: Youngkin ‘should be rejected’ for backing election audit:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-youngkin-should-be-rejected-for-backing-election-audit-122948677666

* "Political Giants Stump for Terry McAuliffe:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/political-giants-stump-for-terry-mcauliffe-123786309783

* "Joy Reid: Republican party has abandoned its once-lofty principles for Trumpism:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-gop-embrace-of-trumpism-and-erosion-of-voting-rights-analyzed-by-politics-experts-123492933901

* "Chris Hayes: What Chuck Grassley traded for Trump’s endorsement :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-chuck-grassley-traded-for-trump-s-endorsement-123298373686

* "AT&T funds rightwing channel One America News, Reuters reveals:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/07/att-source-revenue-one-america-news

* "Hayes: What 25 years of Fox News ‘poison’ has done to America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-25-years-of-fox-news-poison-has-done-to-america-123130437945

* "Joy critiques GOP leaders cultivating an ‘Idiocracy’ normalizing stupidity:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-conservatives-right-wing-extremists-slammed-for-cultivating-culture-of-stupidity-123138629986

* "'Think about democracy as something which has a future': Snyder on hope in troubled times:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-think-about-democracy-as-something-which-has-a-future-snyder-on-hope-in-troubled-times-122963525615

* "Idaho governor repeals political rival’s executive order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/idaho-governor-repeals-political-rivals-executive-order-515542

* "This governor and lt. governor duo are trying to out-Trump each other:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-governor-and-lt-governor-duo-are-trying-to-out-trump-each-other-122950725570

* "Joy Reid critiques Idaho’s governor and lieutenant governor’s game of GOP one-upmanship:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/idaho-s-governor-and-lieutenant-governor-engage-in-game-of-gop-one-upmanship-122952773947

* "Whistleblower testifies to Senate as patience with Facebook wears thin in Washington:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-testifies-to-senate-as-patience-with-facebook-wears-thin-in-washington-122858053507

* "Expert: Why Facebook’s business model is ‘incommensurable with democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/expert-why-facebook-s-business-model-is-incommensurable-with-democracy-122847813728

* This gets scarier the more we know. "New details on ‘democratic near-death experience’ of Trump election plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-democratic-near-death-experience-of-trump-election-plot-123038789931

* "Questions yet unanswered suggest probe of DOJ misuse by Trump shift focus to White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-yet-unanswered-suggest-probe-of-doj-misuse-by-trump-shift-focus-to-white-house-123056197607

* "Senate report exposes 'a mini attempted coup d'état' within the DOJ under Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-report-exposes-a-mini-attempted-coup-d-etat-within-the-doj-under-trump-123055685783

* "Political hijacking of Justice Department by Trump raises cleanup questions for Garland:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/political-hijacking-of-justice-department-by-trump-raises-cleanup-questions-for-garland-123056197797

* "Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eastman-trump-bar-complaint/2021/10/04/26dc7d50-2535-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html

* "Trump hotel lost $70M despite millions in foreign business:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-business-4203026146d39a3a2315eecd7fe79486

* "Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-give-videotaped-deposition-protest-lawsuit-judge-orders/story?id=80579982

* "State Department Investigating if Trump Officials Stole G-7 Gift Bags Meant for Foreign Leaders:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/trump-gift-bags-g7-missing-gifts-saudi-fake-fur.html

* This is very 45. "White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html

* "Schiff book documents when Republicans gave up and gave in to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-book-documents-when-republicans-gave-up-and-gave-in-to-trump-123309637776

* "Rep. Bennie Thompson: Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely manner:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/bannon-defying-subpoena-what-garland-should-do-discussed-by-jan-6-select-committee-chair-thompson-123596358002

* "Biden White House waives executive privilege for initial set of Trump-era documents sought by Jan. 6 panel:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/bannon-jan-6-subpoena-515681

* "Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-investigation-trump-2020-election/index.html

* "Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/trump-jan-6-committees-subpoena-515593

* "Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/06/trump-aides-capitol-attack-house-select-committee

* "Jan. 6 Panel Threatens to Pursue Charges Against Bannon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/steve-bannon-capitol-riot.html

* "Schiff: Enforcing select committee subpoenas tests ‘principle no one is above the law’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/steve-bannon-defying-jan-6-select-committee-subpoena-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-123691077812

* "Rosen, former acting AG under Trump, appears before Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/13/rosen-jan-6-committee-515910

* "Jan. 6 panel moving swiftly as it sets Bannon contempt vote:" https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-bennie-thompson-9823b7d1c15eabd235cd3a9887b1f46e

* "Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to 2 of its senior leaders Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/capitol-police-whistleblower-rebuke-jan-6-515696

* "Prosecutors: Capitol cop told Jan. 6 rioter to hide evidence:" https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/capitol-police-officer-indicted-for-obstruction-after-riot

* "‘Just looking out’: Capitol officer charged with telling rioter to delete evidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-just-looking-out-capitol-officer-charged-with-telling-rioter-to-delete-evidence-123686469722

* "Judge holds DC jail officials in contempt in 1/6 riot case:" https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-district-of-columbia-capitol-siege-b944fd79b8e132f633bfb0111adfaba8

* "100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What They Did And What They’re Facing.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/100-capitol-riot-guilty-pleas

* "Capitol rioter admits to two new felonies while representing himself in bond hearing:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-brandon-fellows-admits-to-two-new-felonies-while-representing-himself-in-bond-hearing-judge-trevor-mcfadden/65-a40af9c2-9809-4adb-aaec-7e36ad12b308

* "Capitol rioter represents himself, accidentally admits to more crimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/capitol-rioter-represents-himself-accidentally-admits-to-more-crimes-123491909794

* "Gay Trump Supporter Brandon Stratka Pleads Guilty in Capitol Riot Role:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/gay-trump-supporter-brandon-stratka-pleads-guilty-capitol-riot-role

* "U.S. Capitol Police arrest man who parked suspicious vehicle outside Supreme Court:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/capitol-police-says-it-investigating-suspicious-vehicle-front-us-supreme-court-2021-10-05/

* "Maryland senior housing shooting kills 2; suspect held:" https://www.khq.com/regional/gunman-held-in-shooting-of-2-staffers-inside-senior-facility/article_adb26ce1-aba9-50cb-b1b3-d8a254f771cf.html

* "How Thousands of Haitians Became Trapped in Mexico:"

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* "Reporting on the Humanity of the Immigration Crisis | Field Notes:"

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* How is it legal to deport kids to Haiti when they aren't from there? Why would anyone deport anyone to Haiti right now let alone Brazilian and Chilean children? More than 40 children with non-Haitian passports deported to Haiti: IOM":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/haitian-kids-deportees-intl-latam/index.html

* "Biden administration canceling more border wall contracts:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/border-wall-contacts-canceled-biden-administration/index.html

* "At least 1,000 migrant children separated under Trump still haven't been reunited with parents:" https://www.axios.com/migrant-children-still-separated-from-parents-92a72738-f295-410b-ac61-076c634eaaea.html

* "Family Demands Surveillance Video After Alabama Woman Christina Nance Was Found Dead in Unused Police Van:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/family-demands-surveillance-video-after-alabama-woman-christina-nance-was-found-dead-in-unused-police-van/

* "Feds won't seek charges against cop in Jacob Blake shooting:" https://apnews.com/article/us-news-us-department-of-justice-rusten-sheskey-jacob-blake-kenosha-4f8493dd0776ef6046e052a538cd1460

* "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist#1133516

* "‘County with staggering history of detaining children’ revealed in shocking report:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tennessee-county-was-profiting-off-jailing-black-children-as-young-as-seven-123298885901

* "A homeless man was arrested for a 43-cent ‘theft’ of a Mountain Dew. He could face 7 years in prison.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/21/pennsylvania-mountaindew-theft-joseph-sobolewski/

* "Texas Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/george-floyd-pardon-texas.html

* "FBI raids New York's police sergeants union offices and the union president resigns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043567201/fbi-raid-new-york-police-sergeants-union-ed-mullins

* "A look at track record of NYPD union head who resigned after FBI raid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-at-track-record-of-nypd-union-head-who-resigned-after-fbi-raid-123042373581

* "Derecka Purnell - "Becoming Abolitionists":" https://www.cc.com/video/0w8kcq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists

* "How the nation's Chinese American communities grapple with systemic racism and gentrification:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-the-nation-s-chinese-american-communities-grapple-with-systemic-racism-and-gentrification-123205189953

* "The Latest in Jussie Smollett's Ongoing Alleged Hoax Attack Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/06/heres-latest-jussie-smolletts-ongoing-hoax-attack-case

* "Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html

* "Texas school official says classrooms with books on Holocaust must offer ‘opposing’ views:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/texas-school-holocaust-books-race-southlake

* "Islamophobia: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube:"

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* CW: Pedophila, Rape. "French clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950, report finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/

* CW: Rape. "UK police won't act against Prince Andrew over abuse claim:" https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-sexual-assault-allegations-jeffrey-epstein-f0e955fd2345884173ba1321bb105048

* "NFL players attack ‘fraud’ Jon Gruden after racist and homophobic emails:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/12/nfl-players-reaction-jon-gruden-emails-racist-homophobic

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'Toxic culture': NFL cheerleaders demand release of full workplace inquiry:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-toxic-culture-nfl-cheerleaders-demand-release-of-full-workplace-inquiry-123494469775

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'We feel invisible': Washington Football Team employees experienced decades of abuse, sexual harassment:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/14/jon-gruden-washington-football-team-owner/8450505002/

* "California Outlaws 'Stealthing,' Mandates Gender-Neutral Toy Sections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/california-outlaws-stealthing-mandates-gender-neutral-toy-sections

* "Appeals court puts temporary hold on judge's order blocking Texas 6-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/texas-abortion-appeal/index.html

* "Biden administration: Texas abortion ban, in place despite constitutional questions, offers road map for other states:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-ban-appeal/2021/10/12/fd649804-2b60-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html

* "Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/15/biden-justice-department-supreme-court-texas-abortion-516093

* "DOJ rips Texas abortion ban in new appeals court filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-rips-texas-abortion-ban-in-new-appeals-court-filing-123312197593

* "DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law:" https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-texas-aeedf9630e395f9115909ce5fb63eea5

* "Attacks on abortion rights already forcing women to dangerous 'back alley' alternatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attacks-on-abortion-rights-already-forcing-women-to-dangerous-back-alley-alternatives-123409477923

* "Fact check: Pennsylvania bill proposing restrictions on male reproductive rights is satirical:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/07/fact-check-legislation-male-reproductive-rights-parody-bill/6032780001/

* "A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath

* "Justice secretary Dominic Raab thinks misogyny can be a 'woman against a man':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/06/dominic-raab-tory-misogyny/

* "Daddy Issues, Misogyny, and the Pinnacle of Male Privilege:"

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* "Gay couple’s son finally granted citizenship in landmark Namibian ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/16/namibia-gay-couple-children-citizenship-win/

* "Evangelist who backed death penalty for gays wants to run the National Trust:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/national-trust-christian-voice-stephen-green/

* "Genderfluid Person in Dress and Heels Attacked, Left Black and Blue:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/genderfluid-person-dress-and-heels-attacked-left-black-and-blue

* "Thug beats man with wine bottle for ‘holding another man’s hand’ near gay village:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/11/birmingham-homophobic-attack-kesseler/

* "Birmingham announces major steps to combat spike of anti-LGBT+ violence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/birmingham-homophobic-attacks-lgbt/

* "Protesters demand the Guardian 'stop platforming transphobia' at newspaper's HQ:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/08/guardian-transphobia-protest-london/

* "LGBT+ students demand university fire anti-trans professor: 'We've had enough':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/kathleen-stock-university-sussex/

* "Biden Calls Out Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation on National Coming Out Day:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/11/biden-calls-out-anti-lgbtq-legislation-national-coming-out-day

* "Black Trans Man Mel Groves Shot to Death in Mississippi:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/13/black-trans-man-mel-groves-shot-death-mississippi

* "The Queer Tax on LGBTQ+ Women Who Partner With Women:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/10/07/queer-tax-lgbtq-women-who-partner-women

* "Trans writer cuts ties with Netflix over 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle special:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/dave-chapelle-netflix-the-closer-criticism/

* "The Complex Transphobia of Dave Chappelle:"

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* They used her name without her consent, the bastards. "Hannah Gadsby slams Netflix boss over Dave Chappelle: ‘F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/hannah-gadsby-netflix-dave-chappelle-the-closer/

* "Trans Worker Who Criticized Netflix's Chappelle Special Is Suspended:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/11/trans-worker-who-criticized-netflixs-chappelle-special-suspended

* "The Bye Line: Jonathan Capehart calls out Tucker Carlson's homophobia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-jonathan-capehart-calls-out-tucker-carlson-s-homophobia-123784773952

* "Sally Ride and Nina Otero-Warren to Be 1st LGBTQ+ Faces on U.S. Coins:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/sally-ride-and-nina-otero-warren-be-1st-lgbtq-faces-us-coins

* CW: Suicide. "Texas Removes Access to Youth LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline, Resource Page:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/13/texas-removes-access-youth-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-resource-page

* "Trans-inclusive cervical screenings aren't a debate. They can be life-saving:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/09/trans-cervical-cancer-screenings/

* "Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition: Crash Course Outbreak Science #3:"

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* "The Weaponization of Outbreaks: Crash Course Outbreak Science #5:"

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* "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century:"

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* "BSE: Britain’s Deadly Disease Scandal:"

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* "NHS England to offer breakthrough treatment for sickle cell disease:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/05/nhs-england-breakthrough-treatment-sickle-cell-disease

* "WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-experts-back-using-malaria-vaccine-african-children-2021-10-06/

* "COVID is changing medical fly-in missions — and it might be for the better:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/07/1041862629/covid-is-changing-medical-fly-in-missions-and-it-might-be-for-the-better

* "Maddow: Look past conspiracy nonsense and weirdos to appreciate modern medical science:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-look-past-conspiracy-nonsense-and-weirdos-to-appreciate-modern-medical-science-123411013592

* "‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-a-crisis-tens-of-thousands-of-children-affected-by-pandemic-related-deaths-of-parents/ar-AAPdH5o?ocid=msedgntp

* "Valley Fever Is Spreading Through a Hotter, Drier Western US:" https://www.wired.com/story/valley-fever-is-spreading-through-a-hotter-drier-western-us/

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* "Pope, other religious leaders issue pre-COP26 appeal on climate change:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-world-religious-leaders-issue-pre-cop26-appeal-climate-change-2021-10-04/

* "Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly in 2021:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805

* "At least 15 dead after heavy rainfall and flooding in northern China:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/china/flooding-china-shanxi-ntl-hnk/index.html

* "China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58866854

* "Torrential rain follows summer wildfires, flooding homes across Greece:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/torrential-rain-follows-summer-wildfires-flooding-homes-across-greece-2021-10-15/

* "Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rescues-underway-after-flash-flooding-parts-alabama-2021-10-07/

* "Elite Firefighters Have a Secret Skill:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/smokejumpers-wildfires-sew-their-own-gear/620323/

* "More flee as Canary Island eruption continues, creates 'lava tsunami':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/more-flee-canary-island-eruption-continues-creates-lava-tsunami-n1281690

* "'Catastrophic' California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-oil-spill-washes-ashore-california-killing-wildlife-2021-10-03/

* "At least 2 dead in California plane crash that torched homes:" https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-california-plane-crashes-fires-suburbs-44a0451856e261b5314fb9528d9fa644

* "Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23:" https://apnews.com/article/science-pakistan-earthquakes-bd2be7e2982a44a0f02ecb4f12e9d0e3

* "City in Michigan urged to use bottled water due to lead risk:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/city-michigan-urged-bottled-water-due-lead-risk-80444860

* "Majority Black city in Michigan faces water lead levels higher than Flint’s at height:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-tells-majority-black-city-of-benton-harbor-not-to-drink-lead-laced-water-123401797648

* "How economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action for decades:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/economists-helped-big-oil-companies-obstruct-climate-action-benjamin-franta-stanford-university/

* "Masai Woman Builds Beautiful Off-Grid Homestead in the African Bush:"

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* "In Kenya, An Inspiring Maasai Man Creates Change Through Permaculture:"

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* "How Dying Gas Wells Are Making One Company Rich:"

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* "Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs as oceans warm, study shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-change-is-killing-worlds-coral-reefs-oceans-warm-study-2021-10-05/

* "Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save the Amazon:"

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* "Fast fashion: The dumping ground for unwanted clothes:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58836618

* "What It's Like to Document the Death of Ecosystems:"

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* "Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-melting-ice-stays-smooth-20211006/

* "A Centuries-Old Physics Mystery? Solved:" https://scitechdaily.com/a-centuries-old-physics-mystery-solved/

* "Planet with iron rainfall is even more extreme than scientists thought:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/iron-rain-exoplanet-scn/index.html

* "Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

* "If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-virtual-reality-metaverse-safety-children-jakki-bailey.html

* "The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along:" https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along

* "Scientists solve the mystery of the Etruscans’ origins:" https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-etruscans-discovered

* CW: Lynching, Sexual Assault "Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20:"

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* "Jailbreak! The International King of Escapes:"

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* I was angry about what happened to Monika Lewinsky while it was happening. Everyone else in the scandal was absolutely vile. The media and the comics decided to completely destroy her life. It was very there but for the grace and I had huge empathy for her. I love the person she grew up to be, and every time I see her out and about doing activism it makes be happy. She not only survived the terrible thing our whole society did to her; she took that trauma and made something beautiful and powerful out of it.

"Monica Lewinsky - "15 Minutes of Shame":" https://www.cc.com/video/6of5s5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-monica-lewinsky-15-minutes-of-shame

* "‘Do right by Henrietta Lacks’ family attorney of Black woman whose cells are commercialized by pharmaceutical company asks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/henrietta-lacks-family-member-discusses-suit-filed-over-black-woman-s-cells-sold-to-advance-medicine-science-122849861560

* CW: Suicide mention. "The Disappearance of Elisa Lam:"

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* "Gentrification Is Erasing Philly’s Black Horse Stables:"

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* "Two men arrested for alleged illegal smuggling of Kentucky Fried Chicken:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/two-men-arrested-alleged-illegal-171700302.html

* "Thank Me Later - Crusade for Clitoral Awareness:" https://www.cc.com/video/6bwz5l/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-thank-me-later-crusade-for-clitoral-awareness

* "Facebook Hearings Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Misinformation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "TikTok Challenge Incites School Vandalism:" https://www.cc.com/video/l5foji/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tiktok-challenge-incites-school-vandalism

* "Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu:" https://www.cc.com/video/hk1pbh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-spanish-flu

* "The Rise of Water Witches in California:" https://www.cc.com/video/qr1e8g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-rise-of-water-witches-in-california

* "New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & Man Faces Prison Over 43 Cents:" https://www.cc.com/video/biv64w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-zealanders-smuggle-kfc-man-faces-prison-over-43-cents

* "Climate Week - Trickle-Down Effects of the Global Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/3a9x5k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-climate-week-trickle-down-effects-of-the-global-crisis

* "Ongoing Crisis at the U.S. Border:" https://www.cc.com/video/jshkgv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ongoing-crisis-at-the-u-s-border

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Mask Rally:" https://www.cc.com/video/dxm2d3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-mask-rally

* "Booster Shots Approved & 46% of Americans Believe in Ghosts:" https://www.cc.com/video/53kjvm/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-booster-shots-approved-46-of-americans-believe-in-ghosts

* "Switzerland OKs Same-Sex Marriage & Kids Face Climate Woes:" https://www.cc.com/video/6ig1jw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-switzerland-oks-same-sex-marriage-kids-face-climate-woes

* "CP Time - Black Fashion Models:" https://www.cc.com/video/2vcs6m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-fashion-models

* "Can We Convo? - Reporting on Missing White Women:" https://www.cc.com/video/sp35bc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-can-we-convo-reporting-on-missing-white-women

* "Keeping Up with the Congressians - Capitol Hill Crunch Time :" https://www.cc.com/video/2on71h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-the-congressians-capitol-hill-crunch-time

* "Amazon Unveils $1K Robot & Man Traps Alligator in Trash Can :" https://www.cc.com/video/ghjlcw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-amazon-unveils-titlek-robot-man-traps-alligator-in-trash-can

* "Pandora Papers Expose Wealthy Tax Dodgers:" https://www.cc.com/video/52gnv2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-pandora-papers-expose-wealthy-tax-dodgers

* "Black Family vs. Racist Neighbor & Meghan Trainor's Toilets:" https://www.cc.com/video/vyqduj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-family-vs-racist-neighbor-meghan-trainor-s-toilets

* "Red, White and Broken - Religious Exemptions for Vaccines :" https://www.cc.com/video/05hv1g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-red-white-and-broken-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines

* "Remotely Educational - How Hollywood Works:" https://www.cc.com/video/2o4rhr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-remotely-educational-how-hollywood-works

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Right to Repair:" https://www.cc.com/video/iv0hvu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-right-to-repair

* "Freedom of Speech Battle in New Jersey:" https://www.cc.com/video/fpz5ow/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-freedom-of-speech-battle-in-new-jersey

* "Back in Black - Hollywood's De-Aging Problem :" https://www.cc.com/video/wr6ipp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-back-in-black-hollywood-s-de-aging-problem

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - America's Great Resignation:" https://www.cc.com/video/26ld3k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-america-s-great-resignation

* "Ladies Night Song - SNL:"

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* "End Of Iris - El Tango De Roxanne (Moulin Rouge Cover):"

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* Wednesday I spaced a Doctor's appointment. (In my defense, I was very aware of it Monday and planning to go, but they never sent a reminder call and scheduling on Tuesday and Wednesday was tight, so it just fell out of my head with all the other stuff I needed to remember). I remembered it about an hour too late. Sigh. The reschedule and the long wait times between nurse and doctor because they were squeezing me into cracks meant I only got a few hours of sleep.

Add to this that all the gimping about Wednesday led to my dicey left hip joint trying to dislocate itself later that night, which is a thing it just sort of does periodically, but hadn't for several years. The pain of even a failed dislocation is stunningly painful and means the leg stops being load bearing sporadically. Luckily, Thursday it waited until I was parked at home to make another series of attempts to escape it's socket. (This has to do with my AS made worse by things like the distance running and ballet in my youth. My cartilage is under constant attack by my immune system. Yes, I know this isn't a problem most people have. It was always the left hip joint that used to pop out. I think I must have done extra damage to it in my teens somehow). The weather being changeable enough to ramp my arthritis pain level way up is not helping either and is likely contributing though I can't prove it. I just know when I dislocate, it tends to be in autumn or Winter.

Also, I needed head Millennial for an essential project, which meant I needed to bail the tanks myself (Nearby Millennial is the best at all the other tank cleaning components, which I flat out can't do since the AS started gnawing that shoulder joint which sent the fragile right shoulder joint. Normally Head Millennial does the bailing when things are running smoothly, as it's something Nearby Millennial absolutely can't do), into it's own exciting pain Wednesday night. Luckily this is more remediable than the hip joint thing, and the measures I took Wednesday night moved it make into the unpleasanter end of functional, which is really all I could ask for given the givens.

So I've been a serious mess physically for a couple of days, add in the lack of sleep and the way the need to get to the appointment on short notice threw my meds schedule into chaos and basically, I'm just trying to stay up late enough that Friday will still work and doing stuff that doesn't require too much eye focus.

* Over the weekend we managed to nearly finish decorating for Phase II, and on Sunday a friend came to visit. Livia is still full of complaints about the lack of live mice in food deliveries, but there is nothing to be done.

* I've been having a particularly bad chronic pain week, made worse by the nobody will let me sleep thing. I'm getting Police union auto-dialers from at least three different zip codes and as between them they have about twenty and I can only block 25 numbers, every time I block one another one wakes me up later. I wish there were a do not call list for police unions, but... America. they called twice today. It was so bad Thursday and Friday that after call five Friday, Tavy stood on my hip and complained angrily until I hung up. There were four more calls to come in the next couple hours including two separate calls from my dentist reminding me of the same appointment, one live and one robo.

I'm also getting daily harassment from a robot claiming to be a pharmacy, which insists on calling me every morning between 9-9:30AM wanting me to get up, find pen and paper and in the short time it takes for the robot to read the number, and write down their number and call them back, you know, exactly the way scammers trying to steal your social security or credit card numbers like to do. I haven't blocked them on the grounds that I haven't heard from lung ampule people for a while and it's just possible they subcontracted out. Medicare advantage does the same thing some times, you see. They like to wake me up once or twice a day with a rambling generic robot message that doesn't properly identify themselves and what they want in the thirty seconds before I hang up. Eventually they give up and have a live person call and properly identify themselves. So I tend not to block medical type things that behave like that on the off it actually is Medicare being too lazy to properly contact me. I hoping if that's what's going on here, do that before I have to start a game of phone tag with the wildly incompetent folks at lung medicine head office. which took most of a month last time my machine died.

* I voted Saturday. Yes, it's election season again. I know people have trouble caring about off year elections, but state and local elections have a massive effect on your quality of life. My ballot had a ton of initiatives and common sense tax stuff needing affirming. Turn out matters. My ballot had a ton of local and county offices that very much mattered for issues like affordable housing and environmental measures.

Don't sleep on this election. Republicans are pushing hard most places to take over state election positions with partisan extremists who want to end democracy. They are packing school boards with people who want to censor history and thing that you need to teach "The other side of the holocaust." Who your sheriff is can make the difference between mental health and drug diversion vs. Stop and frisk.

Don't sleep on this, I beg you. People sleeping on state level elections is why so many states are getting extreme racial gerrymandering next year.

* I am worried about Tavy. He slipped past Squirrel when he came home from work a few days ago, and I didn't notice until after lung time. Late Saturday, he got diarrhea. He slept most of Sunday and was still ill. He's drinking lots of water and is behaving normally while awake, but not eating much and is low energy for him. I'm worried he ate something he shouldn't while he was lose in the pre-dawn or caught a paracite from one of the complex dogs, since a lot of the owners are too lazy to toss their feces in the receptacle.

I'll see how how is tomorrow. I definitely can't afford the vet and squirrel is skint this month. *digits cruciform*

* "AI improves your Halloween costumes!:" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/665293325032669184

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.5: Is There in Truth No Beauty?

They are escorting the Medusan ambassador to the Federation home. Humans can't talk to the Medusans face to face as sight of the Medusan driving them insane. Spock must wear a visors, though there is concern about his human half. The Medusan is traveling in a future tech cat carrier apparently with Larry and Miranda. The cat carrier opens. Spock flinches, but gazes on the entity for a while. He tells Miranda, the woman assisting the Ambassador that he envies her assignment. The Assistant tries to touch his mind. She seems to project her envy on Spock. Clue number one. Apparently he telepathy is why he studies on Vulcan. She wishes she could see the Medusan.

They have a dinner party where they discuss Vulcan telepathy and the need to block out other's thoughts. Miranda takes a badge he wore in honor of her as a taunt. Clue number 2. Bones argues that Vulcan is boring and that the Medusans must be evil because they are ugly. Spock keeps gently rebuking McCoy instead of slapping him. Spock is a better man than I. Kirk calls beauty the last prejudice, but then toasts Miranda's beauty. Bones is racist and paternalistic. Miranda rebukes him on the racism. Miranda says she senses someone thinking about murder, but can't say who. She rebuffs Bones' attempt to escort her to her room. Scotty invites the other guy that came with the Medusan to go drinking, but he too turns down the offer. Bones says she's 'disturbing' possibly because she doesn't want to fuck. *side eye*

Larry has a deep crush on Miranda and is losing his shit because she's going to live with the Medusa instead of having sex with him. He kisses her. she is not into it and tells him to leave. She now knows the murdery feelings and envy are from Larry. The Creep. He goes to murder the Medusa out of sexual jealousy, thus seeing the Medusa and going violently mad. He runs around attacking people. Miranda tells the feds about Larry.

Larry the Incel turns up at engineering. Scotty gives him the controls before the announcement of Larry's homicidal insanity comes over. He knocks out Scotty and starts driving the Enterprise dangerously fast. He sends them beyond the galaxy boundaries before they subdue him. He is raving about dreams. Only Miranda can calm him. He thinks about the Medusa, they calls her a liar and tries to kill her, but he dies instead. Everything just stopped.

So now they are lost in space. (Danger Will Robinson). It's a void. they can't recross the barrier in sub-light and the sensory distortion in warp makes navigating impossible. The only solution is a mindlink with the Medusan which Spock suspects Dr. Miranda Jones won't allow. Kirk volunteers to distract her with a date to the arboretum. *side eye* Kirk tries to talk her out of her asexuality. *side eye* She doesn't enjoy other people's violent emotions and finds the Medusans restful. Kirk keeps trying to seduce her anyway, insulting her Medusan friend. Asshole.

Miranda works out what Spock is planning and tries to take his place. he points out she doesn't know how to pilot the ship. Bones points out a blind person can't fly the ship. (He'd been keeping her blindness private because ethics, but he couldn't let her endanger the ship). Her dress contains a sensor web. Kirk works out she hides her blindness to avoid pity. She insists. Kirk says to ask the Medusan, who says no.

Spock mind melds with the Medusan and the two become one. The blend quotes Byron at Uhura and the Tempest at Miranda. They navigate back to entry point, at which point the Medusan waxes poetic about the wonder of being embodied but also the intense loneliness of it. Spock goes to put the entity back in the cat carrier, but forgets his visor. He goes berserk and Kirk has to stun him. Nimoy's performance in this scene is really beautiful, with all the switches back and forth in both personality and emotion.

Miranda is Spock's only hope, via Mind Meld. Kirk gets impatient and finds her in there without her net. Kirk thinks she should wake him with a kiss then accuses her of trying to kill Spock. She goes all the way down, risking them both. Spock recovers. Kirk gives Miranda a rose and she goes off to live with the aliens. She and Spock respect each other now.

The men (except Spock are just really gross in this one.

*****
* 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.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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* "Russian authorities open new criminal case against Alexei Navalny:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-authorities-open-new-case-against-kremlin-critic-navalny/

* "Jitender Maan Gogi: India gangster shot dead in Delhi court:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58674452

* "Mozambique militant attacks: 'So much destruction':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58671942

* "Rwanda genocide 'kingpin' Théoneste Bagosora dies in prison:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58695094

* "Parties Vie for Power After Election Shakes Up German Politics:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/27/world/german-election-results

* "Freezing to death on the edge of the EU:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-58671941

* "China Declares All Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040381774/china-cryptocurrency-transactions-illegal-bitcoin

* "Hungarian PM aims to restore extra pension payment faster:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarian-pm-aims-restore-extra-pension-payment-faster-2021-09-24/

* "1.9m UK homes lose supplier after two more gas firms go bust:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/22/19m-uk-homes-left-without-supplier-after-two-more-gas-firms-go-bust

* "Tory equalities minister Kemi Badenoch: 'I don't care about colonialism':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/kemi-badenoch-colonialism-whatsapp-messages/

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* "Anti-Vaccine Protesters Clash With Police In Melbourne, Australia, For The 2nd Day:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039301977/anti-vaccine-protesters-clash-with-police-in-melbourne-for-the-second-straight-d

* "Unvaccinated and defiant, Bolsonaro pushes back against criticism in his U.N. speech.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/world/americas/bolsonaro-covid-vaccine-un.html

* "Covid-19: India health workers' families fight for compensation:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58621933

* "Desperation, misinformation: how the ivermectin craze spread across the world:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/ivermectin-covid-peru-misinformation

* "Singapore migrant workers are still living in Covid lockdown:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58580337

* CW: Domestic Violence. I hope they catch him. I'm worried about his wife's safety. "Man punches nurse in the face multiple times after his wife is vaccinated for Covid:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/covid-vaccine-assault-nurse-canada-trnd/index.html

* "Pfizer booster now available to older Americans and those at higher-risk, including on the job, as CDC chief partly overrules panel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/23/covid-booster-shots-cdc/

* "Red Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/briefing/covid-red-states-vaccinations.html

* "The anti-vaccine-mandate cult keeps putting lives at risk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/21/magas-indefensible-anti-vaccine-mandate-cult-keeps-killing-people/

* "Joy Reid: There are two Americas, with vaccinated and unvaccinated spaces:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pfizer-says-its-covid-vaccine-is-safe-for-children-5-11-amid-pandemic-culture-wars-121562181708

* "As racial disparities in vaccination rates even out, partisan gap remains glaring:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-racial-disparities-in-vaccination-rates-even-out-partisan-gap-remains-glaring-122254405636

* "Mobile military ICU training for use with beleaguered U.S. hospitals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mobile-military-icu-training-for-use-with-beleaguered-u-s-hospitals-121761349902

* "Florida's new surgeon general opposes mandates, calls COVID-19 vaccines "nothing special":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-ladapo-florida-surgeon-general-covid-19-vaccine-desantis/

* "Florida’s new surgeon general ‘is a prop’ serving DeSantis’ interests doctor says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-s-new-surgeon-general-being-used-desantis-for-right-wing-agenda-doctor-says-121856581505

* Because the children aren’t dying fast enough for the pro-lifers, apparently. "Florida Students Are No Longer Required To Quarantine After Being Exposed To COVID:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/22/1039907024/florida-quarantine-optional-for-students-exposed-covid

* "Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths this summer, more Texans under 60 are dying:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/24/coronavirus-texas-deaths-under-60/

* "Doctors Say Texas Leaders Failed To Stop COVID-19 From Spreading:" https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/03/407791/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading/

* "Mississippi Governor Announces Bold Plan to Do Nothing to Stop COVID:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/mississippi-governor-announces-bold-plan-to-do-nothing-to-stop-covid

* "COVID deaths surge in Alabama, after state reports more deaths than births in 2020:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-deaths-surge-alabama-state-reports-deaths-births/story?id=80157191

* "‘It’s a tragedy’: State health officer responds to Alabama now leading the country in COVID-19 death rate:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/watch-live-state-health-officer-provides-update-on-covid-19-across-alabama/

* "Tennessee sees decrease in COVID cases, but deaths sharply rising; doctors say remain vigilant:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-sees-decrease-in-covid-cases-but-deaths-sharply-rising-doctors-say-remain-vigilant/

* "Physicians fire back at Tennessee governor's COVID policies:" https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2021/sep/28/physicians-fire-back-governors-covid-policies/555019/

* "As Oklahoma’s COVID-19 toll hits 10,000, 'it’s OK to ask for help,' grief experts say:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/09/24/oklahoma-covid-grief-experts-advice-coping-state-deaths-hit-10-000/5799837001/

* "“An Unprecedented Event In Modern Medicine”: What Happens When A State Fails To Flatten The COVID Curve:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/idaho-covid-crisis-standards-care

* "Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/25/idaho-funeral-homes-coronavirus/

* "1144 new COVID-19 cases in Montana:" https://nbcmontana.com/news/coronavirus/new-covid-19-cases-in-montana-09-23-2021

* As far as I'm concerned they killed those people on purpose. "9 vaccinated nursing home residents die after Montana lets healthcare workers go unvaccinated:" https://www.newsweek.com/9-vaccinated-nursing-home-residents-die-after-montana-lets-healthcare-workers-go-unvaccinated-1632673

* "A Montana VA medical center has opened beds to non-eligible patients to help relieve nearby hospitals during Covid-19 surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/25/us/montana-va-beds-hospitals-covid/index.html

* "Hospitals flooded by the unvaccinated forced to curb care even for some non-Covid patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/non-covid-patients-receiving-reduced-care-at-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated-121764421871

* "Documents show influence of Trump White House adviser on bizarre Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-documents-show-influence-of-trump-white-house-adviser-on-bizarre-covid-policy-121865797681

* "Hayes: How GOP is making money off ‘morally obscene’ anti-vax grift:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-gop-is-making-money-off-morally-obscene-anti-vax-grift-122241093739

* "Anti-vaxx NBA players generate fallout for teams, fans as city-level mandates kick in:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-vaxx-nba-players-critiqued-by-journalists-jemele-hill-matt-sullivan-122145349901

* "Georgia Governor Touts AIDS 'Vaccine':" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/18/georgia-governor-touts-aids-vaccine

* "Knox County Cancels School After Anti-Mask Advocates Threaten Disruptive Protests:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/knoxville-school-canceled-anti-mask-protest_n_6151def0e4b01dff4b70c164

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* "Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-22f5107f1dbd19c8605b5b5435a9de54

* "Afghanistan: Taliban Abuses Cause Widespread Fear:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/23/afghanistan-taliban-abuses-cause-widespread-fear

* "The Women Burning Their Degree Certificates:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/09/afghanistan-brain-drain/619959/

* "Afghan Women Are Fighting Taliban Rule Despite Violent Suppression:"

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* "Return of the Taliban: A VICE Special Report:"

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* "The US Airlifted Over 100K Afghans as Kabul Fell, Now What?:"

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* "EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants:" https://apnews.com/article/epa-hydrofluorocarbon-rules-hfcs-greenhouse-gases-043715b9ee50d5a42ce0364ed28ffdff

* "U.S. mail service due to degrade further as DeJoy's tenure as postmaster general persists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-mail-service-due-to-degrade-further-as-dejoy-s-tenure-as-postmaster-general-persists-122254405795

* "Dems may drop debt fight to avoid shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/republicans-block-bill-shutdown-debt-ceiling-514405

* "The Byeline: Don't let the U.S. government crash through the debt ceiling:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-byeline-don-t-let-the-u-s-government-crash-through-the-debt-ceiling-122026565798

* The Republican argument is that costing taxpayers trillions of dollars for no gain, destroying the ability of the government to do anything much for a generation or two, crashing the American and the world economy for fun are all a small price to pay to protest a democratic plan to get the rich to pay a small part of their share of taxes. Crashing the debt ceiling cost money the way not paying any of your bills costs money.

Tell your Democratic Senators the Filibuster needs to die now when it can do some good. Tell your Republican Senators to save the American economy by voting to raise. Tell both your senators to abolish the debt ceiling.

* "Pelosi steers Dems toward infrastructure vote, without spending bill in tow:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/pelosi-house-democrats-infrastructure-514359

* "'It can't be a pinkie promise': Progressives not falling for games; insist on Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-can-t-be-a-pinkie-promise-progressives-not-falling-for-games-insist-on-biden-agenda-122159685720

* "Rep. Jones to those opposing lowering drug prices: who are you looking out for?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kyrsten-sinema-opposing-reconciliation-bill-s-drug-price-reforms-draws-scrutiny-121854533661

* "Sinema courts donors opposed to bill Democrats are trying to pass: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sinema-courts-donors-opposed-to-bill-democrats-are-trying-to-pass-nyt-122159173560

* "Manchin, Sinema contradict constituents in obstructing Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-sinema-contradict-constituents-in-obstructing-build-back-better-bill-122254917824

* "Sen. Sinema raising money from groups opposing Biden budget bill :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-sinema-raising-money-from-groups-opposing-biden-budget-bill-122240581828

* "American Gentry:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/trump-american-gentry-wyman-elites/620151/

* "This stark visualization proves it: You should be making a lot more money:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90671506/this-stark-visualization-proves-it-you-should-be-making-a-lot-more-money

* "COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff:" https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-education-california-b6c495eab9a2a8f1a3ca068582c9d3c7

It's almost as if the decision to make being a teacher more expensive every year while paying teachers about the same as we pay fast food workers and eroding their benefits while for decades there has been a serious teacher shortage has so hollowed out the system so badly that one disaster could completely collapse the system.

To be clear support staff are treated even worse.

You know how for decades we've been saying we need to properly fund schools while republicans have been slashing funding? Yeah.

* "Massachusetts Calls On The National Guard To Mitigate A School Bus Driver Shortage:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037307027/massachusetts-calls-national-guard-school-bus-driver-shortage-baker

* "Amid driver shortage, students ride party bus with stripper poles on field trip:" https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/09/amid-bus-driver-shortage-boston-students-ride-party-bus-with-stripper-poles-and-neon-lights-on-field-trip.html

* "America Has a Healthcare Crisis, and It's Hurting Rural Towns:"

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* "How the US made affordable homes illegal:"

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* "Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All:"

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* "These Single Moms Are Forced to Choose: Reveal Their Sexual Histories or Forfeit Welfare:" https://www.propublica.org/article/to-get-public-assistance-these-single-mothers-are-forced-to-share-intimate-details-about-their-families

* "‘We’re all fighting the giant’: Gig workers around the world are finally organizing:" https://restofworld.org/2021/gig-workers-around-the-world-are-finally-organizing/

* "“It’s Time to Turn This Tortilla Around”: El Milagro Workers Walk Out, Demanding Fair Treatment:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/el-milagro-walkout-lockout-chicago-labor-tortilla

* "Sweeping George Floyd police reform bill stalls as talks collapse:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/us-police-reform-bill-congress-bipartisan-talks

* "Rep. Karen Bass on police reform, possible mayoral run:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-karen-bass-on-police-reform-possible-mayoral-run-122025029734

* "House passes bill to create statutory right to abortion as a battle over Texas law heats up:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abortion-house-texas-supreme-court/2021/09/24/d5e731be-1ca2-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html

* "Jennifer Rubin: Dems must get Manchin to realize ‘this is not ‘50s version of GOP’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-refusing-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-slammed-by-politics-experts-121750085964

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* "Stuart Stevens: The Republican Party is an anti-democratic, autocratic force:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/america-is-in-a-constitutional-crisis-right-now-due-to-republican-party-ploys-122150469650

* "Eric Holder on battling gerrymandering and GOP voter suppression laws:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gerrymandering-and-how-it-could-lead-to-gop-minority-rule-nationwide-discussed-by-eric-holder-121218117592

* "Election law expert: How to prevent subversion of democracy in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/election-law-expert-how-to-prevent-subversion-of-democracy-in-2024-122144325710

* "Joy Reid: Democrats must protect free and fair elections to preserve our democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/big-lie-continuing-to-flourish-among-republicans-critiqued-by-joy-reid-in-the-absolute-worst-121563717586

* "What's The Status Of GOP-Backed Election Investigations In Wisconsin?:" https://www.wpr.org/whats-status-gop-backed-election-investigations-wisconsin

* "Arizona ballot review commissioned by Republicans reaffirms Biden’s victory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-ballot-review-draft-report/2021/09/24/7c19ac08-1562-11ec-b976-f4a43b740aeb_story.html

* "Arizona 'audit' flop fails Trump; furthers Republican degradation of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arizona-audit-flop-fails-trump-furthers-republican-degradation-of-democracy-121954885665

* "Joy Reid calls Arizona vote audit one of many 'fake fraudit gaslighting exercises':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/partisan-arizona-vote-audit-of-2020-election-confirms-biden-won-121947717562

* "Pennsylvania A.G. moves to protect voter data from state Republican 'audit' stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pennsylvania-a-g-moves-to-protect-voter-data-from-state-republican-audit-stunt-121862725762

* "Hayes: Texas is latest in Trump's ‘50 state strategy’ to undermine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-texas-is-latest-in-trump-s-50-state-strategy-to-undermine-democracy-121847365718

* "'Texas is being run from Mar-a-Lago': Abbott drags Texas into 'audit' circus for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-texas-is-being-run-from-mar-a-lago-abbott-drags-texas-into-audit-circus-for-trump-121952325811

* "Wave of Republican candidates endorsing Trump's Big Lie threatens future elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wave-of-republican-candidates-endorsing-trump-s-big-lie-threatens-future-elections-121764933923

* "Schmidt: Republicans are driving chaos, promising order with easy scapegoats:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schmidt-republicans-are-driving-chaos-promising-order-with-easy-scapegoats-121953861736

* "GOP congressman's bizarre rant embodies Republican Party's animating force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-congressman-s-bizarre-rant-embodies-republican-party-s-animating-force-122254917892

* "Bernice King, MLK’s daughter, called race profiteer by GOP senate candidate:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/bernice-king-mlk-daughter-called-193608734.html

* "Joy Reid critiques prominent GOP leaders using ‘Great Replacement’ theory rhetoric:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-lt-governor-patrick-spews-racist-great-replacement-theory-rant-on-fox-news-121217605781

* "Chris Hayes takes apart the racist right-wing immigration theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-takes-apart-the-racist-right-wing-immigration-theory-121943621608

* "Matt Gaetz openly embraces racist right-wing theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/matt-gaetz-openly-embraces-racist-right-wing-theory-122141765750

* "How Ted Cruz embarrassed himself at a hearing he didn’t even attend:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-ted-cruz-embarrassed-himself-at-a-hearing-he-didn-t-even-attend-122241605901

* "Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent, utilities with campaign funds, filing shows:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-lauren-boebert-paid-rent-utilities-with-campaign-funds-filing-shows-121852485509

* "Joy Reid critiques Lauren Boebert for using campaign funds to pay rent, utility bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/lauren-boebert-critiqued-for-using-campaign-funds-to-pay-rent-utility-bills-by-joy-reid-121919045895

* "Judge orders Trump Org. to address subpoenas by New York attorney general for company records:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/trump-organization-taxes-new-york/index.html

* "'Case-by-case basis': White House clarifies position on Trump records and Jan. 6 executive privilege:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/biden-privilege-trump-jan-6-514249

* "Jan. 6 committee subpoenas 4 from Trump’s inner circle:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/23/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-four-from-trumps-inner-circle-513989

* "Here's why the media is ignoring the violent Republican crime wave that no one is talking about:" https://www.rawstory.com/republican-crime-wave/

* "'They morphed into terrorists': Judges question meager charges against 1/6 rioters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-morphed-into-terrorists-judges-question-meager-charges-against-1-6-rioters-122254405575

* "Bannon, Meadows, other Trump insiders receive subpoenas from January 6th Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-meadows-other-trump-insiders-receive-subpoenas-from-january-6th-committee-121861190001

* "FBI: Killings soared nearly 30 percent in 2020, with more slayings committed with guns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-murders-2020-data-homicides/2021/09/27/062a1e4e-1f9c-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html

* "Tennessee grocery store attack: 'He kept on shooting':" https://apnews.com/article/media-shootings-tennessee-memphis-961847d59e0befbbf814073116410fb8

* "U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, says he will not be associated with ‘inhumane, counterproductive’ deportations of Haitians:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/haiti-biden-deportations-envoy/2021/09/23/c8304424-1c6c-11ec-8380-5fbadbc43ef8_story.html

* "Haiti Protests Mass U.S. Deportation of Migrants to Country in Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/world/americas/us-haitian-deportation.html

* "Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and head south:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mexico-urges-haitians-us-mexico-border-give-up-head-south-2021-09-24/

* "Former ambassador ‘respectfully disagrees’ with DHS Sec. over repatriating Haitian migrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/haiti-is-not-capable-of-repatriating-migrants-former-ambassador-patrick-gaspard-says-121947205553

* "Rep. Omar: Atrocious images from border should make Americans’ skin crawl:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/haitian-immigrants-gathered-at-southern-border-advocated-for-by-rep-ilhan-omar-121562181571

* "DHS Sec. Mayorkas: I’m horrified at images of Border Control corralling migrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/border-control-corralling-haitian-migrants-on-horseback-under-investigation-dhs-sec-mayorkas-says-121652293503

* "The Sound Off: Haiti and the Right:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-sound-off-haiti-and-the-right-122026053743

* "Biden administration takes new steps to preserve DACA:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/politics/daca-biden-immigration/index.html

* "Louisiana state trooper charged in pummeling of Black man:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-race-and-ethnicity-civil-rights-violations-death-of-ronald-greene-a2f88ffbeea43c6acfc4e9f490ced8f8

* "US police departments clamoring for de-escalation training:" https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-police-new-york-new-york-city-maine-a85463f8955fcf4be53e7b66287c1a87

* "Gay Man Dies at Rikers While Held Under $1 Bail; Family Seeks Answers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/22/gay-man-dies-rikers-while-held-under-1-bail-family-seeks-answers

They wouldn’t let him out without appearing before a judge, but refused to let him make any of his court dates because setting up teleconferencing would have taken a minimum of effort, then ignored an increasingly dire medical emergency until he died at which point they lied to cover it up.

* "Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Richmond two weeks after Robert E. Lee statue was removed:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/us/virginia-emancipation-statue-trnd/index.html

* "Famed cathedral names artist to replace Confederate windows:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-james-marshall-kerry-james-marshall-4f3ef320f410c9090acb540fa925bc2e

* "First Black principal at Texas school suspended after being accused of promoting critical race theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/critical-race-theory-promotion-accusation-made-against-first-black-principal-at-texas-high-school-before-his-suspension-121217093762

* "Jelani Cobb: Tulsa just one of many places race massacres targeted Black Americans:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/100-years-after-tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-make-case-for-justice-reparations-122244677823

* "Math Is Personal:" https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2021/09/bias-math-sexism-racism/620207/

* "Sabina Nessa killing suspect ‘tried to hide reflective red item’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/25/sabina-nessa-killing-suspect-tried-to-hide-reflective-red-item

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Federal arrest warrant issued for Brian Laundrie, fiance of Gabby Petito, on fraud-related charge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/23/brian-laundrie-warrant/

* "Maybe Cops Shouldn’t Handle Domestic Violence Calls:" https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/gabby-petito-body-cam-cops-fail-domestic-violence-victims.html

* "As the Petito case grips the nation, families of color say their missing loved ones matter, too:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/missing-persons-families-seek-help-after-gabby-petito-death/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11

* "Daniel Robinson’s father calls for all missing persons cases to be treated equally:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/father-of-missing-black-man-daniel-robinson-asks-for-more-police-accountability-121948741621

* "AOC on Texas governor’s ‘disgusting’ abortion remarks: ‘He is not familiar with a female body’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greg-abbott-texas-abortion-ban

* "'Architect' of reviled Texas abortion ban is now taking aim at crucial LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/jonathan-mitchell-texas-abortion-lgbt-rights-supreme-court/

* "How China’s Queer Youth Built an Underground Ballroom Scene:"

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* "Leo Varadkar hit with appalling homophobic abuse by 'intimidating' far-right mob:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/leo-varadkar-home-protect-homophobic/

* "Church of England candidates told to talk threesomes when grilled on inclusion:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/church-of-england-evangelicals-general-synod-candidates/

* "U.K. Appeals Court Overturns Puberty Blockers Ban for Youth Under 16:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/9/17/uk-appeals-court-overturns-puberty-blockers-youth-under-16

* "Not a single trans young person has been referred to a hormone specialist in 2021:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/trans-young-hormone-specialist-referral-nhs/

* "Government condemned over latest delay to conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/25/conversion-therapy-public-consultation/

* "Biden: We Must Defend Rights of LGBTQ+ Individuals to Love Openly:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/9/22/biden-we-must-defend-rights-lgbtq-individuals-love-openly

* "Trans Woman Brianna Ulmer Fatally Shot in Chicago:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/22/trans-woman-brianna-ulmer-fatally-shot-chicago

* "Gay Man Brutally Beaten, Left Unconscious in Alleged Hate Crime:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/20/gay-man-brutally-beaten-left-unconscious-alleged-hate-crime

* "Videos Show Florida Students Yelling Anti-LGBTQ+ Slurs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/20/videos-show-florida-students-yelling-anti-lgbtq-slurs

* "Coach Fired for Being Gay Was Told He's a 'Danger' to Kids:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/17/coach-fired-being-gay-was-told-hes-danger-kids

* "Colorado governor weds longtime partner in first same-sex marriage for a sitting governor:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/us/jared-polis-colorado-governor-wedding/index.html

* If Simu Liu can’t tell the difference between pedophilia and consensual sex between adults, perhaps he shouldn’t be allowed near children. "Shang-Chi's Simu Liu: Pedophilia Is 'No Different Than Being Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/9/17/shang-chis-simu-liu-pedophilia-no-different-being-gay

* "Chicago Winning Battle Against HIV Among Older People:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/20/chicago-winning-battle-against-hiv-among-older-people

* "Syphilis - The Great Imitator - Extra History:"

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* "Britney Spears court filing says conservatorship should end:" https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-conservatorship-7e627b77247844e0926429d4863fda3a

* CW: Abuse. "Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, And Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/heidiblake/conservatorship-investigation-free-britney-spears

* "One Mozart Song Calms The Brains of People With Epilepsy, And We May Finally Know Why:" https://www.sciencealert.com/listening-to-mozart-somehow-helped-people-with-epilepsy

* "Barnacle Glue Inspired MIT Scientists to Make a Paste that Can Stop Heavy Bleeding in Seconds:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/barnacle-glue-inspired-a-paste-that-can-stop-heavy-bleeding-in-seconds/

* "What Is the 20-Second Bladder Rule?:" https://www.wellandgood.com/20-second-bladder-rule/

* This surprises me not at all. "Fifteen years of research shows that sleep training for babies can cause them more distress:" https://inews.co.uk/opinion/sleep-training-babies-cause-distress-research-1199132

* "How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain:" https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-cure-for-pain/

* "The school that created a city for the blind:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210916-the-school-that-change-a-city-into-a-place-for-the-blind

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* "‘Tipping point’ for climate action: Time’s running out to avoid catastrophic heating:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1099992

* "Every season except summer is getting shorter, a sign of trouble for people and the environment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/22/longer-northern-hemisphere-summer-climate/

* "How Record Rain and Officials’ Mistakes Led to Drownings on a Subway:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/world/asia/china-floods-subway-train.html

* "Fire breaks out near Sonoma, smoke cloud seen across Wine Country:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Fremont-Fire-California-wildfire-Sonoma-16480227.php

* "Woman arrested on suspicion of starting California blaze:" https://apnews.com/article/fires-california-wildfires-evacuations-redding-66a00bdfc6747392f7dfd1d4a6587281

* "PG&E Is Charged With Manslaughter In A California Wildfire That Killed 4:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040630538/pacific-gas-electric-manslaughter-charges-california-wildfire-zogg

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* "Spanish volcano activity in La Palma island intensifies, suspending flights and forcing more evacuations:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/la-palma-island-intensifies-suspending-flights-intl/index.html

* "Strong quake hits Greek island of Crete; 1 dead, 20 injured:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-greece-athens-earthquakes-crete-6627c212e4f69081ce67969574b24f84

* "Amtrak train that derailed was going just under speed limit:" https://apnews.com/article/business-montana-amtrak-d33d78d5aa0da2abf8124162ed6b678f

* "Chinese scientists complete starch synthesis from CO2, revolutionary for agricultural production and promoting carbon neutrality - Global Times:" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1235013.shtml

* "This is the whitest paint on Earth and it could eliminate need for air conditioning:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/world-whitest-paint-climate-change/507-7bb294b8-f29b-40de-b7cc-5c435ba0cdc0

* "Ford to make huge electric car investment, challenging Washington to keep up:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ford-to-make-huge-electric-car-investment-challenging-washington-to-keep-up-122159685637

* "Millions of iPhones, TVs and other devices could go offline next week — here's why:" https://www.tomsguide.com/news/internet-disconnect-sept-30

* "Facebook puts Instagram for kids on hold after pushback:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/instagram-pausing-instagram-kids-eyes-80257066

* "Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep:" https://apnews.com/article/china-oceans-overfishing-squid-294ff1e489589b2510cc806ec898c78f

* "New Zealand's Slow-Moving 'Living Fossils' Have the Fastest Sperm Among Reptiles:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tuatara-sperm

* "Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-elections-environment-and-nature-local-elections-rome-dfd52b91e75a6a7863cae244ee3c4bda

"Wild boars can weigh up to 100 kilos (220 pounds), reach 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) in height and measure 150 centimeters (5 feet) long, a not-insignificant threat especially to the elderly and young children."

* "'Exciting' Stone Age discoveries in the Cairngorms:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56661834

* "Ancient tablet acquired by Hobby Lobby going back to Iraq:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ancient-clay-tablet-assyrian-king-back-iraq-80185396

* "Unearthed at a British Golf Course: A Log Coffin From the Bronze Age:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/europe/bronze-age-coffin-golf-course.html

* "King John: How England's Horrible Monarch Ended Up Granting Human Rights to the Western World:"

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* "Jewish Pirates:" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5CKygjg_eqcqTdJBCx1KgiD

* "Buckingham Palace May Have Been Site of Gay Brothel in the 1600s:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/20/buckingham-palace-may-have-been-site-gay-brothel-1600s

* "Who was the Real Man in the Iron Mask?:"

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* "The Absolute Legend That was Lord Timothy Dexter:"

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* "Is Ring Around the Rosie Really About the Plague?:"

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* "Cholera: Love in the Time of Pandemic:"

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* "500 Years of Women's Hoops, Crinolines, Bustles, & Bums (aka the history of the skirt):"

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* "The Greatest Last Stand You've Never Heard Of:"

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* "Newly Digitized Freedmen's Bureau Records Help Black Americans Trace Their Ancestry:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/

* "Trove of Unseen Photos Documents Indigenous Culture in 1920s Alaska:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-unseen-photos-documents-indigenous-culture-in-1920s-alaska-180978713/

* "Polio: The Disease that Paralyzed the World:"

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* CW: Eating Disorders, Torture, Medical Abuse. "The Doctor, the Mortician, and the Murder:"

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* "The Crazy Crystal Meth Adventure of a Finnish Soldier:" https://medium.com/exploring-history/the-crazy-crystal-meth-adventure-of-a-finnish-soldier-1cae54a1238f

* CW: Rape. "How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?:"

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* "The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/chinese-merchant-seamen-liverpool-deportations

* "When Pepsi had 6th largest navy in the world:" https://medium.com/history-in-bytes/when-pepsi-had-6th-largest-navy-in-the-world-4612708b70d2

* "Birmingham Church Bombing survivor lived with rage at sister’s death in 1963 White supremacist attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/birmingham-bombing-survivor-sarah-collins-rudolph-commemorates-58th-anniversary-of-attack-by-white-supremacists-120983109532

* CW: Rape. "Little Red Riding Hood On Campus: Women & Public Space:" https://daily.jstor.org/little-red-riding-hood-on-campus-women-and-public-space/

* "Doris Duke: The Murder at Rough Point:"

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* CW: Rape. "Peter Sutcliffe: Fake Notes, Bad Assumptions, and the Yorkshire Ripper's Reign of Terror:"

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* "Joy Reid slams Tucker Carlson’s comparison of current COVID patients vs. '80s HIV patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tucker-carlson-compares-treatment-of-people-with-covid-today-to-hiv-positive-people-in-the-80s-122243141991

* CW: Rape. "Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer:"

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* "LGBT+ troops discuss the 'hurtful' legacy of 'don't ask, don't tell' 10 years on:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-anniversary/

* "Biden on DADT Repeal Anniversary: 'A Tremendous Weight Was Lifted':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/20/biden-dadt-repeal-anniversary-tremendous-weight-was-lifted

* CW: Rape, Torture. "The Amazon Review Killer:"

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* "The Titanic PCP Incident:"

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* "Croatian police identify woman found with memory loss:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-ireland-croatia-slovakia-d7ea323234fcfc0fc6e42ec80ed9ffae

* "Tributes flood in for tireless defender of LGBT+ rights after his sudden death:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/jonathan-cooper-human-rights-lawyer-lgbt/

* "Beloved Sex and the City actor Willie Garson dies aged 57:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/willie-garson-dead-sex-and-the-city/

* "Melvin Van Peebles, godfather of Black cinema, dies at 89:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-movies-race-and-ethnicity-5c0a123a8238776ce96e0ea378e4dff5

* "Autopsy: Actor Michael K. Williams died of drug intoxication:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-tv-arts-and-entertainment-new-york-new-york-city-16cd9a96af9010ddcb2357e6d7b50a29

* "Mwazulu takes objects from French museums and live streams it to his followers:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-09/mwazulu-diyabanza-taking-africa-looted-treasures-france-museums/100441386

* "How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/crosswords/gender-language-nonbinary.html

* "What We Should Learn From the California Recall Election:"

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* "The Midterms are Only 411 Days Away: Holy Sh*&%$#!:"

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* "Climate Change’s Dirty Little Secret: Sewage:"

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* "Voting Rights:"

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* "Count on It with Dulcé - What's Behind the Sperm Recession?:" https://www.cc.com/video/llachu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-count-on-it-with-dulce-what-s-behind-the-sperm-recession

* "Histhery with Desi Lydic - Men vs. Women Bearing Children:" https://www.cc.com/video/vhxhzi/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-histhery-with-desi-lydic-men-vs-women-bearing-children

* "Scientists Are Potty-Training Cows:" https://www.cc.com/video/pl7zwr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-scientists-are-potty-training-cows

* "Instagram Is Damaging for Teens:" https://www.cc.com/video/49tuxn/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-instagram-is-damaging-for-teens

* "U.S. Drone Strike Kills Aid Worker:" https://www.cc.com/video/1fc6hn/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-u-s-drone-strike-kills-aid-worker

* "Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicles:" https://www.cc.com/video/ip63m3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-nicki-minaj-s-cousin-s-friend-s-swollen-testicles

* "Terrence Deyalsingh - Trinidad's Health Minister Speaks Out:" https://www.cc.com/video/udi869/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-terrence-deyalsingh-trinidad-s-health-minister-speaks-out

* "Black Men and Colorism on Screen:"

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* "Loki, the MCU, and Narcissism:"

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* I have often felt I was watching an entirely different movie than a big chunk of other viewers, especially when it comes to things like Fight Club and the Crow. I feel like this commentator was watching more the way I watch. "Edgelord Movies and the Men who Love Them:"

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* Wednesday I had an old Archer om in the background wile we were all working in the common area of the house. The Millennials were in the kitchen, I was in my office area. Malory Archer was claiming she could do everything the image consultants could do to market their company.

From the kitchen comes, "Okay, Boomer!"

I laughed my ass off.

* Saturday and Sunday assorted millennials and I worked on Gothmas phase one. Here are the results: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/663528395516346368/gothmas-phase-92621

Tavy and Livia: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/663541625688145920/livia-and-tavy-92126

* "John the Baptist, Melchizedek, and the Tom Bombadil Problem:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/john-the-baptist-melchizedek-and?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTg2OTM2MiwiXyI6InR5SGdyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMyODIzNTU1LCJleHAiOjE2MzI4MjcxNTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.C1Z47GItrHV2O2tiBp1GHYOFZ9VDQ6zTinxIQfVBNwk

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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.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

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

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

* Want to help Maxwell frost go to congress? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/119806

* Want to help Val Demings unseat Marco Rubio? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/117824

* Want to contribute to Morgan Harper's campaign? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads_ms_mh_gs_202109_dd_launch?source=ads_ms_MH_20210903-DD-GS-Launch-National_mhkywrds-Natl-1865U-MF_a003-MH-ad3-gstxt-txt&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqKuKBhCxARIsACf4XuGuQ_qm_8NW3mAhIySgB61jwTijPejfpvU6Gkt_JHp3b5YG4E75aWAaAhwTEALw_wcB

* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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* I still have a stupidly large amount of prepped links, but I've been scaffolding this all evening so I'm cutting it here before it runs another day.

* "Hezbollah brings Iranian fuel into Lebanon to ease shortages:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58583008

* "Missing bolts, poor welding contributed to Mexico City metro collapse, auditor finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/missing-bolts-among-issues-that-sparked-mexico-city-metro-collapse-auditor-finds-2021-09-07/

* "Justin Trudeau's early election gamble backfires in Canada but he clings onto power:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/americas/canada-election-results-trudeau-o-toole-intl/index.html

* I had a ton of good coverage of the Canadian election, but events overtook me, so I pulled the links.

* "Rivals allege mass fraud as Russian pro-Putin party wins big majority:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pro-putin-party-heads-russian-election-win-after-navalny-clampdown-2021-09-19/

* "Communists, observers report violations in Russian election:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/communists-observers-report-violations-duma-election-80094316

* Google and Apple took strong action to side with Putin against Democracy."Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/google-apple-remove-navalny-app-stores-russian-elections-begin-2021-09-17/

* "Apple, Google, cowed by Putin, remove Russian protest voting app as election begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/apple-google-cowed-by-putin-remove-russian-protest-voting-app-as-election-begins-121227845901

* "Top Russian Diplomat’s Secret Life With Millionaire Mistress Exposed:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-diplomat-sergey-lavrovs-secret-life-with-millionaire-mistress-exposed

* "Boris Johnson’s reshuffled cabinet has a sorry record on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/16/boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-lgbt-rights/

* "Liz Truss promoted to foreign secretary and remains equalities minister:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/liz-truss-foreign-secretary-equalities/

* "Both North and South Korea fire ballistic missiles as tensions rise on peninsula:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/asia/north-korea-missiles-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Russia election: Opposition crushed ahead of managed polls:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58504603

* "Haiti faces fresh instability as PM comes under scrutiny:" https://apnews.com/article/port-au-prince-haiti-f57d0c530cd01452f357d020b8926324

* "Haiti prosecutor seeks to charge PM in killing, is replaced:" https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-port-au-prince-haiti-assassinations-1b48e0e75c14ee83b5530b2f8a9618c4

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* "COVID-19 virus is evolving to get better at becoming airborne:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210916173428.htm

* "Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine works in kids ages 5 to 11:" https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-202cb6e44b90270ec4d1f19690ed94c5

* "Indian study finds big drop in COVID antibodies within four months of vaccination:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-study-finds-big-drop-covid-antibodies-within-four-months-vaccination-2021-09-14/

Preliminary study, not peer reviewed, and for Covaxin and Covishield/AstraZeneca . Also, it may not reflect lesser effectiveness. Basically, not nearly enough is known and it’s far to early to panic.

* "Ischgl: Austria sued over Tyrol ski resort's Covid-19 outbreak:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54256463

* "Biden doubles US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-joe-biden-pandemics-business-united-nations-e7c09c1f896d83c0ed80513082787bd3

* "The U.S. is falling to the lowest vaccination rates of the world’s wealthiest democracies.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/asia/us-vaccination-rate-low.html

* "After Months Of Bans, Fully Vaccinated Travelers Will Be Allowed To Fly To The U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038912216/white-house-says-vaccinated-foreign-nationals-will-be-allowed-to-fly-to-the-u-s

* "1 in every 500 US residents have died of Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html

* "COVID-19 cases climbing, wiping out months of progress:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-texas-coronavirus-pandemic-kentucky-9e89fcef6ef184baa4703a47d2aefab6

* "'Soul-crushing': US COVID-19 deaths are topping 1,900 a day:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-missouri-c4d03a53de4036158fabb0125c4f7b02

* "US panel backs COVID-19 boosters only for seniors, high-risk:" https://apnews.com/article/fda-panel-rejects-widespread-pfizer-booster-shots-1cd1cf6a5c5c02b63f8a7324807a59f1

* "What to know about the FDA's decision on Pfizer booster shots:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-to-know-about-the-fda-s-decision-on-pfizer-booster-shots-121227333684

* "More than 675,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the US, surpassing country's 1918 flu pandemic death toll:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-09-20-21/h_9235b1080a7bd0bbee1fb393d8055b2b

* "F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/politics/pfizer-boosters-fda-authorize.html

* "GOP governors decry Covid mandates despite requiring other vaccines in own states:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-governors-decry-covid-mandates-despite-requiring-other-vaccines-in-own-states-120796741724

* "Are Biden's Vaccine Mandates Legal?:"

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* "Florida COVID update: 10,723 cases added, state nears 50,000 total deaths:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254263558.html

* "Florida Governor Celebrates Ban on School Mask Mandates as More Kids Die From COVID:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/florida-governor-celebrates-ban-on-school-mask-mandates-as-more-kids-die-from-covid

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatens to fine state counties and cities over vaccine mandates:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/ron-desantis-vaccine-mandate-fine-florida/index.html

* "DeSantis ‘anti-vaccine mandate’ event turned anti-vaccine real quick:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-ron-desantis-anti-vaccine-mandate-event-turned-anti-vaccine-real-quick-120796741608

* "Nearly 2 million people in Texas are overdue for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/14/coronavirus-texas-vaccine-second-dose/

* "“Do I or don't I?” Some Texas hospitals grapple with new mandatory vaccine rule:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/10/coronavirus-texas-vaccine-mandate-hospitals/

* "Tennessee ranks worst in nation for COVID-19 spread:" https://www.wbir.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/tennessee-worst-in-nation-for-covid-spread/51-4061c4f5-0eda-43f2-b200-dc346181a20d

* "About 56.5% of COVID-19 cases occurring in Metro Nashville middle and high schools:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2021/09/13/covid-19-school-tennessee-half-nashville-cases-middle-high-schools/8318871002/

* "I was supposed to have life-saving surgery. Tennessee’s covid-19 surge cost me a hospital bed.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/14/tennessee-covid-19-surge-hospital-beds-surgery/

* "Stillbirths may be increasing in Middle Tennessee due to COVID pandemic:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/stillbirths-may-be-increasing-in-middle-tennessee-due-to-covid-pandemic/

* "Mississippi health officials plea for vaccination after 'significant' number of COVID-19 fatalities in pregnant women:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-health-officials-plea-vaccination-significant-number-covid/story?id=79931539

* "Mississippi governor calls Biden vaccine mandate 'tyranny':" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-coronavirus-pandemic-mississippi-tate-reeves-546dfb92122b16daa903622c59e92032

* "‘Substantial’ daily death rate cited for Alabama’s COVID-19 hospitalization decline:" https://www.wsfa.com/2021/09/14/substantial-daily-death-rate-cited-alabamas-covid-19-hospitalization-decline/

* I am so angry about this. "A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/13/1036593269/coronavirus-alabama-43-icus-at-capacity-ray-demonia

* "Man dies in out-of-state hospital after multi-state Cardiac ICU search:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/man-dies-in-out-of-state-hospital-after-multi-state-cardiac-icu-search-120811077880

* "‘You’re not getting this damn vaccine’: Alabama teen’s struggle for COVID shot mirrors struggles nationwide:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/youre-not-getting-this-damn-vaccine-alabama-teens-struggle-for-covid-shot-mirrors-struggles-nationwide.html

* "CDC reports 70 additional COVID-19 deaths in Oklahoma:" https://kfor.com/news/local/cdc-reports-70-additional-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma/

* "South Carolina adds nearly 15,000 new COVID-19 cases, 158 deaths over three days:" https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article254199853.html

* "COVID updates: SC Children's hospitals report 20 children needing critical care:" https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2021/09/13/covid-sc-mask-vaccine-mandate-hospitals-cases-updates-clemson-dashboard/8272184002/

* "All-time high Covid hospitalizations in Idaho:" https://komonews.com/news/local/all-time-high-covid-hospitalizations-in-idaho

* "‘Their Crisis’ Is ‘Our Problem’: Washington Grapples With Idaho Covid Cases:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/us/coronavirus-hospitals-washington-idaho.html

* "Likelihood of survival becomes key for rationed hospital care in Covid-crushed Idaho:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/likelihood-of-survival-becomes-key-for-rationed-hospital-care-in-covid-crushed-idaho-121079877877

* "Washington governor asks feds for medical staffing help:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-gov-jay-inslee-asks-feds-for-medical-staffing-help-with-covid-response/

* "Alaska’s largest hospital implements ‘crisis standards of care’ as U.S. marks grim milestone:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

* "COVID-19 surge forces health care rationing in parts of West:" https://www.startribune.com/covid-19-surge-forces-health-care-rationing-in-parts-of-west/600097740/?refresh=true

* "Doctors face hard choices at packed hospital; patients wait in their cars for treatment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctors-face-hard-choices-at-packed-hospital-patients-wait-in-their-cars-for-treatment-120988229508

* "Alaska plans to help hospitals with COVID-19 crisis care:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-alaska-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-35b7d277449e702c42f1d5f591053788

* "The Big Lie, Updated:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1805180.html

* "They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/health/covid-antibody-regeneron.html

* "Chris Hayes on the madness of opposing Covid vaccine to ‘own the libs’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-madness-of-opposing-covid-vaccine-to-own-the-libs-121557061525

* "Anti-gay radio host who shamefully mocked AIDS victims dies with COVID-19:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/bob-enyart-aids-covid/

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* "UN climate talks: Faint progress on money, none on pollution:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-climate-united-kingdom-united-nations-business-40ac1b94dc489832415aa41adc9671cf

* "Afghan women hit back at Taliban with #DoNotTouchMyClothes campaign:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58550335

* "A Million Afghan Children Could Die in ‘Most Perilous Hour,’ U.N. Warns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/world/asia/afghanistan-united-nations-crisis.html

* "The Other Afghan Women:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

* "Afghanistan girls soccer team given asylum in Portugal:" https://apnews.com/article/soccer-immigration-sports-portugal-professional-soccer-b2097da4ac6ba491b31fffc2431091d3

* "Pentagon Reverses Itself And Now Says A Deadly Kabul Drone Strike Was An Error:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038381206/drone-attack-afghanistan-civilians-pentagon

* "‘All of them have names:’ Hayes on 10 civilians killed in Kabul drone strike:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-all-of-them-have-names-hayes-on-10-civilians-killed-in-kabul-drone-strike-121212997890

* "Trump aides aim to build GOP opposition to Afghan refugees:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-afghanistan-immigration-taliban-ac6dbd381ff5e6e64f921e1e64f53444

* Looks like they sorted it out, but I'm leaving in the links in case you wanted to know WTF.

* "France To Send Its Ambassador Back To The U.S. Following A Macron-Biden Call:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039735697/france-ambassador-submarine-macron-biden-call

* "Australia nuclear submarine deal: Aukus defence pact with US and UK means $90bn contract with France will be scrapped:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/16/australia-nuclear-submarine-deal-contract-france-scrapped-defence-pact-us-uk

* "Furious Over Sub Deal, France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S. and Australia:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/17/us/political-news

* Australia has this big ongoing trade deal with France involving submarines with France with a lot of money and jobs tied up in it. UK and US negotiated a secret deal with Australia for Australia to get nuclear reactor for submarines. Not weapons. Just the sort of the subs that don't have to refuel. They announced it this weak without even a heads up to France, which is just a dick maneuver however you feel about submarines conventional or nuclear, if you see what I mean.

France is our oldest and most loyal ally. Honestly I am confused as why the fuck we didn't include France in negotiations that effected them. Like, I have complicated thoughts about the agreement with Australia and UK, but given the trade deals between Australia and France, basic courtesy would suggest they should be dealt in. If we are negotiating something that effects them, we should include them. D'uh.

* "Russian hackers target Iowa grain co-op in $5.9 million ransomware attack:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/21/new-cooperative-hack-ransomware/

* "'Release the hounds': Ransomware attacks prompt calls for aggressive U.S. cyber response:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-release-the-hounds-ransomware-attacks-prompt-calls-for-aggressive-u-s-cyber-response-121666629508

* "Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/index.html

* "On concerns of Trump instability, Gen. Milley built shadow authority; soothed China: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/on-concerns-of-trump-instability-gen-milley-built-shadow-authority-soothed-china-book-120902725768

* "Schumer calls on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student debt for all:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/21/schumer-calls-on-biden-to-cancel-50000-in-student-debt-for-all-.html

* "Biden Announces Out Nominees for Futures Commission, Commerce:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/13/biden-announces-out-nominees-futures-commission-commerce

* "U.S. government aid helped reduce poverty in 2020, Census data shows:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-median-income-dropped-2020-poverty-rose-census-data-shows-2021-09-14/

* "Biden invokes Defense Production Act for second time to address fire hose shortage:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/biden-invokes-defense-production-act-052545045.html

* "Out West, Biden points to wildfires to push for big rebuild:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-fires-california-idaho-wildfires-6f50ae5a9f9e0922530f7594b427b07a

* "Manchin suggests he may support a $1T-$1.5T spending agenda:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/manchin-senate-spending-agenda-511482

* "House Democrats plan 26.5 percent corporate rate as part of multitrillion tax hike:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/corporate-tax-rate-511570

* "Hayes looks at reconciliation bill through lens of ‘The Price is Right’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-looks-at-reconciliation-bill-through-lens-of-the-price-is-right-121067077980

* "Bernie Sanders justifies $3.5T budget: 'How much is too much' to save planet?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-justifies-3-5t-budget-how-much-is-too-much-to-save-planet-121070149937

* "What Congress will ask oil execs when they testify on climate disinformation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-congress-will-ask-oil-execs-when-they-testify-on-climate-disinformation-121215557834

* "Dems rope debt to government funding, lassoing GOP into clash:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/democrats-government-shutdown-debt-limit-513008

* "Three Democrats say they’ll oppose party’s drug-price plan, creating roadblock for larger package:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/14/democrats-oppose-drug-price-plan/

* "How Kathleen Rice Is Threatening the Biden Agenda:" https://prospect.org/politics/how-kathleen-rice-is-threatening-the-biden-agenda/

* "House sends shutdown patch, debt fix to Senate demise:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/democrats-funding-shutdown-debt-limit-513407

* "Jeffries calls out GOP hypocrisy on debt ceiling—and calls McConnell’s bluff :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jeffries-calls-out-gop-hypocrisy-on-debt-ceiling-and-calls-mcconnell-s-bluff-121561157669

* "'Try us': Jayapal makes clear House Progressives not bluffing on infrastructure bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-try-us-jayapal-makes-clear-house-progressives-not-bluffing-on-infrastructure-bills-121664581925

* "One-on-One with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the American Rescue Plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-deputy-secretary-of-the-treasury-on-the-state-of-the-american-rescue-plan-121296453630

* "‘Failure is not an option’: Hayes on why Dems must unify on Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-failure-is-not-an-option-hayes-on-why-dems-must-unify-on-biden-agenda-121749061673

* "Post Trump, U.S. Democrats offer bill to rein in presidential powers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/post-trump-us-democrats-offer-bill-rein-presidential-powers-2021-09-21/

* "No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1-dont-pay-40-of-the-taxes.html

* "Dems bet their political chips on party-line immigration reform:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/13/immigration-reform-democrats-political-chips-511253

* "Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/democrats-immigration-reform-spending-bill-512898

* "Democrats propose a compromise bill on voting rights.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/politics/voting-rights-bill-democrats.html

* "Stacey Abrams on voting rights bill: ‘I am excited and very supportive’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-backs-voting-rights-bill-i-am-excited-and-very-supportive-120887365810

* "Sen. Padilla: Democrats need ‘gumption’ to change rules if needed to pass voting bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-democrats-released-new-voting-bill-after-reaching-compromise-with-manchin-120891461899

* "Democrats introduce new legislation to protect voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrats-introduce-new-legislation-to-protect-voting-rights-121296965587

* "'A major victory for our country': Sen. Klobuchar breaks down 'Freedom to Vote Act':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-klobuchar-breaks-down-new-freedom-to-vote-act-as-major-victory-for-our-country-121298501562

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* "ALEC pushed voter suppression bills:" https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/03/kindgergarten-court/#alec-lied

* "Arizona Senate asks Cyber Ninjas to make 2020 election audit records available:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/arizona-senate-asks-cyber-ninjas-204100563.html

* "Wisconsin GOP leaders pressured to sign election subpoenas:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-gop-leaders-pressured-to-sign-election-subpoenas/article_56924ee2-305f-5064-af75-27f55886f178.html

* "Following Arizona's shambolic example, Wisconsin GOP starts bumbling election spectacle :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/following-arizona-s-shambolic-example-wisconsin-gop-starts-bumbling-election-spectacle-120906821532

* "Republicans become less tethered to reality; Democrats engrossed in policy wrangling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-become-less-tethered-to-reality-democrats-engrossed-in-policy-wrangling-121078341738

* "Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers approve wide-ranging subpoenas for personal information of 2020 voters:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/15/pennsylvania-gop-election-probe-subpoena-trump/

* "State Republicans seek voters' personal info as GOP vote count stunts threaten security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/state-republicans-seek-voters-personal-info-as-gop-vote-count-stunts-threaten-security-121078853943

* "Lawsuits Claiming 2020 Ballots Were Manipulated Come to WA:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2021-09-21/lawsuits-claiming-2020-ballots-were-manipulated-come-to-wa

* "The Bye Line: Republicans can’t remain silent on the danger Trump poses to the party and the republic:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-republicans-can-t-remain-silent-on-the-danger-trump-poses-to-the-party-and-the-republic-121293381979

* "Backers of Trump's false fraud claims seek to control next elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/backers-trumps-false-fraud-claims-seek-control-next-us-elections-2021-09-22/

* "Threats against members of Congress are skyrocketing. It's changing the job:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-20/threats-members-of-congress

* "Republican war on elections makes casualties of civilian stewards of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-war-on-elections-makes-casualties-of-civilian-stewards-of-democracy-121226821899

* "California Gov. Newsom Crushes Republican-Led Recall Effort:" https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/national-international/2021-09-15/california-gov-newsom-crushes-republican-led-recall-effort

* "Democrats could change 'weaponized' California recall system:" https://apnews.com/article/california-recall-politics-elections-california-coronavirus-pandemic-c9963319bfd8754dc77687049ba6e0e0

* "‘Greatest self-own’: GOP strategist rips Elder’s pre-election fraud claims:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-strategist-ron-nehring-rips-larry-elder-s-pre-election-fraud-claims-121068101920

* "Caitlyn Jenner and Her Recall 'Platform': What a Waste:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/14/caitlyn-jenner-and-her-recall-platform-what-waste

* "Caitlyn Jenner Releases Incredulous Statement After Crushing Defeat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/15/caitlyn-jenner-releases-incredulous-statement-after-crushing-defeat

* "Progressive hopeful Morgan Harper's bid for Ohio Senate Seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/progressive-hopeful-morgan-harper-s-bid-for-ohio-senate-seat-121295429931

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* "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez hit with ethics complaint over iconic Met Gala appearance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-aoc-met-gala-complaint/

* CW: Child Abuse. He claimed God told him to emotional and physically abuse the child and therefore it was okay. "Republican convicted for kicking child in the crotch during homophobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/mark-samsel-homophobic-rant/

* "Ohio House Republican, Calling Trump ‘a Cancer,’ Bows Out of 2022:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/politics/anthony-gonzalez-ohio-trump.html

* "GOP rep announces retirement after threats of violence, Trump celebrates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-announces-retirement-after-threats-of-violence-trump-celebrates-121208901539

* "Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election

* "Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-trump-rnc-513219

* "Trump repeatedly endorses elections officials who reject 2020 election results:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-repeatedly-endorses-elections-officials-who-reject-2020-election-results-120814661740

* "Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-sues-new-york-times-and-his-niece-mary-trump-over-tax-story

* "Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/politics/trump-dominion-voting.html

* "Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/

* "Pence sought way to hand election to Trump; Dan Quayle advice saved U.S. democracy: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-sought-way-to-hand-election-to-trump-dan-quayle-advice-saved-u-s-democracy-book-120904261608

* "Trump's insurrection may be over, but the danger to democracy is ongoing:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-insurrection-may-be-over-but-the-danger-to-democracy-is-ongoing-121295941739

* "Rep. Swalwell: When cameras are off Republicans know their statements are ‘batty’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pence-praises-journalist-posing-as-insurrectionist-for-embracing-big-lie-on-camera-120799301725

* The whole thing looks Suspect. "Durham is said to be seeking indictment of lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/john-durham-michael-sussmann-hillary-clinton/2021/09/16/ed8ba0e6-1696-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html

* "Indicted Trump Org. ex-CFO Weisselberg expects more indictments:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/allen-weisselberg-trump-org-hearing-cy-vance-case/index.html

* "Court transcript suggests search warrants used in broadening Trump Org tax scheme case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-transcript-suggests-search-warrants-used-in-broadening-trump-org-tax-scheme-case-121568837968

* "Schiff: Jan. 6 investigation going 'straight to subpoenas' in some cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/jan-6-investigation-subpoenas-513425

* "The Seditionist’s Cookbook:" https://www.thebulwark.com/the-seditionists-cookbook/

* "Amid high security, small pro-Trump crowd rallies at U.S. Capitol:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-high-alert-pro-trump-demonstrators-converge-rally-2021-09-18/

* "Pro-Insurrectionist rally flopped, but warns of deeper rot in GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/pro-insurrectionist-rally-flopped-but-warns-of-deeper-rot-in-gop-121295429779

* "Capitol Police arrest man with bayonet and machete in truck near DNC headquarters:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/bayonet-machete-arrest-capitol-police/index.html

* "DHS to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti as migrants overwhelm US southern border:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/politics/biden-haiti-deportations/index.html

* I am furious at Biden over this. "White House Faces Bipartisan Backlash on Haitian Migrants:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-09-21/mayorkas-chief-says-images-from-border-horrified-him

* "Homeland Security chief Mayorkas says images from border 'horrified' him:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-21/homeland-security-chief-mayorkas-says-images-from-border-horrified-him

* "Officials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article254401744.html

* "Haitian deportees start over in country they don’t recognize:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-caribbean-port-au-prince-haiti-d37a08bda5d779bf6ddb8f0ae34e1451

* "Angry scenes at Haiti airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-says-4000-haitian-migrants-moved-border-four-more-flights-come-mayorkas-2021-09-21/

* "DHS vows to have findings within 'days' in investigation of Border Patrol's treatment of Haitian migrants:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/22/photos-border-patrol-using-horse-reins-whips-prompts-dhs-probe/5812845001/

* "Texas Gov. Abbott sends miles of cars along border to deter migrants:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/22/texas-greg-abbott-del-rio-border-wall/

* "Ex-cops accused of violating Floyd's rights plead not guilty:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cops-accused-violating-floyds-rights-arraigned-80003361

* They are screaming that the vaccine mandate will make officers quit the Seattle PD.

Me: good. The ones who quit are likely the bad ones any way. They just demonstrated they are against serving and protecting and happy to kill and maim people for no reason at all by giving them COVID. Yes, there will be shortages. Why don't we shift all that extra pay over to social services and start doing mental health diversion and non-violent responses to mental health crises. just saying. It's away to get around the union and still do police reform

Newscaster continues to act like It'll be the end of everything and there will be violent anarchy in the streets if all the worst cops decide to self downsize.

Me: I don't really see a down side here. If the officer shortage is that acute pull them off harassing poor people for petty shit and just make their job solving actual crimes that hurt people like murder, sexual and physical assault, kidnapping, and burglary. You know the things police do in civilized societies that don't pay absorbent salaries for thugs in blue to terrorize their citizens. You see crisis, newscaster lady; I see a opportunity for real police reform.

* "The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-warrants-reverse-search-warrants-police-google

* "‘I Helped Destroy People’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/magazine/fbi-terrorism-terry-albury.html

* CW: Pedophilia. "US lawyers ask British courts to tell Prince Andrew of suit:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-lawyers-ask-british-courts-to-tell-prince-andrew-of-suit/2021/09/15/09499b86-1637-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html

* CW: Rape. "Federal judge denies Trump's request to stop E. Jean Carroll lawsuit from moving forward:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit/

* CW: Pedophilia. "Biles: FBI turned ‘blind eye’ to reports of gymnasts’ abuse:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article254259768.html

* "Biden administration files motion to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-files-motion-block-texas-abortion-ban-2021-09-15/

* "Satanic Temple set to challenge Texas abortion law on freedom of religion grounds:" https://wgntv.com/news/satanic-temple-set-to-challenge-texas-abortion-law-on-freedom-of-religion-grounds/

* "Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website in retaliation for state's abortion ban:" https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/09/13/anonymous-hacks-texas-republican-party-website-in-retaliation-for-states-abortion-ban

* "The Texas Abortion Decision Is Bad For Everyone:"

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* "Women suffer hardship under Texas abortion ban; Judge unhurried by DOJ emergency filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/women-suffer-hardship-under-texas-abortion-ban-judge-unhurried-by-doj-emergency-filing-120986181595

* "The rank hypocrisy of Justice Barrett claiming Supreme Court isn't partisan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-rank-hypocrisy-of-justice-amy-coney-barrett-claiming-supreme-court-isn-t-partisan-120796741920

* "Texas doctor who violated state’s abortion ban is sued, launching test of constitutionality:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-doctor-sued/2021/09/20/f5ab5c56-1a1c-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html

* "Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/18/texas-abortion-provider-alan-braid/

* "'Rank vigilantism' of first application of Texas abortion ban invites court challenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-rank-vigilantism-of-first-application-of-texas-abortion-ban-invites-court-challenge-121667653513

* It's a different one. "Texas governor signs bill tightening restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/texas-abbott-abortion-inducing-drugs-law/index.html

* "Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/supreme-court-abortion-case-513012

* "U.S. Soccer says it has offered identical contract proposals to men's, women's players:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/us-soccer-says-it-has-offered-identical-contract-proposals-mens-womens-players-2021-09-15/

* CW: Eating Disorders. "Lawmakers Push Facebook To Abandon Instagram For Kids, Citing Mental Health Concerns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037222495/lawmakers-push-facebook-to-abandon-instagram-for-kids-citing-mental-health-conce

* CW: Eating Disorders. "Food, Beauty, Mind | Philosophy Tube:"

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* "The Gender Criticals:"

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* And yet, Marriage wasn't a sacrament for most of the history of the catholic church. They only created in response to Protestants doing it. Sacraments have and thus can change. The Pope is lying about not having the power. he just doesn't want to. "Pope Francis emphatically shuts down hope for same-sex marriage in Catholic Church:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/17/pope-francis-catholic-church-same-sex-marriage/

* "How LGBTQ+ Life Has Changed in One of the World's Mega Nations:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/13/how-lgbtq-life-has-changed-one-worlds-mega-nations

* "Mayor Attacked, Beaten in Gay Cruising Area, Left Tied to Tree:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/15/mayor-attacked-beaten-gay-cruising-area-left-tied-tree

* "Trans doctor cruelly struck off for wearing a bikini to the beach:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/trans-doctor-turkey-larin-kayatas/

* "Chinese Volleyball Star Comes Out as Country Steps Up LGBTQ+ Censoring:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/9/14/chinese-volleyball-star-comes-out-country-steps-lgbtq-censoring

* "Four arrested over murder of queer journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/lyra-mckee-murder-arrest/

* "Black Trans Woman Disaya Monaee Fatally Shot in Chicago Suburb:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/14/black-trans-woman-disaya-monaee-fatally-shot-chicago-suburb

* "Corrections Officer Dressed as a Woman, Pistol-Whipped and Robbed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/13/corrections-officer-dressed-woman-pistol-whipped-and-robbed

* "Alphonso David Says HRC Treated Him Differently Because of Race:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/13/alphonso-david-says-hrc-treated-him-differently-because-race

* "Trevor Project: Make Sports More Welcoming to LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/9/15/trevor-project-make-sports-more-welcoming-lgbtq-youth

* "Tory cuts jeopardising global fight against HIV and AIDS, report warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/hiv-aids-tory-cuts-official-development-assistance/

* "A Crisis of Minds: The Fascinating Tale of "Healing" People... By Destroying Their Brains:"

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* "That Time Some Psychiatrists Pretended to be Mentally Ill to Prove Psychiatrists Don't Know Anything:"

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* "Britain begins world's largest trial of blood test for 50 types of cancer:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/britain-begins-worlds-largest-trial-blood-test-50-types-cancer-2021-09-12/

* "Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/simple-mathematical-law-predicts-movement-in-cities-around-the-world/#

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The World is basically on Fire/Melting. I'm putting stuff to do with it here.

* "The Kids Are Not Alright:" https://gizmodo.com/the-kids-are-not-alright-1847671079?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-09-15

* "A wildfire in Spain is uprooting villages, razing forests — and raising concerns about climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/13/spain-wildfires-military-deployment/

* "Nicholas, now a tropical depression, still douses Gulf Coast:" https://apnews.com/article/tropical-storm-nicholas-35477d4e990ac7c6de4c7c55e33c00fd

* "California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide Emissions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/climate/wildfire-emissions-climate-change.html

* "Wildfires rage in Sequoia National park and forest, sending flames into grove of giant trees:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-13/fires-rage-in-sequoia-national-park-forcing-closures-as-crews-make-progress-on-dixie-caldor-fires

* "In California, Even Fire-Resistant Trees Need to Be Protected From Flames:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/california-fire-trees-general-sherman.html

* "How one foil-wrapped home survived the Caldor Fire as everything around it burned:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/How-one-foil-wrapped-home-survived-the-Caldor-16444302.php

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* "5.9-magnitude earthquake strikes Australia; shaking felt in Melbourne:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/5-8-earthquake-strikes-australia-shaking-felt-melbourne-n1279796

* "Volcano erupts on Spain's La Palma island, spewing lava and forcing thousands to evacuate:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/la-palma-volcano-eruption-spain-cumbre-vieja-island-evacuation/

* "A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-massive-subterranean-tree-is-moving-magma-to-earths-surface-20210915/

* "Life at 50C: How to cool a megacity:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58557995

* "Life at 50C: The toxic flares fuelling climate change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58549010

* "How India's air pollution is being turned into floor tiles:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210909-the-young-inventor-purifying-indias-dirty-air

* "Idled Thai taxis go green with mini-gardens on car roofs:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-business-thailand-gardening-94e6376a9b0ed616ba3b203f8c503a46

* "Frederick Douglass: Crash Course Black American History #17:"

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* "Did the Victorians Think Ankles Were Too Scandalous?:"

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* My apologies. A bunch of obits are in the queue below where I cut off. Next time.

* "Sam Bee’s Not-Solved Mysteriez: UFOs:"

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* "Charity Dean Predicted the Pandemic. Here's What She Thinks Is Next.:"

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* "What Texas’s New Abortion Ban Means For Reproductive Rights Across the Country:"

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* "Lukashenko: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "What Republicans Get Wrong About Vaccine Mandates:"

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* "Getting Vaccinated Doesn’t Take (Your) Balls:"

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* "What American Citizens Can Do To Help Afghanistan:"

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* "Food Waste and Climate Change: How Your Leftovers Can Save the World:"

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* "Bewitched: It was Gay All Along?:"

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* Over the weekend, Livia caught a third mouse. She patrols every night. She always finds them 1-3 nights after the food delivery. Still, I'm starting to worry about mice in the walls....

* Wednesday Tavy started things out by feigning a desire for an arm cuddle, but it was all a ruse to bite by emergency pendant to summon the paramedics. Sigh.

Wednesday wears all of us out what with forage, and all the things needing doing generally. It's turning out that having the second Millennial in for two hours is a massive help. Changing the bed with two able bodied people? So much faster. (It's a very heavy mattress and it really needs two people to get it correct on the head board end, between the lifting and pulling from opposite sides.) The tanks have been a major issue, since I stopped being able to handle the big tanks when my shoulder joint started to go. Head Millennial struggles with one step in the process. It turns out nearby Millenial can do everything but a different step, so they can just trade off tanks vs. Kitchen tasks. Nearby Millenial is cheerful and a hard worker too. I really think this will work out really well.

* Friday, the Autumn winds came in earnest, bring Autumn rain. Finally. The cats were unsettled of course. The wind this time of year really moves the familiar landscape outside their windows and there are strange irregular sounds. It usually takes a week or so for them to really get used to Autumn. The mild at this point chill and all the unsettling stuff sent them to my bed for cuddles and hanging around peacefully in a group. The air purifier's white noise blocks our the wind sounds. They have to stand on their hind legs to see out the window, and of course, I was in there sleeping and later reading the latest In Cryptid. It is quiet. it is safe. Everything in there is familiar. Their personal human is available and mostly still, ideal for cat purposes.

* Saturday we went on a perishable run followed by the usual putting things away and dishes. It being properly the rainy season now, it was time to take out the living room portable air system and replace it with phase 1 Gothmas stuff. Which is a process.

I had concerns about where the unit would be stored and had come up with something we could try, but head Millennial was like, I bet I could fit it in the hall closet. Me: O.o

Understand that this closet has been close packed since I moved in. Oh, I get outerwear and TV tables out of it on the regular. The painting stuff is on a high shelf and I periodically get it down for touch ups. We traditionally keep the wheel chair in the front for those occasions when I need it. One of the cat carriers is in there for vet emergencies, plus the back up emergency cane, one of the card tables... You get the idea. This is not a big closet. Everything in there is in there for a good reason, and dealing with it is a real pain in the ass.

The Millennial had reorganized it at some point during one of his organizing sprees, but it being summer, I was only opening the left panel to get or put back TV tables, usually on game night. In a hurry. Without really looking. I let him try to fit the monster in there on the grounds that it would be a dramatically better place than what was now plan B (My idea).

Gentle readers, he did it! I am blown away. He even made enough extra space for the big plastic fan Squirrel gave me when he upgraded at some point during the summer heat emergency. Head Millennial is an organizational God.

We also started the moving things around in the living room, cleaning and making space part of Gothmas Phase 1, pulled the boxes for phase one out of my bedroom closet and stacked them in the living room, and put up the Halloween trees, though didn't decorate them. It looks so much more cheerful with them there.

After the Millennial clocked out, we ate dinner and watched the Surreal Estate two part season ender and watched assorted cats explore the area by the window. Livia sensibly hides during Gothmas related commotion and emerges later to discover the humans have yet again illogically rearranged her living space. Sigh. Tavy got the special treat of getting to sit next to his favorite Millennial on the sofa and nap by his head for nearly two hours, having exhausted himself 'helping' with the Forbidden Closet reorganization and with the excited running around in celebration of a Gothmas Box Moving Day, one of his favorite Autumn activities.

Tomorrow? We decorate the Cat Asylum Interior!

In other news, I would like to thank the benefactor who made sure that we had not only enough money for car repair, but car insurance auto withdraw. Whoever you are, you are my hero.

*The Gothmas season stretches from the beginning of the Autumn rainy season in September to the first week of January. It is a disability friendly Gothy way to celebrate Autumn.

Phase 1: Halloween Tree, Halloweentown, and assorted interior decorations go up. In September as soon as the weather turns.

Phase 2: We add exterior Halloween decorations. It runs from close to October 1st as we can get to around November 3rd.

Phase 3: We take down all the exterior decorations except uncarved gourds (arranged as a ‘Harvest Display’) and the lights, which I keep off except in emergencies when I need extra lights to do something outside in the garden to avoid pushing the HOA over the line into fining us. This saves a fuck of a lot of spoons on taking lights down and putting them back up. I stick my Birthday presents and Samhein presents under the larger black hallowed tree.

Phase 4: We gild the lily. Basically we layer all the Solstice stuff on top of the Gothmas stuff already up, which again saves a fuck ton of spoons and since I’m not christian is an excuse to keep all the gothy decoration stuff up because glitter trees full of geeky and goth ornaments are cheerful things for the dark of the year.

Breakdown: Generally, we start taking things down on the 2nd or 3rd of January. sometimes it takes a few days, but it’s all set up to do in stages. I store things in boxes by phase with Phase one boxes on top to be easy to grab next year and phase 4 on the bottom. Organization like this is everything if you are a disabled person who takes Gothmas this seriously.

The nice thing about it is I can get all my Gothy stuff past the HOA and everything is done in stages and with a helper which is way more manageable than the try to do it all at once, take it down, put a whole other set of stuff back up a month later process my parents went through every autumn.

The day I decided to do Gothmas this way changed everything and most years results in three and a half months out of every year of genuine gothy pleasure every night.

* Normally I decorate with a different Millenial. It's still extremely time consuming and this with both of us having a good idea of what it's meant to look like and a well established routine and division of labor. Head Millenial saw the display briefly once or twice at best before the Pandemic. I also had six strings blow fuses during light testing and bulb replacement, which meant I couldn't be nearly as helpful as I'd meant to be. Thus it was not all that surprising we only got a half to a third of the there, which is fine. Training a new person on Gothmas is a whole epic in itself.

This is now a next weekend problem.

This wore me out, which meant I went to bed instead of loading a ridiculous number of prepped links that had accrued over the last week and pushing the thing out.

Monday, I was up all day dealing with car stuff, adulting, and obligations. They spotted a new potential problem I'll need to keep an eye on this autumn to see if it is anything. (They felt exploratory surgury on the car to be far more expensive than it's worthy without more data. We'll see.)

Livia is very disappointed my the lack of live mice in the Cat Asylum this weekend. Tavy would like to lodge a complaint about the frequency of the medicine finger in the last month. Both cats approve of the open living room window and the deliberately clear space among the goth tchotchkes for sitting and staring purposes.

* Tuesday, the pain won.

Wednesday, we went foraging, and then the Millenials got to work on a list I had divided into "Must Do," "Should Do," and "Stretch Goals." I was not expecting them to get to stretch goals. They efficiently divided tasks, and had at it. Nearby Millenial is really getting the hang of things, BTW. They worked beautifully together. They finished 15 miniutes early, so I gave them some smaller tasks I'd wanted doing. Wednesdays really wear out head Millenial, and there are several things like bed change, trash, and recycling that are just worlds easier with two able bodied people. I'm just incredibly happy with how the whole thing is working out for all four of us.

* Immortality: https://jonquility.tumblr.com/post/661189122717892608/have-you-heard-the-tale-of-the-queen-of-thieves

* I am actually angry that I liked that first episode of AHS: Red Tide. The went down hill fast and the lastest episode made me actually angry. A friend asked: What Di they do?

Me: What didn't they do. Gaslighting. Suicide. A particular kind of betrayal I don't enjoy even in fiction. Lots and lots of endless petty Ryan Murphy bullshit interpersonal stuff. I really shitty and condescending attitude towards people who try to make art but aren't genius that is structural to the plot....

I'm in the school of thought that people making art is good for the people making art even if they never get really good and that everyone pretty much sucks when they start anyway and I just... I'm furious. Like my friends, I also feel like the writers at AHS are maybe the last people who should go after people for imperfect art.

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.4: And the Children Shall Lead. (CW: Suicide)

The main three beam down in response to a distress signal to find nearly everyone dead. They take zero precautions against pathogens or alien parasites despite a number of previous times they answered distress calls only to get infected by a deadly pathogen or taken over by aliens. seriously, have these people learned nothing at all in three years? A dying friend of Kirk doesn't recognize him. It looks like it's all self inflicted. They get a damaged recording of a man yelling about an "enemy within."

All the colony children are alive though, and playing rather than traumatized. Shatner's WTF face may be some of the most believable acting of his whole career. Nimoy still wins though of the three of them, despite DeForest Kelly's excellent entry. McCoy thinks it's a trauma response and wants to get them up to the ship instead of letting the others interrogate them, so he beams up with the children without any quarantine procedures in place. Spock suspects induced suicide caused by a biological or chemical agent, yet they are not wearing NBC suits or even the most basic PPE. Just saying. yes, it won't help with dis corporate aliens and the like, but they don't know what caused it yet. Anyway, maybe the children are behaving oddly through fear of punishment or promise of reward. I wonder if this episode influenced Children of the Corn?

Spock finds a weird reading in a nearby cave. Nothing humanoid is in there (except themselves, presumably). Kirk gets anxiety. Spock feels nothing. Kirk gets weird and paranoid rapidly, in some of the worst acting of Shatner's career. It passes so they beam up with no anti-infection protocols despite kirk possibly being infected.

Nurse Chapel gives the kids ice cream using primitive replicators as a special treat. No one is wearing PPE. One child, Stevey, is singled out by the narrative. McCoy says there is nothing physically wrong with them. McCoy wants to go to a star base to spread the possible infection and let a real child psychologist deal with them. Kirk insists on interrogating them against the doctors orders.

Kirk tries to relate to the children and asks leading questions. Nurse Chapel: Parents like children. Little Girl: That's what you think. Kirk presses. They start chanting "Bizzy! Bizzy!" and the girl pretends to be a bee stinging Kirk. The leader of the children asks for more ice cream. Kirk's refusal is proof "They all say it." When questioned the leader says his father was upset the day he died. "They were always upset." Was this episode influenced by the Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life?" The planet was for adults, who loved it down there, always "Bizzy." a clue, methinks! Kirk sensibly puts a guard on the children.

The children do a ritual to summon "The Angel." An alien appears, telling them they did very well in infiltrating the Enterprise. The adults will want to take them to a Star base, but they should get them to take them to Marcus 12, with millions on it. Maybe a million friends to join them. The rest (adults, I assume) will be enemies. They will defeat the enemies, no one will tell them what to do, and the alien will rule the universe. The children are ordered to take over the Enterprise.

They clean up the tricoder recording. The adults had anxiety, of which the children are free. They kept poking around in the cave, despite growing anxiety. The last survivor of a dead race took refuge in there long ago.

The children want to go to Markus XII. Kirk says no. The leader stays on the bridge to psychically influence the navigators. The girl turns up with her security guard. The Leader is making them think they are circling the planet still when they are actually flying to Markus XII. Uhura notices and gets zapped too. Scotty notices down in engineering, but they already zapped the other Engineers. They fight, but Scotty wins.

On the tapes, the expedition head says they were making him do things like call Starfleet for transportation. he tried to warn them when he realized what he'd done, but "The Enemy within!" The dispatch was never sent. It happened fast. They realize that whatever it was misled 'the innocent' IE: The children. The destroyed race were marauders that kept attacking their neighbors until they were eventually destroyed by their combined victims. Kirk thinks the evil has returned. McCoy objects to damaging the children. Kirk is like the ship comes first.

Kirk goes to switch planetary investigation crews, but the planet isn't there, so the guys they send down are beamed into space and they can't bring up the ones they left down there. Why are there no safety protocols for this?

The children summon the alien on the bridge surrounded by tranced out adults. Kirk is not best pleased. The alien says they've been discovered, but it's too late for the adults to stop them. If the adults give them trouble the children should release the beast of fear in the adults. Kirk battles the leader for control of Sulu and Uhura. The child makes Uhura see herself old, which... fuck you writers. Let's make the woman vane. Sulu thinks if he changes course they will be destroyed. Spock refuses to obey the order to send a report to StarFleet. he fails to obey, despite all that mental discipline training and I think that makes no sense. Logically, Spock should be resistant rather than Kirk, but Spock does break the control. The security guards can't understand Kirk. Spock takes Kirk off the bridge, just as Kirk succumbs to his fear of losing control.

Spock mind melds him and fixes it in the elevator. Scotty's been zapped and threatens to kill Kirk if he touches the instruments. The engineers attack, but Spock and Kirk escape. Spock wants to do something about the children, "Without followers evil can not spread." The ship and the crew are in danger. "The evil is spreading fast." Kirk agrees that if they can't excise the evil the children will need to be killed. Chekhov turns up with security to arrest them. The Leader gets Chekhov to threaten to kill them. Conflicting loyalties are invoked. A fight ensues. The leader runs when his people lose.

Kirk returns to the bridge, where the leader is in the captain's seat. A very childish argument ensues. Kirk points out their leader is afraid to be seen. If he's not afraid he should show himself. Spock plays the recording of the Alien summoning chant. The Alien appears. Kirk and Spock argue with him. he thinks Kirk and Spock's gentleness makes them weak. They show the children pictures of the children playing with their late parents. They smile. Then there is the image of their dead parents and the smiles fade. So very manipulative. The Alien tries to justify murdering their parents to the crying children. Kirk points out to the children that without them the alien is nothing. he turns "ugly," because of course star Trek needs to hammer in the idea that the beautiful are good and anyone who isn't is bad. Fuck you, Roddenberry.

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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.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

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

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

* Want to help Maxwell frost go to congress? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/119806

* Want to help Val Demings unseat Marco Rubio? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/117824

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* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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* "New Zealand police were following extremist who stabbed 6:" https://apnews.com/article/police-new-zealand-islamic-state-group-2bbbbc9f3e4249fba2c519dda5e8f05f

* "Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What's stopping aid getting in?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/57929853

* "Museum chief is only candidate for Estonia's presidency:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-estonia-f2d1f04b715d7827afbe2c7c0d585865

* "Milan mayor says cladding melted in tower block blaze, as in London's Grenfell:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/milan-mayor-says-cladding-melted-tower-block-blaze-londons-grenfell-2021-08-30/

* "China limits teens to just three hours a week of online gaming in latest crackdown:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/31/chinese-teens-online-gaming-limited/

* "Heavily armed criminal group ties hostages to getaway cars after storming Brazilian city:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/30/brazi-crime-hostages-araatuba/

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* "Breakthrough Infections Less Likely to Cause Long Covid, Large Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/01/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

* "Australian state of Victoria extends lockdown until 70% receive first vaccine dose:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/australia/australia-new-zealand-covid-19-september-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Turkey's coronavirus cases hit three-week high:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-coronavirus-cases-hit-three-week-high-2021-09-01/

* "Philippines health workers protest neglect as COVID-19 strains hospitals:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-health-workers-protest-neglect-covid-19-strains-hospitals-2021-09-01/

* "The U.S. reaches a daily average of 100,000 Covid hospitalizations for the first time since the winter peak.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/us/delta-100000-covid-patients.html

* "America has wasted at least 15 million Covid vaccine doses since March, new data shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/america-has-wasted-least-15-million-covid-vaccine-doses-march-n1278211

* "Experts decry anti-vaccine, anti-mask conservative rhetoric as COVID-19 cases surpass 39 million:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-19-cases-surpass-39-million-as-disinformation-counter-to-cdc-guidance-persists-119832645694

* "Education Department to probe 5 states with ‘unacceptable’ school mask bans:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/30/education-department-probe-unacceptable-school-mask-bans-507589

* "Florida grapples with COVID-19's deadliest phase yet:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-7ed6d05626848aca4e2827681b315770

* "Florida changed its COVID-19 data, creating an ‘artificial decline’ in recent deaths:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253796898.html

* "Covid News: Florida Withholds Funds From Schools That Defied Governor’s Mask Mandate Ban:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/30/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine

* "Ron DeSantis appeals mask mandate ruling as Florida Covid deaths set record:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/03/florida-covid-ron-desantis-appeals-mask-ruling-record-covid-deaths

* "Florida teachers on edge as mask war, COVID surge mark first weeks of school:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/florida-teachers-edge-mask-war-covid-surge-mark-first-weeks-school-2021-09-04/

* "Rep. Demings says Rubio ‘wants to be anywhere but Florida’ as clashes over COVID mandates escalate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-mandates-leading-to-violent-clashes-in-florida-and-beyond-discussed-by-senate-candidate-val-demings-119924293541

* "Texas district closes schools after covid kills two teachers in one week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/09/01/texas-school-covid-teachers-dead/

* "Texas teacher trying to decide about Covid vaccine dies three days after testing positive:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/us/coronavirus-texas-teacher-deaths-trnd/index.html

* "When the New Covid Surge Struck, Mississippi Was Uniquely Unprepared:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/us/when-the-new-covid-surge-struck-mississippi-was-uniquely-unprepared.html

* "SC reports 3-day total of more than 16,000 new COVID-19 cases:" https://www.live5news.com/2021/08/30/sc-reports-3-day-total-more-than-16000-new-covid-19-cases/

* "For second day in a row, Tennessee sets COVID-19 hospitalization record:" https://www.newschannel5.com/rebound/for-second-day-in-a-row-tennessee-sets-covid-19-hospitalization-record

* "OSDH: Over 7,800 new cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma since Friday:" https://kfor.com/news/local/osdh-over-7800-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-oklahoma-since-friday/

* "Genesee County health officials receive death threat after issuing mask mandate:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/08/25/mask-mandate-genesee-county-death-threats/5592047001/

* "Should doctors prescribing 'snake oil' Covid treatments face consequences?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-should-doctors-prescribing-livestock-medicine-for-covid-face-consequences-119916613656

* "AMA calls on doctors to immediately stop prescribing ivermectin for Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/american-medical-association-calls-on-doctors-to-immediately-stop-prescribing-ivermectin-for-covid-120005189773

* "Instagram User [profile] antivaxmomma Charged With Selling Fake Vaccine Cards:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/nyregion/fake-vaccine-cards-woman-charged.html

* This teacher cared so little about the health and safety of the kids in their care that they refused vaccination, then came to school symptomatic and took their mask off so they could infect them, knowing it could kill or permanently damage them. I don't understand how this isn't child abuse. As someone who taught for a living I'm furious that someone who hates children enough to risk harming them this way on purpose was allowed in the classroom at all. "CDC: An Unvaccinated Teacher Took Off Their Mask to Read Aloud. Half the Class Got COVID:" https://www.edweek.org/leadership/cdc-an-unvaccinated-teacher-took-off-their-mask-to-read-aloud-half-the-class-got-covid/2021/08

* "When school isn't safe: 'You feel like you are sending your child into a lion's den':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/health/schools-parents-covid-teachers-wellness/index.html

* "At least 6 conservative radio hosts and anti-mask advocates have died from COVID-19 after bashing the vaccines:" https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-radio-hosts-anti-maskers-death-covid-19-2021-9

* I suspect McSweeney speaks for many of us here. "Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks

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* "Last troops exit Afghanistan, ending America's longest war:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-islamic-state-group-e10e038baea732dae879c11234507f81

* "With final exit, U.S. joins list of countries unable to break Afghanistan's will:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-final-exit-u-s-joins-list-of-countries-unable-to-break-afghanistan-s-will-119838789679

* "Hayes: U.S. troops are finally out of Afghanistan—and it's remarkable:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-u-s-troops-are-finally-out-of-afghanistan-and-it-s-remarkable-119828037800

* "Afghan Women Sent Canada Requests for Help. When They Finally Got an Email Back, They Were Told The Evacuation Was Over.:" https://pressprogress.ca/afghan-women-sent-canada-requests-for-help-when-they-finally-got-an-email-back-they-were-told-the-evacuation-was-over/

* "Afghanistan’s Gay Men Fear Death as Taliban Judge OKs Stonings:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/23/afghanistans-gay-men-fear-death-taliban-judge-oks-stonings

* "Gay Afghan: The Taliban Killed My Boyfriend:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/26/gay-afghan-taliban-killed-my-boyfriend

* "Joe Manchin voted to advance the $3.5 trillion budget bill — now he says Democrats should press pause:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/joe-manchin-opposes-3point5-trillion-biden-democratic-spending-bill.html

* "Dem Obstructionists Are Bankrolled By Pharma And Oil:" https://www.dailyposter.com/dem-obstructionists-are-bankrolled-by-pharma-and-oil/

* "Guaranteed Income Is a Queer Justice Issue:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/8/26/guaranteed-income-queer-justice-issue

* "Out Rep. Mark Takano Introduces Four-Day Workweek Legislation:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/18/out-rep-mark-takano-introduces-four-day-workweek-legislation

* "Nearly 20% of LGBT Renters Owe Back Rent, Half of Those Fear Eviction:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/01/nearly-20-lgbt-renters-owe-back-rent-half-those-fear-eviction

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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* "The hard-fought Texas voting bill is poised to become law. Here's what it does.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/

* "Texas Legislature sends sweeping GOP voting bill to governor:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/texas-gop-voting-cusp-governor-79749334

* "Judge orders Cyber Ninjas to preserve Maricopa vote audit records in lawsuit by The Arizona Republic:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/25/arizona-audit-judge-orders-cyber-ninjas-preserve-documents/5595991001/

* "Newsom has a huge cash advantage in California’s recall vote. It may mean nothing:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/31/california-governor-recall-election-gavin-newsom

* "Gay California Lawmaker Joins Grindr to Campaign Against Recall:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/02/gay-california-lawmaker-joins-grindr-campaign-against-recall

* "Rep. Bass: Conservative Elder becoming California gov. ‘a thought to cause nightmares’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/california-recall-election-speech-by-gavin-newsom-highlights-his-covid-19-leadership-vs-gop-run-states-120096325898

* On the Left. "kind of a version 0.9 beta rant:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1803906.html

* "Tucker Carlson Lays Into Bisexual Governor Because She Wed a Man:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/30/tucker-carlson-lays-bisexual-governor-because-she-wed-man

* "Brian Sims Reports Huge Campaign Haul for Penn. Lt. Governor Race:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/8/24/brian-sims-reports-huge-campaign-haul-penn-lt-governor-race

* "Corporations and trade groups are bankrolling the Sedition Caucus again:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/corporate-pacs-donations-republican-congress-members-sedition-caucus-trump-insurrection/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=3f267d69-d8e4-4798-b866-0c1d8dfd3f70

* "Rep. Madison Cawthorn falsely suggests elections are ‘rigged,’ says there will be ‘bloodshed’ if system continues on its path:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-madison-cawthorn-says-there-will-be-bloodshed-if-us-elections-continue-to-be-rigged/2021/08/30/297a9fa2-09c8-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html

* "Rep. Swalwell: Madison Cawthorn should face consequences for 'bloodshed' warning:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-cawthorn-warning-of-bloodshed-if-fraud-occurs-in-future-elections-slammed-by-rep-swalwell-119920709627

* "Kurt Bardella: Democracy doesn't die in darkness, it's happening in broad daylight:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-influencing-school-boards-nationwide-part-of-wider-plan-experts-say-120176709741

* "January 6 committee to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of members of Congress who participated in 'Stop the Steal' rally:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/30/politics/january-6-phone-records-members-of-congress/index.html

* "Jordan reveals multiple calls with Trump on January 6; investigation seeks phone records:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/jordan-reveals-multiple-calls-with-trump-on-january-6-investigation-seeks-phone-records-119839813624

* "Donald Trump and family among phone records sought by January 6th committee: CNN:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-and-family-among-phone-records-sought-by-january-6th-committee-cnn-119838789963

* "‘He’s scared’: Schiff on McCarthy reaction to Jan. 6 panel’s records request:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-he-s-scared-schiff-on-mccarthy-reaction-to-jan-6-panel-s-records-request-119915589511

* "McCarthy threatens companies that comply with Jan. 6 probe’s phone records requests:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/31/mccarthy-january-6-threaten-phone-records-requests-508166

* "Joy Reid critiques the Republicans threatening major companies if they cooperate with Jan. 6 select committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kevin-mccarthy-and-other-republicans-threaten-major-companies-if-they-cooperate-with-jan-6-select-committee-120009797570

* "630 people have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. This searchable table shows them all.:" https://news.yahoo.com/most-arrests-capitol-riots-misdemeanor-225235647.html

* "Federal officials charge Lansing man in Jan. 6 siege at US Capitol:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/08/17/federal-officials-charge-lansing-man-logan-james-barnhart-jan-6-siege-us-capitol/8173456002/

* "The anti-vax lawyer representing January 6 rioters has suddenly gone missing:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/08/john-pierce-missing-lawyer/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ 'Infowars' Host Charged in Capitol Riot:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/8/23/anti-lgbtq-infowars-host-charged-capitol-riot

* "'QAnon Shaman' pleads guilty to felony in US Capitol riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/politics/qanon-shaman-guilty-plea-insurrection-jacob-chansley/index.html

* "Scott MacFarlane report: Jan. 6 defendant was told 'wait for Trump's pardon':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-insurrectionist-jacob-chansley-could-face-approximately-4-years-scott-macfarlane-reports-120178757676

* "AP sources: Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-887b2b3a4bcc3c667858765b1281c959

* "Second resident of Nebraska’s one-person town just a figment of Census Bureau’s imagination:" https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/second-resident-of-nebraska-s-one-person-town-just-a-figment-of-census-bureau-s/article_3dade4b8-8736-57af-9270-3a65973f5464.html

* "Officers And Paramedics Are Charged In Elijah McClain's 2019 Death In Colorado:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033289263/elijah-mcclain-death-officers-paramedics-charged

* "Elijah McClain’s father tells Joy Reid ‘all Blacks in Colorado’ have a fear of police:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elijah-mcclain-s-father-on-grand-jury-indicting-officers-medics-for-his-son-s-2019-death-120007237920

* "White Man Who Harassed Black News Anchor Almost Caused an Environmental Disaster in 2017:" https://www.theroot.com/white-man-who-harassed-black-news-anchor-almost-caused-1847596784

* "Proud Boys' Straight Pride Ends In Fights and Arrests:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/31/proud-boys-straight-pride-ends-fights-and-arrests

* CW: Abuse "Christian boot camp accused of ‘abuse’ and ‘targeting Black and LGBT+ teens’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/19/bethany-church-christian-boot-camp-homophobia-racism-joel-jonathan-stockstill-220i/

* CW: Suicide Mention "TikTok Presents Hate: Cheering Trans Suicides, Calling Gays Pedophiles:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/8/24/tiktok-presents-hate-cheering-trans-suicides-calling-gays-pedophiles

"The report, released Tuesday by the U.K.-based think tank Institute for Strategic Dialogue, examined 1,030 TikTok videos for various kinds of hatred, including white supremacy, Holocaust denial, terrorism, misogyny, and more, in addition to anti-LGBTQ+ activity. TikTok monitors and takes down such content but does so inconsistently, the institute notes."

* "US marshal claims he was fired for defending lesbian colleague from disgusting harassment:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/27/bobby-ledogar-marshal-lesbian-harassment-fired/

* "Supreme Court allows Texas’ 6-week abortion ban to take effect:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/01/supreme-court-texas-abortion-ban-508275

* "New Texas abortion law pushes women to out-of-state clinics:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-lifestyle-health-travel-texas-fbc505c3db4a08af51ba409a91ea161c

* "'Maddening': Hayes on GOP quest to ban abortion—and their lies along the way:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-gop-quest-to-ban-abortion-and-their-lies-in-overturning-roe-v-wade-120002117800

* "Abortion rights activists rally to help Texas women get access out-of-state:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/abortion-rights-activists-rally-to-help-texas-women-get-access-out-of-state-120020549695

* "Supreme Court looks away as Texas effectively bans abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-looks-away-as-texas-effectively-bans-abortion-120020549546

* "Maddow: New Texas abortion law 'turns every anti-abortion zealot into a bounty hunter':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-new-texas-abortion-law-turns-every-anti-abortion-zealot-into-a-bounty-hunter-120019525534

* "What Can Democrats Do to Fight Texas’s Abortion Ban? Lots.:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-abortion-fight/

* "Judge Shields Texas Clinics From Anti-Abortion Group's Lawsuits:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1034254539/texas-abortion-planned-parenthood-law-judge-order-right-to-life

* "Sen. Warren: Congress could pass Roe v. Wade:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-abortion-law-banning-abortions-as-early-as-six-weeks-into-pregnancy-denounced-by-sen-warren-120010309575

* "Barbara Boxer: Wake up America. This is a full-throated overturning of Roe:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-abortion-law-how-biden-can-defend-rights-of-texas-women-discussed-by-experts-120094789665

* "‘Sidewalk con:' Hayes on why abortion law design is particularly egregious :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-why-texas-abortion-law-design-is-particularly-egregious-120090181757

* "What it’s like to work at a Texas abortion group right now:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-it-s-like-to-work-at-a-texas-abortion-group-right-now-120177221994

* "Why most Republicans won't defend the Texas abortion ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-why-most-republicans-won-t-defend-the-texas-abortion-ban-120173637854

* "One of the things that I think a lot of people are missing when they focus on the ‘abortion rights’ portion of the concept of 'overturning Roe v. Wade’ is that the Roe v. Wade decision wasn’t legally centered on the question of abortion per se but on the right to privacy.:" https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/661454503051231232/i-originally-wrote-this-post-as-a-twitter-thread

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas:https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* "Two High School Teens Wore The Same Outfits To Prove Dress Codes Are Sexist, And It Worked:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teens-decided-test-double-standard-235257030.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_03&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACAOqttAlvpayohPJNT-cwgwpOxfe54lF9XzjsIEWHwMEbarKtqPdrGzGWWvNRX47aD1qdnB9XFNBpbmomAezVIjSP4Q2QwoEP_s2jnudlXiTaKC4gB2xXpb5cmLyQDMww2QRvUd-dD4Ejb0eGnGz_NZl49ifhUhrIme4fD7Am4H

* "Antigay Catholic Newsletter Threatens to Out More Priests via Grindr:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/8/23/antigay-catholic-newsletter-threatens-out-more-priests-grindr

* "Police name victim of ‘horrific’ suspected homophobic murder in London cemetery:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/27/london-cemetery-ranjith-kankanamalage/

* "Police accused of victim blaming for warning gay people to avoid dimly lit areas:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/01/met-police-victim-blaming-murder-gay-ranjith-kankanamalage/

* "Couple who were told by boss their trans son was ‘evil’ awarded £70,000 by employment tribunal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/29/couple-boss-trans-son-evil-going-hell-khi-ro-peterborough-employment-tribunal/

* "Police officer who sent homophobic email to 55 colleagues allowed to keep his job:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/30/metropolitan-police-homophobic-david-bewick/

* "NHS is 'failing' trans men and non-binary people, Sajid Javid warned:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/02/sajid-javid-nhs-trans-men-healthcare/

* "Women's health law draws surge of support in wake of Texas anti-abortion vigilante law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/women-s-health-law-draws-surge-of-support-in-wake-of-texas-anti-abortion-vigilante-law-120101445924

* "'This is a courts problem': Supreme Court flop on abortion law prompts calls for reform:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-a-courts-problem-supreme-court-flop-on-abortion-law-prompts-calls-for-reform-120104005730

* "‘This is not a drill’: Rep. Pressley urges action from ‘pro-choice majority’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-not-a-drill-rep-pressley-urges-action-from-pro-choice-majority-120090693969

* "Religious Groups Seek Right to Fire Workers for Grindr Use, Gay Sex:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/5/28/religious-groups-seek-right-fire-workers-grindr-use-gay-sex

* "High School Reportedly Forced LGBTQ+ Coaches Out for Being Queer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/25/high-school-reportedly-forced-lgbtq-coaches-out-being-queer

* "FBI Report Finds Increase in Hate Crimes Against Transgender People:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/01/fbi-report-finds-increase-hate-crimes-against-transgender-people

* "Female Couple Shot to Death at Utah Campsite:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/8/20/female-couple-shot-death-utah-campsite

* "Washington Man Convicted of Murder, Hate Crime in Trans Teen's Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/8/30/washington-man-convicted-murder-hate-crime-trans-teens-death

* "TSA called police on trans kid who refused strip search. Her mum is suing:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/28/strip-search-trans-passenger/

* "Trans teen viciously bullied by transphobes, but he could be the one punished:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/29/tennessee-trans-bathroom-bill-bullying/

* "Mormon Apostle: Take Up 'Muskets' Against LGBTQ+ Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/24/mormon-apostle-take-muskets-against-lgbtq-equality

* "Mormon university investigates man who defaced rainbow art, said 'f****ts go to hell':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/28/mormon-byu-university-homophobia-lgbt/

* "Students Walk Out In Protest After Gay Coach Forced to Quit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/26/students-walk-out-protest-after-gay-coach-forced-quit

* "Gavin Grimm to Get Laughable Amount of Money in $1.3M Legal Payout:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/8/27/gavin-grimm-get-laughable-amount-money-13m-legal-payout

* "Questions, Allegations After Black AIDS Institute CEO Pushed Out:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/8/30/questions-allegations-after-black-aids-institute-ceo-pushed-out

* "Trans adults twice as likely to die as cis adults, eye-opening study finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/03/trans-cis-death-study-amsterdam-gender-clinci/

* "Johnson & Johnson HIV vaccine fails clinical trials in devastating setback:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/31/hiv-vaccine-johnson-clinical-trial/

* "This Region Has the Highest HIV-Related Death Rate in U.S.:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/8/25/region-has-highest-hiv-related-death-rate-us

* "Why the War Against HIV Rages in the South:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/8/20/why-war-against-hiv-rages-south

* "Report: Less Than Half of Americans Understand HIV:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/8/26/report-less-half-americans-understand-hiv

* "Britney Spears' attorney says singer 'will not be extorted' by her father:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-09-01/britney-spears-jamie-spears-conservatorship-fight

* "The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-rotates-memories-to-save-them-from-new-sensations-20210415/

* "For Some College Students, Remote Learning Is a Game Changer:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/health/covid-college-disabilities-students.html

* "Why Hooked on Phonics Was Way More Controversial Than You Remember:" https://tedium.co/2021/05/05/hooked-on-phonics-history/

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The World is basically on Fire/Melting. I'm putting stuff to do with it here.

* "Major flooding expected on Turkey, Wapsipinicon Rivers:" https://www.kcrg.com/2021/08/29/major-flooding-expected-turkey-wapsipinicon-rivers/

* "More heavy rain and floods in China:" https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3146859/heavy-rain-china-forces-thousands-evacuate-deluge-causes-flooding-and

* "Storm hits Spain, flooding towns, cutting electricity, rail services:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/storm-hits-spain-flooding-towns-cutting-electricity-rail-services-2021-09-01/

* "Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ida-louisiana-new-orleans-c43c2c68946ceb6100c2239534c6c290

* "These Images Show Just How Bad Hurricane Ida Hit Louisiana's Coastline:" https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/1032737199/images-louisiana-hurricane-ida

* "'This is a long road ahead of us': Lack of electricity slows Hurricane Ida recovery:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-a-long-road-ahead-of-us-lack-of-electricity-slows-hurricane-ida-recovery-120021061673

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "After Ida, Small Recovery Signs Amid Daunting Destruction:" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-09-01/in-idas-aftermath-no-quick-relief-in-sight-for-louisiana

* "Louisiana And Mississippi Were Overwhelmed By COVID-19 Cases. Then Ida Struck:" https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032441006/storm-ida-covid-19-surge-louisiana-mississippi-hospitals-vaccines

* "Ida’s sweltering aftermath: No power, no water, no gasoline:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article253872203.html

* "More than 45 dead after Ida's remnants blindside Northeast:" https://apnews.com/article/northeast-us-new-york-new-jersey-weather-60327279197e14b9d17632ea0818f51c

* "Searches, sorrow in wake of Ida's destructive, deadly floods:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cleanup-mourning-continue-ida-soaks-northeast-us-79809550

* "Wildfire expected to grow in intensity as it forces further evacuations in western U.S. :" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-lake-tahoe-wildfire-1.6159349

* "Caldor Fire prompts states of emergency in Nevada and California, with more than 50,000 told to evacuate the Lake Tahoe region:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/weather/western-wildfires-tuesday/index.html

* "Wildfire evacuees flood Lake Tahoe roads in rush to flee:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-lake-tahoe-57d7b821afacfac5ffd586bb897150d8

* "Firefighters battle wildfires, fatigue and Covid-19 as California braces for an extended fire season:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/weather/us-western-wildfires-friday/index.html

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* "Climate change: Families in Wales urged to plant more trees:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58259637

* "One in three trees face extinction in wild, says new report:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58394215

* "Cats Take 'If I Fits I Sits' Seriously, Even If The Space Is Just An Illusion:" https://www.npr.org/2021/05/10/994262792/cats-take-if-i-fits-i-sits-seriously-even-if-the-space-is-just-an-illusion

* "Wild cockatoos observed using tools as ‘cutlery’ to extract seeds from tropical fruit:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/01/wild-cockatoos-observed-using-tools-as-cutlery-to-extract-seeds-from-tropical-fruit

* "Fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes prepares to go on trial:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-entertainment-business-health-trials-6c0651bac5517bcfa9439e13a1337d10

* "O (No!) Canada: Fast-Moving Proposal Creates Filtering, Blocking and Reporting Rules—and Speech Police to Enforce Them:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/o-no-canada-fast-moving-proposal-creates-filtering-blocking-and-reporting-rules-1

* "This Wasp Nest of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/paper-wasp-nest-fluorescent/619877/

* "During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the 'Saint Patrick's Battalion':" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mexican-american-war-irish-immigrants-deserted-us-army-fight-against-america-180971713/

* This happened to Squirrel and some roommates once, only without the murder. "Theodore Edward Coneys: The Denver Spiderman:"

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* CW: Domestic Violence "The Lake Bodom Murders:"

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* CW: Rape, Necrophilia, Cannibalism "Issei Sagawa: The Kobe Cannibal:"

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* "Paralympian Robyn Lambird makes history as first non-binary medal-winner:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/08/31/paralympics-robyn-lambird-non-binary/

* "The Great Maple Syrup Heist:"

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* "Ten Thought Patterns that Trip Up Former Bible Believers:" https://new.exchristian.net/2021/06/ten-thought-patterns-that-trip-up.html#.YS4Ic99lBPb

* "Ed Asner Dies; Show 'Lou Grant' Had Notable Gay Episode:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/8/29/ed-asner-dies-show-lou-grant-had-notable-gay-episode

* "Reviving a once-forbidden dialect: ‘All French is good French’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/reviving-the-cajun-dialect

* "First full image of ‘new’ Vermeer with uncovered Cupid released by Dresden museum:" https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/first-look-at-new-vermeer-painting-as-whole-hidden-cupid-finally-revealed

* "Covid Truthers Claim Unvaccinated Sperm Will Be The Next Bitcoin:"

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* "Come Visit The Colorado River:"

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* "Get Vax-Free Seed At Gary's Man Seed Emporium:"

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* "The ADDAMS FAMILY DOLLHOUSE is DONE! Final Projects and Tour!:"

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* The exhaustion is still really bad, though a little better Saturday. I think part of it is damage from fire season, part is people endlessly waking me up, and part is a couple weeks of warm extremely muggy weather, which I don't deal with very well. It rained today which helped some. The Married Millieniels came to visit today, after caregiver Millennial and I did a ton of grocery shopping.

* "Sunday Sweets: Modern Marvels:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/8/29/sunday-sweets-modern-marvels

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.2: The Enterprise Incident.

Kirk is cranky and assholish. he is refusing psychiatric tests and R&R. He orders them into the Romulan Neutral Zone, then Romulan Space without orders. They see what look like Klingon ships, but are really Romulan. Kirk says he'll blow the ship rather than surrender. The Romulans are interested in Spock. They give the feds an hour to surrender. he asks opinions. Command crew are shirty about the going into Romulan territory without orders.

The Romulans want Kirk and Spock to come over to parlay. They offer two hostages in exchange. The commander speaks to Kirk alone first. She wants to know why they crossed. Kirk lies it's instrument failure. she doesn't believe them. Then She questions Spock. They have the same ancestors. She tests the myth that Vulcans can't lie. "It is not a lie to keep a truth to oneself." She accuses them of spying on the cloaking systems. She says her methods of questioning won't work on Vulcans, but may damage or kill Kirk. Spock points out that "the strain of command" has gotten to Kirk. Kirk behaves erratically and yells, "That's a lie!" Thus explaining Kirk's previous assholery was meant to convince truthful Spock of his instability in preparation for this moment. Spock says what he thinks is true and the Romulans know Vulcans don't lie, so... Anyway, Spock states for the record Kirk is insane and they had no orders.

Kirk is facing espionage charges, but Spock's testimony exonerates the Enterprise crew. Scott refuses to surrender the ship and threatens to blow up the ship if they are boarded. Kirk accuses Spock of disloyalty. The Romulan questions Spock about being a Vulcan on Kirk's ship. Spock explains about being half Vulcan with a human mother. He stands on his duty. She tries to tempt him with his own ship to command. He points out that she's the one wanting a ship: The Enterprise. She keeps trying to turn him.

Kirk is injured by guards. They beam McCoy over. The Romulan invites Spock to dinner. He discovers which corridor is forbidden. he keeps playing with her. "It is illogical to assume all conditions remain stable." McCoy claims Kirk is insane, supporting Spock's testimony. Spock is now in command. Kirk attacks Spock. Spock puts him out with a supposed Vulcan death grip. McCoy pronounces Kirk dead.

The death is faked of course, and McCoy brings him back aboard the enterprise. Nurse chapel catches them. Kirk tells them to keep pretending he's dead. McCoy summons Scott. McCoy has altered Kirk to look like a Vulcan, which startles Scott. Scott gets him a Romulan uniform.

The Romulan commander plies him with Vulcan cooking, strong drink, and her seductive powers. Spock hasn't sent coordinates. Kirk pretends to be an escaped centurion and goes looking for intelligence. The Romulan tells Spock to lead a small group across to take the enterprise. He puts her off for an hour, making it look like he was seduced.

While she goes to change, Spock sends Kirk the location of the devise. The Romulan crew notice a transmission. Spock and the Romulan hand fuck. Spock claims to be moved "emotionally." The Romulan Captain cock blocks them and fingers Spock. The Comander works out they are stealing the cloaking devise. Kirk is caught, but claims to be looking for the spy. He drops his weapon as ordered, but attacks the guards, stealing the devise and beaming away.

The commander is betrayed and wants to know what is he that he could do this to her. "First officer of the Enterprise." Then he asks about "your present form of execution." Very gloriously Spock. Meanwhile Scotty tries to install the cloaking device while Spock stalls, and the Enterprise techs try to pinpoint his life signature. The Romulan Commander orders a boarding action on the Enterprise.

Spock demands the rite of statement according to Romulan tradition. He gives a long speech. Romulan and Vulcan life signs are almost the same. They manage to beam up Spock and the commander, then flee. The Commander orders the destruction of the Enterprise. Scotty gets the cloaking devise to work and they change course so they aren't hit. Spock sort of apologizes Vulcan wise and admits to being tempted without saying it directly. "It was the only choice possible. You would not respect any other." Seriously this whole exchange is beautiful. They put Kirk's ears and eyebrows back.

As bad as some of the season three scripts often are, this one was really good and I particularly appreciate both the subtly of Spock's dialog and the delicacy of Nimoy's performance are really impressive. the guest star playing the commander does some really lovely acting too and rises above the lack of subtly in some of her earlier dialog.

* Me watching Titans: https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/rotten-robin

*****
* 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.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

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

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

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* "UN calls for restoration of democracy in Myanmar, end to violence:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/1/myanmar-risks-standstill-three-months-after-coup-un-envoy

* "Kachin rebels shoot down military helicopter as parcel bomb kills 5 in central Myanmar:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/04/asia/myanmar-military-helicopter-parcel-bomb-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Myanmar military bans satellite TV, charges Japanese journalist:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/5/myanmar-military-bans-satellite-tv-charges-japanese-journalist

* "What We Know About the Mexico City Train Crash:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/world/americas/mexico-city-train-derailment.html

* "Blinken Heads to Ukraine After Russia Sends 150K Troops to Border:" https://www.voanews.com/europe/blinken-heads-ukraine-after-russia-sends-150k-troops-border

* "Israel crush: Dozens killed at Lag B'Omer religious festival:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56938657

* " Mali: One year on, justice still needs to be done for victims of protests and coup :" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/04/mali-justice-still-needs-to-be-done-for-victims-of-protests-and-coup/

* "Dozens of militants killed in French-Malian army operation:" https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210427-dozens-of-militants-killed-in-french-malian-army-operation

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* "Children Now Account For 22% Of New U.S. COVID Cases. Why Is That?:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/03/993141036/children-now-account-for-22-of-new-u-s-covid-cases-why-is-that

* "Covid-19 caused one in three deaths in Brazil so far this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/americas/brazil-covid-deaths-2021-intl/index.html

* "Brazil's COVID-19 Deaths Top 400,000 Amid Fears Of Worsening Crisis:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/04/29/992243462/brazil-covid-19-deaths-top-400-000-amid-fears-of-worsening-crisis

* "Brazil Seeks to Hold Bolsonaro Accountable for More Than 400,000 Covid-19 Deaths:" https://theintercept.com/2021/05/01/covid-brazil-deaths-bolsonaro-investigation/

* "‘I warned Bolsonaro’, ex-Brazil minister testifies in COVID probe:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/4/i-warned-bolsonaro-ex-brazil-minister-testifies-in-covid-probe

* "Coronavirus: How India descended into Covid-19 chaos:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56977653

* "As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html

* "The Covid-19 hospital so bad patients want to get out:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/india/hospital-coronavirus-deaths-oxygen-delhi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

* "Modi could have prevented India's devastating Covid-19 crisis, critics say. He didn't:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/india/covid-second-wave-narendra-modi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* "US to restrict travel from India over COVID starting Tuesday:" https://apnews.com/article/india-coronavirus-travel-restriction-5e73dbbd0da45208af988d93c430e959

* "Biden shakes up vaccine strategy as he sets new goal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/white-house-states-vaccines-485348

* "Biden aims to vaccinate 70% of American adults by July 4:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-government-and-politics-d6ee06383f123a4ef0941847200757df

* "Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-herd-immunity-vaccine.html

* "Examining the ‘herd immunity’ question: How the U.S. can get back to normal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/examining-the-herd-immunity-question-how-the-u-s-can-get-back-to-normal-111286853763

* "FDA appears poised to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adolescents by next week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05/03/pfizer-vaccine-for-adolescents/

* "Florida Gov. DeSantis suspends all remaining Covid restrictions: 'We are no longer in a state of emergency':" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/florida-governor-desantis-suspends-all-remaining-covid-restrictions.html

* "Los Angeles County reports no new COVID-19 deaths:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-02/los-angeles-county-reports-no-new-covid-19-deaths

* "Tucker Carlson slammed for saying children wearing masks outside warrants police intervention:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/tucker-carlson-slams-mask-wearing-for-children-outdoors-is-called-unhinged-by-media-experts-111215173874

* "Trans woman denied life-saving COVID vaccine due to ‘mismatched ID’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/21/trans-woman-denied-covid-vaccine-mismatched-id-oklahoma/

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* "Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/us/politics/trump-drone-strike-rules.html

* "Joe Biden tells trans Americans 'the president has your back' in historic speech:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/joe-biden-congress-address-trans-americans-equality-act/

* "Joe Biden Is Giving the World a Lesson on Moving Forward:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/4/29/joe-biden-giving-world-lesson-moving-forward

* "10 times Joe Biden stood up for LGBT+ rights in his first 100 days:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/joe-biden-lgbt-rights-100-days/

* "Why President Biden's domestic agenda is also a foreign policy statement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-president-biden-s-domestic-agenda-is-also-a-foreign-policy-statement-111095877913

* "Joy Reid: Biden proposed ideas that will be very hard for Republicans to oppose:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-biden-proposed-ideas-that-will-be-very-hard-for-republicans-to-oppose-111027781553

* "Biden's advantage as political messenger is his political background, history suggests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-s-advantage-as-political-messenger-is-his-political-background-history-suggests-111098437781

* "Chris Hayes: Biden is ending the Reagan era with bold, progressive agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-biden-is-ending-the-reagan-era-with-bold-progressive-agenda-111084613903

* "Chris Hayes: How Biden is succeeding where Trump failed:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-biden-is-succeeding-where-trump-failed-111284805823

* "Chief Spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris on her historic first 100 days:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/vice-president-kamala-harris-s-historic-first-100-days-discussed-by-symone-sanders-111213637598

* "Donald Trump’s cruel ban on trans people joining the military is officially over:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/trans-military-ban-over-pentagon-joe-biden-donald-trump/

* "Joe Biden to let embassies fly the Pride flag on the same pole as the US flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/us-embassy-lgbt-pride-flag-ban-joe-biden-anthony-blinken/

* "Biden Picks Lesbian Vet Gina Ortiz Jones for Air Force Undersecretary:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/28/biden-picks-lesbian-vet-gina-ortiz-jones-air-force-undersecretary

* "Biden administration to propose first rule requiring cut in climate pollutants:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/05/03/epa-climate-hfcs/

* "Consumer-fueled economy pushes GDP to 6.4% first-quarter gain:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/us-gdp-rose-6point4percent-in-the-first-quarter-vs-6point5percent-increase-expected.html

* "Democratic tax cuts, stimulus measures seen to be revving up economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democratic-tax-cuts-stimulus-measures-seen-to-be-revving-up-economy-111295045787

* "Not rich? Good news: You’re probably getting a tax cut.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/25/dems-tax-cuts-biden-484476

* "Some Republicans look to have it both ways on popular Covid relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-republicans-look-to-have-it-both-ways-on-covid-relief-111159365885

* "Rep. Schiff says GOP’s ‘grasping at straws’ to slam Biden's popular economic plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-s-popular-economic-plan-under-attack-from-gop-grasping-at-straws-schiff-says-111211077981

* "‘Be bold, go big’: Sen. Bernie Sanders on how Democrats can hold onto power:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-be-bold-go-big-sen-bernie-sanders-on-how-democrats-can-hold-onto-power-111283781944

* "Democrats consider reforming immigration laws through infrastructure bill, reconciliation:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-consider-reforming-immigration-laws-through-infrastructure-bill-reconciliation-111359557561

* "McConnell Says ‘Zero’ Republicans Will Back Biden’s Infrastructure Package:" https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-says-zero-republicans-back-183602299.html

* Children learning accurate history for once being the most important threat to America right now according to Republicans, apparently, rather than Republicans literally trying to end Democracy forever. "POLITICO Playbook: McConnell takes on the 1619 Project:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/04/30/mcconnell-takes-on-the-1619-project-492664?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318

* "GOP state lawmakers: The Three-Fifths Compromise was actually good:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/04/gop-state-lawmakers-three-fifths-compromise-was-actually-good/

* "As schools expand racial equity work, conservatives see a new threat in critical race theory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/03/critical-race-theory-backlash/

* "DNC Chair: GOP Obsessed With Mr. Potato Head, Not Real Issues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/29/dnc-chair-gop-obsessed-mr-potato-head-not-real-issues

* CW: Rape "Senators announce proposed law removing commanders from military sexual assault cases.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/politics/military-sexual-assault-cases.html

* "‘Failure is not an option, voting is too sacred’: How Chuck Schumer plans to pass voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-failure-is-not-an-option-voting-is-too-sacred-how-chuck-schumer-plans-to-pass-voting-rights-111020613651

* "Manchin says he doesn’t support D.C. statehood bill, dealing advocates a major blow:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/manchin-dc-statehood-amendment/2021/04/30/39fab2ae-a9dd-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html

* Have something you want to tell Manchin? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* "Florida Legislature passes elections bill that adds restrictions to voting:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/florida-passes-elections-bill-voting-restrictions/

* "Republican ‘power grab’: Florida rep on his state's new voter restriction law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republican-power-grab-florida-rep-on-his-state-s-new-voter-restriction-law-111151173835

* "Republicans fear new voting restrictions could backfire on their own voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-fear-new-voting-restrictions-could-backfire-on-their-own-voters-111295557744

* "Texas leaders, corporations form coalitions to fight voting restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dozens-businesses-speak-out-against-voting-restrictions-texas-n1266287

* "Capehart remembers when Tim Scott once spoke sensitively about racial discrimination experiences:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/tim-scott-s-speech-on-his-racial-discrimination-experiences-remembered-by-capehart-in-bye-line-111214149691

* "Cheney calls out Trump's latest attempt to promote 'BIG LIE' amid criticism from within her own party:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/liz-cheney-criticism-trump-big-lie/

* "As McCarthy moves to boot Cheney, a favorite successor emerges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/mccarthy-gop-cheney-485316

* "Actual elections experts head to Arizona as Trump, GOP fixate on clumsy 'audit' stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/actual-elections-experts-head-to-arizona-as-trump-gop-fixates-on-clumsy-audit-stunt-111096901907

* "Joy Reid: Trump and conspiracy theorists ‘defiling American democracy’ with audit of Arizona ballots:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-trump-and-conspiracy-theorists-defiling-american-democracy-with-audit-of-arizona-ballots-111150149564

* "Ex-state Rep. Anthony Kern, who was at Capitol riot, seen counting ballots in Arizona audit:" https://www.newsweek.com/ex-state-rep-anthony-kern-who-was-capitol-riot-seen-counting-ballots-arizona-audit-1588010

* "Murkowski Challenger Endorsed 'Ex-Gay' Therapy, Denounced 'Twilight':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/27/murkowski-challenger-endorsed-ex-gay-therapy-denounced-twilight

* "Former North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasley running for U.S Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/former-north-carolina-chief-justice-cheri-beasley-running-for-u-s-senate-111149637516

* "LGBTQ+, Asian-American Groups Oppose Andrew Yang for NYC Mayor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/23/lgbtq-asian-american-groups-oppose-andrew-yang-nyc-mayor

* "Judge Accuses DOJ Of Misleading Her About Key Doc Related Mueller Report Release:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-olc-memo-mueller-report

* "Federal judge calls out Barr for lying, orders previously withheld documents released:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-judge-calls-out-barr-for-lying-orders-previously-withheld-documents-released-111358533515

* "Giuliani investigation seen to be heating up with execution of search warrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/giuliani-investigation-seen-to-be-heating-up-with-execution-of-search-warrants-111023685521

* "Rudy’s downfall: Giuliani being investigated by the same office he once ran:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rudy-s-downfall-giuliani-being-investigated-by-the-same-office-he-once-ran-111085637653

* "NYT: Firing of U.S. Ambassador is at the center of the Giuliani investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/nyt-firing-of-u-s-ambassador-is-at-the-center-of-the-giuliani-investigation-111080517821

* "Washington Post corrects report that Giuliani was warned he was target of Russian influence campaign:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/rudy-giuliani-russia-influence-campaign/

* "Biden admin treats Russian political intrusion with law enforcement and transparency:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-admin-treats-russian-political-intrusion-with-law-enforcement-and-transparency-111160389602

* "'Deliverables were delivered': Despite denials, much of the Giuliani case is on the record:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-deliverables-were-delivered-despite-denials-much-of-the-giuliani-case-is-on-the-record-111159877523

* "Former Trump attorney Cohen says Giuliani should start cooperating with federal authorities:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/giuliani-should-start-cooperating-with-federal-authorities-former-trump-attorney-cohen-says-111211077853

* "Facebook, burdened by timidity on right-wing misinformation, reconsiders Trump ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/facebook-burdened-by-timidity-on-right-wing-misinformation-reconsiders-trump-ban-111359557662

* "Capitol Police official who said to watch for ‘anti-Trump’ forces on Jan. 6 was deputy chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/capitol-police-trump-insurrection-485138

* "Tip from family member leads to arrest of Capitol riot suspect in Marion County, FBI says:" https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/04/23/tip-from-family-member-leads-to-arrest-of-capitol-riot-suspect-in-marion-county-fbi-says/

* "Pulse Survivor Brandon Wolf: Stop Accepting Gun Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/20/pulse-survivor-brandon-wolf-stop-accepting-gun-violence

* "'One god-awful mess': Biden lays border crisis on Trump admin's refusal to cooperate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/one-god-awful-mess-biden-lays-border-crisis-trump-admin-n1265908

* "Biden terminating border wall construction contracts:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/biden-terminates-border-wall-construction-485123

* "Biden raises refugee cap to 62,500 after blowback:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/refugee-cap/

* "US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-mexico-border-biden-families-separation-fa9c179146c708840b1002eb4f534c30

* "Surge of DOJ actions on policing as Biden nominees settle in:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/surge-of-doj-actions-on-policing-as-biden-nominees-settle-in-111028293989

* "'Serious negotiations underway': Biden White House sees opportunity for police reform bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-serious-negotiations-underway-biden-white-house-sees-opportunity-for-police-reform-bill-111098437664

* "Rep. Ilhan Omar proposing new police accountability legislation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-ilhan-omar-proposing-new-police-accountability-legislation-111282245971

* "Alameda PD releases bodycam video showing moments leading up to in-custody death of 26-year-old man:" https://abc7news.com/mario-gonzalez-alameda-police-video-death-gonzales/10554683/

* "Demonstrators March In Alameda Neighborhood Where Mario Gonzalez Died In Police Custody Struggle:" https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/05/01/mario-gonzalez-in-custody-death-alameda-protest/

* "Brown family attorney responds to claim that Andrew Brown's car 'made contact' with police: Show the tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/brown-family-attorney-responds-to-claim-that-andrew-brown-s-car-made-contact-with-police-show-the-tape-111085125631

* "3 men charged with federal hate crimes in killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/3-men-charged-with-federal-hate-crimes-in-killing-of-ahmaud-arbery-in-georgia-111019077860

* "Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Condemns 'Homophobic' Attacks Post-Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/19/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-condemns-homophobic-attacks-post-shooting

* Rightly so. This was horrific and dehumanizing. "Oversight agency finds 'deficiencies' in Chicago police raid on Anjanette Young's home:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1266007

* CW: Torture, Sexual Assault "Trans woman locked up in men's prison victim of 'brutal, senseless violence':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/free-syiaah-skylit-trans-woman-clemency-abuse-prison-california-gavin-newsom/

* CW: Pedophilia "Boosie, Black Boys, and Rape Culture:"

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* "The Daily Beast: Gaetz associate wrote in letter that congressman paid for sex with minor:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-letter/

* "Rep. Lieu: Gaetz should be removed 'immediately' from Judiciary Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-lieu-gaetz-should-be-removed-immediately-from-judiciary-committee-111150661902

* CW: Pedophilia "Anonymous Kevin Spacey accuser must reveal identity or drop £30 million lawsuit:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-lawsuit-anthony-rapp-cd/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Accused of Assaulting Brendan Fraser, Ex-Globes Exec in New Scandal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/4/19/accused-assaulting-brendan-fraser-ex-globes-exec-new-scandal

* Can we please stop doing these? "‘Earth-shaking’ gender reveal party explosion triggers earthquake reports:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/gender-reveal-party-explosion-new-hampshire-earthquake-reports/

* "Young Catholics deserting church in droves to protest same-sex unions ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/catholic-church-lgbt-same-sex-blessings-ban-vatican-belgium-johan-bonny/

* "Gay Latvian paramedic dies after being burnt alive in horrific ‘homophobic attack’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/latvia-gay-paramedic-normunds-kindzulis-death-epoa/

* "Uganda passes reviled bill defining anal sex as an 'unnatural offence':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/uganda-parliament-sexual-offences-bill-queer-anal-sex-work/

* "Suspect arrested after ‘traumatised’ gay man ‘stabbed with bottle in South Africa bar’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/suspect-arrested-gay-man-stabbed-bottle-segakweng-kimora-magoma-south-africa/

* "Judge orders himself to speak to psychologist to 'understand same-sex relationships':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/india-lesbian-couple-chennai-madurai-madras-court-psychologist-lgbt-education/

* "Court could force Honduras to stop heinous 'social cleansing' of trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/honduras-transgender-trans-violence-inter-american-commission-human-rights/

* "Queer asylum seekers left facing isolation, hunger and mockery – right here in the UK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/lgbt-asylum-seekers-uk-african-rainbow-family-donate-home-office-covid/

* "University staff given banned list of microaggressions they can't say to trans students:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/edinburgh-university-trans-transphobia-microaggressions-guidance-lecturers/

* "Scottish Green Party reveals plan to tackle 'resurgence of homophobia and transphobia':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/28/scottish-green-party-lgbt-manifesto-rainbow-greens-patrick-harvie/

* "Cost of applying to change legal sex cut to £5 – but process remains undignified:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/gender-recognition-certificate-fee-act-legal-sex-birth-certificate-liz-truss/

* "Police officer jailed for membership to hateful Neo-nazi terror group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/30/met-police-officer-bejamin-hannam-neo-nazi-terror-group-national-action/

* "Street preacher, 71, arrested for ‘distressing’ public with ‘homophobic’ rants:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/28/pastor-john-sherwood-peter-simpson-conservative-woman-uxbridge-arrest/

* "Man who threatened gay couple walks free after gay friend comes to his defence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/alex-johnson-leek-steve-lanza-jason-smith-homophobic-abuse/

* "Cambridge university threatens to evict students over LGBT+ Pride flags:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/cambridge-jesus-college-evict-students-lgbt-pride-flags/

* I wish I could see the bag. It sounds amazing. "Gay man ‘humiliated and harassed’ for taking his Tom of Finland bag to the gym:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/tom-of-finland-gym-bag-jeff-trahair-arc-campbelltown-south-australia/

* "SCOTUS Kills Texas Lawsuit Against California Sparked by Antigay Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/4/27/scotus-kills-texas-lawsuit-against-california-sparked-antigay-law

* "West Virginia governor ‘proudly’ signs cruel anti-trans sports bill into law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/west-virginia-anti-trans-sports-bill-jim-justice-governor-trevor-project-hrc/

* "Alabama Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/23/alabama-governor-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-law

* "Tennessee just passed two sinister laws putting safety of trans people at risk:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/tennessee-anti-trans-bill-transphobia-healthcare-bathrooms-ban-bill-lee/

* "Florida governor and Trump's potential running mate vows to sign cruel trans bill:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/florida-governor-ron-desantis-anti-trans-ban-sports-bill-trump-2024/

* "As Anti-Trans Bills Advance, Kansas Governor Implies Veto Likely:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/20/anti-trans-bills-advance-kansas-governor-implies-veto-likely

* "Hundreds rally against anti-trans bills erasing years of LGBT+ progress ‘with the swipe of a pen’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/north-carolina-asheville-protest-transgender-youth-legislation/

* "Brave trans girls receives death threats after shaming bigoted lawmakers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/22/kai-shappley-texas-trans-healthcare-law-death-threats-amber-briggle-bill-1646/

* "Father of trans teen arrested while testifying against cruel trans healthcare ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/chris-attig-arrested-trans-healthcare-ban-arkansas-house-speech/

* "From Andrew Sullivan to Terry Schilling: Framing Transition as Evil:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/4/28/andrew-sullivan-terry-schilling-framing-transition-evil

* "Elliot Page: 'Children Will Die' Due to Anti-Trans Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/29/elliot-page-children-will-die-due-anti-trans-laws

* And he's not wrong. Republicans are killing children. CW: Suicide. "Rash of Teen Suicide Attempts After Arkansas Adopts Trans Care Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/19/rash-teen-suicide-attempts-after-arkansas-adopts-trans-care-ban

* "Trans people under attack from GOP bills, fighting back discussed by LGBT leaders:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-tells-trans-youth-he-has-their-back-as-gop-attacks-trans-rights-nationwide-111213637796

* "Two trans women killed in the US on the very same day as violence spills into 2021:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/iris-santos-natalia-smut-lopez-trans-women-killed-us-2021/

* "School official hurls beers at diners filming his wife’s vile transphobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/michael-smurro-vice-principal-neptune-threw-beer-transphobic-rant/

* "UN Chief on Why the World Failed Its HIV Targets for 2020:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/5/03/un-chief-why-world-failed-its-hiv-targets-2020

* "Ohio County Struggling With 700 Percent Increase in HIV Cases:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/4/29/ohio-county-struggling-700-percent-increase-hiv-cases

* "You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences:" https://theconversation.com/you-dont-have-a-male-or-female-brain-the-more-brains-scientists-study-the-weaker-the-evidence-for-sex-differences-158005

* "Flooding and mudslides add to St. Vincent's volcano woes:" https://phys.org/news/2021-04-mudslides-st-vincent-volcano-woes.html

* "FUNERAL FASHION:"

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* "Resources, Racism, & The Myth of Inferior Black Intelligence:"

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* I've been using 'scarper' most of my life and I had no idea it was Polari, though I knew what Polari was. I love learning new stuff. "The Secret LGBTQ+ Language // Polari :"

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* "Televangelism: The Rise, Fall, and Reincarnation:"

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* Spoiler: Decades of propaganda demonizing them. "Why We Hate Bi Men:"

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* "Remembering the lives lost in the horrific Admiral Duncan nail bomb attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/30/admiral-duncan-pub-soho-bombing/

* "AIDS activist and creator of the red ribbon, Patrick O’Connell, dies aged 67:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/patrick-oconnell-aids-red-ribbon-dies/

* "Covid Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Gay Superheroes: Queerbaiting And Camp:"

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* "Spider-Man, Class and Militarization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe:"

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* "Reacting to Trans Fails | Accidentally Coming Out:"

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* "Reacting to Trans Fails | Public Toilets:"

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* "President Biden Needs To End Trump-Era Immigration Policies:"

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* "Why Washington, D.C. Deserves To Be A State:"

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* The older I get the more things it didn't occur to me were kink that we just did back in the day turn out to be kink.

* Livia voluntarily sniffed Caregiver Millenial's fingers Suday. So I was like, do you want to feed her some treats? So Sunday, he fed her treats and she ate them right in front og him like she knew him. he mostly recovered from the changes, though she is still alarmed by some of the cleaning in her area. One day, she emerged after her standard two hour hide to find the desk book stack gone. She hated the desk book stack and it's removal is of material benefit to her, but it is a change. She she did this massive double take and went all wide eyed and then checked the two desks she's allowed on for changes, poor button. Most of the recent stuff doesn't effect her beyond routine stuff like poop stealing and sweeping which she's used to. mostly, she needed to adjust to the idea of the asylum being invaded three times a week. But she's almost back to normal between visits and after the initial obligatory hide, she generally comes out and does her normal activities.

* Me rewatching Being John Malkovich. Almost immediately: She needs Whole Man Disposal.

* A Walrus in Wales: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/650306043218427904

* NWS. "Stas Vokman and the Purity of the Naked Male:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/2021/4/23/stas-vokman-and-purity-naked-male#media-gallery-media-10

* "A trio of witches who live on the outskirts of town as outcasts befriend a neighbor child....:" https://dycefic.tumblr.com/post/647613085923803136/a-trio-of-witches-who-live-on-the-outskirts-of

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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.

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

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

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

* What to help save bats, and essential part of our ecosystem? "Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation:" https://www.merlintuttle.org/

* My oldest continuous Real Life friend is doing this project. "Bed, Bath, & Behemoth: An Epic D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/bed-bath-and-behemoth-an-epic-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR2pA1NFVGG7aZyrLDC5h9Q0a_g7yMh_rY5rWxrnpZ3sJRSe6yO8gAAEq4M

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* "11 of 22 Chinese miners trapped in gold mine rescued:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/china/china-trapped-miners-intl-hnk/index.html

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* "What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/magazine/covid-aftereffects.html

* "Germany records first case of Brazilian coronavirus strain:" https://www.thelocal.de/20210122/germany-records-first-case-of-brazilian-coronavirus-strain

* "Exclusive: Biden to impose South Africa travel ban to combat new COVID-19 variant - CDC:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-travel-exclusi/exclusive-biden-to-impose-south-africa-travel-ban-to-combat-new-covid-19-variant-sources-idUSKBN29T0P6?il=0

* Republicans hate Americans so much they didn't keep track. "CDC director says federal government does not know how much Covid vaccine the U.S. has:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/24/cdc-director-government-does-not-know-how-much-covid-vaccine-the-us-has.html

* "Fmr. Covid Task Force advisor: I was told to ‘watch’ Dr. Birx:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-covid-task-force-advisor-i-was-told-to-watch-dr-birx-100008517666

* "Special Report: How U.S. CDC missed chances to spot COVID's silent spread:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-response-speci/special-report-how-u-s-cdc-missed-chances-to-spot-covids-silent-spread-idUSKBN29R1E7

* "Trader Joe's, Dollar General And Others Are Paying Workers To Get Vaccines:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/958849642/grocers-have-a-strategy-to-get-their-workers-vaccinated-against-covid-19-pay-the

* "How will undocumented immigrants get the COVID-19 vaccine?:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90595912/how-will-undocumented-immigrants-get-the-covid-vaccine

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* "Legalization Advocates Hope to End Mexico’s Drug War:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/12/legalization-advocates-hope-end-mexico-drug-war-decriminalization/

* "Biden signs order pushing federal government to buy more American-made products:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/25/biden-buy-american-rules/

* "Biden repeals Trump-era ban on transgender military service:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/biden-repeals-transgender-military-service-ban-462186

* "Biden reverses Trump's transgender military ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-reverses-trump-s-transgender-military-ban-100003909812

* "White House Enlists ASL Interpreters For Daily Press Briefings:" https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/25/960416060/white-house-enlists-asl-interpreters-for-daily-press-briefings

* "White House recommits to getting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill after Trump delay:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/harriet-tubman-20-biden-trump-obama/index.html

* "For 1st Black Pentagon chief, racism challenge is personal:" https://apnews.com/article/politics-race-and-ethnicity-biden-cabinet-lloyd-austin-army-e3fa150af670ff2a3673e7d72dbe77bd

* "Biden rejoins Paris climate accord, works to overturn Trump’s climate policies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/20/biden-climate-change-inauguration/

* "On civil rights, policing, prosecutions, Biden’s Justice Department will be distinct from Trump’s:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/11/biden-civil-rights-police-reform/

* I am really worried they will water it down for imaginary support they won’t get. "Biden Dep. Assistant Jean-Pierre on pres. pushing for bipartisan COVID relief bill effort:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/covid-relief-being-preferably-pushed-through-via-bipartisan-effort-discussed-by-jean-pierre-99936837824

* "Instacart Will Lay Off All of Its Unionized Workers:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9deg/instacart-says-it-will-lay-off-all-of-its-unionized-workers

* Extended Chuck Schumer Interview: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-prioritizes-legislation-over-gop-bad-faith-bipartisanship-cites-obama-era-lessons-100010565815

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-considering-expanding-judiciary-to-balance-courts-packed-by-mcconnell-100012613552

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-calls-on-president-biden-to-declare-climate-emergency-100012613548

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-trump-actions-cannot-be-swept-under-the-rug-he-is-the-worst-president-ever-100011077898

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schumer-open-to-criminal-charges-for-trump-acolytes-in-capitol-riot-100013637624

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-was-30-feet-away-from-those-sons-of-guns-schumer-describes-trump-riot-close-call-100011077887

* "Portman’s exit signals uncertainty for Senate GOP:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/rob-portman-wont-seek-reelection-462146

* "As Trump departs, his extremes live on in state GOPs:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/25/trump-departs-his-extremes-live-state-gops/

* "Supreme Court ends Trump emoluments lawsuits:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ends-trump-lawsuits-df42ef0eec5fa57edf3e294234051d88

* "Biden administration weighs turning over Trump tax returns to House Democrats:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trump-taxes-house-lawsuit/2021/01/22/4f4df442-5cf1-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "Inspector general will investigate whether any Justice Dept. officials improperly sought to help Trump overturn the election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-inspector-general-trump-election/2021/01/25/6cfcfb24-5f2f-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html

* "Pennsylvania Lawmaker Played Key Role in Trump’s Plot to Oust Acting Attorney General:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/23/us/politics/scott-perry-trump-justice-department-election.html

* "Rep. Cicilline: We’ll present overwhelming evidence Trump incited insurrection:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-senate-impeachment-trial-elucidated-by-house-impeachment-manager-cicilline-99943493874

* "Rep. Waters addresses Rep. McCarthy naming her regarding Capitol riot responsibility:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/capitol-riot-responsibility-rep-mccarthy-naming-her-discussed-by-rep-maxine-waters-99942469720

* "Impeachment manager Rep. Raskin on what to expect in Trump’s Senate trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/impeachment-manager-rep-raskin-on-what-to-expect-in-trump-s-senate-trial-100006469771

* "Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1-1,056:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056

* "“The President Threw Us Under the Bus”: Embedding With Pentagon Leadership in Trump’s Chaotic Last Week:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/embedding-with-pentagon-leadership-in-trumps-chaotic-last-week

* "Giuliani concedes that an associate did ask for $20,000 a day to help Trump post-election.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/giuliani-concedes-that-an-associate-did-ask-for-20000-a-day-to-help-trump-post-election.html

* "Dominion voting machine firm sues Giuliani for more than $1.3 billion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dominion-voting-systems-giuliani-lawsuit/2021/01/25/b0fc3db4-5f14-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html

* "Sen. Kaine on joining ethics complaint calling for investigation into Sens. Cruz, Hawley:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/cruz-hawley-subject-of-ethics-complaint-regarding-capitol-riot-sen-tim-kaine-joined-99941957693

* "Justice Department, FBI debate not charging some of the Capitol rioters:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/doj-capitol-rioters-charges-debate/2021/01/23/3b0cf112-5d97-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "Federal judge: Eric Munchel to remain in federal custody:" https://whnt.com/news/federal-judge-eric-munchel-to-remain-in-federal-custody/

* "US man charged with threatening to 'assassinate' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/23/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-man-charged-threat

* "Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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* "Texas attorney general sues Biden administration over deportation pause:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/politics/texas-biden-lawsuit-deportation/

* "Social Workers, Not Cops, Respond to Many Public Safety Calls in This Oregon City:" https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2020-07-06/eugene-oregons-30-year-experiment-with-reimagining-public-safety

* "Trained civilians, not sworn police officers, could better respond to hundreds of 911 calls:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/9/22166229/chicago-police-department-911-calls-civilian-community-responders-cpd

* "Hawaii GOP official resigns after posting pro-QAnon tweets:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-hawaii-ab9eff7fe4a56d29b19dd4571a8ef3e8

* "How White Supremacy Is Like a Drug | JSTOR Daily:" https://daily.jstor.org/how-white-supremacy-is-like-a-drug/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "What Defines Domestic Abuse? Survivors Say It’s More Than Assault:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/cori-bush-fka-twigs-coercive-control.html

* "Insurers add food to coverage menu as way to improve health:" https://apnews.com/article/us-news-nutrition-coronavirus-pandemic-d1e17ef502ab92bd41216c90ac60ba5f

* "Sleeping with the Enemy:" https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/sleeping-with-the-enemy/

* "An extremely rare white kangaroo was born at a zoo in New York:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/23/us/rare-white-kangaroo-new-york-zoo-scn-trnd/index.html

* "Google threatens to shut down search in Australia:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/22/tech/google-threatens-australia-search-news-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Pink Triangles (Part 2):"

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* "Who Invented Chess and When Did it Start Being Played?:" https://www.historyhit.com/who-invented-chess-and-when/

* "The International Tempest Over the World’s Most Famous Teapot:" https://thewalrus.ca/the-international-tempest-over-the-worlds-most-famous-teapot/

* "How Did Victorian Ladies Stay Warm in Winter?:"

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* "The GOP Dodges Decision to Impeach Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/uf8bdh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-gop-dodges-decision-to-impeach-trump

* "THE QUEER AFTERLIFE OF RE-ANIMATOR: THE ENDURING APPEAL OF AN 80S CLASSIC:" https://gingernutsofhorror.com/features/the-queer-afterlife-of-re-animator-the-enduring-appeal-of-an-80s-classic

* "Gilt-y Pleasures:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/1/24/gilt-y-pleasures

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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.

* I can't swear to these, but they fit with everything I've heard. "HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/639454183045644288/fighting-covid-when-kept-home

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Inauguration Week Omnibus

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* I am too tired to go through and weed out all the things no longer relevant. Also, the sorting got a bit haphazard. Sorry.

* "Theresa May accuses Boris Johnson of 'abandoning global leadership':" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/20/theresa-may-accuses-boris-johnson-of-abandoning-global-moral-leadership

* "Twin Suicide Bombings In Baghdad Market Kill At Least 32, Wound Over 100:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/21/959115619/twin-suicide-bombings-in-baghdad-market-kill-and-wound-dozens

* "Serum Institute: Fire at world's largest vaccine producer kills five:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55753586

* "EU and US call for probe into Uganda election violence as Bobi Wine remains under house arrest:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/africa/uganda-elections-international-pressure-intl/index.html

* "After five days of internet blackout, Ugandans are back online as Bobi Wine remains under house arrest:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/18/africa/uganda-bobi-wine-house-arrest-internet-intl/index.html

* "A Rohingya Camp Fire Leaves Hundreds Homeless:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/world/asia/rohingya-camp-fire-bangladesh.html

* "Guatemalan forces stall migrant caravan from Honduras with tear gas, batons:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-18/guatemala-forces-stall-migrant-caravan-tear-gas-batons

* "Dutch Rutte government resigns over child welfare fraud scandal:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55674146

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* It's really, really bad. "Bolsonaro Talked Vaccines Down. Now Brazil has Too Few Doses.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/world/americas/brazil-covid-variants-vaccinations.html

* "'Rent an oxygen machine': As Lebanon collapses, COVID-19 patients are left to save themselves:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-21/lebanon-hospitals-on-brink-of-collapse-due-to-covid/13070072

* "U.S. Will Remain In WHO, Fauci Announces, As Biden Reverses Trump Move:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/01/21/959142553/u-s-will-remain-in-who-fauci-announces-as-biden-reverses-trump-move

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 1/21/21 are 24,571,000. The official death toll is 409,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "US surpasses 400,000 deaths from Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/

* "Biden says death toll from pandemic likely will top 500,000 next month, says it will take months ‘for us to turn things around’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/biden-coronavirus-executive-actions/2021/01/21/9a4ab954-5b56-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "How Bad Will COVID-19 Get?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/1/18/how-bad-will-covid-19-get

* "New CDC director says Covid vaccine won't be in every pharmacy by late February:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-cdc-director-says-covid-vaccine-won-t-be-every-n1255128

* "Trump moves to lift some Covid-19-related travel restrictions, but Biden plans to block the order:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/18/politics/trump-covid-travel-restrictions/index.html

* "Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start 'from scratch,' sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/biden-covid-vaccination-trump/index.html

* "On Night Before Inauguration, Biden Leads Mourning for Virus Victims:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/biden-inauguration-coronavirus.html

* "Biden admin begins immediate coronavirus policy overhaul:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-admin-begins-immediate-coronavirus-policy-overhaul-99770949978

* Thank fuck! "Biden signs order requiring masks on planes, buses, trains and at airports:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/biden-mask-mandate/2021/01/21/5867d7ee-5bf9-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "‘Wartime effort’: Biden signs orders to fight the pandemic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/biden-10-executive-orders-pandemic-460996

* "Dr. Anthony Fauci says he now feels liberated to speak freely on science, pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dr-anthony-fauci-says-he-now-feels-liberated-to-speak-freely-on-science-pandemic-99821637600

* "Biden CDC goes back to square one on Covid policy: gathering accurate data:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-cdc-goes-back-to-square-one-on-covid-policy-gathering-accurate-data-99850309573

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* "U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/trump-china-xinjiang.html

* "China Slaps Sanctions On 28 Trump Administration Officials, Including Mike Pompeo:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/958996415/china-slaps-sanctions-on-28-trump-administration-officials-including-mike-pompeo

* "Biden administration to seek five-year extension on key nuclear arms treaty in first foray with Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-russia-nuclear-treaty-extension/2021/01/21/4667a11e-5b40-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

* "US Military Pulls Last Troops Out of Somalia:" https://www.voanews.com/africa/us-military-pulls-last-troops-out-somalia

* "US has conceded too much to Taliban, says Afghan vice-president:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55666152

* "Respect:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1788812.html

* "‘We did what we came here to do’: Trump tries to recast legacy in farewell address:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-farewell-address-460427

* "Full list of Trump's last-minute pardons and commuted sentences:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/full-list-trump-s-last-minute-pardons-commuted-sentences-n1254806

* Just the low lights if you don't want to read the whole rogue's gallery. "Trump grants clemency to 143 people in late-night pardon blast:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pardons/2021/01/20/7653bd12-59a2-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "Some people pardoned by Trump can still be tried, an ex-Mueller prosecutor argues.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/some-people-pardoned-by-trump-can-still-be-tried-an-ex-mueller-prosecutor-argues.html

* "Fleece Trump's own supporters? He'll pardon you.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fleece-trump-s-own-supporters-he-ll-pardon-you-99834949938

* "Trump Has Discussed Starting a New Political Party:" https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-impeachment-biden-inauguration/card/90pPMzFPqr5fMzg1Bkbs

* "‘We will be back in some form’: Trump pledges political comeback at farewell event:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-pledges-we-will-be-back-farewell-event-460675

* "Donald Trump’s failure of a presidency ends with a song that’s definitely not about gay sex. Honest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/20/donald-trump-laura-branigan-gloria-village-people-ymca-gay/

* "The Financial Minefield Awaiting an Ex-President Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/trump-finances.html

* "Trump extended Secret Service protection to his adult children and three top officials as he left office:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

* "Just a really long list of reasons why Donald Trump will go down as America’s most hateful president in history:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/donald-trump-lgbt-attacks-trans-gay/

* "Trump leaves parting Oval Office letter for Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-biden-inauguration-day-460670

* "Melania Trump outsourced writing her own 'thank you' notes to the White House residence staff:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/melania-trump-thank-you-notes/index.html

* "Trump authorizes DOJ to declassify Russia probe documents:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-doj-declassify-russia-probe-documents-460511

* "McConnell proposes delaying impeachment trial until February so Trump team can prepare:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/nancy-pelosi-impeachment-timing/index.html

* "America's unfinished business with Trump leaves bifurcated vision as Biden begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/america-s-unfinished-business-with-trump-leaves-bifurcated-vision-as-biden-begins-99849797707

* "McConnell says Trump ‘provoked’ the Capitol attackers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/mcconnell-trump-provoked-capitol-attackers-460372

* "George Conway: Hawley, Cruz ‘disregard the Constitution’ for own political agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-conway-hawley-cruz-disregard-the-constitution-for-own-political-agenda-99706437604

* "Self-styled militia members planned on storming the U.S. Capitol days in advance of Jan. 6 attack, court documents say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/conspiracy-oath-keeper-arrest-capitol-riot/2021/01/19/fb84877a-5a4f-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "Police arrest woman FBI alleges stole Pelosi laptop to sell to Russia:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/police-arrest-woman-fbi-alleges-stole-pelosi-laptop-capitol-to-sell-to-russia

* "Man Accused of Beating Officer With Hockey Stick in Capitol Riot Is Arrested:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/politics/michael-joseph-foy-arrested-capitol-riot.html

* "Woman Fired After Queer Daughter Outed Her Participation in D.C. Riot:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/1/19/woman-fired-after-queer-daughter-outed-her-role-dc-violence

* "How News Media is Describing the Incident at the U.S. Capitol:" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-news-media-is-describing-the-incident-at-the-u-s-capitol/

* "Pro-Trump navy vet 'threatened to hang' congresspeople in homophobic voicemails:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/15/ryder-winegar-navy-veteran-arrested-voicemails-trump-hang/

* "Army falsely denied Flynn’s brother was involved in key part of military response to Capitol riot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/flynn-national-guard-call-riot/2021/01/20/7f4f41ba-5b4c-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

* "Meeting on military response to Trump riot included Mike Flynn's brother:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wapo-meeting-on-military-response-to-trump-riot-included-mike-flynn-s-brother-99773509543

* "Senate Democrats file ethics complaint against Hawley, Cruz over election challenge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/senate-democrats-file-ethics-complaint-against-hawley-cruz-over-election-challenge-461190

* "Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland sets off metal detector while carrying gun near House chamber:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/andy-harris-gun/2021/01/21/81c7ba90-5c63-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html

* "QAnon adherents discussed posing as National Guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to FBI intelligence briefing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-warning-inauguration-qanon/2021/01/18/293284b6-59c8-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html

* "12 Army National Guard members removed from inauguration duty:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/19/politics/national-guard-removed-inauguration-duty/index.html

* "‘A Total Failure’: The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/proud-boys-trump.html

* This reminds me so much of the collapse of sherlock fandom. "‘I’m About to Puke’: QAnon in Chaos as Biden Takes Office:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-about-to-puke-qanon-in-chaos-as-biden-takes-office?ref=home

* "Compartment Four:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1789184.html

* How much do Republicans hate America? They resisted turning over necessity National Security information to the Biden campaignme because their petty vendetta was more important than keeping us safe. "‘Really quite shocking’: Inside the ugly transition at the Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-pentagon-transition-460768

* "'This Is America's Day': Biden's Inaugural Address, Annotated:" https://www.npr.org/2021/01/20/956922884/bidens-inaugural-address-annotated

* "Biden pledges, once more, to lead America away from dystopia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-inauguration-america-dystopia-460840

* This was stunning. "National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recites poem at Biden inauguration:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/national-youth-poet-laureate-amanda-gorman-recites-poem-at-biden-inauguration-99736133527

* "TV audience for Biden inauguration tops Trump's viewership four years earlier:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-inauguration-tv-ratings/tv-audience-for-biden-inauguration-tops-trumps-viewership-four-years-earlier-idUSKBN29Q30E

* "Mary Trump thinks Biden's inauguration was 'the worst day' of her uncle Donald's life:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/mary-trump-donald-niece-biden-inauguration/

* "Jelani Cobb - Cautious Optimism in a Post-Trump America :" https://www.cc.com/video/pl748b/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jelani-cobb-cautious-optimism-in-a-post-trump-america

* "Biden signs executive order invoking 2-year lobbying ban for appointees:" https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/535176-biden-signs-executive-order-invoking-2-year-lobbying-ban-for-appointees

* "Biden's plan to outdo Obama, undo Trump's immigration legacy has begun:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-ready-immigration-bill-inauguration-460585

* "Biden Administration Prepares To Overturn Trump Abortion Rule:" https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/21/959170860/biden-administration-prepares-to-overturn-trump-abortion-rule

* "Biden plans executive action blitz for Day One:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/joe-biden-executive-action-blitz-day-one-460587

* "The White House website now asks people to choose their pronouns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/20/white-house-website-contact-form-pronouns-trans-joe-biden/

* "On Day One, Biden Issues Order Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/20/day-one-biden-issues-order-against-anti-lgbtq-discrimination

* "'Heading in the right direction': Senator Warren enthusiastic about new Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-heading-in-the-right-direction-senator-warren-enthusiastic-about-new-biden-agenda-99767365537

* "Sen. Booker on changes to the Senate: ‘It is a new day in Washington’:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/sen-booker-on-changes-to-the-senate-it-is-a-new-day-in-washington-99743301858

* "Hate group founder says kids will be doomed 'to hell' by Biden's 'LGBT+ propaganda':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/james-dobson-focus-family-research-council-joe-biden-radical-left-hell/

* "Biden will 'advance moral evils' in 'marriage and gender', claims snowflake bishop:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/joe-biden-bishop-jose-h-gomez-marriage-gender-catholic-church-lgbt-rights/

* "Trump admin governing incompetence leaves low hanging fruit for Biden team:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-governing-incompetence-leaves-low-hanging-fruit-for-biden-team-99849285952

* "Yamiche Alcindor: We’ll ask tough questions, but the White House won’t ‘make up alternative facts’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/yamiche-alcindor-we-ll-ask-tough-questions-but-the-white-house-won-t-make-up-alternative-facts-99821637776

* "Republicans take on Biden's Cabinet, but without the Trumpian fury:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/republicans-take-on-bidens-cabinet-but-without-the-trumpian-fury-460482

* "Sen. Hawley moves to block swift confirmation for Biden’s homeland security pick:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alejandro-mayorkas-confirmation-hearing-josh-hawley/2021/01/19/d11971d2-5a7f-11eb-aaad-93988621dd28_story.html

* "Senate confirms Biden’s pick for national intelligence director:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/senate-biden-intelligence-inauguration-460834

* "Senate clears Austin waiver, setting up confirmation vote to be Biden's Pentagon chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/austin-waiver-approved-senate-461082

* "Joe Biden’s secretary of defence pick gives full-throated support for trans troops serving in military:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/lloyd-austin-trans-transgender-secretary-defense/

* "Everything you need to know about Joe Biden's defiant, kaleidoscopic cabinet picks:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/joe-biden-cabinet-picks-lgbt-administration-members/

* "Buttigieg Thanks Husband, Talks Policy in Senate Confirmation Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/21/buttigieg-thanks-husband-talks-policy-senate-confirmation-hearing

* "Biden to keep Wray on as FBI director:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/biden-wray-fbi-director-461064

* "Last-minute Trump appointee at NSA put on administrative leave due to inspector general probe:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/michael-ellis-administrative-leave/index.html

* "Defined By Scandal At Voice of America, CEO Resigns At Biden's Request:" https://www.npr.org/sections/inauguration-day-live-updates/2021/01/20/958875488/voice-of-america-ceo-pack-defined-by-scandal-resigns-at-bidens-request

* "Consumer bureau director resigns after Biden's inauguration:" https://thehill.com/policy/finance/535053-consumer-bureau-director-resigns-after-bidens-inauguration

* "Biden fires Trump-appointed labor board general counsel and deputy who refused to resign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/20/biden-fires-nlrb-peter-robb/

* "Biden removes controversial Trump appointees from key posts:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-removes-controversial-trump-appointees-from-key-posts-99825733953

* "Sec. State Pompeo: Multiculturalism Distorts Glorious Founding of U.S.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/19/sec-state-pompeo-multiculturalism-distorts-glorious-founding-us

* "A big chunk of Trump’s 1776 report appears lifted from an author’s prior work:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/trump-1776-report-plagiarism-460464

* ...And it's gone! Yay! "Biden revokes Trump report promoting 'patriotic education':" https://apnews.com/article/biden-revoke-trump-patriotic-education-259b9302ab24bac55fa14676a1a9d11e

* "Trump revokes rule preventing White House staff from lobbying:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/trump-revokes-rule-lobbying-by-white-house-staff-460608

* "Trump Administration Issues Last-Minute Arctic Refuge Drilling Leases:" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-01-19/trump-administration-issues-arctic-refuge-drilling-leases-on-last-day-in-office

* "Federal court strikes down major Trump climate rollback:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/federal-court-strikes-major-trump-climate-rollback-75344898

* "Biden Will Lead an Older, Polarized and Financially Insecure Nation:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-inherits-an-older-polarized-and-financially-insecure-nation-11611153710

* "U.S. jobless claims decline to a still-high 900,000:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/jobless-claims-decline-january-461044

* "Democrats rebuff McConnell’s filibuster demands:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/democrats-mcconnell-filibuster-460967

* "Hayes: Senate Dems have a choice—accept ‘unity’ or use their power to improve America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-senate-dems-have-a-choice-accept-unity-or-use-their-power-to-improve-america-99831877755

* Extended Pelosi Interview starts here: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/pelosi-s-message-to-trump-concede-the-election-and-call-off-the-terrorists-you-have-unleashed-99707461820

* "Warnock sees 'continuity of service' in new role as senator:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/warnock-sees-continuity-of-service-in-new-role-as-senator-99770437677

* "DNC Chair Jaime Harrison: We’re going to invest in a 50 state strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dnc-chair-jaime-harrison-we-re-going-to-invest-in-a-50-state-strategy-99831877642

* "Stacey Abrams - Keeping the Momentum in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/vm2doj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-keeping-the-momentum-in-georgia

* "Trump administration trying to sabotage Biden immigration plans with last-minute deals, say officials:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1254733

* "The Black Panthers still in prison: after 46 years, will they ever be set free?:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/30/black-panthers-prison-interviews-african-american-activism

* "Women film themselves running through hospital screaming ‘f**k the NHS’ and ‘hurling homophobic abuse’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/royal-liverpool-hospital-homophobic-abuse-facebook-vide-arrest/

* "Thousands protest women-only pool's 'breathtakingly offensive' ban on trans women:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/mcivers-ladies-baths-protest-transphobic-trans-women-ban-swim-in/

* "Court rules trans teen can start puberty blockers without the consent of her ‘threatening and demeaning’ father:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/17/puberty-blockers-supreme-court-queensland-trans-teen-mother-father-consent/

* "Trans refugee cruelly forced into homelessness after years of abuse from neighbour:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/transphobic-hate-crime-trans-refugee-homeless-police-haringey-council/

* "Romania found guilty in European Court of Human Rights for refusing to recognise trans men without surgery:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/romania-european-court-human-rights-guilty-refuse-recognise-trans-men-identity-surgery/

* "UK’s only gender clinic for children rated ‘inadequate’ due to damning two-year wait for appointments:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/20/tavistock-portman-nhs-trust-gender-clinic-gids-care-quality-commission/

* "Butch lesbian confronted ‘tens of times’ in public toilets as anti-trans hostility spills over:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/public-toilets-trans-bathroom-butch-lesbian-harassed-gender-critical-feminists/

* "Vile Lithuanian MEP expelled after calling LGBT+ people 'perverts':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/21/viktor-uspaskich-lithuanian-mep-expelled-renew-europe-lgbt-perverts/

* "Republicans have launched at least 10 attacks on trans rights in just three weeks:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/18/republicans-anti-trans-transgender-bills-laws-2021/

* "Montana Pushes Anti-Trans Bills, Sets Up Battle With Biden Admin:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/1/21/montana-pushes-anti-trans-bills-sets-battle-biden-admin

* "Stonewall Vet Miss Major and Her Partner Are Now Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/1/15/stonewall-vet-miss-major-and-her-partner-are-now-parents

* "North Dakota Rejects Changes to HIV Law, Missouri Considers Them:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/2021/1/15/north-dakota-rejects-changes-hiv-law-missouri-considers-them

* "Judge gives preliminary OK to $641 million Flint water crisis settlement:" https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2021/01/judge-gives-preliminary-ok-to-641-million-flint-water-crisis-settlement.html

* "Freeze expected on heels of flooding damage from Storm Christoph:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/21/north-west-england-and-wales-badly-hit-by-floods-from-storm-christoph

* "Pablo Escobar's hippos have invaded Colombia's waterways and need to be culled, study says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/animal-news/pablo-escobar-s-hippos-have-invaded-colombia-s-waterways-need-n1254791

* It's a from a few years ago, but still very relevant. "Artist creates "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK:" https://www.mic.com/articles/165598/artist-creates-letters-from-birmingham-jail-memes-to-stop-people-from-whitewashing-mlk?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=movement&utm_campaign=social

* Damn. "Mira Furlan, ‘Babylon 5’ and ‘Lost’ Actress, Dies at 65:" https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mira-furlan-dead-babylon-5-lost-1234890117/

* "Ken Jones, Pioneering Black Gay Activist, Dies at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/1/15/ken-jones-pioneering-black-gay-activist-dies-70

* "Do ‘elder Goths’ hold the secret to aging successfully?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/do-elder-goths-hold-the-secret-to-aging-successfully/2021/01/11/a565b2de-3b04-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html

* "Gwyneth Paltrow candle explodes causing vagina-scented ‘inferno’ in woman’s living room:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/19/gwyneth-paltrow-vagina-candle-explodes/

* I actually read it as a valid turn of the century interp in the theater so it didn't bother me at the time the way it did other people. I am in agreement with this assessment. Not perfect, but often good. "How Historically Accurate are the Costumes in Pride & Prejudice 2005? | A Fashion History Analysis:"

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* "Are "Emma." (2020) Costumes Historically Accurate? aka What Makes Good Period Drama Costumes:"

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* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Inauguration Day :" https://www.cc.com/video/bahsw3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-inauguration-day

* "President Biden's First Executive Orders:" https://www.cc.com/video/qbk6bu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-president-biden-s-first-executive-orders

* "Biden Clears a Low Bar & Ex-Presidents Team Up Without Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/cx6xk4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-biden-clears-a-low-bar-ex-presidents-team-up-without-trump

* "Democrats: They (Can Finally) Get The Job Done!:"

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* "President Biden's Joyful Inauguration Day Felt Like A Return To Normalcy:"

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* "Officially In Charge, President Biden Begins Dismantling His Predecessor's Legacy:"

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* "Shea Diamond - "I Am America":"

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* "Avi Kaplan - Change on the Rise (Official Music Video):"

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* "Rhiannon Giddens - "Cry No More":"

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* My body was emphatically not doing well Tuesday. I did prep, but had to go back to bed. Wednesday was a bit better, but I am drowning in news, and am still having trouble. We are adjusting my nausea meds temporarily in hopes of getting things more under control so I can go back to taking all my non-narcotic arthritis meds and still function. We'll see. Odds are the car will be back tomorrow if it's the cheaper repair, likely not until next week if it's the more expensive.

In other news, the emperor’s recent sexual awakening is extremely trying for the Empress and myself. Yes they are both fixed. I’ve started going over to lift him off every time she yells. By today, I generally don’t get over there before he stops, but it’s still a lot of up and down when I’m trying to work. I wish he’d use a stuffed animal like a sensible animal and let Livia nap. all she wants is a little quiet togetherness, poor thing.

* The Midnight Society At the Ackermansion: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1350882319779827714

* The Midnight Society At the Ackermansion II: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1351603111245148160

* The Midnight Society At the Ackermansion III: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1351251933881794560

* Time has done beautiful things to Wilson Cruz.

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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.

* I can't swear to these, but they fit with everything I've heard. "HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/639454183045644288/fighting-covid-when-kept-home

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* "Shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be 'tip of the iceberg':" https://apnews.com/article/sudan-ethiopia-massacres-d16a089f8dcb0511172b5662b9244f78

* "Croatia hit by 6.4 magnitude earthquake, leaving at least 7 dead:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/29/europe/croatia-earthquake-6-3-magnitude-petrinja-intl/index.html

* CW: Torture. "Torture and discrimination: How police brutality became endemic in India:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/india/police-brutality-india-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

* "The search for the disappeared points to Mexico’s darkest secrets:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mexico-losing-control/mexico-disappeared-drug-war/?itid=sf_world

* "Wuhan Covid citizen journalist jailed for four years in China's Christmas crackdown:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/28/wuhan-citizen-journalist-jailed-for-four-years-in-chinas-christmas-crackdown

* "Hong Kong democracy activists caught at sea go on trial in China:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55463512

* "India farmers agree to meet gov’t over new laws they want revoked:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/26/india-farmers-agree-to-meet-govt-over-new-laws-they-want-revoked

* "Saudi Activist Who Urged Women's Driving Rights Gets Nearly 6-Year Prison Term:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950765197/saudi-activist-who-urged-womens-driving-rights-gets-nearly-6-year-prison-term

* "Boris Johnson’s last-minute Brexit deal includes a new scheme named after gay war hero Alan Turing:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/24/boris-johnson-brexit-deal-alan-turing-erasmus-exchange-scheme-enigma-war-hero/

* "Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths:" https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-children-0e2a17d63163d8558d203b2824a844fe

* "Ethiopia's war risks leaving manufacturing dreams in tatters:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-manufacturing-insig/ethiopias-war-risks-leaving-manufacturing-dreams-in-tatters-idUSKBN28J0EI

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* "Fears of a ‘Twindemic’ Recede as Flu Lies Low:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/health/flu-coronavirus-twindemic.html

* "Pandemic expert: ‘We have no idea’ how long new COVID-19 vaccines offer protection:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/covid-19-vaccines-length-of-protection-is-unknown-pandemic-expert-says-98450501977

* "New Covid variant linked to higher viral load in the blood:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/30/new-covid-variant-linked-to-higher-viral-load-in-the-blood

* "Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine approved by UK regulator :" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/30/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-approved-by-uk-regulator-.html

* "Scientists call for full lockdown in England as new Covid cases multiply:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/scientists-warn-tier-4-not-enough-to-control-covid-in-england

* "Covid: South Africa's Ramaphosa announces new restrictions as cases soar:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55468104

* "Nurse under investigation after having gay sex with COVID-19 patient in hospital toilet, leaving PPE scattered on the floor:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/28/covid-19-gay-sex-nurse-investigation-wisma-atlet-emergency-hospital-jakarta-indonesia/

* "Czech Republic Starts Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-12-27/czech-republic-starts-rollout-of-coronavirus-vaccine

* "Coronavirus: German daily death toll surpasses 1,000 for 1st time:" https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-german-daily-death-toll-surpasses-1000-for-1st-time/a-56090689

* "Germany alarmed by threat posed by coronavirus deniers:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-idUSKBN2921P7

* "The Latest: South Korea sees surge in coronavirus cases:" https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/25/the-latest-south-korea-sees-surge-in-coronavirus-cases/

* "The Latest: France confirms case of new virus variant:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/latest-us-requires-uk-passengers-negative-test-74905561

* "COVID: In Italy, the second wave is now as deadly as the first:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/25/why-is-italy-going-thought-a-deadly-wave-again

* "Coronavirus: Spain to keep register of those who refuse Covid vaccine:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55471282

* "Covid-19 Cases Jump to 1,047 in Greece on Tuesday Covid-19 Cases Jump to 1,047 in Greece on Tuesday:" https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/12/29/covid-19-cases-jump-to-1047-in-greece-on-tuesday/

* "1st reported US case of COVID-19 variant found in Colorado:" https://apnews.com/article/public-health-united-kingdom-jared-polis-coronavirus-pandemic-denver-755cd6f5e9189b1890f34f625d6a37f8

* "Biden team preps to accelerate pace of coronavirus vaccinations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-team-preps-to-accelerate-pace-of-coronavirus-vaccinations-98582597549

* "Trump admin. fails to keep Trump's promises on Covid-19 vaccine distribution timing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-fails-to-keep-trump-s-promises-on-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-timing-98513989890

* "Shortcomings of U.S. public health infrastructure seen in mishandling of Covid, vaccine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shortcomings-of-u-s-public-health-infrastructure-seen-in-mishandling-of-covid-vaccine-98515013855

* "Jason Johnson: 'This snail's pace of a rollout is, put simply, a mess':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jason-johnson-this-snail-s-pace-of-a-rollout-is-put-simply-a-mess-98569285751

* "Stay-at-home order for much of California extended amid COVID-19 overload at hospitals:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/california-breaks-single-day-record-coronavirus-cases-66811

* L.A. County hospitals turn away ambulances, put patients in gift shop":" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/l-a-county-hospitals-at-the-breaking-point-turn-away-ambulances

* "Pasadena hospital to use panel to ration care if COVID-19 situation worsens:" https://www.thebharatexpressnews.com/pasadena-hospital-to-use-panel-to-ration-care-if-covid-19-situation-worsens/

* "Rampant Covid-19 crushing L.A. County hospital resources:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rampant-covid-19-crushing-l-a-county-hospital-resources-98583109894

* "California Not Tracking LGBTQ+ Pandemic Data Despite Promise:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2020/12/11/california-not-tracking-lgbtq-pandemic-data-despite-promise

* "COVID-19 in South Dakota: 427 new total cases; Death toll remains at 1,446; Active cases at 6,695:" https://www.keloland.com/news/healthbeat/coronavirus/covid-19-in-south-dakota-427-new-total-cases-death-toll-remains-at-1446-active-cases-at-6695/

* "Florida governor's aide criticized over COVID-19 tweet:" https://www.wesh.com/article/desantis-aide-covid-19-tweet/35074735

* "Oxygen supply shortages bedevil hospitals already overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-29/oxygen-supply-shortages-bedevil-hospitals-already-overwhelmed-by-covid-19-patients

* "Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care?:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/21/946292119/oregon-hospitals-didnt-have-shortages-so-why-were-disabled-people-denied-care

* "As prison infections and death rates soar, inmate treatment during pandemic scrutinized:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/covid-19-death-and-infection-rates-in-prisons-spark-calls-to-improve-inmate-conditions-98421317802

* Think it will be Masque of the Red Death themed? "Trump to host New Year's Eve gala at Mar-a-Lago amid COVID pandemic. What we know:" https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2020/12/28/trump-new-years-eve-2020-celebrities-mar-lago-covid-pandemic/4058886001/

* "Tyson fires 7 at Iowa pork plant after COVID betting inquiry:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/tyson-facing-lawsuit-employee-covid-19-death-74762451

* "Massachusetts GOP leader says he likely got covid-19 at a White House Hanukkah party: ‘I’m paying the price’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/29/tom-mountain-white-house-party-covid/

* "Covid-19 regrets follow one state Republican official home from White House party:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-19-regrets-follow-one-state-republican-official-home-from-white-house-party-98583109609

* "Cuomo Threatens $1 Million Fine And License Revocation For COVID Vaccine Fraudsters:" https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-threatens-1-million-fine-and-license-revocation-covid-vaccine-fraudsters

* What has he ever done to deserve to skip the queue ahead of nursing home residents and staff? ":" https://people.com/politics/marco-rubio-slammed-for-dishing-dr-fauci-criticism-after-receiving-a-covid-19-vaccine-himself/

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* "Peter Humphrey was once locked up in China. Now he advises other prisoners and their families how to take on Beijing:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/asia/peter-humphrey-china-prisoners-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Gohmert suit may force Pence's hand in effort to overturn Trump's defeat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/gohmert-suit-pence-overturn-trumps-defeat-451485

* "Until Biden’s win is certified, the U.S. remains vulnerable:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/26/until-bidens-win-is-certified-us-remains-vulnerable/

* "Absurdity no obstacle to Republican effort to save Trump from democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/absurdity-no-obstacle-to-republican-effort-to-save-trump-from-democracy-98513989904

* "Neal Katyal: 'Trump is still living in a fantasy world':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-trump-is-still-living-in-a-fantasy-world-98576965839

* "Trump performing well among people charged with voter fraud in Pennsylvania:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-performing-well-among-people-charged-with-voter-fraud-in-pennsylvania-98513477893

* Extended Interview with the Bidens:

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* "Biden to tap former Michigan Gov. Granholm to lead Energy Department:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/15/biden-to-tap-former-michigan-gov-granholm-to-lead-energy-department-445782

* "Fired Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones named Forbes ‘Technology Person of the Year’:" https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/fired-florida-data-scientist-rebekah-jones-named-forbes-technology-person-of-the-year/

* "Antigay Counselor Marcus Bachmann Gets Presidential Appointment:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/12/24/antigay-counselor-marcus-bachmann-gets-presidential-appointment

* "Donald Trump signs Covid-19 relief and spending bill:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/28/donald-trump-signs-covid-19-relief-and-spending-bill

* "‘Marie Antoinette has nothing on this guy:’ Trump’s ‘cruel’ delay in signing relief bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-marie-antoinette-has-nothing-on-this-guy-trump-s-cruel-delay-in-signing-relief-bill-98509893939

* "House passes measure to increase stimulus checks to $2,000:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/28/politics/house-vote-direct-payments-2000/index.html

* "House approves bill to up Covid relief checks to $2,000:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/house-approves-bill-to-up-covid-relief-checks-to-2-000-98506309984

* ...And McConnell's blocking it. "McConnell Blocks Vote on $2,000 Checks Despite G.O.P. Pressure:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/us/politics/mcconnell-blocks-stimulus-check-vote.html

* "Mehdi: Wealthy GOP senators don’t need $2,000—so they think you don’t either:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-wealthy-gop-senators-don-t-need-2-000-so-they-think-you-don-t-either-98566725902

* "House overrides Trump veto on $740B defense spending bill:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/house-overrides-trump-veto-740b-defense-spending-bill/BQ4DT6FI2ZFFVHL2L2HDWUJANA/

* "Bernie Sanders to delay defense veto override in bid for $2,000 checks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/bernie-sanders-filibuster-delay-defense-veto-override-451697

* "NYC Food Delivery Workers Band to Demand Better Treatment. Will New York Listen to Los Deliveristas Unidos?:" https://www.thecity.nyc/work/2020/12/6/22157730/nyc-food-delivery-workers-demand-better-treatment

* "Stacey Abrams: 'November demonstrated that democratic values ... can win in our state':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/stacey-abrams-november-demonstrated-that-democratic-values-can-win-in-our-state-98567749990

* "Hate preacher Franklin Graham calls on ‘God’s army’ to stop Democrats from passing LGBT+ rights law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/29/franklin-graham-gods-army-lgbt-rights-equality-act-democrats-georgia-elections/

* Georgians! Go Vote Now!

* "Behind Washington’s one-eighty on Facebook: A rethink of monopoly power:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/13/facebook-antitrust-flip-flop-444652

* "Lesbian police officer celebrated as a hero for saving lives after Christmas Day suicide bombing:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/28/lesbian-police-officer-nashville-christmas-bombing-explosion-amanda-topping/

* "Ayman Mohyeldin: 'That is a quintessential form of a terrorist act':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ayman-mohyeldin-that-is-a-quintessential-form-of-a-terrorist-act-98510917936

* "Anthony Quinn Warner identified as Nashville bomber:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/27/us/nashville-explosion-what-we-know/index.html

* "2020 Exposed the Myth of American “Security”:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/security-state-police-military-ice-homeland-security-covid-pandemic-war-prison

* "Jose Antonio Vargas Opens Up About Being Undocumented and Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/5/29/pulitzer-winner-jose-antonio-vargas-still-wrestles-being-gay

* "Columbus, Ohio, Officer Who Shot And Killed Andre Hill Is Fired:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950976148/columbus-ohio-officer-who-shot-and-killed-andre-hill-is-fired

* "Cops Could Use First Aid to Save Lives. Many Never Try.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/12/15/cops-could-use-first-aid-to-save-lives-many-never-try

* "The state of the Black Lives Matter movement, and its future, analyzed by experts:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/black-lives-matter-gaining-mainstream-acceptance-in-2020-analyzed-by-experts-98421317855

* "How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sara-mayeux-free-justice-public-defenders/

* "A Corrections Officer Trainee Says He Was Fired for Wearing a Black Lives Matter Shirt:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ada39/a-corrections-officer-trainee-says-he-was-fired-for-wearing-a-black-lives-matter-shirt

* "Inside Trump and Barr’s Last-Minute Killing Spree:" https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-and-barrs-last-minute-killing-spree

* CW: Rape, Torture. This one’s a particularly bad one. "Man arrested after gang tortures, beats and rapes a trans woman as she pleaded them through tears to stop:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/26/trans-woman-tortured-gang-raped-chunian-pakistan-sohana-geo-news/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Veterans groups demand VA Secretary Wilkie resign after scathing report that he tried to discredit assault victim:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/veterans-wilkie-resign/2020/12/12/97f9cb80-3c76-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html

* "Bolivia recognises same-sex union in historic first after gay couple took their battle for recognition to the courts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/13/bolivia-david-aruquipa-guido-montana-same-sex-civil-union-civil-registry-constitutional-court/

* "Plane forced to land early after woman became so homophobic the pilot feared passengers were in danger:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/29/gemma-campbell-homophobic-flight-jet2-manchester-cork-fuertaventura-canary-islands/

* "Gay MP says 'under no circumstances' should 'abusive and sinister' LGB Alliance be granted charitable status:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/28/lgb-alliance-john-nicolson-charity-commission-abusive-transphobic-gay-snp-mp/

* "Equalities minister Liz Truss pits minorities against the ‘white working class’ in concerning rant littered with dogwhistles:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/27/liz-truss-conservative-minority-woke-identity-politics-working-class-poverty-lgbt-daily-mail/

* "LGB Alliance hit with blistering backlash yet again after confronting brave Eddie Izzard over her pronouns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/29/eddie-izzard-pronouns-she-her-lgb-alliance-anti-trans-lobby-charlotte-nichols/

* "Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price defends voting against rights for lesbians while also policing who can be a lesbian:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/29/jackie-doyle-price-tory-mp-charlotte-nichols-same-sex-marriage-lesbian-eddie-izzard/

* "BBC media editor applauds JK Rowling’s ‘bravery’ and names error-strewn transgender essay one of the best reads of the year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/21/bbc-media-editor-amol-rajan-jk-rowling-bravery-transgender-essay-transphobia/

* "This trans woman was kicked out of a clothing store after making shoppers ‘uncomfortable’. Now she’s fighting back:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/27/colton-stankowski-transgender-calgary-canada-clothing-store/

* "Gay Black man stabbed and left in coma for four days is ‘hopeless’ knowing attackers are still walking free:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/28/gay-black-man-stabbed-coma-boston-massachusetts-anthony-crumbley/

* "Defiant ex-Mormon hangs 10,000 rainbow Christmas lights in protest against homophobic neighbours:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/25/woman-10000-rainbow-christmas-lights-protest-homophobic/

* "Hateful Russian bishop thinks Joe Biden ‘should be imprisoned’ for supporting transgender children:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/29/russia-bishop-hilarion-alfeyev-joe-biden-transgender-children-rights-orthodox-church/

* "Transgender woman shot dead on Christmas Day in suspected hate crime. She was misgendered by police in her death:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/29/courtney-eshay-key-chicago-transgender-woman-death-misgendered-police/

* "Long-Acting HIV Regimen Approved in Europe:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2020/12/21/long-acting-hiv-regimen-approved-europe

* "How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture:" https://hyperallergic.com/604897/how-scientists-use-and-abuse-portraiture/

* "The Indoorification of Outdoor Dining:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-27/outdoor-dining-looks-a-lot-like-indoor-dining

* "'We Are Shipping To The U.S.': Inside China's Online Synthetic Drug Networks:" https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/916890880/we-are-shipping-to-the-u-s-china-s-fentanyl-sellers-find-new-routes-to-drug-user

* "NYC's Struggling Street Vendors Confront Their Worst-Ever Crisis:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/nyc-street-vendors-fight-for-survival

* "To Make a Building Healthier, Stop Sanitizing Everything:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-16/covid-pandemic-microbiomes-could-be-key-to-stopping-spread-of-future-viruses

* "'Flexing their power': how America's richest zip code stays exclusive:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/06/atherton-california-wealthy-zip-code-zoning

* "I tried the world's first no-kill, lab-grown chicken burger:" https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/dec/04/no-kill-lab-grown-chicken-burger-restaurant-israel

Look, I’m a vegetarian, but I absolutely support sustainable cruelty free meat, assuming this is what they are saying it is.

Not everyone can be vegetarian for a variety of reasons and there will always be a lot of people wanting to eat meat. I’m all for more planet friendly cruelty free options if they can be found.

* "The Caribbean islands poisoned by a carcinogenic pesticide:" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54992051

* "What Happens to the Farm-to-Table Restaurant When Climate Change Sets the Farm On Fire?:" https://www.eater.com/22187508/single-thread-sonoma-county-climate-change-2020-california-wildfires

* "How Famous Surfers and Wealthy Homeowners Are Endangering Hawaii’s Beaches:" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-famous-surfers-and-wealthy-homeowners-are-endangering-hawaiis-beaches

* "They’re Among the World’s Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them.:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/09/climate/redwood-sequoia-tree-fire.html

* "Louisiana chemical facilities are ‘ticking time bombs’ during hurricanes. Residents are left in the dark about the risks.:" https://southerlymag.org/2020/12/07/louisiana-chemical-facilities-are-ticking-time-bombs-during-hurricanes-residents-are-left-in-the-dark-about-the-risks/

* "The curse of 'white oil': electric vehicles' dirty secret:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/08/the-curse-of-white-oil-electric-vehicles-dirty-secret-lithium

* "Ancient Roman ‘homophobic graffiti’ found in unearthed Pompeii snack bar: ‘Nicia cinaede cacator’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/28/pompeii-homophobic-graffiti-ancient-rome-gay-catamite-thermopolium-italy/

* "The Mystery of Harriet Tubman's Family Cabin:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/harriet-tubman-cabin

* "Why Do So Many Places In Texas Have 'Negro' In Their Name, Despite A Law Against It?:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945040041/why-do-so-many-places-in-texas-have-negro-in-their-name-despite-a-law-against-it

* "Southern schools' history textbooks: A long history of deception, and what the future holds:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2020/12/07/southern-history-textbooks-long-history-deception/3809954001/

* "Kansas City paper apologizes to local Black community for reinforcing Jim Crow:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/kansas-city-star-apologizes-to-local-black-community-for-its-part-in-systemic-racism-98449477957

* "This secret lesbian couple organised the first-ever White House meeting on LGBT+ rights, changing the path of equality forever:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/25/secret-lesbian-couple-historic-meeting-the-white-house/

* "'Singing and dancing to their deaths': football’s forgotten tragedy:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/03/rangers-football-forgotten-tragedy-ibrox-stadium-disaster-glasgow

* "The hidden story of African-Irish children:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55145873

* "She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One by One:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html

* "Pierre Cardin, Revolutionary French Fashion Designer, Dies at 98:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/12/29/pierre-cardin-revolutionary-french-fashion-designer-dies-98

* "Spy Novelist John Le Carré Dies At 89:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/13/946105256/spy-chronicler-john-le-carre-dies-at-89

* "Remembering the indefatigable gay rights activist who fought for 40 years to marry the man he loved:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/18/anthony-sullivan-gay-rights-activist-marriage-australia-death-tribute-richard-adams/

* "Notorious Club Kid killer Michael Alig, once played by Macaulay Culkin, dies of ‘heroin overdose’ on Christmas morning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/26/michael-alig-club-kid-killer-dies-christmas-new-york-city-macaulay-culkin/

* "The Man Who Was Dying to Be an Actor:" http://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-was-dying-to-be-an-actor/

* "The Ballad of Ron and Dorinda:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34773551/prison-break-lovebirds/

* "Jogger claims kangaroo attacked her in a violent rage because she was wearing Sarah Jessica Parker perfume:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/04/sarah-jessica-parker-perfume-kangaroo-attack-melbourne-australia/

* "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Part 1: Crash Course Literature 302:"

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* "The Raft, the River, and The Weird Ending of Huckleberry Finn: Crash Course Literature 303:"

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* CW: Rape. "Marvel's Jessica Jones: Consent & Toxic Masculinity:"

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* "Ranking 2020 Costume Dramas on Historical Accuracy:"

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* "Inflatable You by Tim Minchin:"

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* I adore this "Welcome Mari Lwyd:' https://skinnywhitechick.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-mari-lwyd-winter-wish-demo-version

* "Sunday Sweets: Jen's Happy Cakes:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/27/sunday-sweets-jens-happy-cakes

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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.

* "8 Overlooked LGBTQ Groups to Donate to for Giving Tuesday:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/02/8-overlooked-lgbtq-groups-donate-giving-tuesday

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