Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

* "Yemen's humanitarian crisis near breaking point:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51445539

* 45 is likely going to veto it. "Senate passes resolution to limit Trump’s power to order military action against Iran:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-passes-resolution-limiting-trump-against-iran-in-bipartisan-vote/2020/02/13/d2f7429c-4e8f-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html

* "House Democrats ask Secret Service for details about its payments to Trump’s company:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-ask-secret-service-for-details-about-its-payments-to-trumps-company/2020/02/12/33b4a13e-4db3-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html

* "Barr Says Attacks From Trump Make Work ‘Impossible’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/william-barr-trump.html

* "Trump attacks federal judge, prosecutors in Twitter tirade defending Roger Stone:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/12/trump-stone-judge/

* "Attorney General William Barr to testify before House Judiciary Committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/12/attorney-general-william-barr-to-testify-before-house-judiciary-committee-114601

* "Judge denies Stone's request for a new trial:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/politics/judge-denies-roger-stone-request-new-trial/index.html

* "All 4 federal prosecutors quit Stone case after DOJ overrules prosecutors on sentencing request:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/roger-stone-sentencing-justice-department/index.html

* "Experts warn democracies facing autocracy: Protect your institutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/experts-warn-democracies-facing-autocracy-protect-your-institutions-78656581780

* I am really not enjoying living through the Series finale of American Democracy.

* "Jessie Liu resigns from Treasury after pulled nomination:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/politics/jessie-liu-trump-administration/

* "Trump says military may consider disciplinary action against Vindman:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/11/trump-military-disciplinary-action-vindman-114161

* "John Kelly Finally Lets Loose on Trump:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/john-kelly-alexander-vindman-north-korea-and-trump/606496/

* "With the rule of law failing under Trump, just diagnosing the problem isn't enough.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-the-rule-of-law-failing-under-trump-just-diagnosing-the-problem-isn-t-enough-78691397989

* "Want to stand up for freedom? Be unpredictable.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/want-to-stand-up-for-freedom-be-unpredictable-78726213907

* Extended Amy Klobacher Interview:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-open-to-brokered-convention-possibility-emphasizes-unity-78658117548

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-confident-her-record-will-win-black-and-latino-voters-78657605592

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/klobuchar-american-voters-see-2020-as-decency-check-on-trump-78656581813

* TW: Pedophilia. "Rush Limbaugh, who was just awarded the Medal of Freedom, claims Pete Buttigieg kissing his husband is a ‘problem’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/12/rush-limbaugh-medal-freedom-donald-trump-lgbt-gay-pete-buttigieg-chasten-kiss/

* "Rush Limbaugh can’t stop talking about Pete Buttigieg kissing his husband:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/13/rush-limbaugh-pete-buttigieg-kissing-husband-donald-trump/

* "Trump Plans to Use National Guard Budget for Border Fencing:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-plans-to-use-national-guard-budget-for-border-fencing

* Don't hold your breath. Mitch McConnell is going to block the senate vote. "House passes bill to revive Equal Rights Amendment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/house-passes-bill-to-revive-equal-rights-amendment-114865

* "Supporters of man charged with murder of Lyra McKee clash with police outside courthouse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/13/lyra-mckee-murder-protesters-police-hearing-paul-mcintyre-ira-londonderry-northern-ireland/

* TW: Pedophilia. "Former judge Roy Moore throws Ten Commandments party, accuses LGBT ‘movement’ of attacking religion:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/13/roy-moore-judge-ten-commandments-party-lgbt-movement-religious-freedom-alabama-senator-supreme-court/

* "Burger King worker files discrimination complaint against manager who ‘harassed’ her because she’s a lesbian:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/13/burger-king-lesbian-human-rights-complaint-manager-harassment/

* This is beautiful. "How mattresses could solve hunger:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-51466978/how-mattresses-could-solve-hunger

* Wednesday: I came out to get ready for forage and found Elder Kitty had had a wee blerp where I need to sit to do shoes. I thought, I could fold this back to sit and recover it before I leave, but decided, as I was only going for a couple of hours, it was likely worth the gamble, and the wash cycle on cold and delicate take ages, especially with presoak. Bwahahahaha! No. She'd done an identical blerp in the same spot while I was gone. Which was about to turn into a saga.

My foot was doing a lot better and the tape had to come of because bah, so I left it of for the night with the intention of taping it up for forage before I left. Bwahahaha! No. I'd gimped most of he way to the car by the time I remembered and I had he suspicion if I sat down, took coat, shoes and socks off, futzed with the foot etc., I'd lose momentum.

Ah! I thought. A short line, I thought. Good for my foot. Bwahahaha! No. They had rearranged forage so most of the wait had no option to sit, but it was al hidden inside. I was as efficient as possible, but it was already bad by the time I was done.

While in line, I realized my reading material had gone awol. I figured out it was probably at he lab from the blood work. So I spent about twenty minutes there between waiting for the phlebotomist to free up and for her to search. She found it! Thus saving me half an hour waiting for a chance at the clinic lost and found.

Well, I thought, I need to check library anyway. I was getting back in my car when i remembered I needed to cpy my tax return for the bureaucracy that turned up Monday. But since I had been planning to go to the good grocery store and i hadn't a pharmacy pick up, i hadn't planned to come this way, so the back pack full of bureaucracy including the tax return was at home. Sigh.

Then up the Guide through the center of town which sucks this time of day, hence me usually doing only one of these loops on a given day. I only needed a handful of things, but half of them were in the very back, and lines were huge to check out and...my foot was completely fucked at this point, and i still had to hobble to the car and get the groceries in (with squirrel), and put them away and...

I set dinner up in a way that I had time to do a whole lung treatment before it needed me to futz with it, which was about the time left on the spin. I dumped the second soiled pee cover in the bathroom and settle in to lung and watch Project Blue Book on the sofa. At some point Squirrel wandered out and started doing stuff behind me. I assumed food. Bwahahaha! No. See the washer had likely just turned itself off after finishing. He moved second pee cover out of the way and rather than check to see if there were wet clothes in the washer even though there were a bunch of tell tale signs I was using it (dirty pee cover waiting a turn, washing closet doors open. Stuff I have to store on top of the washer for renovations moved out of the way, ashing machine lid closed instead of open to use as a hamper, wet in the bottom flattened out as if it had just been through a pee cycle) or ask me if i was doing laundry, he tossed his stuff in and started the laundry. On high heat, with a pee guard in there needing cold.

I only discovered this when he wandered out and after having me explain was I was watching (It's conversation, not interrogation. I often watch things he might like, and he often forgets that I explained whatever how recently since hes also bad a names, so I am good at non-spoilery synopsis and mini-revues tailored to help him decide if it's a thing he'd like), casually mentioned that there wasn't the room for the sofa cover with his blankets. Me: Did you put my laundry in the dryer? *facepalm* So I had to restart the thing at the right temp which meant another hour plus. If he'd pulled my stuff first, his could have been done in half an hour from the point when I went into check. (It's an energy saving thing).

He came out early in the rinse cycle wanting to know if it was in the dryer. Me, it's another half an hour; it's in rinse cycle. He insisted, so he tried rooting around in there when the drum was full of water. Gave up. Let me restart it. His trousers will only have a half hour to forty five minute to dry before work. Like, if he'd pulled my laundry? Fine. If he'd brought his laundry out right after helping me bring groceries in? He'd have seen it was mid-wash cycle. Now? The only pair of work trousers he has that don't need mending to wear get 1/2 an hour to 45 minutes of drying in a slow, energy efficient dryer.

Seriously, I love the energy efficient appliances, but they require a certain amount of either advance planning or attention to detail. My forte. Squirrel's Achilleus' heel. This is a man who routinely send pockets full of stuff through because he never thinks to check his pockets before taking trousers off.

* Thursday: It turns out the local does not carry Livia's particular shreds. I have ordered her special girl food. *fingers crossed for fast shipping*

I signed papers today for the revision that is covering the electrical work, the tub, and the floor. I still need o sign an extra thing releasing the money from the city program to the contractor to cover the extras, but we are closing in on the final phase of the project.

* "Waiters what Valentine day disasters have you witnessed?:" https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/f2wokf/waiters_what_valentine_day_disasters_have_you/fhfmi2f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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

* Australia is on fire. Want to help? https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/190151259088
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/news/bushfire-donations/11823676
Help Thirsty Koalas Devastated by Recent Fires: https://au.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires
Mogo Zoo Fire Recovery: https://au.gofundme.com/f/mogo-zoo-fire-recovery
WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1386120504919105/10158318179549750/
Victorian Bushfire Appeal: https://www.vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal
"Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/fire-relief-fund-for-first-nations-communities

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* "Emotional support animals could be banned from planes under DOT rule:" https://www.rollcall.com/news/emotional-support-animals-banned-planes-dot

Want to complain? https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-seeks-comment-proposed-amendments-regulation-service

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Refugee Children:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

* Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

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

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* HorrorMux is currently running a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

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

* TW: Graphic images of babies an children starving to death in the literal sense. They will warn you before the really bad ones start. If you skip from the warning to 2:52 it is safe after. "Venezuela's child malnutrition crisis grows:" http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-40130224/venezuela-s-child-malnutrition-crisis-grows

* Tw: Contains images of starving children with cholera. "Witnessing Yemen's desperate suffering:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41000237

* "South African farmers who forced black man into coffin convicted:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/25/south-african-farmers-who-forced-black-man-into-coffin-convicted

* "Trump just killed a study looking into the health effects of coal in Central Appalachia:" http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/08/trump-kills-coal-health-study/

* "How America Lost Its Mind:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/

* "Opinion | Americans are burning down the house:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americans-are-burning-down-the-house/2017/07/10/7b522ea6-65af-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html?utm_term=.80c482cb7a91

* On History and Monuments: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664006673/blackness-by-your-side-we-need-statues-of-black

* This has a bunch of likes to Joe Arpaio's human Rights abuses at the bottom: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164663729598/anarchoclintonism-weavemama-weavemama-this

* "Dashcam video shows police sexually assaulted Texas woman, lawyer says:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/charnesia-corley-houston-texas-police-dashcam-video?CMP=share_btn_tw

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

* Black Lives Matter at the Boston Protest/Counter Protest: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164695739177/allonsyforever-blm-organizers-and-protesters

* "Arrest Made In Tee Tee Dangerfield Murder Case:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2017/08/arrest-made-in-tee-tee-dangerfield.html

* "Man Killed After Standing Up For Gay Friends, Witnesses Say:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lake-worth-florida-shooting-gay_us_59895efee4b0d7937389bca4

* "This Man Had To Find A New Place Because He’s Gay — And It’s Totally Legal:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurenstrapagiel/this-man-had-to-find-a-new-place-because-hes-gay-and-its?utm_term=.xoE9GB1qrV#.dh40BRzQyp

* "Former Olympian Gets Proposed To In Venice, And The Pics Are So Romantic:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/olympic-diver-proposal-venice_us_599c69b6e4b06a788a2c311a?section=us_queer-voices&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_source=qv_fb&utm_medium=facebook&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000050

* "How “fake news” could get even worse:" https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/07/economist-explains-3?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/howfakenewscouldgetevenworse

* "A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn't Recycled:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "18th-Century London Burial Thwarted Grave Robbers:" http://www.archaeology.org/news/5777-170801-london-body-snatchers

* "I Repeat: Confederate Is Not A Good Idea Right Now:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/i-repeat-confederate-is-not-a-good-idea-right-now/

* "Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do:"

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* Want to donate to the windshield wiper fund? (32$ Needed). Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* "The Strain, Season 4, Episode 6: Tainted Love:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/08/the-strain-season-4-episode-6-tainted.html

* "Sunday Sweets: Fabulous Faux Flowers:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/8/27/sunday-sweets-fabulous-faux-flowers.html

* "Honestly, comic book writers have gotta start using their characters for more current events commentary.:" http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/164694561909/phdna-princessamericachavez-honestly-comic

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

* This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

* Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com