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* "Shanghai pushes ahead with mass COVID tests as new cases spike:" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-new-daily-local-covid-cases-rebound-2022-03-18/

* "Hong Kong Covid crisis: why is the death rate so high?:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/hong-kong-covid-crisis-why-is-the-death-rate-so-high

* "Idaho bill would ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates. This time, it’s supported by Senate GOP:" https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article259491704.html

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* It's symbolic as enforcement requires the security council's agreement, so Russia gets a veto. "UN international court of justice orders Russia to halt invasion of Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/un-international-court-of-justice-orders-russia-to-halt-invasion-of-ukraine

* "'He shoots from the hip, and that's part of his charm':" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/16/zelenskyy-congress-ukraine-russia-00017548

* "Biden announces fresh aid to Ukraine but stops short of Zelenskyy's demands:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/16/zelenskyy-recalls-pearl-harbor-9-11-in-plea-for-u-s-aid-00017698

* "Ukrainian MP tells America: Putin will keep going as far as you let him go:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-receiving-jets-to-fight-russia-from-america-urged-by-rep-swalwall-ukrainian-mp-ustinova-135554629504

* "Sanctioned Russia teeters on brink of historic default:" https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/sanctions-savaged-russia-teeters-brink-historic-default-2022-03-16/

* "Joy Reid: Putin will only stop when he realizes the war is unwinnable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-s-war-against-ukraine-now-enters-its-fourth-week-135643205569

* "For dictator like Putin compromise is invitation to grab more expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-s-brutality-in-ukraine-is-similar-to-russia-s-bombardment-of-chechnya-135647813516

* "Putin speaks at a rally while war wages in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/putin-speaks-at-a-rally-while-war-wages-in-ukraine-135734853618

* "It’s a matter of survival for Russians to buy into state TV propaganda Masha Gessen says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-holds-pro-war-rally-in-moscow-feeding-russian-propaganda-machine-135738437862

* "Russia-Ukraine war: Kidnapped Melitopol mayor sent to Luhansk - report:" https://www.jpost.com/international/article-701286

* "Russian strikes hit Ukrainian capital and outskirts of Lviv:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-united-nations-europe-antony-blinken-c3310a12490a0cf2e06f5f389e22e3a6

* "Russian Attacks Batter Ukraine as Putin Warns of 'Traitors':" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-attacks-batter-ukraine-as-putin-warns-of-traitors/2022/03/17/1adc4fb8-a5a9-11ec-8628-3da4fa8f8714_story.html

* "The fate of Mykolaiv hangs in the balance, as Ukrainian troops dig in to defend the city:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/europe/ukraine-mykolaiv-fighting-russian-intl-cmd/index.html

* "In Ukraine’s second-largest city, a furious rain of bombs and rockets takes a toll: ‘There are no coffins left’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/17/kharkiv-bodies-human-toll/

* "In a Ukraine ghost town, drivers and undertakers navigate war:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-03-14/irpin-volunteers-ghost-town-kyiv

* "How Kyiv’s outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/15/ukraine-kyiv-russia-war/

* "Russian strikes on Lviv raise fears of Ukraine war spreading west:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/russia-missile-lviv-mariupol-ukraine-war

* "Russia has attacked Lviv. Here's why the western city is so important to Ukraine's defense:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/18/europe/lviv-ukraine-attack-russia-importance-intl/index.html

* ""We need to stop Putin now, because later it will be hell”: Mariupol, Ukraine City Council Member:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/odessa-prepares-to-defend-itself-against-russian-assault-in-ukraine-135738437644

* "Biden calls Putin a war criminal for first time as civilian deaths in Ukraine mount:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-16-2022/

* "Russian Warships Shelling Towns Near Odesa as Naval Activity Increasers in Northern Black Sea:" https://news.usni.org/2022/03/16/russian-warships-shelling-towns-near-odesa-as-naval-activity-increasers-in-northern-black-sea

* "Ukraine says Russia strikes Mariupol theatre sheltering residents, Moscow denies attack:" https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-bombing-hits-theatre-mariupol-sheltering-residents-city-council-2022-03-16/

* "10 people killed waiting in bread line in Ukraine; US embassy demands accountability:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/10-people-killed-waiting-in-bread-line-in-ukraine-us-embassy-demands-accountability/

* "103 Children Have Died in Russian Attacks Though Death Toll Is Likely Much Higher: Ukraine Official:" https://people.com/politics/ukraine-official-103-children-died-russian-attacks-death-toll-likely-higher/

* "20,000 refugees flee Mariupol only to face more Russian attacks in their new haven:" https://inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-war-refugees-mariupol-russia-zaporizhzhia-civilians-sites-humanitarian-corridor-1519740

* "In Dnipro, Ukraine volunteers call for corridors to bombed cities:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220315-in-dnipro-ukraine-volunteers-call-for-corridors-to-bombed-cities

* "Three million migrants have now fled Ukraine —with the majority going to Poland. That could have major repercussions:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/16/russia-ukraine-war-refugees-flee-to-poland-with-economic-political-impact.html

* "U.S. lets Ukrainians fleeing war into United States from Mexico:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lets-ukrainians-fleeing-war-into-united-states-mexico-2022-03-16/

* "Rep. Omar: I hope we continue to do everything we can for babies and families fleeing Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukrainian-women-and-children-fleeing-ukraine-and-the-long-term-impact-discussed-by-rep-ilhan-omar-135554117704

* "Ukrainians Are Getting Into the US. Russians Fleeing Putin Are Not.:"

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* "Romanian photo of the day: “Toys’ bridge” between Romania and Ukraine:" https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-photo-toys-bridge-sighetu-marmatiei-ukrainian-refugees

* "Ukraine: a war diary from Lviv:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/18/ukraine-a-war-diary-from-lviv-photo-essay

* "Rubble and resistance in Kharkiv – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/mar/17/rubble-and-resistance-in-kharkiv-in-pictures

* "As Russian Troop Deaths Climb, Morale Becomes an Issue, Officials Say:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/russia-troop-deaths.html

* "‘A line has been drawn’: Olga Smirnova quits Bolshoi Ballet over Ukraine war:" https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/16/a-line-has-been-drawn-olga-smirnova-quits-bolshoi-ballet-over-ukraine-war

* "Russian journalist who staged anti-war TV protest quits job, but rejects French asylum offer:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/russian-journalist-who-staged-anti-war-tv-protest-quits-job-but-rejects-french-asylum-offer

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* "Shalanda Young becomes first Black woman to lead White House budget office following Senate confirmation:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/shalanda-young-confirmed-omb-director-senate-vote/index.html

* "Fed begins inflation fight with key rate hike, more to come:" https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-inflation-interest-rates-e017951eba9229353ab3166be075d82d

* This will save so many lives if it becomes law. "The Senate approves a bill to make daylight saving time permanent:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086773840/daylight-saving-time-permanent-senate

* "The Texas primaries were a case study in polarization:" https://www.vox.com/2022/3/2/22957261/texas-primary-results-2022-abbott-beto-paxton-bush-cesar-cisneros

* It’s Primary season in the US. Don’t forget to vote! This is your chance to get a candidate you actually like! "2022 Primary Elections by state and territory:" https://www.fvap.gov/uploads/FVAP/VAO/PrimaryElectionsCalendar.pdf

* "Trump and Epstein’s *Favorite* Bank: Deutsche Bank:"

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* "Salesforce to provide RNC records to Jan. 6 panel unless court steps in:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/15/salesforce-to-provide-rnc-records-january-6-00017623

* "DeSantis vs. Miami’s Archbishop, With Cuban Americans in the Middle:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/florida-immigration-cuba-pedro-pan.html

* "Texas Set to Execute Melissa Lucio Despite Credible Claims of Innocence:" https://msmagazine.com/2022/03/15/melissa-lucio-texas-death-penalty/

* "Jussie Smollett walks out of Cook County Jail after court orders his release pending appeal of conviction, 150-day sentence:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-jussie-smollett-released-from-jail-pending-appeal-order-20220316-27sodqs4p5cffklcgtltvy5h2i-story.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Evan Rachel Wood - "Phoenix Rising":" https://www.cc.com/video/htv2va/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-evan-rachel-wood-phoenix-rising

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Let's Talk This Out - Kanye West Harassing Kim Kardashian:" https://www.cc.com/video/nbiieb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-let-s-talk-this-out-kanye-west-harassing-kim-kardashian

* "Idaho’s Uniquely Evil Abortion Bill Gives Rapists’ Families a Say:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/idaho-abortion-bill-rapist-families

* "SNP politician says conversion therapy like ‘learning to say no to chocolate’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/16/conversion-therapy-john-mason-snp-chocolate/

* "Trans Kids in Texas Are Scared They'll Be Taken From Their Parents:"

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* "How PragerU Creates Transphobia (in Trans-Affirming Folks):"

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* "Lia Thomas makes history as first out trans woman to win NCAA swimming title:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/18/lia-thomas-trans-woman-ncaa-swimming-championship/

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* "Earthquake: Two dead after Japan hit by tremor:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60770100

* CW: Dead Animals. "Living Through An Outbreak: One California Barn's EHV-1 Diary:" https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/living-through-an-outbreak-one-california-barns-ehv-1-diary

* Mergers like these disturb me. "Amazon closes $8.5B deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/amazon-closes-85b-deal-acquire-hollywood-studio-mgm-83503967

* "NFT/MLM:"

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* "1980s FOOD HISTORY:"

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* "The Ant Farm Ponzi Scheme You Won't Believe Was Real:"

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* "Leo Bersani, Author on Gay Identity, Dies at Age 90:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/28/leo-bersani-author-gay-identity-dies-age-90

* "HIV and Gay Rights Activist Don Maison Has Died:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/2022/2/28/hiv-and-gay-rights-activist-don-maison-has-died

* "NTSB: 13-year-old drove pickup in Texas crash that killed 9:" https://apnews.com/article/sports-canada-texas-education-europe-b03ae1b3a1193087d5444429182fd2da

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Russian Oligarchs :" https://www.cc.com/video/mfq5ye/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-russian-oligarchs

* "Russia's War on Ukraine Spills Into Space:" https://www.cc.com/video/2qfhtr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-russia-s-war-on-ukraine-spills-into-space

* "War in Ukraine - Russian Attack Near Poland & Aid from China:" https://www.cc.com/video/uovti3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-russian-attack-near-poland-aid-from-china

* "Russia Detains Protesters & Dolly Parton Rejects Nomination :" https://www.cc.com/video/x7oej2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-russia-detains-protesters-dolly-parton-rejects-nomination

* "War in Ukraine - Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Speech to Congress:" https://www.cc.com/video/sa1lmp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-s-speech-to-congress

* "War in Ukraine - Volodymyr Zelenskyy Deep Fake Propaganda :" https://www.cc.com/video/yer3po/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-deep-fake-propaganda

* "Comparing the film versions of West Side Story:"

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* "The Tragedy of Phantom & Grizabella:"

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* "What's the deal with Evil Dead...the MUSICAL!?:"

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* When Squirrel got home he agreed with me it was serious. We strongly suspected it was one of two things, both requiring surgery. We were correct, it was the worst of the two. You can tell it is dangerous from them finding me a slot right away at the GP, and a wait time of half a page of my magazine, and about the same between the nurse going and my Doctor coming in. She got me an imaging slot an hour and a half after I walked in the doors. It was terrible and painful, but pretty much everything since I woke up Monday has been so.

I turns out my decision to do ice and painkillers Tuesday night was correct, as it likely reduced inflammation enough to radically decrease my chances of a trip to the ER for emergency surgery. My decision to stick to water only after 10PM was correct in case I needed emergency surgery, though really I don't have an appetite and things like sleeping and eating are hard. I have an exciting list of call the ambulance if X happens while we wait for my GP to get me a surgical consult and outpatient surgical slot. The hospital is massively backed up because of the Plague, but she is trying to fast track me, since this can go very wrong, very easily. So no physio, or bending, or lifting, or moving around more than I absolutely must. Lots of icing to keep inflammation down. Tonight's job is running a test to see if my digestive system still works and to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. If I am careful, odds are I will be okay. I just need to endure. The only way out is through.

I will be heavily medicated for the duration, which may effect post quality.

The cats are being sweet as they generally are in emergencies. everyone is cuddly and sticking close and Tavy has agreed to share the human, which is generally a sign that he is really worried. He's doing a bunch of his stress behaviors (stress blerps, standing over me while I sleep drooling into my eye.), but he isn't clawing me awake in a panic or picking fights, which is a massive help. Head Millennial came and cleaned it up, so I didn't even need to see it, which is nice. Livia is off her feed, but being her usual angel self.

* A bit before bed, Friday morning I improved enough that if I am careful, I won't have to go to the ER for emergency surgery. This is progress. I am weak and shaky and nearly fell twice Thursday evening, only saving myself from a likely catastrophe fall by managing to fling my torso onto the sink counter until my legs kicked back in, but this is a much more bearable pain level. surgery consult is Wednesday. If I am very careful, I should be okay until the actual surgery.

* Our Flag Means Death has eaten my brain entirely. It is everything. They had me at queer pirates, but it just keeps getting better and better.

The thing that really haunts me in my off moments, is that Izzy Hands is basically the sort of guy that nearly got me killed twice in high school, and there is no trauma reaction at all to watching it. Hos obvious unrequited love and the actions he takes are weirdly parallel. That thing where he tries the direct attack? That's me getting attacked at work and ending up with Post concussive syndrome. That thing where he goes to Spanish Jackie and the English? That's Jon and Danny the Slug siccing the biker gang on us. I've seen how dark and toxic that Izzy Hands kind of crush can be, but in this context, it doesn't hurt at all.

* "How must the Dick -> Jason Robin switch have looked to the Gotham Rogues:" https://firebird-in-a-cage.tumblr.com/post/679128554196336640

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/magazine/greece-migration-ngos.html

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* "Hong Kong, Buckling Under Covid, Leaves Its Most Vulnerable in the Cold:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/business/hong-kong-covid.html

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* "What are thermobaric weapons and how do they work?:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/01/what-are-thermobaric-weapons-and-how-do-they-work

* "Russia showed its playbook in Syria. Here's what it may mean for civilians in Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083686606/ukraine-russia-civilian-casualties-syria

* "Putin says he’ll ‘denazify’ Ukraine. Its Jewish president lost family in the Holocaust.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/25/zelensky-family-jewish-holocaust/

* "China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/us/politics/russia-ukraine-china.html

* "Zelenskyy to European Parliament: The Ukrainian people will not be broken:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-accused-of-war-crimes-by-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-before-european-parliament-134369349660

* "Putin leveled outrageous lies about Ukrainian people in rambling diatribe Thursday:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-invasion-going-according-to-plan-putin-says-in-rambling-speech-despite-russian-soldiers-surrendering-134547525912

* "White House announces new sanctions on Russian oligarchs :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/politics/us-sanctions-on-russian-oligarchs/index.html

* "Russian billionaires lose $80 billion in wealth:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/russian-billionaires-lose-over-80-billion-in-wealth.html

* "Russians start feeling the heat of Ukraine war sanctions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-moscow-perm-9789398569c54f5ed3062410845dff06

* "Oligarchs targeted in part because they could hide Putin’s assets:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-oligarchs-are-all-aligned-with-putin-could-hide-his-assets-expert-says-134458437882

* This is legitimately terrifying. "Russian forces seize huge Ukrainian nuclear plant, fire extinguished:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/top-wrap-1-europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-fire-after-russian-attack-mayor-2022-03-04/

* "AP: Russian troops shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ap-russian-troops-shelling-europe-s-largest-nuclear-power-station-in-ukraine-134548037825

* "Drone footage shows citizens blocking Russian troops in Enerhodar, home to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-blockade-drone-video/

* "Nuclear power plant in Ukraine under attack by Russian troops; fire reported:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nuclear-power-plant-in-ukraine-under-attack-by-russian-troops-fire-reported-134552133554

* "Security measures tightened around main streets of Ukraine's capital:" https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-crisis/security-measures-tightened-around-main-streets-of-ukraines-capital/2522521

* "Ukraine: Russian troops take control of key city of Kherson:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60597367

* "With almost all Russian forces inside Ukraine, Moscow and Kyiv explore limited cease-fire:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/ukraine-military-kherson-odessa-kyiv-mariupol/

* "Anxiety Grows in Odessa as Russians Advance in Southern Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/odessa-black-sea-ukraine-russia.html

* "Mariupol under siege: 'We are being completely cut off':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60601235

* "Under attack, Ukraine's musicians become war reporters and military fundraisers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60586817

* "Kyiv shrines, memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/kyiv-shrines-memorials-powerful-symbolic-risk-83224208

* "'Incredible resilience': Photojournalist captures the humanity surviving Putin's onslaught:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-incredible-resilience-photojournalist-captures-the-humanity-surviving-putin-s-onslaught-134380613605

* "Putin's shambolic invasion no less traumatizing for fleeing Ukrainians:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-shambolic-invasion-no-less-traumatizing-for-fleeing-ukrainians-134472261693

* "Poor planning, low morale, weak supplies corrode Russian invasion from within:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/poor-planning-low-morale-weak-supplies-corrode-russian-invasion-from-within-134470213817

* "Volunteers flock to fight for Ukraine in pacifist Japan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/around-70-japanese-have-volunteered-fight-ukraine-report-2022-03-02/

* "General McCaffrey: Putin just signed up for a ‘ten year event’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/general-mccaffrey-putin-just-signed-up-for-a-ten-year-event-134457925736

* "Ukrainian reporter: The Ukrainian people submitting to the Kremlin is “impossible”:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russia-now-bombarding-ukrainian-towns-and-cities-134455877934

* "Russia's last independent TV channel shutters amid Putin's crackdown on media:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russia-s-last-independent-tv-channel-shutters-amid-putin-s-crackdown-on-media-134561861835

* "The ex-news director of Russia's largest search engine urged his former colleagues to quit, accusing the company of censoring Russia's invasion into Ukraine:" https://news.yahoo.com/ex-news-director-russias-largest-212609662.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACAOqttAlvpayohPJNT-cwgwpOxfe54lF9XzjsIEWHwMEbarKtqPdrGzGWWvNRX47aD1qdnB9XFNBpbmomAezVIjSP4Q2QwoEP_s2jnudlXiTaKC4gB2xXpb5cmLyQDMww2QRvUd-dD4Ejb0eGnGz_NZl49ifhUhrIme4fD7Am4H

* "‘Fallen flat’: Why Putin is losing the information war:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-fallen-flat-why-putin-is-losing-the-information-war-134455365553

* "The resolution of the Ukraine question.” A mistakenly published Russian article gives us a chilling insight into the neo-imperialist thinking in Russia that drives Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. :" https://twitter.com/Tom_deWaal/status/1498310064117059585

* "Africans Say Ukrainian Authorities Hindered Them From Fleeing:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-refugee-discrimination.html

* "‘Videos we're seeing at border are horrifying’: The discrimination at some Ukraine border crossings:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-refugees-who-are-african-other-non-ukrainian-groups-face-discrimination-at-some-border-crossings-134371909796

* "More than 167,600 Ukrainians entered Romania since Russian invasion:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-border-romania/more-than-167600-ukrainians-entered-romania-since-russian-invasion-idUSKBN2L10FM

* "Ali Velshi reports live from train carrying refugees from Ukraine arriving in Hungary:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-war-refugees-arriving-by-train-from-hungary-reported-on-by-ali-velshi-134554693769

* "Russian pensioner 'who survived siege of Leningrad' arrested for protest against Ukraine war:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/mar/02/russian-activist-77-detained-by-police-while-protesting-against-ukraine-war-video

* "Russia's Navalny calls Putin insane and urges anti-war protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-critic-navalny-calls-daily-anti-war-protests-russia-2022-03-02/

* "Tories urged to show LGBT+ Ukrainians 'kindness' by scrapping degrading borders bill:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/uk-nationality-borders-bill-ukraine-lgbt/

* "How do you like the Russian military now, Senator Cruz?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/03/putin-invasion-ukraine-shattered-myth-invincibiity-of-russian-military-power/

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* "A Tale of Two Speeches in Biden’s State of the Union:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/01/biden-state-of-the-union-00013088

* "Biden plan would tackle chronic gaps in mental health care:" https://apnews.com/article/state-of-the-union-address-joe-biden-coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-1bdc62a08c2ee837deb051fd8c3d6c80

* "Former AG Barr said Trump became enraged after being told election fraud claims were nonsense:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-ag-barr-said-trump-became-enraged-told-election-fraud-claims-no-rcna17750

* "Jan. 6 committee says Trump violated multiple laws in effort to overturn election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/02/jan6-trump-obstruction-justice-00013440

* "Ex-officer cleared in shooting during raid that killed Breonna Taylor:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/ex-officer-cleared-in-shooting-during-raid-that-killed-breonna-taylor.html

* "A New Message for Police: If You See Something, Say Something:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/27/us/police-intervention-minneapolis-george-floyd.html

* "Crime Waves and Moral Panics:" https://daily.jstor.org/crime-waves-moral-panics/?preview_id=282709

* "Trapped in Silicon Valley’s Hidden Caste System:" https://www.wired.com/story/trapped-in-silicon-valleys-hidden-caste-system/

* CW: Pedophilia "Ex-D.C. Police Officer Charged With Having Sex With 16-Year-Old Boy:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/15/ex-dc-police-officer-charged-having-sex-16-year-old-boy

* CW: Rape, Domestic Abuse. I believe Evan Rachel Wood. "Marilyn Manson sues Evan Rachel Wood over rape and abuse allegations:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/marilyn-manson-evan-rachel-wood-abuse-defamation/

* Domestic Violence "The Hidden Epidemic of Brain Injuries From Domestic Violence:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/magazine/brain-trauma-domestic-violence.html

* "In Somaliland, COVID brings 'cutters' door to door for girls:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-lifestyle-religion-africa-e382d9893b7b8c02901c3a3177634c46

* "Blue states seek to protect abortion rights before supreme court decision:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/04/blue-states-abortion-rights-supreme-court

* "Supreme Court allows Kentucky's GOP attorney general to defend controversial abortion law:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/politics/supreme-court-kentucky-abortion/index.html

* "Florida Republicans send 15-week abortion ban to governor:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/04/1084440962/florida-republicans-send-15-week-abortion-ban-to-governor

* "Colombia’s highest court recognises non-binary people in landmark ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/colombia-non-binary-legal-recognition/

* "New Zealand, Israel Take Steps Against Conversion Therapy:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/2/15/new-zealand-israel-take-steps-against-conversion-therapy

* "Thousands of church leaders tell Liz Truss to ban so-called conversion therapy, now:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/liz-truss-conversion-therapy-ban-christian-church/

* "Biden accuses Texas Gov. Abbott of ‘government overreach at its worst’ for investigating parents of children transitioning genders:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/03/biden-abbott-children-transgender/

* "Judge blocks Texas from investigating parents of trans teen for child abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/texas-trans-parents-child-abuse-investigation-judge-meachum/

* "Texas removes life-saving LGBT+ suicide prevention resources from state websites:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/texas-lgbt-suicide-prevention-trevor-project/

* "New Ad Blasts Florida’s 'Don’t Say Gay' Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/2/14/new-ad-blasts-floridas-dont-say-gay-bill

* "Iowa to become 11th US state to sign hateful anti-trans sports ban into law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/03/iowa-anti-trans-sports-ban-kim-reynolds/

* "Don't be fooled by its name: The 'Real You' bill is rooted in transphobia:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/11/2079830/-Don-t-be-fooled-by-its-name-The-Real-You-bill-is-rooted-in-transphobia

* "Rubi Dominguez Killed in Texas; 54th Trans Killing in 2021:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/11/rubi-dominguez-killed-texas-54th-trans-killing-2021

* "Black Trans Woman Keeva Scatter Fatally Shot in Louisiana:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/14/black-trans-woman-keeva-scatter-fatally-shot-louisiana

* "ADF: Is it Really Defending Freedom? :"

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* "Has a Woman Really Been "Cured" of HIV for the First Time Ever?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2022/2/15/another-person-world-has-been-seemingly-cured-hiv

* I Support harm Reduction. "The Radical Experiment Saving the Lives of Drug Users:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/how-supervised-drug-consumption-went-from-radical-to-reality.html

* "When Western Scientists Try to Study Indigenous Groups’ Genomes, Things Get Complicated Real Fast:" https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/philippines-uppsala-genomics-study-ethical-review.html

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* "Death toll rises following historic flooding in Australia:" https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/australia-historic-flooding-queensland-new-south-wales/1149890

* "Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-science-business-china-moon-7044a26d9b4b43dc44e961c250186f26

* "Invasive Species Are Riding Plastics Across Oceans:"

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* "The Medieval Influencer Who Convinced the World to Drink Tea—Not Eat It:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eating-tea

* "The 1920s Women Who Fought For the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/us-passport-history-women

* "The Unmistakable Black Roots of 'Sesame Street':" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unmistakable-black-roots-sesame-street-180973490/

* "Amway: The MLM That Ruined it All:"

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* "The new wave of Indian Para-athletes making people look again:" https://www.bbc.com/sport/disability-sport/60508602

* "Buchholz High School student discovers and publishes new calculus technique:" https://www.wuft.org/news/2022/02/18/buchholz-high-school-student-discovers-and-publishes-new-calculus-technique/

* "Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/02/19/1074792510/black-cowboys-mississippi-big-rodeo-project-justin-hardiman

* "Sex Work: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Why Is PEACEMAKER So Good?:"

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* A masked woman just walked past my front window, and I have no idea what her face looked like, but otherwise, she looked so much like my late mother, it startled me. She had very distinctive hair, an accident of genetics plus aging carried in her maternal line. Seeing it on a stranger was odd, especially on one with her height and shape.

* "I Am Not Your Tragedy:" https://mermaidsmonthly.com/2021/08/27/i-am-not-your-tragedy/

* "Goodness Gray-tious:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/2/20/goodness-gray-tious

* "Sunday Sweets: A Black Tie Affair :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/2/27/sunday-sweets-a-black-tie-affair

* "Archaeology Loves An Amateur: The Importance Of Stumbling Upon Artefacts:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/archaeology-loves-an-amateur-the?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJfIjoiczRYNTkiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDYzNTYxOTMsImV4cCI6MTY0NjM1OTc5MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.K9V6AdI7gmT-F8hKdkA7Jg2J6-Hnb2xAMZUl576qgOM&s=r

* "Please Accept My Application To Become A Bog Body:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/please-accept-my-application-to-become?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJfIjoiczRYNTkiLCJpYXQiOjE2NDYzNTYyMjMsImV4cCI6MTY0NjM1OTgyMywiaXNzIjoicHViLTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0._HxiQYmmVy29tmVybRSS5YI3od01qxKfIrDtAIPVAsY&s=r

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "We Spoke to Queer People Hiding From the Taliban:"

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* "North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet:" https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/

* "A coconut seller and a day laborer reflect on life in astoundingly unequal India:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/23/1065267029/a-coconut-seller-and-a-day-laborer-reflect-on-life-in-astoundingly-unequal-india

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* "Omicron’s Radical Evolution:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/omicron-mutations-evolution.html

* "All of North Alabama remains in high or substantial risk of COVID-19 spread:" https://whnt.com/news/coronavirus/all-of-north-alabama-remains-in-high-or-substantial-risk-of-covid-19-spread/

* "Here’s Why Podcasts Are Ripe for Misinformation:"

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* "Russia invades Ukraine:" https://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/zdpxokdxzvx/

* "NATO Response Force activated for first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/nato-ukraine-russia/index.html

* "Russia vetoes U.N. Security action on Ukraine as China abstains:" https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-vetoes-un-security-action-ukraine-china-abstains-2022-02-25/

* "Biden, Europe waiting on key SWIFT sanction against Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/what-is-swift-russia-financial-system-083a5935002c9d06ffd6ac39c13d3ce4

* "US to impose sanctions on Putin following Ukraine invasion:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/us-putin-sanctions/index.html

* "Street fighting begins in Kyiv; people urged to seek shelter:" https://news.yahoo.com/russia-presses-invasion-outskirts-ukrainian-054136506.html

* "Kyiv residential tower hit by missile as fighting rages:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/kyiv-residential-tower-hit-by-missile-as-fighting-rages-mayor

* "Russia says it's not hitting Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Evidence suggests otherwise:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-videos-civilians-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Civilians take up arms in Ukraine, Russia’s attack on Kiyv continues:" https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/02/26/latest-from-ukraine-civilians-take-up-arms-to-defend-capital-from-russia/

* True Heroes. "Soldiers' defiant last words as Russian warship targets Snake Island:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

* "Pro-Russia Ukrainians resent being used by Putin to justify war: Engel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pro-russia-ukrainians-resent-being-used-by-putin-to-justify-war-engel-134011461975

* "Putin's failure as a leader drives his resentment of Ukraine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-failure-as-a-leader-drives-his-resentment-of-ukraine-democracy-134010437899

* "Ukrainian government hands out guns to citizens, encourages people to make Molotov cocktails:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-people-take-up-arms-against-russia-or-flee-to-defend-their-families-as-invasion-continues-134095941736

* "'I don't think there is a safe place': Kyiv residents fearful as Russian invaders close in:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-don-t-think-there-is-a-safe-place-kyiv-residents-fearful-as-russian-invaders-close-in-134101061947

* "Anticipating repression under Putin, Ukrainians fight for their lives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anticipating-repression-under-putin-ukrainians-fight-for-their-lives-134101061806

* "EU shuts airspace to Russian airlines, plans to fund weapons purchases to Ukraine:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/eu-shuts-airspace-to-russian-airlines-will-buy-ukraine-arms

* "Australia to help send weapons to Ukraine via NATO:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/australia-send-weapons-nato-ukraine-war-russia/100865712

* "Oil tank on fire, gas pipeline blown near Kyiv as Russia continues missile attacks in Ukraine :" https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-crisis-oil-tank-fire-gas-pipeline-kiyv-missile-attacks-1918392-2022-02-27

* "Russian convoy of ground forces, tanks moving toward Kyiv, Maxar says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-convoy-ground-forces-fuel-tanks-moving-toward-kyiv-maxar-2022-02-27/

* "Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-27/putins-unified-stronger-europe-ukraine-invasion

* "Europe and the U.S. move to isolate Russia as Ukrainians fight to hold off invaders:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/27/1083380718/europe-and-the-u-s-move-to-isolate-russia-as-ukrainians-hold-off-invaders

* "Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, escalating tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-2e4e1cf784f22b6afbe5a2f936725550

* "‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion

* "Ukrainians flee war, seeking safety across western borders:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-hungary-europe-slovakia-39a0abe9fcb9dd9e9fc7304aa2a9305b

* "At the Polish Border, Tens of Thousands of Ukrainian Refugees:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/world/europe/ukrainian-refugees-poland.html

* "At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger's children to safety:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-border-mother-brings-strangers-children-safety-2022-02-26/

* "Ukraine invasion: Kharkiv residents describe intense battle to defend city:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60543087

* "Eurovision bans Russia from 2022 contest after widespread outrage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/eurovision-russia-ukraine-ban/

* "‘Lot of determination’: Ukrainian Americans rally for their country:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/ukrainian-americans-solidarity-ukraine

* "Antiwar protesters take to the streets around the world in support of Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083314709/protests-world-ukraine-russia

* "Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/prominent-russians-join-protests-against-ukraine-war-amid-1800-arrests-putin

* "Russians hold anti-war rallies amid ominous threats by Putin:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-arrests-moscow-cf5dda5528937de907f8916820cfab75

* "Anti-war protests in Russia test Putin's dictator privilege of disregarding public opinion:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-war-protests-in-russia-test-putin-s-dictator-privilege-of-disregarding-public-opinion-134011973534

* "‘No war’: High profile Russians speak out against Ukraine invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-no-war-high-profile-russians-speak-out-against-ukraine-invasion-134092357626

* "Russians reject Putin and his war on Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russians-reject-putin-and-his-war-on-ukraine-134106693697

* "War via TikTok: Russia's new tool for propaganda machine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-europe-media-nationalism-2186dbc533560cb666f59655ecf1ee8e

* Aka Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. "Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War:" https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/

* "How the Republican Party has evolved on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-the-republican-party-has-evolved-on-russia-134092357969

* "'I'm just so ashamed': Local Russians speak out against invasion of Ukraine:" https://www.kcra.com/article/russians-speak-out-against-invasion-ukraine/39244716#

* "Why the Republican Party just can't get enough of Vladimir Putin:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-the-republican-party-just-can-t-get-enough-of-vladimir-putin-134163013637

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

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

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

* "Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO:" https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/595853-russia-threatens-military-and-political-consequences-if-finland?rl=1

* "White House Press Secretary Talks Russia, State of the Union, Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-talks-russia-state-of-the-union-supreme-court-134164549579

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* "White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/24/white-house-science-office-hold-first-ever-event-countering-climate-change-denial-delay/

* "Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-32f77fe08d7cf64af95591668a0aaa41

* "With Biden's nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a strengthening of democracy: Ifill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-biden-s-nomination-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-strengthening-of-democracy-ifill-134107205786

* "Republicans label Biden Supreme Court pick as "radical left":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/republicans-label-biden-supreme-court-pick-as-radical-left-134161477962

* "Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/black-farmers-debt-relief.html

* "What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?:" https://www.vox.com/22939038/rents-rising-home-prices-americans-moving-residential-stagnation-stuck-mobility-freedom

* "First They Got Long Covid. Then, It Made Them Homeless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-homeless-chronic-illness-gig-economy-1312460/

* "This Is How Big Pharma Wins:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/this-is-how-big-pharma-wins.html

* "Congressional Stock Trading Is Shady As Hell, But Will It Get Banned?:"

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

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

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

* "North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/politics/north-carolina-maps-democrats.html

* "Texas’s primaries are happening on a legally disputed congressional map:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/texas-congressional-district-map/

* "The Fall of Papa Johns Pizza:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "The Problems with the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts:"

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* "Medication abortion now makes up the majority of US abortions, study shows for the first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/medication-abortion-use/index.html

* "Republican-led states rush to pass antiabortion bills before Supreme Court rules on Roe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/abortion-supreme-court-roe-texas-mississippi/

* "Alabama lawmakers advance bill to ban medication abortions:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-medication-abortions.html

* "Oklahoma Advances Bill Banning Abortion 30 Days Into Pregnancy:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-abortion-ban-30-days_n_62154241e4b06e1cc5868284

* "At-home abortion medication requests soared after Texas restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/-home-abortion-medication-requests-soared-texas-restrictions-rcna17634

* "Florida’s 15-week abortion ban will have dramatic effects on patients and providers. Here’s what to expect.:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-florida-abortion-bill-what-to-expect-20220227-uxu27ozvwzcplhtzevjrdpille-story.html

* "The Met Police has more than 33,000 officers, and just four are openly trans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/met-police-officers-transgender-gay-lgbt/

* "Former Pride in London staffer who resigned over inaction on ‘racism’ says ‘nothing’s changed’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/pride-in-london-rhammel-afflick/

* "Abbott orders Texas probe of medical procedures for transgender children:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/texas-governor-orders-probe-of-abusive-procedures-for-transgender-children-00011057

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

* "Florida House passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-house-passes-dont-say-gay-bill-rcna17532

* "Capehart: Why the LGBTQ young people of Gen Z give me so much hope.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/capehart-why-the-lgbtq-young-people-of-gen-z-give-me-so-much-hope-134161477975

* "A record number of American adults identify as LGBTQ:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/a-record-number-of-american-adults-identify-as-lgbtq-134164549538

* "Breaking Down Texas & Florida Anti-Transgender Attacks:"

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* "The Strange Connection Between Mono and M.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/magazine/epstein-barr-virus-multiple-sclerosis.html

* "How medicine erased Black women from a 'white man's disease':" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/21/ankylosing-spondylitis-diagnosis-black-women/

* "Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/19/1081263873/mental-health-art-therapy

* "Risking Their Lives, for Little Pay, to Guard India’s Forests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/world/asia/india-forest-rangers.html

* "Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/20/1079777745/farmers-in-senegal-learn-to-respect-a-scruffy-shrub-that-gets-no-respect

* "Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/cobalt-clean-energy-climate-change-idaho/621321/

* "TurboTax Maker Intuit Faces Tens of Millions in Fees in a Groundbreaking Legal Battle Over Consumer Fraud:" https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-intuit-faces-tens-of-millions-in-fees-in-a-groundbreaking-legal-battle-over-consumer-fraud

* "Crypto Couple Steals $4 Billion Poorly:"

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* "It’s Been a Home for Decades, but Legal Only a Few Months:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/business/economy/california-housing.html

* "Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dutch-flock-to-floating-homes-embracing-a-wetter-future

* "How to fix the disaster of human roads to benefit wildlife:" https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-fix-the-disaster-of-human-roads-to-benefit-wildlife

* "The Incredibly Obvious Way to Reduce Road Deaths That Goes Ignored:" https://slate.com/business/2022/02/car-safety-department-of-transportation-transit-a-plea.html

* "Mechanics Ask Walmart, Major Bike Manufacturers to Stop Making and Selling ‘Built-to-Fail’ Bikes:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdgq9/mechanics-ask-walmart-major-bike-manufacturers-to-stop-making-and-selling-built-to-fail-bikes

* "Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific first:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/tiny-robots-made-mexico-explore-moon-scientific-first-2022-02-25/

* "Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the world's largest bacterium. It's the size of a fly:" https://www.zmescience.com/science/largest-giant-bacteria-3432/

* "Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist’s lab:" https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3485/ticks-survive-for-27-years-in-entomologists-lab

* "Magpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devices:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458

* "Hums, honks and boops? That’s just fish chatting about sex and food:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/19/fish-acoustic-communication-sex-food-researchers

* "When Nazis Took Manhattan:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan

* "Voodoo Believers Explain What People Get Wrong About Their Faith:"

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* "MLMs & LDS: Why are so Many Mormon Women Involved in MLMs?:"

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* "Goodwill: Corporate Casket:"

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* "Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

* "HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dead at 89:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/10/hiv-discoverer-luc-montagnier-dead-89

* "Street life of Victorian London in rare historical photographs, 1873-1877:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/street-life-victorian-london/

* "Vintage photographs of Amsterdam streets taken by George Hendrik Breitner, 1890-1900:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amsterdam-photographs-george-hendrik-breitner/

* "The Musical So Bad, They Sold the Theater to a Church.:"

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* "John Mulaney Stand-Up Monologue:"

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* "Subway Churro - SNL:"

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* "Cupid Shuffle - SNL:"

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* "Blue River - SNL:"

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* "Podcast Set - SNL:"

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* "I Am Not A Unisex | Pointlessly Gendered:"

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* "Florence + The Machine - King:"

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* Saturday, I taught Head Millennial a dish my family called Sauerkraut and Sweet Biscuits, but which is really more Sweet Dumplings in a glutinous sauerkraut stew. Me, warning the Millennial in advance: This is going to be extremely stinky, but delicious and full of Vitamin C. *Millennial sensibly turns the hood up fan up on high* This is something made on the stove top, so theoretically viable, but since the stove top is rapidly failing and heat is quite variable so things like boiling water and making pasta are still okay, but things like grilled cheese are right out, so I am not entirely sure this will work. Still we forge onward.

So explain how to set up the sauerkraut in water on medium heat while he mixes the batter. I give him the recipe. Me: You want to make this, but add an extra cup of sugar. Don't worry, the sour and sweet balance each other beautifully. Head Millennial: This says cold shortening? Me: It lies. It was written down in the '50's or '60's. Almost anything in this recipe set that says lard or shortening means butter or magazine unless there is an annotation that says no really use shortening. Use the same amount of butter. It will be fine. *Millennial gives me a skeptical look, but forges on.*

Millennial: What do I do with this batter? *Goes over there to help* Me: Okay, we turn up the heat now and stir the sauerkraut. Now we pour the batter on top. *Millennial gives me a concerned and skeptical look.* Okay, we let it heat for a bit, then put the lid on and put it on low. Come check it every ten minutes so so. Don't worry. It will be ugly. It is always ugly but very delicious. *I start wandering back to my sitting down project* I have no idea if this is German or Irish, but it is good, filling Winter food. Millennial: No wonder people think you are Polish. *I am amused*

As it turned out the Millennial did a bit of cleaning, but was tired. Me: want me to take you home? *Millenial casts a worried look back at the kitchen.* Me: It'll be fine. I'll cover it and turn it down. We could be gone half an hour and it would likely still be fine. If it burns a little on the bottom, no problem, but it likely won't.

Anyway, I took them home, which takes about fifteen minutes round trip that time of night. I adjusted the heat a little. Did a very careful stir to limit scorching at the bottom without damaging the dumplings to much. Covered it back up. Did a lung treatment. When I dished it out, it was perfect. Seriously. This is the best it's been in like three years. Neither over cooked or undercooked. Dumplings in the right size range and texture. Perfect mix of sweet and sour. Omnomnomnom!

* Thanks to incredibly kind donations, the immediate financial emergencies are at bay I should be able to cover the bill that is about to go critical and I think the housing tax. I will have a better idea how messed up March will be in about a week. I once again want to thank everyone for their support.

* Last Spring the head Millenial bought some hand sanitizer it turned out they didn't want, I'm assuming because of the offensively strong artificial smell. I can just tolerate it and it's otherwise good sanitizer, just really, really intense. I mostly only use sanitizer in the car, so this pump bottle doesn't get used that much. I did use it the other night and it finally hit me why it smells so familiar: It smells like priest. O.o

* Me, exclaiming to Head Millennial just how not heterosexual Word of Honor is: And then the guy who's been following the other one all over the countryside because of his "Beautiful Shoulders Blades" says the most heterosexual line ever spoken by one man to another in a Chinese homoerotic historical fantasy martial arts epic: "A Gentleman is willing to die for his soulmate."

Head Millennial: I don't think you understand what heterosexual means.

* "I was trying to translate two poems that make up a poetry battle between two sixth-century noblewomen, over their shared husband.:" https://twitter.com/kate_lingley/status/1494843033799434246

*****
* 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.

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Faced with disappearances, beatings and intimidation, Afghanistan’s women’s rights activists go quiet on the streets:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/08/afghanistan-taliban-women-protests/

* "The Betrayal:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/03/biden-afghanistan-exit-american-allies-abandoned/621307/

* "Life in the Taliban's Afghanistan:"

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* "Basic income pilot scheme for care leavers to be trialled in Wales:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/feb/15/basic-income-pilot-scheme-for-care-leavers-to-be-trialled-in-wales

* "French-led western forces to withdraw from Mali:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/17/africa/france-withdraws-military-mali-intl/index.html

* "Bosnia shivers as ghost of nationalism returns:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60240767

* "UN court orders Uganda to pay $325m in reparations to DRC:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/un-court-orders-uganda-to-pay-325m-in-reparations-to-dr-congo

* "Paris attacks trial: 'How I persuaded Salah Abdeslam to open up':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60344480

* "Chagos Islands: Mauritian flag raised on British-controlled islands:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60378487

* "Swimmer dies after being bitten by shark at Sydney beach:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/australia/sydney-shark-swimmer-dies-intl-scli/index.html

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* "‘Game-Changer’ Pfizer Pill Is Easier to Find as Omicron Fades Away:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/-game-changer-pfizer-pill-easier-to-get-as-omicron-fades-away

* "Hong Kong Can’t Live With the Virus. It Can’t Stop It, Either.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/world/asia/hong-kong-covid-omicron-wave.html

* "As Alabama COVID numbers fall, ICUs across the state remained slammed:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2022/02/16/alabama-sees-dropping-daily-covid-cases-omicron-icu-capacity-montgomery-gadsden-tuscaloosa/6805348001/

* "'Such preventable loss': As more babies are hospitalized with COVID-19, these moms are grateful for the vaccine:" https://mississippitoday.org/2022/02/14/mississippi-moms-and-babies-covid/

* "COVID-19 cases down, but deaths remain high - Daily Leader:" https://www.dailyleader.com/2022/02/16/covid-19-cases-down-but-deaths-remain-high/

* Who needs that plague rat. "Unvaccinated Djokovic could skip French Open, Wimbledon:" https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/unvaccinated-djokovic-skip-french-open-wimbledon-82895044

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* "Ukraine crisis: Russia keeps troops in Belarus amid Ukraine fears:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60451955

* "US says Russia closer to invading Ukraine, agrees to meeting:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/shelling-east-ukraine-russia-nuclear-drill-raise-tension-83011700

* "U.S. sounds new alarms on Ukraine and details Russian invasion plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/17/blinken-to-deliver-remarks-on-russian-threat-to-peace-and-security-at-u-n-security-council-00009733

* "Russian government hackers have likely penetrated critical Ukrainian computer systems, U.S. says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/15/russia-ukraine-cyber-attacks/

* "Why the U.S. is ‘transparently’ laying out intel on Russia’s invasion plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-u-s-is-transparently-laying-out-intel-on-russia-s-invasion-plan-133438533691

* "Canadian police arrest 100, tow vehicles amid protests in Ottawa:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/police-arrest-two-leaders-protesting-truckers-canadas-capital-rcna16767

* "The Ottawa trucker protest is rooted in extremism, a national security expert says:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/10/1079842220/ottawa-trucker-convoy-protest

* "A Porno-Metal Song About Gay Cowboys Is Disrupting the Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-vax-trucker-convoy-porno-metal-ram-ranch-1297926/

* "How the 'Battle of Billings Bridge' attracted hundreds of volunteers, trapped convoy for hours:" https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/battle-of-billings-bridge-attracts-hundreds-of-volunteers-traps-convoy-for-hours

* "Ex-president arrested in Honduras as US requests extradition on drugs charges:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/us-honduras-arrest-extradite-ex-president-juan-orlando-hernandez

* I believe in harm reduction. They've made so much progress in Seattle and other places that take this approach. Reducing it to misleading racist dog whistles as an excuse to jail people instead of help them is the opposite of what we need, which is evidence based e+approaches and education. "The ‘crack pipe’ outcry was a huge missed opportunity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/17/crack-pipe-outcry-overdose-crisis-harm-reduction-policy/

* "GOP senators block measures to reduce inflation while whining about inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-senators-block-measures-to-reduce-inflation-while-whining-about-inflation-133438533968

* "Alec Baldwin sued by family of cinematographer killed on set:" https://apnews.com/article/alec-baldwin-entertainment-business-shootings-new-mexico-39573f76042e71fc5f4fba9f36743bbc

* "‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/magazine/traveling-nurses.html

* "Hospital Sues At-Will Workers for Getting Better Jobs:"

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* "Why Trucking Can’t Deliver the Goods:" https://prospect.org/economy/why-trucking-cant-deliver-the-goods/

* "Workforce at Alabama chicken plants includes migrant teens:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-alabama/

* "This School Is So Understaffed, The Principal Drives the Bus:"

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* "Rents Reach 'Insane' Levels Across U.S. With No End in Sight:" https://time.com/6149784/rent-u-s/

* "The Man Who Fought Homelessness and Won (Sort Of):" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/magazine/steven-banks-homelessness.html

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

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

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

* "New Texas GOP voting rules tie election system in knots; thousands of ballots rejected:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-texas-gop-voting-rules-tie-election-system-in-knots-thousands-of-ballots-rejected-133547077623

* "Data shows odd clusters of Florida voters switching to Republican Party:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/data-shows-odd-clusters-of-florida-voters-switching-to-republican-party-133441093683

* "Joy Reid: GOP continues to stoke rage, racialized cultural anxiety among Whites for political gain:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/school-boards-targeted-by-conservatives-in-nationally-coordinated-takeover-effort-133349445574

* "Pro-Trump local official under investigation announces bid for Colorado secretary of state:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/tina-peters-mesa-county-colorado-secretary-of-state/index.html

* "Election denier under investigation is running to oversee elections in her state :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/election-denier-under-investigation-is-running-to-oversee-elections-in-her-state-133252677616

* "Wave of new candidates eager to counter wave of right-wing activists in local elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wave-of-new-candidates-eager-to-counter-wave-of-right-wing-activists-in-local-elections-133265989776

* "Sen. Josh Hawley's campaign selling coffee mugs with image of his Jan. 6 fist pump:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republican-u-s-senator-josh-hawley-stonewalls-critical-defense-department-nominees-133258309915

* "GOP Politician's 'Jesus Guns Babies' Slogan Has Twitter Firing Off Jokes:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kandiss-taylor-jesus-guns-babies-campaign-slogan_n_620ebe89e4b0c94bb9a81845

* Oh, did you hear that Republicans are claiming Hillary Clinton used (presumably Obama’s time machine) to travel to the future to spy on 45 in the white house?

That really happened this week.

* "Trump and two of his children must be deposed by N.Y. attorney general, judge rules:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/17/trump-hotel-lease-probe/

* "With businesses failing, Trump taps his political supporters to maintain his wealth:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-businesses-failing-trump-taps-his-political-supporters-to-maintain-his-wealth-133545541836

* "For Trump, a Perilous Exclamation Point to Years of Wealth Inflation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/business/trump-wealth-mazars.html

* "Trump's legal and money woes snowball as his financial credibility crumbles:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-legal-and-money-woes-snowball-as-his-financial-credibility-crumbles-133450309543

* "Trump, deep in debt, faces dwindling options to preserve faltering business:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-deep-in-debt-faces-dwindling-options-to-preserve-faltering-business-133451333830

* "With Trump abandoned by accounting firm, House Oversight asks GSA to yank hotel lease:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-fraudulent-trump-financials-exposed-house-oversight-asks-gsa-to-yank-hotel-lease-133455941507

* "Trump expert Tim O’Brien: I think right now he’s very cornered:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/donald-trump-don-jr-ivanka-now-have-21-days-to-answer-questions-under-oath-in-new-york-investigation-133442117914

* "Donald Trump's Long Week of Legal Woes:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/donald-trump-s-long-week-of-legal-woes-133619781707

* "How Trump University Was Built to Scam People:"

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* "The Many MLMs of Donald Trump |Multi Level Mondays:"

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* "Doug Mastriano was subpoenaed by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/doug-mastriano-subpoena-jan-6-capitol-attack-20220215.html

* "House probe of Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenas Arizona GOP leader Kelli Ward, 5 others over 'alternate electors':" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/jan-6-capitol-riot-probe-subpoenas-arizona-gop-chair-kelli-ward-5-others-.html

* "New subpoenas show focus on Trump campaign officials in fake elector scheme :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-subpoenas-show-focus-on-trump-campaign-officials-in-fake-elector-scheme-133265989619

* "Fake elector probe spotlights veteran of bogus Republican election fraud claims:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-elector-probe-spotlights-veteran-of-bogus-republican-election-fraud-claims-133354565918

* "Biden orders release of Trump White House logs to Congress:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-united-states-congress-dana-remus-833698eba6e222cdc3dfa128c44b0c99

* "Classified docs found in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago stash, National Archives confirms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/classified-docs-found-in-trump-s-mar-a-lago-stash-national-archives-confirms-133535301834

* "Judge allows lawmaker Jan. 6 lawsuits against Trump to proceed :" https://rollcall.com/2022/02/18/judge-allows-lawmaker-jan-6-lawsuits-against-trump-to-proceed/

* "Trump the failed candidate lacks the privilege of Trump the president; can be sued: judge:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-the-failed-candidate-lacks-the-privilege-of-trump-the-president-can-be-sued-judge-133542469800

* "Federal judge: Trump had a ‘tacit agreement’ with Capitol attackers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/federal-judge-trump-had-a-tacit-agreement-with-capitol-attackers-133534277814

* "Jan. 6 congressional committee subpoenas Kelli Ward, Mark Finchem:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2022/02/15/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-kelli-ward-mark-finchem-over-2020-election/6804440001/

* "Text messages reveal new host of characters lobbying Trump before Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/text-messages-reveal-new-host-of-characters-lobbying-trump-before-jan-6-133344837946

* "Frantic January 6th texts to Mark Meadows only a 'sliver' of investigation's evidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/frantic-january-6th-texts-to-mark-meadows-only-a-sliver-of-investigation-s-evidence-133355589942

* "US Capitol attack panel discusses subpoena for Ivanka Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/17/us-capitol-attack-ivanka-trump-subpoena-discussion

* "Sandy Hook families reach $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/us/sandy-hook-shooting-settlement-with-remington/index.html

* "Sandy Hook families achieve major legal victory against gun maker:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sandy-hook-families-achieve-major-legal-victory-against-gun-maker-133263942002

* "Sandy Hook Promise CEO on families reaching $73 million settlement with gunmaker:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sandy-hook-families-reach-73-million-settlement-with-gunmaker-remington-133256773965

* "Kim Potter to be sentenced today for Daunte Wright's death:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/kim-potter-trial-sentencing-02-18-22/index.html

* "Elie Mystal: Judge Chu cried out for sympathy for Daunte Wright’s killer in front of his mother:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/daunte-wright-s-killer-kim-potter-being-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-decried-by-elie-mystal-133538373516

* "Rep. Ilhan Omar to introduce legislation proposing new restrictions on no-knock warrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-ilhan-omar-to-introduce-legislation-on-new-restrictions-on-no-knock-warrants-in-name-of-22-year-old-amir-locke-133257285919

* "Use of rape-kit DNA to probe other crimes shocks prosecutors:" https://apnews.com/article/crime-california-san-francisco-sexual-assault-3dcd00bf0522ce7c39bb2a7ec53cf7d3

* "Video of New Jersey officers pinning down and handcuffing Black teen after mall fight draws criticism:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mall-fight-new-jersey-police-black-teenager-bridgewater-commons/

* "Black teen handcuffed by police at mall while white teen wasn't scared of what could've happened:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/black-teen-handcuffed-by-police-at-nj-mall-while-white-teen-who-also-fought-watched-speaks-out-133440581884

* "What the Backlash Over Alvin Bragg’s “Day One Memo” Gets Wrong:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg-prosecutorial-discretion.html

* "New York’s Speed Cameras Aren’t Racist — But the City’s Road Design Is:" https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/02/14/analysis-new-yorks-speed-cameras-arent-racist-but-the-citys-road-design-is/

* "Life Is Hell On Riker’s Island Right Now:"

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* "Teens arrested after bomb threats at D.C. high schools; more threats reported Thursday:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/10/bomb-threats-schools-washington/

* "Delta passenger tried to open emergency door as attention-grab to share vaccine views, feds say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/02/15/delta-passenger-emergency-door-vaccines-demarre/

* As man recently literally endangered an airplane full of people so that his right wing extremist disinformation rant would go viral. He easily could have killed someone for his political views if the flight attendant hadn't been fast and lucky. How is this not a terrorist? "Eight Republican senators say they oppose ‘no-fly’ list for disruptive passengers because it would equate mask opponents to ‘terrorists’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/15/eight-republican-senators-say-they-oppose-no-fly-list-disruptive-passengers-because-it-would-equate-mask-opponents-terrorists/

* "‘Disgusting’: GOP senators try to link Innocence Project lawyer to rise in crime:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgusting-gop-senators-try-to-link-innocence-project-lawyer-to-rise-in-crime-133346885749

* "Republicans worry unruly passenger no-fly list casts anti-maskers as terrorists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-worry-unruly-passenger-no-fly-list-casts-anti-maskers-as-terrorists-133354565818

* "'Nowhere is safe': Asian women reflect on brutal New York City killings:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/nowhere-safe-asian-women-reflect-brutal-new-york-city-killings-rcna16173

* "Christina Lee's Alleged Killer Had Arrests but No Mental Health Intervention:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/christina-lees-alleged-killer-had-arrests-but-no-mental-health-intervention/3556359/

* "Murders of Christina Yuna Lee, Michelle Alyssa Go reflect unexamined perils faced by AAPI women:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/violent-crimes-against-asian-americans-and-women-in-particular-soar-during-pandemic-133352005595

* "How to Rename a Place:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/renaming-racist-places-board-on-geographic-names/621342/

* "Dan Patrick vows to ban teaching critical race theory at Texas universities:" https://www.mysanantonio.com/politics/article/Texas-critical-race-theory-schools-Dan-Patrick-UT-16923077.php

* "School boards get death threats over race, gender, mask policies:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-education-threats/

* "Elon Musk and Tesla’s Many Missteps:"

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* CW: Suicide, Domestic Violence, rape. "NFL: Profit over Players and Their Families:"

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* CW: Descriptions of imaginary child abuse. "Understanding the Satanic Panic :"

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* "Manson's Home RAIDED + BDSM Cult Ringleader Arrested? (House of Cadifor):"

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* CW: Sex Abuse "Prince Andrew to settle sex abuse case, donate to charity:" https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-lawsuit-settlement-8b04c775aa46f761d81c05ef12e3a94f

* CW: Pedophilia "In Italy, a Call for a National Investigation Into Clerical Sexual Abuse:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/world/europe/italy-catholic-church-sexual-abuse.html

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel is found dead in a French jail cell:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/19/1081961087/jeffrey-epstein-jean-luc-brunel-dead

* "Telegram: Where women's nudes are shared without consent:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60303769

* "Cuomo sued by New York trooper who claims he sexually harassed her:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/18/cuomo-sued-trooper-sexually-harassed-00010102

* CW: Sexual Assault. "We Need to Talk About Choking.:"

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* "Inside Texas’s Underground Abortion Pill Network:"

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* "Three LGBTQ+ People Were Killed in Honduras on Same Day:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/2/07/three-lgbtq-people-were-killed-honduras-same-day

* "Cuba's first gay hotel reopens as human rights deteriorate:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60339741

* "New Zealand bans dehumanising conversion therapy in landslide vote:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/15/new-zealand-conversion-therapy-ban-3/

* "How Matt Walsh Vilifies Trans People (To Grift his Audience):"

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* "First woman reported cured of HIV after stem cell transplant:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/first-woman-reported-cured-hiv-after-bone-marrow-transplant-2022-02-15/

* "How a Rare Brain Mutation Spread Across America:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/brain-bleed-genetic-mutation-ccm2-deletion/621336/

* "66 years ago, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tried LSD — and ignited a controversy still raging today:" https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/alcoholics-anonymous-lsd-bill-wilson

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* "Extreme Heat in the Oceans Is Out of Control:" https://www.wired.com/story/extreme-heat-in-the-oceans-is-out-of-control/

* "‘The treeline is out of control’: how the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/20/norway-arctic-circle-trees-sami-reindeer-global-heating

* CW: Animal Death "UN: Horn of Africa drought kills+ over 1.5 million livestock:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/horn-africa-drought-kills-15-million-livestock-82890758

* "UN: 13 million face hunger in Horn of Africa as drought worsens:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/8/13-million-face-hunger-in-horn-of-africa-as-drought-worsens-un

* "Brazil: Climate change, neglect contribute to deadly mudslides:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/18/brazil-climate-change-neglect-contribute-deadly-mudslides

* "A ghost village emerges from the cracked earth as drought empties Spanish reservoir:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/spain-aceredo-ghost-village-emerges-reservoir-intl-scli/index.html

* "How Dubai is pushing back its encroaching deserts:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220125-how-dubai-is-pushing-back-its-encroaching-deserts

* "Mexico’s avocados face fallout from violence, deforestation:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexicos-avocados-face-fallout-violence-deforestation-rcna16555

* "The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/magazine/military-burn-pits.html

* "The Lasting Legacy Of Redlining:" https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redlining/

* "The Ticking Clock for Miami's Condo Empire:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/28/magazine/miami-condo-collapse.html

* "Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/02/facebook-hate-speech-misinformation-superusers/621617/

* "Famous Statistic Blaming Car Crashes on Human Error Is Wrong:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n3ym/famous-statistic-blaming-car-crashes-on-human-error-is-wrong

* "Tesla Faces Another US Investigation: Unexpected Braking:" https://www.voanews.com/a/tesla-faces-another-us-investigation-unexpected-braking-/6446566.html

* "Precopulatory oral sex found in darkling beetles:" https://phys.org/news/2021-12-precopulatory-oral-sex-darkling-beetles.html

* "These Animals Are Feasting on the Ruins of an Extinct World:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/sponges-arctic-worms-volcano/621621/

* "Once Thought Loners, Cougars Revealed to Have Rich Society:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/pumas-mountain-lions-cougars-society-social-cats-animals

* "World's first half-male, half-female, dual-gender stick insect discovered:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/19/stick-insect-dual-sex-gender-gynandromorph-charlie/

* "Rescued circus lions reach new home in South Africa:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60367417

* "Nearly half of US bald eagles suffer lead poisoning:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-animals-birds-bald-eagles-8aa5cb2aa77fe3d045cd72a724376e3c

* "French pet care firm stops selling fish bowls - they drive fish mad:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/french-pet-care-firm-stops-selling-fish-bowls-they-drive-fish-mad-2022-01-22/

* "Tut-Tut:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/why-king-tut-is-still-fascinating/amp

* "Black Women and the Wyoming Women’s Suffrage Act (1869- ) •:" https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/concepts-african-american-history/black-women-and-the-wyoming-womens-suffrage-act-1869/

* "The surprising ways that Victorians flirted:" https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220114-the-surprising-ways-that-victorians-flirted

* "Exploring the Queer History of the Old West... Yeehaw:"

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* "World War II: Black American History #31:"

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* "Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington: Crash Course Black American History 32:"

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* "MOVE 101: Why, 35 years ago, Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself:" https://billypenn.com/2020/05/11/move-101-why-30-years-ago-philadelphia-dropped-a-bomb-on-itself/

* "Bitcoins, Pigeons, and Russians: Three Ponzi Schemes You Need to Know About :"

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* "'A very rich language': Iqaluit woman begins teaching Inuktitut online :" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/allurvik-inuktitut-online-classes-iqaluit-1.6315826

* "Baptisms by Arizona priest presumed invalid due to error:" https://apnews.com/article/arizona-priest-baptism-catholic-church-208c6795fbf2dea911cf4488e8a5925e

* "Is This the End of the Cannonball Run?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cannonball-run-cross-country-racing

* "NYC Mayor Equates Cheese to Heroin:"

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* "How Conservative Book Bans Don’t Protect Kids:"

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* "Power Naps: Black America’s Struggle To Sleep:"

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* "Allana Harkin Goes to the Super Bowl to Talk Politics:"

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* "Olympic Committee Wins Gold Medal For Bullshit:"

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* "We Know Who Biden Should Pick For SCOTUS:"

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* "SAND: The Sexiest Topic We’ve Ever Covered:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWGZFGr_xgE&list=PLur87nTwD0BvJxnqy0vtMfcdzOWB0CZ_X&index=1

* "Kinky GREEN Flags:"

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* "Shipping: A Nuanced Argument:"

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* "The Musical that Closed Before Rehearsals: Rebecca The Musical:"

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* "The Broadway Show that Closed in 3 DAYS: The History of Carrie the Musical:"

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* "Not for Girls | Pointlessly Gendered:"

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* Wednesday morning, City Guy and Honest Contractor were scheduled to come for a walk through as part of getting things going on the electrical fix. (The plan was for them to work out how bad the damage was and then I'd submit a claim to housing insurance. City was going to fund my... I think it was 2500.00 copay and the rest of the rewiring would hopefully be covered by insurance.) I stayed up for it, despite being exhausted and my legs being really bad. Getting electricity for the kitchen and bathroom was worth whatever it cost me physically in the short run.

Longtime readers will remember there was a massive delay caused first by Squirrel catching COVID at work the day after he got his booster, before the extra coverage could kick in. He was symptomatic in a way that closely mimicked my reaction to the booster early in December. We opted for longer quarantine than the five days for vaccinated people. I never caught it. yay, booster! By the time we were out of quarantine, City Guys kid had caught it in school and Honest contractor had caught it separately on a job. (Everyone's okay now.) Thus COVID ate a month on dealing with stuff.

Longtime readers will also remember that the city funded renovations two years ago overlapped the beginning of the pandemic by about a month. They wore high end construction masks, we hid in our rooms as by this point they were mostly finishing my bathroom off, and I think maybe painting living room dry wall, but don't quote me on that. As a result, the city final inspection was not entirely complete. They combined the inspection with the electrical walk through. This will come up later.

By the time they arrived I could barely walk and was using the crutches to hobble around when they needed me for stuff. They were almost done and the contractor was looking grim, on the grounds that this was likely going to be an incredibly expensive rewiring. They were impressed by the blue sparks when they tried to flick the switch in the electrical panel. He was emerging from squirrel's room where I didn't follow, preferring to sit in my office chair because legs shaky and extreme pain. It was at this point I described the initial incident back in late December in detail for the first time. (Three people handling things at the city office had heard the full thing but the contractor had only had bare bones). His face lit up.

Honest Contractor was like: It might just be a shirt behind the light switch panel in the bathroom! So he grabbed a tool out of my belt and i scrounged some office supplies from my desk area and he opened it up. At which point his was very O.o. If you know anything about how wiring works you will understand the horror the four of us felt at his discovery.

The wires had corroded right behind the switch. This is not the alarming part. The alarming part was that the low bid contractor who had royally fucked up the building from square one had, for reasons known only to himself, wrapped the grounding wire AROUND the live wire. Because of the corrosion, these to things were touching and it would arc blue every time you flipped the switch. So that was quite alarming. It is likely the same in every apartment in all three buildings. Holy Fire Hazard Batman! He sorted it out.

We have Electricity! I repeat, we have electricity!

This took all of the Wednesday and most of the Thursday spoons, but it was so worth it. Seriously, I couldn't make it out of my room until 2AM.

Thursday, I got a call from City Guy. Honest contractor will need to come back for a small pipe related revision related to the original city funded renovation. honest contractor has also agreed to fix a safety hazard in the kitchen for 50.00. The hope is to combine these missions. I've no idea when he's coming as he is a very busy man and his schedule is borked by his getting sick, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel on everything but the stove and maybe fire suppression.

So to some up, what we were all thinking was 20,000 of wiring damage is fixed. We are still in the air on fire suppression and stove. I am about 150.00 behind on bills because of Management Company charging us 160.00 to not fix the fire suppression leading and surprise medical bill, and car tabs all hitting in January, leading to late fees on a bill I haven't caught up as a result. Plus the 50.00 so no one will accidentally break a finger in the kitchen. The big housing tax bill is expected any day, but that, like a stove that can do more than boil water is on my next month problem list at this point.

We are substantially in a better position than we were in January despite a+everything, so I am calling it a win.

Want to help? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* Watching the women's singles event, I kept thinking about how flat and samey a lot of it was. I used to love the ladies events the same way I still love the men's events. Off the top of my head I could easily think of ten women I used to look forward to watching every time from earlier cycles.

My biases as well known. I'll take an all around skater over a jumper with privative choreography any day. I like character and artistry and I want to feel something when I watch. I'm that weirdo who loves watching the early flights at the big events as well as the top skaters. I love spotting folks just up from juniors full of potential. I love watching quirky older skaters who will likely never see a podium, but who are fun and/or magical in their expression. I love watching people who clearly love what they are doing even if they only get seen once a year at nationals or Europeans. (I would happily watch everyone's nationals if they broadcast them. At least broadcast Japanese Nationals over here? Pretty Please?).

I have a friend who'd stopped following skating this cycle, so I was bringing her up to speed on single skating stuff for this Olympics. I had this massive list of people to watch for in the earlier flights in the men's event: their strengths, their weaknesses, why I in particular liked them. I explained why I wasn't big on several of the big names as well. {Me: Grassl skates like a young Evgeni Plushenko (derogatory). See my opinion on jumpers with nothing much else to recommend them}. I had page after page of things to say about male figure skaters.

This was before the revelations about the Russian women's figure skating program and doping in particular. I explained my opinions of the three Russian skaters. None of it particularly relevant anymore, though I stand by my comparison of Alexandra Trusova to Evgeni Plushenko (derogatory), especially after her throwing an almost identical tantrum to the one he threw when even beat him in pretty much the same way. I explained that my current favorite woman single skater Mai Mihara wouldn't be there because she hadn't recovered from an injury fast enough to compete until Four Continents where she skated brilliantly. That Kaori was my second favorite by a hair and I was desperately rooting for her to get bronze, even though it would be very uphill and a bit long shot. I listed a few others I enjoy: Alysa Liu, Loena Hendrickx, You Young, Wakaba Higuchi. There are a few earlier flight skaters I'm vaguely fond of, but it wasn't what it would have been a decade and a half ago.

I watched it all, like I always do. I cheered on Mariah and Maddie. I watched with real concern as Zhu Yi skated, cheering her on with the Canadian commentators after all she'd been through and then.... sea of sameness. The Estonian had innovative costumes, which was cool, even though her skating didn't do much for me. The rest? Eh. until nearly the end.

I kept thinking about how dull it's all gotten, really, outside of a handful of performances. I think the Russians sucked all the air out of the room eight or so years ago, with there incredibly abusive and dangerous training methods. I've said before, I'm not angry at abused teenagers for living in a system designed to chew them up and spit them out in two to four years. I'm angry at the adults who built and perpetuated this system. My fury is inexpressible really, and I can only watch them skate in sorrow. I think it's the whole women's side of the sport that's been damaged though. All those young women tying to chase something impossible to catch and destructive if you do. It's like the life had been hammered out of the middle flights, and it just... breaks my heart.

I've loved women's skating my whole life. I watched Dorothy Hammill in real time as a child. My whole family wept for Debi Thomas when she fell. The part of my that wanted to dance like Mikhail Baryshnikov and was fascinated by Rudolf Nureyev, also loved figure skating. All of figure skating.

I want the sport I loved back. I want the IOC to grow a fucking spine and come down like bricks on Eteri Tutberidze, the Russian doping agency, and anyone in authority involved in the cheating and the abuse. I want an end to slaps on the wrist that only encourage them to do worse. I want clean skating and skaters who are allowed to eat and for women to be allowed to now interesting programs again. I want a sport that actually would have room for a modern Surya Bonaly without the racism and body shaming.

I want women's skating to be better than it was in the 20th century, not worse. I want to look forward to every event again like I used to.

* "How To Figure Out You're Gay Or Something ("Or Something") Before You Know What Being Gay Or Something ("Or Something") Is:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/how-to-figure-out-youre-gay-or-something?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0ODg3MDUyMywiXyI6IngwWHkwIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ1MTA3NTkzLCJleHAiOjE2NDUxMTExOTMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.YF8-PSR6uV58w6A1scIKAnKRUpAN63Hs33MvnDDTTHw&r=ykw2&utm_source=url

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Lebanon's soul has been eviscerated by its financial crisis. Not even the children want to play:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/middleeast/lebanon-crisis-children-cmd-intl/index.html

* "Russia lists Pussy Riot member, art collector and satirist as 'foreign agents':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/europe/pussy-riot/index.html

* "Lesbian Pop Star Denise Ho Arrested by Hong Kong Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/30/lesbian-pop-star-denise-ho-arrested-hong-kong-authorities-cantopop-china

* "The mob killing of a factory manager in Pakistan comes amid surge in anti-blasphemy violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/24/pakistan-blasphemy-violence-labbaik/?itid=mr_world_4

* "“Meet a Jew,” Germany’s New Scheme to Convince the Country That Jews Are People:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/12/meet-a-jew-germany-anti-semitism-crime.html

* "‘My grandmother hid Jewish children’: Poland’s underground refugee network:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/24/my-grandmother-hid-jewish-children-polands-underground-refugee-network

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* "WHO: global COVID cases up 11% last week, omicron risk high:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/who-global-covid-cases-up-11-last-week-omicron-risk-high.html

* "FDA: Antigen tests may have reduced sensitivity detecting Omicron:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/fda-antigen-tests-reduced-sensitivity-omicron-526217

* "You might get a breakthrough case of Covid-19 this winter. Here’s how to prepare.:" https://www.vox.com/22841985/breakthrough-covid-19-winter-positive-test-how-to-prepare

* "COVID cases surge in Lebanon ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/31/warnings-lebanon-covid-rising-figures

* "NHS trusts in England declare critical incidents amid Covid staff crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/03/several-nhs-trusts-declare-critical-incidents-amid-covid-staff-crisis

* "U.S. sets new daily high for Covid cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/us-new-daily-high-covid-526223

* "US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-children-hospitalized-covid-record-numbers-82004052

* "FDA Expands Pfizer Boosters for More Teens as Omicron Surges:" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-01-03/fda-expands-pfizer-boosters-for-more-teens-as-omicron-surges

* "Omicron makes up 95% of sequenced Covid cases in U.S. as infections hit pandemic record:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/omicron-makes-up-95percent-of-sequenced-covid-cases-in-us-as-infections-hit-pandemic-record.html

* "Hospitalizations spike amid rocketing Covid case counts; threat to hospitals renewed:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hospitalizations-spike-amid-rocketing-covid-case-counts-threat-to-hospitals-renewed-130067013845

* "Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/26/1066395049/intimate-portraits-of-a-hospital-covid-unit-from-a-photojournalist-turned-nurse

* "White House issues a warning to unvaccinated Americans as concerns about omicron grow:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065312060/white-house-issues-a-warning-to-unvaccinated-americans-as-concerns-about-omicron

* "Chris Hayes: How omicron’s contagiousness is changing the pandemic normal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-omicron-s-contagiousness-is-changing-the-pandemic-normal-129800261794

* "Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-pfizer-medication-f5f65e7e61d6aa9c7dfa193053e8878a

* "US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say:" https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/

* "‘This was the moment’: CDC defends altered guidance amid Omicron surge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/29/cdc-defends-new-covid-guidelines-526234

* "Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-pandemics-london-7004e1f1b1847b9831623e6adcedb5f3

* "Covid-19 surges spark chain reactions that strain US hospitals everywhere:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22849829/covid-omicron-variant-cases-surge-us-hospitals

* "Florida breaks state record for COVID-19 cases again, for 4th time in 7 days:" https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/florida-breaks-state-record-for-covid-19-cases-again-fourth-time-in-7-days/

* "Orange Mayor Demings blasts DeSantis, expands COVID-19 testing, requires masks for employees:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-orange-update-12-28-20211229-3xmrumwt45gllkym5su6jz26nq-story.html

* "Dem Florida gov. candidate Nikki Fried calls out DeSantis’s lack of visibility as Omicron surges:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-ron-desantis-appears-to-be-missing-in-action-as-omicron-sweeps-across-his-state-129803845777

* "Activist claims DeSantis ‘decided to just sit back, do nothing’ as Covid surged in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-largely-missing-from-public-from-december-17-through-new-year-s-eve-as-covid-surged-130060869600

* "Despite vaccines, more Texans died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in first year of pandemic:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/coronavirus/article/Despite-vaccines-Texas-COVID-deaths-35-higher-16722967.php

* "Omicron is sidelining even health care workers as it rips through Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/28/omicron-texas-covid-19/

* "Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations rise more than 11% in a day:" https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/hospitalizations/texas-covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-more-than-11-in-a-day/

* "R.I. health care system ‘is currently collapsing,’ emergency doctors warn :" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/18/metro/ri-health-care-system-is-currently-collapsing-emergency-doctors-warn/

* "Frustrated emergency doctor says R.I. isn’t doing enough to address health system ‘collapse’:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/21/metro/frustrated-emergency-doctor-says-ri-isnt-doing-enough-address-health-system-collapse/

* "Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/us/hospital-covid-19-deaths-michigan/index.html

* "Surge in COVID-19 cases overwhelms Indianapolis hospitals:" https://www.wishtv.com/news/vaccinecentral/surge-in-covid-19-cases-overwhelms-indianapolis-hospitals/

* "'There's going to be opposition': Indiana lawmakers prep to fast track vaccine mandate bill:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/17/covid-indiana-lawmakers-prep-fast-track-vaccine-mandate-bill/8925925002/

* "Nearly two-thirds of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire unvaccinated, report says:" https://www.wmur.com/article/nearly-two-thirds-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-new-hampshire-unvaccinated-report-says/38628992

* "Inside a New Hampshire hospital overwhelmed by COVID:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/12/20/covid-cases-overwhelm-new-england-hospitals

* "About 25% of Ohio coronavirus tests are coming back positive. Gov. Mike DeWine says actual positivity is higher.:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/about-25-of-ohio-coronavirus-tests-are-coming-back-positive-gov-mike-dewine-says-actual-positivity-is-higher.html

* "Ohio hospital saw pediatric COVID-related hospitalizations triple in the last week:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ohio-hospital-pediatric-covid-related-hospitalizations-triple-in-the-last-week/530-3228dfd1-2f0b-4a15-9956-de0267ca8fdd

* "More Ohio hospitals postpone surgeries as COVID cases rise:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/more-ohio-hospitals-postpone-surgeries-covid-cases-rise/530-4c8f04ca-8fe4-4125-8250-a71c16e970b3

* "‘We’re begging you’: Ohio hospitals have more COVID-19 patients in emergency rooms than ever before:" https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/12/20/were-begging-you-ohio-hospitals-have-more-covid-19-patients-emergency-rooms-than-ever-before/

* "'Nurses are at a breaking point': Union sounds plea as healthcare workers face continuing COVID-19 surge:" https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/nurses-breaking-point-minnesota-nurses-association-pleas-healthcare-workers-covid-19-surge/89-1dd21ed7-fa65-4926-8432-0ab1860471ed

* "Mississippi in 5th wave of COVID-19, state health official says:" https://www.wapt.com/article/msdh-issues-updated-guidance-on-omicron-covid-19-treatments/38635488

* "COVID-19 cases to climb even higher as students return to school, health officials say:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/12/28/mississippi-covid-cases-rise-sharply-going-into-new-year/9035370002/

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations up dramatically in Missouri:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-st-louis-kansas-city-missouri-44e8dc99f89b812fecbe01c7b9c5a3ba

* "COVID cases surge in Kansas City as the new year arrives: here are three key takeaways:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256930162.html

* "Alabama adds 5,900 new COVID cases, positivity rate hits all-time high:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/12/alabama-covid-positivity-rate-at-all-time-high-nearly-6000-new-cases-reported-wednesday.html

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations, school cases increasing in Alabama:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/12/22/covid-alabama-coronavirus-cases-hospitals-schools-omicron-variant/8998336002/

* "COVID-19 cases continue to rise in New Jersey:" https://abc7ny.com/covid-in-new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-restrictions-coronavirus-updates/11361136/

* "NJ's Largest Hospital System Expects Hospitalizations to Exceed Worst of 2020 Soon:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/njs-largest-hospital-system-expects-hospitalizations-to-exceed-worst-of-2020-soon/3473230/

* "Inmates at NYC's Rikers Island jail in the midst of 'emerging crisis' related to Omicron surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/omicron-surge-rikers-jail/index.html

* Why are cruises still a thing? "3rd Florida-based ship has outbreak, state cases hit record:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/3rd-florida-based-ship-outbreak-state-cases-rise-81932406

* "People should avoid cruise travel regardless of their vaccination status, the CDC says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/12/30/1069253312/cdc-cruise-ship-travel-covid-19

* "Fauci on Fox’s Jesse Watters: He ‘should be fired on the spot’:" https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/fauci-on-foxs-jesse-watters-he-should-be-fired-on-the-spot/

* "Extremists shifting attention to influencing local governments expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/u-s-sets-global-record-of-one-million-covid-cases-reported-monday-130145349717

* "Anti-vaccination protesters targeted a Cheesecake Factory — 6 were arrested:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vaxxer-protesers-cheesecake-factory-arrests/

* "Congress' doctor urges lawmakers to work remotely and upgrade masks as omicron rages:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1070037412/covid-congress-house-senate-omicron

* "Congress' attending physician says there are "unprecedented" cases of Covid throughout the complex. :" https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-3-2022/omicron-swamps-the-hill/

* "Pentagon Chief Austin Says He Has Tested Positive for COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/pentagon-chief-austin-says-he-has-tested-positive-for-covid

* "Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker test positive for Covid amid US Omicron surge:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/19/elizabeth-warren-tests-positive-covid-omicron-surge

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* "Alexander Vindman supports arming Ukrainians to make Russian attack ‘less palatable’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-joe-biden-spoke-to-vladimir-putin-as-russian-troops-remain-stationed-at-ukrainian-border-129874501741

* "No surprise, Donald Trump just endorsed Hungary homophobe Viktor Orbán:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/donald-trump-viktor-orban-hungary-election-lgbt-rights/

* "The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/magazine/victims-airstrikes-middle-east-civilians.html

* "Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into US:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-immigration-massachusetts-kabul-taliban-8ea41eef2c1e1735d748fcb796faccab

* "Biden to speak with Putin on Thursday at Russian leader's request:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/politics/biden-putin-call/index.html

* "Dems fight back against GOP accusations of being weak on Russia: "That dog won't hunt!":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/06/smacked-down-on-senate-floor-for-calling-dems-soft-on-russia-that-dog-wont-hunt_partner/

* "How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken):"

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* "White House unveils plan to replace every lead pipe in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-unveils-plan-replace-every-lead-pipe-u-s-n1286079

* "Biden’s Pick for Banking Regulator Pulls Out After ‘Inappropriate Personal Attacks’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/saule-omarova-bidens-pick-for-banking-regulator-withdraws-after-inappropriate-personal-attacks

* "Biden finishes 2021 with most confirmed judicial picks since Reagan:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/biden-finishes-2021-with-most-confirmed-judicial-picks-since-reagan-2021-12-28/

* And yet Manchin insists we can’t afford the infrastructure Bill. "Biden signs $768B defense policy bill that supersized his original Pentagon request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/biden-signs-defense-policy-bill-526171

* "Manchin says he won't vote for Build Back Better Act:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-manchin-build-back-better/index.html

* "Corporate donations to Sen. Joe Manchin's PAC surged as he fought President Biden's agenda:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/joe-manchin-pac-saw-surge-of-corporate-donations-as-he-fought-biden-agenda.html

* "As Congress fails on climate (again), focus turns to executive options for Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-congress-fails-on-climate-again-focus-turns-to-executive-options-for-biden-129880645576

* "They Are Essential Workers. They Pay Taxes. But They've Been Largely Excluded from Pandemic Aid.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/12/15/essential-but-excluded

* "The Undercover Anarchists’ Secret Construction Collective:" https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

* "Hostile Architecture: The Fight Against the Homeless:"

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* "Supply shortages and emboldened workers: A changed economy:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-business-prices-66e5f5612c0a56c18ac218425e2cd20a

* "The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?:" https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22837830/covid-pandemic-climate-change-great-resignation-2021

* "Senate parliamentarian rejects latest Dem proposal on immigration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-latest-dem-proposal-on-immigration-525195

* "Senate Democrats renew focus on voting rights as domestic policy bill stalls and filibuster changes are considered:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voting-rights-filibuster-manchin/2021/12/15/3492c0b0-5de5-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

* "Politics expert asks: Will Democratic leaders really listen to voters in 2022?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-majority-leader-chuck-schumer-has-promised-a-vote-on-the-build-back-better-bill-in-2022-129873989697

* "'This is it': Swalwell warns 2022 could be last election if GOP wins majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-it-swalwell-warns-2022-could-be-last-election-if-gop-wins-majority-130056261886

* "Historian: We must protect democracy in 2022, or lose it forever.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/historian-we-must-protect-democracy-in-2022-or-lose-it-forever-129969221954

* "How Out Texas Rep. Celia Israel Put Voting Rights First in 2021:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/12/16/how-out-texas-rep-celia-israel-put-voting-rights-first-2021

* "Schumer tries to jump-start Dems with rules change threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/schumer-threatens-vote-on-senate-rules-change-in-january-526394

* "Sen. Schumer on Manchin, Sinema: We've got to keep pressing them on voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-chuck-schumer-vows-vote-on-senate-filibuster-rules-changes-to-advance-voting-rights-legislation-130058821956

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

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

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

* "Lincoln County, Georgia, Where The Population Is One-Third Black, Proposes Closing Down All But One Polling Place:" https://www.theroot.com/lincoln-county-georgia-where-the-population-is-one-th-1848257870

* "Washington redistricting commission sued over transparency issues as behind-the-scenes dealings emerge:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lawsuit-washington-redistricting-commission-violated-open-meetings-law/

* "Political stakes are high as trial begins in NC gerrymandering lawsuit:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article257010887.html

* "Congressional redistricting hits the Ohio Supreme Court:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/12/29/congressional-redistricting-hits-the-ohio-supreme-court/

* We still have a fighting chance if we all turn out next November. "Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/democrats-are-doing-weirdly-well-in-redistricting.html

* "Republicans hit snags deploying gerrymandering strategy to strengthen grip on power:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-hit-snags-deploying-gerrymandering-strategy-to-strengthen-grip-on-power-129879109973

* "'Slow-motion insurrection': How GOP seizes election power:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-united-states-elections-electoral-college-election-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

* "Colorado Election Fraud Group Is Training Conspiracists in Other States to Knock Doors in Search of 'Phantom Ballots':" https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/10/colorado-election-fraud-group-is-training-conspiracists-in-other-states-to-knock-doors-in-search-of-phantom-ballots/39935/

* "A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it:" https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/12/06/utah-group-is-going-door/

* "Amid Texas GOP’s effort to question electoral integrity, attorney general tried to indict Travis County elections chief:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/20/texas-ken-paxton-travis-county-elections/

* "‘A real conflagration’: Wisconsin emerges as front line in war over the 2020 vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-2020-vote-battle/2021/12/16/6c585248-5931-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html

* "Most threats against election workers, stoked by Trump's Big Lie, go unpunished: Reuters :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/most-threats-against-election-workers-stoked-by-trump-s-big-lie-go-unpunished-reuters-129878597732

* "Trump aide admits he was behind meeting with Kanye West publicist and Georgia election worker:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2070502

* "Eric Adams becomes New York City's 110th mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/eric-adams-becomes-new-york-city-s-110th-mayor-129969733747

* "‘National divorce:’ Congresswoman openly advocates end to American democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-national-divorce-congresswoman-openly-advocates-end-to-american-democracy-129871429742

* "Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/media/fox-news-court-dominion/index.html

* "Twitter Bans Personal Greene Account for COVID-19 Misinfo:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/twitter-bans-personal-greene-account-for-covid-19-misinfo

* "GOP Candidate Claims Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Not Gay, Is Abuser:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/16/gop-candidate-claims-colorado-gov-jared-polis-not-gay-abuser

* "Herschel Walker stumbles badly on John Lewis, voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/herschel-walker-stumbles-badly-john-lewis-voting-rights-n1286559

* "3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/

* "GOP blows off Trump’s bid to oust McConnell:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/gop-trump-oust-mcconnell-525207

* "Trump sues NY attorney general, seeking to halt civil probe:" https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-albany-8cd1fd3c9dc206a5b563116f3966f2a4

* "GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump’s legal bills in N.Y. probes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-party-trump-legal-bills-new-york-probe/2021/12/16/08af4524-5c3f-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html

* "New York attorney general subpoenas Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump-new-york-attorney-general

* "Subpoenas for Ivanka, Trump Jr suggest NY AG investigation entering final stages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/subpoenas-for-ivanka-trump-jr-suggest-ny-ag-investigation-entering-final-stages-130065477932

* "The U.S. military men spreading Trump’s baseless fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

* "Cheney: January 6 committee has 'firsthand testimony' that Ivanka asked Trump to intervene during insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/bennie-thompson-trump-capitol-insurrection/index.html

* "Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/27/capitol-attack-panel-investigate-trump-call-willard-hotel-before-assault

* House panel asks Supreme Court to say by mid-January whether it's taking Trump's January 6 records case":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-records-january-6/

* "Why the ‘consensus opinion’ during and right after Jan. 6 is worth remembering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-consensus-opinion-during-and-right-after-jan-6-is-worth-remembering-130056773581

* "House committee seeks to interview GOP firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan about January 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/jim-jordan-house-select-committee-january-6/index.html

* "Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html

* "Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/trump-ally-brandon-straka-information-525272

* "January 6 committee sends letter to GOP Rep. Scott Perry, asking to interview him:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/scott-perry-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Trump ally Roger Stone pleads the Fifth in deposition with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/roger-stone-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Capitol rioters' tears, remorse don't spare them from jail:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-rioters-prison-95bdc863812cab48be3d98ada67bd582

* "Judge: Lack of charges for Trump over Jan. 6 is no basis for leniency for others:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/judge-lack-charges-trump-jan-6-525277

* "Remembering the Jan. 6 insurrection: What it was like inside the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/remembering-the-jan-6-insurrection-what-it-was-like-inside-the-capitol-129968709883

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "Capitol rioter told FBI he was "in the bathroom pooping when the violence occurred":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/03/capitol-rioter-told-fbi-he-was-in-the-bathroom-pooping-when-the-violence-occurred_partner/

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "'Jesus Christ Superstar' actor, an accused Capitol rioter, claimed 'divine' authority in court hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/january-6-jesus-christ-superstar-sovereign-citizen/index.html

* "‘Q’ Has Been Quiet, but QAnon Lives On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/qanon-conspiracy-movement.html

* "Defense seeks dismissal of indictment for Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/26/defense-dismissal-indictment-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-michigan-governor-coronavirus-covid

* "Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/

* "Police: Gunman in Denver who killed 5 targeted some victims:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article256898017.html

* " Why Alex Jones Lost the Sandy Hook Lawsuits :"

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* "North Carolina 3-year-old who accidentally shot herself on Christmas Day has died:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/us/north-carolina-christmas-shooting-toddler-dies/index.html

* "How a bloody land feud in Honduras is stoking migrant flight to U.S.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/honduras-migration-land/

* "Ex-officer Kim Potter found guilty of two counts of manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/us/kim-potter-trial-thursday/index.html

* "A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard:" https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/

* "How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

* "A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/isaac-wright-driftershoots-ptsd.html

* "5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon:" https://apnews.com/article/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-carjacked-teens-charged-3b17b2cc9d2dc00f0782f0f937e960d0

* "'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski moved to prison medical facility:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-moved-prison-medical-facility-81916720

* "Rocker Rod Stewart, son resolve Florida hotel assault case:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-florida-rod-stewart-3ffb512ae758f75593d0cc8f1ab5ecb1

* "Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbbey/prison-phone-companies-are-recording-attorney-client-calls-across-the-us

* "Behind the Violence at Rikers, Decades of Mismanagement and Dysfunction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyregion/rikers-island-correction-officers.html

* "The Injustices of the Private Prison System:"

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* "Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-race-and-ethnicity-europe-1952ea369c0f4afdb6d23c7706aaadc8

* "Debunking the right-wing’s shoplifting freak-out:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/debunking-wing-shoplifting-freak-015411156.html

* "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/tech/elizabeth-holmes-verdict/index.html

* "He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-ku-klux-klan-fa0ec4120b1457f56c527108074795b5

* "Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer has record cleared:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59688404

* "OK bill would pay parents $10K each day their nominated banned books remain in libraries:" https://www.newsweek.com/ok-bill-would-pay-parents-10k-each-day-their-nominated-banned-books-remain-libraries-1663511

* "Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/us/texas-school-librarians-book-challenges/index.html

* CW: Psychiatric Abuse, Domestic Abuse. "The Rise and Fall of Dr. Phil, Part One:"

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* CW: Child Abuse, Torture "Dr. Phil's Involvement with Turnabout Ranch is Uncomfortable :"

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* "Pushed to Perform: How Reality TV Became About Kids:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Joshua Bassett's childhood sexual abuser was a family member who groomed him for years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/28/joshua-bassett-sexual-abuse-coming-out-zach-sang/

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1066219689/ghislaine-maxwell-verdict-trial-jeffrey-epstein

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Rape, Pedophilia. "What Medieval Women Who Trafficked Girls Can Teach Us About Ghislaine Maxwell:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-history-of-female-complicity-in-sexual-abuse.html

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Prince Andrew accuser’s 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59861831

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia"A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/

* "Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/02/1066099271/child-grooms-are-often-overlooked-in-the-fight-to-stop-child-marriage

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth: Two women accuse Sex And The City actor of sexual assault:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59689064

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth Is Dropped From ‘The Equalizer’ Amid Sexual Assault Allegations:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/chris-noth-the-equalizer-fired.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Prosecutor drops groping charge against former NY Gov. Cuomo:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-andrew-cuomo-albany-david-soares-24c140df57e2cf65bea8e576bf427f74

* CW: sexual Misconduct "Chris Cuomo, newly fired from CNN, faces an allegation of sexual misconduct:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/05/1061639233/chris-cuomo-newly-fired-from-cnn-faces-an-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct

* "Bryan Singer accused of 'controlling, abusive' relationship with young assistant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/bryan-singer-x-men-director-abuse-allegations-blake-stuerman/

* "Alex Jones' wife arrested on domestic violence charge:" https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-wife-arrested-domestic-204930217.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Dubai ruler must pay ex-wife $700M in divorce settlement:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/dubai-ruler-pay-wife-700m-divorce-settlement-81873513

* CW: Domestic Violence "Students walked out before ‘transphobic’ Rod Liddle speech 'over assault caution':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/rod-liddle-durham-assault-caution/

* "Death of pregnant woman ignites debate about abortion ban in Poland:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/death-pregnant-woman-ignites-debate-about-abortion-ban-poland-2021-11-05/

* "Tennessee Planned Parenthood destroyed in early morning fire:" https://apnews.com/article/health-fires-tennessee-knoxville-planned-parenthood-524edc1a8bd12e46774c1fcdf37c6c72

* "US groups behind bid to outlaw abortion linked to global attacks on human rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/07/homophobic-groups-fund-abortion-case-us/

* "Abortion bans 'certain' across America if Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/abortion-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/

* "For Young LGBTQ+ Folks, Emergency Contraception on Campus Is Essential:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/29/young-lgbtq-folks-emergency-contraception-campus-essential

* "Vladimir Putin uses annual four-hour speech to attack trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/24/vladimir-putin-russia-trans-coronavirus-pandemic/

* "Hungary’s cruel anti-LGBT+ law breaches basic human rights, say legal experts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/hungary-anti-lgbt-law/

* "Kiss-A-Thon Held at Six Flags Mexico After Queer Couple Reprimanded:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/1/03/kiss-thon-held-six-flags-mexico-after-queer-couple-reprimanded-kissing

* "Same-Sex Couples in Israel Will Soon Have Access to Surrogacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/04/same-sex-couples-israel-will-soon-have-access-surrogacy

* "Majority of Scots think trans people should be 'free to express their identity':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/17/trans-scotland-self-id-survation-poll/

* "All historic gay sex convictions to be pardoned: 'The UK did so much wrong':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/gay-sex-pardon-turins-law-priti-patel/

* "Crucial appeal against anti-trans LGB Alliance’s charity status to be heard in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/23/lgb-alliance-charity-appeal/

* "Tories should give non-binary people legal recognition by 2024, say MPs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/non-binary-legal-recognition-inquiry/

* "The real-life stories of Grindr serial killer Stephen Port's tragic victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/stephen-port-victims-anthony-walgate-daniel-whitworth-gabriel-kovari-jack-taylor/

* "America's LGBT+ population could be twice as big as previously thought, study says:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/19/usa-lgbt-population-census-pulse-survey-trans/

* "Black Trans Woman Ke’Yahonna Stone Shot Morning After Christmas:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/31/black-transgender-woman-keyahonna-stone-shot-morning-after-christmas-indiana

* "21-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Amarey Lej Killed in Pittsburgh:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/04/21-year-old-black-trans-woman-amarey-lej-killed-pittsburgh

* "'Angry' students take stand after school targeted in racist, homophobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/homophobic-racist-slurs-san-dieguito-academy/

* "Billionaire Mormon quits church over relentless attacks on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/jeff-t-green-mormon-quit-lgbt-gay/

* "Their fears are mirrors of what they desire:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1814418.html

* "Game-changing injectable PrEP taken every other month to be rolled out in US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/prep-injection-fda/

* Child Death "They Lost Three Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/health/sickle-cell-nigeria.html

* "The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/13/whitest-specialty-as-medicine-strives-to-close-diversity-gaps-orthopedic-surgery-remains-stubborn-outlier/

* "New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countries:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064212737/new-zealands-cigarette-ban-model

* "The Problem With the Myers-Briggs Personality Test:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-problem-with-the-myers-briggs-personality-test

* "US population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st year:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-health-us-census-bureau-covid-19-pandemic-d224035ee70e805f1e42da6c1a9c079c

* "Alyssa always wanted to be a doctor. Then her dad died of covid and her dream fell apart.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/father-covid-grief/

* "Children, Coping With Loss, Are Pandemic’s ‘Forgotten Grievers’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/politics/children-lost-parents-caregivers-covid-grief.html

* "Fentanyl number one cause of death for adults 18-45, recent government data says:" https://www.abc12.com/news/fentanyl-number-one-cause-of-death-for-adults-18-45-recent-government-data-says/article_ed0bfe28-5f79-11ec-8aa0-af3f6cbff03c.html

* "States target Sackler family for opioid crisis justice after judge dumps bankruptcy deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/states-target-sackler-family-for-opioid-crisis-justice-after-judge-dumps-bankruptcy-deal-129812037758

* CW: Suicide "Hazmat incident from suspected suicide closes Main Street in Springfield:" https://news.yahoo.com/hazmat-incident-fire-police-officials-023532091.html

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* "‘Our house was gone, it was sea and sand’: life on the vanishing coasts – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2021/dec/29/our-house-was-gone-it-was-sea-and-sand-life-on-the-vanishing-coasts-in-pictures

* "Boulder County wildfires: How to help those impacted by the disaster:" https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/30/boulder-county-wildfires-how-to-help/

* "Alaska records all-time December high of 67 degrees:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alaska-records-all-time-december-high-of-67-degrees-129871429768

* "‘Doomsday glacier’: Experts raise alarms about cracking Antarctic ice shelf:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-doomsday-glacier-experts-raise-alarms-about-cracking-antarctic-ice-shelf-129872965776

* "3 people missing, nearly 1K structures scorched in Colorado wildfire, officials say:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/01/colorado-fire-boulder-county-2-people-believed-missing/9067357002/

* "Drivers fret about food and fuel while stranded on highway :" https://apnews.com/article/snow-storm-weather-195-virginia-660346cff578c655186ac517fb45f17f

* "The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/kansas-aquifer-ogallala-water-crisis-drought/621007/

* "The rising threat to businesses in 2022? Water.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-flooding-businesses-2022/

* "Trash for rice: Bali recycling scheme gives families pandemic lifeline:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trash-rice-bali-recycling-scheme-gives-families-pandemic-lifeline-2021-12-29/

* "Inside the Chicago-area factory aiming to end US overreliance on Asia's PPE production:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/us/medical-gloves-ppe-chicago-factory/index.html

* "The First Dynasty of Egypt: The Birth of a Civilization:"

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* "The Great European Famine: The First Catastrophe of the 14th Century:"

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* "Syphilis: The Disease that Changed Europe:"

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* CW: Rape, Torture. "François L’Olonnais: The Most Savage Pirate of the Caribbean:"

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* "Emiliano Zapata: Mexico’s Greatest Revolutionary:"

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* CW: NAZIs, Holocaust, Torture. "Bayer's History is a Hard Pill to Swallow :"

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* "The Black Cop Who Infiltrated the KKK: Ron Stallworth:"

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* CW: Pedophilia, Child Murder "Inside the hunt for Christine Jessop's real killer:" https://torontolife.com/city/inside-the-hunt-for-christine-jessops-real-killer/

* "Betty White defended a Black dancer on her 1950s variety show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/01/betty-white-show-arthur-duncan-black-tap-dancer-racism/

* "Betty White Understood Gay Men, and We Loved Her for It:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/31/betty-white-understood-gay-men-and-we-loved-her-it

* "Gay Olympic Diving Star Ian Matos Is Dead at 32:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/12/24/gay-olympic-diving-star-ian-matos-dead-32

* "A Quick Memory of Harry Reid:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1815738.html

* "Mummers 2022 Fancy Brigade 06 Vikings:"

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* "Mummers 2022 Fancy Brigade 02 Avenuers:"

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* "Mummers 2022 Fancy Brigade 01 Satin Slipper:"

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* "Mummers 2022 String Band Fralinger - Orchestration Station:"

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* That’s It. That’s the movie. "Mummers 2022 String Band 10 Quaker City- Getting the Band Back Together:"

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* "Mummers 2022 South Philadelphia String Band - Circus Space-Tacular:"

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* "Psychology of a Hero: Katniss Everdeen (part 1):"

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* This latest crisis is of course happening in that weird liminal space between end of year holidays, so the fact that I got any call backs on my Wednesday round of message leaving as various social service agencies was all by itself impressive.

Thursday morning at 7AM, the phone rang. This is an alarming time for anyone to call anyone, and we are far enough north it's not yet dawn. With Squirrel's slightly longer commute to his new job (He'd have been home by then from his old job, if he hadn't stopped for groceries or gas or the like, but at 7 he's often still commuting these days) and the whole melted snow freezes into dangerous ice overnight thing, I was worried it was Squirrel having had an accident on the way home.

It was not. It was a very nice man filling in for someone on vacation at a long shot agency I called the previous day. The answer was the expected no, but he had two more leads to try.

Poverty is very time consuming. I have been poor most of my life, including all my adult life. Phone tag, the endless time consuming search for hidden little programs that might help one with whatever nightmare poverty has tossed at you this time. I fish and I wait. There is noting else to do sometimes.

It was very sweet of him to call first thing, and really kind to try to help the only way he could.

Want to help with the bills/wiring crisis? paypal.me/Gwydion

* The roads are so bad, the security guys coming to fix the fire system cancelled. Really there is nothing to be done until after the new year.

Head Millenial came in on his day off. We've got white fairy lights strung up in the kitchen and an extension cord running to the bathroom with a bedroom lamp attach. The beta now has light and heat. The lighting is dimmer than ideal but we can now see what we're doing at night and the small space heater is attached to the most stable of the household circuits, the one that is also lighting the bathroom. It's not ideal but the safety issue is abated and I have a stomache with protein in it as I typed this.

Addendum: The temperature dropped fast tonight, so it was very good we sorted out the space heater power supply.

* Friday, I'm awakened by some guy yelling about water leaking outside the interior door. So I throw on some clothes and go and answer it. It's an inspector needing to take moisture readings of his wall that connects to the neighbor on his side. So I wake squirrel up.

He hit us first, so I don't know the results of the inspection, but he had information that may be a game changer. He said that the fire suppression sprinkler cracked due to the weather, and was leaking into next door's apartment. I told him about our fire suppression and electrical issues and he said likely next door's water leak zapped us too.

If this is the case, odds are I can leverage that into getting management to pay to fix the electricals, since weather damage in another apartment leaking into ours and doing massive damage sounds a lot like the time I called in water coming out of the ceiling in the bathroom and they had to fix it for me. the Inspector said it sounded as crazy to him as it did to us that they wanted us to pay a massive repair bill caused by weather damage in someone else's apartment.

So Monday, I'll call around and verify if this is the case, and if it is, I have a good case for this being someone else's problem. Which leaves us with the bills I didn't pay so I could fix my brakes and the medical bill. I've got a few donations, including one that means I can cover the one that flips into fines on the 7th. I need to wait for money to shift around and for the electrical situation to get settled one way or another, at which point I an give an update on my level of fucked, but odds just shifted from this is my life now I guess to solvable by Spring.

In other news, the cats and I are still holed up against the cold and snow and spending a lot of time napping in a group. I am adjusting to the dim emergency lighting we've strung up and still have the battery lanterns for close work. What did I do for New Years? Pet assorted cats and read Medieval history between naps. Oh, and had spasms. So many spasms. I spent the last couple of days trying to head them off, and lost.

But we are all fed and warm and that's more than a lot of people have right now.

* The Mummer's Parade got postponed to Sunday, so I stayed up to watch it live streaming. you could see the effects of the pandemic particularly in the Comics, I think, and in some of the string Bands. Most of the parade did pretty well on the whole racism, appropriation problem. There was one thing in each section before the fancy brigades if i remember correctly, plus a really bad one by a DJ in the fancies, but trust me this is progress. It used to be so much worse.

The Fancy Brigades though? Jesus fuck! It was like some sort of racism/cultural appropriation Olympics. There were always problems in the fancies division, but this is by far the worst it's been since the '90's. no wonder the my agish black man doing the cultural sensitivity training for Mummers sounded so damned tired.

The fuck!
Anyway, money has moved around and the immediate personal financial crisis that started with the brakes on the car is under control thanks to donors. The wall I was going to hit on the seventh has been removed. If I can talk property management into fixing the electricity, it will be tight for January and possibly ugly in February, but the immediate oh shit has become a next month problem. I should know in a week or two how fucked we will be next month. I'll let you know then.

* Monday I spent all day doing bureaucracy and errands. A half an hour's argument with management rendered a hard no. Luckily, the City called and is willing to put me on the expedited waiting list. The form required me to spend two hours on hold to get a single number from an agency, but I filed the application for the city to fix the electricals the same day via email.

Going out to get the application packet turned into more of a saga than hoped, as one of my tires was on the rim flat. Luckily squirrel was awake and lent me his car. Also, I was exhausted, barely mobile and in a lot of pain. Still, the essential adulting got done.

Tuesday I spent most of the morning on more phone bureaucracy (tracking down more leads, etc.). apparently if I had 2500 I could get the electricals fixed myself. Might as well wish I had a million. I then drove on the rim to the tire store. It took two hours, which was no surprise. The line is always long there, and it was worse because of the whole people snowed in and new year thing, plus they were having computer issues which was slowing check in considerable. I couldn't not replace the tire and waiting for a better day would not make things any easier.

Apparently, the tire was under warranty, which surprised the hell out of me as I didn't know i had a warranty. I certainly hadn't paid for one. My assumption is is came automatically with the tires. As I bought these tires in February a year before the pandemic, my suspicion is if the tire had punctured say a month and a half from now, it would have expired. As it fell out, I got a free replacement tire, so that's a win.

I turned out one of the bills I didn't pay because brakes had acquired and extra 25 or so of fees; the other was the amount expected. I'll need to pay this month's bills, of course, plus the 70.00 medical bill, plus whatever they are going to charge me for car tabs later in the month, so I'm still some degree of fucked, but this could have been so much worse.

I also bought a grocery sandwich on EBT, because while it's not as bad as yesterday, my body is really not doing well at the basics. I turned in the hard copy of our application on the grounds that trying to read my arthritis handwriting on Squirrel's cell phone picture sounded dicey to me. I actually have faith that the city will help since both of the people involved in that decision are very invested in getting it sorted. It's more a matter of how long until my waiting list spot rises to an open slot and then about a three month process after that. We may even get them to replace the unreliable refrigerator and fix my broken kitchen drawer in the process.

It's going to be unpleasant, but if we can make it to April financially, we'll be okay.

* Wednesday, we didn't forage. Nearby Millennial was trapped at home because the compacted ice made her hill too dangerous. Head Millennial could make it, so we worked on stuff in the living room, while the snow invisibly piled up outside. Luckily, Squirrel took Head Millennial home before he went to work.

He called me from work. They have an outbreak and it's bad. Really, really bad. He's working directly with COVID patients. He is taking all precautions at work and is masking when he has to leave his room for food or work, but our risk just went way up.

In other news, I packed up Halloweentown today as a preliminary to taking down the interior Gothmas display. The cats had an exciting time exploring the cleared space and sitting together to stare out at the snowy landscape and occasional dog walker.

Did I mention the previous Wednesday, Head Millennial brought in a dish of snow for the cats? neither of them have much outdoor experience. (Livia escaped once and was deeply traumatized. Tavy has escaped more often, usually to the bushes in front of our patio to check for hidden Millenials). They've never been out in snow and seeing it fall only happens once or twice a year in the normal course of things, so they are fascinated and a bit alarmed whenever it happens.

The dish of snow blew the Emperor's mind. He finds snow both fascinating and alarming at the best of times. He'd never seen it indoors or been close to it. It really freaked him right out. he'd approach the bowl cautiously, tail lashing, then skitter away sideways. He did eventually sniff it, at which point he recoiled in horror. Livia basically gave it the side eye and would skirt around it.

Imperial opinion is united: It was not a hit. Snow belongs Outside, with noises and strangers.

* Since 2016, I've tried to write up a thing in the dark of every year, but this year, I didn't find the words. Looks like the Mountain Goats guy found them for me. :https://star-burp.tumblr.com/post/672168512356237312

* "Sunday Sweets For Roy G. Biv:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/2/sunday-sweets-for-roy-g-biv

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

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

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

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

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

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

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

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Five of the countries most at risk from famine in 2020:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52379956

* "A 56-Year-Old Finally Learned To Write His Name — Because Of A Coronavirus Lockdown:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/25/844082712/a-56-year-old-finally-learned-to-read-and-write-because-of-a-coronavirus-lockdow

* I'm sectioning off epidemic specific stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff. I'm putting secondary effects things in their usual slots.

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* "WHO says no evidence shows that having coronavirus prevents a second infection:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/who-immunity-antibodies-covid-19/

* "Adding A Nylon Stocking Layer Could Boost Protection From Cloth Masks, Study Finds:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/22/840146830/adding-a-nylon-stocking-layer-could-boost-protection-from-cloth-masks-study-find

* "CDC confirms six coronavirus symptoms showing up in patients over and over:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/27/six-new-coronavirus-symptoms/

* "Special Report: Countries, companies risk billions in race for coronavirus vaccine:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-specialrep/special-report-countries-companies-risk-billions-in-race-for-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKCN2270U1

* "What immunity to Covid-19 might actually mean:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/4/23/21219028/covid-19-immunity-testing-reinfection-antibodies-explained

* "Why wearing a mask matters: coronavirus transmission explained:"https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-wearing-a-mask-matters-coronavirus-transmission-explained-82552901606

* "6 Solutions To Beat COVID-19 In Countries Where The Usual Advice Just Won't Work:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/26/844207862/6-solutions-to-beat-covid-19-in-countries-where-the-usual-advice-just-wont-work

* "India Coronavirus Map and Case Count:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/india-coronavirus-cases.html

* "As coronavirus swamps India, hospitals turn away other sick people:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-06/coronavirus-fears-india-ration-medical-care

* "Trans sex workers who don’t have legal gender recognition unable to access COVID-19 financial support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/26/trans-sex-workers-legal-gender-recognition-covid-19-financial-support/

* "New Zealand Says It Has Won 'Battle' Against COVID-19:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/27/845304917/new-zealand-says-it-has-won-battle-against-covid-19

* "U.S. says will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/us-says-will-not-take-part-in-who-global-drugs-vaccine-initiative-launch-idUSKCN2261WJ

* "Trump expands battle with WHO far beyond aid suspension:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-expands-battle-with-world-health-organization-far-beyond-aid-suspension/2020/04/25/72c754e6-856e-11ea-9728-c74380d9d410_story.html

* "Experts answer pressing questions about COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-questions-answered-by-public-health-experts-82587717848

* "U.S. deaths soared in early weeks of pandemic, far exceeding number attributed to covid-19:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/27/covid-19-death-toll-undercounted/?arc404=true

* "President’s intelligence briefing book repeatedly cited virus threat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html

* "The Trump administration, in the midst of a deadly pandemic, is moving to scrap vital protections for LGBT+ patients:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/24/donald-trump-lgbt-administration-department-health-human-services-rollback-obamacare/

* "Fauci calls for at least doubling virus testing before reopening country:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/25/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-testing-reopen-207962

* "White House is reviewing expanded guidance on reopening society:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/28/white-house-is-reviewing-expanded-guidance-reopening-society/

* "‘This guy hasn’t changed one iota’: Coronavirus or not, it’s the same old Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-coronavirus-same-207221

* "13 hours of Trump: The president fills briefings with attacks and boasts, but little empathy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/13-hours-of-trump-the-president-fills-briefings-with-attacks-and-boasts-but-little-empathy/2020/04/25/7eec5ab0-8590-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

* "Trump grapples with a surprise threat: Too much Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/25/trump-team-2020-polling-207675

* "Chris Hayes: Instead of plan, White House gives us pathological, narcissistic propaganda show:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-instead-of-plan-white-house-gives-us-pathological-narcissistic-propaganda-show-82552901554

* Someone needs to explain to 45 what Sarcasm means. He keeps using that word. It does not mean what he thinks it means. "Freed of briefing duty, wounded Trump airs full collection of grievances on Twitter, retweeting claim of ‘coup attempts’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/27/trump-twitter-media-coronavirus/

* Al Gore Extended interview:

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/al-gore-on-trump-pandemic-response-irresponsible-incompetent-and-disgraceful-performance-82642501506

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/al-gore-on-environmental-implications-of-coronavirus-crisis-82643525760

* "FEMA Diverted Masks From Veterans Hospitals, VA Official Says:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fema-diverted-masks-from-veterans-hospitals-va-official-says

* "Months into coronavirus crisis, federal response has not improved:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/months-into-coronavirus-crisis-federal-response-has-not-improved-82649669720

* "Nearly 50 On USS Kidd Test Positive For Coronavirus, Navy Confirms:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/27/846377848/nearly-50-on-uss-kidd-test-positive-for-coronavirus-navy-confirms

* "AP review: State supply stocks sparse and dated before virus:" https://apnews.com/1f123d323b4089a6f7b242abcceb6d08

* "Florida’s No-Rules Vibe Gets a Coronavirus Reality Check:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/25/ron-desantis-re-open-florida-coronavirus-204833

* "Michigan task force to address disproportionate impact of coronavirus on black communities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/michigan-task-force-address-disproportionate-impact-coronavirus-black-communities-n1189121

* "Family ravaged by coronavirus begged for tests, hospital care but was repeatedly denied:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/20/coronavirus-racial-disparity-denied-tests-hospitalization/5163056002/

* "Detroit says it's restored water to nearly everyone amid COVID-19:" https://www.michiganradio.org/post/detroit-says-its-restored-water-nearly-everyone-amid-covid-19

* How many people are going to die because Brian Kemp decided to fix the last election? "No rest for Kemp from critics as GA launches reopening amid COVID-19:" https://www.ajc.com/news/rest-for-kemp-from-critics-launches-reopening-amid-covid/iFRXx4Ws0sAqqIdMJpnKSN/

* "Seattle successfully curbed infections while New York became global epicenter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/seattle-successfully-curbed-infections-while-new-york-became-global-epicenter-82641477534

* "Two states: one Democrat, one Republican. Two very different outcomes:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/us-coronavirus-outbreak-tennessee-kentucky

* "Meat and Poultry Processing Workers and Employers:" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/organizations/meat-poultry-processing-workers-employers.html

* "Madison Tyson plant outbreak up to 58 cases:" https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Madison-Tyson-plant-outbreak-up-to-58-cases-569963541.html

* "JBS sends cease-and-desist letter to union over media comments amid COVID-19 outbreak:" https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/jbs-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-union-over-media-comments

* "Meat plants become COVID-19 hotspots after poor handling of outbreaks:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/meat-plants-become-covid-19-hotspots-after-poor-handling-of-outbreaks-82650181948

* "Workers voice concerns as meat plant re-opens amid coronavirus outbreak:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/workers-voice-concerns-as-meat-plant-re-opens-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-82651717577

* "It was my job to call people who tested positive for Covid-19. I learned a lot:" https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/24/call-people-covid-19-positive-lessons-learned/

* "The Body Collectors of the Coronavirus Pandemic:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-body-collectors-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic

* "What It’s Like to Be a Public Defender Right Now:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/baltimore-public-defender-during-coronavirus.html

"Part of the arguments against release that we face from judges, prosecutors, and even the governor is that jails are “safer” for our clients than the community. Medical professionals do not agree. Essentially, the basic premise of prisons is to house individuals in small, tightly confined spaces near one another. How is that safe? It’s ironic that prosecutors and judges have been praised in the media for releasing older prisoners and dropping low-level cases, despite being the ones responsible for these often questionable incarcerations in the first place."

* "I did not sign up for the military. I signed up for Walmart.:" https://www.vox.com/2020/4/23/21229942/coronavirus-grocery-store-workers-walmart-covid-pandemic

* "This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For:"https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/

* "Trump’s Disinfectant Remark Raises a Question About the ‘Very Stable Genius’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/politics/trump-disinfectant-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

* "Media condemned for playing Trump coronavirus briefings in full:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-led-coronavirus-briefings-must-end-politics-expert-says-82589765509

* "NYC Poison Control Sees Uptick In Calls After Trump's Disinfectant Comments:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/25/845015236/nyc-poison-control-sees-uptick-in-calls-after-trumps-disinfectant-comments

* "Coronavirus: medical experts denounce Trump's theory of 'disinfectant injection':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/trump-coronavirus-treatment-disinfectant

* "The EPA is reminding people to use disinfectant only on surfaces:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/epa-reminding-people-use-disinfectant-only-surfaces-n1191656

* "Trump's COVID-19 disinfectant ideas horrify health experts:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-disinfectant/trumps-covid-19-disinfectant-ideas-horrify-health-experts-idUSKCN2261N7

* "Please Don't Drink Disinfectant, Lysol And Dettol Maker Says After Trump Claimed People Could Inject It To Kill The Coronavirus:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/coronavirus-donald-trump-disinfectant-warning

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* "Navy Leaders Recommend Reinstating Roosevelt Captain Fired Over Virus Warning:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-navy-roosevelt-brett-crozier.html

* "Top Pentagon leaders split on next steps for fired captain who warned of coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/25/brett-crozier-investigation-coronavirus-208027

* "Schumer to introduce legislation preventing Trump from signing stimulus checks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/schumer-trump-stimulus-checks-signature-210356

* "Small business rescue stumbles in relaunch:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/small-business-rescue-stumbles-211986

* "Pelosi says Democrats will push for vote by mail in next coronavirus relief package:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-says-democrats-will-push-vote-mail-next-coronavirus-relief-n1193276

* "White House aiming for Trump pivot from virus to economy:" https://apnews.com/f4e3cde87550e442f2375ffa4b0727ee

* "Fauci calls for at least doubling virus testing before reopening country:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/25/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-testing-reopen-207962

* "Pelosi: President has been irresponsible, we've insisted on truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-statements-on-coronavirus-cares-act-discussed-by-pelosi-82583621821

* "Rep. Tlaib: Thousands in Detroit lack water to wash hands:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-exposing-economic-disparities-analyzed-by-tlaib-82588229639

* "Americans too scared to go to work risk losing unemployment aid, experts say:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-georgia-worker/americans-too-scared-to-go-to-work-risk-losing-unemployment-aid-experts-say-idUSKCN2251RD

* "Trump supporters are singing ‘MAGA’ to the tune of YMCA because truly nothing is sacred anymore:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/27/donald-trump-ymca-maga-village-people-coronavirus-lockdown-protest-wisconsin-madison/

* "Major US meat producer warns 'food supply chain is breaking':" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/27/tyson-foods-coronavirus-food-supply-chain

* "SCOTUS Just Found a Way to Inflict More Terror on Immigrants:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scotus-barton-immigrants/

* "O'Rourke: Remember many working in hospitals are immigrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-signing-order-limiting-immigration-criticized-by-o-rourke-82587205617

* TW: Rape. "‘Evil’ predator asked a guy in a gay bar to share a taxi home. He’d go on to drug and sexually assault him in his own home:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/27/carol-simon-sexual-assault-theft-drugged-london-city-quebec-pub-met-police-jail/

* "This is how a cruel arranged marriage scam is manipulating ‘vulnerable’ LGBT+ Asians in search of love:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/27/vice-arranged-marriage-bureau-reeta-loi-documentary-asian-dating-scam-lgbt-urvi-shah/

* "Promising new HIV research is ‘a paradigm shift’ in understanding how the disease works:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/26/hiv-aids-research-breakthrough-virus-rna-paradigm-shift-university-maryland/

* "Drug used in HIV treatment triples in price after being rejected for coronavirus use:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/26/mytesi-hiv-treatment-triples-price-fda-approval-coronavirus-covid-19/

* "USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39:"

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* "Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles - SNL:"

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* "How Low Will You Go? - SNL:"

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* "Dr. Anthony Fauci Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Released Early - SNL:"

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* "Pornhub - SNL:"

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* "Message from Gov. Whitmer - SNL:"

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* "The Pandumbic - Trump's Disinfectant Injection Fallout:"

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* "Trump's Idea To Inject Disinfectant Inspires New Cleaning Products:"

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* "You're Doing Amazing, Mr. President. See, Sarcasm Does Work!:"

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* "Pete Davidson "Andre 2000" Music Video - SNL:"

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* "Coldplay's Chris Martin: Shelter from the Storm (At Home) - SNL:"

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* My head seems improved today, but I'm still having to limit screen time or the pain comes back.

I poked around the garden and discovered a weed problem. I was rather aggressive with it. We'll see. I also noticed some of the second batch of lettuce seeds sprouting. Not as many as I'd like, but essential given the givens.

* It turned out the internet provider autodraw from Squirrel's bank failed despite funds being abundant. Me paying for groceries the other night despite having funds also failed and they seem to be charging daily fees. The electric bill failed mid month under the same conditions. Two separate banks. The intermittent fails the last couple nights were them cutting most of our service without telling us. Check your stuff. I think if it's multiple banks, something is really wrong.

* "Stereotype Technology:" https://cupcake-goth.dreamwidth.org/1186771.html

* "Sunday Sweets Is For The Birds This Audubon Day:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/4/26/sunday-sweets-is-for-the-birds-this-audubon-day

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

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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