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* "Sri Lankan president ‘Gota’ clings on to power despite violent protests and new PM:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/sri-lankan-president-gota-clings-on-to-power-gotabaya-rajapaksa

* "Israel begins demolition in contentious West Bank village following court ruling:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-begins-demolition-in-west-bank-village-following-court-ruling-1.10793859

* "An independent probe points to Israeli gunfire in the death of a journalist:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099078960/independent-probe-points-to-israeli-gunfire-in-death-of-journalist

* "Turkey says it is ready to discuss NATO membership with Finland, Sweden:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220514-live-fighting-rages-in-donbas-russian-forces-appear-stalled

* "Why Politics is Toxic for Australia’s Women:"

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* "Lebanon election: Hezbollah and allies lose parliamentary majority:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61463884

* "A tale of two Sao Paulos:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-27440864

* "COVID-19’s hidden, heartbreaking toll: millions of orphaned children:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/covid-19-hidden-heartbreaking-toll-millions-of-orphaned-children

* "Gas theft on the rise as prices continue to increase:" https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2033032771823

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* "4 questions about long Covid experts wish they could answer:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23057643/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-definition-test-diagnosis-research-common

* "Shanghai to end Covid lockdown and return to normal life in June amid economic slowdown:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/shanghai-to-end-covid-lockdown-and-return-to-normal-life-in-june-amid-economic-slowdown

* "North Korea’s Covid outbreak continues to spiral.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/world/asia/north-korea-covid.html

* "COVID Positivity Tops 20% in Hot NYC Neighborhood as 5th Wave Intensifies:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/covid-positivity-tops-20-in-hot-nyc-neighborhood-as-5th-wave-grows/3678355/

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* "Ukraine has won the battle of Kharkiv, analysts say, as Kyiv warns of ‘long phase of war’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/ukraine-has-won-the-battle-of-kharkiv-analysts-say-as-kyiv-warns-of-long-phase-of-war

* "Russia shells frontline positions as fighting focuses on Donbas city:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/16/russians-and-ukrainians-battle-around-izium-as-sweden-joins-finland-in-nato-bid

* "Ukraine says mission at Mariupol steel mill is complete:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-kyiv-moscow-6dc968ea8d353132bd8b8cb58b04734c

* "Inside Mariupol’s besieged steel plant, a symbol of bravery and terror:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/ukraine-mariupol-steel-plant-last-stand/

* "‘I’m too old for this’: the harrowing flight from Donetsk’s perilous border towns:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/im-too-old-for-this-the-harrowing-flight-from-donetsks-perilous-border-towns

* This is Child Abuse and Ableism. "Disabled children 'dumped' in Ukrainian institutions:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61325277

* "Ukraine refugees staying with UK hosts not cleared by criminal record checks:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/14/ukraine-refugees-staying-with-uk-hosts-not-cleared-by-criminal-record-checks

* "The War in Ukraine, as Seen on Russian TV:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/06/technology/russian-propaganda-television.html

* "Ukraine's Jewish Community Fights Back Against Russia's Invasion -- and Against Putin's Lies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ukraine-jewish-community-russia-invasion-resistance-1351070/

* "After escape from Moscow, Pussy Riot begins tour to support Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/12/pussy-riot-tour-escape/

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* "Former AG Eric Holder's new blueprint to win the voting rights fight:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/former-ag-eric-holder-s-new-blueprint-to-win-the-voting-rights-fight-140049477625

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

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

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

* "GOP tries to downplay draconian abortion bans ahead of midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-tries-to-soften-messaging-on-abortion-140069957695

* "Leading GOP candidates in Pennsylvania were in Washington on Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/15/leading-gop-candidates-pennsylvania-were-washington-jan-6/

* "Pennsylvania Senate race rocked by late twists, from John Fetterman's stroke to Kathy Barnette's meteoric rise:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/pennsylvania-senate-race-faces-late-twists-john-fettermans-stroke-kath-rcna28925

* "Trump Endorses Far-Right Gubernatorial Candidate Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania GOP Primary:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-endorses-doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-gop-primary-1353250/

* "Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Barnette marched alongside Proud Boys on Jan. 6, report says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-us-senate-hopeful-barnette-marched-alongside-proud-boys-jan-6-report-2022-05-16/

* "Doug Mastriano aide who blocked media at campaign event was at Capitol on Jan. 6:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/doug-mastriano-aide-blocked-press-campaign-event-was-capitol-jan-6-rcna29014

* "State invalidates Georgia Senate candidate’s Republican primary run:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/judge-moves-to-invalidate-georgia-senate-candidates-republican-primary-run/H4OUSIMDUFGHJORHJAZW7DR3UI/

* "After Roe leak, abortion becomes hot election issue in N.H. and elsewhere:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/05/13/maggie-hassan-new-hampshire-nh-abortion-election

* "A Fracture in Idaho’s G.O.P. as the Far Right Seeks Control:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/us/idaho-republican-primary-little-mcgeachin.html

* "Idaho Republicans reckon with extremism in political spectacle primary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/idaho-republicans-reckon-with-extremism-in-political-spectacle-primary-140159045675

* "Missouri Senate primary highlights rise of violent rhetoric on the right:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/13/missouri-republicans-violent-rhetoric-eric-greitens

* This is terrorism. "Mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket was a racist hate crime, police say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/us/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-sunday/index.html

The shooting occurred in a food dessert and the grocery store will be closed for some time. Want to help the people living there?

https://rootedinloveinc.com/donate-to-our-cause/
https://donate-usa.keela.co/mental-health-and-food-support

* "Buffalo Shooting: Suspect Lied to Evade a State Red Flag Law:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/16/nyregion/shooting-buffalo

* "Site of Buffalo shooting a community hub with deep roots:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/site-of-buffalo-shooting-a-community-hub-with-deep-roots-140159045860

* "Buffalo massacre: How racist messaging became mainstream on the American right:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buffalo-massacre-how-racist-messaging-became-mainstream-on-the-american-right-140143173990

* "Buffalo gunman cited same racist ideology pushed by right-wing media:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buffalo-gunman-cited-same-racist-ideology-pushed-by-right-wing-media-140146245848

* "Violent, terroristic racists are a recurrent problem with no simple solution:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/violent-terroristic-racists-are-a-recurrent-problem-with-no-simple-solution-140160069588

* "Reporters tread carefully with attention-seeking racists, extremist online communities:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reporters-tread-carefully-with-attention-seeking-racists-extremist-online-communities-140160581547

* "California churchgoers detained gunman in deadly attack:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/15/church-shooting-california-00032598

* "Border Patrol disbands units accused of covering up abuse:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/border-patrol-disbands-critical-incident-teams/

* "San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras

* "U.S. police trainers with far-right ties are teaching hundreds of cops:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-police-extremism/

* "Who Writes the Rules for Cops?:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a38941594/lexipol-bruce-praet-police-policy-guidelines-handbooks/

* "How 5 Convicted Murderers Banded Together to Get Out of Prison:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/nyregion/sing-sing-prison-exoneration.html

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* "GOP Is Wasting No Time Pushing Dystopian Post-Roe Laws:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-are-wasting-no-time-pushing-dystopian-post-roe-v-wade-laws

* "Abortion rights are in peril in Kansas and the U.S. Shock and outrage won’t change that. - Kansas Reflector:" https://kansasreflector.com/2022/05/11/abortion-rights-are-in-peril-in-kansas-and-the-u-s-shock-and-outrage-wont-change-that/

* "After Roe decision, Idaho lawmakers may consider restricting some contraception:" https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article261207007.html

* "With fear and fury, thousands across U.S. rally for abortion rights:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/14/dc-bans-off-our-bodies-protest/

* "Abortion rights protests take place across the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/us/gallery/abortion-rights-protest/index.html

* "Negative Shapes:" https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/930891.html#cutid1

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* "Texas court rules state can investigate trans kids' parents for 'child abuse':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/13/texas-trans-child-abuse-supreme-court/

* "Judge blocks Alabama restrictions on certain gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/14/politics/judge-blocks-alabama-transgender-law/index.html

* CW: Suicide. "Nearly half of LGBTQ youth seriously considered suicide, survey finds:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/05/1096920693/lgbtq-youth-thoughts-of-suicide-trevor-project-survey

* CW: Suicide. "Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/health/emergency-rooms-teen-mental-health.html

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* "AP analysis finds growing number of poor, high-hazard dams:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-environment-san-diego-dams-d0836a1fdfc46a5f1ea6c6a4a8b8df96

* "The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scientists-fighting-for-parasite-conservation/

* "Birds Are in a Tailspin Four Years After Fukushima:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/birds-are-tailspin-four-years-after-fukushima-180955134/

* "Michigan profs push 'pee for peonies' urine diversion plan:" https://apnews.com/article/science-sports-michigan-flowers-ann-arbor-0429300defa54cbade3d73c294d47e4b

* "Where anonymity on Twitter is a matter of life or death:" https://restofworld.org/2022/where-anonymity-on-twitter-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death/

* "The Constitution Doesn't Say That!:"

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* "Fashion Cafe: The Failure When Fashion and Food Collide:"

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* CW: Suicide. "The Heaven's Gate Cult: Truth and Tragedy:"

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* "The Scientology Scammer: Reed Slatkin:"

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* CW: Rape, Pedophilia. "Modeling Schools: The Nightmare Before Runway:"

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* "Avon: Makeup, Bribery, and the Beginning of the End:"

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* CW: Elder Abuse. "The Truth Behind Timeshares and Travel Clubs:"

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* "The Wild Life of Alan Kippax and His MLM Business in Motion:"

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* "Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Was it Preventable?:"

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* "Obama and the Myth of Black Excellence:"

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* Tyra Banks:

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* CW: Sexual harassment, Hate Speech "Abercrombie and Fitch's Disturbing Secrets:"

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* "What We Know About North Sentinel Island:"

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* "A Deeper Look at National Parks and Their Conspiracy Theories:"

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* "More than 300 languages are spoken along this NYC street:" https://archive.ph/1Vynv#selection-4444.0-4444.1

* "Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61315877

* "Artifacts seized from US billionaire returned to Israel:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/artifacts-seized-us-billionaire-returned-israel-83602117

* "Spain probes private taxidermy museum with 1,000 animals:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-spain-taxidermy-museum-investigation-6a35dc2e4570b0d83f6a18d4123ea429

* "Dog allegedly abandoned at shelter after owners decided he was "gay":" https://www.newsweek.com/dog-allegedly-abandoned-shelter-after-owners-decided-he-was-gay-1690037

* "Baby giraffe born with leg disorder is fitted with orthotic at San Diego Zoo Safari Park:" https://abc7.com/baby-giraffe-fitted-with-brace-san-diego-zoo-animals/11847286/

* "Meanwhile... Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza Returns | Florida's Gators Are Thirsty:"

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* "Weekend Update: Ukraine Wins Eurovision, 7,000 NYC Rat Sightings Reported - SNL:"

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* "Dracula to go (Stoker in 7 minutes):"

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* "Three Daughters - SNL:"

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* "Irish Play - SNL:"

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* "Old Enough! Longterm Boyfriends! - SNL:"

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* "Are You Hardcore With Your Salads? Try The Slayer Spring Mix:"

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* "Circus Mircus - Lock Me In - Georgia 🇬🇪 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2022:"

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* "Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad - Latvia 🇱🇻 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2022:"

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* I was recently discussing how conservative TV Shows are when it comes to abortion and have been for some time, and I referenced how when I was a kid the sit-com Soap aired a scene where three women sat around a kitchen table in the middle of the night having an adult conversation about whether one of them should have an abortion.

Me: in the end she decided to keep it, which turned out to be a mistake.

Millennial *makes a perfectly reasonable guess about how it might have been a mistake.

Me: Oh no! Nothing like that. The baby turned out to be possessed because the father was this priest she was in in an on again off again relationship with and the whole thing turned into an Exorcist parody for a bit.

Millennial : !!!

Me: Yeah, the plots on Soap were Just Like That.

Millennial: O.o

* We are trying to get a working oven. I am disabled and medically fragile. Not having a working oven is messing with my nutrition. I need about 600.00ish:

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

* I did not have “half of Dracula Daily thinks Stoker was writing about sentient boobs and not their “gentle breasts” as in their tender hearts because usage has changed in a century and a quarter” on my bingo card for May 16th, but here we are.

I get it, I really do. Most people do not get read 19th century lit as bedtime stories from the age of three. I grew up weird. I automatically switch idiom, but for people who don’t have eccentric teachers for parents, this is bizarre and hilarious.

I am mostly just boggling that something about the reread surprised me as much today as things have been surprising the new readers all along. I am filled with delight in the unexpected and real amusement at the pictures their reading of it has put in my head.

* "Eurovision fans blown away by San Marino 'cowboy stripper' same-sex kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/13/eurovision-san-marino-gay-kiss/

* "All the iconic and mind-blowing moments from an unforgettable Eurovision:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/14/eurovision-best-moments-italy/

* "12 mind-blowing facts about the Eurovision Song Contest you probably never knew:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/14/eurovision-song-contest-history-facts/

* "Trans Heartstopper star Yasmin Finney joins cast of Russell T Davies' Doctor Who:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/16/yasmin-finney-heartstopper-doctor-who-russell-t-davies/

* "Old photos of daredevil bikers racing in motorcycle chariots, 1920-1930:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motorcycle-chariot-races-photos/

* Our Flag Means Death: People like us: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/684490133624569856

* "How it actually turned out.:" https://twitter.com/PossumTV/status/1524744593908301825

* "Discworld Pushed Me Left:" https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/684204398190231552

* "Pride and Prejudice Two: Elizabeth Has A Gun:" https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/684466081064173568

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Workers Strike to Pressure Sri Lankan President to Step Down:" https://www.voacambodia.com/a/workers-strike-to-pressure-sri-lankan-president-to-step-down-/6550608.html

* "Why is Sri Lanka Collapsing?:"

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* "Aung San Suu Kyi on trial in fresh bribery case against ousted Myanmar leader:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/aung-san-suu-kyi-on-trial-in-fresh-bribery-case-against-ousted-myanmar-leader

* "Defecting online: How Myanmar’s soldiers are deserting the army:" https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61243316

* "Russia Fines Meta and TikTok Thousands of Dollars Over LGBTQ+ Content:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/4/27/russia-fines-meta-and-tiktok-thousands-dollars-over-lgbtq-content

* "Black children over-policed in schools, report says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/education-61263246

* "Neil Parish says watching porn in Commons was ‘moment of madness’ as he resigns as MP:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/apr/30/calls-for-neil-parish-to-resign-after-being-named-as-mp-who-watched-porn-in-commons-uk-politics-live

* "No honeymoon for Macron as thousands protest at May Day rallies in France:" https://www.politico.eu/article/thousands-protest-at-may-labour-day-rallies-france/

* "Far-right Le Pen plots parliament win after loss to Macron:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-france-elections-presidential-macron-a94360ac6dc6fc1b0015b82a57789ba5

* "Philippines Presidential Election a Rematch Between Late Dictator’s Son, Democratic Leader:" https://www.voanews.com/a/philippines-presidential-election-a-rematch-between-late-dictator-s-son-democratic-leader/6543717.html

* "Bolsonaro faces hard scrutiny over military’s purchase of penile implants:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/brazil-military-penile-implants-purchase-jair-bolsonaro

* "Pakistan top body says no US plot in ex-PM Imran Khan’s removal:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/23/pakistan-top-body-says-no-us-plot-in-ex-pm-imran-khans-removal

* "Captagon: Jordan's undeclared war against Syria drug traffickers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61040359

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* "Virus mutations aren’t slowing down. New omicron subvariant proves it.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/01/coronavirus-more-mutations/

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* "Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61296682

* "Lavrov's 'grotesque' Hitler remarks fuel 'global antisemitic fire,' U.S. Jewish leaders say:" https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-lavrov-s-hitler-remarks-fuel-global-antisemitic-fire-u-s-jewish-leaders-say-1.10775872

* "Mystery drone: How the Air Force fast-tracked a new weapon for Ukraine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/21/mystery-drone-air-force-new-weapon-ukraine-00026970

* "The Cost of War:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-cost-of-war-139045957980

* "U.S. warns Russia may annex more Ukrainian territory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/02/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Russia’s push into eastern Ukraine comes amid fears of a protracted war:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russia-eastern-ukraine-push-protracted-war

* "Russia Strikes Targets in Odesa, Donbas and Donetsk:" https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-strikes-targets-in-odesa-donbas-and-donetsk-/6552002.html

* "Russia knocks out Odesa runway, Zelenskiy says it will be rebuilt:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-strike-odesa-airport-knocks-out-runway-ukraine-military-2022-04-30/

* "A Russian general who commanded electronic warfare units was killed in a strike that killed 100 soldiers, top Ukraine official says:" https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-general-killed-along-side-100-of-his-soldiers-ukraine-claims-2022-5

* "Civilian evacuations begin at Mariupol steel plant as images reveal ruins:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/30/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "‘I collected metal from the missiles in Kharkiv, but couldn’t find anyone to buy it’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/01/i-collected-metal-from-the-missiles-in-kharkiv-but-couldnt-find-anyone-to-buy-it

* "In Kharkiv, a 24-hour shift with paramedics amid Russian shelling:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/01/ukraine-kharkiv-medical-rescue-squad-treats-wounded/

* "Death in Ukraine's Kharkiv is everywhere, rarely explained:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-kharkiv-1f03ab439e9bcf90afb458695595f133

* "They refuse to leave Kharkiv's worst-hit neighborhood. 'We believe in our victory':" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-05-02/ukraine-war-holdouts-kharkiv-worst-hit-neighborhood

* "Ukraine and the Words That Lead to Mass Murder:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/ukraine-mass-murder-hate-speech-soviet/629629/

* "How 'Swan Lake' became a symbol of protest in Russia:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/swan-lake-symbol-protest-russia/story?id=84401801

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* "Biden Received Early Warnings That Immigration and Inflation Could Erode His Support:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/01/us/politics/biden-approval-inflation-immigration.html

* "Biden pardons former Secret Service agent and 2 others:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-pardons-f605a0a8720206aa64ca77f9b8ffdf26

* "Republicans' rush to block Biden from forgiving student debt backfires:" https://www.salon.com/2022/04/30/republicans-rush-to-block-biden-from-forgiving-student-debt-backfires/

* "Sen. Warren: 40 percent with student loan debt do not have a college diploma:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-canceling-student-debt-and-student-debt-relief-encouraged-by-sen-elizabeth-warren-139146309760

* "Amazon union could face a tough road ahead after victory:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-new-york-city-staten-island-e236a889bc46d1d0f0c3da6d00eb0a23

* "DeSantis signs bill creating new Florida election police force:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/desantis-florida-election-bill-signing/index.html

* "Protesters arrested at West Va. power plant settle cases:" https://apnews.com/article/sports-business-fairmont-west-virginia-arrests-f24e95b86c440a634b5f82426e4a74a1

* "New Poll Shows GOP Voters Are OK With Homophobic Candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/28/new-poll-shows-gop-voters-are-ok-homophobic-candidates

* Want better candidates in November? Vote in the Primaries!!! "Campaign season kicks off in earnest with primaries in 13 states in May:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095599808/gop-primary-candidates-trump-endorsements

* "How the Ohio primary will test the power of Trumpism :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-the-ohio-primary-will-test-the-power-of-trumpism-139141701525

* "GOP Lawmaker Sends Fake Child Surgery Confirmation Texts to Fundraise:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/22/gop-lawmaker-sends-fake-child-surgery-confirmation-texts-fundraise

* "Minnesota Lesbian Candidate Doesn't Let Labor Pains Stop Her Speech:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/27/minnesota-lesbian-candidate-doesnt-let-labor-pains-stop-her-speech

* "‘Feckless, spineless, uninspired politicians’ slammed for undermining American democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/white-house-correspondents-dinner-spotlights-threat-to-democracy-at-home-and-abroad-joy-reid-says-139147333754

* "Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Is Still Plotting to Overturn 2020 Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/john-eastman-wisconsin-election-decertify-robin-vos-1336069/

* "Donald Trump gives bizarre and baffling definition of a woman during anti-trans rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/27/donald-trump-woman-definition-trans-athletes-rant/

* "Likelihood of Trump Indictment in Manhattan Fades as Grand Jury Wraps Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/nyregion/trump-investigation-alvin-bragg-grand-jury.html

* "Trump election probe special grand jury selected in Atlanta:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-donald-trump-georgia-presidential-8823a1c619ca26be91f8d76b83a9f974

* "Judge upholds Jan. 6 committee subpoena for RNC records:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/subpoena-rnc-records-capitol-riot-00029265

* "What will the Jan. 6 committee revelations mean for Democracy?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/what-will-the-jan-6-committee-revelations-mean-for-democracy-139045957988

* "The Oath Keepers Wanted to Protect a MAGA Lawmaker. The Jan. 6 Committee Wants to Know Why:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/andy-biggs-mo-brooks-ronny-jackson-jan-6-committee-1346229/

* "NYPD veteran convicted of assaulting officer in Capitol riot:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-police-new-york-riots-presidential-elections-4ec211cda4f84edb02e5c26e4e08be71

* "Ex-NYPD officer found guilty of attacking police officer on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-nypd-officer-thomas-webster-found-guilty-of-attacking-officer-on-jan-6-139140165976

* "Case: Man Threatened to Bomb Merriam-Webster Over Definition of Female:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/23/case-man-threatened-bomb-merriam-webster-over-definition-female

* "Mayorkas’ message to migrants remains: ‘Do not come’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/01/mayorkas-migrants-homeland-security-00029164

* "'I can't sleep': Black newspaper carrier says confrontation with Pierce County sheriff impacts him every day:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/newspaper-carrier-pierce-county-sheriff-confrontation/281-6c084167-9ef8-4d58-9d70-358dfa2502eb

* "Judge rules that Tulsa massacre lawsuit seeking reparations can proceed:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-rules-that-tulsa-massacre-lawsuit-seeking-reparations-can-proceed-2022-05-03/

* "DeSantis defends math textbook rejection as Dems seek proof of critical race theory lessons:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/florida-critical-race-theory-math-textbooks-00025918

* I love protests like this. "Activist Files Complaints in Florida Over Bible Being ‘Too Woke’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/25/political-activist-files-complaints-florida-over-bible-being-too-woke

* "Public library turns to e-books in nationwide fight against GOP-led book bans:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/public-library-turns-to-e-books-in-nationwide-fight-against-gop-led-book-bans-139046981860

* Notorious Liar Lies. "Jim Bakker Claims Preachers Being Killed Over 'Don’t Say Gay' Support:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/22/jim-bakker-claims-preachers-being-killed-over-dont-say-gay-support

* "Flores lawyer: Unconscionable for Goodell to arbitrate suit:" https://www.kiro7.com/sports/flores-lawyer/DUXDBEEJN5GYE2IBTWFMGAAQMM/

* CW: Child Abuse, Pedophilia, Suicide "The Elan School: Death By Misinformation :"

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I didn't know anyone who went to this program, but I had friends and friends of friends who got sent to for profit troubled teen programs in the '80's and it always went really badly. People going in with depression and comming out with major gtrauma, people developing drug addictions there, people killing themselves. I never knew or heard of anyone they actually helped.

* "Kanye v. Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "Disgraced MP to be paid full month's salary after sexual assault conviction:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/imran-ahmad-khan-resigns-salary-pay/

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "University doctor Dennis Kelly settles with 80 ex-patients who accused him of abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/30/dr-dennis-kelly-usc-university-southern-california-settlement/

* CW: Pedophilia "False leads, multiple suspects: the long search for Madeleine McCann:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/22/madeleine-mccann-suspects-latest-portugal

* "Title IX has not meant equality for high school girls sports:" https://www.cascadiadaily.com/news/2022/apr/17/title-ix-has-not-meant-equality-for-high-school-girls-sports/

* "Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

The first protest I ever went to was the massive one in D.C. in April of '89. My lover and I were on the Pro-choice side, of course. Bodily autonomy has always been incredibly important to me. (Even though there is reason to think I never could have reproduced even if I'd wanted to.)

If you physically can, protest in D.C. In your state capitol. In front of your local government. NOW is the time, because more than half the country has trigger laws and their right to chose is gone the second that opinion is published.

If Republicans take Congress at the midterms, odds are the whole country will lose the right to chose next February or March. Are you registered to vote? Check. Primaries are happening now.

Remember, Birth control access and most LGBTQIA+ Rights rest on the same right to privacy that SCOTUS will be overturning with this ruling.

I want to thank all of you who are going to be protesting tomorrow and in the coming weeks. I wish I could join you. (I am medically fragile, and I can't afford to get sick before this surgery, because there is a ticking time bomb inside my body).

If we do not fight for this, so much will be lost. Please, please, please fight for the future of everyone.

* "Biden defends abortion rights after leak of Supreme Court draft striking down Roe v. Wade:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/biden-says-a-womans-right-to-choose-is-fundamental-on-heels-of-leaked-supreme-court-draft-striking-down-roe-v-wade.html

* "The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/02/abortion-ban-roe-supreme-court-mississippi/

* "Focus on Congress to codify Roe v. Wade protections before abortion rights are overturned:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/focus-on-congress-to-codify-roe-v-wade-protections-before-abortion-rights-are-overturned-139149893923

* "Draft majority opinion shows Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/politico-draft-majority-opinion-shows-supreme-court-has-voted-to-overturn-abortion-rights-139143237767

* "Katyal: Overturn of Roe v. Wade would be 'Hugest step back for women in decades':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/katyal-overturn-of-roe-v-wade-would-be-hugest-step-back-for-women-in-decades-139149893658

* "Supreme Court politics, legitimacy in turmoil after Politico reports draft opinion leak:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-politics-legitimacy-in-turmoil-after-politico-reports-draft-opinion-leak-139146821792

* "Birth control, other privacy rights seen as likely to fall if Roe v. Wade is overturned:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/birth-control-other-privacy-rights-seen-as-likely-to-fall-if-roe-v-wade-is-overturned-139147333973

* "The Undoing of the Mask Mandate Further Reveals America’s Selfishness:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/21/undoing-mask-mandate-further-reveals-americas-selfishness

* "Pink Tax: The Hidden Tax on Women's Products:"

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* "Transhumanism | Philosophy Tube:"

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* "The Sexualization of Transgender Bodies:"

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* "Viciously homophobic Russian politician hosts bizarre 'guess the gay' reality show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/vitaly-milonov-russia-im-not-gay-reality/

* "Legitimate Health Care Escapes Trans Individuals in Zimbabwe:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/4/26/legitimate-health-care-escapes-trans-individuals-zimbabwe

* CW: Rape "Nonbinary Lesbian Reportedly Raped and Killed by Group of Men:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/25/nonbinary-lesbian-reportedly-raped-and-killed-group-men

* "Canada's Drag Race star Ilona Verley 'punched' by bouncer: 'This s**t is not OK':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/22/ilona-verley-canadas-drag-race-paparazzi-nightclub-victoria/

* "Two Queer Men Brutally Killed in Two Days, Suspect Arrested:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/15/two-queer-men-brutally-killed-two-days-suspect-arrested

* "Church of Scotland could soon legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/01/church-of-scotland-same-sex-marriage-equality-general-assembly/

* "Scottish Tory leader insists trans women aren't women in car crash interview:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/27/douglas-ross-scottish-conservatives-trans-women/

* "'Disturbing' anti-LGBT+ views can be protected under law, judge rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/pastor-pride-christian-cambridgeshire-tribunal/

* "Wales puts Boris Johnson to shame with trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/26/wales-conversion-therapy-ban-trans/

* "Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi suggests teachers should out trans kids to parents:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/21/nadhim-zahawi-education-minister-trans-students-parents/

* "Tory minister Nadine Dorries plotting major overhaul of rules for trans athletes:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/28/nadine-dorries-trans-athletes-sport/

* "Author on 'horrible' reality of trans folk having to fund each other's healthcare:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/28/harry-josephine-giles-trans-healthcare/

* "Trans MP Jamie Wallis charged with fleeing from car crash:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/28/jamie-wallis-trans-mp-uk-car-crash-charge/

* "Gang who seduced closeted men and threatened to out them to wives jailed:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/grindr-blackmail-sex-married-men-lancashire-plot/

* "Olympic champion Katie Archibald says sporting bodies are failing trans athletes:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/21/katie-archibald-trans-athletes-cycling-uk-emily-bridges/

* "Florida legislature passes bill repealing Disney special tax status:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/21/florida-legislature-passes-bill-repealing-disneys-special-tax-status/

* "Fact-check: Will Floridian Taxes Rise Over Disney-DeSantis Debacle?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/25/florida-taxes-desantis-disney-reedy-creek-improvement-district-explainer

* "Stop Calling Us Groomers and Quit Making Us Your Prey:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/25/stop-calling-us-groomers-and-quit-making-us-your-prey

* "White House's Jen Psaki Tears Up Discussing GOP Attacks On LGBTQ+ Kids:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/20/white-houses-jen-psaki-tears-discussing-gop-attacks-lgbtq-kids

* "Del. Danica Roem's book "Burn the Page" fights for transgender youth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/del-danica-roem-s-book-burn-the-page-fights-for-transgender-youth-139046469983

* "Florida Passes Bill to Punish Disney, Taxpayers May Foot the Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/21/florida-passes-bill-punish-disney-over-dont-say-gay-opposition

* Ted Cruz airs his sexual fantasies. "Ted Cruz Suggests Disney Will Make Mickey Mouse and Pluto Gay Sex Film:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/20/ted-cruz-suggests-disney-will-make-gay-mickey-pluto-gay-sex-film

* "Woman Tears Down Antigay Sign, Humiliates Right-Wing Mob in Epic Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/19/woman-tears-down-antigay-sign-humiliates-right-wing-mob-epic-video

* "Florida Health Dept. Attacks All Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/4/20/florida-health-dept-attacks-all-gender-affirming-care-trans-youth

* "Yet another US state passes cruel, harmful ban on trans girls playing sports:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/georgia-trans-sports-ban-brian-kemp-committee/

* "US Department of Justice challenges cruel Alabama ban on medical care for trans kids:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/30/alabama-ban-medical-trans-kids-us-department-of-justice/

* "Alabama's only out gay lawmaker blasts Republicans over cruel treatment of trans kids:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/25/neil-rafferty-alabama-lgbt-bills-trans/

* "Exchange Between Gay Lawmaker and Colleague Backing Transgender Restriction Goes Viral:" https://people.com/politics/viral-video-between-missouri-lgbtq-lawmaker-and-colleague-proposing-transgender-restriction/

* "Trans Youth 'Driven to Deaths of Despair,' Says Admiral Rachel Levine:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/4/29/trans-youth-driven-deaths-despair-says-admiral-rachel-levine

* "Tennessee's Straights-Only Marriage Option Won't Pass This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/14/tennessees-straights-only-marriage-option-wont-pass-year

* "Tennessee OK's Penalties for Schools That Violate Trans Athlete Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/4/25/tennessee-oks-penalties-schools-violate-trans-athlete-ban

* "Kansas Lawmaker Objects to 'Huge Transgender Female' in Restroom:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/27/kansas-lawmaker-objects-huge-transgender-female-restroom

* "25-Year-Old Trans Woman Miia Love Parker Shot Dead in Philadelphia:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/13/25-year-old-trans-woman-miia-love-parker-shot-dead-philadelphia

* "Trans Woman Fatally Stabbed in Vermont; Suspect Tries 'Panic' Excuse:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/15/trans-woman-fern-feather-fatally-stabbed-vermont-suspect-tries-panic-excuse

* "Bouncer Punches Man Outside Gay Bar; Man Dies A Week Later:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/26/bouncer-punches-man-outside-gay-bar-man-dies-week-later

* "Man Left Bloodied, Bones Fractured After Random Homophobic Attack:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/20/man-left-bloodied-bones-fractured-after-random-homophobic-attack

* "Florida Man Says Boyfriend’s Family Blinded Him for 'Turning' Son Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/21/florida-man-says-boyfriends-family-blinded-him-turning-son-gay

* "Airplane Passenger Accused of Homophobic Mid-Flight Attack:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/26/airplane-passenger-accused-homophobic-mid-flight-attack-attendant

* "Gay Man Punched in Alleged Homophobic Attack Denied Restraining Order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/27/florida-gay-man-punched-alleged-homophobic-attack-denied-restraining-order

* "Texas Boutique Owner Hurls Homophobic Slurs at Couple in Viral Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/19/texas-angels-boutique-san-angelo-homophobia-evan-berryhill-jewll-video

* "LGBTQ+ Safe Space Stickers Banned by School District:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/26/lgbtq-safe-space-stickers-banned-school-district

* "Watch Megyn Kelly Claim Trans Activists Are Making Gay Men Trans:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2022/4/25/watch-megyn-kelly-claim-trans-activists-are-making-gay-men-trans

* "Trans Reporter Alleges Wrongful Firing by South Dakota Public Radio:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2022/4/19/trans-reporter-alleges-wrongful-firing-south-dakota-public-radio

* "Right-Wing BlazeTV Host Jokes About Killing Trans Kids, Finds It Funny:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2022/4/21/right-wing-blazetv-host-jokes-about-killing-trans-kids-finds-it-funny

* "Ohio Univ. to Pay $400k to Professor Who Refused Student's Pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/4/19/ohio-univ-pay-400000-professor-who-misgendered-trans-student

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ 'Libs of TikTok' Exposed, Conservatives Are Extremely Mad:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2022/4/20/anti-lgbtq-libs-tiktok-exposed-conservatives-are-extremely-mad

* "Mormon university student flashes rainbow flag while graduating in act of defiance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/27/brigham-young-university-graduation-mormon-jillian-orr-lgbt/

* "Sheryl Lee Ralph reads Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on The Sunday Show:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sheryl-lee-ralph-reads-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-on-the-sunday-show-139047493646

* "The Startling Impact of Family Acceptance on AAPI LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/26/startling-impact-family-acceptance-aapi-lgbtq-youth

* "The Sleep Industry Isn't So Comfy:"

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* "The Truth They Wont Tell You About the Tobacco Industry:"

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* "US pediatricians' group moves to abandon race-based guidance:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-disparities-a844fbc492602ce0b0f732ca106518b3

* "This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/health/this-psychiatric-hospital-used-to-chain-patients-now-it-treats-them.html

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* "Kansas tornado generated 165 mph winds as it destroyed homes:" https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-storms-weather-kansas-wichita-c97ca558314d21704cf9149e6db96594

* "Southern Californians told to reduce outdoor watering in 'unprecedented' order amid historic drought:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/us/california-drought-water-restrictions/index.html

* "Environmental Racism:"

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* "Russia Defaults On Debt, Soldiers Steal Chernobyl Souvenirs | Don Jr.'s Texts Reveal Coup Plan:"

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* "Space News: Hubble Finds A New Star, Bret Baier Warns Of Alien Pregnancies:"

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* "Meanwhile... Workers Test Positive For Cocaine, Marijuana | Dyson's Bizarre New Headphones:"

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* "Fraudsters Ripped Off The PPP | The 100% True Story Of T****'s Hole-In-One:"

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* "Jane Krakowski Celebrates Great-Ish Women Of History:"

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* "Stephen Colbert's Cyborgasm: Robot Pooch Companions And China's Giant Space Snake:"

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* Oscar Isaac Extended Interview:

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* "Next On CSPAN3: The GOP Farm Subsidies And Orgy Committee:"

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* "The Least Woke Movie You Will Ever See:"

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* "The Late Show Offers Ron Desantis A Campaign Anthem:"

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* "Facebook Employees Have So Many Great Nicknames For Mark Zuckerberg:"

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* "Think You Might Be Pregnant With An Alien Baby? Try ClearGreen:"

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* "Krispy Kreme Takes Advantage Of Global Crises:"

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* "A Rap Song About Matt Gaetz, For Some Reason:"

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* "Elon Musk's Mission: Make Earth Really Bad:"

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* "Jeff Bezos Took Amazon Employees On A Trip To Convince Them Unions Are Bad:"

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* "Claypool, Hütz, Copeland, Lennon, Ryabtsev, & Strings - "Zelensky: The Man With the Iron Balls":"

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

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

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

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

* Pirate Co-dependence in Our Flag Means Death: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/683129082880327680

* "A Biracial Reading of BlackBeard:" https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/683017975014588416/a-biracial-reading-of-blackbeard

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "‘We’re finished’: Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please

* "What Ukraine Can Learn From Finland’s Stand 80 Years Ago:" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-20/russia-invades-ukraine-lessons-of-finland-s-winter-war-against-soviets

* "War with Russia? Finland has been making a plan for that:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/war-with-russia-finland-has-been-making-a-plan-for-that-1.4839071

* "Putin's bullying backfires as Finland and Sweden edge closer to joining NATO:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/europe/putin-finland-sweden-nato-backfire-cmd-intl/index.html

* "Could Moldova be next on Putin’s hit list?:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/could-moldova-be-next-on-putin-s-hit-list-1.4849758

* "Washington Post contributor arrested in Moscow after criticizing Putin:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/12/kara-murza-arrest/

* "Kremlin critic Kara-Murza reportedly arrested in Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kremlin-critic-kara-murza-reportedly-arrested-in-russia-137536069991

* "Wife of detained Russian opposition leader: Putin has been killing his opponents for years:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/putin-has-be-killing-his-opponents-for-years-wife-of-detained-russian-opposition-leader-vladimir-kara-murza-says-137685061600

* "Putin lashing out at NATO backfires as interest in membership grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-lashing-out-at-nato-backfires-as-interest-in-membership-grows-137613893633

* "The Guardian view on Britain’s Rwanda deal: a cruel, cynical pretence:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/14/the-guardian-view-on-britains-rwanda-deal-a-cruel-cynical-pretence

* "UK prime minister Boris Johnson could get three more fines over lockdown breaches:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-prime-minister-boris-johnson-could-get-three-more-fines-over-lockdown-2022-04-13/

* "Benefits and state pension increase outpaced by rising prices:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61040694

* "Hong Kong activist jailed for 16 months for organising banned ‘Reclaim Yuen Long’ demo in 2019:" https://hongkongfp.com/2022/04/13/hong-kong-activist-jailed-for-16-months-for-organising-banned-reclaim-yuen-long-demo-in-2019/

* "The Wet’suwet’en are more united than pipeline backers want you to think - Macleans.ca:" https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-wetsuweten-are-more-united-than-pipeline-backers-want-you-to-think/

* "Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif chosen as PM after week-long uncertainty:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61063386

* "Explainer: Macron or Le Pen: why it matters for France, the EU and the West:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/macron-or-le-pen-why-it-matters-france-eu-west-2022-04-10/

* "After the French presidential election, the deluge:" https://www.politico.eu/article/after-france-presidential-election-deluge/

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* "Covid News: World Exceeds 500 Million Known Virus Cases Amid Testing Concerns:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/12/world/covid-19-mandates-cases-vaccine

* "German government drops plan for Covid vaccine mandate:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/german-government-drops-plan-for-covid-vaccine-mandate

* "A German State Is Last in Almost Everything. But It’s No. 1 in Vaccines.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/world/europe/germany-covid-vaccine-strategy.html

* "U.S. renews COVID-19 public health emergency:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-renews-covid-19-public-health-emergency-2022-04-13/

* "Dr. Anthony Fauci: I recommend you go and get the fourth shot if you are over 50:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/dr-anthony-fauci-on-covid-cases-fueled-by-omicron-subvariant-ticking-up-across-the-country-137527365760

* "Philadelphia to restore indoor mask mandate as cases rise:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-philadelphia-d7f5dacf0ae4ac004e5b15dd58362360

* "72 people at high-profile D.C. dinner test positive for Covid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/67-attendees-test-positive-covid-high-profile-dc-dinner-rcna23763

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* "Russia already has nuclear weapons in the Baltic region, says Lithuania:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-already-has-nuclear-weapons-baltic-region-says-lithuania-2022-04-14/

* "Russia is jamming U.S.-provided GPS signals in Ukraine, U.S. general says:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/russia-jamming-u-provided-gps-232724920.html

* "Ukraine economy seen being slashed in half; Austrian leader will meet Putin in Moscow on Monday:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/10/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Even with sanctions, Russia can afford to feed its war machine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/even-with-sanctions-russia-can-afford-feed-its-war-machine-2022-04-12/

* "Clint Watts: President Zelenskyy needs air power, this could be ended quickly:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-offensive-s-new-commander-gen-alexander-dvornikov-called-butcher-of-syria-137528389696

* "German lawmakers call for EU ban on Russian oil after Ukraine visit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-lawmakers-call-eu-ban-russian-oil-after-ukraine-visit-2022-04-12/

* "High stakes challenge in Ukraine: How far to push Putin:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/high-stakes-challenge-in-ukraine-how-far-to-push-putin-137845829557

* "Ukraine seizes 55 homes, 26 cars and yacht from Putin ally Medvedchuk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/medvedchuk-ukraine-property-seized/

* "Ukraine seizes assets of Putin ally in crackdown on Russian corruption :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ukraine-seizes-assets-of-putin-ally-in-crackdown-on-russian-corruption-137775685959

* "Russian warship sinks; Ukraine says its missile is responsible:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-flagship-black-sea-fleet-badly-damaged-by-blast-2022-04-14/

* "Why the sinking of Russia's 'Moskva' battleship matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-the-sinking-of-russia-s-moskva-battleship-matters-137776197800

* "Putin vows to press invasion until Russia's goals are met:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-ap-top-news-europe-7d747ae240e9abbfb1951fd4ad27882a

* "UK expects fighting to intensify in next 2-3 weeks; West working to confirm reports of Russian chemical weapons attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Battles may be tougher for Ukrainians as war shifts to wide-open terrain in east:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/ukraine-battle-east-shift/

* "Russian convoy heads toward eastern Ukraine as new Mariupol death toll emerges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/11/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Putin appoints new general to lead military action in Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/putin-appoints-new-general-to-lead-military-action-in-ukraine-137426501963

* "Clint Watts: President Zelenskyy needs air power, this could be ended quickly:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-offensive-s-new-commander-gen-alexander-dvornikov-called-butcher-of-syria-137528389696

* "In eastern Ukraine, Russian military razing towns to take them over:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/07/izyum-eastern-ukraine-razing-towns/

* "Samantha Power on Russian atrocities and 'genocide': 'The facts are plain as day':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/samantha-power-on-russian-atrocities-and-genocide-the-facts-are-plain-as-day-137614405655

* "Ukraine says fighting rages in Mariupol, blasts rattle Kyiv:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/powerful-explosions-heard-kyiv-after-russian-warship-sinks-2022-04-15/

* "Western leaders pledge more military support as Russian troops reposition in east:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/russia-ukraine-war-news-live-updates/#link-VLPJFDDV4BD7BAFKNNERMN2UC4

* "Mykolaiv region on edge amid fear of a new Russian offensive:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/mykolaiv-nervous-russia-military-moves-south/

* "Chernihiv: Are these Russia's weapons of war?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61036880

* "Doctors in Chernihiv bear witness to their hospital's fate after Russian shelling:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/07/1091333939/doctors-in-chernihiv-bear-witness-to-their-hospitals-fate-after-russian-shelling

* "In eastern Ukraine, Russian military razing towns to take them over:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/07/izyum-eastern-ukraine-razing-towns/

* "Fmr. Amb. Prosper: "War crimes are being committed.":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fmr-amb-prosper-war-crimes-are-being-committed-137428037943

* "Russian rockets destroy Dnipro airport, Ukraine officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/shelling-hits-school-apartment-building-ukraines-sievierodonetsk-governor-2022-04-10/

* "Message on missile at Ukraine train station is part of a long history:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/missile-writing-kramatorsk-train-station-ukraine-russia/

* "Escape from Mariupol: the man who swam to safety from Russian terror:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/ukraine-escape-from-mariupol-man-swam-eussian-terror

* "Bucha’s Month of Terror:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/11/world/europe/bucha-terror.html

* "How many Ukrainians have fled their homes and where have they gone?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472

* "Homes for Ukraine: Visa silence unwelcoming, Cardiff peer says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61057170

* "Homes for Ukraine: Don't match female refugees with single men, UN says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61099131

* "The network in Romania to help Ukrainian refugees:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/09/1091902352/the-network-in-romania-to-help-ukrainian-refugees

* "From New York to Tokyo, Ukraine war protests continue:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/09/ukraine-war-protests-photos-global/

* CW: Rape. "Protest held outside Tallinn`s Russian embassy against women raped in war:" https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/13/protest-held-outside-tallinn-s-russian-embassy-against-women-raped-in-war

* "Ukraine supporters outnumber pro-Russians in German protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pro-russian-protesters-germany-outnumbered-by-ukraine-supporters-2022-04-10/

* "Russia: feminist activist could be jailed for ten years for putting anti-war slogans on supermarket labels:" https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/russia-feminist-activist-could-be-jailed-ten-years-putting-anti-war-slogans

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* "US agencies: Industrial control system malware discovered:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-north-america-malware-300f886c2757a9e6bd96f1ee20a8f5db

* "Threat of cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure takes more serious turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/threat-of-cyberattack-on-u-s-infrastructure-takes-more-serious-turn-137691717553

* "Greatest threat to future of NATO may be the U.S. under Trump-led Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/greatest-threat-to-future-of-nato-may-be-the-u-s-under-trump-led-republicans-137693765565

* "Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html

* "Report of massive Saudi payout to Kushner raises new questions about Trump admin policies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-of-massive-saudi-payout-to-kushner-raises-new-questions-about-trump-admin-policies-137532997515

* "How Jared Kushner and the Trump admin traded U.S. foreign policy for $2 billion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-jared-kushner-and-the-trump-admin-traded-u-s-foreign-policy-for-2-billion-137524293846

* "Biden waiving ethanol rule in bid to lower gasoline prices:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-iowa-campaigns-elections-227e09a39aed1680e1f4813334aeae64

* Now is a good time to put pressure on him. "Biden seems 'more open' to canceling student debt broadly 'than ever before,' Chuck Schumer says:" https://news.yahoo.com/biden-seems-more-open-canceling-175827010.html

* "Biden picks a former federal prosecutor to lead the ATF as it targets 'ghost guns':" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/11/1091955028/biden-atf-nominee-ghost-guns

* "Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Historic Confirmation to the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-s-historic-confirmation-to-the-supreme-court-137430085549

* "US jobless claims rise but remain near a half-century low:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-economy-unemployment-ad888c523c00ad93e2a82735a226cf77

* "The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1075299510/the-expanded-child-tax-credit-briefly-slashed-child-poverty-heres-what-else-it-d

* "Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on the State of the Workplace:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/labor-secretary-marty-walsh-on-the-state-of-the-workplace-137430085578

* "It's a deal! | Sacramento teacher strike comes to an end:" https://www.abc10.com/article/news/education/sacramento-teacher-strike-comes-to-an-end/103-bf8c18a4-1217-4c8e-bf92-64fe9354ed20

* "John Oliver Just Found A 'F**king Creepy' But Legal Way To Blackmail Lawmakers:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-data-brokers_n_6253db8ae4b066ecde08a5f8

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

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

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* "Federal judge dismisses Republicans’ effort to block unaffiliated voters from Colorado’s primaries:" https://coloradosun.com/2022/04/08/unaffiliated-voter-lawsuit-colorado-dismissed/

* "It's always, without fail, a cishet white dude:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1828932.html

* "Primaries are the real elections now:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1828854.html

* "Herschel Walker Claims to Own Companies That Don’t Exist:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-claims-to-own-companies-that-dont-exist

* "Stacey Abrams win in Georgia will lead to ‘cold war’ with Florida, DeSantis says:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/09/stacey-abrams-georgia-florida-cold-war-desantis

* "Republican party withdraws from US Commission on Presidential Debates:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/republican-party-withdraws-commission-on-presidential-debates

* "Republican candidates in battleground states skip debates:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/republican-candidates-battleground-states-skip-debates/story?id=83785574

* It’s cowardice combined with autocratic hatred of free exchange of ideas. "What's behind the RNC's decision to quit presidential debates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-s-behind-the-rnc-s-decision-to-quit-presidential-debates-137766469645

* "Feinstein defends herself amid new questions about her capabilities in Senate job:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-14/feinstein-defends-herself-amid-new-questions-about-her-capabilities-in-senate

* "Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks trans people 'deserve to be beaten up':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-trans-alex-jones-infowars/

* "Mark Meadows removed from N.C. voter rolls amid fraud investigation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/13/mark-meadows-north-carolina-removed-voter-rolls/

* "Race hard to ignore in sentencing differences in voting cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/race-hard-to-ignore-in-sentencing-differences-in-voting-cases-137847365786

* "State Department unable to provide full account of foreign gifts given to Trump and officials :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/politics/state-department-trump-administration-foreign-gifts/index.html

* "Donald Trump compares ‘far-left gender theories’ to ‘child abuse’ in hate-filled rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/10/donald-trump-trans-rights/

* "New texts show GOP lawmakers’ desperate attempt to steal 2020 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-texts-show-gop-lawmakers-desperate-attempt-to-steal-2020-election-137837125750

* "New texts reveal Republican's openness to dump democracy to keep Trump in power: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-texts-reveal-republican-s-openness-to-dump-democracy-to-keep-trump-in-power-report-137845829667

* "Liz Cheney disputes report January 6 panel split over Trump criminal referral:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/liz-cheney-disputes-report-january-6-panel-split-trump-criminal-referral

* "Top Trump White House lawyers scheduled for Jan. 6 interview:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/12/trump-lawyers-jan6-interview-cipollone-philbin-00024868

* "In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/12/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-riot-sullivan-trump.html

* "‘Smoking rifle’: Trump Jr texted Meadows strategies to overturn election – report:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/09/trump-jr-texts-mark-meadows-white-house-election-result

* "Ex-Roger Stone aide reportedly urged Trump supporters to ‘descend on the Capitol’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-roger-stone-aide-reportedly-urged-trump-supporters-to-descend-on-the-capitol-137678917680

* "Stephen Miller meets virtually with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/politics/january-6-stephen-miller/index.html

* "Proud Boys leader admits plan to storm Capitol and will testify against others:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/08/donohoe-pleads-guilty-proud-boys-jan6/

* "Man who said Trump’s ‘orders’ caused him to steal liquor from Capitol on Jan. 6 found guilty:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/14/jan6-trump-presidential-orders-thompson-capitol/

* "'Groomed:' Attorney argues Trump to blame for his client storming the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-groomed-attorney-argues-trump-to-blame-for-his-client-storming-the-capitol-137682501511

* "DOJ reaches settlement in 2020 cases involving Lafayette Square protesters:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-reaches-settlement-2020-cases-involving-lafayette-square-protester-rcna24325

* "Gretchen Whitmer: Michigan governor kidnap plot case collapses:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60999431

* "Rep. Neguse: New crackdown on ghost guns is ‘basic common sense step’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-neguse-new-crackdown-on-ghost-guns-is-basic-common-sense-step-137525829950

* "Suspect in Brooklyn subway train shooting called in the tip that led to his arrest, sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/13/us/brooklyn-subway-shooting-wednesday/index.html

* "Suspect sought as shooter in Sacramento gang gunfight has long history of gun violations:" https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article260365245.html

* "2 people killed and 5 wounded in shooting near Los Angeles:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/people-killed-wounded-shooting-los-angeles-84012490

* "Man facing murder charge in Cedar Rapids mass shooting:" https://www.kcrg.com/2022/04/12/cedar-rapids-police-make-arrest-taboo-nightclub-shooting/

* "One man dead after West Dundee shooting that could be related to Elgin party murders:" https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20220413/one-man-dead-after-west-dundee-shooting-that-could-be-related-to-elgin-party-murders

* "'Data shows states with stricter gun laws have less gun crime': expert Frank Figliuzzi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/brooklyn-subway-shooting-possible-right-wing-response-slamming-gun-control-analyzed-by-crime-expert-137606725552

* "A Look into the Life of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones:"

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* "Texas Border Operation’s Largest Share of Arrests: Trespassing On Private Property:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/04/04/texas-border-operation-s-largest-share-of-arrests-trespassing-on-private-property

* "Video shows a Michigan police officer on Black man's back before he fatally shot him:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092733100/video-shows-a-michigan-police-officer-on-black-mans-back-before-he-fatally-shot-

* "Former police chief: There are two levels of police service for the affluent vs. the marginalized:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-traffic-stop-ending-in-deadly-police-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-renews-calls-for-police-reform-137770053821

* "The Rise and Fall of Kat Von D:"

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* "A History of Misogyny and Sexual Harassment: Victoria's Secret:"

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* CW: Rape, Torture, Domestic Violence. "Marilyn Manson: Documentaries, Defamation, and Deceit? :"

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* CW: Pedophilia "Gay Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan found guilty of sexually assaulting teen boy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/11/imran-ahmad-khan-tory-mp-sexual-assault-teen-boy/

* CW: Pedophilia "Crispin Blunt quits as LGBTQ+ group chair after Imran Ahmad Khan comments:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/12/crispin-blunt-urged-to-apologise-for-comments-on-imran-ahmad-khan-case

* "Texas Will Dismiss Murder Charge Against Woman Connected to ‘Self-Induced Abortion’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/texas-self-induced-abortion-charge-dismissed.html

* "Joy Reid: Will women be punished for abortions If Roe v. Wade is overturned by Supreme Court?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/abortion-rights-under-threat-as-woman-in-texas-charged-with-murder-in-connection-to-self-induced-abortion-137528901815

* "Oklahoma governor signs bill to make abortion illegal:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-oklahoma-law-87880e9f3c7bde2ae634cb2f02839e6e

* "Abortions stop in Kentucky as groups seek to block new law:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/groups-sue-restore-abortion-services-kentucky-84080520

* "New law puts immediate end to abortion access in Kentucky:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-law-puts-immediate-end-to-abortion-access-in-kentucky-137776709787

* "‘We’re under a five alarm fire,’ political strategist says of new anti-abortion laws:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kentucky-becoming-first-state-to-end-abortion-access-could-backfire-on-gop-expert-says-137768517782

* "Leo Varadkar warns Ireland can't take LGBT+ progress 'for granted' as Britain backslides:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/09/leo-varadkar-ireland-britain-lgbt-progress/

* "Murder arrest after two gay men 'mutilated' in suspected homophobic killings:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/13/murder-arrest-gay-sligo/

* "Vital charity fights homophobic, transphobic violence against refugees in the UK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/13/micro-rainbow-ukraine-lgbt-queer/

* "Boris Johnson urged to listen after 'phenomenal' trans conversion therapy ban petition:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/11/trans-conversion-therapy-ban-petition-boris-johnson/

* They want to completely erase trans people. "Tory government wants police to 'misgender' most trans crime victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/13/trans-police-crime-victims-data-statistics-home-office/

* "Women's cycling race loses main sponsor over 'unacceptable' trans athlete suspension:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/womens-cicle-classic-emily-bridges-british-cycling/

* "Distraught over orders to investigate trans kids’ families, Texas child welfare workers are resigning:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/11/texas-trans-child-abuse-investigations/

* "Gov. Abbott’s anti-trans order is child abuse:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-gov-abbott-s-anti-trans-order-is-child-abuse-137524805976

* "Story DeSantis Uses to Support 'Don't Say Gay' Is 'Just a Lie':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/07/report-story-desantis-uses-support-dont-say-gay-just-lie

* "Moms for Liberty cry when ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill gets turned against heterosexual parents:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/1/2089558/-Moms-for-Liberty-cry-when-Don-t-Say-Gay-bill-gets-turned-against-heterosexual-parents

* "Florida Republicans Threaten Disney For Condemning 'Don't Say Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/4/11/florida-republicans-threaten-disney-condemning-dont-say-gay

* "Bill Criminalizing Gender-Affirming Care as a Felony Passes in Alabama:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/07/bill-criminalizing-gender-affirming-care-felony-passes-alabama

* "Kidd Creole Convicted of Stabbing Death of Homeless Man in 'Gay Panic':" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/4/08/kidd-creole-convicted-stabbing-death-homeless-man-gay-panic

* "How is HIV Impacting Young People in 2022?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/youth/2022/4/10/how-hiv-impacting-young-people-2022#media-gallery-media-1

* "UK officials investigating total of 74 child hepatitis cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61085870

* "Number of people on NHS waiting lists in England at record high:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/14/number-of-people-on-nhs-waiting-lists-in-england-at-record-high

* "New part of the body found hiding in the lungs:" https://www.livescience.com/new-body-cell-discovered-in-lungs

* Things I wish I didn't know about. "Man's eye infested with over a dozen fly maggots while gardening:" https://www.newsweek.com/man-eye-infested-over-dozen-fly-maggots-gardening-oestrus-ovis-sheep-bot-fly-1696315

* CW: Animal Death "Rabid fox bites nine people on US Capitol Hill:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61031683

* "A report on violence against kids with disabilities is sobering — if not surprising:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/12/1091679303/a-report-on-violence-against-kids-with-disabilities-is-sobering-if-not-surprisin

* "Matt Gaetz Says Overweight Folks Responsible for High Insulin Prices:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/4/07/matt-gaetz-says-overweight-folks-responsible-high-insulin-prices

* "States look for solutions as US fentanyl deaths keep rising:" https://apnews.com/article/fentanyl-deaths-keep-rising-states-look-for-solutions-d3ccd6edfdc6516b3ea07943c7e46544

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* "The 1.5-Degree Goal Is All But Dead:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/04/un-ipcc-1-5-degree-report-global-warming/629486/

* "South Africa floods: deadliest storm on record kills over 300 people:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/south-africa-floods-deadliest-storm-on-record-kills-over-250-people

* "South African flood victims search for bodies of lost loved ones:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "More than 57 billion tons of soil have eroded in the U.S. Midwest:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/soil-erosion-rate-us-midwest-unsustainable-usda

* "California utility to pay $55 million for massive wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/california-utility-pay-55-million-massive-wildfires-84016390

* "Manhole fires in New York's Times Square sent crowds fleeing. No injuries were reported:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/10/us/new-york-times-square-manhole-fires/index.html

* "Few Americans see race as key factor in environmental inequality:" https://phys.org/news/2022-04-americans-key-factor-environmental-inequality.html

* "This school wasn't built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1084912552/climate-change-schools

* "Ancestral Homeland Returned to Rappahannock Tribe After More Than 350 Years:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancestral-homeland-returned-to-rappahannock-tribe-after-more-than-350-years-180979863/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily-list&fbclid=IwAR2oIQUeDBAiUPMGxrH4NgMKcKxz3iWbwW_eJX_hvmeq_aBJXfEaoBzcWBw

* "The gardens that have survived for centuries:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220328-how-long-can-a-garden-last

* "Amtrak Is Streaming an Empty Railroad on Twitch to Beef With Freight Rail Companies:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7w9n9/amtrak-is-streaming-an-empty-railroad-on-twitch-to-beef-with-freight-rail-companies

* "The Yuxi Circle: The World’s Most Densely Populated Area:" https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-yuxi-circle-the-worlds-most-densely-populated-area/

* "The Schism Breaking Apart the “Prepper” Community:" https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/reddit-preppers-sub-women-splitting-off-twoxpreppers.html

* "MIT Engineers Create the “Impossible” – New Material That Is Stronger Than Steel and As Light as Plastic:" https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/

* "Herodotus lied about famous Greek battle against Carthage, new study finds:" https://www.livescience.com/herodotus-lied-about-greek-battle.html

* "These 400-Year-Old Rings Unfold to Reveal Spheres Used for Astronomical Calculations:" https://mymodernmet.com/armillary-sphere-finger-ring/

* "Gay Journalist Thom Senzee Is Dead at 54:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/10/gay-journalist-thom-senzee-dead-54

* "Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Russia's War Machine Slowed By Cheap Gear, Expired Rations | Ukraine's Ballerinas Join The Fight:"

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* "Tucker Carlson Is Russian State Media's Newest Correspondent:"

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* "Meanwhile... Florida Man Calls Cops For Help Testing His Meth | Cursed Painting For Sale On eBay:"

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* "Stephen Colbert Presents: "NFT Heist" - The First Blockbuster Movie About NFTs!:"

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* "Clothing Time:"

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* Sunday the pain from the wound woke me up, which meant getting an ice pack and starting over with the increasingly complex propping system required to protect the deteriorating shoulder, hip, and lesser joints while also coddling the wound and doing what I can to de-emphasize the constant sensory overload the wound causes. (My theory is that given it's placement and nature, the displacement tickles the nerve endings in a part of my body really prone to set off sensory overload. So I'm always in low level overload and it gets super bad periodically when things ramp up. This also makes it incredibly fucking hard to sleep even when the pain is not that bad.) Remember, if I move even a centimeter off postilion, my right shoulder is completely fucked for at minimum the next day. Now imagine what happens if any of a rapidly increasing number of pillows and smaller props moves or my torso shifts, or... yeah. Luckily, I've been holding my spine in the correct position since at least 1992.

Anyway, Head Millennial has a list of regular things needing doing, and projects and is perfectly capable of self supervising, plus directions to let me sleep if I'm napping as likely I very much need it for pain reasons. 7:45ish, he did check in as he needed a thing from the store to continue and was planning to walk. The ice had worked and I was like wait five minutes and we'll go together so I can get one that will last a couple decades instead of breaking in six months, it's not that much more expensive. So we went. Bonus, I got juice, which I couldn't get the last few stores we checked as they hadn't the right kind, and I need the extra nutrients right now. then there was the waiting in line and the rest of the stuff HM was doing, and we ended up searching for a book that had been missing since Summer I use all the time for reference, and then dinner, and finishing the show we were watching and dinner and taking them home and my lung treatment and, and...

It was well past Midnight when I logged on only to discover I'd lost data because I hadn't posted the aggregate fast enough. I could replace most of what was lost, but I literally couldn't remember some of the older things so ooops. Invisible to y'all, I'd lost a bunch of other data I use for Tumblr management which I could recreate if I was willing to invest the time in sorting things out. Aggregate posting/recreation/scaffold cleaning plus getting that back cost about two hours. Guess how much is likely to get done tonight?

At least I am drinking vitamin c as I type.

* In the middle of the recent medical emergency, Tumblr raised the queue limit to 1000 from the wildly inadequate 300. Given my post rate, 300 is about two days of advance loading for day posting most of the year for me. it means I can take a night off in an emergency, but some thing start thinning way out fast. 1000 gives me so much more freedom. I wrote this on 4/11. The lowest queue category is 4/17. I have most of my national Poetry month Poetry posting sleeve filled. Odds are I will reach early May in the fuller sleeves tonight.

It may seem a small thing, but it's the first time since I joined the site that an official "upgrade" has been an improvement if you don't count them changing the shade of blue being slightly easier on my eyes. Every other upgrade that hadn't already been one of my xkit setting made things worse, somethings much worse.

I just keep being startled that staff would ever do anything that benefits rather than harms me. Now if they'd roll back the three "improvements" from the last few years that made the site less accessible for me as a disabled person on things I do there pretty much every day.

* Thursday the friends who are moving needed transport. I had a rather nice visit with them in the middle of it.

Friday Squirrel accidentally started a fire in the kitchen, which resulted in me really pissing off both my lungs and torso muscles plus wound area. It was a drama.

* JK Rowling Goes Wild at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1513943506317848579

* The Moon is Made of Cheese: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/681119988837433344/the-moon-is-made-of-cheese-is-obviously-a-myth

* Our Flag Means Death Genre Jumping: https://fuckyeahisawthat.tumblr.com/post/681119219029573632/while-we-like-to-joke-about-izzy-being-in-the

* The Billionaire Plague: https://captainsuke.tumblr.com/post/681200256434716672

* "The Stages Of "I'm Really Trying" To Be Cool About Your Transition:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/the-stages-of-im-really-trying-to?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MjAwODg5MSwiXyI6ImtZbnVRIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ5NzQyOTExLCJleHAiOjE2NDk3NDY1MTEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.TH2nEIRkvZRJCmDerjXbtufZmA47X4EDjVumXuYZnuo&s=r

* "‘Fantastic Beasts’: How Scandal and Controversy Have Derailed the Wizarding Franchise:" https://variety.com/2022/film/news/fantastic-beasts-franchise-controversies-harry-potter-jk-rowling-johnny-depp-1235226541/

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Kenya's Police Killing Epidemic:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Prison Labor: Inmates Exploited for Profit:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "The Truth About the Winchester Mystery House:"

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* "Kirby Vacuums Suck:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Harm Reduction:"

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Taboo: White Fragility Edition:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So there’s the real answer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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