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* "Multiple Hong Kong pro-democracy candidates disqualified from upcoming election:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/asia/hong-kong-election-disqualified-intl-hnk/index.html

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* "Belgium tightens Covid-19 restrictions to avoid another lockdown amid rise in cases:" https://www.france24.com/en/20200727-belgium-tightens-covid-19-restrictions-to-avoid-another-lockdown-amid-rise-in-cases

* "N.J. reports 16 new coronavirus deaths, 261 new cases as rate of transmission remains above key benchmark on spread of disease:" https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/07/nj-reports-16-new-coronavirus-deaths-261-new-cases-as-rate-of-transmission-remains-above-key-benchmark-on-spread-of-disease.html

* "University scientists offer a way out of coronavirus testing morass:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/university-scientists-offer-a-way-to-boost-coronavirus-testing-89335877978

* "Pelosi announces mandatory mask policy for House:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-pelosi-mandatory-face-mask-policy-house-of-representatives/

* "Gohmert says he will take hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment:" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/509719-gohmert-says-he-will-take-hydroxychloroquine-as-covid-19-treatment

* "Anti-mask Republican – who said gays should be sent to a desert island to die – tests positive for COVID-19. He’s 66:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/louie-gohmert-covid-19-positive-face-mask-coronavirus-air-force-one/

* "Reporter who broke Gohmert coronavirus news shares reports from GOP staffers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/reporter-who-broke-gohmert-coronavirus-news-shares-reports-from-gop-staffers-89241157688

* "Two Trader Joe’s customers were asked to put on masks. They attacked employees instead, police said.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/covid-trader-joe-face-masks/

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* "The US government is considering a TikTok ban, says secretary of state:" https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/7/21316062/tiktok-ban-app-mike-pompeo-government-china-bytedance-communist-party

* We need this election to be a landslide. "Here’s how to prepare for Trump rejecting the election results in November:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/27/heres-how-prepare-trump-rejecting-election-results-november/

* "Trump abruptly ends briefing after being pressed over retweeting misinformation:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-briefing/index.html

* "Michael Flynn case to be reheard by full federal appeals court in D.C.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/michael-flynn-case-to-be-reheard-by-full-federal-appeals-court-in-dc/2020/07/30/003f9720-d033-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews

* "U.S. suffered worst quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/trump-v-shape-rebound-gone-387425

* "Jobless claims increase for the second week in a row; 1,434,000 new claims filed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/30/jobless-claims-increase-second-week-row-1434000-new-claims-filed/

* "As virus aid talks stalemate, Trump scorns help for cities:" https://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-dismisses-virus-aid-for-cities-lashes-out-at-gop/

* "GOP's jobless benefit plan could mean delays, states warn:" https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/GOP-s-jobless-benefit-plan-could-mean-delays-15440523.php

* "Coronavirus Brings American Decline Out in the Open:" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-29/coronavirus-brings-american-decline-out-in-the-open

* "Postal Service may close offices, cut service ahead of election:" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/postal-service-may-close-offices-cut-service-ahead-of-election-2020-07-29?reflink=mw_share_twitter

* "In April, Joe Biden predicted Trump would try and delay election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/in-april-joe-biden-predicted-trump-would-try-and-delay-election-89187909744

* "Trump floats delaying election despite lack of authority to do so:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/30/politics/trump-delay-election-no-authority/

* "Chicago’s iconic lesbian mayor Lori Lightfoot eviscerates her critics with one simple truth:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/lori-lightfoot-chicago-mayor-lesbian-trump-speech-democracy-census/

* "Trump already working to undermine credibility of 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-already-working-to-undermine-credibility-of-2020-election-89335877778

* "Steve Schmidt on Trump attack on democracy: ‘This is an autocratic moment’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/steve-schmidt-on-trump-attack-on-democracy-this-is-an-autocratic-moment-89222213894

* "Flatten the ballot curve: ‘Trump is creating conditions for vote-by-mail to fail’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/flatten-the-ballot-curve-trump-is-creating-conditions-for-vote-by-mail-to-fail-89224773846

* "Cory Booker: Trump is ‘making his party all about constraining voting rights’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/cory-booker-trump-is-making-his-party-all-about-constraining-voting-rights-89180229797

* "Kerry Washington calls the ACLU ‘real life superheroes’ in their fight for voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kerry-washington-calls-the-aclu-real-life-superheroes-in-their-fight-for-voting-rights-89220677558

* "Families of color face a lose-lose dilemma on reopening schools:" https://www.axios.com/families-race-schools-coronavirus-8ef31b79-7873-4a9e-8f91-03d5734643e6.html

* "Storm causes erosion at Trump backers’ private border wall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/storm-causes-erosion-at-trump-backers-private-border-wall/2020/07/29/7c6e6d6a-d1c5-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html

* "ICE Agents Complain About Nazi Comparisons, Say They're Only Enforcing the Laws:" https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-complain-about-nazi-comparisons-say-theyre-only-enforcing-laws-1521382

* "Trump Is Now Openly Defying the Supreme Court:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/daca-donald-trump-supreme-court.html

* "White House refuses to denounce Confederate flag as Trump bemoans NASCAR's ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/trump-nascar-bubba-wallace/index.html

* It's not over. He's occupying more cities. "Feds to lower profile in Portland, expand presence in Midwest:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/justice-department-law-enforcement-presence-trump-386276

* "Federal Officers Pepper Spray Combat Medic From Vietnam War, Video Shows:" https://www.newsweek.com/federal-officers-pepper-spray-photojournalist-military-veteran-during-portland-protest-video-shows-1520548

* They are stripping people's first amendment rights for misdemeanors connected to protesting. "“Defendant Shall Not Attend Protests”: In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights:" https://www.propublica.org/article/defendant-shall-not-attend-protests-in-portland-getting-out-of-jail-requires-relinquishing-constitutional-rights

* Speaking of scary police state stuff... "DHS compiled ‘intelligence reports’ on journalists who published leaked documents:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/dhs-compiled-intelligence-reports-on-journalists-who-published-leaked-documents/2020/07/30/5be5ec9e-d25b-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

* "Seattle Police defend response to weekend Black Lives Matter protests, deny violation of court’s use-of-force limits:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-defend-response-to-weekend-black-lives-matter-protests-deny-violation-of-courts-use-of-force-limits/

* "Susan Rice - "Tough Love," Trump's Pandemic Response & The Federal Crackdown on Portland Protesters:"

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* "Portland protester ‘Naked Athena’ speaks out: ‘I am notoriously naked’:" https://nypost.com/2020/07/27/portland-protester-naked-athena-speaks-out-i-am-notoriously-naked/

* "NYPD Arrest of Trans Protester Likened to Kidnapping, Widely Condemned:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/7/29/nypd-arrest-trans-protester-likened-kidnapping-widely-condemned

* "‘People are tired of the injustice:’ Yakima protesters talk about the fight for change:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/people-are-tired-of-the-injustice-yakima-protesters-talk-about-the-fight-for-change/

* "LAPD 'SWAT Mafia' encouraged excessive force and retaliation, officer's suit claims:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-29/lapd-swat-unit-controlled-by-swat-mafia-that-encourages-deadly-shootings-sergeant-lawsuit-alleges

* "Here Are The Current NYPD Officers With The Most Substantiated Misconduct Complaints:" https://gothamist.com/news/here-are-current-nypd-officers-most-substantiated-misconduct-complaints

* "DA's office plans to drop charges against man who was punched by an NYPD officer on subway:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/us/da-charges-dropped-man-punched-nypd/index.html

* "Video shows LAPD knocking disabled Black protester out of wheelchair:" https://thegrio.com/2020/07/16/lapd-black-protester-wheelchair/

* "Breonna Taylor was briefly alive after police shot her. But no one tried to treat her:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2020/07/17/breonna-taylor-lay-untouched-20-minutes-after-being-shot-records/5389881002/

* "2 men charged in July 4 'attempted lynching' at Indiana lake:" https://news.yahoo.com/two-men-charged-in-july-4-attempted-lynching-at-indiana-lake-161736211.html

* "White Michigan Couple Charged After Pulling Gun On Black Family:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-michigan-couple-charged-after-pulling-gun-on-black-family

* "‘It’s like they’re testing it on us': Portland protesters say tear gas has caused irregularities with their periods:" https://www.opb.org/article/2020/07/29/tear-gas-period-menstrual-cycle-portland/

* "Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws or oaths remained on the bench:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-judges-misconduct/

* "A Nevada library wanted to back Black Lives Matter. The sheriff said he wouldn’t respond to 911 calls there.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/29/nevada-sheriff-911-blm/

* It's not even a little surprising to me. "Kentucky town hires social workers instead of more officers - and the results are surprising:" https://www.wave3.com/2020/07/28/kentucky-town-hires-social-workers-instead-more-officers-results-are-surprising/

* "Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html

* TW: Rape. ":" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/31/trans-woman-prison-mens-rape-violence-tykira-spruill-virginia/

* "Celebrity Masterchef winner Riyadh Khalaf feared his dad would honour-kill him for coming out as gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/31/celebrity-masterchef-winner-riyadh-khalaf-family-coming-out-gay-conversion-therapy-honour-killing-dad-sam/

* "‘Disgraceful’ BBC accused of ‘bowing to deliberate hate’ after quietly cutting ties with trans charities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/bbc-pride-trans-hate-campaign-mermaids-action-line-transphobia-gender-trust/

* "Gay Man Says Group of 7 Beat Him Unconscious While Camping:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/7/30/gay-man-says-group-7-beat-him-unconscious-while-camping

* "Gay couple brutally beaten and rushed to hospital after defending innocent women from homophobic thugs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/30/derry-attack-gay-homophobia-crime-emmett-doherty-luke-bromilow-northern-ireland/

* "Stop at Rainbow Crosswalks Honors John Lewis's LGBTQ+ Rights Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/7/30/stop-rainbow-crosswalks-honors-john-lewiss-lgbtq-rights-legacy

* "Watch Obama's full eulogy of John Lewis, 'founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America':" https://www.nbcnews.com/video/president-obama-eulogizes-john-lewis-at-ebenezer-baptist-church-in-atlanta-89078341809

* "Political activist Herman Cain dies after Covid-19 diagnosis:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/30/herman-cain-death-covid-388081

* "Chris Wallace Fact-Shames Trump:"

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* "Trump Finally Promotes Masks & Trevor Covers the School Reopening Debate:"

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* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - New Jersey's Pro-Trump Boat Rally:"

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* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - America Repeats the Mistakes That Caused the Spanish Flu Disaster:"

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* Livia is trying a new thing. She knew Tavy comes and stands next to Klaus to get short pets. a little before bed this morning she tried it. The human pet her! It was good! So she does that now.

This evening, Livia told Tavy she did not want her head washed, thank you very much, and made it stick! She's really coming out of her shell. She did it again later. The third time she growled at him and he backed off. She really does not want her head groomed tonight. He has no idea how to react.

She turned three this month and is now a grown ass adult twice his size. I think she just figured it out. The are doing a complicated negotiation about napping rights on the back of the sofa. The only other time she's challenged him like this was over the bookshelf perch in my bedroom last Winter.

* A really clever thing on Good Omens and Language. (Spoilers): https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/625146841846120448/sarahthecoat-ineffableomensgo

* "People Share Their Custom Face Mask Fails And Here Are 14 Of The Creepiest And Funniest Ones:" https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-custom-face-mask-fail/?utm_source=conuly.dreamwidth&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

* "DIY battle masks are so hot right now:" ttps://thechive.com/2020/04/04/the-crafty-ways-people-are-masking-up-for-battle/

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* Want to help Doug Jones defend his seat against a Trumpist homophobe? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-doug?refcode=gaa1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8n4rdfT6gIVvxitBh0BfQmNEAAYASAAEgJSwfD_BwE

* Want to help Sara Gideon unseat Susan Collins? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

* 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

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

* 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

* "Brazil protesters: 'Black lives matter here, too':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53484698

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* "US hits 4 million COVID cases, again logs 1,000 new deaths:" https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/us-hits-4-million-covid-cases-again-logs-1000-new-deaths

* "Shut it down, start over, do it right | U.S. PIRG:" https://uspirg.org/resources/usp/shut-it-down-start-over-do-it-right

* "Botched U.S. reopening may require a shutdown do-over:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/botched-u-s-reopening-may-require-a-shutdown-do-over-88263237823

* "Rep. Maxine Waters: ‘Unbelievable’ that Trump’s response to pandemic is to ‘lie, lie, lie’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-maxine-waters-unbelievable-that-trump-s-response-to-pandemic-is-to-lie-lie-lie-88148549832

* "‘Irresponsible’: Nancy Pelosi says the GOP is in ‘total disarray’ with their pandemic response:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-irresponsible-nancy-pelosi-says-the-gop-is-in-total-disarray-with-their-pandemic-response-88202309516

* "Florida Sets Yet Another Coronavirus Record: 173 Deaths In A Day:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/23/894707706/florida-sets-yet-another-coronavirus-record-173-deaths-in-a-day

* "State potentially delayed outbreak announcement at beef factory:" https://www.kcrg.com/2020/07/24/state-potentially-delayed-outbreak-announcement-at-beef-factory/

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* "China tells US to close Chengdu consulate in growing spat:" https://apnews.com/5979db970a71ec5a0fdd3ba6ac92e03d

* "Fahrenthold: Trump is trademarking ‘telerally’ to pump money into private business:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fahrenthold-trump-is-trademarking-telerally-to-pump-money-into-private-business-88256581586

* "Contradicting Trump, NC governor says he never demanded a convention limit of '10 people' in arena:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/20/politics/fact-check-trump-roy-cooper-rnc-charlotte/index.html

* "White House scraps fair housing rule as Trump bids for suburban voters:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/white-house-scraps-fair-housing-rule-as-trump-bids-for-suburban-voters-379379

* "Eastside tech executive took $5.5M in fraudulent PPP loans, feds allege:" https://www.seattletimes.com/business/eastside-tech-executive-took-5-5m-in-fraudulent-ppp-loans-feds-allege/

* "‘Moral disgrace’: Rep. Lee on Congress leaving town amid eviction crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-moral-disgrace-rep-lee-on-congress-leaving-town-amid-eviction-crisis-88256069558

* "Ilhan Omar on eviction moratorium set to expire: We’re looking at a ‘collapse of our housing system’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ilhan-omar-on-eviction-moratorium-set-to-expire-we-re-looking-at-a-collapse-of-our-housing-system-88249413523

* "2.4 million pounds and counting: How sending surplus crops to food banks is helping Washington farmers and hungry families:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/2-3m-pounds-and-counting-how-sending-surplus-crops-to-food-banks-is-helping-washington-farmers-and-hungry-families/

* "The Promising Results of a Citywide Basic-Income Experiment:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-promising-results-of-a-citywide-basic-income-experiment

* "Why Trump's pick to lead the Post Office puts our democratic system at risk:" https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-2020-usps-appointment-could-corrupt-key-institution-ahead-ncna1234125

* "Two Trump Judges Broke Ethics Rules to Stop Up to 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/11th-circuit-florida-fines-fees-judicial-ethics.html

* "“Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s Employees Reckon With The Social Network They’ve Built:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employee-leaks-show-they-feel-betrayed

* "America’s Schools Are a Moral and Medical Catastrophe:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/24/americas-schools-are-a-moral-and-medical-catastrophe/

* "New CDC guidelines come down hard in favor of opening schools:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/health/cdc-coronavirus-school-guidelines-new/index.html

* "As Trump Calls for Schools to Fully Reopen, His Son’s School Says It Will Not:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/barron-trump-school-coronavirus.html

* "POLITICO Playbook: Reopen schools, but no GOP convention?:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/07/24/reopen-schools-but-no-gop-convention-489877

* "Gov. Kim Reynolds orders Iowa schools to 'take all efforts' to get kids back in classrooms:" https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/gov-kim-reynolds-to-direct-all-iowa-schools-to-reopen-in-person-when-school-year-begins-next-month-20200717

* "Iowa teachers drafting their own obituaries to send to Governor Reynolds:" https://kwwl.com/2020/07/20/iowa-teachers-drafting-their-own-obituaries-to-send-to-governor-reynolds/

* "Florida Teachers Sue To Block School Coronavirus Reopening Mandate:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/20/893232710/florida-teachers-sue-to-block-school-coronavirus-reopening-mandate

* "Lawyers offer free living wills to teachers returning to school amid coronavirus:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-lawyers-offering-free-living-wills-teachers-returning-school-during-n1234872

* "Alabama Teachers Against Covid-19 protest:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/07/23/alabama-teachers-against-covid-19-protest/5495143002/

* "'Not ready': Teachers across Arizona stage 'motor marches' to protest school reopenings:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2020/07/22/arizona-teachers-protest-against-reopening-schools-in-person-classes-amid-covid-19-crisis/5487235002/

* "Tucson educators protest school reopening during pandemic:" https://news.azpm.org/p/coronavirus/2020/7/21/176940-tucson-educators-protest-school-reopening-during-pandemic/

* "White House hijacks CDC guidelines for school reopenings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-hijacks-cdc-guidelines-for-school-reopenings-88262725974

* "White House school reopening push hazy on money, testing, reality:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-school-reopening-push-hazy-on-money-testing-reality-88262725924

* "‘I may have signed my own death warrant’: Teacher regrets her Trump vote as schools pushed to reopen during COVID-19 pandemic:" https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/i-may-have-signed-my-own-warrant-teacher-regrets-her-trump-vote-as-schools-pushed-to-reopen-during-19/

* "Thousands in Puerto Rico still without housing since Maria:" https://apnews.com/a2cf35e2f8893592ec4b59d90baae1ac

* "Right Wing Bonus Tracks: 1,000 Steps Ahead:" https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-1000-steps-ahead/

* "Cuomo accuses DHS officials of criminal activity:" https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/07/24/cuomo-accuses-dhs-officials-of-criminal-activity-1303418

* "Trump says he could send as many as 75,000 federal agents to US cities:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/trump-federal-agents-us-cities/index.html

* "Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/philly-d-a-threatens-to-arrest-federal-agents

* "Federal agents were sent to Seattle without governor, mayor knowing:" https://crosscut.com/2020/07/portland-federal-agents-were-seattle

* Oh look, the Republicans are hiring mercenaries to put down democracy in America. "The Lead Federal Agency Responding to Protesters in Portland Employs Thousands of Private…:" https://medium.com/@wkc6428/the-lead-federal-agency-responding-to-protesters-in-portland-employs-thousands-of-private-db137349f8b0

* "Portland officials demand feds remove courthouse fence in bike lane:" https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/portland-officials-demand-feds-remove-courthouse-fence-in-bike-lane.html

* "Seattle mayor calls for peace as federal agents descend on city:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-seattle-mayor-calls-for-peace-as-federal-agents-descend-on-city

* "Portland Federal Agents Accused of War Crimes for Destroying Medical Supplies:" https://www.newsweek.com/portland-federal-agents-destroying-medical-supplies-1519945

* "In Portland, the Baby Fascists Have Shown Their Face:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/23/portland-fascism-trump-election/

* "The Border Patrol Was Responsible for an Arrest in Portland:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/border-patrol-portland-arrest/

* "Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Says President Trump Is Invading Portland as an Election Stunt:" https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/07/16/oregon-gov-kate-brown-says-president-trump-is-invading-portland-as-an-election-stunt/

* "AG Barr Announces ‘Operation Legend’ to Send Federal Troops to Kansas City, Surprises Mayor:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ag-william-barr-announces-operation-legend-to-send-federal-troops-to-kansas-city-surprises-mayor

* "Jeh Johnson on Trump sending feds to cities: A militaristic presence ‘can make matters worse’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jeh-johnson-on-trump-sending-feds-to-cities-a-militaristic-presence-can-make-matters-worse-88149573874

* "Joy Reid: Trump basing his campaign on ‘false portrait of cities under siege’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-trump-basing-his-campaign-on-false-portrait-of-cities-under-siege-88152133535

* "Black Lives Matter Chicago Co-Founder: Trump's federal agents brought in to 'repress the movement':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/black-lives-matter-chicago-co-founder-trump-s-federal-agents-brought-in-to-repress-the-movement-88212037760

* "Philadelphia DA on federal agents: Trump is acting like an ‘authoritarian dictator’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/philadelphia-da-on-federal-agents-trump-is-acting-like-an-authoritarian-dictator-88203333792

* "Nikole Hannah-Jones on Trump stoking division: ‘Very old page out of the playbook’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/nikole-hannah-jones-on-trump-stoking-division-very-old-page-out-of-the-playbook-88247877772

* "Mehdi Hasan: It’s time we use the F-word: fascism:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-hasan-it-s-time-we-use-the-f-word-fascism-88251973935

* "American activism is best hope to save U.S. democracy from Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-activism-is-best-hope-to-save-u-s-democracy-from-trump-88263749651

* I used to teach Millennial Eighth Graders about Anne Frank back in the Oughts. I've been thinking about it a lot lately. The question they always asked first was both simple and profound. They wanted to know how this happened. How could people let the holocaust happen.

And so I would tell them. I explained abut people making bad decisions in times of economic desperation. I talked about Hitler and the NAZIs harnessing that fear and desperation and turning it against innocent scapegoats for political gain. I talked a lot about scapegoating just generally because it's a useful fucking thing for a group of 8th graders and future voters to spend time thinking about how stereotyping and scapegoating are a slight of hand trick the powerful use to turn people's eyes away for the people and institutions that are really doing the harm so those powerful people can get even more power on the back of that misdirected mob rage. I talked about the psychology of scapegoating. I talked about Antisemitism in particular, but I left things open so they could apply the lesson to the demonization of people of middle eastern descent in the Bush Era America they could see around them and the anti-immigrant rhetoric and systemic anti-black racism that was and are endemic. I was trying hard to give them tools to see through racist populist rhetoric when they saw it.

I would speak to them about ordinary Germans in the 1930's. It's so easy to make the NAZIs inhuman aberrations, singular monsters. (I suspect that's why there are so many NAZI zombie movies and stories). Make NAZIs enough others and we don't have to face the reality that ordinary people did this big and terrible thing to other humans. So I would talk about the process of how it happened. It wasn't one day they were a Republic and the next they were Fascist dictatorship. So I talked about the way piece by piece civil society got chipped away. I talked about the slow boil of Antisemitism, violence, and the erosion of freedom going hand in hand. I talked about all those ordinary Germans falling in line or enthusiastically joining in.

I did not make the story a simple good and evil morality tale; I made it very clear that this is a thing that could happen anywhere if people let it.

I would look out at all those haunted faces, and I would meet their eyes one by one as I warned them that it could happen here, that they needed to be alert for the tricks that fascists use to get people in line and the lies people tell themselves to make them believe that doing these monstrous things was okay.

You could hear a pin drop in that room every time.

I wonder if any of my old students, now grown ass adults, some with children of their own, ever think of me chilling them to the bone one day in Spring with warnings about populist scapegoating of minorities and the chip, chip, chipping away of civil liberties, and the state violence. I wonder if they think of me when they read the news.

* "Border Patrol does not believe they are a civilian law enforcement agency. They believe they are kin to the Marine Corps.:" https://twitter.com/BuddJenn/status/1227623752583667713

* "A Year After Prison, He Has a Job, a Fiancée—And a Week Left of Freedom:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/12/a-year-after-prison-he-has-a-job-a-fiancee-and-a-week-left-of-freedom

* "'I Could Not Allow That To Stand': Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes Republican For Vulgar Insult:" https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894596598/i-could-not-allow-that-to-stand-ocasio-cortez-rebukes-republican-for-vulgar-insu

* "Ilhan Omar: We have to condemn Yoho’s remarks ‘aggressively’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ilhan-omar-we-have-to-condemn-yoho-s-remarks-aggressively-88247365924

* "The Promised Land:" https://longreads.com/2020/07/21/the-promised-land/

* "Rideshare Profiles With LGBTQ Symbols Canceled More Often by Drivers:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2020/7/26/rideshare-profiles-lgbtq-symbols-canceled-more-often-drivers

* "A florist 'refused' to make bouquets for a gay wedding, so the town decided to end discrimination once and for all:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/26/alaska-lgbt-discrimination-law-ketchikan-florist-gay-wedding/

* CW: Human Remains. "BOG BODY MURDER MYSTERY (Morbid Minute):"

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* CW: Human Remains. "ASK A MORTICIAN- Shrunken Heads:"

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* CW: Disordered Eating, Self Harm, Cannibalism. "HONEY MUMMY- It's the Mellified Man!:"

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* "This pitch-black fish of the deep has a disappearing act scientists just solved:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/world/how-black-fish-disappear-study-scn/index.html

* CW: Dead Bodies. "AMERICAN MUMMIES!:"

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* CW: Dead Bodies. It'a about ethics. "KITSCHY DISASTER TOURISM:"

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* "Harriet Tubman is a Disabled Icon Don't @ Me. :"

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* "Confederate Monuments Made Simple: What You Need to Know:"

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* "Colorado Springs: A City Built Upon Tuberculosis:" https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/colorado-springs-city-built-upon.html

* "How the Ice Cream Truck Made Summer Cool:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/ice-cream-truck-innovation-history-180975199/

* "Man parades down Oxford Street wearing nothing but mask:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-mask-pictu/man-parades-down-oxford-street-wearing-nothing-but-mask-idUSKCN24P288

* "How Historically Accurate (and gay) is Netflix’s Hollywood?:"

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* "Watching "The Mummy" With An Actual Egyptologist:"

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* I think I'm turning the corner. Right shoulder/arm are still bad, but I've got the pain down to a level where I'm painfully aware of secondary and tertiary damage areas. This is progress.

The Imperial couple are till noticeably distressed, but Saturday they returned to something approximating their usual activity/nap/migration schedule. Their appetites seem better today. I think part of the struggle to get Livia to eat her meat is that elder Kitty usually lines up with her. It's the time of day when her absence is most obvious from a cat perspective.

We all still miss her, each in our own way.

* Things that give one pause: When William the Bastard was my age, he was getting ready to crush the resistance in the north of England lead by the last male descendant of Alfred the Great.

* "Modern Wedding Cakes That May Surprise You:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/7/26/modern-wedding-cakes-that-may-surprise-you

* Ways to make a cloth mask easier to wear for people who struggle with things on their face: https://rydra-wong.dreamwidth.org/787259.html

* Spoilers for the Old Guard. "The Old Guard team represents Andy’s use of ethos, pathos, and logos.:" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/624698620644556800/the-old-guard-team-represents-andys-use-of-ethos

* Spoilers for the Old Guard. "Action Reveals Character:" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/624698601006923776/action-reveals-character

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* Want to help Doug Jones defend his seat against a Trumpist homophobe? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-doug?refcode=gaa1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8n4rdfT6gIVvxitBh0BfQmNEAAYASAAEgJSwfD_BwE

* Want to help Sara Gideon unseat Susan Collins? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

* 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

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

* 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

She started fading in earnest this evening, and went into hiding under a bench a little after what looked like a minor stroke. She didn’t want company, so we were checking on her periodically. I heard a noise and she was clearly having a seizure, so I summoned Squirrel, her being his cat particularly.

She lived more than two decades. (I know he got her and her brother after we rescued Hector and Mache, but Squirrel and I differ on the exact when).

She outlived her beloved brother and Hector and Mache with whom she lived more of her life than not.

Her last week, she finally got to be queen of the clowder, A life long ambitions. she had all the pets she wanted, she slept in all the fiorbidden places.

It was a good long life and a fast death, and really that’s about as good as it gets.

* "Lebanon’s rising power cuts add to gloom of economic crisis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/lebanons-rising-power-cuts-add-to-gloom-of-economic-crisis/2020/07/07/95498db4-c05f-11ea-8908-68a2b9eae9e0_story.html

* "Sudan reforms strict Islamist laws after 30 years:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53379733

* "Who owns the River Nile - and why it matters:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-50328647

* "Russians sought to meddle in UK election:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53433523

* "Trudeau admits 'mistake' amid third ethics inquiry:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53394272

* "Russia far east protest over governor's arrest:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53373132

* "Nepal: 60 dead, 41 missing in floods, landslides:" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/nepal-60-dead-41-missing-in-floods-landslides/articleshow/76934877.cms

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* "Moderna coronavirus vaccine shows 'promising' results in published Phase 1 study:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/health/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-phase-1-study/index.html

* "Journalists are demystifying Covid-19 by sharing first-hand accounts on what it's like to be sick:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/media/journalists-coronavirus-diaries/index.html

* "The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-social-distancing-is-a-lesson-in-geometry-20200713/

* "Masks offer much more protection against coronavirus than many think:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-14/evidence-mounts-that-masks-help-lower-your-exposure-to-the-coronavirus

* "Pandemic exposes scientific rift over proving when germs are airborne:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airborne/pandemic-exposes-scientific-rift-over-proving-when-germs-are-airborne-idUSKBN24B2YG

* "New Covid-19 alcohol ban divides South Africans:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53390287

* "How coronavirus swept through Brazil:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53429430

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro, Infected With COVID-19, Touts Unproven Drug:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-07-15/brazil-president-bolsonaro-again-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-says-cnn-brasil

* "Brazil surpasses 2 million coronavirus cases, with more than 76,000 dead:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-coronavirus-2-million-cases-more-than-76000-dead/

* "Why aren't more of our politicians wearing masks?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53346923

* "Colombian cartels killing those who don't obey their Covid-19 lockdowns:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/15/colombia-cartels-rebel-groups-coronavirus-lockdown-human-rights-watch

* "India records 1 million cases of Covid-19 ... and it's the poorest who are hardest hit:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/asia/india-wealth-gap-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html

* "U.S. shatters coronavirus record with over 77,000 cases in a day:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-records-idUSKCN24I014

* "Confirmed US virus cases rise amid new global restrictions:" https://apnews.com/605b05fe86eef1d927fbc21a371d623a

* "A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/second-coronavirus-death-surge/614122/

* "Mandatory Mask Use Could Have Saved 40,000 Lives, Study Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-16/mandatory-mask-use-could-have-saved-40-000-lives-study-says?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/11/fauci-trump-coronavirus/

* "‘Everyone is lying’: Trump undercuts public health officials in fresh attacks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/13/trump-questions-public-health-experts-twitter-359388

* "‘None of us lie’: Coronavirus testing czar rejects Trump’s attacks on health officials:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/coronavirus-testing-czar-trump-health-officials-360684

* "Trump’s Health Officials Warn More Will Die as Covid Cases Rise:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/health/coronavirus-trump-deaths.html

* "Former CDC chiefs rebuke Trump for ‘undermining’ agency’s guidelines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/former-cdc-chiefs-trump-agency-guidelines-360527

* "Concerns raised of corrupted data as Trump orders bypass of CDC:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/concerns-raised-of-corrupted-data-as-trump-orders-bypass-of-cdc-87722053775

* Does this sound like a Mad Lib to you, or am I just tired? ":" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/13/trump-administration-recommend-national-guard-an-option-help-hospitals-report-covid-19-data/

* "'He Shouldn't Be Doing That': Trump Weighs In On Navarro Op-Ed Attacking Fauci:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/15/891327661/white-house-disavows-attack-on-fauci-from-trump-trade-adviser

* "Coronavirus hospital data removed from CDC website following Trump plan to reroute information:" https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-16-20-intl/h_a2f3cf2d40ea823e143aa4222f25e0d7

* How is this not proof he is too impaired to continue? "Trump says U.S. would have half the number of coronavirus cases if it did half the testing:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/trump-says-us-would-have-half-the-number-of-coronavirus-cases-if-it-did-half-the-testing.html

* "Federal stockpile is thin amid coronavirus surge, documents show:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/federal-stockpile-thin-amid-coronavirus-surge-documents-show-n1233791

* "White House document shows 18 states in coronavirus "red zone":" https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/exclusive-white-house-document-shows-18-states-in-coronavirus-red-zone-covid-19/

* "Officials begin to roll back reopenings as COVID-19 cases explode:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/officials-begin-to-roll-back-reopenings-as-covid-19-cases-explode-87647813687

* "Mask Rules Expand Across U.S. as Clashes Over the Mandates Intensify:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/us/coronavirus-masks.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage&action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

* "Sen. Dianne Feinstein proposes withholding relief funds from states without mask mandates:" https://www.axios.com/dianne-feinstein-state-relief-funds-mask-mandate-092c10fc-900b-4629-b7a3-e176723d5add.html

* "Three U.S. states account for about one-fifth of the world's new coronavirus cases:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-texas-california-account-about-one-fifth-world-s-new-n1233793

* "More than 77,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the US on Thursday, the most ever:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

* "California rolls back reopening plans as new outbreaks force major reversal:" https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/07/13/newsom-orders-statewide-shutdown-of-california-indoor-businesses-1300309

* "Governor shuts bars, dining as virus hits California hard:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/governor-shuts-bars-dining-virus-hits-california-hard-71767099

* This is so reckless I have no words. "Masks And Mouse Ears: Disney World Reopens As Coronavirus Cases Climb In Florida:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/11/890033833/masks-and-mouse-ears-disney-world-reopens-as-coronavirus-cases-climb-in-florida

* "Florida reports 15,000 new coronavirus cases, smashing national record:" https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/07/12/florida-reports-15k-new-cases-smashing-national-record-1299981

* "No end in sight for COVID-19 in Arizona as governor remains idle:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/no-end-in-sight-for-covid-19-in-arizona-as-governor-remains-idle-87647813879

* "Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks:" https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-governor-extends-coronavirus-restrictions/75SLQWLJ6FBULIGVEDMNSY5M64/

* "'This is as real as it gets': FL Hospital CEO on COVID-19 crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-as-real-as-it-gets-fl-hospital-ceo-on-covid-19-crisis-87724613731

* "Bottleneck for U.S. Coronavirus Response: The Fax Machine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/upshot/coronavirus-response-fax-machines.html

* "Former Trump physician Ronny Jackson: ‘Wearing a mask is a personal choice’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/former-trump-physician-ronny-jackson-masks-363549

* "Oklahoma governor who rejected mask order tests positive for coronavirus:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/15/oklahoma-kevin-stitt-coronavirus-covid-19

* "Nevada Official Traces New High in COVID-19 Cases to July 4:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/nevada/articles/2020-07-14/nevada-official-traces-new-high-in-covid-19-cases-to-july-4

* "Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey Issues Face Mask Mandate:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-07-15/alabama-gov-kay-ivey-issues-face-mask-mandate

* "City halves its coronavirus case rate after month of mask policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/city-halves-its-coronavirus-case-rate-after-month-of-mask-policy-87790149703

* "Tulsa city council votes for mask ordinance to stem coronavirus:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tulsa-city-council-votes-for-mask-ordinance-to-stem-coronavirus-87791685657

* "Georgia governor sues to stop Atlanta mask mandate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/16/georgia-mayors-brian-kemp-face-masks-366497

* "Target, CVS, Walgreens to require customers wear masks at U.S. stores:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cvs-health/target-cvs-to-require-customers-wear-masks-at-u-s-stores-idUSKCN24H2FY

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* "UK, US and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on Covid-19 research centers:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/russia-cyberattack-covid-vaccine-research/index.html

* "China announces retaliatory sanctions against Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/13/china-announces-retaliatory-sanctions-against-us-officials-ted-cruz-marco-rubio

* "At event meant to announce China actions, Trump rambles into political attacks:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/donald-trump-china-rose-garden-event/index.html

* "U.S. Weighs Sweeping Travel Ban on Chinese Communist Party Members:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/politics/china-travel-ban.html

* "Inside the White House, a Gun Industry Lobbyist Delivers for His Former Patrons:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/trump-gun-silencer-exports.html

* "Trump claims 'nobody ever heard' Abraham Lincoln was a Republican before he pointed it out:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-abraham-lincoln-president-doral-golf-resort-venezuela-a9613666.html

* "The Trump campaign is investigating campaign spending, Parscale contracts:" https://outline.com/HKvaby

* "Trump properties have made over $17 million from the campaign and the RNC since 2016:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/trump-properties-made-over-17-million-from-campaign-rnc-since-2016.html

* "Trump wears a mask during visit to wounded service members at Walter Reed:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/trump-walter-reed-visit-mask/index.html

* "Trump will further challenge Manhattan DA's subpoena following Supreme Court decision on tax records:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/trump-lawsuit-tax-records/index.html

* "Judge lifts restraining order on Mary Trump on eve of book release:" https://www.axios.com/mary-trump-restraining-order-29a423b5-afdc-453e-811b-40a8f0dee625.html

* "Trump shakes up campaign leadership as he struggles in latest polls:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/trump-campaign-manager-demoted/index.html

* "Trump says he would welcome Michael Flynn back to his administration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/trump-administration-michael-flynn-363743

* Meanwhile in Autocracy News. "Trump team launches a sweeping loyalty test to shore up its defenses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/15/trump-appointees-loyalty-interviews-364616

* "Mail delays likely as new postal boss pushes cost-cutting:" https://apnews.com/59c25efd4d325c4895f8ba85517f9bfd

* "White House sent document bashing Vindman as Pentagon eyed promotion:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/white-house-officials-sent-document-pentagon-criticizing-vindman-after-impeachment-n1233613

* "Inspector general: Medicare chief broke rules on her publicity contracts:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/16/medicare-chief-rules-publicity-contracts-365482

* "Exclusive: Secret Trump order gives CIA more powers to launch cyberattacks:" https://news.yahoo.com/secret-trump-order-gives-cia-more-powers-to-launch-cyberattacks-090015219.html

* "Watchdog group files Hatch Act complaint against Meadows:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/507474-watchdog-group-files-hatch-act-complaint-against-meadows

* "Ivanka Trump tweets support for Goya Foods amid backlash over CEO's praise of president:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ivanka-trump-tweets-support-goya-foods-amid-backlash-over-ceo-n1233868

* This is illegal. "Donald Trump Poses With Goya Products One Day After Ivanka Tweets Support:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-goya-instagram-endorsement_n_5f0f7726c5b6d14c3362878d?_guc_consent_skip=1594906673&guccounter=1

* "Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from the hospital and doing well:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-home-from-hospital/index.html

* "1.3 million Americans filed first-time unemployment claims last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/economy/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus/index.html

* This is on purpose. 45 refused to reopen enrollment specifically in order to prevent people who lost their jobs in the financial crisis from getting health care coverage in the middle of pandemic because Republicans strongly believe that only the rich should be allowed to get health care. Republicans are hoping these Americans will die. "A Record 5.4 Million Americans Have Lost Health Insurance, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/coronavirus-updates.html#link-4a45abca

* "Coronavirus crisis compounded by job losses, uninsured rate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-crisis-compounded-by-job-losses-uninsured-rate-87790661595

* "Sanders aims to refocus U.S. priorities with defense budget cuts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-aims-to-refocus-u-s-priorities-with-defense-budget-cuts-87791173728

* "House Education Democrats say CDC director blocked from appearing before Congress:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/education-democrats-cdc-director-congress-367935

* Let them eat cake. "New Ivanka Trump initiative tells out-of-work Americans to 'find something new':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/ivanka-trump-find-something-new-unemployment/index.html

* "Mehdi Hasan reacts to Ivanka Trump telling jobless Americans to ‘find something new’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-hasan-reacts-to-ivanka-trump-telling-jobless-americans-to-find-something-new-87716421971

* "Alabama Votes for Tommy Tuberville, and Democrats Name a Challenger in Maine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/elections/primary-runoff-alabama-maine-texas.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#link-43d5e4a2

Want to help Sara Gideon unseat Susan Collins? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

* "Disgraced homophobe Jeff Sessions is watching his political career dissipate in front of his very eyes:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/15/jeff-sessions-alabama-republican-primary-tommy-tuberville-doug-jones-democrat/

* Want to help Doug Jones defend his seat against a Trumpist homophobe? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-doug?refcode=gaa1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8n4rdfT6gIVvxitBh0BfQmNEAAYASAAEgJSwfD_BwE

* "Republican convention to be scaled back due to coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/republican-national-convention-planning-florida-coronavirus/index.html

* Poll Taxes are now legal. "The Supreme Court Just Stopped 1 Million Floridians From Voting in November:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/supreme-court-florida-felons-poll-tax.html

* "New York Times: Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is 'highest risk' for coronavirus spread:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/cdc-documents-warn-high-risk-schools-reopening/index.html

* "Not dangerous: DeVos defends schools reopening according to CDC guidelines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/12/betsy-devos-schools-reopen-357840

* I have no words that are fit to print. "White House: 'The science should not stand in the way' of reopening schools – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/jul/16/coronavirus-us-covid-donald-trump-anthony-fauci-joe-biden-live-updates

* "Sen. Jones: Teachers in Ala. are ‘scared to death’ amid Trump push to open schools:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-jones-teachers-in-ala-are-scared-to-death-amid-trump-push-to-open-schools-87625797898

* "L.A. Unified will not reopen campuses for start of school year amid coronavirus spike:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-13/l-a-unified-will-not-reopen-campuses-start-of-school-year

* "What To Do About Part-Time School? NYC Announces Free Child Care For 100,000 Students:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/16/892043766/what-to-do-about-part-time-school-nyc-announces-free-child-care-for-100-000-stud

* "17 states, DC sue Trump administration over visa rules for college students:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/trump-administration-visa-rules-lawsuit/index.html

* "Trump administration drops restrictions on online-only instruction for foreign students:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/immigration-harvard-visa-policy-online-only/index.html

* "Trump on private border wall segment: ‘It was only done to make me look bad’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/12/trump-border-wall-make-me-look-bad-357706

* "Pentagon effectively bans Confederate flags on all military property:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/17/pentagon-bans-confederate-flag-367550

* "Edward Colston's statue stood for 125 years. The Black Lives Matter statue that replaced it stood for about 25 hours:" https://www.cnn.com/style/article/black-lives-matter-bristol-statue-removed-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

* "New police video reveals George Floyd’s desperate pleas before his death:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-video-reveals-george-floyds-desperate-pleas-before-his-death/2020/07/15/c81e9d3c-c6b4-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html

* "British Vogue's Black Gay Editor Says He Was Racially Profiled:" https://www.advocate.com/race/2020/7/16/british-vogues-black-gay-editor-says-he-was-racially-profiled

* "Chris Hayes: Tucker Carlson's racist writer is no surprise:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-tucker-carlson-s-racist-writer-is-no-surprise-87625797983

* TW: Pedophilia. "US judge denies Ghislaine Maxwell bail in sex case:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53403270

* "Russia Begins Targeting LGBTQ+ People, Per Putin's Orders:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/7/15/russia-begins-targeting-lgbtq-people-putins-orders

* "A Poland court just annulled one of the country’s abhorrent ‘LGBT-free’ zones for turning a ‘blind eye to reality’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/15/poland-lgbt-free-zone-istebna-court-annulled-violation-constitution-discrimination-homophobia/

* "Not even the BBC’s Pride network knows why the broadcaster quietly dropped vital charities from its transgender support page:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/15/bbc-pride-transgender-support-page-editorial-policy-action-line-trans-institutional-transphobia/

* "Tory MP Jackie Doyle-Price seems to think she knows more about trans people’s bodies than they do:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/14/tory-mp-jackie-doyle-price-posie-parker-trans-healthcare-jk-rowling-transphobia/

* "Colorado Bans Gay and Trans 'Panic' Defenses, Eases Access to PrEP:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/7/14/colorado-bans-gay-and-trans-panic-defenses-eases-access-prep

* "Maine Adds 'Nonbinary' Gender Marker on Birth Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/7/15/maine-adds-nonbinary-gender-marker-birth-certificates

* "A Long and Difficult Journey, or The Odyssey: Crash Course Literature 201:"

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* "A Bizarre 1970 Arctic Killing Offers a Road Map for How Not to Deal With Murder in Space:" https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/arctic-t3-murder-space.html

* "Flossie Wong-Staal, History-Making Female HIV Scientist, Died:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/7/15/flossie-wong-stahl-history-making-female-hiv-scientist-died

* It feels like the headlines are being written by a fuzzy logic AI trained on Onion Articles.

* Wednesday: Monday they mowed the lawn, kicking up lots of allergens, plus it's humid and no rain for a few days, plus I was outside in the allergens for a few hours. A cloth mask isn't that much help under the circumstances and I need to save the last heavy mask for emergencies. I only managed a few hours of sleep Monday anyway between AS stuff and allergens, and mowing related sinus headache. It got worse over the course of the evening to the point of things being really impossible. Like massive pain, serious lung congestion, and my throat completely fucked because lawn grass is the worst of my allergies.

I did a lung treatment, drained my sinuses, washed off the allergens, and went to bed. it's not COVID. I can tell because ten hours under filtration nearly cured my throat and cut the congestion in half. I am using maximum medication. I am washing bedding over and over. I am using all the tricks both for allergies and AS. I'm still periodically in too much pain to read, which makes be so queasy it's hard to keep the meds down.

I have to lie down a lot, often on very short notice. I could cope with either AS pain or the headache but both got to be too much, so I've given up and broken out the emergency meds. Even with that, I still had day three of pain insomnia, though the quality when I did manage to get to sleep a couple times was higher.

I have the shakes, am pasted together with more meds than I like, and I make no promises of quality. I also have a massive backlog of links ready to post. I'll see how much can get up before I have to lie down again.

* Tuesday night I had a scare when i went to take my bath. The washer Dryer area looked like a crime scene on a cat scale. Small, fresh pools of blood. Spatter. Tiny bloody paw prints. I was terrified Elder Kitty was dead or dying. I roused Squirrel from his game, by which point the pounding and yelling required to get his attention over his head phones had summoned the Elder Kitty from wherever she was.

I had heard no arguments, so I knew it hadn't been a fight. Livia and Tavy were both napping, but also woke up in the commotion. It couldn't have been Livia anyway, because the paw prints. Squirrel examined her for injuries. She'd ripped out a claw. It was an alarming amount of blood, but nothing else was wrong with her beyond the expected. She was walking about as well as she was earlier in the evening.

I'd been doing laundry, and she's recently developed an interest in the dryer, which was running at the time. Current theory is she crit failed a dex roll making a jump she couldn't handle with the stroke clumsy, panicked, and ripped the nail in the process.

By the time Squirrel examined her, it'd already stopped bleeding, and she's getting around okay on it.

It was scary as fuck, and the clean up was horrible.

* Wednesday 2:51PM: Good Girl Livia just rescued Elder Kitty.

I heard thumps at the patio door, like there used to be when Elder Kitty was angry at a stranger cat being on the patio, so I look up. No visible stranger cat and Livia is very excited about something, so I assumed it was a hummingbird. Only every time I look down she starts squeaking emphatically. Finally I look up in time to spot Elder kitty on the wrong side of the glass. she must have escaped while I was watering plants. she went and hid when I came to the door, but I coaxed her in with the promise of shreds. (I talk to them a specific way at meal times so they know to gather when I make sounds like that. I told them what good girls they were and now is shred time.

* Thursday: My head still feels like it's a rotten pumpkin someone keeps trying to carve. The AS is also kicking my ass so I'm stiff, clumsy, and in pain. The amount of medication I need to not be in unbearable agony makes me foggy. I still need to lie down a lot.

There has been a lot of cat excitement today. Livia was on her forth pettin for the day when she got all excited, ran to the foot of the bed. and tail waving excitedly she started actually meowing in that weird high pitched voice she has instead of just squeaking. I went to look. It was Elder Kitty! In my room! Of her own volition! I kept happening as I finished Spindrift and got it together as I was getting ready to leave the bed.

She clearly wanted up, but didn't quite dare. It's Tavy turf and he can get really nasty about it when he's in a jealous mood. The bed is also really high. She knew Livia and I were up there, as we had peered over the edge, but she didn't know where he was. I know she can get down, and there's a mounting stool, so I lifted her up when I left, which seemed to please her even if she dislikes being picked up. Livia was very excited, but gave her space. I went off to do the necessary chores and start the potato I was hoping I could keep down. Each time I passed, the girls were peaceably hanging out on opposite sides of the bed.

She must have heard me going out to water the plants, as when I returned with the watering can, she was at the door all hopeful. I moved her to the sill and quick tried to put the can outside, but she darted between my legs and was gone before I could bend to grab her. See AS kicking my ass above.

There was nothing for it to get Squirrel, who was up for some reason. He did find her eventually and bring her back in. I felt terrible until he admitted she'd done the same to him when he got home from work. normally she's scared of outside and scared of Tavy attacking her on my bed. She likely tore out that claw trying to make an impossible for her jump in my bathroom and last night she tried to steal my buttered noodles. I'm thinking maybe it's the dementia advancing or stroke after effects giving her the wanders and/or making her fearless.

After lungs, I spotted her napping on my bed on the opposite side from where Livia was napping. I snuck out to take the Lily pictures, as she escaped again on my way back in and trying to get around in the bushes with a crutch and AS this bad was a nightmare, but I got her back in the end, but not without getting a bunch of micro splinters in my foot.

* Anyway, the first triffid lily of the season: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/623843173744164864/the-first-triffid-lily-of-the-season

* Elder Kitty sitting on top of a Fish Light. This is normally forbidden, but she’s very light, and also a week and a half post-stroke, so she gets to sit where she wants.: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/623860235955847168/elder-kitty-sitting-on-top-of-a-fish-light-this

* Friday: I am improving, but still needing a lot of rest and medication. It helps that there is a cooler breeze off the bay so i could tolerate a slightly longer bath, though not long enough. My plan was to get lots of sleep. Ha! No! I got up to go to the bathroom and found an extra girl in my bed. I stroked her back so she'd know that she was in fact welcome. When I returned, she'd co-opted my head pillow. I don't blame her, that thing is ridiculously comfortable. She had kindly left enough room for my head, so i settled in next to her and gave her a long pet.

At which point the Emperor turned up wanting HIS Pet, as i had all the filter on, but not the fan. He climbed onto my hip and spotted That Other Cat brazenly sleeping in the Imperial Bed, Imperial territory and the most important territory in the apartment, especially when I'm on it. He perched on my hip glaring at her, but we think the stroke damaged the part of her brain that does things like fear, so she just stared back at him. He sensibly intuited that I was kicking everyone out if they started a fight on top of me, so he was grumpily accepting a pet when Livia turned up with the clear intention of claiming her pettin. Hear head swiveled between them in alarm. I offered her a scritch, but she decided the atmosphere was way too heavy for her to want to drape herself across my torso between them, so she settled down on the other side of her favorite body pillow.

Then the phone rang. Tavy lept off, because he knows that sound means I'm about to move to grab it. Elder Kitty: ha! I win! It was the police charity scammers. I had to block a scammer a few days ago, which means ublocking a number. It looks like I'm bout to get the police/fire charity scammers out of Seattle cascade for the next week or two as I block/unblock numbers. They are relentless and call up to three times a day if they aren't blocked. Sigh.

I settle back down, lure Tavy back on, and he decides, Fuck it, he wants the full curl up on my tummy for a long cuddle pet even if That Other Cat is pressed up against my head. I'd just started petting him, when the phone rang. Moherfucker! Everyone left. It was an autodialer. And i can't block the ring and run autodialers, because sometimes it's Medicare or Medicare advantage. I drink some water and roll offer, headache blooming.

I start to drift off anyway; the phone rings. Of curse it did. Medicare advantage calling to inform me I hadn't used any of my behavioral heath coverage. Which of course I can't even if I needed it because trauma. I'm really the fuck good at dealing which my own shit and have spent a lifetime quietly dismantling triggers and healing myself, and am honestly one of the most stable people I know. I'm highly adaptive and good at things like coping with lockdown etc.. I am extremely disciplined about working through trauma. I have to be: see long history of incredibly abusive child psychology.

What I actually say is: "I'm fine. Yes, I know the benefit exists, but I don't need it." Which is true. Would I rather we didn't have a monster in charge of our government who is deliberately trying to infect and kill as many people as possible? Yes, but I am dealing with my responses to that as I need to. At which point she tries to hard sell me, and I get it. There is a global mental health crisis and this plan is for disabled and/or elderly people in extreme poverty, a group that is particularly vulnerable and isolated right now. I know she meant well and bullying boomers into behavioral health could save lives. Except I'm an Xer and not isolated and I have a particular set of psychological tools that work pretty damned well in this emergency. Me: "I'm fine and I'd rather save those slots for people who need help. There's a global mental health crisis on a limited resources." She reiterated that the benefit is there if I need it.

I am now far to awake to sleep. This is just way to much disruption. I reach for my book. The phone rings. %#$&! It's the lung people wanting to arrange a shipment of ampules. Which is a long conversation in itself. This is why I can't turn off the phone when I sleep. Medicare, Medicare advantage, doctors, dentists, the lung people, and my regular pharmacy like to call when I'm sleeping and it's way better to just answer the thing and deal with whatever it is they want than play daytime phone tag with them.

So sleep was done, despite me rather needing another 2-3 hours of it. Oh well. I finished the nice queer fantasy/sf anthology I'd been reading (Tangle) and petted cats all day. Elder kitty returned to what is now her pillow. The Imperial couple periodically cadged pets. At one point Elder Kitty was wrapped around my head the way hector used to like, Tavy was crashed out on my hip, and Baby Girl was stretched on her favorite body pillow next to me while they all had a good nap. Livia's idea of a really good day involves loves from her personal human, hanging out peaceably with the clowder, and bird and/or fish TV. This may be Livia's best day ever.

At one point I heard squirrel moving around, and I had a suspicion he was worried about his cat. Given her age and state of health.... Yeah. And she usuall spends some of her day sleeping with him in his bed. He saw my light and called my name. I didn't wait for the question. "I have her in hear. She's fine." I was under the sheet and he peeked in and checked, relief in his voice. I explained she'd been there all day. We talked a bit about her and he went off relieved.

When I came out, Tavy had pissed on the sofa and the floor in front of it, the puddle soaking two other layers. I don't blame him, really. He had to take out his feelings somehow and starting a fight in bed just wasn't on.

* "Rocky Horror Hamilton:" https://soundcloud.com/jason-specland/rocky-horror-hamilton?fbclid=IwAR38G_eCYlre9eJgJuCiwJhYmt_9FkMPnovXEVzaYeiCIvHo1WY9VjU8cUg

* A thing on why malachite makes a bad dildo and the Flint water crisis: https://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/623839456966868992/ahgoodthesea-astolat

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* Want to help Doug Jones defend his seat against a Trumpist homophobe? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-doug?refcode=gaa1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8n4rdfT6gIVvxitBh0BfQmNEAAYASAAEgJSwfD_BwE

* Want to help Sara Gideon unseat Susan Collins? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

* 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

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

* 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

* "'Prices keep rising, we don't know what to do':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-53283747/coronavirus-lockdown-zimbabwe-s-political-and-economic-crisis

* "Teachers face threats, books are banned as China pushes party line in Hong Kong schools:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/teachers-face-threats-books-are-banned-as-china-pushes-party-line-in-hong-kong-schools/

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* "India passes Russia as Covid cases continue to rise:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53303870

* "Five questions about India's rising Covid-19 infections:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53018351

* "Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-brazil-bolsonaro-tests-positive/2020/07/07/5fa71548-c049-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html

* "Do Americans Understand How Badly They’re Doing?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/america-land-pathetic/613747/

* "White House claims US is 'a leader' in fight against Covid-19 as cases rise:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/06/white-house-us-leader-coronavirus-infections

* "Maryland biotech firm wins $1.6 billion to develop coronavirus vaccine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/07/coronavirus-vaccine-operation-warp-speed/

* "Chris Hayes: Trump is objectively pro-virus:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-is-objectively-pro-virus-87176261529

* "Gov. Inslee will require Washington businesses to turn away customers without coronavirus facial coverings:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-will-require-businesses-to-turn-away-customers-who-enter-without-coronavirus-facial-coverings/

* The Republicans caused an outbreak by refusing to wear masks in session. "36 COVID-19 cases connected to outbreak in Mississippi Legislature; 26 are lawmakers:" https://www.wjtv.com/health/coronavirus/36-covid-19-cases-connected-to-outbreak-in-mississippi-legislature-26-are-lawmakers/

* "Coronavirus outbreak empties Mississippi capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-outbreak-empties-mississippi-capitol-87260741976

* "As Oklahoma struggles with coronavirus, Trump rally didn't help:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-oklahoma-struggles-with-coronavirus-trump-rally-didn-t-help-87261765555

* "Arizona Is #1, Bahrain Is #4:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/briefing/arizona-mary-trump-facebook-your-wednesday-briefing.html

* "Desperate measures in Arizona as COVID-19 overwhelms hospitals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desperate-measures-in-arizona-as-covid-19-overwhelms-hospitals-87259717998

* "USDA Uses Faulty Data to Approve Speeding Up Meatpacking Lines:" https://www.dcreport.org/2020/07/01/usda-uses-faulty-data-to-approve-speeding-up-meatpacking-lines/

* ""It's like a horror movie": Trapped inside San Quentin during an explosion of COVID-19:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/07/san-quentin-prison-coronavirus-california/

* "State's mistake turns San Quentin into major coronavirus hot spot:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/state-s-mistake-turns-san-quentin-into-major-coronavirus-hot-spot-87183429821

* "Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tests positive for coronavirus:" https://www.axios.com/keisha-lance-bottoms-atlanta-coronavirus-778e7d66-fb63-46a2-b5d0-a6a2f11ec35a.html

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* "Trump administration sends letter withdrawing U.S. from World Health Organization over coronavirus response:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-united-states-withdrawal-world-health-organization-coronavirus/2020/07/07/ae0a25e4-b550-11ea-9a1d-d3db1cbe07ce_story.html

* Who wants to bet this is retaliation for the Tulsa humiliation? "The United States is 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps, Pompeo says:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/tech/us-tiktok-ban/index.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/tech/us-tiktok-ban/index.html

* "Republican National Convention will test Jacksonville attendees daily for coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/republican-national-convention-jacksonville-test-attendees-coronavirus/index.html

* "Mayor Turner cancels state Republican party's convention:" https://abc13.com/politics/houston-mayor-cancels-in-person-gop-convention/6307042/

* "Donald Trump lies with ease: recurring theme in niece's new book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-lies-with-ease-recurring-theme-in-niece-s-new-book-87182917910

* "Tell-all book renews attention on Trump sister's ethics inquiry:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tell-all-book-renews-attention-on-trump-sister-s-ethics-inquiry-87183941926

* "Roger Stone asks appeals court to keep him from prison:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/roger-stone-appeals-court-prison-350152

* "DeVos blasts school districts that hesitate at reopening:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/07/white-house-cdc-pediatricians-reopening-schools-350655

* "Trump Friends and Family Cleared for Millions in Small Business Bailout:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-friends-and-family-cleared-for-millions-in-small-business-bailout

* "Billionaire Kanye West’s Company Gets Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan From Trump Admin:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-kanye-wests-company-yeezy-llc-gets-multimillion-dollar-ppp-loan-from-trump-admin

* "Three Trans Peeps Running To Become Vermont Legislators:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/three-trans-peeps-running-to-become.html

* "Harvard, Princeton roll out plans for fall amid Trump pressure to reopen:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/harvard-princeton-roll-out-plans-for-fall-amid-trump-pressure-to-reopen-87177797793

* "Americans Want More, Not Less, Immigration for First Time:" https://news.gallup.com/poll/313106/americans-not-less-immigration-first-time.aspx

* "Civil rights groups denounce Facebook over hate speech:" https://apnews.com/ab4564b86230fc1d9261c620577036da

* "A bigoted protester said these are the people who will 'burn in hellfire', and we don't know about you but it sounds amazing:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/07/christian-protester-people-burn-hellfire-homophobia-transphobia-penis-lovers-david-christian-centre/

* "Three More Trans Americans Killed; Another Hospitalized for Injuries:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/7/05/three-trans-americans-killed-past-week-one-hospital-post-attack

* "Suspect Arrested in Death of Arkansas Trans Teen Brayla Stone:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/7/06/suspect-arrested-death-arkansas-trans-teen-brayla-stone

* "Judge orders temporary shutdown of controversial Dakota Access Pipeline:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/business/dakota-access-pipeline-shutdown/index.html

* "‘Glee' Actress Missing After Young Boy Found Alone on Boat in Lake Piru:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/3-year-old-girl-found-alone-in-boat-on-lake-piru/2393145/

* Today was rough physically. I slept slightly out of position which borked an arm for a few hours. I had the shakes randomly for about three hours mid-evening. I completely failed to change the 20 tank, but I did clean the living room litter and launder a pee guard (probably Tavy). I was scattered, because that's normal with the shakes. So pre-midnight productivity was next to nil.

Did I mention the thing where I went to get water and somehow managed to get an entire fly strip stuck in my hair and had to then painfully remove it and true to wash the glue and flies out? Because that was extra fun.

Bonus, I keep managing to find work arounds for tumblr update, all of which end up being slower than pre update. I have found some tweaks that work for some things, but nothing so far for the mess they deliberately made of the dashboard or their decision to fuck up the scroll thingie to make it extremely hard for someone with my disabilities to use. Um, thanks? Plus the disaster just keeps rolling. Tonight, a tweak that solved one problem caused another. I now need three browsers with different tweaks on two different laptops to do the work I was doing on one to compensate for the supposed "upgrade." I keep having to experiment with how I do things, which eats time and messes with workflow.

Jesus fuck, I didn't need this.

Rupert laptop is still sporadically having trouble handling the "upgrade" as like most "upgrades" it eats extra resources. If you are reading on tumblr you may have notice weird ass posting patterns. That's because some nights I'm still having to save link posting for a batch job on Klaus. Klaus keeps having to do more and more Rupert jobs on top of his own. This is also contributing to the aggregate being harder to put out, so sorry dreamwidth readers.

A bit before 1 AM, Squirrel was asleep, so elder Kitty came out to sleep on my desk. She ended up crashed out on Rupert laptop. Needless to say no work got done on him while she was sleeping.

* "LOLTrek:" https://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/?fbclid=IwAR3CHVxDz_WeJjfkJUJHjddttBkw6y1Y8oPsJa1Uw3tTQcqd9FbO_hLjk-E#more-864

* "The World's Greatest Gallery of Seductive Radishes:" https://www.sadanduseless.com/radish-hotness/

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* 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

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

* 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

* "'Liberate Hong Kong' slogan banned as protesters lie low:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/02/hong-kong-protesters-laying-low-following-mass-arrests-china

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* "As world approaches 10 million coronavirus cases, doctors see hope in new treatments:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lessons-special-re/special-report-as-world-approaches-10-million-coronavirus-cases-doctors-see-hope-in-new-treatments-idUSKBN23X1I5

* "Arizona GOP Rep. Calls For WH Coronavirus Task Force To Be Disbanded:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/andy-biggs-arizona-disband-white-house-coronavirus-task-force

* "Surge in state COVID-19 cases driven by eastern Washington:" https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Surge-in-state-COVID-19-cases-driven-by-eastern-15384897.php

* "COVID-19 spikes linked to GOP leaders Arizona congressman asserts:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/arizona-congressman-laments-gop-leadership-linked-covid-19-spikes-87024197686

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* "Former diplomat: U.S. looks ‘stupid’ on Russian bounties response:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-not-addressing-russian-bounties-analyzed-by-former-diplomat-87023173913

* "The Unraveling of the U.S.-South Korean Alliance:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-korea/2020-07-03/unraveling-us-south-korean-alliance

* "Trump Is Throwing a Mount Rushmore Fireworks Show. What Could Go Wrong?:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-mount-rushmore-fireworks-show-what-could-go-wrong.html

* "At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mount-rushmore-fireworks/2020/07/03/af2e84f6-bd25-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html

* "Trump’s Mount Rushmore trip decried by Native American activists:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-trip-to-mount-rushmore-protested-by-native-americans-87019077763

* "Trump Believes That He Is Losing Because He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-losing-2020-polls-racism-black-lives-matter.html

* "Manhattan prosecutor pick ducks questions about Barr's job offer:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/jay-clayton-sdny-bill-barr-339888

* "Barber slams ‘scarcity of will’ for economic issues plaguing U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-touts-4-8-million-new-jobs-despite-50-million-jobs-lost-87027269816

* "How the American Worker Got Fleeced:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-the-fleecing-of-the-american-worker/

* "For Maine Lobstermen, a Perfect Storm Threatens the Summer Season:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/maine-lobster-summer-virus.html

* "Colleges Face Rising Revolt by Professors:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/coronavirus-college-professors.html

* "The Latest Pandemic Shortage: Coins Are The New Toilet Paper:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880958665/the-latest-pandemic-shortage-coins-are-the-new-toilet-paper

* "White evangelical approval of Trump slips, but eight-in-ten say they would vote for him:" https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/01/white-evangelical-approval-of-trump-slips-but-eight-in-ten-say-they-would-vote-for-him/

* "GOP candidate is latest linked to QAnon conspiracy theory:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/gop-candidate-is-latest-linked-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-2/

* "Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process:" https://apnews.com/dc57e6e1b01c5a18af058d587daa2e11

* "The Voting Disaster Ahead:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/voter-suppression-novembers-looming-election-crisis/613408/

* "Mayor Muriel Bowser: Make D.C. a State!:"

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* "Police: 2 women hit by car on Seattle highway amid protest:" https://apnews.com/741b01da9ce010717df1afca30afe09e

* "WikiLeaks Founder Charged With Conspiring With LulzSec & Anonymous Hackers:" https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/wikileaks-lulzsec-anonymous-hackers.html

* "Fact check: Breaking down Trump's false claims about DACA and the Supreme Court's ruling:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/fact-check-trump-daca-supreme-court-tweets/index.html

* "The Immigration System Is Set To Come To A Near Halt, And No One Is Paying Attention:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigration-system-budget-cuts

* "He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/he-built-a-privately-funded-border-wall-its-already-at-risk-of-falling-down-if-not-fixed

* "Trump tweets about plan for BLM mural in front of his Tower:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/trump-tweets-about-plan-for-blm-mural-in-front-of-his-tower/

* "Fact-checking Trump's references to the anti-police chant 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/fact-check-trump-pigs-blanket-black-lives-matter/index.html

* "An Anti-Racist West Point:" https://medium.com/an-anti-racist-west-point/an-anti-racist-west-point-a26fa2f77bbe

* "A National Guardsman Sent To LA Protests Is Under Investigation For Ties To Proud Boys:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/national-guard-proud-boys-california-black-lives-matter_n_5efe44a5c5b612083c592f32

* ""Kill 'em": Houston GOP powerbroker Steve Hotze left Greg Abbott a voicemail requesting that National Guard "shoot to kill" rioters:" https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/03/steve-hotze-texas-greg-abbott-rioters/

* "Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/journalists-are-reexamining-their-reliance-on-a-longtime-source-the-police/2020/06/30/303c929c-b63a-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html

* "Latinx activist asks all impacted by police brutality to unite:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/police-shooting-death-of-andres-guardado-decried-by-activist-87025733956

* "Police clashes with Native Americans often ‘invisible’ activist laments:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/native-americans-disproportionately-impacted-by-police-violence-87026245691

* "Black Lives Matter protesters say they were attacked. Boise police investigate, speak out:" https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article243954757.html

* "South Dakota governor criticizes removal of statues as effort to 'discredit' nation's principles:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505839-south-dakota-governor-criticizes-removal-of-statues-as-effort

* "Movement for Black Lives Confronts Tennessee’s Confederate Legacy:" https://theintercept.com/2020/06/21/black-lives-matter-tennessee-confederate/

* "The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/race-wage-gap.html

* "From soldier to worker; Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?:" https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cops-union-history-fraternal-order-of-police/Content?oid=80542709

* "‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech:"

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* "Daveed Diggs asks: “What to My People is the Fourth of July?”:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE: The Exploitation of Julia Pastrana:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. "Lawsuit accuses GOP gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp of mishandling child sex-abuse investigation:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lawsuit-accuses-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-loren-culp-of-mishandling-child-sex-abuse-investigation/

* "Arizona official brought women to the US to give birth and charged families to adopt the babies:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/marshall-islands-paul-petersen-adoption-scheme/index.html

* "Gender bias kept alive by people who think it's dead:" https://phys.org/news/2020-06-gender-bias-alive-people-dead.html

* "Vladimir Putin takes pathetic potshots at the US embassy because it defiantly flew a Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/04/vladimir-putin-russia-us-embassy-pride-flag-donald-trump-gay-queer-lgbt/

* "Poland’s homophobic barbarian – sorry, president – Andrzej Duda just vowed to ban same-sex couples from adopting children:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/04/andrzej-duda-poland-same-sex-adoption-ban-constitution-lgbt-gay/

* "J.K. Rowling likes tweet that supports conversion therapy:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/j-k-rowling-likes-tweet-supported-conversion-therapy/

* "Protesters take to the streets amid concerns over Tory government’s alleged rollback of trans rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/05/trans-rights-protest-london-parliament-square-gender-recognition-act-reform-conservative-boris-johnson-liz-truss/

* "Another Black trans woman killed after brutal shooting in Florida. Despite deadnaming from the media, her name was Bree Black:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/05/bree-black-transgender-killed-florida-pompano-beach-broward-sheriff/

* "Perkins: LGBTQ Rights Have Ruined The Fourth Of July - Joe.My.God.:" https://www.joemygod.com/2020/07/perkins-lgbtq-rights-have-ruined-the-fourth-of-july/

* "A Year In, 1st Patient To Get Gene Editing For Sickle Cell Disease Is Thriving:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/23/877543610/a-year-in-1st-patient-to-get-gene-editing-for-sickle-cell-disease-is-thriving

* You know how we people wih disabilities were concerned this would happen? Yeah. "Austin Hospital Withheld Treatment from Disabled Man Who Contracted Coronavirus:" https://thetexan.news/austin-hospital-withheld-treatment-from-disabled-man-who-contracted-coronavirus/

* "Visiting Hawaii's Tragic & Remote Leprosy Colony:"

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* "Salem Witch Trials- NEW Revelations:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE- Haydn's Head!:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE: Charles Byrne the Irish Giant:"

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* "Morbid Mystery: The Franklin Expedition:"

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* "Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying

* "THE FROZEN BODIES OF MOUNT EVEREST:"

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* "CAVE DIVING CORPSES:"

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* "A water crisis looms for 270 million people as South Asia’s glaciers shrink:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/07/water-crisis-looms-for-270-million-people-south-asia-perpetual-feature/

* "How a decade of neglect and politics undermined the CDC’s fight against climate change:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/06/how-a-decade-of-neglect-and-politics-undermined-the-cdcs-fight-against-climate-change/

* "The Lion of Chaeronea:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lion-of-chaeronea

* "Was the Real Lone Ranger a Black Man?:" https://www.history.com/news/bass-reeves-real-lone-ranger-a-black-man

* "The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/magazine/6888th-battalion-charity-adams.html

* "The US Didn’t Bring Freedom to South Korea — Its People Did:" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/gwangju-uprising-korean-war-seventieth-anniversary

* "Your Firework Smoke Could Be Tainted With Lead:" https://www.wired.com/story/your-firework-smoke-could-be-tainted-with-lead/

* "'The love letter that helped me flee my country':" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53077638

* "America is running out of fireworks:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/business/firework-industry-sales-2020/index.html

* "U.S. Coronavirus Cases Spike, the E.U. May Ban Americans & Clashes Over Mandatory Masks in Florida:"

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* "The Problem with Cop Shows:"

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* "Brandy Clark: Bigger Boat:"

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* Friday: Our HOA agreement allows seasonal decorations (within certain boundaries). So I was like, "Hey Squirrel, it occurs to me that PRIDE and particularly Stonewall Day are in fact holidays, so the HOA can't stop us. How would you feel about hanging a PRIDE flags up?" Because you don't cover your front window with a massive progress flag without consulting your roommate. He was really into it and wanted to get his own flag for his own window on top of the shared common space one. (I would love the chevrons, but flags are expensive so me getting a 45ish +shipping queer flag, yes I priced them and did the sourcing a monthish ago and it was hard ass things kept selling out or being sold out, on my own was too much money. Maybe next year). After some consultation we worked out which one he wanted and did the order. We did hang them in plenty of time for Stonewall day and they've been up a couple of weeks. My plan was to take them down on the 5th which is in margin by the letter of the rules, and damned if I don't want that thing up for the 4th for obvious fucking reasons. I generally don't rules lawyer, but i will for a good cause.

So when coming back from library curbside Monday I spotted the noticed the HOA had hung on the lobby door with passive aggressive highlighting on the sentence about not hanging political signs in the windows. I smiled, because I'd been waiting to see if they would give me an intent to fine notice, because my plan was to call them right up and point out that people are allowed to hang Christmas decorations, which given the whole bullshit war on Christmas rhetoric is a political issue. All we did was hang decorations celebrating Stonewall Day. Are you saying my identity is a political issue? Not a good look for the HOA in my deep blue college town.

Remember, I'm the person who put on clothes at 11:20PM on a Sunday night in the mid-90's to stomp a long block west to yell at a frat party to stop blasting 'Rockin Robin on repeat because some of us have jobs and need to sleep, with my terrified partner trailing after me, convinced I was a bout to get killed in a brawl with an entire frat and if I really was doing that, he should probably come have my back. They turned it off, chastened. More recently a few years ago I went and stood next to a Lady being screamed at by a mob anti-choicers and yelled back at them with her. I may pick my battles, but I'm all the fuck in when I fight.

So nothing happens and the days pass with no intent to fine notice. Squirrel's parking moves at the month change and he used that door coming home from work this morning and saw the notice. Him: This is definitely aimed at us. Nothing else has changed in the complex. Me: Oh yes. I spotted it Monday. If they want me to take it down they are going to have to explicitly tell me they don't consider PRIDE and Stonewall day real holidays. Him: They won't do that. Me: In which case I win. They either have to fight me over it or live with me ignoring their passive aggressive general notice.

The sign had to have gone up between last Monday afternoon and the Monday before, when I last used that door, which means I feel okay about taking my flag down on the 5th as planned. I'll still be within the HOA's own rules and nearly a week doesn't look like capitulation. Especially when they go back up next June. squirrel likes his so much It's going to be a wall hanging in his room and he's thinking about seeing if he can get a flag big enough to use as a door curtain for his room when there's more money, a project of which I approve. (We use shower curtains to create an airlock/privacy while leaving the doors ajar for cats.)

* Sunday: It will likely come as no surprise to you all that the Imperial couple do not react well to fireworks. Elder Kitty didn't mind them all that much before her hearing started to weaken and these days with her dementia, she only really responds to familiar stimulae that directly affects her in some way. Tavy and Livia though? A whole other story.

I fed the girls before it all started, which was a wise move. Livia had returned to the bed to hang out with me by the time of the first explosion. She clearly considered running, but I was calm and the bed room is generally invader free, so she decided to hang with me despite misgivings. Tavy came running in and jumped up on the bed to see iif we were scared and if this was a full on hide situation. He saw me lying there all calm and Livia nervous but holding it together and decided the "Hide on the bed in comfort as a group" plan was better than retreat to the secure hide. Her nerve nearly broke when the roman candle barrage happened on the other side of the gazebo, but they did really well, considering the both hate loud noises and unexpected happenings.

It's been rainy and cold for days, which I am grateful for since it discourages maskless idiots from congregating to breathe virus on each other. Bonus, it really cuts down on illegal firework related fires. It was still loud for a while, but it wasn't nearly as bad as usual when we get a week of explosions. We had a few on the third and then the usual nonsense in the complex, but it stopped early.

Taking the long silence for the end, I went and made dinner and did the usual chores. After I ate, I was just settling in for lungs and Tavy had just climbed on intending a pet and a cuddle nap. (He really likes lung time cuddle naps and he's especially big on them lately because he doesn't sleep on me as much with the machines going). His forth paw had landed when someone set off a massive mortar outside the window and he panicked all the way to his hide.

There followed another half hour or so, but they were done by midnight instead of going until dawn, so it's a huge win. They really did ride most of it out on the bed, and while they needed a lot of extra attention all night they had clearly recovered by dawn.

I've taken the PRIDE flag out of the front window and folded it away for next year. I even changed the 30. (Plus some MUSH Chargen). What I didn't do is much aggregate. Ooops.

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* 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 help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* 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

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

* 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

* "Stalled vaccine schemes 'put young lives at risk':" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52911972

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* "Hydroxychloroquine, a drug promoted by Trump, failed to prevent healthy people from getting covid-19 in trial:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/03/hydroxychloroquine-clinical-trial-results/

* "Nine long-term care facilities in South Mississippi identified as having COVID-19 cases:" https://www.wlox.com/2020/06/03/nine-long-term-care-facilities-south-mississippi-identified-having-covid-cases/

* "Oregon reports 76 new COVID-19 cases, 7 in C. Oregon; no new deaths:" https://ktvz.com/news/coronavirus/2020/06/04/oregon-reports-76-new-covid-19-cases-7-in-c-oregon-no-new-deaths/

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* "U.S. Plans to Block Flights by Chinese Airlines:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-blockchinese-airline-flights-to-and-from-u-s-says-dot-11591194145?mod=hp_lead_pos1

* "Senate panel approves legislation requiring campaigns to report foreign election help:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-reporting-foreign-election-help/index.html

* They've got an out of Control COVID-19 outbreak and resisted the idea of packing people in elbow to elbow without masks to yell, spreading droplets up to twelve feet. "Trump slams North Carolina and says he's moving GOP convention elsewhere:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/02/north-carolina-governor-rejects-gops-demand-for-full-fledged-convention-296566

* "President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-tried-to-register-to-vote-in-florida-using-an-out-of-state-address/2020/06/03/687d0014-a4f2-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

* "Rod Rosenstein blames FBI while defending Russia probe5:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/rod-rosenstein-testimony-russia-probe-298253

* "Republicans face looming unemployment dilemma:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/republicans-face-looming-unemployment-dilemma-299407

***

* "An obituary for George Floyd:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/an-obituary-for-george-floyd-84415557780

* "All four former officers involved in George Floyd's killing now face charges:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html

* "MN AG cites 'additional evidence' in new charges in Floyd case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mn-ag-cites-additional-evidence-in-new-charges-in-floyd-case-84340805874

* "Attorney for family of George Floyd reacts to new charges in case:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/attorney-for-family-of-george-floyd-reacts-to-new-charges-in-case-84345925566

* "Mattis tears into Trump: 'We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/mattis-statement-trump/index.html

* "Trump and the Military: A Mutual Embrace Might Dissolve on America’s Streets:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/politics/trump-military-protests.html

* "McConnell blocks resolution condemning Trump's actions against peaceful protesters:" https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-trump-peaceful-protesters-4f2209d1-7cad-477c-a5fa-1a9fee4e625a.html

* You know, tear gas and rubber bullets, not tear gas and rubber bullets. "White House says police didn’t use tear gas and rubber bullets in incident that cleared protesters with chemical irritants and projectile munitions:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/trump-demands-journalists-correct-stories-on-the-use-of-tear-gas-according-to-the-cdc-it-was-tear-gas/2020/06/02/bf68726c-a544-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

* "60 minutes of mayhem: How aggressive politics and policing turned a peaceful protest into a violent confrontation:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/02/politics/trump-white-house-protest-police-church-photo-op/

* "‘This can’t be happening’: An oral history of 48 surreal, violent, biblical minutes in Washington:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/this-cant-be-happening-an-oral-history-of-48-surreal-violent-biblical-minutes-in-washington/2020/06/02/6683d36e-a4e3-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html#click=https://t.co/Lp9Br7CzvX

* "Trump denies sheltering in White House bunker amid protests:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/trump-denies-sheltering-in-white-house-bunker-amid-protests-298406

* "James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/

* "Pentagon disarms National Guard activated in D.C., sends active-duty forces home:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-disarms-guardsmen-in-washington-dc-in-signal-of-de-escalation/2020/06/05/324da91a-a733-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html

* "Rep. Val Demings On Ways America Can Heal and Evolve:"

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* "‘Performing fascism': Masha Gessen on Trump’s dictatorial turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-performing-facism-masha-gessen-on-trump-s-dictatorial-turn-84416069972

* "Schmidt: Trump, Barr building 'thugocracy' with secret police:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schmidt-trump-barr-building-thugocracy-with-secret-police-84456005946

* "D.C. mayor on Trump using federal forces in her city: Who's next?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/d-c-mayor-on-trump-using-federal-forces-in-her-city-who-s-next-84452933623

* Bonus! Bill Barr’s Secret Police are likely spreading COVID. "Some of Trump's unmarked police force traced to Texas prison:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-of-trump-s-unmarked-police-force-traced-to-texas-prison-84546117980

* "Unidentified, armed federal troops raise accountability concerns:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unidentified-armed-federal-troops-raise-accountability-concerns-84448325645

* You know how it sounded like they were lying about Antifa? Yep, they were. "The FBI Finds ‘No Intel Indicating Antifa Involvement’ in Sunday’s Violence:" https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/antifa-trump-fbi/

* A Quick History of "Antifa." https://twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/1266867554041188353

* "Puerto Ricans bring out a guillotine and trans Pride flags as hundreds join Black Lives Matter protest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/04/puerto-ricans-bring-out-a-guillotine-and-trans-pride-flags-as-hundreds-join-black-lives-matter-protest/

* "Chris Hayes: Yes, Gov. Cuomo, NYPD are beating peaceful protesters:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-yes-gov-cuomo-nypd-are-beating-peaceful-protesters-84419653909

* "Buffalo mayor addresses horrific video of police shoving protester:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/buffalo-mayor-addresses-horrific-video-of-police-shoving-protester-84525125861

* Any police force that riots the way they have been in NYC, Philly, D.C. etc. needs to be disbanded. They no longer serve any positive function in society.

* As far as I'm concerned any officer who witnessed the attempted murder on the elderly man in Buffalo and didn't immediately arrest the officers involved for attempted murder and call 911 should have been fired immediately. Their whole unit is protesting the suspension of the men who brutally assaulted an elderly man? Fire the whole fucking unit, because they are unfit for the responsibility. If they aren't okay with any discipline at all for attempted murder on an unarmed non aggressive elderly man, they need to go.

There are too many cops who may not have done the bad things, but are willing to defend or cover up or not intervene in the bad things while being clearly aware of them.

It's time to grow a spine. Whole department protests those firings? Fire them. Anyone left may still have at least some ethical sense.

I'm generally pro-Union, but you don't see mass teacher walk outs when a union member is exposed as a pedophile. Police need to be held to a higher standard, not no standard at all. Teachers are held to a higher standard because they basically have the safety of children in their hands. Police are way more dangerous than teachers, so....

* I keep thinking about the conversation I had with the Millenials Friday about systemic police violence and corruption, and the way where I'm from influences my thinking about these matters. I keep thinking about my having to explain to my Oregon friends why the police thought what they did to Rodney king was fine and why the riots.

So I'm originally from Philly, where like NYC the police have been violent and corrupt since there were police. That was the reality. The local precinct when I was a teen was run on principals of nepotism and patronage. It just was. It became quickly obvious to me, working at a popular police hang out that this was just another form of organized crime.

Oh they were charming guys, very nice to us. They were terrifying. We gave them anything they wanted free and they'd come fast if there was trouble instead of slow walking it. We had a get out of traffic tickets free deal if we were in uniform or they knew us. It's low level extortion. Only the businesses that gave them free stuff got protection.

They'd sit around telling funny to them stories about people they put in the hospital with group beatings for personal vendettas or for fun. They freaked my dad out my telling him about the time they thought this guy was sleeping with one of their wives, so they broke into his house and beat him near to death. Haha! We really got that guy! There was no law where I lived, only order imposed by a violent gang in blue that acted with utter impunity.

It was the '80's and we were in the metro area, outside the city limits though. There was one black cop and one woman cop at that precinct. They had been hired outside the patronage system to ward off discrimination suits. They were partners. They were not corrupt or violent as far as I could tell. We still gave them free food.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about the entire policing system in this country since I got that job at 15. I've heard a lot of people say "just a few bad apples" as if it were an excuse not to hold police accountable, as if it were some kind of excuse for letting officers beat and even kill whoever they like with impunity. People never seem to quote the entire saying. A few bad apples spoil the barrel. It's not an argument for allowing police to do as they like. It's an argument for prosecuting the shit out of every single violent and/or corrupt cop you find.

A few bad apples is like a little bit of gangrene; if you don't get rid of them they corrupt everything. You get even a hint of gangrene you act aggressively to get rid of it. you don't and you can lose the limb. It can get into the blood stream and kill the patient. Get some antibiotic on the case! Let maggots remove the dead tissue!

Instead, we've collectively decided to let whole cities rot. Promote the bad apples, let them train the next generation of cops, like Minneapolis did, then you get a whole culture of violence and corruption. Make it so you punish and force out cops who report the crimes, then good people stop signing p to do the job and only the sadists, the psychopaths, and the wildly corrupt remain.

When your blueberry bushes get the mummy virus, there's no saving them. Uproot them and plant something new that can cleanse the soil.

I've forgotten the name of the place in I think Georgia that got incorporated as a town a few years back. They got to build their justice system from the ground up. They are majority black. Almost all of the judges ended up being black women. Their policing model was based on the concept that they really were their to protect and serve the community. The police were living in the communities they served. They knew the people they were policing and the citizens knew them. Their court system was based on concepts like restitution and drug and mental health diversion. Sentences tended to be about trying to fix the damage the crime had done. Getting a schizophrenic treatment is kinder and long term all around better than locking them up for disturbing the peace. Getting someone drug and/or alcohol treatment is kinder and better than locking them up. Once they are doing better they are more likely to be able to do good restitution for an damage they did. The arrestees were being talked to and treated like people in the courtroom proceedings they filmed. It was a joint effort that everyone was engaged in to make their town better and safer for everyone in it, not a fundamentally oppositional process with cops as judge, jury and executioners. The people who were arrested were seen as part of that community and the goal was to help them stop fucking up in destructive or potentially destructive ways. It was a wildly different police culture and a wildly different police and judicial mindset.

We need to start over most places at this point. We need to rebuild from the ground up. We need a system that serves and protects everybody, not an occupying army that terrorizes citizens with impunity. that stuff happening in New York and Washington and a bunch of other places? That's terrorism. That's an occupying army trying to scare and dehumanize and crush.

We are long past removing a few rotten apples from the barrel. The barrel is full of rot; the gangrene is everywhere compromising the whole system; the mummy virus has infected all the blueberry bushes.

Time to start over and grow something new and so much better.

* "Police, policing, social issues and #AbolishThePolice:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1784909.html

* "The Double Standard of the American Riot:" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/riots-are-american-way-george-floyd-protests/612466/

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* "Vladimir Putin allies release sickeningly homophobic campaign ad attacking gay parents to manipulate voters:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/03/vladimir-putin-homophobia-advert-gay-parents-propaganda-russia-patriot-media-group/

* "House amendment would require warrants for web history searches:" https://www.engadget.com/patriot-act-reauthorization-house-deal-section-215-174813899.html

* "The Real Moby Dick Was So Much Worse:"

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* Thursday: I've been short sleeped for a few days due to a variety of competing commitments. Wednesday I was a mess, so I couldn't really multitask properly which meant very little work could reasonably get done. Sorry.

Livia and I were at my desk and Tavy was peering out the patio window. It was the middle of the night and the curtains were closed. I heard a soft sound like someone futzing about on the porch. Tavy panicked and ran for my bed. Livia and I looked up in response to the sound, so we both saw him zoom out of there freaked the hell out. I could actually see the processing delay as Livia tried to work out if she should panic too, but by then I was up and calmly going around to see wtf, so she decided to come with, hiding behind my legs as I lifted the door curtain. Meanwhile, Tavy saw us going to look, so he decided he should come look. People who say they aren't social beasties are liars. So I've got two of them peering around my legs as I look out into the darkness.

It wasn't an intruder, but I did not blame Tavy Baby at all for freaking out. The wind had knocked bunch of plant stands over. Me: Fuck! It's not the windy season but were are having a weird unseasonalble blast out of Alaska that's messing with the local weather and I live in a wind tunnel between two foothills near the bay so... Surprise! Our porch light is basically crap, so I couldn't properly assess the damage. i went out and set things to rights, but I was not happy. A whole bunch of budding carnation branches got chopped along with assorted thing from the neighboring planters. The container with the most mature of the tomatoes and a bunch of juvenile lettuce was amoung the casualties. I couldn't tell immediately how bad it was, so I did my best.

I got a few hours of sleep and then had a scheduled conversation call with some millennials. Afterwards I trotted out there to fix things up properly. The carnation will live, but I lots 6-8 future blooms, I'd estimate. The container with the tomato and lettuce was the one construction workers damaged a few years ago, but it was still usable and it also has a perennial thing in it which added to it's size made reporting in a newer container a serious undertaking. Oh, I purchased a replacement the time and had a really nice potting soil compost mix in it ready for the grand repotting, but it was really a two person job and there was always that perennial and... yeah.

One of the sides was smashed most of the way in. I had long thought the least damaging way to repot would be to basically take the pot itself the rest of the way apart and resettle it in the replacement. see really a wo person job. Problem is I really needed a tool for that, like wire cutters or a saw or something. I had no tools and no help. I positioned new pot by the chair and had at it the hard way with my bear hands. Luckily the damage to the structural integrity and time and plastic fatigue had moved this just into the realm of the possible barely. The construction workers had broken off the thicker plastic rim and big sections of the top 3-4 inches, leaving the thinner plastic sides. I managed to pull the section between the massive hole and the ragged top okay, but I needed wider hole and worse, a chunk of the thicker bottom plastic to go. I had to do the bottom one handed as I needed the other to balance the pot and I'm pretty sure this is how I got all the scratches on my arm.

Anyway it's done, but I think I lost one-three lettuce plants. The tomato looks okay, the perennial is badly damaged, but I have more and it doesn't matter. The tomato and lettuce do, however, so fingers crossed. They are off the stands as it's safer for that pot and the carnation on the ground anyway and the light at ground level is descent up front, especially after asshole bush got the aggressive pruning. The rank behind them aren't as they really need elevation to get enough light. I may shift some stuff around some more tomorrow though.

And then I swept the patio and watered the plants and mopped the floor because I got water everywhere, and delta with the mess on the floor Squirrel left when he took out the trash and cleaned all his pork grease off the counters and microwaves and he'd finally put the dishes away so the I prewashed a whole other load as he'd waited that long to empty it and found more pork grease wish I cleaned and hung a fly strip which is ow i got glue in my hair which I had to wash and put the shower curtain rod back up because it fell again, and, and.... Yeah.

* Friday: Livia's day started out so well. Everyone knows the best love is the one where you catch the human awake, but in the bed with all the machines off. Not only did she succeed at that. Not only that but Tavy was conked out on the sofa. She had the human all to herself! For as long as she liked with no interruption! A Red Letter Day!

Except...

The human snuck up on her later and gave her the medicine paw! I mean yes, the Emperor got one too, but still! Betrayed!

* The last couple nights I've been dealing with chronic illness stuff. Friday was particularly bad as I had the dreaded spasms, which meant until... 2AMish, I was super limited in how much time I could spend at my desk. It seriously messes with my concentration when I can actually work too. The result is the last ew nights I mostly get through prep and post a few links on tumblr, but I'm drowning in hundreds of things I couldn't look at properly. It's not that I don't care, it's that I'm federally disabled for a reason.

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

* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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

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* "South Korea closes schools again as cases jump:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52845015

* "Deaths, arrests and protests as Philippines re-emerges from lockdown:" https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/deaths-arrests-and-protests-as-philippines-re-emerges-from-lockdown/

* "Philippine police raid illegal hospital for virus patients:" https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/ap-top-news/2020/05/20/philippine-police-raid-illicit-hospital-for-virus-patients

* "LGBT+ community step in to distribute coronavirus relief in the Philippines after corrupt officials allegedly gave it away:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/31/lgbt-community-distribute-coronavirus-relief-philippines-corrupt-officials-allegedly-gave-it-away/

* "As Brazil's COVID-19 Cases Continue To Climb, Some Areas Prepare To Ease Restrictions:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/29/864736407/as-brazils-covid-19-cases-continue-to-climb-some-areas-prepare-to-ease-restricti

* "Supreme Court Rejects Church's Challenge To California's Coronavirus Rules:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/30/866097231/supreme-court-rejects-churchs-challenge-of-california-s-coronavirus-rules

* CDC throws out science in response to republican political pressure. This will kill a lot of people. "White House and CDC remove coronavirus warnings about choirs in faith guidance:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/white-house-and-cdc-remove-coronavirus-warnings-about-choirs-in-faith-guidance/2020/05/28/5d9c526e-a117-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html

* "Administration initially dispensed scarce covid-19 drug to some hospitals that didn’t need it:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/28/remdesivir-coronavirus-trump/

* "Brian Sims Responds to Republican Lawmaker Calling Him a 'Little Girl':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/5/29/brian-sims-responds-republican-lawmaker-calling-him-little-girl

* "Wisconsin coronavirus cases increase again, total confirmed cases now crosses 18,000:" https://www.wbay.com/content/news/Wisconsin-coronavirus-cases-increase-again-total-confirmed-cases-now-crosses-18000-570894631.html

* "COVID-19 deaths top 1,000 in Minnesota:" https://www.startribune.com/covid-19-deaths-top-1-000-in-minnesota-as-cases-rise-659/570893202/

* "15,229 cases of coronavirus identified by Miss. Dept. of Health; 723 deaths:" https://www.wlbt.com/2020/05/30/cases-coronavirus-identified-by-miss-dept-health-deaths/

* "17,031 coronavirus cases in Alabama, 610 deaths; Latest county-by-county numbers:" https://www.al.com/news/2020/05/17031-coronavirus-cases-in-alabama-610-deaths-latest-county-by-county-numbers.html

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* "Republicans pressure North Carolina officials to confirm August convention by Wednesday:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-pressure-north-carolina-officials-to-confirm-august-convention-by-wednesday/2020/05/28/cce12040-a13b-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html

* "Trump ally Stone must surrender to prison by June 30, won’t need to go to quarantine site:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/29/trump-ally-stone-must-surrender-to-prison-by-june-30-wont-need-to-go-to-quarantine-site-288511

* "Same-sex weddings have boosted the US economy by $3.8 billion since the landmark ruling in 2015:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/30/same-sex-weddings-boosted-us-economy-3-8-billion-landmark-in-2015/

* "White House, Congress discuss ‘return to work’ bonus of $450 a week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/29/return-to-work-bonus/

* "Republican candidate under fire for son’s ‘homophobic’ tweet comparing gay adoption to dogs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/29/bobby-schilling-republican-candidate-sons-terry-tweets-gay-transgender/

* "She and her dog lived in a shopping center for two years. Then along came a stranger.:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/article242327581.html

* "Father And Son Charged With Felony Riot After Conflict With Black Lives Matter Protesters In Manchester, NH:" https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/05/30/arrested-conflict-with-black-lives-matter-protesters-manchester-nh/

* "CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protest-updates-05-28-20/h_4ed08403663fa4ed3518221d0f2a1552?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2020-05-29T10:24:57

* "Trump threatens to unleash gunfire on Minnesota protesters:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/29/trump-threatens-to-unleash-gunfire-on-minnesota-protesters-288406

* "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence':" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/29/twitter-hides-donald-trump-tweet-glorifying-violence

* "Lori Lightfoot's Response to Donald Trump's Racist Tweet: 'F U':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/5/30/lori-lightfoots-response-donald-trumps-racist-tweet-f-u

* "'This didn't start with Breonna Taylor': Organizer says Thursday protest was response to growing anger, frustration:" https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/organizer-says-thursday-protest-was-response-to-growing-anger-frustration/417-005535e5-9f2d-47cb-85d5-0c36d0873162

* "Minneapolis demonstrations spark Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Bay City, Flint mayor statement:" https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2020/05/minneapolis-demonstrations-spark-black-lives-matter-protest-in-downtown-bay-city-flint-mayor-statement.html

* "Tension escalates into violence in fiery Atlanta rally, around nation:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protests-over-george-floyd-s-death-spread-across-u-s-n1219031

* "D.C. on edge as anger over George Floyd’s death launches protests through the nation’s capital:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-on-edge-as-anger-over-george-floyds-death-launches-protests-through-the-nations-capital/2020/05/30/01be2956-a2af-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html

* "A Message from Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County:" https://www.seattleindivisible.com/daily-actions/2020/5/29/signal-boost-a-message-from-black-lives-matter-seattle-king-county

* "75 LGBT+ groups join coalition in support of Black Lives Matter: ‘We understand what it means to rise up’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/30/75-lgbt-groups-coalition-support-black-lives-matter-glaad-trevor-project-human-rights-watch/

* "LGBTQ+ Orgs: We Must Do More to End Racism, Racial Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/5/29/lgbtq-orgs-we-must-do-more-end-racism-racial-violence

* "Leaders must tackle root of George Floyd protests:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/george-floyd-protest-roots-must-be-addressed-activists-asserts-84134981615

* "Cory Booker: Peace is not merely the absence of violence, it's the presence of justice:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/cory-booker-peace-is-not-merely-the-absence-of-violence-it-s-the-presence-of-justice-84109893902

* "‘Broken:’ Hayes on disproportionate effects of virus, police injustice on people of color:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-broken-hayes-on-disproportionate-effects-of-virus-police-injustice-on-people-of-color-84111941813

* "George Floyd killing set back covenant of trust in police 'years': St. Paul mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/george-floyd-killing-set-back-covenant-of-trust-in-police-years-st-paul-mayor-84116549744

* Chris Hayes on Floyd protests: This is what Trump’s America has wrought:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-floyd-protests-this-is-what-trump-s-america-has-wrought-84060741582

* "Expectations low for Trump DOJ to address civil rights issues in Minneapolis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/expectations-low-for-trump-doj-to-address-civil-rights-issues-in-minneapolis-84122693816

* "Demings rips Trump for failure to rise to help nation in crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/demings-rips-trump-for-failure-to-rise-to-help-nation-in-crisis-84117573711

* "Terrorism expert: White supremacist agitators want protest chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/white-supremacist-agitators-want-protests-in-chaos-expert-says-84134469893

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

* "Filmmaker forced to pretend his partner was his cousin for 15 years shares his joy as they finally buy a house together:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/30/apurva-asrani-filmmaker-pretend-partner-cousin-15-finally-buy-house-together/

* "Trump administration attacks trans students – again – saying trans-inclusive sports teams violate girls' civil rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/29/trans-inclusive-sports-alliance-defending-freedom-girls-connecticut/

* "Lou Sheldon Dies; Led Anti-LGBTQ+ Traditional Values Coalition:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/5/30/lou-sheldon-dies-led-anti-lgbtq-traditional-values-coalition

* "The UK could abolish its archaic ban on queer men donating blood as soon as this year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/29/uk-blood-ban-gay-bisexual-men-fair-report-change/

* "The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

* Even the cats, who generally are not fans of change seem to be enjoying the current set up. Livia got the whole top of her napping podium back, as the library books I can't return now live on the table where the 30 was. The chair and bench configuration iss cat friendly. Livia has a particularly seure safety chair for napping and fish TV. They like where the litter box ended up. after they were done hiding from the drama, they adjusted right away.

Plus there was a particularly exciting Gazebo Bird Show plot twist tonight. Get this: A Gazebo bird flew past really close to the front window and landed in a patio planter. They ran over to watch from the patio window and it was Amazing! The bird hopped around in the planters in an enticing way then hung out it the Asshole Bush for a really long time. Best Gazebo Bird Episode of the season so far!

There was also a particularly scary episode of The Neighbors, which involved dogs barking at each other while the people walking them tried to get More Separate. Livia in particular does not like the dog scenes in the Neighbors, but Tavy is not fond of them either.

Livia just discovered that when the curtain is open she can now watch both bird show screens from the comfy chair. Bonus? Tavy doesn't go on those chairs as they move and he's a wobble cat, so she can have peace and quiet.

In other news, I have started the antibiotic tonight.

Update 9:46PM: Elder kitty has just discovered she can still take the overland route to the safety chair even though it is a different chair. Then she realized she can easily access what was once her favorite chair in the before time from the safety chair and that there is also now an overland route to the comfy chair from that point. She can't work out which to sit on, being spoiled for choice.

* Livia on her safety chair: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/619603266422161408/livia-in-her-safety-chair

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

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "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

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* 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