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* "27 experts urge Biden not to allow Saudis to enrich uranium for Israel deal:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/27-experts-urge-biden-not-to-allow-saudis-to-enrich-uranium-for-israel-deal/

* "Hungarian president Katalin Novak uses UN General Assembly to go on ‘anti-family’ tirade:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/hungary-president-un-general-assembly-anti-family/

* "Turkey’s president Erdoğan doesn’t know what Pride colours are, makes UN complaint anyway:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/turkeys-president-erdogan-un-pride-colours/

* "Hundreds protest overhaul in New York as Netanyahu meets with world leaders:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-protest-overhaul-in-new-york-as-netanyahu-meets-with-world-leaders/

* "Netanyahu wraps up US visit as protesters shout ‘shame’ at departing convoy in NY:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-ends-us-visit-with-protesters-shouting-shame-at-departing-convoy/

* "Azerbaijan says it has retaken breakaway Armenian enclave after separatists surrender:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/asia/nagorno-karabakh-russia-ceasefire-intl/index.html

* "Iranian authorities arrest Mahsa Amini’s father on anniversary of her death:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/mahsa-amini-father-arrest-iran-protest-crackdown-00116401?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

* "Residents See Signs of Crackdown on Dissent After Libya Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/world/middleeast/libya-floods-derna-crackdown.html

* "Nearly 100 migrants rescued from a yacht off southwestern Greece:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rescue-operation-underway-off-southwestern-greece-90-migrants-103334178

* "Canada Post breaking law by gathering info from envelopes, parcels to build marketing list: privacy watchdog:" https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-post-breaking-law-by-gathering-info-from-envelopes-parcels-to-build-marketing-list-privacy-watchdog-1.6570397

* "Rishi Sunak slammed for ‘reckless political gimmick’ amid plans to roll back on Tory green policies:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/rishi-sunak-climate-change-plans-uk/

* "Daily Mail retracts Iceland boss claims of HIV needle attacks in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/daily-mail-iceland-boss-claims-retracted/

* "‘Racist, homophobic’ teen who defaced Windrush mural named:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/teen-dafaced-windrush-mural-named/

* "India tells citizens in Canada to exercise caution as relations worsen:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-opposition-congress-dismisses-canadas-suspicions-sikh-leaders-murder-2023-09-20/

* "Biden raised issue of Canadian Sikh's murder with Modi at G20, Financial Times reports:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-raised-issue-canadian-sikhs-murder-with-modi-g20-ft-2023-09-22/

* "Surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada led to allegations around Sikh killing, official says:" https://apnews.com/article/india-canada-visas-sikh-activist-killing-381e973e84f8d0c10b0bd53b03ccbdf2

* "Let's talk about Canada and India....:"

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* "'A really dark moment': Canadians react to Poilievre's comment on Trudeau's LGBTQ+ post:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/canadians-pierre-poilievre-justin-trudeau-lgbtq-post-020533727.html

* "A brief note about changes in rhetoric:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1937558.html

* "Let's talk about social media influence....:"

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* "The Elusive Figure Running Wagner’s Embattled Empire of Gold and Diamonds:" https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-africa-sytii-prigozhin-gold-12a45769

* "Let's talk about how news is created rather than reported and charts....:"

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* "Let's talk about Ukraine and when it will end....:"

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* "U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/

* "Ukraine finds new sources of aid to fight Russia as politics with Poland gets complicated:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ukraine-finds-new-sources-of-aid-to-fight-russia-as-politics-with-poland-gets-complicated-193428037981

* "Poland, with election looming, says it isn't sending new arms to Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-no-longer-arming-ukraine-says-pm-2023-09-21/

* "Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be painful. But its success is crucial to wider European security:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-crucial-european-security-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Fighting ‘through hell.’ To reclaim Bakhmut, a Ukrainian brigade must first survive the forest:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-bakhmut-684873be8aad1b1502ff8d67ea48afac

* "Ukraine breaches Russian defensive line on southern front:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/23/ukraine-breach-verbove-zaporizhzhia/

* "Transgender American Suspended by Ukrainian Military After Controversial Video:" https://www.advocate.com/world/trans-ukraine-spokeswoman-suspended

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* "U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-china-tech-surveillance/

* "Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons:" https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-warheads-military-bomb-plutonium-6b86198def4516cebe496c9f5fbfbb75

* "U.S. will expand Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200719816/venezuelan-migrants-temporary-protected-status-us-border

* "Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200483937/biden-climate-corps-job-training

* "Biden launches Climate Corps; pairs new jobs with climate, infrastructure work:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-launches-climate-corps-pairs-new-jobs-with-climate-infrastructure-work-193428037800

* "First White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/first-white-house-office-of-gun-violence-prevention-193651781888

* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* "Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

* " Propublica: Clarence Thomas Participated in Koch Network Donor events:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/propublica-clarence-thomas-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events-193618501778

* "The Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady but hints at more action this year:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200327332/federal-reserve-inflation-economy-interest-rates

* "The Kids on the Night Shift:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/magazine/child-labor-dangerous-jobs.html

* "Florida Republican files bill to allow minors to work full-time and overnight:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/florida-bill-child-labour-overnight/

* "UAW strike day 9: Negotiations continue after strike expansion to other plants:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/23/uaw-strike-day-9-talks-continue-after-strike-expansion/70945125007/

* "Autoworkers share what it's like working under an expired contract:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/21/uaw-detroit-three-strike-expired-contract/70912395007/

* Short version: WGA still needs to vote on it as of this writing. The Union doesn't want anyone to go back to work until it's all finalized. SAG-AFTRA is still on strike. "Writers and Studios Reach Deal That Will End Strike:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/writers-guild-wga-strike-deal

* "US Strike Wave Could Soon Grow as Airline, Healthcare Workers Fight for Decent Contracts:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-strike-wave

* "Republicans find scapegoat for auto workers strike: Woke cars:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-find-scapegoat-for-auto-workers-strike-woke-cars-193515589707

* "Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly:"

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* "Why Can't Americans Afford Funerals?:" https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/729138701341507584?source=share

* "Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23880403/uber-eats-food-stamps-snap-ebt-fsa-flex-ai-assistant

* "Day care owners are fighting for survival as federal funding runs out this month:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/childcare-funding-american-rescue-covid-daycare-philadelphia-20230923.html

* "Senate leaders trumpeted a spending plan to flex on McCarthy. It's stuck too. :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/20/congress/senates-own-funding-stumble-00117094

* "House GOP erupts as McCarthy fails to move Pentagon bill :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/21/house-gop-conservatives-block-defense-bill-00117400

* "'These are not serious people': GOP pays the price for filling ranks with extremists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-these-are-not-serious-people-gop-pays-the-price-for-filling-ranks-with-extremists-193427525732

* "Let's talk about McCarthy's missed moment coming back around....:"

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* "Pro-Equality Lawmakers Demand Removal of Anti-LGBTQ+ Sections From Defense Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/defense-bill-anti-lgbtq

* "Republican infighting continues as shutdown looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-infighting-continues-as-shutdown-looms-193618501793

* "Let's talk about Humpty Dumpty, Republicans, and McCarthy....:"

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* "Let's talk about McCarthy, budgets, and bites....:"

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* "Let's talk about the potential shutdown and proposed CR....:"

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* "Kevin McCarthy: The Idiot of the House:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/kevin-mccarthy-idiot

* "Inside the Chaos in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/inside-the-chaos-in-the-gop-193653317640

* "'Disrupting this Country': Rep. Waters on GOP Chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/disrupting-this-country-rep-waters-on-gop-chaos-193652293814

* "Schumer takes on Tuberville’s blockade, teeing up votes on top military picks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/schumer-takes-on-tubervilles-blockade-teeing-up-votes-on-top-military-picks-00117143

* "Gen. C.Q. Brown confirmed as top military officer despite Tuberville's roadblock:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200705608/senate-tuberville-hold-military-promotions

* "Sen. Tuberville continues to block military nominations:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sen-tuberville-continues-to-block-military-nominations-193618501803

* "Democratic Lawmakers Reintroduce Landmark LGBTQ+ Military Equality Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-military-equality-bill-reintroduced

* "Pete Buttigieg Explains the Difference Between Climate Change and Seasons to Republican Lawmaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-explains-climate-change

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Democrats have been winning big in special elections:" https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-winning-big-special-elections/story?id=103315703

* "'Pro-democracy': Dems overperform in 24 of 30 special elections so far in 2023:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-democracy-dems-overperform-in-24-of-30-special-elections-so-far-in-2023-193416773961

This only holds if everyone keeps showing up to vote.

* "Democrats retain narrow control of Pennsylvania House after special election:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-special-election-pittsburgh-8895ca07c1436640045861aff6c9ad6c

* "Flipped seat sets the stage for even split in N.H. House:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/flipped-seat-sets-stage-even-split-nh-house/

* "Missouri Republican Vows to Burn 'Woke Pornographic Books' If Elected Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-book-burning-video

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican mayoral candidate once pleaded guilty to ‘promoting prostitution’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/anti-lgbtq-mayoral-candidate-promoting-prostitution/

* "35 Bisexual Politicians You Should Know:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bisexual-politicians-visibility-day

* "Does 14th Amendment Bar Trump From the Presidency?:"

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* "Trump blue collar act a tougher sell now with anti-labor record:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-blue-collar-act-a-tougher-sell-now-with-anti-labor-record-193335877717

* "Donald Trump Asked Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley, 'Are You Soft on Transgenders?':" https://www.advocate.com/military/donald-trump-mark-milley-transgender

* "‘This is horrifying': Top New Jersey Democrats call on Bob Menendez to resign after his second indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/new-jersey-democrats-menendez-indictment-00117693

* "Rupert Murdoch to Step Down from Fox and News Corp Boards in November:" https://www.advocate.com/business/rupert-murdoch-retiring-fox-news

* "Will Lachlan Murdoch Bring a New Era to Fox News or the Same Hell?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news

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* "Giuliani’s former lawyers sue him for $1.36M in unpaid legal fees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-lawyer-trump-00116671

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Georgia DA lists Trump ally Lin Wood as state witness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-lists-trump-ally-lin-wood-as-state-witness-193419845977

* "Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-prison-conviction-trial-1234828231/

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* "Nazis Are Returning to the Streets:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byyd/2024-election-neo-nazis-visible-on-streets

* "Police investigate after bomb threat shuts down drag storytime at Utah bookstore:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/bomb-threat-drag-storytime/

* "The Police Will Never Protect Us:"

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* "Victory for Students: LGBTQ+ Resource Center Reopens at Missouri University:" https://www.advocate.com/news/missouri-university-reopens-lgbtq-center

* "Virginia Beach Parents Sue to Force Schools to Adopt Glenn Youngkin's Anti-Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/law/youngkin-transgender-schools-sue-lawsuit

* "Students protest Virginia schools anti-trans policies: ‘We will be bullied and dead-named’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/student-protest-virginia-anti-trans-policies/

* "Americans Divided on Use of Chosen Names and Pronouns in Schools, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-divided-student-chosen-names

* "California governor signs raft of protections for LGBTQ+ youth:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/california-governor-lgbtq-gavin-newsom/

* "Texas Teacher Fired For Assigning Anne Frank Graphic Novel:" https://advocatechannel.com/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank

* "Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports:" https://apnews.com/article/books-bans-american-library-association-42b34a284a6363439de20bbb65bb43b4

* "Virginia Library Temporarily Avoids Closing Over LGBTQ+ Books Controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/samuels-library-front-royal-open

* CW: Rape. "Decades-Old Trove of DNA Evidence, Collected by a Maryland Doctor, Leads to a Serial Rape Arrest:" https://www.propublica.org/article/decades-old-trove-of-dna-evidence-leads-to-serial-rape-arrest-maryland

* CW: Rape. "Protecting a Predator: How Columbia University ignored women, undermined prosecutors, and allowed one of its OB/GYNs to abuse hundreds of patients.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-obgyn-robert-hadden-sexually-assaulted-patients.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Rudy Giuliani groped her before Jan. 6 Capitol riot:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/trump-aide-says-rudy-giuliani-groped-her-on-january-6.html

* "Somalia's first all-women newsroom spotlights female taboos:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/somalias-first-all-women-newsroom-spotlights-female-taboos-2023-09-20/

* "Natasha Devon: Trans panic risks taking sex education back to the days of Section 28:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/trans-sex-education-transphobia-section-28-natasha-devon/

* "They Live in the US, but These LGBTQ+ Couples Can’t Get Married. Here's Why:" https://www.advocate.com/news/navajo-nation-married-queer-couples

* "California governor vetoes bill on gender-affirmation in child custody cases:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/california-gender-affirming-bill-trans/

* "Transgender Youth Face Hurdles Getting Gender-Affirming Care Even When It's Legal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-youth-access-care-restricted

* "Texas church launches non-profit to help transgender minors access healthcare:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/texas-church-transgender-minors-healthcare/

* "He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-health-care-north-carolina-coverage-denied

* "Abortions resume in Wisconsin after 15 months of legal uncertainty:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200610927/abortions-resume-in-wisconsin-after-15-months-of-legal-uncertainty

* "‘I looked in the mirror and saw the man in me’: Trans elders on the ‘hope’ in ageing authentically:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/trans-elders-lgbtq-coming-out-ageing-joy/

* "How queer Iranians are fighting back against the country’s online LGBTQ+ crackdown:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/mahsa-amini-protests-iranian-diaspora-collective-onlin/

* "Anti-trans rallies met with huge counter-protests across Canada:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/canada-pro-anti-lgbt-protests/

NOTE: Canadian correspondants are saying they were way more protests not covered in the article including Calagary, were the oposite.

* "New study finds decline in UK trans acceptance: ‘A shift that benefits no one’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/uk-less-tolerant-of-trans-people-study/

* "Civil servants up in arms over ‘woke’ policies on trans inclusion and a calendar marking Pride Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/civil-servants-woke-complaint-letter-trans/

* "Updated EHRC guidance suggests misgendering trans pupils not discriminatory:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/ehrc-guidance-trans-misgendering-pupils-schools/

* "Kate Osborne blasts Suella Braverman’s ‘woke policing’ claims: ‘Legitimising hate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/kate-osborne-suella-braverman-woke-policing/

* "Pentagon Says It'll Review Cases of LGBTQ+ Vets Who Were Denied Honorable Discharges:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-veterans-pentagon-dadt-review

* "Let's talk about Missouri, change, and elections....:"

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* "Angelica Ross is ‘leaving Hollywood’ after American Horror Story transphobia row:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/angelica-ross-american-horror-story-emma-roberts-ryan-murphy-leaving-hollywood/

* "She has Medicare and Medicaid. So why should it take 18 months to get a wheelchair? :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200657834/she-has-medicare-and-medicaid-so-why-should-it-take-18-months-to-get-a-wheelchai

* "Federal government to relaunch free COVID test program:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-government-relaunch-free-covid-tests-program/story?id=103347741

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* "‘They’re obsessed’: Dr. Fauci on death threats, 'lab leak,' and vaccine safety:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-they-re-obsessed-dr-fauci-on-death-threats-lab-leak-and-vaccine-safety-193484357913

* "Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sewage-key-track-disease-covid-19-wastewater

* "Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home:" https://apnews.com/article/birthing-rural-hospitals-maternity-care-births-e67a91d927eb545459e83bc7b2b95a0d

* CW: Child Death "Cough syrup killed scores of children. Why no one has been held to account :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coughsyrup-india/

* "At Japan’s dementia cafes, forgotten orders are all part of the service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/19/japan-aging-elderly-dementia-care/

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* "Phoenix hit 110 degrees on 54 days in 2023, setting another heat record:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/phoenix-hit-110-degrees-on-54-days-in-2023-setting-another-heat-record

* "Ravaged by floods and fires, Greece struggles on the front lines of our climate reality:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ravaged-floods-fires-greece-struggles-front-lines-climate-reality-rcna107985

* "In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1199471923/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountains-survivors-loss

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

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* "Wildfires are destroying decades of clean air efforts in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfires-are-destroying-decades-clean-air-efforts-us-rcna105140

* "Renewable energy is now cheap—what’s next?:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/renewable-energy-is-now-cheap-whats-next/

* "How to Cool Down a City:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=HSk3tYP63honaw6JVn60sCk2OyUJmggqmzSIK7lP_OWn6_9pFszirIXkmTLXDcXyRjn3rb5O5MgeQVi_FaD3W02hlA7Jjpbtw97pHNa5YV4GcIulAYY-fRPWhu9E9aMgO-1r0POf8CiuB54APIMbIIZYdAhOfHfPAcTiqgtY1jzeaWyOebK9mwNnx4VByANdE3qQEuqwyWdHf2NVemqZIQl9rh7bQY1vavuSlJJbcXoUmLZPj-Aa9HEGdRpQw6njaDeR0D2fL41PXsa0i626uNbLUHYiBchPr_dJQo-WtHDqeajLOdJA23VKtxYKQ1l9dNmgCUq_SroOLzSmYhKjjwcTlVTJS0KV-6LG&smid=url-share

* "This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

* "The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?:" https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/

* "The Physics of Crowds: Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.:" https://nautil.us/the-physics-of-crowds-388020/

* "Let's talk about Rand Paul and a billboard....:"

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* You know how I kept saying these were an obvious scam from the beginning? "Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

* "‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement:" https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-george-rr-martin-37f9073ab67ab25b7e6b2975b2a63bfe

* "Decoding racial bias in artificial intelligence:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/decoding-racial-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-193619013836

* "AI in schools puts LGBTQ+ students at risk, new study reveals:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/ai-schools-digital-surveillance-lgbtq-students/

* "xQc Is Stealing Content (and So Are Most Reaction Streamers):"

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* "Elon Musk accuses George Soros of wanting ‘destruction of western civilization’ a day before meeting Netanyahu over antisemitism on X:" https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-george-soros-antisemitism-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-twitter-x/

* "Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/urban-animals-wildlife-biodiversity-traits-pigeons-reptiles-amphibians

* "What Made a 17th-Century Midwife Good at Her Job?:" https://juliamartins.co.uk/what-made-a-17th-century-midwife-good-at-her-job

* "Dead Reckoning:" https://magazine.atavist.com/dead-reckoning-honda-point-navy-disaster-1923/

* "Welcome to the Little Cuba of the Sahara Desert:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cuba-influence-western-sahara

* Wednesday's plans fell through for a bunch of nobody's fault reasons, but at least the annual curtain cleaning got done, along with a bunch of necessary errands and the like. I was exhausted and ended up going to bed for a few hours before the Thursday dose. (It went up again. I'm fine, but it takes a lot out of me). I had planned to get my COVID boosters, but there is a local distribution delay. I am rescheduled for Saturday the 30th, which is far less convenient, but there was nothing to be done. It'll be my first Moderna shot; I've had Pfiser every time previous, but apparently the Pfiser delay is a lot longer if I don't want to cross the mountains and do like an hourish of driving in my ancient car to a crappy little town I've only been to once and don't know my way around.

Waiting is simpler and cheaper as I need to make this half tank last, so I will wait.

no one was letting me sleep Thursday. It was that thing where I was having trouble sleeping because of the pain being so extreme, and when I finally started to drift off, the phone would ring. Rinse and repeat. One of them let me sleep a whole hour, which was exciting. By the time we got to the 5-7th calls, I had reached a state of grimly amused. Then I woke up choking, which hasn't happened for a while and is likely to do with the Thursday shot and me running out of a side effect mitigation med I can't afford to replace until the 1st, by which time there will be no more shots until the new clinic opens.

I can't remember if I wrote about the two doctors getting a new office in the new clinic that opens in October, but they aren't scheduling yet. Let's hope the gap isn't so big I have to start over.

I did finally get a little REM sleep, but not much. Then I completely borked the bad shoulder trying to do physio. The arm didn't want to and it's bad enough I had to break out emergency meds and use the sling. Grr.

* "Star Trek Doesn't Understand Eugenics:"

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* "The White Gaze of Hairspray:"

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* "15 Hunky Black and White Folsom Street Fair Photos by Chantis :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/folsom-street-fair-2022-chantis

* "Halloween 🎃 Outdoor Decor | DIY Halloween Decorations for Outside | Front Yard Halloween Decorating:"

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* "If "Pride and Prejudice" was a podcast:"

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* Dracula: Lucy and Jonathan Parallels: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/729285707782389760/with-lucy-gone-now-and-van-helsing-saying-that?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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

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* "Guatemala presidential election: Unraveling the final candidates’ platforms:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/14/guatemala-presidential-election-unraveling-the-final-candidates-platforms

* "Guatemala presidential frontrunner to keep same-sex marriage illegal and run country with ‘fear of God’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/guatemalan-presidential-campaign-candidate-sandra-torres/

* "Let's talk about 2 things falling in Russia....:"

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* "Asylum seeker explains why ‘inhumane’ rhetoric is so hurtful: ‘See the person behind the story’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/asylum-seeker-refugee-rishi-sunak-lee-anderson-bisexual/

* "How the ECHR has transformed LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, as Tories consider leaving it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/echr-rwanda-lgbtq-rights/

* Doesn't undo the trauma of the police brutalizing her though. "Autistic girl arrested over ‘lesbian nanna’ comment to face no further action, police say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/autistic-girl-arrest-west-yorkshire-police/

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* "Ukraine says two killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia regions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-two-killed-russian-shelling-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia-regions-2023-08-12/

* "Ukraine briefing: Russian shelling kills 7, including infant, in Kherson; cargo ship fired on in Black Sea:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/13/russia-ukraine-war-news/

* "Crimea Bridge Strikes 'Continue To Disrupt' Russian Logistics: ISW:" https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-crimea-bridge-chonhar-kerch-strait-logistics-1819386

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* "Student Loan Bills Are Higher Than Mortgage Payments for Some Borrowers:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-16/student-loan-payments-restart-borrowers-will-pay-more-than-their-mortgage?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "More than 800,000 student loan borrowers are getting billions of dollars in debt forgiveness this week:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-forgiveness-income-driven-repayment-plans-president-biden/

* "Fed officials see ‘upside risks’ to inflation possibly leading to more rate hikes, minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/fed-meeting-minutes-signal-coming-rate-moves.html

* "U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-mortgage-interest-rates-jump-716-highest-since-2001-2022-10-26/

* "Let's talk about Colorado, Alabama, and a General's house....:"

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* "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin blasts GOP senator's blockade of military promotions as 'unnecessary' and 'unsafe':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-blasts-gop-senators-blockade-military-p-rcna99759

* "LGBTQ+ Community Centers: Invaluable, Imperiled:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/republicans-target-lgbtq-community-centers

* "Number of Homeless Americans Rises at Record Rate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/number-of-homeless-americans-rises-at-record-rate-wsj

* "Texas man ticketed for feeding the homeless outside Houston library is found not guilty:" https://apnews.com/article/houston-homeless-feeding-food-not-bombs-not-guilty-530a5e5931fc6db8f0ab7d51b2331492

* "Let's talk about Texas, definitions, and people....:"

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* "Grindr Accused of Union Busting: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-union-busting-accusations

* "Marvel VFX Artists Will Vote to Unionize:" https://www.wired.com/story/marvel-vfx-unionization-big-deal/

* "Unionizing the Skies with Sara Nelson:"

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* "Democrat-turned-Republican who's now pushing for a Biden impeachment inquiry once opposed doing the same for Trump because it lacked 'bipartisan support' and would 'divide the country':" https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-van-drew-democrat-republican-impeachment-inquiry-bipartisan-support-2023-8

* "Democrats call for hearing to ‘investigate attacks on democracy’ after DeSantis suspension of state attorney:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4148046-democrats-call-for-hearing-investigate-attacks-on-democracy-after-desantis-suspension-of-state-attorney/

* "Trans military bans undermine ‘very essence of the American Dream’, says Marine vet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/marine-corps-veteran-lgbtq-trans-inclusion-military-ban/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups Back New Kids Online Safety Act: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/law/kosa-anti-lgbtq-groups

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Judge calls new Texas election law unconstitutional but state says it will appeal ruling:" https://apnews.com/article/voting-texas-elections-harris-county-unconstitutional-2f0ee4a3a4bee1b673782544c39e36a9

* "Let's talk about the GOP trying again in Ohio....:"

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* "Let's talk about a GOP constitutional amendment....:"

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* This is terrorism. "Violent threats against public officials are rising. Here's why:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193463117/violent-threats-against-public-officials-are-rising-heres-why

* "The President touts "Bidenomics" as administration tries to sell economic message:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-president-touts-bidenomics-as-administration-tries-to-sell-economic-message-190735941627

* "Vivek Ramaswamy: LGBTQ+ People Created 'Tyranny of the Minority':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-lgbtq-people-tyranny

* "Mike Pence Runs Out of Gas:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-pence-out-gas

* "Asa Hutchinson: I will prosecute Trump at the debate—whether he's there or not:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/asa-hutchinson-i-will-prosecute-trump-at-the-debate-whether-he-s-there-or-not-191148613887

* "Orlando Magic Donates $50K to Ron DeSantis Super PAC:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-orlando-magic

* "DeSantis replaces campaign manager as he struggles to catch up to Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/ron-desantis-replaces-campaign-manager-00110253

* "‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign:" https://www.semafor.com/article/07/31/2023/desantis-meme-factory

* "DeSantis’ leaked debate memo leads us to ask: Is this guy for real?

* "Ron DeSantis Instructed to ‘Show Emotion’ at GOP Debate: Leaked Memo:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-debate-memo

* "How Should DeSantis Handle Trump? Strategists Suggest Dropping Out or Becoming a Different Person.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/desantis-trump-campaign-primary-political-operatives-advice.html

* "How a weird McConnell video may explain the embarrassing leak of DeSantis' debate strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-a-weird-mcconnell-video-may-explain-the-embarrassing-leak-of-desantis-debate-strategy-191079493824

* "McConnell's Legacy in Flames as Trump Crime Show Swamps GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mcconnell-legacy-trump-crime-show

* "Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/donald-trump-legal-bills-campaign.html

* "Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is crowdfunding her Georgia indictment defense fees:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194133648/former-trump-attorney-jenna-ellis-is-crowdfunding-her-georgia-indictment-defense

* "Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak':" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/

* "DeSantis’ ‘anti-woke’ bills are costing Florida millions of dollars in business:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/economy/florida-convention-business-cancellations/index.html

* Republican Matt Gaetz is openly calling for Republicans to violently overthrow the government so a Republican fascist dictatorship can put an end to the rule of law. They aren't even pretending that's not the goal any more. "Congressman Matt Gaetz declares only “force” can bring change in Washington as he defends Trump in Iowa:" https://www.msnbc.com/american-voices/watch/congressman-matt-gaetz-declares-only-force-can-bring-change-in-washington-as-he-defends-trump-in-iowa-190749765584

* "Florida Republican chairman wants ‘perverted’ parents of LGBTQ+ youth to leave the state:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/florida-republicans-ron-desantis-christian-ziegler/

* "Republican Reportedly Called Child 'F*g' Then Sued News Outlet for Covering It:" https://www.advocate.com/media/wisconsin-lawsuit-republican-antigay-slurs

* "Texas Republican Sarah Davis explains how she became a trans ally: ‘It was very simple’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/texas-republican-sarah-davis-trans-lgbtq-campaign/

* "A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft:" https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-fundraiser-indicted-congress-new-york-565b0a82e6ca2ceb6c69d1978254ac5b

* "Tennessee Republican with Anti-LGBTQ+ History Sentenced in Campaign Finance Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/tennessee-lawmaker-prison-campaign-finance

* "Police video shows Rep. Ronny Jackson swearing at Texas officers :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/police-video-shows-rep-ronny-jackson-swearing-at-texas-officers-00111204

* "Republican finds limit to his 'back the blue' stance in aggressive arrest:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republican-finds-limit-to-his-back-the-blue-stance-in-aggressive-arrest-190998597831

* "Canadian woman sentenced to nearly 22 years for 2020 ricin letter sent to Trump in White House:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/canadian-woman-sentenced-22-years-2020-ricin-letter-102348326

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* CW: Sexual Assault "Trump counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll dismissed, DA can get deposition:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/judge-trump-deposition-in-e-jean-carroll-case-can-go-to-prosecutors.html

* "How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-fani-willis-indictment-32bfdd2cca9d3184056836b208a78379

* "Special prosecutor will examine actions of Georgia’s lieutenant governor in Trump election meddling:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-burt-jones-willis-16e76d68ca32a9b705b440c0c5098ef0

* "Trump, allies charged with racketeering scheme over bid to subvert election in Georgia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/fulton-county-trump-indictment-00111211

* "Trump is indicted in Georgia on charges of racketeering. What it means, what happens next:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/trump-indicted-georgia-explained/

* "Trump, Giuliani, Sidney Powell Among Many Indicted by Georgia Jury:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trump-giuliani-powell-indicted-georgia

* "2 Chicago-area people indicted with Trump, accused of trying to overturn Georgia election results:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2023/8/15/23832765/trevian-kutti-stephen-lee-indicted-trump-overturn-georgia-election-results

* "DA seeks March 4 trial date for Trump Georgia election case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/da-seeks-march-4-trial-date-for-trump-georgia-election-case.html

* "4 things revealed by Trump’s Georgia indictment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/takeaways-trump-georgia-indictment/

* "How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2023/trump-georgia-election-investigation/?itid=hp-more-top-stories_p005_f004

* "Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump/index.html

* "Georgia State Sen. Elena Parent on Donald Trump's New Indictments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-indictments-georgia-elena-parent

* "A human face on the real victims: Georgia indictments offer some justice to maligned election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/georgia-indictments-offer-some-justice-to-maligned-election-workers-190832197692

* "‘Ludicrous’: Hayes on GOP’s ‘painful’ defense of Trump after 4th indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ludicrous-hayes-on-gop-s-painful-defense-of-trump-after-4th-indictment-190899269953

* "Former Kanye publicist named in Trump Georgia case; could mean justice for election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/former-kanye-publicist-named-in-trump-georgia-case-could-mean-justice-for-election-workers-190907973608

* "Giuliani finds himself on the wrong end of his favorite anti-Mafia tool in Georgia case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/giuliani-finds-himself-on-the-wrong-end-of-his-favorite-anti-mafia-tool-in-georgia-case-190908485946

* "Let's talk about how Trump's Georgia case is different....:"

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* "Authorities investigating threats to grand jurors who indicted Trump in Georgia:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-indictment-threats-grand-jurors-b489aea1bf8210224d1500895830528d

* "Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239

* "Distressing but unsurprising: Targets of Trump vitriol face real threats from his followers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/distressing-but-unsurprising-targets-of-trump-vitriol-face-real-threats-from-his-followers-190998085969

* "Hayes: Trump is ‘obviously’ fomenting violence against judges, prosecutors:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-is-obviously-fomenting-violence-against-judges-prosecutors-191067717906

* "Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia prosecution to federal court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/meadows-georgia-case-federal-court-00111382

* "Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia conspiracy case to federal court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mark-meadows-seeks-to-move-georgia-conspiracy-case-to-federal-court-190902853685

* "Texas woman accused of threatening to kill judge overseeing Trump election case and a congresswoman:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-judge-threats-texas-7d90ad3c8b552b49e269a3f842a6700c

* "With new indictments, things get real for Trump's fake electors:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/with-new-indictments-things-get-real-for-trump-s-fake-electors-190909509844

* "Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/special-counsel-obtained-trump-twitter-howell-00111410

* "Judge suggests Elon Musk withheld Twitter data to ‘cozy up’ to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-suggests-elon-musk-withheld-twitter-data-to-cozy-up-to-trump-190992965683

* "Third defendant in Trump classified documents case pleads not guilty:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/trump-classified-docs-carlos-de-oliveira-00111252

* "Feds say Trump not entitled to ‘special treatment’ in documents case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/feds-say-trump-not-entitled-to-special-treatment-in-documents-case.html

* "“Dopey and Constitutionally Dubious”: Legal Experts Blast Judge Aileen Cannon’s Latest Pro-Trump Rulings:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/egal-experts-blast-judge-aileen-cannons-latest-pro-trump-rulings

* "Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/feds-alert-judge-to-trumps-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you-post-00109944

* "Trump attacks special counsel Jack Smith and judge assigned to 2020 election case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attacks-special-counsel-jack-smith-judge-assigned-2020-election-rcna98518

* "Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/judge-warns-trump-speed-trial-00110870

* "Trump co-conspirator said plan was to use military to put down opposition to him staying in office:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/01/the-plan-was-to-use-military-to-put-down-any-opposition-to-trump-staying-in-office-after-election-loss.html

* "Let's talk about Trump revealing his emotional state....:"

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* "Trump seeks trial on election interference charges in 2026:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/trump-election-trial-date-proposal-00111775

* "Keeping Track of the Trump Investigations:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.html

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* "Prosecutors seek 30-year sentences for Proud Boys leaders in Jan. 6 case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/30-year-sentence-proud-boys-jan-6-00111796

* "Feds seek 30 years in prison for Philly Proud Boys president Zach Rehl’s role in Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/zach-rehl-proud-boys-sentence-january-6th-capitol-riot-20230818.html

* "Prosecutors seek 33-year sentence for Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs:" https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/courts/2023/08/18/prosecutors-seek-33-years-prison-for-volusia-county-proud-boys-leader/70617676007/

* "Pezzola sentencing set for Aug. 29, government recommends 20 years for participation in Capitol Riot:" https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/top-stories/pezzola-sentencing-set-for-aug-29-government-recommends-20-years-for-participation-capitol-riot-january-6-jan/

* "Top Proud Boys lieutenant thinks he should walk free for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy conviction, while feds want decades:" https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/top-proud-boys-lieutenant-thinks-he-should-walk-free-for-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-conviction-while-feds-want-decades/

* "Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-capitol-attack-proud-boy-1341d4596fb96ee2828b54d70ef7e126

* "Bomb threats and ‘swatting’ campaign hits dozens of synagogues:" https://forward.com/news/557648/bomb-threats-and-swatting-campaign-hits-dozens-of-synagogues/?amp=1

* "2 synagogues evacuated during livestreamed Shabbat services as wave of bomb threats enters 4th week:" https://www.jta.org/2023/08/14/united-states/2-synagogues-evacuated-during-livestreamed-shabbat-services-as-wave-of-bomb-threats-enters-4th-week

* "Fullerton synagogue evacuated during Sabbath service due to bomb threat:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/fullerton-synagogue-evacuated-during-sabbath-service-due-to-bomb-threat/3204919/?amp=1

* "Proud Boys, III%ers, and MAGA radicals target drag story hour in San Diego:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/proud-boys-iii-ers-and-maga-radicals-target-drag-story-hour-in-san-diego

* "Armed Neo-Nazis With Swastika Flags Disrupt Wisconsin Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gays-against-groomers-neo-nazis

* "North Carolina Drag Show Postponed After Man Arrested Over Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/north-carolina-drag-show-threats

* This is Terrorism. "Oregon Medical Clinic Received Bomb Threat After Libs of TikTok Spotlight:" https://www.advocate.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-oregon-bomb

* "Illinois to outlaw gun advertisements that appeal to children, pose safety threat:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/illinois-to-outlaw-gun-advertisements-that-appeal-to-children-pose-safety-threat

* CW: Child Death "Child shoots and kills another child with a rifle moments after they were playing with Nerf guns, Alaska troopers say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-child-shoots-kills-child-with-rifle-after-playing-nerf-guns/

* "How Police Make Up The Law:"

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* CW: Rape and Torture. This is a really bad one, folks. Read at your own risk. "Mississippi “Goon Squad” Cops Plead Guilty to Racist Dildo and Taser Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/goon-squad-mississippi-police

* "All Charges Dropped Against Trans Man Beaten by Cop in Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-man-california-cop

* "Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones:" https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

* "The ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement Is Vandalizing Pro-Police Companies Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ak8xy/stop-cop-city-movement-bigger-than-atlanta

* "Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

* "Ex-Denver Postal Worker Goes on Bizarre Rant at Target While in Blackface: Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/racist-former-usps-worker-blackface

* "A Gay Conservative Wrote a Fawning Tome on Tucker Carlson. It Flopped:" https://www.advocate.com/media/gay-conservative-tucker-carlson-book

* "Texas Sued Over 'Unconstitutional' Drag Ban by ACLU:" https://www.advocate.com/law/aclu-sues-texas-drag-ban

* "DeSantis' Florida approves classroom videos that compare climate activists to Nazis:" https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-florida-2662923106/

* "Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal' :" https://www.comicsands.com/prager-university-cartoon-justifies-slavery-2663089717.html

* "Will Florida Teachers Still Be Punished for Teaching AP Psychology?:" https://www.advocate.com/education/ap-psychology-florida-ban-confusion

* "Ron DeSantis’ Attempt to Erase Trans People From Florida Schools Is Now Underway:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/florida-ron-desantis-attacks-trans-students-teachers.html

* "Florida School District Bans Trans Employees From Using Their Pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-employees-pronouns-ban-florida

* "Florida town, students fight to preserve record against state's war on Black history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/florida-town-students-fight-to-preserve-record-against-state-s-war-on-black-history-191154757893

* "A Bill Proposed a New Way to Teach History. It Got the History Wrong.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/virginia-lincoln-douglas-debates-bill.html

* "Maryland Parents Ask Judge to Allow Students to Avoid LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/law/maryland-parents-optout-lgbtq-books

* "Georgia Teacher Fired for Reading Gender-Inclusive Book Appeals Decision:" https://www.advocate.com/education/georgia-teacher-appeals-firing-book

* "Idaho ‘teacher of the year’ winner flees state after attacks on her pro-LGBTQ+ views:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/idaho-teacher-of-the-year-lgbtq-black-lives-matter-flees-illinois/

* "Question on Sexually Explicit School Library Books Upsets Virginia Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/education/sexually-explicit-book-question-spotsylvania

* "Far Right Attacks It Gets Better After Group Donates $600k to Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/it-gets-better-project-grants

* "Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-judge-blocks-librarian-criminalization

* "Longtime Wyoming Library Director Fired For Refusing to Scrap Shelves of LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/wyoming-library-director-fired-lgbtq

* "Starting next year, child influencers can sue if earnings aren't set aside, says new Illinois law:" https://www.kcra.com/article/starting-next-year-child-influencers-can-sue-if-earnings-arent-set-aside-says-new-illinois-law/44802567

* "MAGA judge: Abortion pill robs doctors ‘joy’ of fetus pictures:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maga-judge-abortion-pill-robs-doctors-joy-of-fetus-pictures-191071301834

* "Let's talk about evil in a religious context....:"

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* "LGBTQ+ People Are Facing Increased Persecution, Violence, Ethiopian Activists Say:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ethiopia-anti-lgbtq-crackdown

* "UK government announces crackdown on gender-neutral toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/13/gender-neutral-toilets-policy-kemi-badenoch/

* "UK crackdown on gender-neutral bathrooms could put trans people in danger – just look at the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/bathroom-ban-use-gender-neutral-us-uk-trans/

* "Two Brewers staff praised for ‘exemplary’ work protecting customers after Clapham stabbing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/two-brewers-london-clapham-stabbing-lgbtq-gay/

* "Give us teachers more time to teach about LGBTQ+ lives – it could make all the difference:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/rse-relationships-sex-education-teachers-lgbt/

* "Transgender Woman Violently Attacked in Palm Springs, Video Shows:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/palm-springs-trans-woman-attacked

* "Chess regulator effectively bans trans women from competitive play for two years: ‘These are dark days’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/chess-regulator-fide-trans-women/

* "Right-wingers are threatening to boycott yet another brand – this time, it’s Skittles:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/skittles-boycott-black-lives-matter-pride/

* "What Are the New Guidelines for Gay and Bi Men Donating Blood?:" https://www.advocate.com/health/blood-donation-gay-discrimination-ends

* "Michael Oher, former NFL tackle known for ‘The Blind Side,’ sues to end Tuohys’ conservatorship:" https://apnews.com/article/nfl-movie-blind-side-michael-oher-tuohys-c2593f08f8788db5ee267b9a23007c6d

I avoided that movie because it reeked of white savior complex. The fact that it was all a fraud to steal from Mr. Oher, is unfortunately not a huge surprise.

* Hint for Florida: if you put someone who thinks demons cause disease, not pathogens, in charge of public Health for your state, horrible shit happens. If the party in charge is committed to killing constituents with contagious disease for political gain, horrible things happen.

* "Dengue is breaking records in the Americas — what’s behind the surge?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02423-w

* "Let's talk about dengue in Florida....:"

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* "Dengue spreads to Broward County; 10 people in FL have gotten sick this year:" https://floridaphoenix.com/blog/dengue-spreads-to-broward-county-10-people-in-fl-have-gotten-sick-this-year/

* "In Florida's local malaria outbreak, forgotten bite led to surprise hospitalization :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/26/1189852024/in-floridas-local-malaria-outbreak-forgotten-bite-led-to-surprise-hospitalizatio

* "Texas man diagnosed with ‘medieval’ illness after rash:" https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/texas-man-diagnosed-with-medieval-illness-after-rash/news-story/f180247bbfc5f3904b7344336c699e0b

* "Florida leprosy cases highlighted in recent report aren’t linked to COVID-19 vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-florida-leprosy-cases-cdc-covid-vaccines-352032756100

* "How leprosy arrived in Florida, and how it is spreading: New clues are emerging:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/08/07/how-leprosy-arrived-in-florida-and-how-it-is-spreading-new-clues-are-emerging/

* "Traveling to Florida or Texas? Here’s what CT experts say about reports of malaria, dengue fever, even leprosy :" https://www.courant.com/2023/08/14/traveling-to-florida-or-texas-heres-what-ct-experts-say-about-reports-of-malaria-dengue-fever-even-leprosy/

* "A woman with a severe peanut allergy says airline staff laughed at her and ignored her requests when she tried to fly to Costa Rica:" https://www.insider.com/woman-severe-peanut-allergy-says-airline-staff-laughed-at-her-2023-7?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=2JQ9oc

* CW: Suicide. "US suicides hit an all-time high last year:" https://apnews.com/article/suicides-record-2022-guns-48511d74deb24d933e66cec1b6f2d545

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* "Rising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-global-warming-impacts-data/?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Let's talk about heat, pavement, and Arizona mostly....:"

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* "Hawaii governor addresses sirens failure and 'grim' aftermath of Maui wildfire:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/hawaii-governor-addresses-sirens-failure-and-grim-aftermath-of-maui-wildfire-190735941609

* "Video puts scrutiny on possible cause of Maui wildfire:" https://abc7ny.com/maui-fires-hawaii-wildfire-hawaiian-electric-lawsuit-power-lines/13657819/

* "Maui’s emergency services chief resigns after facing criticism for not activating sirens during fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wildfires-recovery-maui-lahaina-land-c8cfcacd2e63bdcd66ec13f2963cea8e

* "Left unchecked, Maui’s nonnative grasses turned into wildfire fuel:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/maui-wildfires-grass-overgrown-nonnative-flammable-hawaii-rcna99963

* "Maui wildfire crews continue to fight "flare-ups" in Lahaina and inland, as death toll rises to 93:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maui-wildfires-crews-flare-ups-lahaina-upcountry-inland-death-toll-rises/

* "How did the Maui fire start? What we know about the cause of the Lahaina blaze:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-maui-fire-start-cause-lahaina-hawaii-wildfire/

* "How Invasive Plants Caused the Maui Fires to Rage:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html

* "Fires and other disasters are increasing in Hawaii, according to this AP data analysis:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-disaster-declarations-0344e3c954db7e0635cdaa8e87e25c92

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and theories....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* "Lookout Fire ‘growing rapidly’ in Lane County:" https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/lookout-fire-growing-rapidly-in-lane-county/

* "Rare New England tornado lifts car from a highway as strong storms damage homes and flood roads:" https://apnews.com/article/new-england-tornado-60bdefd4dda026f349c76f17faa29975

* "Powerful Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico’s Baja. Rare tropical storm watch issued for California:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-hilary-baja-california-arizona-406a3f7474eacb6222cedc33993d4657

* "‘Rare and historic’: California under first-ever tropical storm watch:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-rare-and-historic-california-under-first-ever-tropical-storm-watch-191149125707

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* "Montana judge sides with youth in historic climate trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/montana-judge-sides-with-youth-in-climate-trial-00107668

* "Let's talk about Held v Montana and a win....:"

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* "The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html

* "The first generation of solar panels will wear out. A recycling industry is taking shape:" https://apnews.com/article/recycle-solar-panel-circular-economy-sustainability-dc7284bab2180b5bd86ff5cb5c847652

* "It Gets Better Steps Back From Twitter/X Over Hate Speech Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/business/it-gets-better-stops-twitter

* "Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law Taking Effect Next Month:" https://www.advocate.com/law/pornhub-lawsuit-texas

* "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires):" https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/

* "Bot Therapy and Informed Consent:" https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/discords-kokobot-triggers-an-ethics-controversy/

* "Extreme Weather Is Coming. Someone Has to Tell the Chimps.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/science/extreme-weather-chimpanzees.html

* "Ailing and baby hummingbirds nursed to health at woman’s apartment-turned-clinic in Mexico City:" https://apnews.com/article/mexico-hummingbirds-clinic-3f8247ca7957416aa97ccbb7b2f1aca8

* "Why Do Archaeologists Rebury Their Excavations?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-do-archaeologists-rebury-their-excavations-180982542/

* "The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show:"

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* "On The Fairy Dog Petitcrieu, Who Cuts In Half All Sorrows:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/on-the-fairy-dog-petitcrieu-who-cuts?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=135893278&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

* "This book vanished when Anne Boleyn was executed. Now it reveals her secrets.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/anne-boleyn-book-of-hours-ultraviolet-hever

* "In Colonial Williamsburg, Thieving Rats Save History:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/colonial-williamsburg-bray-school-rat-nest-archaeology

* "Vintage Photos of Babies Learning to Walk Using Wicker Walkers, 1900s-1920s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wicker-walker-old-photos/

* "Heartstopper star Joe Locke wants people to ‘learn their boundaries’ after privacy violations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/heartstopper-season-two-joe-locke-people-need-boundaries-grandma/

* I am still catching up financially from the car repairs. I had a choice to buy 2 out of these three: cat little, kibbles, and gas. I chose the kibbles and gas as they were nearly out and necessary, and I had hopes of the litter lasting the month. It's not going to. If you could kick in a little for litter, it would cut down on Tavy getting creative which he has done three times this week: paypal.me/Gwydion

* "If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud:"

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* "Warrior Nun gets resurrected as film trilogy after massive fan campaign: ‘We made history’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/warrior-nun-returns-film-trilogy-cancelled-netflix-fan-reactions/

* "Death on the Nile ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Midnight Pals: Once Upon a Time in Delain:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725655545417252864/midnight-pals-once-upon-a-time-in-delain?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Chesssss:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725836407952785409/midnight-pals-chesssss?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: BBC:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725926403116236800/midnight-pals-bbc?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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

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* "Israel Police Impose Restrictions on Protests Near Lawmakers' Homes:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-01/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-impose-restrictions-on-protests-near-lawmakers-homes/00000189-b1bd-d2ad-afb9-bfbdf4820000

* "Police Officers Threaten to Sue Israelis Over Posts Citing Violence Against Protesters:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-03/ty-article/.premium/police-officers-threaten-to-sue-israelis-over-posts-citing-violence-against-protesters/00000189-bb85-d20c-addf-fb87a6e10000

* "Netanyahu's Judicial Coup | Israelis Rally for 31st Week Amid Knesset Hiatus and Record Police Violence:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-05/ty-article-live/israelis-rally-for-31st-week-amid-knesset-hiatus-and-record-police-violence/00000189-c5d6-d821-afdd-dff6eb440000

* "International pressure mounts on coup leaders in Niger while hundreds rally in support of junta:" https://apnews.com/article/coup-niger-extremists-sahel-c4ff0bc653c8b73366705b19b8c74c3e

* "Opinion: President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/mohamed-bazoum-coup-niger-democracy/

* "'Waiting To Be Arrested At Night' is the story of a Uyghur poet's escape:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192374018/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-is-the-story-of-a-uyghur-poets-escape

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard announces bid to become Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/suzy-eddie-izzard-labour-mp-brighton-pavilion/

* "Rise and Fall of a Russian Ultranationalist:" https://www.voanews.com/a/rise-and-fall-of-a-russian-ultranationalist-/7202060.html

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* "How the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Can Still Succeed:" https://time.com/6300772/ukraine-counteroffensive-can-still-succeed/

* "66 engravings dedicated to Holodomor recovered from under rubble in Sumy Oblast:" https://news.yahoo.com/66-engravings-dedicated-holodomor-recovered-131754687.html

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* "Ron DeSantis Invites Kamala Harris to Discuss Slavery Standards with Homophobe Who Wrote Them:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/slavery-florida-curriculum-william-allen

* "Lesbian and STI Expert Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo to Succeed Fauci at NIAID:" https://www.advocate.com/health/jeanne-marrazzo-niaid-fauci

* "Let's talk about Huntsville, Colorado, and Space Command....:"

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* "Senate OK's Defense Bill Without Anti-LGBTQ+ Provisions, Setting Up Fight With House:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senate-ndaa-approval

* "Rep. Bonamici: LGBTQ+ Seniors and Youth Most Imperiled by GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/bonamici-lgbtq-seniors-youth-gop

* "Voters Actually Oppose Anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Abortion Amendments to Defense Bill: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/opposition-anti-lgbtq-amendments

* "The perpetual infantilisation of millennial women:"

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* "Justine Bateman on the Destruction of the Film Business:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-ceos-greed-will-burn-the-movie-biz-down

* "Adam Conover Explains the SAG-AFTRA & WGA Strikes, Writing Residuals & Why He's not Scared of AI:"

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* "Cutting Down Trees To Hurt Protesters? (TREE LAW!):"

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* "At striking actors' hangout bar, tiny residual checks no longer a joke:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/striking-actors-hangout-bar-tiny-residual-checks-no-longer-joke-2023-08-02/

* "Disney Discontinues Physical Media Releases for an Entire Continent:" https://collider.com/disney-physical-media-release-discontinue-australia/

* "Tell Powell’s Books: Workers Deserve a Fair Contract with a Living Wage:" https://www.change.org/p/tell-powell-s-books-workers-deserve-a-fair-contract-with-a-living-wage

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasted for Call for Decorum After Displaying Sexual Photos:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/marjorie-taylor-greene-decorum-photos

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Um, where are our voting machines? The bonkers details of the new MI election indictments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/um-where-are-our-voting-machines-the-bonkers-details-of-the-new-mi-election-indictments-189868101865

* "Election deniers Dinesh D’Souza, Kari Lake highlight Michigan GOP fall conference:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/07/election-deniers-dinesh-dsouza-kari-lake-highlight-michigan-gop-fall-conference.html

* "‘Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387

* "Colorado GOP paid no staff in April while fundraising lags under new Chairman Dave Williams :" https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/24/colorado-republicans-dave-williams/

* "Minnesota’s Republican Party Is Totally Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/minnesotas-republican-party-is-totally-broke

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now! "The Critical Election Republicans Are Hoping You Won’t Notice:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/ohio-abortion-referendum.html

* "Mike Pence says he wants to ban trans people from the US military, again:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/mike-pence-says-he-wants-to-ban-trans-people-from-the-us-military-again/

* "Mike Pence trans military ban proposal ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’, says non-binary veteran:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/trans-military-ban-mike-pence-non-binary-lgbtq-dont-ask-dont-tell/

* "The DeSantis Campaign Made That Homophobic Video After All:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/desantis-campaign-homophobic-video-producers

* "George Santos Shocked at Ron DeSantis’s Homophobia, Says He Was Misled:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis

* "Kari Lake wants to do WHAT in response to Trump's indictment?:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/08/04/kari-lake-calls-trump-challengers-drop-out/70530227007/

* "Hayes: Mitch McConnell blew it with Trump impeachment acquittal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-mitch-mcconnell-blew-it-with-trump-impeachment-acquittal-190048837888

* "‘Look where we are now:’ Congresswoman rips Senate Republicans who acquitted Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-look-where-we-are-now-congresswoman-rips-senate-republicans-who-acquitted-trump-190049349995

* "Trump's mask slips further with choice of Alabama political event:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-mask-slips-further-with-choice-of-alabama-political-event-190060613647

* "“You Would Only Need a Week”: How the Next Republican President Could Ban Abortion Nationwide:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/mifepristone-comstock-abortion-medication-pill-texas-court-ban/

* "'Double talk': How the GOP is making white supremacy 'respectable' :" https://www.rawstory.com/white-supremacy-2662273994/

* "Republican Politician Urges Americans to Revisit Hitler and Stalin at Moms for Liberty Event:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/moms-for-liberty-read-hitler

* "In a California First, Lesbian Toni Atkins Signs Bills Into Law as Acting Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/toni-atkins-acting-governor-california

* "Lori Lightfoot on Defending the LGBTQ+ Community Against Republican Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-calls-on-allies

* "GOP Lawmaker Calls Teenage Senate Pages 'Little Sh*ts':" https://www.advocate.com/news/republican-lawmaker-curses-senate-pages

* "Mississippi Republican Called ‘Groomer’ Defends Pink Tutu Outfit:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-lawmaker-pink-tutu-groomer

* "Minnesota Senator Blames Pride for Mankind’s Impending Fiery Apocalypse:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/minnesota-senator-pride-apocalypse

* "George Santos Tried to Get Rich Through Political Connections: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-business-schemes

* "Ex-Ohio GOP chair, lobbyist Matt Borges shows remorse, gets 5 years for role in $60M bribery scheme:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-borges-sentencing-firstenergy-55ed095d2e6e83e820d9de514c85e96b

* "Ohio GOP Lawmaker Accused of Assaulting LGBTQ+ Protester Will Not Face Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/protests

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* "Subdued crowd gathers outside Washington courthouse where Trump was arraigned :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/03/trump-indictment-courthouse-arraignment-00109643

* "What to know about the Pennsylvania fake electors mentioned in Trump’s third indictment:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-indictment-pennsylvania-fake-electors-20230802.html

* "The Man With No Pants Is the Star of Donald Trump’s Latest Indictment :" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-justice-department-jeffrey-clark/

* "‘Banality of evil’: Trump conspirator's path from 'unremarkable' to coup plotter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-banality-of-evil-trump-conspirator-s-path-from-unremarkable-to-coup-plotter-190050885595

* "‘They got him’: Chris Hayes says this Trump arrest is ‘biggest of all time’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-got-him-chris-hayes-says-this-trump-arrest-is-biggest-of-all-time-189957701949

* "'Extremely volatile situation': Trump could put himself in jail before a prosecutor does:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-extremely-volatile-situation-trump-could-put-himself-in-jail-before-a-prosecutor-does-190058565682

* "Trump's Bonkers Superseding Indictment: They Tried to Delete the Video!:"

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* "Trump’s new judge is a tough Jan. 6 sentencer — and has a history with him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/trump-judge-tanya-chutkan-00109342

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* "St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan charged with joining Capitol riot in red face paint and Trump hat:" https://apnews.com/article/cardinals-fan-arrested-fbi-capitol-riot-trump-rally-runner-5a9dbaf3fce8750c38c1de40482884d2

* "Why can’t the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/12/why-cant-right-wing-bubble-give-up-ray-epps/

* "MyPillow is auctioning equipment after a sales slump. Mike Lindell blames "cancel culture.":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-mypillow-auction-equipment-cancel-culture/

* "A School Bus Crosses U.S., Linking Families of Mass Shooting Victims:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/mass-shooting-bus-tour-oliver.html

* "Police Say Dogs Help Solve Crimes. Little Evidence Supports That.:" https://undark.org/2023/07/24/police-say-dogs-help-solve-crimes-little-evidence-supports-that/

* "California Could Soon Reform Solitary Confinement—Unless Gavin Newsom Intervenes:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/07/california-could-soon-reform-solitary-confinement-unless-gavin-newsom-intervenes/

* "My Neighbors in Solitary:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/prison-experiences-female-inmate-solitary-confinment-texas.html

* "Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children :" https://theintercept.com/2023/04/16/georgia-army-national-guard-location-tracking-high-school/

* "Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-diversity-settlement-kathleen-mcelroy-9408f1196417e4cc554ffc74a19956e2

* "Faculty worry about Texas A&M’s future after controversies over higher ed politicization:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/27/texas-tamu-faculty-disappointment/

* "Montana's Drag Ban Blocked, Just in Time for Helena Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/law/montana-drag-ban-blocked

* "Ron DeSantis scraps all diversity and inclusion programmes from Disney World in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ron-desantis-disney-world-florida/

* "DeSantis Faces Criticism For Black History Standards, Makes It Worse:" https://advocatechannel.com/desantis-black-history-standards-response

* "After clash over teaching on gender, psychology class may be available to Florida students:" https://apnews.com/article/college-board-psychology-florida-8735b41aff3086f35785efb0e7682cd1

* "Why a psychology curriculum can't ignore the people Republicans don't like:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-a-psychology-curriculum-can-t-ignore-the-people-republicans-don-t-like-190056517821

* "Let's talk about my last day teaching in Virginia....:"

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* "Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-judge-blocks-librarian-criminalization

* "Chesterfield man charged with accessory to child kidnapping donated to anti-child trafficking movie:" https://www.kmov.com/2023/08/04/chesterfield-man-charged-with-accessory-child-kidnapping-donated-anti-child-trafficking-movie-newsweek-report-claims/

* "A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn't Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion:" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-increasingly-against-abortion-limits/

* "America’s Pediatricians Reiterate Support for Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/pediatricians-support-gender-affirming-care

* "Iran official in charge of ‘promoting Islamic values’ suspended over alleged gay sex video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/iran-official-reza-tsaghati-gay-sex-video/

* "Malaysian official brands LGBTQ+ people ‘perverted’ after eight protestors detained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/malaysian-official-brands-lgbtq-people-perverted-after-eight-protestors-detained/

* "Labour shift on trans rights is misguided attempt to win back red wall, says MP: ‘It’s patronising’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/labour-red-wall-conservative-lgbtq-trans/

* Fuckssake! "Court of Appeal dismisses legal challenge to years of NHS waits faced by trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/good-law-project-court-of-appeal-dismissed-trans-waiting-times/

* "Quakers pledge to stand by trans Brits: ‘A gold-standard for other faiths to follow’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/quakers-trans-pledge-britain/

* "What new journalism guidelines on reporting sex and gender means for UK’s right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ipso-guidelines-trans-news-stories-misgendering/

* "Judge throws out attempt to repeal trans anti-bullying policy in Ohio:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/ohio-bullying-trans/

* "17-Year-Old Suspect Arrested in Killing of O'Shae Sibley, Voguing Gay Man:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-suspect-arrested

* "O'Shae Sibley and LGBTQ Rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/o-shae-sibley-and-lgbtq-rights-190073925806

* "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/

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* "Gay British couple fleeing Greece wildfires with son ‘gobsmacked’ after being refused shelter:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/greece-wildfires/

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* "Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?:" https://apnews.com/article/solar-panels-irrigation-canals-climate-solution-c57cac43b71a0edf76e62c4adc0f3ff7

* "Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter threatens to sue anti-hate group over criticism of hate speech on the site:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/elon-musk-twitter-sues-anti-hate-group/

* "Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best. Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell.":" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/reddit-calls-for-a-few-new-mods-after-axing-polarizing-some-of-its-best/

* "See Stunning Images of Female Birds, Often Overlooked by Wildlife Photographers:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/see-stunning-images-of-female-birds-often-overlooked-by-wildlife-photographers-180982575/

* "Photos: London’s Urban Foxes:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/07/photos-london-urban-foxes/674870/

* "The Killer Whales of Eden and the ‘Law of the Tongue’:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/killer-whales-work-with-humans

* " X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery :" https://theconversation.com/x-marks-the-unknown-in-algebra-but-xs-origins-are-a-math-mystery-210440

* "‘Hello America, this is Addis Ababa.’:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-6-hello-america-addis-ababa-rcna95868

* "Is nature a gigantic cat? An electrifying letter from Nikola Tesla :" https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/is-nature-a-gigantic-cat-0bf

* "Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/fordlandia-brazil/

* "Carmen Xtravaganza, Paris Is Burning Star and Ballroom Icon, Dies at 62:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/carmen-xtravaganza-dead-62

* "12 bodies found under former Paiute Indian boarding school:" https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/12-bodies-found-under-former-paiute-indian-boarding-school/

* Far to late, but given how unlikely even a small measurr of justice is, I am celebrating anyway. "Henrietta Lacks' Family Reach a Settlement Over Her Stolen 'Immortal' Cell Line:" https://www.sciencealert.com/henrietta-lacks-family-reach-a-settlement-over-her-stolen-immortal-cell-line

* "How the ‘groundbreaking’ Henrietta Lacks settlement could change research:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02479-8

* "Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer — and harder:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/appalachian-trail-length-route-changes/?itid=mr_2

* "South Pole Signage:" https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage

* "Kidnapped at Birth:" https://nymag.com/news/features/carlina-white-2011-10/

* On Public Schools: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/724883379034734592?source=share

* "Meet Gay Bob, the Out and Proud Anatomically Correct Disco-Era Doll:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-bob-out-ken-barbie

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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.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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

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* I probably lost some things in the crash, but I'm too tired to work it out.

* "Turkey gives green light to Swedish NATO membership bid:" https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-sweden-locked-talks-break-impasse-over-nato-membership-2023-07-10/

* "Putin's war on Ukraine backfires as NATO set to expand again:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-war-on-ukraine-backfires-as-nato-set-to-expand-again-187430981956

* "NATO skirts final call on Ukraine membership, leaving unity-testing fight for later :" https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-skirts-final-call-on-ukraine-membership-leaving-unity-testing-fight-for-later/

* "Biden deems idea of Ukraine NATO membership as ‘premature’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/biden-deems-ukraine-nato-membership-premature-00105321

* "Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Jenin Operation, UN Palestinian Rights Official Says:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-06/ty-article/.premium/israel-may-have-committed-war-crimes-in-jenin-raid-un-palestinian-rights-official-says/00000189-2a7b-dcb5-a5df-6f7f370a0000

* "New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-eu-summit-libya-turkey-borders-refugees-eab33d5169ae1c147e0dc5b2dc1f8266

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* Russia has been using them on Ukrainian civilians for some time. "U.S. approves cluster bombs despite humanitarian concerns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/u-s-approves-cluster-bombs-in-latest-ukraine-weapons-transfer-00105234

* I am really alarmed. "One Ukrainian soldier had six extensively drug-resistant bacterial infections:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/ukraine-war-spurs-horrifying-rise-in-extensively-drug-resistant-bacteria/

* "A Boy’s Life on the Front Lines:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/26/magazine/ukraine-war-childhood.html

* "Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72

* "The Children Russia Kidnapped:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/russia-kidnapping-abducting-ukrainian-children/674535/

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* "U.S. drone strike kills Islamic State leader in Syria, Defense Department says :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/drone-strike-islamic-state-leader-syria-00105334

* "Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html

* "NYT: Clarence Thomas gave elite group 'unusual' access to Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-clarence-thomas-gave-elite-group-unusual-access-to-supreme-court-187414085847

* "Civil rights dominoes set to fall as conservative activists get Supreme Court's message:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/civil-rights-dominoes-set-to-fall-as-conservative-activists-get-supreme-court-s-message-188522053560

* "White House slams John Cornyn for infrastructure vote amid ‘Bidenomics’ push:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/cornyn-biden-broadband-funding-18175221.php

* "Biden laughs at Tuberville hailing Alabama broadband funds he voted against, reviving feud with senator:" https://www.al.com/politics/2023/07/biden-laughs-at-tuberville-hailing-alabama-broadband-funds-he-voted-against-reviving-feud-with-senator.html

* "US Rep. Nancy Mace endorses Charleston bus project. But she voted against its funding.:" https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/us-rep-nancy-mace-endorses-charleston-bus-project-but-she-voted-against-its-funding/article_687b1c16-15cb-11ee-b76d-277e7ee0749f.html

* "Buttigieg calls out opponents of infrastructure bill now trying to take credit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/buttigieg-calls-out-opponents-of-infrastructure-bill-now-trying-to-take-credit-187643973878

* "Read SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s fiery speech announcing actors’ strike:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-13/fran-drescher-speech-actors-strike-sag-aftra-strike-press-conference

* "'Complete disrespect': Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, rages at media execs over impasse:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-complete-disrespect-fran-drescher-sag-aftra-president-rages-at-media-execs-over-impasse-188373061828

* Why the Actor's strike is important: https://www.tumblr.com/thirddoctor/722802911553437696?source=share

* "GOP’s Bombshell Anti-Biden Witness Has a Wee Credibility Problem Why does this keep happening?:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/gal-luft-gop-biden-witness-charged-china-justice-department-comer.html

* "'Failure': Raskin on missing GOP ‘informant’ turning out to be fugitive:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-failure-raskin-on-missing-gop-informant-turning-out-to-be-fugitive-187630661543

* "McCarthy claims indictment of GOP 'informant' only makes Biden case 'stronger':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mccarthy-claims-indictment-of-gop-informant-only-makes-biden-case-stronger-188365381745

* "As GOP works the law enforcement refs for Trump, important policing issues go fallow:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-gop-works-the-law-enforcement-refs-for-trump-important-policing-issues-go-fallow-188084293657

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them 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/

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* Ohioans please vote! Early Voting has already started! "Ohio Republicans piling on in seeking closed primaries on top of Issue 1 affront:" https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2023/07/ohio-republicans-piling-on-in-seeking-closed-primaries-on-top-of-issue-1-affront-editorial.html

* "Ohio Issue 1 isn’t about any one issue — It’s about every issue and the power Ohio voters have:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/11/ohio-issue-1-isnt-about-any-one-issue-its-about-every-issue-and-the-power-ohio-voters-have/

* "‘Desperate’: Ohio Republicans pull ‘brazen stunt’ to undermine abortion rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-desperate-ohio-republicans-pull-brazen-stunt-to-undermine-abortion-rights-188514373750

* "WA transgender youth bill targeted in national culture war:" https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/05/wa-transgender-youth-bill-targeted-national-culture-war

* "Editorial: Ballot measure isn’t about parental rights:" https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-ballot-measure-isnt-about-parental-rights/

* "No, Washington Did Not Just Pass a Law Allowing the State to Kidnap and Transgenderify Children:" https://www.thestranger.com/news/2023/04/19/78955501/no-washington-did-not-just-pass-a-law-allowing-the-state-to-kidnap-and-transgenderify-children

* "Conspiratorial election denial bad for business pillow guy learns; GOP does damage control:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conspiratorial-election-denial-bad-for-business-pillow-guy-learns-gop-does-damage-control-188084805617

* "Abortion complicates 2024 outlook as Republicans gear up for Iowa and primary season:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/abortion-complicates-2024-outlook-as-republicans-gear-up-for-iowa-and-primary-season-187636805929

* "GOP candidates court anti-abortion crowd; count on mass amnesia for general election:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gop-candidates-court-anti-abortion-crowd-count-on-mass-amnesia-for-general-election-188084805859

* "We Investigated the Deepest, Darkest Corners of the Internet to Understand Ron DeSantis’ Bizarre New Video:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/08/ron-desantis-memes-lgbtq-ad-00105238

* He's targeting trans men specifically. "Why Ron DeSantis is emailing his supporters about men getting pregnant:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/desantis-campaign-cash-gop-voters-00104323"

* "The Sequel Will Be Worse. Trump’s former Justice Department officials fear a second term.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/trumps-ex-justice-department-officials-fear-a-second-term.html

* "‘Retaliation’: Why Trump’s former DOJ officials fear a second term:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-retaliation-why-trump-s-former-doj-officials-fear-a-second-term-187412037687

* "A Small Town’s Fourth of July: Flags, a 5K and Trump’s Attacks on American Institutions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/trump-pickens-independence-day.html

* "These are the 5 state driver's licenses no longer valid in Florida under new immigration law:" https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/these-are-the-5-state-drivers-licenses-no-longer-valid-in-florida-under-new-immigration-law/3066073/

* "Misfire’: Floridians already feeling economic effect of DeSantis immigration law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-misfire-floridians-already-feeling-economic-effect-of-desantis-immigration-law-187412038002

* Who was it who said a gaffe is saying what you really believe by accident? "Tommy Tuberville reverses his claim that white nationalists are unfairly labeled racist:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tommy-tuberville-triples-claim-white-nationalists-unfairly-labeled/story?id=101095697

* "‘Embarrassing’: Ex-Alabama Senator rips Tuberville's white nationalist remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-embarrassing-ex-alabama-senator-rips-tuberville-s-white-nationalist-remarks-188078661661

* "Ex-GOP Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for role in $60M bribery scheme; appeal expected:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-speaker-householder-sentenced-7ff5163a7d1fdbbfe6570ed34c7a7f67

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* "Disciplinary panel calls for Rudy Giuliani’s disbarment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/disciplinary-panel-calls-for-rudy-giulianis-disbarment-00105220

* "Attorney ethics case against Trump ally Clark moves forward in DC:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/attorney-ethics-case-against-trump-ally-clark-moves-forward-dc-2023-07-07/

* "DOJ won’t defend Trump in Carroll rape defamation case anymore:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/doj-trump-in-carroll-rape-defamation-case.html

* "A grand jury sworn in Tuesday could decide whether Trump is charged over Georgia’s 2020 election:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-grand-jury-0cfd32492da81697879b8c8ac00f8c83

* "Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/11/trump-classified-documents-trial-date-2024-00105565

* "New targets suggest new indictments likely in Trump cases: new reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-targets-suggest-new-indictments-likely-in-trump-cases-new-reports-188521029990

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* "Let's talk about a judge's quotes at a hearing...:"

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* The republican mainstream and literal Neo-NAZIs Venn Diagram is a circle. "College Republicans Convention to Host White Nationalist Nick Fuentes:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174204/college-republicans-united-convention-antisemite-nick-fuentes

* "US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills:" https://apnews.com/article/new-citizenship-test-naturalization-immigrants-immigration-c074aa1c92b226b4960485fb26d0f4fa

* "Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US – Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult :" https://theconversation.com/immigration-policies-dont-deter-migrants-from-coming-to-the-us-title-42-and-the-border-rules-replacing-it-only-make-the-process-longer-and-more-difficult-200776

* "Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184782128/cop-city-atlanta-domestic-terrorism

* "A Police K-9 Took This Man’s Eye:"

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* This decision is shameful. "Oklahoma judge dismisses Tulsa race massacre reparations case filed by last known survivors:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/08/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-case/index.html

* "Judge dismisses Tulsa reparations case as California reparations task force unveils final report:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/judge-dismisses-tulsa-reparations-case-as-california-reparations-task-force-unveils-final-report-187273285822

* "'This isn't over': Demand for national reparations intensifies after dismissal of Tulsa lawsuit:" https://news.yahoo.com/this-isnt-over-demand-for-national-reparations-intensifies-after-dismissal-of-tulsa-lawsuit-201152753.html

* "With race-based admissions no longer an option, states may imitate Texas Top 10% Plan:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/29/texas-college-top-ten-percent-plan-supreme-court/

* The Republican War on Capitalism, Child Safety, and Free Expression continues. Note they are saying that a simple display of a rainbow constitutes pedophilia as part of their campaign to trivialize CSA. "7 Republican AGs write to Target, say Pride month campaigns could violate their state’s child protection laws:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/08/business/target-attorneys-general-pride-month/index.html

* "Inside Moms for Liberty’s summit: Big money and even bigger conspiracy theories:" https://www.mediamatters.org/moms-liberty/inside-moms-libertys-summit-big-money-and-even-bigger-conspiracy-theories?fbclid=IwAR1HHHab7Z60Hq7HA_-C_OsGM-8TR2FOU-Lzv0pJwXpAE5n8akFBisXzUZw

* This means libraries can't let children read e-books to get around government censorship. "HOOPLA, OVERDRIVE/LIBBY NOW BANNED FOR THOSE UNDER 18 IN MISSISSIPPI:" https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

* CW: CSA. "BBC suspends presenter alleged to have paid teen for sexually explicit photos:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/bbc-explict-photos-teen-presenter-suspended/

* CW: CSA "BBC presenter: Second young person comes forward with allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/bbc-presenter-second-young-person/

* CW: CSA "Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter suspended over sexual images claim:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/bbc-presenter-huw-edwards/

* CW: Abuse "Fans Built Her an Internet Empire. Now They’re Tearing It Down:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/colleen-ballinger-miranda-sings-youtube-fans-allegations-1234774947/

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* "'Stop killing us': Polish women protest against strict anti-abortion law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/stop-killing-us-polish-women-protest-against-strict-anti-abortion-law-2023-06-14/

* "It’s Almost Impossible to Get an Abortion in Poland. These Women Crossed the Border to Germany for Help:" https://time.com/poland-abortion-laws-protest/

* "Poland sees peril for women of extreme, ill-considered abortion bans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/poland-sees-peril-for-women-of-extreme-ill-considered-abortion-bans-187296837924

* The Republican War on Freedom continues. "Most abortions now banned in Iowa after Gov. Kim Reynolds signs 'fetal heartbeat' law:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/iowa-abortion-ban-six-weeks-gov-kim-reynolds-signs-law-republicans-special-session-fetal-heartbeat/70398800007/

* For your own safety, I beg you not to give Meta's Facebook or Threads any of your data. "Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-to-abortion-charges-based-on-facebook-data/

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* I admit, I wept when I realized some of the women were older than me. So few are still here, but there they are living their best lives. "Kristen Lovell, co-director of 'The Stroll,' knows sex work is real work:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186278193/kristen-lovell-co-director-of-the-stroll-knows-sex-work-is-real-work

* "Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace expertly breaks down why so-called ‘trans ideology’ doesn’t exist:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/hollyoaks-actress-annie-wallace-sally-st-claire-trans-ideology/

* "Polish judge backs ‘homosexuals molest children’ claim in ‘shameful’ ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/poland-pride-van-lgbt/

* "Trans woman found ‘brutally murdered’ in her own home in Greece:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/trans-woman-murdered-greece-anna-ivankova/

* "EuroPride slams Georgian government ‘incompetence’ after Tbilisi Pride attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/europride-georgia-tbilisi-pride-attack/

* "US ambassador to host Pride party in defiance of Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ PM:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/david-pressman-hungary-us-viktor-orban-budapest-pride/

* "Nepal makes history as first South Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/nepal-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-ruling/

* "Latvia swears in EU’s first openly gay president:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/latvia-edgars-rinkevics-president-gay/

* "‘Straight pride’ photo lands Canadian politician Danielle Smith in hot water:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/straight-pride-photo-lands-canadian-politician-danielle-smith-in-hot-water/

* "Draft civil service gender policy would ban most trans employees from bathrooms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/civil-servants-trans-guidelines-gender-critical/

* "Government’s job to decide the definition of sex in Equality Act, says EHRC boss:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/ehrc-sex-definition-women-and-equalities-committee-trans/

* "MPs blast government for ‘unacceptable stress’ caused to LGBTQ+ community by conversion-therapy ban delay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/conversion-therapy-ban-conservative-government-lgbtq/

* "Appeal against spiralling trans healthcare wait times argues NHS ‘breached legal duty’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/court-of-appeal-good-law-project-nhs/

* "Oxfam, Samaritans and 100 other charities sign pledge to support trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/oxfam-samaritans-charities-sign-trans-rights-pledge/

* Vanderbilt University agrees with Republicans that HIPAA doesn't apply to trans people as we have no legal or human rights so turned over unredacted medical records not only without a fight, but without telling them thus outing and endangering their patients. Medical ethics? What medical ethics? "Tennessee A.G. uses private medical records in Republican campaign against trans people:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tennessee-a-g-uses-private-medical-records-in-republican-campaign-against-trans-people-187444805726

* "US hair salon refuses to serve some trans customers after Supreme Court ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/hair-salon-refuses-trans-non-binary/

* "Thousands of congregations disaffiliate from national church over LGBTQ+ issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/united-methodist-church-split-lgbtq/

* "Olympian Caster Semenya wins appeal at European Court of Human Rights over testosterone rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/caster-semenya-wins-appeal/

* "World cycling body bans trans women from female categories: ‘Impossible to rule out advantage’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/uci-cycling-trans-women-sports-ban/

* "The unspoken struggles of being a high masking Autistic:"

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* "The One-Shot Drug That Keeps on Dosing:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-one-shot-drug-that-keeps-on-dosing/

* "Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate:" https://apnews.com/article/black-maternal-mortality-american-indian-hispanic-deaths-64da18fec80f8f1790aee2e9986a757e

* "Noise could take years off your life:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/health/noise-exposure-health-impacts.html?unlocked_article_code=VgkBNGRcsfA0ZGckA2c6C4_95DcpKhkw4NGIrwKX-8ptavShrG8nAVm2KYEtuEkcIfTq5KSxVQ8SY4pDMWDO3U2PRJW8ZgIxhMJXVUu1h-9Qz4UVcwLw01vCRBUvnD80w7hC0baJCGFht_zJz4PbfW3ErJ2PNSd-u-3Mug1C3_45_ryX7kOTGxpQ-1qc3GjUIF4r-1rpHSiHHXv3EaKPUtEJd82-nPycZ-jouwVlp5pnliNRTR5z77PB_-fCtzQVBH_5D-JLOrifP__okHrdkFaD8TnnPLWfAyNFJwItEoBYI2H-ccP7E10kPoS6smyQ91AinKUYyWRCIyOPZ3HefifY1p3r1yAsbYb8wzLB8dLnrgHwlWE&smid=url-share

* "They Followed Doctors’ Orders. Then Their Children Were Taken Away.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/magazine/pregnant-women-medication-suboxonbabies.html/

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* "It’s even hot in Antarctica, where it’s winter:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23792828/antarctica-heat-wave-sea-ice-level-record-el-nino

* "Record-breaking heat scorches communities around the world:" https://apnews.com/article/heat-climate-change-global-warming-hot-recordbreaking-heat-b87a7cd3bb8f70692d433cb06877975b

* "Coast-to-coast heat dome sends temperatures soaring, threatens all-time records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/13/heatwave-california-arizona-florida-texas-records/

* "Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/

* "How Hot Is the Sea Off Florida Right Now? Think 90s Fahrenheit.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/florida-ocean-temperatures-reefs.html

* "90 degree sea temperatures among 'most worrying signs’ of climate crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/90-degree-sea-temperatures-among-most-worrying-signs-of-climate-crisis-188366917660

* "Record-breaking North Atlantic Ocean temperatures contribute to extreme marine heatwaves:" https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-north-atlantic-ocean-temperatures-contribute-extreme-marine-heatwaves

* "El Niño is back: Surging temperatures bring extreme weather and threaten lives:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/07/el-nino-is-back-heres-what-it-means-for-extreme-weather

* "A meteorologist got threats for his climate coverage. His new job is about solutions:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184461263/iowa-meteorologist-harassment-climate-change-quits

* "Canadian Wildfires Burn a Record 25 Million Acres With No End in Sight:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-15/canadian-wildfires-burn-a-record-25-million-acres-with-no-end-in-sight

* "Canada sees its farthest-north 100-degree temperature as wildfires rage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/canada-record-heat-wildfires-climate/

* "Campfire ban in place for most of B.C., state of emergency for Stikine announced as wildfire numbers spike:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-july-10-2023-1.6902150

* "Canadian wildfire dangers should prompt more proactive mitigation from government:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/canadian-wildfire-dangers-prompt-proactive-mitigation-government-experts/story?id=100478859

* "B.C. wildfire fighter, 19, died after being hit by falling tree while responding to blaze: RCMP:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/devyn-gale-bc-wildfire-fighter-dead-1.6907184

* "In fight against Canada fires, dancing South Africa crews are a familiar and uplifting sight:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-south-africa-firefighters-smoke-ea13e9377f4696a80f30c17f7ea959dc

* "For some remote Canadian wildfires, best and fastest option is sending in the smokejumpers:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-smoke-firefighters-smokejumpers-climate-ed33e70c86756119f631538becc9da29

* "The year of wildfire smoke: Why the U.S. faces a brutal season:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/year-wildfire-smoke-us-faces-brutal-season-rcna92453

* "Minnesota and Wisconsin issue air quality alerts amid a new round of Canada smoke:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187943437/minnesota-wisconsin-midwest-air-quality-alert-smoke

* "Fast-moving fires force evacuations, char thousands of acres in Riverside County as heat wave continues:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/fires-force-evacuations-char-hundreds-of-acres-in-riverside-county

* "Wildfire in southwest Oregon puts up huge smoke column, burning near Agness:" https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2023/07/15/large-wildfire-reported-near-oak-flat-in-southwest-oregon-agness/70417528007/

* "India's monsoon rains flood Yamuna river in Delhi, forcing thousands to evacuate and grinding life to a halt:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-monsoon-2023-delhi-flood-yamuna-river-record-water-level-deaths-evacuations/

* "Torrential rain, floods kill 22 across northern India:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/torrential-rain-floods-kill-22-across-northern-india-2023-07-10/

* "Flash floods hit Spain after heavy rainfall; cars swept away, people trapped:" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/flash-floods-hit-spain-after-heavy-rainfall-cars-swept-away-people-trapped-watch-101688868123707.html

* "Rare flash flood warning issued for New York as a woman dies trying to evacuate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-flash-flood-warning-issued-new-york-woman-dies-trying-evacuate-rcna93346

* "Vermont faces a rare high risk for flooding. Here’s why these days are so deadly and devastating:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/weather/vermont-flooding-high-risk-new-york/index.html

* "Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/11/vermont-flooding-cause/

* "Landslides and floods kill at least 22 as South Korea battered by torrential rains:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-korea-weather-landslides-torrential-rain-flooding-north-korea-rcna94415

* "In pricey Palos Verdes, the ocean view is great — until your house slides into a canyon:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-13/rolling-hills-estates-landslide-cause-palos-verdes-peninsula

* "Northern Mexico bakes as residents try to beat scorching heat:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/northern-mexico-bakes-residents-try-beat-scorching-heat-2023-07-14/

* "What 120 Degrees Looks Like in One of Mexico’s Hottest Cities:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/americas/hermosillo-mexico-heat.html

* "One-third of Americans under heat alerts as blistering weather spreads from Southwest to California:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3398221.html#cutid1

* "The Southwest Bakes With More Heat on the Way:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/heat-southwest-arizona.html

* "New measures are being taken to reduce heat-related deaths in Phoenix:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1186827280/new-measures-are-being-taken-to-reduce-heat-related-deaths-in-phoenix

* "Emergency room visits surge, Texans die amid dangerous heat wave:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deaths-illness/

* "As summer heats up, impacts of drought begin to appear in northwest Montana:" https://montanafreepress.org/2023/07/10/flathead-lake-at-precarious-level-as-drought-comes-to-northwest-montana/

* "Nearly 62,000 people died from record-breaking heat in Europe last summer. It’s a lesson for the US, too:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/world/deadly-europe-heatwave-2022-climate/index.html

* "How the Western drought has increased carbon emissions:" https://grist.org/energy/western-drought-hydropower-emissions-study/

* "Maryland asks some residents to conserve water amid drought conditions:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-water-conservation-drought-mde-20230710-fgd73j6vsve73j2frjizqg5ucy-story.html

* "Drought and extreme heat burn through farmers' margin for error — and it's only July:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/drought-extreme-heat-burn-farmers-margin-error-only-july-rcna93862

* "Coachella Valley Rescue Mission Provides Homeless Resources in Extreme Heat:" https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2023/07/12/coachella-valley-rescue-mission-provides-homeless-resources-in-extreme-heat/

* "In Phoenix, Heat Becomes a Brutal Test of Endurance:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/phoenix-heat-wave.html

* "Why is this city in the Keys the hottest spot in Florida? Weather service has answers:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather-news/article277277108.html

* "‘Bud Light of insurance’: Florida official blames insurer crisis on wokeness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bud-light-of-insurance-florida-official-blames-insurer-crisis-on-wokeness-188076101690

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* "Scottsdale bans natural grass in front yards of new houses to conserve water amid Arizona’s drought :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

* "A Building Made From Cannabis? Yes, Seriously - With Hempcrete:" https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/building-made-cannabis-yes-seriously-hempcrete/324521/

* "Drive-thrus are creating problems for cities and towns:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/business/drive-thru-fast-food-chick-fil-a-urban-planning/index.html

* "The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus:"

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* "Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/threads-shopping-mall-not-a-public-square/

* I stand by my avoidance of Facebook, Threads, and ChatGPT. "Hackers are increasingly using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/malware-chatgpt-lures-facebook/

* "Facebook's Threads is so depressing:" https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

* "Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend:" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

* "Elon Musk wants ‘d**k measuring contest’ with Mark Zuckerberg:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/elon-musk-wants-dk-measuring-contest-with-mark-zuckerberg/

* "Elon Musk and the dominance space:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/10/elon-musk-twitter-threads/

* "Twitter’s death spiral and what it means for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/13/twitter-death-lgbtq/

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?”:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

* "Twitter Blue Accounts Are Spreading Misinformation About The War In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/07/10/twitter-blue-accounts-are-spreading-misinformation-about-the-war-in-ukraine/?sh=77065a6f320f

* "Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle:" https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/

* "Pinanga Subterranea: New Species of Rare Palm Discovered to Flower Underground:" https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44551/20230627/pinanga-subterranea-new-species-rare-palm-discovered-flower-underground.htm

* "Summer is here. Where are the Fireflies?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/

* "Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowers-pollinate-honeybees-low-seeds

* "After being swallowed alive, water beetle stages 'backdoor' escape from frog's gut:" https://www.livescience.com/beetle-escape-frog-butt.html

* "Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show:" https://apnews.com/article/dolphin-mothers-baby-talk-calves-cc0c189aa1b8e1298155b1ea78c1002a

* "What Did Viking Town Houses Look Like? And Where Did They Poop?:"

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* "Reflections In The Shadow of Tahoma: Nettie J. Asberry:" https://www.tacomaartslive.org/terms/583-in-the-shadow-of-tahoma-nettie-j-asberry

* "A hundred years on from the 'cult of the clitoris' libel trial, let's remember that fake news is nothing new:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/oscar-wilde-maud-allan-cult-of-the-clitoris-black-book-first-world-war-a8369811.html

* "A fire destroyed millions of veterans’ records. 50 years later, families are still seeking answers:" https://apnews.com/article/military-records-fire-veterans-2f8337c58bc87c10179a2cf6ee54136a

* "My Aunties | Father Figures:"

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* "A Short History of Naughty Literature and Zane:"

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* "Steven Pieters: One of the longest-living HIV survivors in US dies after cancer battle:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/steven-pieters-hiv-activist-dies/

* "Fast fashion retailer Shein accused of racketeering and copyright infringement in lawsuit:" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/shein-rico-charge-racketeering-lawsuit-b2375825.html

* "5-person refugee team competes at European Games in Poland:" https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/50021/5person-refugee-team-competes-at-european-games-in-poland

* Very early Sunday morning I discovered that I no longer need four pillows on top of the two elderly wheelchair cushions on my beat up second hand office chair. I can now manage with just the two wheelchair cushions thanks to my new meds. This may seem like a small thing, but it means I get my options back for leg and hip positioning at my desk.

(I can't sit easily long term in a chair without propping my legs if I intend to use the legs for things like walking later. It's also uncomfortable to let them dangle. you know how starting ballet at a very young age changes the shape of your hip joints? Now add serious arthritic degeneration and what the current rheum thinks is hyper-mobility, but not the really obvious everyone notices it kind. Apparently they are in the process of changing diagnostic criteria based on more recent science. Apparently most ballet dancers and gymnasts would qualify under the newer guidelines, which makes sense to me.)

My shoulder is still completely fucked from the trying to clean up after the Uncleaner, but I am really noticing the difference in so many ways. Yay, new meds. I've mostly acclimated to the side effects so far. still no hallucinations and last night's test with combining with the emergency tramadol did not induce temporary psychosis, which is a really good sign. (For new readers a whole bunch of meds can induce hallucinations and paranoia in my family, including opiods, anti-psychotics, and SSRIs. At high doses we are talking full psychotic break, a thing I've seen now deceased older family members experience in the hospital. if someone is having an obvious psychotic break, they tend to administer anti-psychotics, which have a multiplying effect with the pain killers and thus make things way worse, so they administer more anti-psychotics instead of cutting the opiods and the anti-psychotics out.... you can see the obvious problem. I have only just started hallucinating with stronger opiods, but can still tolerate milder ones. They are still a little unpleasant for me at low doses. I don't use them too often because some time pain killers are necessary and due to allergies my only other options are Tylenol and my arthritis pill, which I can't take more often than every twelve hours for safety reasons. It's a whole thing. New med is a class none of us have taken before, so I'm a guinea pig). I am wary of going up to the standard for adult humans dose, however, as I am getting the weird intense dreams side effect, which for me can be a warning that a drug is about to turn ugly on me. Don't worry, everybody around me knows what's going on with my meds situation.

I other news, Tavy wants to hang out with his favorite Millennials and enjoyed watching the Friday cleaner, but still is only letting me and Squirrel touch him. he did want to be super close to goth Millennial Saturday and was interested in play, though tired easily in the heat. He also get upset when it was time for Goth Millennial to go home. It's looking like he's recovering from the Uncleaner traumatizing him. he still wants reassurance after sleep, but yesterday he didn't wake me in a panic after a bad nightmare and have trouble being soothed. I am still furious about the whole thing, but the cats are being more normal.

Goth Millennial put in the air conditioner/air filtration in the main area before they left, which is making a huge difference.

* Sunday: Tavy let Goth Millennial pet him. he’s still too distressed to sit on the sofa with Goth Millennial for TV time and pettins, but he did curl up behind us. The cats are still sleepy, I'm hoping from the heat and not the Ajax, but Tavy was himself enough to play what is a normal amount for him in summer.

Goth Millennial got some good gardening in and is starting to sort out things cleaners put away in odd locations. The air filtering in the main room is being a huge help. I worry about all the smoke injuring my cats and the Millennials. I know it's really been fucking me up, but ever running the machine for a few hours perks us all up. My room is filtered as always when I sleep, of course.

I blew through all the EBT and OTC in the first week of July and am way over budget on food already. Sigh. I gaze sadly at melons and cucumbers I can't eat safely and pass on.

* The new meds side effect wave hit hard and dangerous Thursday, but I'm not sure it didn't start a lot earlier.

Okay, so I had a vicious headache last Friday night for about three hours, which didn't particularly shock me, as my body just does stuff like that. Same Saturday. Normal. Sunday. Monday. I made a note to mention it to the doctor Tuesday morning, but forgot. I noticed Tuesday's headache at the same time was absolutely crushing for three hours, then shut off like a faucett as if it had never been. Which is creepy and wrong. So I'm now weighing if the new meds improvement is worth creepy three hour debilitating headache every day, and if I should call it in the next day.

So Wednesday I wake up to one of my body is very, very bad days. which is a thing that happens sometimes, especially if my body's been to far which between the uncleaner and the extreme heat and this being the worse time of year for my allergies and assorted RL commitments including the doctor is not weird. Plus I'm... I forget how many days in on struggling to type on Klaus Laptop because its hard to lift my arm the extra nine and a half inches, and I'm mostly having to drink with a straw because i go half my wake cycle not being ably to lift a full glass of water that high and I'm dropping things because my arms are fucked. which happens. All of it really stresses out my body though, you follow?

So sometimes the alarm goes off because I have to go somewhere and my body nopes out of it, or tries to. So I'm exhausted. I have the shakes. I end up way late to pick up Goth Millennial because it's just that hard to move. So I drive Goth Millennial around and wait in the car while they do errands. Goth Millennial goes outside to putter in the garden. I lung, then take a nap, all with Tavy glued to my chest, because it's sometimes better after a nap. Resets everything to a more acceptable level of crappy.

I make it all the way up to minimally functional by the time the other Millennials arrive for dinner. One of them had brought pre-marinated and cooked tofu. Me: I think we should make rice for it. With coconut milk and saffron and Turmeric. New Millennial: Oooo! That sounds delicious! Me: It's possible I'm edging up towards Indonesian happy rice except I don't have any lemon grass. But I do have Bay leaves.... So it ends up with New Millennial Making Rice and the two of us keep consulting on spices until I have to lie down again. The results we excellent.

Tavy is still clearly traumatized from the Uncleaner. He loves techie Millennial. Techie Millennial was the first visitor he let pet and play with him. He hid from the Millennials when they arrived after nap time. He did eventually come out and watch them for a bit and even rubbed against Techies legs, but ran if it even looked like someone might tough her. I'm still so angry about the Uncleaner traumatizing him like this.

Really, I just wanted to go to bed after they left, but I needed to stay up for the morning allergy treatment. My body was really not movi ng well, but I dragged myself there and back, which nearly did me in. I did manage to prep for bed and climb in, which really fucking hurt, at which point the first wave of hallucinations and fast heartbeat and arrhythmia hit. So that was fun. Me: Guess that's it for new Meds. They were amazing while they lasted.

They must have been really busy at the doctor because they didn't get back to me until afternoon. I left a message for my doctor's nurse, conveying that I was having severe side effects and needed to know if I should go to the ER. No one ever got back to me. The heart stuff got really bad for four or five hours, always with visual hallucinations. I thought about calling for help, but my right arm wasn't working and my left wasn't great either, and it's usually eight hours minimum to get seen at the ER and they yell at you if you bring in chest pains that turn out not to be a heart attack, and the pain only happened when I moved so it was likely just torso muscles screaming about my arms.

But the supper high irregular heart beat for hours can't be good. I wrote this waiting for receptionist call back Friday morning. I was 36 minutes in on the wait as I typed this sentence. I really think they should check my heart, but if they are this busy... Yeah. I'm assuming if it was really dangerous, they'd return my call from yesterday instead of continuing to ignore my message.

* It took about an hour and a quarter total, but we will find out if i had a heart attack or not on Tuesday. They I had to chase down the asshole agency as they had not called to tell me the cleaner wasn't coming, so it's now rescheduled for Tuesday. Then I waited on hold to try to schedule the mobility assessment, only to discover the number they gave was for central processing. They were going to transfer me when call waiting beeped, so i made them give me the direct line number and extension. (It was meds. Pharmacy was delivering meds and they only wait five minutes so that was the correct call on my part.) The making appointment direct line was faster by far, but I had no clue which wheelchair vender I was interested in. O.o apparently they have the vender in on assessment days, so that effects scheduling. I let her pick. She was like: We like this one better, but we have to offer both.

Forage delivery still hadn't arrived. It was now really hot and polleny outside. This is relevant. I can't leave food out there very long or it will spoil. Inside, I have air conditioning and extra filtering. I can breath inside, but not outside. I was exhausted and frustrated and really pissed off about the medical stuff. My chest was still tight. There is a band of intense pain keeping me from lifting my arms properly. I manage to drag the laundry basket to me room anyway, but I'm not remotely up to the pain involved in folding it. Livia wants her love. I climb into bed for Livia loves. My experience is, getting ready to sleep summons Forage Delivery somehow. Livia is done with her love. I've been in bed over an hour waiting. Tavy insists I should sleep with claws to my nipple, because health stiff makes him anxious.

The phone rings. We have the conversation where we double check which porch to put it on. I lie there a bit, working up to the pain of levering myself out of bed. I lumber out there. No food boxes. so I'm thinking did he think left instead of right? So I'm out in the mid day sun with my crutch and bare feet, struggling to breath because I can't breath in the heat on a good day and this isn't close. I have no idea how I will get the food boxes to my apartment. My best guess is crawl on the pavement pushing them ahead of me because there is zero chance of my arms even lifting them. It's not on the patios of any building facing the gazebo. Me: did they drive past and hit the wrong side of my building? So I hobble around the other side in baking heat and it's not on the logical patios. I have to then hobble all the way back to my patio, exhausted. I simply can't be out any longer or I will collapse. This is why I have forage delivery, so I don't have to seriously endanger myself getting the food. Which i am now doing and failing at miserably.

I try last call return. No one answers. Fuck! I restart the computer and look up forage delivery dispatch. I get a live human without a long wait on hold for the first time in two days. This is possibly a miracle. I am still struggling to breath when I explain and ask if they could at least give me a hint as to where the food is because I can't be out in the sun searching anymore. She puts me on hold and reaches them. She puts me on hold and reaches them. she says they will come back.

So I go lie down in my room where the air is best and wait. He’s like: I’m right here. The food is here. I go look. No man. No food. I used my stop a kid from across the playground below to see if we could get a Polo for my Marco. No dice. I had cleverly left the phone off the hook when I went to look on the grounds that the food was definitely not on my patio previously.

It turns out that they’d put it in the middle of the other side of the building, expecting me somehow to drag it all that way over carpeted halls. O.o I didn’t think to look there because we’d discussed patio locations in such a super specific way moments before he’d put it at the main entrance instead of a patio. He was nice enough to bring it around and drop it right inside my door.

I have recently learned Millennials generally don’t know the word “gazebo” and are afraid to ask or look it up because of the cleaners. I am now wondering if patio may also be too bougie to be familiar, but lots of apartments around here come with small patios if they are ground floor, even the shitty apartments I can generally afford, just like tiny balconies are super common on upper floors in this region. Surely jungle of plants and blue chair were hints though? IDK. We’ve lost a lot of delivery people in the decade we live here too. Something about the complex confuses people.

Forage delivery guy looked like a thirtyish Mr. Clean and really was very kind, just confused.

Goth Millennial was sweet enough to come in on their day off to work and extra two hours looking after me, and then we finished the back third of a movie we’d been re-watching together. I’m not great, but improving. I also have a new unexplored theory about what is wrong with my arms from the article about statins I linked in this space. I guess I’ll run it by the doctor when I see them.

* "Completely Neutral, Race-Blind College Admissions Questions:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/completely-neutral-race-blind-college-admissions-questions

* "You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/183910148322/you-drop-a-small-piece-of-food-on-the-floor-and

* "Midnight Pals: Body Horror:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/722118655202181120/midnight-pals-body-horror?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* I was ready to post Tuesday, but exhaustion claimed me, and inevitably more news needed to be folded in.

* "Eritrea deploying new army units into Tigray, says regional government :" https://sudantribune.com/article267040/

* "Iran must release protesters' bodies:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63715994

* "Taliban bars Afghan women from public parks, funfairs in Kabul:" https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221110-taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-entering-amusement-parks-in-kabul

* "A jailed Hong Kong lawyer defies Beijing's drive to subjugate the city:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-hongkong/

* "Jeremy Hunt’s austerity budget: necessity or political choice?:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/15/jeremy-hunts-austerity-budget-necessity-or-political-choice

* "I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System:"

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* "U.K. nurses, struggling to pay bills, say strike is for future of health care:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/19/britain-nurses-strike-vote-inflation/

* "Eddie Izzard on selfish Tories, transphobes and her fight for fairness:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/08/eddie-izzard-labour-mp-trans/

* "Sheku Bayoh's sister received abuse after speaking at death inquiry:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63676265

* "More than 70,000 UK university staff go on strike over pay and pensions:" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/24/more-than-70000-uk-university-staff-go-on-strike-over-pay-and-pensions

* "Scottish schools shut as teachers strike over pay:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-63734668

* "Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow:" https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the-nato-country-that-captured-him-delivering-another-embarrassing-blow-to-moscow-010049616.html

* "South Korea truckers strike again with auto, battery supply chains at risk:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/south-korean-truckers-go-strike-posing-risk-supply-chain-2022-11-23/

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* "What’s the Harm in Talking to Russia? A Lot, Actually.:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/22/russia-ukraine-war-negotiation-diplomacy-settlement-peace-ceasefire-armistice-putin/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editors%20Picks%20OC&utm_term=58702&tpcc=Editors%20Picks%20OC

* "Zelenskiy: Ukrainian forces repel 100 attacks in Donetsk region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-ukrainian-forces-repel-100-attacks-donetsk-region-2022-11-18/

* "Main units of Russia’s airborne forces likely redeployed to Donetsk, Luhansk directions:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3620840-main-units-of-russias-airborne-forces-likely-redeployed-to-donetsk-luhansk-directions.html

* "In Poland, a Warm Welcome for Ukrainian Refugees Wobbles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/world/europe/poland-ukrainian-war-refugees.html

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* "Biden extends student loan repayment freeze as forgiveness program is tied up in courts:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/student-loan-repayment-freeze-extended/index.html

* "SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett Urged to Skip LGBTQ+ Rights Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/21/scotus-justice-amy-coney-barrett-urged-skip-lgbtq-rights-case

* "'We Run Two Grocery Stores Where Everything is Free':" https://www.newsweek.com/we-run-two-free-grocery-stores-1734767?fbclid=IwAR3wPEqT1N4AOxWLVhSY61YgCRtYlYo7w0bmUv2coKnb3f-eptwS70LTUCU

* "These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days:" https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/11/15/1136039542/these-companies-ran-an-experiment-pay-workers-their-full-salary-to-work-fewer-da

* "Unions and Management Head Back to Negotiating Table as Strike Looms:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/22/unions-and-management-head-back-negotiating-table-strike-looms

* "Largest rail union rejects contract, stoking fears of a strike:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/1137640529/railroads-freight-rail-unions-vote-contract-strike

* "Congress holds first ever hearing on a congressional seat for the Cherokee Nation:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137534079/cherokee-delegate-congress-hearing-treaty-new-echota

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely contact them 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/

* "Prosecutors drop charges against DeSantis’ voter fraud suspect:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/11/21/tampa-illegal-vote-desantis-voter-fraud-arrest-charges-dropped-hillsborough/

* "Why 21% of Tennessee’s Black Citizens Can’t Vote:" https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-black-voters-disenfranchised

* "In election, support for abortion rights was about much more:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-inflation-health-religion-9c15e24b280fe9c65f4f0c3ab4febb2a

* "Ohio Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote on abortion rights :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ohio-republicans-are-trying-to-make-it-harder-to-vote-on-abortion-rights-154844229918

* "Election officials feared the worst. Here's why baseless claims haven't fueled chaos:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1136537352/2022-election-how-voting-went-misinformation

* "Democrats slam Kevin McCarthy over his vow to remove them from committees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-slam-kevin-mccarthy-vow-remove-committees-rcna58159

* "Schiff contends Republican House majority will 'be chaos' with a 'very weak leader':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/schiff-bemoans-growth-crazy-caucus-house-gop/story?id=93616474

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Promised GOP Will Investigate Pelosi, DOJ: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-promised-doj-probe-nancy-pelosi-1234632355/

* "House of Horrors: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress Is Upon Us:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/gop-house-majority-kevin-mccarthy-marjorie-taylor-greene

********** Election results **********

* "Lisa Murkowski Wins Re-election in Alaska, Beating a Trump-Backed Rival:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-alaska-senate-race.html

* "CNN projects Rep. Mary Peltola will win race for Alaska House seat, thwarting Sarah Palin's political comeback again |:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/peltola-palin-alaska-election-results/index.html

* "Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy reelected to second term:" https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/11/23/gov-mike-dunleavy-reelected-to-second-term/

* "Rep. Mary Peltola wins Alaska House race, defeating Sarah Palin:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-mary-peltola-wins-alaska-house-race-defeating-sarah-palin-155106373749

* "Mary Peltola (D) Wins Re-Election in Alaska House Race:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mary-peltola-d-wins-re-election-in-alaska-house-race-155112005993

* "Blake Masters joins Kari Lake's hit song, 'I lost so you cheated':" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/11/18/blake-masters-sings-kari-lake-song-lost-election-stolen/69661340007/

* "Two red counties in Arizona refuse to certify elections. That could backfire.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/two-red-counties-in-arizona-refuse-to-certify-elections-that-could-backfire-155013189525

* "Arizona will recount election results for Attorney General race:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/arizona-will-recount-election-results-for-attorney-general-race-155021381785

* "Rep. David Valadao wins reelection in endangered Central Valley congressional seat:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-21/2022david-valadao-rudy-salas-congress-central-valley

* "Rep. Karen Bass elected as next Los Angeles Mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-karen-bass-elected-as-next-los-angeles-mayor-154700357660

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* "Georgia counties scramble to meet new deadlines as Senate runoff looms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/19/georgia-runoff-election-voting-law/

* "Georgia Supreme Court denies Republican bid to halt early voting in the Senate runoff Saturday:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/georgia-supreme-court-shoots-republican-bid-halt-early-voting-senate-r-rcna58554

* "Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker getting tax break in 2022 on Texas home intended for primary residence:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/kfile-herschel-walker-texas-tax-break-georgia-runoff/index.html

* "Herschel Walker accuser comes forward with fresh relationship claims:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/22/herschel-walker-us-senate-abortion-relationship

* "Herschel Walker Says 'This Erection Is About the People' During Fox News Appearance:" https://www.thewrap.com/herschel-walker-says-this-erection-is-about-the-people-during-fox-news-appearance-video/

* "Herschel Walker claims Texas as his primary residence on taxes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/herschel-walker-claims-texas-as-his-primary-residence-on-taxes-155108421803

* "Veteran GOP Strategist: Herschel Walker running for Senate 'was a ridiculous idea':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/veteran-gop-strategist-herschel-walker-running-for-senate-was-a-ridiculous-idea-155117637699

* "How Musk's Twitter takeover could endanger vulnerable users:" https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-tech-twitter/feature-how-musks-twitter-takeover-could-endanger-vulnerable-users-idINL8N3250CW

* "Elon Musk's Twitter Is 'Hellscape' for LGBTQ+ People, Critics Say:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/02/elon-musks-twitter-hellscape-lgbtq-people-critics-say

* "Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-twitter-poll-showing-narrow-majority-want-trump-reinstated-2022-11-20/

* *headdesk* "Kanye West running for president in 2024 – with ‘ex-gay’ Milo Yiannopoulos:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/kanye-west-milo-yiannopoulos-presidential-campaign/

* "Lindsey Graham testifies before Georgia grand jury in election probe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/22/lindsey-graham-georgia-grand-jury/

* "Manhattan Prosecutors Move to Jump-Start Criminal Inquiry Into Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/nyregion/trump-bragg-stormy-daniels.html

* "Appeals court is dubious of Trump's arguments for special master review of Mar-a-Lago search:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/appeals-court-trump-doj-mar-a-lago-docs

* "Supreme Court clears way for Trump tax returns to go to Congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/22/supreme-court-trump-taxes/

* "Prosecutors seek Mike Pence’s testimony on Jan. 6 grand jury probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/23/mike-pence-testimony-jan-6-grand-jury-00070778

* "Lessons from a World War II scandal that put the Justice Department to the test.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lessons-from-a-world-war-ii-scandal-that-put-the-justice-department-to-the-test-154852421830

* "Decision Fatigue:" https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/11/decision-fatigue.html

* "There Are No Lone Wolves:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/us-white-supremacy-violence.html

* This was the Trans Day of Remembrance. Another Republican Terrorist has attacked our community and killed our people. "Mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/colorado-springs-club-q-mass-shooting/index.html

* "Tributes pour in after five people killed in horrifying mass shooting at gay bar:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/20/colorado-mass-shooting-tributes/

* "Suspect named after five killed in horrifying mass shooting at gay nightclub:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/20/colorado-mass-shooting-gay-club-q-anderson-lee-aldrich/

* "Chasten Buttigieg, Others Slam Lauren Boebert’s Massacre Statement:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/20/chasten-buttigieg-others-slam-lauren-boeberts-massacre-statement

Republicans call dehumanize us and call for our deaths and then pretend to be surprised when terrorists they encouraged actually do it.

* "Club Q Shooting Survivor: Where Will We Go to Feel Safe Now?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/20/club-q-shooting-survivor-where-will-we-go-feel-safe-now

* "Club Q Shooting Comes Amid Increased Attacks on LGBTQ+ Venues:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/20/club-q-shooting-colorado-comes-amid-increased-attacks-lgbtq-venues

* "The Tragedy at Club Q, the Tipping Point, & the Bloodbath:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/11/20/tragedy-club-q-tipping-point-bloodbath

* "Biden, Polis, and More Call Out Gun Violence, Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/20/biden-polis-and-more-call-out-gun-violence-anti-lgbtq-bigotry

* Because of course she did. "Marjorie Taylor Greene Uses Gay Club Mass Shooting to Lie About Drugs:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/11/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-uses-gay-club-mass-shooting-lie-about-drugs

* "3 Victims of Colorado Springs Gay Club Shooting Remembered:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/3-victims-colorado-springs-gay-club-shooting-remembered

* "Colorado LGBTQ+ shooting suspect charged with hate crime as bomb arrest emerges:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-shooting-suspect-charged/

* "Photos: Who Were the 5 Victims of the Club Q Shooting?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/photos-who-were-5-victims-club-q-shooting-colorado-springs#media-gallery-media-1

* "LGB Alliance condemned for shameful response to Colorado LGBTQ+ shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-shooting-lgb-alliance/

* "Club Q Victims, Heroes Identified by Colorado Springs Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/club-q-victims-heroes-identified-colorado-springs-police

* "Meet the Man Who Took Down the Club Q Gunman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/meet-man-who-took-down-club-q-gunman

* "Army vet explains how he stopped Colorado shooter with help of trans woman:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/richard-fierro-trans-woman-colorado-shooting/

* "Mother of trans man killed in Colorado Springs shooting issues powerful plea:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/mother-colorado-springs-shooting-speaks-out/

* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez links Colorado shooting to anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-colorado-springs-shooting/

* "Accused Colorado nightclub gunman grandson of longtime East County politician:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2022-11-20/accused-colorado-nightclub-gunman-grandson-of-longtime-east-county-politician

* "Sailor Who Heroically Intervened in Club Q Shooting Recovering in the Hospital:" https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/11/22/sailor-who-heroically-intervened-club-q-shooting-recovering-hospital.html

* "Herschel Walker Blasted for Anti-Trans Rants After Club Q Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/11/22/herschel-walker-blasted-anti-trans-rants-after-club-q-shooting

* "Gays Against Groomers Blames Gender-Affirming Care for Club Q Massacre:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/23/gays-against-groomers-founder-blames-gender-affirming-care-club-q-massacre

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene calls gay Democrat a 'groomer' after Club Q shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-scott-weiner-club-q-shooting-colorado-springs-groomer/

* "Colorado Springs shooter denied bail after first appearance in court:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/24/colorado-springs-shooter-denied-bail/

* "Club Q shooter’s dad more worried about his child being gay than a murderer:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/24/colorado-springs-shooting-father-anti-gay-rant/

* "The Club Q mass shooter is trolling, he's a homophobic man according to friends and family:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/23/2137984/-The-Q-Club-mass-shooter-is-trolling-he-s-a-homophobic-man-according-to-those-who-know-him?_=2022-11-23T00:34:30.000-08:00

* "TV anchor sent disgusting homophobic abuse for covering Club Q shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/colorado-springs-shooting-tv-anchor-receives-abuse/

* Lauren Boebert lies like a rug. "Lauren Boebert claims she's never said anything bad about LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/lauren-boebert-colorado-springs-shooting-anti-lgbtq/

* "Co-Owners of Club Q discuss aftermath of mass shooting:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/five-dead-18-injured-after-shooting-at-colorado-springs-lgbtq-club-154856005747

* "Club Q shooting: Fierro serves as rebuttal to right's bigotry toward queer spaces:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/club-q-shooting-fierro-serves-as-rebuttal-to-right-s-bigotry-toward-queer-spaces-155013189880

* "Ed Sanders, Club Q shooting survivor, recounts his experience:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ed-sanders-club-q-shooting-survivor-recounts-his-experience-155018309974

* "Pulse Survivors, Community Send Support to Club Q in Colorado Springs:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/22/pulse-survivors-community-send-support-club-q-colorado-springs

* "Pulse survivor sends support to Club Q victims and issues urgent plea:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/24/pulse-survivor-brandon-wolf-plea/

* "How to Help Those Affected by the Club Q Tragedy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/how-help-those-affected-club-q-tragedy

* "Mass Shootings Continue to Scar Colorado since Columbine in 1999:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/21/mass-shootings-continue-scar-colorado-columbine-1999

* "12 recent mass shootings that gained national attention:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-recent-mass-shootings-gained-national-attention/story?id=93851575

* "The Colorado attack is the 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/us/7-mass-shootings-7-days-trnd/index.html

* "Shooting at Walmart in Virginia Adds to Nation’s Grim Gun Toll:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/walmart-shooting.html

* "Man arrested in ‘executions’ of 4 at Oklahoma pot farm:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/22/oklahoma-hostages-killed-marijuana-farm/

* "Four Students Are Injured in Shooting Near Philadelphia High School:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/philadelphia-school-shooting.html

* "Police looking for help from public to solve shootings in West Palm Beach:" https://cbs12.com/news/local/police-looking-for-help-from-public-to-solve-shootings-in-west-palm-beach-november-18-2022

* "One death at a time, gun violence claimed more than 400 lives in just three North Texas counties:" https://www.keranews.org/news/2022-11-01/one-death-at-a-time-gun-violence-claimed-more-than-400-lives-in-just-three-north-texas-counties

* "Deported Trans Activist Murdered in the Street:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/07/deported-trans-activist-murdered-street

* "Inside One of America’s Deadliest Police Departments:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1ll7JR5Lc

* DO NOT WANT!!!! "SFPD authorized to kill suspects using robots in draft policy:" https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitted-under-sfpd-draft-policy/

* "Cover-Up Over Killing of Gay Rapper Kevin Fret?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/07/cover-over-killing-gay-rapper-kevin-fret

* CW: Rape. "DNA Evidence Links 1980s Murders of D.C. Lesbian, Another Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/31/dna-evidence-links-1980s-murders-dc-lesbian-another-woman

* "Kentucky Student Arrested for Assaulting Black Student Worker:" https://advocatechannel.com/kentucky-student-arrested-for-assaulting-black-student-worker

* "Patrons Outraged Over Racist, Transphobic Show at Famous Leather Bar:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/03/patrons-outraged-over-racist-transphobic-show-famous-leather-bar

* "ACLU Tells Michigan Schools to Reverse Book Bans:" https://advocatechannel.com/aclu-tells-michigan-schools-to-reverse-book-bans

* "School District Pulls 7 LGBTQ+ Books From Shelves:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/08/wisconsin-school-district-pulls-7-lgbtq-books-shelves

* "Texas Rights Groups File Legal Complaint Over Ban on LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/texas-rights-groups-file-legal-complaint-over-ban-lgbtq-books

* CW: Rape "'Bondi Beast' serial rapist identified after almost 40 years:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699882

* CW: Sexual Assault. I believe the accuser. "Sex worker abused by Boy George blasts ‘hurtful’ I’m a Celebrity casting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/06/boy-george-assault-victim-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here-audun-carlsen/

* CW: Pedophilia "What Does it Mean To Be “Groomed”?:" https://thenib.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-groomed/

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?':" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tesla-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-investigation-elon-musk-1234590697/

* "Gay Black Man Discovers He Can't Donate Sperm:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/10/24/gay-black-man-discovers-he-cant-donate-sperm

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* Georgians! Do not forget to vote! "Georgia Supreme Court reinstates six-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/georgia-abortion-ban-supreme-court/index.html

* "Arizona Will Not Enforce 1864 Abortion Ban... Until Next Year:" https://advocatechannel.com/arizona-will-not-enforce-1864-abortion-ban-until-next-year

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* "Dubbed torture, ID policies leave transgender people sterile:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-sterilization-e2cd525389eb17bf5201fa0fcbabdbf3

* "Russia's State Duma Approves Bill to Ban 'LGBT propaganda':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/24/russias-state-duma-approves-bill-ban-lgbt-propaganda

* "New Australian Commission Examines Infamous String of Antigay Murders:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/03/new-australian-commission-examines-infamous-string-antigay-murders

* "Tokyo Same-Sex Couples Start Receiving Partnership Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/11/01/tokyo-same-sex-couples-start-receiving-partnership-certificates

* "Trans Day of Remembrance vigil filled with heartfelt memories of lives lost in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/trans-day-of-remembrance-soho-square-event/

* "Trans woman who died after 1,000 days on NHS wait list remembered by sister:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/trans-day-of-remembrance-alice-litman/

* "Liberal Democrats quitting over party's controversial definition of transphobia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/liberal-democrats-transphobia-definition-backlash-layla-moran/

* "British Airways drops archaic gendered rules for staff:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/11/british-airways-male-staff-to-wear-piercings-and-makeup/

* "‘Former detransitioner’ Ky Schevers on rebuilding her life after falling for ‘cult-like’ TERFs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/11/ky-schevers-detransition/

* "The magical moment I realised I was definitely not a woman:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/20/trans-non-binary-coming-out-nancy-eves-just-like-us/

* I am terribly disappointed in Stephen Fry.

How exactly are we meant to compromise with people who want trans people dead, to harm children, who are also Neo-NAZI allied antisemites. What does half way on genocide look like exactly? Does he think half of all trans people including the children agree to be sacrificed to the bigotry of Neo-NAZI TERFs? Ought we agree to give up half our civil and human rights? Because none of this looks good to me.

* "Non-binary firefighter assaulted and choked by colleagues due to their gender:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/12/non-binary-firefighter-ottawa-canada-hate-crime/

* "Here Are the Trans Americans Killed in 2022 So Far:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/5/06/here-are-trans-americans-killed-2022-so-far

* "Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors Those We've Lost to Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/11/20/transgender-day-remembrance-honors-those-weve-lost-violence

* "Meet 3 LGBTQ+ Scientists Putting Pride in STEM:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/18/meet-3-lgbtq-scientists-putting-pride-stem

* "Bills Introduced in Tenn. to Ban Drag Shows, Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/09/bills-introduced-tenn-ban-drag-shows-gender-affirming-care

* "Veteran Sues Defense Department Over Daughter's Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/22/veteran-sues-defense-department-over-daughters-gender-affirming-care

* Medical Discrimination kills. "Texas judge rules homophobia and transphobia in healthcare is absolutely fine:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/12/texas-judge-lgbtq-discrimination-healthcare-matthew-kacsmaryk/

* "Texas Appeals Court Dismisses Anti-Marriage Equality Official's Suit:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/04/texas-appeals-court-dismisses-anti-marriage-equality-officials-suit

* "Kansas School District OK's Anti-Trans Restroom, Sports Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/11/08/kansas-school-district-oks-anti-trans-restroom-sports-policy

* "Florida's Medical Boards Disagree on Access to Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/breaking-news/2022/11/04/breaking-floridas-medical-boards-disagree-gender-affirming-care

* "Queer Teen Accused of Stabbing Boyfriend to Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/12/queer-teen-accused-stabbing-boyfriend-death

* "Is a Gang in New York Murdering Gay Men?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/10/gang-men-killing-gay-men-new-york-city

* "Gay Men Say They Feel Lucky To Be Alive After Being Drugged, Robbed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/22/gay-men-say-they-feel-lucky-be-alive-after-being-drugged-robbed

* "Video: NYC Gay Bar Vandalized Three Times in a Week:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/21/video-nyc-gay-bar-vandalized-three-times-week

* Yet another Right Wing Terrorist. "Suspect Indicted for Setting Fire to LGBTQ+ Spaces in Manhattan:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/04/suspect-indicted-setting-fire-lgbtq-spaces-manhattan

* Republican Terrorists strike again. "Doughnut Shop Attacked With Molotov Cocktail After Drag Queen Event:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/03/doughnut-shop-attacked-molotov-cocktail-after-drag-queen-event

* "School Pulls Campers After Complaints Over Nonbinary Cabin Counselors:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/02/school-pulls-campers-after-complaints-over-nonbinary-cabin-counselors

* This is what Republicans want. "Cis Woman Mistaken as Transgender Records Being Berated in Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/01/cis-woman-mistaken-transgender-records-being-berated-bathroom

* "Iran players remain silent during national anthem at World Cup in apparent protest at Iranian regime:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/football/iran-national-anthem-england-2022-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html

* "Families of migrant workers who died in Qatar are waiting for answers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/18/qatar-world-cup-migrant-workers/

* Given that FOIFA is so strongly against human rights that they approve of the kadha system that has lead to so many deaths building their stadium in 120 degree heat is should be no suprise that they are taking such a strong official stance against LGBTQIA+ human rights as well. "World Cup Officials Won't Allow Players to Wear Pro-LGBTQ+ Armbands:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/11/21/world-cup-officials-wont-allow-players-wear-pro-lgbtq-armbands

* "FIFA 'blackmailed' World Cup teams into ditching LGBTQ+ armband:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/fifa-qatar-world-cup-blackmail-onelove-lgbtq-armband-germany-dfb/

* "Belgium ordered to remove hidden ‘love’ message from World Cup shirts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/fifa-belgian-love-jersey/

* "World Cup Security Denying Entry to Those Supporting LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/11/22/world-cup-security-denying-entry-those-supporting-lgbtq-rights

* "Disney Fires Bob Chapek, Rehires Bob Iger After 'Don't Say Gay' Mess:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/21/disney-fires-bob-chapek-rehires-bob-iger-after-dont-say-gay-mess

* "An HIV Therapeutic Vaccine, aka a Cure, Inches Forward:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/11/07/hiv-therapeutic-vaccine-aka-cure-inches-forward

* "This African Nation Just Hit an HIV Milestone:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/world-news/2022/11/10/african-nation-just-hit-hiv-milestone

* "Military Ban on People Living With HIV Faces Legal Challenge:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/10/military-ban-people-living-hiv-faces-legal-challenge

* "A Better Understanding of HIV's Effect on the Immune System:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/research-breakthroughs/2022/11/10/better-understanding-hivs-effect-immune-system

* "Some Good News From Florida: Orange County Shows Declining HIV Rates:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/11/09/some-good-news-florida-orange-county-shows-declining-hiv-rates

* Why are we doing more of this, instead of repealing all the Regan/Bush era laws? all this does is create stigma, discourage testing (thus increasing transmission), and ruin the lives of people for no reason. "Dem Governor Signs Bill Punishing HIV Transmission With Prison:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/2022/11/09/dem-governor-signs-bill-punishing-hiv-transmission-prison

* "HIV myths busted: Everything you need to know about prevention options:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/14/hiv-myths-busted/

* "Ask Dr. D: Why Isn't My Monkeypox Spot Going Away?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/ask-tell/2022/11/04/ask-dr-d-why-isnt-my-monkeypox-spot-going-away

* "New Orleans Teacher, Two Others Found Dead in Mexico City Airbnb:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/09/new-orleans-teacher-two-others-found-dead-mexico-city-airbnb

* "Police Investigating as Four People Fall Sick at LAX Airport:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/31/police-investigating-four-people-fall-sick-lax-airport

* "'Viral jambalaya': Early flu adding to woes for US hospitals:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-covid-flu-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-4bb3180fce1ca15bb7bf4244d5c4085e

* "Children's health leaders call for emergency response as respiratory viruses continue to spread across the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/health/flu-rsv-spread-emergency-response

* "A Weird Trick to Get Doctors to Listen to You:" https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2022/11/4/a-weird-trick-to-get-doctors-to-listen-to-you

* CW: Eating Disorders "Hospitalizations for eating disorders grew in the pandemic. The problem isn't over, experts say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/health/eating-disorders-pandemic-wellness/index.html

* "The global economics behind America's fentanyl problem:" https://qz.com/the-global-economics-behind-americas-fentanyl-problem-1849729612

* "Just Deal With It: Married Same-Sex Couples Deal Better With Stress:" https://www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2022/11/03/just-deal-it-married-same-sex-couples-deal-better-stress

* "Please Don’t Lick the Psychedelic Toads, Man:" https://www.outtraveler.com/safety/2022/11/07/please-dont-lick-psychedelic-toads-man

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* "UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-john-kerry-climate-and-environment-18f6e5cb8183c59ceaf0cf2408842e6c

* "Shocker, Most Middle Schoolers Learn Next to Nothing About Climate Change:" https://advocatechannel.com/shocker-most-middle-schoolers-learn-next-to-nothing-about-climate-change

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* "Earthquake Leaves Devastation, 56 Dead in Indonesia:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/21/earthquake-leaves-devastation-56-dead-indonesia

* "How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/08/how-to-move-a-country-fiji-radical-plan-escape-rising-seas-climate-crisis

* "The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a Western river:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137442481/dam-demolition-klamath-river-california-federal-regulators-salmon

* "Billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/world/billionaires-greenhouse-gases-climate-intl/index.html

* "U.S. colleges talk green. But they have a dirty secret:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-pollution-universities/

* "Descend Into the Sewers With London’s Fatberg:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/london-fatberg-sewer-excerpt

* "The Car Safety Feature That Kills the Other Guy:" https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html

* "Local ride-hailing startups thrive in the towns that Uber forgot:" https://restofworld.org/2022/local-ride-hailing-startups-thrive-uber-didi/

* "NASA Spacecraft Finishes Its Close Encounter With the Moon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/science/nasa-artemis-orion-moon-pictures.html

* "Virgin Boeing 747 to Launch Rocket Into Space:" https://www.outtraveler.com/airlines/2022/10/27/virgin-boeing-747-launch-rocket-space

* "Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Takes Off on Secret Mission:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/01/elon-musks-spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-takes-secret-mission

* "Debris from Space Shuttle Challenger Just Discovered in Ocean:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/11/debris-space-shuttle-challenger-discovered-underwater

* "How 'seafloor detectives' uncovered the secrets of the world's biggest underwater volcano:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/world/underwater-volcano-hunters-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-scn-hnk-spc-intl/index.html

* Late stage capitalist dystopia. "COMPANIES ALREADY INVESTING IN TECH TO SCAN EMPLOYEES’ BRAINS:" https://futurism.com/the-byte/companies-investing-tech-scan-employees-brains

* "Qatar World Cup: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Are You Getting Scammed On Your Dating App?:"

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* "A Cloud Over The World Cup | New York's Massive Weed Stockpile:"

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* "Meanwhile… Belgium Has Too Much Cocaine | Musk Down $100 Billion In 2022:"

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* "Fine Points Cleveland Gets The #ColbertSmallBizBump With Help From “NCIS: Los Angeles”:"

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* "The President Of FIFA Feels A Lot Of Different Things:"

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* "Joe Biden Is Soft On Poultry And Soft On Crime:"

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* "Michael Shannon's Thanksgiving Album:"

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* Wednesday, both Millennials had assorted errands. We got them all, including mine, but they ate most of our spoons. Still, there are things that must be done for all of us before friendsgiving.

Notable thing that happened. At forage, I was waiting for a cart, leaning on crutch and line divider pole, burning spoons, my hips on fire. A family that turned up after me was waiting in line too. an able bodied person sharked the next cart that came in, and was stubborn about it being hers to me.

The check in lady politely but firmly made her turn it over to me because I was next. O.o

Number of places that I know staff will stop line jumpers is now officially two, the other being the Post Office.

The Imperial couple were So Good Wednesday. Tavy took turns which meant Livia got all the uninterrupted bed pets she wanted and Livia decided that even though there were two Millennials visiting, she was going to come out periodically for pets and treats. So brave. Techie Millennial saw more of her in a shortish visit than they possibly ever had.

Tavy DID get overstimulated, but he didn't bite anyone. he did hurt me, but it was an accident as he failed a dex roll and fell on me, at which point he understandably panicked.

When I got back from dropping people off, I walked in on them were running back and forth between my bedroom and Squirrel's door like they were doing a sprinting drill. Livia wore out first and sensible settled in her Happy Place wanting a nap. Tavy decided to do desk laps back and forth over two desks and laptop I was trying to work on until he too finally wound down to both Livia and my relief.

They spent the rest of the night, him in his special heated bed, her in her scratch box on my desk, rising for the occasional snack and/or love, then going right back to bed. I love it went we hang out together peaceably like we have the last few days.

* Chuck Tingle on Masking: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/701671748966432768/something-ive-been-curious-about-if-it-wouldnt

* Is this some sort of record? I woke up a few days ago with Goncharov suddenly all over my dash having been invented while I was asleep. By the time I woke up the next a whole developed fandom was there with gifs, analysis, discourse, posters, fanart, fanfic etc.. By evening mainstream media had found it. By 1:54 AM Tumblr was noticeable turning on it. It's now night three and there is a soundtrack and a ridiculously high number of fanFics on AO3.

I is the fundamentally creatively collaborative nature of Tumblr and the cultural sense of humor that have kept me there through good times and bad for so long.

* Re: The Locked Tomb:
I have thinking about what happens to planets after the spirit is killed and things like the fish on Canaan and odd seal behavior and the turnips on the ninth and the implications for why the ninth house was having so much trouble reproducing.

*shudder*

But it’s more than a low fertility rate. The animals etc. change slowly after. Humans are animals. I think it goes deeper than where necromancers come from. I keep thinking about the way the ninth house culture is in Gideon the Ninth. The way the pairs (and triad) were in Gideon. What we know about the seventh and fourth. The peculiarities of second, third, and eighth necromancy and their psychological implications. Some of the houses seem more effected than others, but I think it’s there in all of them.

I am thinking all sorts of half formed things about the differences between people raised on Thanargy dominant worlds vs. the Resettled.

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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 Those Affected by the Club Q Tragedy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/how-help-those-affected-club-q-tragedy

* List of educational, diverse, and/or long term playable toys for things like Toys for Tots. High value toys for 20 dollars or less.: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/44WV8EVUP1Y

* On SCOTUS possibly repealing the act that prevents white people from stealing native babies, robbing them of their culture. contains how to help links at bottom: https://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/701035342837547008

* How to help HarperCollins strikers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/700611167247368192/waterhobbit-shaelit-we-interrupt-this-lovely

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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