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* "Myanmar coup: Aung San Suu Kyi faces new charge amid protests:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56074429

* "Support the Resistance in Myanmar:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/myanmar-protests.html

* "'Broken-down' cars bring Myanmar streets to standstill in coup protest:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/18/myanmar-hackers-target-military-run-propaganda-sites-in-online-protest

* "North Korean in Diving Gear Crosses Border Into South Korea Undetected:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/world/asia/north-korean-defector-dmz.html

* "100 Million Workers May Need to Switch Occupation by 2030:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-18/100-million-workers-may-need-to-switch-occupation-by-2030-chart?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Princess Latifa: UN to question UAE about Dubai ruler's daughter:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56093100

* "ISIS recruiter charged with 'homophobic' murder of gay man in Dresden knife attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/dresden-knife-attack-2020-suspect-charged-germany-isis-abdullah-al-h-h/

* "Vile bigots hijack student Zoom meeting with 'abhorrent homophobic, racist threats':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/edinburgh-university-zoom-homophobia-racism-students-zoom-bombing-zoombombing/

* "Why Tunisians Are Back On the Streets Again, 10 Years After the Arab Spring | A Decade of Spring:"

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* "Gavin Williamson lauds student who called gays an 'abomination' as he reveals 'free speech' plan:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/education-secretary-gavin-williamson-felix-ngole-gays-abomination-free-speech-champion/

* "New Zealand troops to leave Afghanistan after 20-year deployment:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/17/last-new-zealand-troops-to-leave-afghanistan-in-may

* "Venezuela migrants: 'Legal status changes everything':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56009342

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* "Focus on vaccines overlooks life-saving antibody therapies for Covid-19 patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/focus-on-vaccines-overlooks-life-saving-antibody-therapies-for-covid-19-patients-101207621902

* "White House announces $4 billion in funding for Covax, the global vaccine effort that Trump spurned:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/18/5-percent-vaccine-donations-france/

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 2/18/21 are 27,882,000. The official death toll is 493,000. Vaccination rate: 12.7%.

* "The U.S. Can’t Keep Up With Mutant COVID Strains:"

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* "US life expectancy dropped a full year in first half of 2020, according to CDC:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/health/life-expectancy-fell-pandemic/index.html

* "U.S. Vaccine Supply Increasing to 13.5 Million Doses a Week:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/u-s-vaccine-supply-increasing-to-13-5-million-doses-per-week?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Biden vows to make 600m vaccine doses available by end of July:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/16/joe-biden-coronavirus-town-hall-stimulus

* "Biden admin will spend $1.6B to expand Covid-19 testing and sequencing:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/17/biden-administration-coronavirus-testing-expansion-469433

* "Have Deaths Slowed Down in Los Angeles?:"

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* "This Doctor Says Black Americans Should Be Prioritized For The Vaccines:"

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* "One-third of military service members have opted not to receive Covid-19 vaccinations:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/military-covid-vaccinations/index.html

* "Fauci: 'Non-workable' to vaccinate teachers before schools open:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/17/fauci-vaccinate-teachers-school-reopening-469315

* "National Education Association President explains what's needed for schools to reopen:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/national-education-association-president-explains-what-s-needed-for-schools-to-reopen-101072965787

* "Symone Sanders: Biden believes 'teachers should be prioritized’ to get the vaccine:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/symone-sanders-biden-believes-teachers-should-be-prioritized-to-get-the-vaccine-101200453909

* "Cuomo said 'he can destroy me': NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/cuomo-ron-kim-nursing-home/index.html

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* "Biden says he's spoken with all of his predecessors 'with one exception':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/biden-trump-presidency/index.html

* "Promotions for Female Generals Were Delayed Over Fears of Trump’s Reaction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/us/politics/women-generals-promotions-trump.html

* "Top Pentagon officials delayed promotions for women generals because of Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/top-pentagon-officials-delayed-promotions-for-women-generals-because-of-trump-101259333560

* "Trump leaves record of corruption in Justice Department's top offices:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-leaves-record-of-corruption-in-justice-department-s-top-offices-101131846002

* "Justice Department drops lawsuit against Melania Trump’s ex-aide for tell-all book:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/stephanie-wolkoff-melania-trump-book-lawsuit-dropped/2021/02/08/86ce5784-6a63-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html

* "Maddow: Next attorney general faces challenge of cleaning up wreckage of DOJ after Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-next-attorney-general-faces-challenge-of-cleaning-up-wreckage-of-doj-after-trump-101132869898

* "Millions of jobs probably aren’t coming back, even after the pandemic ends:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2021/02/17/unemployed-workers-retraining/

* "New unemployment claims climb to 861,000:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/18/unemployment-claims-pandemic-february/

* "Biden again rejects $50,000 student loan debt forgiveness plan pushed by other top Democrats:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/student-loan-forgiveness-biden/

* "Here's what's in the House Democrats' stimulus relief plan:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/politics/stimulus-update-house-democrats-proposal/index.html

* "Biden extends protections for homeowners. Here's what you need to know:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/biden-extends-protections-for-homeowners-what-you-need-to-know-.html

* "Google Workers Publicly Launch Union:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an5q9/google-workers-publicly-launch-union

* "Historic Equality Act reintroduced in the US House ahead of decisive vote on the future of LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/equality-act-reintroduced-house-of-representatives-david-cicilline-jeff-merkley/

* "Surprise, surprise! Straight, white millionaire Mitt Romney is opposed to the Equality Act:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/mitt-romney-equality-act-house-representatives-senate-joe-biden/

* "National Press Finds Noem Using State Plane for Political Travel, NYC Parade and Shopping Trip:" http://dakotafreepress.com/2021/02/15/national-press-finds-noem-using-state-plane-for-political-travel-nyc-parade-shopping-trip/

* "Governor Kristi Noem under scrutiny for taxpayer-funded travel:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/governor-kristi-noem-under-scrutiny-for-taxpayer-funded-travel-101072965844

* "Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta announces his run for U.S. Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-state-rep-malcolm-kenyatta-announces-his-run-for-u-s-senate-101260357842

* I am so excited about him running! "Gay Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta Running for U.S. Senate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/2/18/gay-rep-malcolm-kenyatta-running-us-senate

* "Republican Perdue eyes fresh Senate run in 2022, says Georgia 'not a blue state':" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-senate-usa-georgia-idUSKBN2AG2HO

* "Out Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Sims Running for Lieutenant Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/2/16/out-pennsylvania-rep-brian-sims-running-lieutenant-governor

* "Republicans in 33 states introduce 165 bills to restrict voting access:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-in-33-states-introduce-165-bills-to-restrict-voting-access-101203013853

* "Georgia Republicans Are Trying to Change the Rules for Fani Willis’s Prosecution of Donald Trump for Election Crimes:" https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/georgia-republicans-are-trying-to-change-the-rules-for-fani-williss-prosecution-of-donald-trump-for-election-crimes/

* "Panicking Georgia GOP looks to change state constitution to protect Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/panicking-georgia-gop-looks-to-change-state-constitution-to-protect-trump-101132357762

* "The Tragedy of Trump’s Second Impeachment:"

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* "'You can't be a country where a president is above the law': Trump faces multiple lawsuits:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-you-can-t-be-a-country-where-a-president-is-above-the-law-trump-faces-multiple-lawsuits-101074501579

* "Some Republicans who shirked impeachment responsibility pass buck to law enforcement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-republicans-who-shirked-impeachment-responsibility-pass-buck-to-law-enforcement-101080645577

* "Furious Anderson Cooper calls out Mitch McConnell’s ‘backflip’ on Trump for what it is:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/anderson-cooper-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-video/

* "White House backs effort for independent panel to study Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/white-house-jan-6-riot-panel-469123

* "Why it's so important to have a 9/11-style commission to document the facts of January 6th:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-it-s-so-important-to-have-a-9-11-style-commission-to-document-the-facts-of-january-6th-101132357732

* "Six GOP senators to face censure for voting to impeach Trump:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-senator-trump-impeachment-romney-b1802576.html

* "Lindsey Graham, GOP Drive Off the Cliff in Cartoonish Clown Car:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/2/17/lindsey-graham-gop-drive-cliff-cartoonish-clown-car

* "Trump attacks McConnell in fiery statement:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/trump-attacks-mcconnell-in-fiery-statement-469150

* "House Democrats and White House Split Over Lawsuit for Ex-Trump Aide’s Testimony:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/politics/mcgahn-lawsuit-democrats.html

* "Supreme Court is still sitting on Trump's tax returns, and justices aren't saying why:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/politics/supreme-court-trump-taxes-vance/index.html

* "Manhattan D.A. Recruits Top Prosecutor for Trump Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/nyregion/trump-investigation-manhattan.html

* "NYC prosecutor hires on heavy-hitting attorney to Trump case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nyc-prosecutor-hires-on-heavy-hitting-attorney-to-trump-case-101269573802

* "Dominion Says It Will Sue MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Over Election Fraud Claims:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/dominion-says-it-will-sue-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-over-election-fraud-claims

* "NAACP sues Trump and Giuliani after Jan. 6 riots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/naacp-trump-giuliani-capitol-riots-469077

* "NAACP President on suing Trump over Capitol riot: 'We must hold people accountable':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/naacp-president-on-suing-trump-over-capitol-riot-we-must-hold-people-accountable-101124165701

* "Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops to remain in Washington through mid-March due to concerns about QAnon chatter:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/politics/national-guard-qanon-concerns/

* "The Librarian War Against QAnon:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-librarian-war-against-qanon/ar-BB1dN8A1

* "Exclusive: 57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/57-gop-officials-at-capitol-insurrection_n_6026e5e2c5b6f88289fb90a6

* "Son of Right-Wing Activist L. Brent Bozell III Arrested for Storming Capitol:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/leo-brent-bozell-iv-son-of-right-wing-activist-l-brent-bozell-iii-arrested-for-storming-capitol

* "How one conservative clan got to the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-conservative-clan-got-to-the-capitol-101264453682

* "White House announces sweeping immigration bill:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/politics/biden-immigration-legislation/

* "U.S. Marshals Act Like Local Police With More Violence and Less Accountability:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/02/11/u-s-marshals-act-like-local-police-with-more-violence-and-less-accountability

* "Inmate dies one day after being hit by detention officer at Harris County Jail:" https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/inmate-dies-one-day-after-being-hit-by-detention-officer/285-f347a5e8-6453-412e-9dfe-0fd480e05afc

* She tried to murder him by telling the police he was attacking her when all he did was politely tell her to leach her dog. They decided five educational classes was sufficient punishment. "Judge drops charges against 'Central Park Karen' over racist 911 call:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/amy-cooper-central-park-karen-charges-dropped-christian-cooper/

* "This Georgia County's First Black Sheriff Is Trying to Fix the System:"

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* "Nevada Ends Policy of Segregating, Isolating HIV-Positive Inmates:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/2/16/nevada-ends-policy-segregating-isolating-hiv-positive-inmates

* CW: Abuse. "Justice League's Ray Fisher doubles down on allegations about Joss Whedon's 'abusive' behaviour:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/ray-fisher-joss-whedon-justice-league-allegations-warner-bros-abuse-abusive/

* CW: Abuse. "Angel star Amy 'Fred' Acker has addressed 'heartbreaking' Joss Whedon accusations:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/joss-whedon-amy-acker-angel-charisma-carpenter/

* CW: Abuse. "Buffy icon David Boreanaz breaks silence on Joss Whedon 'toxic' abuse allegations:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/david-boreanaz-on-joss-whedon-abuse-allegations-buffy-angel-charisma-carpenter-abuse-accusations/

* "SC governor signs abortion ban; Planned Parenthood sues:" https://apnews.com/article/sc-governor-signs-abortion-ban-2cd9e039d63fb071427db688d7ef8f05

* "Gay throuple open up about historic fight for all three to be named their children’s fathers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/gay-throuple-parents-three-dads-and-a-baby/

* "LGBT+ people are being ‘scapegoated’ by political leaders in Europe and across the world:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/ilga-europe-annual-report-lgbt-rights-transgender-poland-hungary/

* "How government lies and media collaboration made the UK a hotbed of transphobia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/britain-transphobia-uk-transphobic-history-gender-recognition-act-what-the-trans/

* "JK Rowling's "transphobic attacks" are damaging LGBT+ rights in UK, warns report:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/ilga-europe-jk-rowling-anti-trans-rhetoric-annual-review-transphobia-uk/

* "New Zealand opposition leader had to Google what conversion therapy was before she’d back a ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/09/new-zealand-conversion-therapy-ban-judith-collins/

* "Man finally admits murdering ‘hero’ trans woman Amy Griffiths on the day his trial was due to start:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/martin-saberi-amy-griffiths-transgender-worcester-murder-guilty/

* "Tory MP admits he was wrong to say being gay was 'gross and unnatural' two decades later:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/sir-desmond-swayne-anti-gay-views-wrong-gross-unnatural-section-28-tory-mp/

* "Trans woman Angie Arévalo stabbed to death during ‘family fight’. Her attacker was only 14-years-old:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/angie-arevalo-murder-columbia-transgender-lgbt-community-violence/

* "Campaigners eye memorial for two gay men whose brutal, gruesome murder shocked the UK 25 years ago:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/terry-sweet-bernard-hawken-memorial-fundraiser-plymouth-pride-luke-pollard/

* "Republicans want to give parents thousands to send their kids to anti-LGBT+ religious schools:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/virginia-republicans-hb-2013-hope-scholarship-lgbt/

* "Amend's Larry Wilmore on Constitution, LGBTQ+ Allyship, and Humanness:" https://www.advocate.com/television/2021/2/16/amends-larry-wilmore-constitution-lgbtq-allyship-and-humanness

* "LGBT+ youths' mental health at highest risk since Section 28: 'I'm worried about being forgotten':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/lgbt-mental-health-young-people-pandemic-just-like-us/

* "Oregon 1st state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/oregon-1st-state-to-decriminalize-possession-of-hard-drugs

* "White House says Ebola outbreaks in Africa need swift action to avoid 'catastrophic consequences':" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/white-house-says-ebola-outbreaks-in-africa-need-swift-action-to-avoid-catastrophic-consequences.html

* "Rachel Johnston: Neglect contributed to woman's teeth removal death:" https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-hereford-worcester-56029959

* "Oops, you did an ableism!:"

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* "Defending Avocado Farms From Drug Cartels:"

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* "Deadly Himalayan Flood Shows Perils of Mountain Warming:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deadly-himalayan-flood-shows-perils-of-mountain-warming/

* "Before Himalayan Flood, India Ignored Warnings of Development Risks:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/world/asia/india-flood-ignored-warnings.html

* "The Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/16/ercot-texas-electric-grid-failure/

* "Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Texas-grid-again-faces-scrutiny-over-cold-15955392.php

* "Chris Hayes debunks GOP, right-wing media lies about Texas power outages:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-debunks-gop-right-wing-media-lies-about-texas-power-outages-101126213657

* "Beto: ‘We are nearing a failed state in Texas’ thanks to GOP leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/beto-we-are-nearing-a-failed-state-in-texas-thanks-to-gop-leadership-101126213866

* "Rep. Joaquin Castro blames Texas Electric grid failure on ‘people who are married to fossil fuels’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-joaquin-castro-blames-texas-electric-grid-failure-on-people-who-are-married-to-fossil-fuels-101124165925

* Utilities are a public good and essential infrastructure. They need to be publicly owned and run for the public good instead of for profit. This is why.

* "Biden administration sending generators to Texas amid power outages:" https://www.axios.com/texas-power-outages-generators-biden-diesel-9f90d47f-327f-4d53-8cd6-9a74a2a06ec3.html

* "People In Texas Jails Are ‘Freezing,’ Without Hot Food Or Running Water:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-winter-storm-jails-prisons-power-outage_n_602db1dbc5b66da5db9ee685

* "Texas bearing burden of failure to heed cold weather lesson ten years ago:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/texas-bearing-burden-of-failure-to-heed-cold-weather-lesson-ten-years-ago-101211717525

* "‘Brazen lie’: Chris Hayes calls out Gov. Abbott, Fox News for Texas power grid lies:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-brazen-lie-chris-hayes-calls-out-gov-abbott-fox-news-for-texas-power-grid-lies-101204037611

* "Castro: Texas power chaos is worst state policy disaster since Flint water crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/castro-texas-power-chaos-is-worst-state-policy-disaster-since-flint-water-crisis-101204549850

* "Millions in Texas are without safe drinking water as power catastrophe drags on:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/millions-in-texas-are-without-safe-drinking-water-as-power-catastrophe-drags-on-101270597836

* "Live updates: Millions have power restored in Texas, but water and heat failures persist amid extreme cold:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/02/18/winter-storm-weather-live-updates/#link-FJHNYZD23VAR3NWSQYBIOZKIKY

* Let them eat cake! "Cruz calls Cancun, Mexico, trip 'a mistake' as Texans remain without power amid historic winter storm:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/18/politics/ted-cruz-cancun-texas-disaster-electricity-power-water/index.html

* "LGBTQ+ Twitter Drags Ted Cruz for Jetting to Mexico During Texas Storm:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/2/18/lgbtq-twitter-drags-ted-cruz-jetting-mexico-during-texas-storm

* "Chris Hayes to Ted Cruz: Governance is not just ‘performative trolling’’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-ted-cruz-governance-is-not-just-performative-trolling-101261381585

* "Houston mayor on Cruz fleeing Texas: We don’t leave the ship when it’s in trouble:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/houston-mayor-on-cruz-fleeing-texas-we-don-t-leave-the-ship-when-it-s-in-trouble-101263429633

* "‘This is a wake up call’: Experts say climate change played a role in Texas storm:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-this-is-a-wake-up-call-experts-say-climate-change-played-a-role-in-texas-storm-101258309921

* "Ted Cruz says he was 'taking care of' family during trip to Cancún while families in Texas freeze:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ted-cruz-claims-his-mexico-trip-was-him-taking-care-of-his-family-during-power-outages-101258309831

* Ways to help people in Texas: https://spockvarietyhour.tumblr.com/post/643435770019987456
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* "Highlights From NASA’s Successful Landing on Mars:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/18/science/nasa-mars-landing

* "She was the first Black person freed by Lincoln, long before his presidency. Her grave was paved over and her story hardly known.:" https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4373306001

* "African-American Faces Of The Civil War:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/11/16/163887404/african-american-faces-of-the-civil-war

* "Google celebrates trailblazing lesbian civil rights poet Audre Lorde on her birthday:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/audre-lorde-birthday-quotes-poems-project-self-care-google-doodle/

* "Former Trump casino where stars played goes out with a bang:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-plaza-casino-imploded-cfd6efef1e4d23dfce977ab88e48e9de

* "Queer music legend Ari Gold dies aged 47, with RuPaul leading tributes to a 'lovely, gentle man':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/15/ari-gold-dies-death-tribute-rupaul-laverne-cox-cancer-leukaemia/

* "'Queen' Helen Fenlon, who made history as half of the UK's first married trans couple, dies aged 64:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/helen-fenlon-married-trans-couple-dead/

* He spent approximately 35 years deliberately and aggressively making the world worse. "Hateful Homophobe Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/2/17/hateful-homophobe-rush-limbaugh-dead-70

* It is appropriate he died of cancer, having been a cancer on our society his whole adult life. "Why Should I Say Anything Nice About Dead Rush Limbaugh?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/2/17/why-should-i-say-anything-nice-about-dead-rush-limbaugh

* "Rush Limbaugh mocked deaths of AIDS victims to disco music in vile radio segment:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/18/rush-limbaugh-aids-lgbt-death-gay-disco-1990-dionne-warwick/

* "Joy Reid: Rush Limbaugh hardened ‘rural white listeners and weaponized white male grievance’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-rush-limbaugh-hardened-rural-white-listeners-and-weaponized-white-male-grievance-101201477663

* I think the objection based on patriarchal images is valid and discussion worth having. The rest? The usual nonsense. "Towering statue of lesbian pirates sparks outrage among locals:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/16/amanda-cotton-lesbian-pirates-anne-bonny-mary-read-devon-burgh-island/

* "Why Cosmic Horror is Hard To Make:"

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* "Winter Storms Batter U.S. & Mardi Gras Becomes Yardi Gras:" https://www.cc.com/video/yvi519/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-winter-storms-batter-u-s-mardi-gras-becomes-yardi-gras

* "The Pandemic Fuels Anti-Asian Racism:" https://www.cc.com/video/3i22x4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-pandemic-fuels-anti-asian-racism

* "CP Time - The History of Black Doctors:" https://www.cc.com/video/byfjet/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-the-history-of-black-doctors

* "The Texas Energy Crisis Deepens:" https://www.cc.com/video/r53uvd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-texas-energy-crisis-deepens

* "Trump Plaza Hotel Demolished & Trump vs. Mitch McConnell:" https://www.cc.com/video/5qxuiz/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-plaza-hotel-demolished-trump-vs-mitch-mcconnell

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - Remote Education Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/6yq36y/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-remote-education-crisis

* "Ted Cruz Jets Off to Cancun:" https://www.cc.com/video/4q0772/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ted-cruz-jets-off-to-cancun

* "Law & Order: Impeachment Unit:"

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* "You Do Not Want Bruce Castor Defending You In Court:"

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* Tuesday: The shot still hurts, but is diminishing. The original joint pain itself is dramatically better, though still twingey. The secondary and tertiary pain associated with it that had basically taken over my head and shoulder is down to the more acute secondary areas. I had a brutal headache all evening, but given the extreme pain levels the last couple of weeks I'm not particularly concerned at present, though I'm monitoring that situation because pandemic.

Assuming I didn't catch covid at the specialist office this was very much worth it.

* Wednesday: My suspicion that the headache and general crappiness was temporary and likely connected to extreme pain and shoulder treatment is looking correct. I am learning the new geography of my pain. I hurts terribly if I touch the joint, and I still have limited Range of motion, with extreme pain if I do something stupid like try to adjust a pillow Or get a plate out of the cabinet in the kitchen, but tping is a lot easier and I can carry buckets if I don't ttry to lift them above my waist, which trust me is still helpful for the fish and plants. I am finding weird pockets of stabbypain within the general duller pain that is my head neck and torso, like islands of no in an unpleasant lake, but this is bearable. Last week wasn't.

I'm am still really worn out from ll of it and my bdy decared a spasm night, which is no particular surprise given the givens.

I'm still fighting the piss pond situation in the fish tank area. someone started pissing half on half off the pad, in such volume that it was getting up under the pad and making puddles. Itried a double sizze pad under the belief that someone standing in the box would have to piss on the pad, Right? Wrong. They pissed half on, half off the pad again, despite one of the edges being a Livia and a half body length from the closest box edge. so it's not accidental. It's now escalated to massive piss pools that I'm too disabled to cope with at the rate and volume we are discussing.

Both front boxes were cleaned and I did a no pad experiment. Woke to find an epic piss lake again. Sigh. all four boxes are now clean. I switched out the office box for the open box that seems to be the issue. The open box is on a piss pad where I can monitor it when I'm working. IDK. On the upside whoever is doing it is very well hydrated and not pissing blood.

* I wish Dunkin Donuts were still a Thing.

* I just love House Floats. "10 of the Queerest Mardi Gras Houses in New Orleans:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2021/2/18/10-queerest-mardi-gras-houses-new-orleans#media-gallery-media-9

* "Vivid photos offer a record of a diverse Massachusetts community:" https://mashable.com/2017/10/22/beaver-brook-neighbors/

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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.

* Ways to help people in Texas: https://spockvarietyhour.tumblr.com/post/643435770019987456
https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/643431809724628992

* "You Can Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Troop Of Girls In NYC Shelter System:" https://www.scarymommy.com/troop-6000-girl-scouts-nyc-shelters/

* More Girl Scout Troops in Particular Need: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/643247412337639424/girl-scout-cookie-time

* Cat Rescue Fundraiser: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/642429918533304320/design-a-tea-where-tea-leaves-dream-custom

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* I'm too queasy to go through and figure out what's no longer relevant. Sorry.

* "Charlie Hebdo: Fourteen guilty in 2015 Paris terror attacks trial:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55336094

* "Travel chaos, U-turns and a cancelled Christmas: it's Boris Johnson's worst week:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/21/boris-johnson-cabinet-uk-travel-ban-ministers-covid

* "For U.K., an Early Taste of Brexit as Borders Are Sealed:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/world/europe/brexit-covid-uk.html

* "Kidnap, torture, murder: the plight of Pakistan’s thousands of disappeared:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/14/kidnap-torture-the-plight-of-pakistans-thousands-of-disappeared

* "Beijing may have built bases in the South China Sea, but that doesn't mean it can defend them, report claims:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/07/china/south-china-sea-bases-military-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Special Report-China launches 'gray-zone' warfare to subdue Taiwan:" https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-taiwan-military/special-report-china-launches-gray-zone-warfare-to-subdue-taiwan-idUSKBN28K1GS

* "As Mexico’s security deteriorates, the power of the military grows:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/mexico-losing-control/mexico-military-security-drug-war/?itid=sf_world

* "The World’s Most Important Body of Water:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/12/south-china-sea-us-ghosts-strategic-tensions/617380/
* "Indian farmers step up pressure with hunger strike against reforms:" https://www.reuters.com/article/india-farms-protests/indian-farmers-step-up-pressure-with-hunger-strike-against-reforms-idUSKBN28O0MC

* "The Arab Uprisings Never Ended:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2020-12-08/arab-uprisings-never-ended

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* "People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/covid-deaths-young-adults.html

* "She was demoted, doubted and rejected. Now, her work is the basis of the Covid-19 vaccine:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/us/katalin-kariko-covid-19-vaccine-scientist-trnd/index.html

* "Why Restricting International Travel Probably Won’t Prevent the Next Pandemic:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/study-travel-bans-won-t-thwart-the-next-pandemic

* "What to know about new Covid strain spreading in U.K.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-to-know-about-new-covid-strain-spreading-in-u-k-98219077954

* "Netherlands ban flights from UK after detecting new coronavirus strain:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-netherlands-britain/netherlands-ban-flights-from-uk-after-detecting-new-coronavirus-strain-idUSKBN28U03A

UPDATE: Pretty much all of Europe is banning or limiting travel from the UK.

* "‘Out of control’ Covid strain makes UK a global pariah as countries impose travel bans:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/new-covid-strain-makes-uk-a-global-pariah-amid-travel-bans.html

* "Austria will go into third lockdown after Christmas, ending with tests:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-austria/austria-to-go-into-third-lockdown-after-christmas-media-report-idUSKBN28S16L

* "Spain to start vaccinations against Covid-19 on Dec 27: Health minister:" https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/spain-to-start-vaccinations-against-covid-19-on-dec-27-health-minister-120121900145_1.html

* "WHO was warned lives were at risk over yanked Italy report:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-europe-italy-coronavirus-pandemic-united-nations-36170835a5c7ca888894022f31a38c85

* "Italy to go into Covid lockdown over festive period:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/19/italy-to-go-into-covid-lockdown-over-festive-period

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 12/21/20 are 17,948,000. The official death toll is 319,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "A death every 33 seconds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/19/death-every-30-seconds/

* "FDA authorizes Moderna vaccine for emergency use:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/18/fda-authorizes-moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-448578

* "Experts applaud as Moderna COVID-19 vaccine goes out for shipment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-now-out-for-shipment-discussed-by-health-military-experts-98118213959

* "Older People, Some Essential Workers Should Get Vaccines Next, CDC Panel Says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/20/948606578/older-people-some-essential-workers-to-get-vaccines-next-cdc-panel-says

* Stay the fuck at home! "Millions Of People Flying Despite Public Health Pleas To Stay Put:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/20/948618133/millions-of-people-flying-despite-public-health-pleas-to-stay-put

* "‘Subpoenas are necessary’: House watchdog details extensive meddling with CDC Covid-19 reports:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/house-watchdog-cdc-covid-reports-449517

* "Stanford Apologizes After Vaccine Allocation Leaves Out Nearly All Medical Residents:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/18/948176807/stanford-apologizes-after-vaccine-allocation-leaves-out-nearly-all-medical-resid

* "Navajo Nation reports another 160 COVID cases plus 4 deaths:" https://kutv.com/news/local/navajo-nation-reports-another-160-covid-cases-plus-4-deaths

* "ICU availability in Southern California at 0%, and it's going to get worse, officials warn:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-17/southern-california-out-of-icu-beds-amid-covid-19-surge

* "Prisoners Have Been Excluded From COVID Vaccine Plans, and Health Experts Are Sounding the Alarm:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/money-report/prisoners-have-been-excluded-from-covid-vaccine-plans-and-health-experts-are-sounding-the-alarm/2510707/

* "New York Spent $1 Billion on Virus Supplies. Now It Wants Money Back.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/nyregion/new-york-ppe-refunds.html

* "The Santa who sounded the alarm:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/19/santa-claus-coronavirus-warning/

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* "EU abstains from UN vote on ‘Nazism’:" https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-abstains-from-un-vote-on-nazism/

* "Trump contradicts Pompeo in bid to downplay massive hack of U.S. government, Russia’s role:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-is-behind-the-broad-ongoing-cyber-spy-campaign-against-the-us-government-and-private-sector-pompeo-says/2020/12/19/8c850cf0-41b3-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

* "Trump administration weighing legal immunity for Saudi crown prince in alleged assassination plot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/legal-immunity-request-mbs/2020/12/21/c2b87900-4150-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html

* 45's rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic again. "Trump Makes Classical Style the Default for Federal Buildings:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/arts/design/trump-executive-order-federal-buildings-architecture.html

* "Trump pardons: 7 high profile people who may get one:" https://fortune.com/2020/12/18/trump-pardons-7-high-profile-people-who-may-get-one/

* "Barr says no need for special counsels to investigate election or Hunter Biden:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/william-barr-hunter-biden-election-special-counsel/index.html

* "Trump's talk of martial law sends White House staffers rushing to the press:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/media/stelter-trump-martial-law/index.html

* "Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html

* "‘Disgrace to his uniform’: Col. Wilkerson on Flynn’s martial law election plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgrace-to-his-uniform-col-wilkerson-on-flynn-s-martial-law-election-plot-98216517703

* No, it's a different suit. 45 keeps humping that dead horse. "Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-election-results-151f9a6ca176bd92bb67e4494fecc3c7

* "Feds probing Giuliani have broached making legal request for his electronic communications:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/feds-probing-giuliani-have-broached-making-legal-request-for-his-electronic-communications-98224197601

* "As Trump reportedly warms to pardon power, Giuliani focuses on reversing election for him:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-trump-reportedly-warms-to-pardon-power-giuliani-focuses-on-reversing-election-for-him-98231877686

* "Maddow: U.S. mired in '3-way split screen' of Trump crises:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-u-s-mired-in-3-way-split-screen-of-trump-crises-98231877672

* Extended Kamala Harris Interview: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kamala-harris-on-trump-s-refusal-to-concede-we-need-to-govern-98209861924

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kamala-harris-on-taking-the-vaccine-i-trust-the-public-health-experts-98209349580

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kamala-harris-we-intend-to-work-across-party-lines-98208837811

* "A huge study of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy suggests 'trickle-down' economics makes inequality worse:" https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-cuts-rich-trickle-down-income-inequality-study-2020-12

* "Paycheck-To-Paycheck Nation: Why Even Americans With Higher Income Struggle With Bills:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/941292021/paycheck-to-paycheck-nation-how-life-in-america-adds-up

* "Work (or, the 5 jobs I had before YouTube):"

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* "Lawmakers reach compromise over GOP proposal to rein in Fed’s powers, clearing path for a stimulus package deal:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/19/stimulus-talks-race-against-government-shutddown-deadline/

* "Sen. Coons says Senate COVID relief vote ‘still days away’:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/covid-relief-passage-by-the-senate-still-days-away-by-sen-coons-says-98072133783

* "Jayapal on widespread COVID economic issues: 'This is on us, the federal government’:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/covid-relief-package-in-congress-still-under-negotiations-discussed-by-rep-jayapal-98074181697

* "Congress passes massive stimulus package as virus rages:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/congress-verge-approving-massive-stimulus-449504

* Georgians! Go Vote Now!

* I added a little something to "Love, Gen X" for 2020: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/638078481235951616/dear-millenials-and-gen-z

* "Turner addresses Biden critique, pledges to work with all allies on economic issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/nina-turner-on-her-biden-critiques-running-for-congress-income-inequality-98074693985

* "Black And Up In Arms: Code Switch:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/12/09/944615029/black-and-up-in-arms

* "What Black People Really Think About the Police:" https://newrepublic.com/article/160532/what-black-people-think-police

* "Police officers are prosecuted for murder in less than 2 percent of fatal shootings:" https://www.vox.com/21497089/police-prosecutions-black-lives-matter-breonna-taylor-george-floyd

* "Black children are 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/us/black-children-police-brutality-trnd/index.html

* "Why You Really Can’t Fight City Hall, At Least Over the Police:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/12/15/monell-rule-police-racial-justice-445308

* "Police Say Seizing Property Without Trial Helps Keep Crime Down. A New Study Shows They’re Wrong.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/police-say-seizing-property-without-trial-helps-keep-crime-down-a-new-study-shows-theyre-wrong

* "Right-Wing Embrace Of Conspiracy Is 'Mass Radicalization,' Experts Warn:" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946381523/right-wing-embrace-of-conspiracy-is-mass-radicalization-experts-warn

* "Why Just 'Adding Context' to Controversial Monuments May Not Change Minds:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-just-adding-context-controversial-monument-may-not-change-minds-180976583/

* "A family got a racist note after putting up a Black Santa. Soon, neighbors began displaying their own Black Santas.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/12/03/black-santa-solidarity/

* "These Aren’t Laws:"

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* CW: Domestic Violence, Rape. "“No Choice but to Do It”: Why Women Go to Prison:" https://newrepublic.com/article/160589/women-prison-domestic-violence-survivors

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Hundreds of veterans rebuke Rep. Dan Crenshaw over claims he smeared sex assault victim:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Nearly-500-veterans-rebuke-Rep-Dan-Crenshaw-over-15808348.php

* "People have the ‘right to offend’ and to ‘abuse another’ without fear of arrest, UK court rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/18/freedom-speech-right-offend-abuse-kate-scottow-stephanie-hayden-court-appeal/

* "The Supreme Court Rejects Opportunity to Roll Back Marriage Equality:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/supreme-court-rejects-indiana-birth-certificate-case.html

* "Comedian Eddie Izzard Announces She/Her Pronouns: 'I Just Want to Be Based in Girl Mode':" https://people.com/tv/eddie-izzard-announces-she-her-pronouns/

* "How Kidney Failure Is the Perfect Storm of a Racist Health Care System:" https://features.propublica.org/covid-dialysis/for-years-jamarcus-crews-tried-to-get-a-new-kidney-but-corporate-healthcare-stood-in-the-way/

* "When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/octopus-behavior-metazoa

* "Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/17/world/asia/india-pollution-inequality.html

* "‘We are slowly being poisoned.’ How toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes:" https://www.latimes.com/projects/toxic-chemicals-planes-covid-19-travel-woes/

* "The Antikythera Mechanism: Evidence of a Lunar Calendar:" https://www.metafilter.com/189714/The-Antikythera-Mechanism-Evidence-of-a-Lunar-Calendar

* "Her Majesty’s Kidnappers:" https://daily.jstor.org/kidnapping-for-the-queens-choir/?preview_id=268821

* "Iconic Corpse: GRAM PARSONS:"

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* "Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214:"

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* "Votegasm 2020: The Awkward Days After - More Shower Power:"

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* "Pence Gets the Vaccine Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "A Teacher - SNL:"

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* "The Grinch - SNL:"

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* "Ask Your Doctor If Putonamasc Is Right For You:"

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* Saturday: Today I had an evening of Spasms, which is painful and exhausting and in this case gave me a headache, though that could also be the lung infection with resurged Friday. I stayed up to call about more antibiotics, but it wasn't sorted by Pharmacy closing time. I'll try again Monday. I'm not dangerously ill and the timing: sinus symptoms two days after the end of a course, the rest of the identical symptom set the evening after... yeah. normally we do a double course of z-pacs, but it wasn't my regular doctor and I forgot to tell her, so really my fault. I'm gnawing on news, but mostly vegging and watching youtube. Sorry. Spasms + infections is just a lot.

On the upside? So many gift cookies in the mail! Omnomnom!

* Monday: My antibiotics didn't come, despite the pharmacist saying they were in the bag. I'm not doing so well physically. Otherwise though? it's pretty good solstice. Went to a solstice zoom party, even though I stopped going to the physical version about 12 years ago because of disability. Some Millenials brought food today, including an excellent pecan pie. Another Millenial brought a ton of cookies in the evening. I have two gifts to open and a ton of cards. The cats wore them self out playing with toys the Millenials got, and we just need to survive another month before things start improving.

* Muslim Experiences Christmas: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/638068935319863296

* "Sunday Sweets With Christmas Cheer:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/20/sunday-sweets-with-christmas-cheer

* "Sunday Sweets Savors The Moment :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/13/sunday-sweets-savors-the-moment

* "Sunday Sweets Gets OVER DRAMATIC:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/12/6/sunday-sweets-gets-over-dramatic

* I am watching season 5 of The Expanse, and finally, I get why book readers feel that way about Amos Burton.

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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.

* "8 Overlooked LGBTQ Groups to Donate to for Giving Tuesday:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/02/8-overlooked-lgbtq-groups-donate-giving-tuesday

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* "Ireland’s Leo Varadkar condemns anti-gay ‘innuendo’ around friendship with doctor amid leaked document scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/06/leo-varadkar-innuendo-maitiu-o-tuathail-mattie-mcgrath-leaked-document/

* The retirement is rumor at this point. "Russian MPs consider lifetime immunity for former presidents:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/05/russian-mps-consider-lifetime-immunity-for-former-presidents-putin

* "Poland delays abortion ban as nationwide protests continue:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/03/poland-stalls-abortion-ban-amid-nationwide-protests

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* CW: Animal death "What's the science behind mink and coronavirus?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54842643

* "Yes, the government’s new lockdown rules are going to affect your sex life. Here’s how:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/05/england-sex-lockdown-rules-scotland-wales-northern-ireland/

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 11/6/20 are 9,666,000. The official death toll is 236,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "U.S. Shattered Records For New Coronavirus Cases This Week As Hospitalizations Climb:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/06/931928803/new-coronavirus-cases-shattered-records-this-week-and-hospitalizations-surged

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* CW: Death Threats "Twitter bans Steve Bannon after call for beheadings; YouTube removes video:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/2020-11-05-trump-biden-election-results-n1246510/ncrd1246699#blogHeader

* "Judge orders Trump administration to reveal PPP loan data it sought to obscure:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/judge-orders-trump-administration-reveal-ppp-loan-data-it-sought-n1246792

* Short version as of Friday night late returns: Biden needs Pennsylvania or Arizona and Nevada. All three look hopeful, assuming there is no judicial chicanery, so digits cruciform. North Carolina will be a while, but likely will go to 45 absent a miracle. Georgia is still a toss up and expected to be an automatic recount. There reason to think we'll know sometime Saturday.

UPDATE: Pennsylvania's official. Biden Won!

* "Biden on cusp of claiming the presidency as Trump vows to keep fighting:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/biden-expands-paths-to-victory-434630

* "Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-secret-service/2020/11/06/0057dc5e-1fd9-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html

* "8 landmark LGBT+ moments that defined the 2020 presidential election:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/06/presidential-election-2020-lgbt-moments-donald-trump-joe-biden-pete-buttigieg/

* "Hate preacher Franklin Graham claims Joe Biden will throw homophobes in jail if elected president:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/05/franklin-graham-tony-perkins-joe-biden-donald-trump-homophobia-lgbt-rights/

* "GOP begins pushing back against Trump’s false election claims:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/gop-pushes-back-trump-false-election-claims-434653

* "Trump prepares to launch a second term early, even without winning:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/05/trump-second-term-without-winning-434464

* "Donald Trump to be sued for using Village People’s YMCA – which definitely isn’t about gay sex – without permission:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/06/village-people-donald-trump-ymca-presidential-election-gay-sex-scorpio-music/

* "LGBTQ+ Folks Praise Stacey Abrams's Work Against Voter Suppression:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/11/06/lgbtq-folks-praise-stacey-abramss-work-against-voter-suppression

* "Justice Alito temporarily grants Pennsylvania GOP request to enforce segregation of ballots that arrived after Election Day:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pennsylvania-ballots-gop/2020/11/06/064fdf94-2056-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html

* "Armed men arrested near Philadelphia vote-counting site, police say:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/06/philadelphia-armed-men-arrested-vote-counting-convention-center

* "More than a dozen arrested as protesters demand vote count:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-backers-converge-michigan-arizona-0b5711044a940703045953fe7833d6aa

* "What are the odds of Democratic wins in the Georgia runoffs?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/06/what-are-odds-democratic-wins-georgia-runoffs/

Want to try to beat the odds and flip the Senate?

Donate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff
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* "Mark Kelly defeats Arizona GOP Sen. Martha McSally in key pickup for Democrats:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/politics/mark-kelly-arizona-senate/index.html

* "Hickenlooper beats Gardner, gives Senate Dems pickup in Colorado:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/03/colorado-senate-election-results-2020-433575

* "Alaska’s Slow Ballot Count Adds to Senate Uncertainty:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/2020-elections-slow-alaska-count-adds-to-senate-uncertainty.html

* "Record Democratic turnout not enough for Jones in Alabama:" https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-college-football-donald-trump-alabama-senate-elections-72aec389c8020060ada7334af93d83a2

* "Re-elected homophobe Lindsey Graham threatens to ‘stop the radical agenda’ as Senate result hangs in balance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/04/lindsey-graham-result-electoin-south-carolina-senate-speech/

* "Amid a Rainbow Wave, Some Losses in Statewide and Congressional Races:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/11/04/amid-rainbow-wave-some-losses-statewide-and-congressional-races

* "Oklahoma's Mauree Turner Makes History as Nonbinary State Legislator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/11/04/oklahomas-mauree-turner-makes-history-nonbinary-state-legislator

* "Republican who spouts QAnon conspiracy theories and has a problem with Spongebob being gay elected to congress:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/04/lauren-boebert-colorado-congress-qanon-diane-mitsch-bush-spongebob-squarepants-republican/

* "Gay man makes history by beating Proud Boys boss in election race, proving once and for all that love trumps hate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/06/adrian-tam-hawaii-election-proud-boys-nick-ochs-gay-house-representatives/

* "Jessica Benham, Bi Autistic Woman, Seals Historic Win in Pa. Election:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/11/06/jessica-benham-bi-autistic-woman-seals-historic-win-pa-election

* "Roger Montoya, Shamed by GOP for Gay Porn Past, Wins N.M. Election:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/11/06/roger-montoya-shamed-gop-gay-porn-past-wins-nm-election

* "Lesbian Running for S.C. Sheriff Defeats Male Boss Who Demoted Her:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/11/06/lesbian-running-sc-sheriff-defeats-male-boss-who-demoted-her

* "Trans Activist Jailed at NYC Protest, Charged with Bullhorn Possession:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/11/06/trans-activist-jailed-nyc-protest-charged-bullhorn-possession

* "Lesbian couple left ‘creeped out’ after man pulls up beside them and asks for a threesome:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/06/swindon-wiltshire-police-lesbian-couple-threesome-homophobia-hate-crime/

* "Literary giant Margaret Atwood artfully shuts down transphobes in the simplest of terms:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/06/margaret-atwood-transphobia-trans-rights-interview-dearly-poetry-jk-rowling-handmaids-tale/

* "Some SCOTUS Justices Seem to Support 'Freedom' to Discriminate:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/11/05/some-scotus-justices-seem-support-freedom-discriminate

* "Catholic university boss ‘doesn’t think LGBT+ people are evil’ – but urged students to vote against equal rights regardless:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/05/catholic-assumption-university-election-equal-marriage-gender-ideology-apology-francesco-cesareo/

* "A Dress Historian Explains the History of the Witch Hat:"

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* "The Bisexual Princesses Who Fell in Love:"

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* CW: Child Death "Morbid Minute- KILLER Green:"

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* "Growth, Cities, and Immigration: Crash Course US History #25:"

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* "World War II Part 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course US History #36:"

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* "Tumblr's Greatest Conspiracy: The Story of TJLC:"

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* "Doctor Mike and Mortician React To “Six Feet Under”:"

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* "One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other:"

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* "Ballot Initiatives Bring New Drug Laws, A New Flag, And Disappointment For Gig Workers:"

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* "The Electoral College: None Of This Makes Any Sense:"

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* "Play The Game That's Making Family Game Night Great Again!:"

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* "Stephen Rips Up The Monologue And Starts Over After Trump's Heartbreaking Thursday Night Lie Fest:"

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* "Quarantinewhile... Stephen Wonders If He Should Trust This Creepy Robot:"

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* "Stephen Answers Your Kids' Most Pressing Election Questions!:"

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* "Go - Indigo Girls:"

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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.

* "Protect the Results - Organizing to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election:" https://protecttheresults.com/

* Want to try to beat the odds and flip the Senate?

Donate to Jon Ossoff: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ossoffrunoff
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* "‘Then I Heard a Boom’: Heavy Weapons Take Toll on Civilians in Armenia-Azerbaijan Clash:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/world/europe/armenia-azerbaijan-nagorno-karabakh.html

* "Kyrgyzstan PM resigns amid election protests:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54432037

* "Nerve Agent Was Used to Poison Navalny, Chemical Weapons Body Confirms:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/europe/navalny-opcw-russia-novichok.html

* "Susan Nicholson death: Fresh inquest appeal over police murder probe:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-54431150

* "Police arrest 10 people after four drug-related deaths in north-east England:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/05/police-issue-drugs-warning-as-four-die-in-north-east-england

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* "Risk Factors for Hospitalization, Mechanical Ventilation, or Death Among Veterans With SARS-CoV-2:" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770946?utm_campaign=articlePDF&utm_medium=articlePDFlink&utm_source=articlePDF&utm_content=jamanetworkopen.2020.22310

* "Hidden immune weakness found in 14% of gravely ill COVID-19 patients:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients

* "Scientists trace severe COVID-19 to faulty genes and autoimmune condition - News:" https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/29183-severe-covid-19-faulty-genes-autoimmune-condition/

* "Coronavirus: Paris to shut bars and raise alert to maximum:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54413563

* "Coronavirus in Senegal: Keeping Covid-19 at bay:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/embed/p08mqgxz/54388340

* "Coronavirus: German cities issue 35,000 fines to rulebreakers:" https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-german-cities-issue-35000-fines-to-rulebreakers/a-55150482

* "Thousands Protest Anti-Coronavirus Restrictions in Germany Over Weekend:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-04/thousands-protest-anti-coronavirus-restrictions-in-germany-over-weekend

* "Covid hospital cases jump nearly 25% in England:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54441133

* "Test error 'should never have happened' - Hancock:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54422505

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 10/6/20 are 7,493,000. The death toll is 211,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "The F.D.A. releases stricter guidelines for vaccine developers after a holdup at the White House.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/the-fda-releases-stricter-guidelines-for-vaccine-developers-after-a-holdup-at-the-white-house.html

* "White House declines offers from CDC to help with contact tracing:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/white-house-contact-tracing/index.html

* "Restaurant staffers in quarantine after working Trump fundraiser:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-covid-19-restaurant-workers-quarantine-after-fundraiser/

* "One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/07/politics/trump-valet-tests-positive-covid-19/index.html

* "White House event for families of deceased U.S. troops thrust into new light after admiral’s coronavirus diagnosis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/10/06/joint-chiefs-isolation-after-coast-guard-admiral-tests-positive-coronavirus-pentagon-says/

* "Top military leaders in quarantine after Coast Guard admiral tests positive for Covid-19:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/coast-guard-covid-positive-426799

* "Top White House aide Stephen Miller tests positive for Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/stephen-miller-tests-positive-coronavirus/index.html

* "List of positive Covid cases at White House grows at alarming rate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-cases-show-rapid-rate-of-covid-spread-at-white-house-93310533705

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* "“Don Jr. Thinks Trump Is Acting Crazy”: The President’s COVID Joyride Has the Family Divided:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/don-jr-thinks-trump-is-acting-crazy-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided

* "Donald Trump’s gay niece, Mary Trump, reveals president sees illness as ‘an unforgivable weakness’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/05/mary-trump-donald-trump-coronavirus-illness-weakness/

* Andrew Weissmann extended interview:

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* "Eric Trump deposed in New York probe into family business:" https://www.axios.com/eric-trump-deposed-new-york-14366fb9-19b0-4e60-9f42-0bcaa6495608.html

* "Trump ends coronavirus relief talks amid stalemate with Pelosi:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/06/trump-ends-coronavirus-relief-talks-amid-stalemate-with-pelosi-426819

* "Rep. Ocasio-Cortez warns of severe fallout as Trump rejects new Covid relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/severe-fallout-feared-as-trump-rejects-new-covid-relief-93308997868

* "Elect Joe Biden, America:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/opinion/joe-biden-2020-nytimes-endorsement.html

* "Plexiglass to separate Harris and Pence at VP debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/05/plexiglass-harris-and-pence-vp-debate-426514

* "Along With The Affordable Care Act, Pa. Election Case Up For Review By United States Supreme Court:" https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/10/01/pennsylvania-election-case-up-for-review-by-united-states-supreme-court/

* "Two Texas lawsuits challenge governor's restrictions on ballot drop-off locations:" https://www.kmov.com/two-texas-lawsuits-challenge-governors-restrictions-on-ballot-drop-off-locations/article_bb8cb353-9047-57fc-8902-3c64d4c387aa.html

* "Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/technology/facebook-qanon-crackdown.html

* "Nursing student Michelle Ramos Vargas becomes 30th known trans person to be killed in the United States so far this year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/05/michelle-ramos-vargas-transgender-killed-puerto-rico-united-states-human-rights-campaign/

* "'Incredible journey': Loggerhead turtle, released from 20 years in captivity, swims 37,000km to Australia:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-07/yoshi-turtle-journey-tracked-37000km-from-cape-town-to-australia/12024088

* "A lonely otter at a sanctuary finds love online through a dating site built just for him:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/lonely-otter-finds-love-trnd/index.html

* "Flooding hits six million people in East Africa:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54433904

* "Wind farms could power every home by 2030:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54421489

* "Kenzo Takada, Who Brought Japanese Fashion to the World, Dies at 81:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/04/style/kenzo-takada-dead.html

* "20 'Then And Now' Pics That Show How Time Changes Things:" https://www.demilked.com/then-and-now-photos-rephotography/

* "Trump Gets COVID-19 & The White House Offers Mixed Messages:"

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* "Melania Trump Hates Christmas:"

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* "Achoober: The Ride Sharing Service For Contagious Covid Patients:"

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* "Trump Says "Don't Let It Dominate Your Life," Returns To The White House Still Infected With Covid:"

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* "Trump Expected To Resume Hosting Indoor Mask-Free Campaign Rallies:"

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* I am tired. I was planning to go to bed early and then I got caught up in writing a big thing elsewhere about the class implications of bread in the medieval-Early modern era and also mincemeat because the evolution of mincemeat pie is fascinating, and...

And I got hardly any sleep, because I had to be up, dressed, and coherent when the nice social worker lady called. It's the annual assess patient needs/medical situation/services call. she's going to try to wrangle be some things that might help, but it's mostly long shot. The issue is that I can mostly get around under my own power and bath myself, but the arm deterioration in particular is causing me massive problems as far as essential housework. I'm sort of on the bubble for the more serious services.

Anyway, I'm massively behind on news and I actually paused the aggregation and went back for more articles I'd read while prepping to post. It's not nearly enough, but I really do need good sleep tonight and that means wrapping the aggregate before it doubles again.

It looks like we are doing a zoom party for my birthday, which is what we did for my oldest consecutive RL friend a while back. One way or another, I'm having cake here, damnit. There's not going to be secret pumpkins or any of the usual stuff, since me and Squirrel shopping for Gothmas gifts to give out to guests can't happen. We may get outside decorations if things work out car and scheduling wise, but I can't physically manage the interior display myself anymore, though I am terribly tempted to try. Normally I do the interior stuff in September and I'd have outside up a week ago. I'll miss it.

*****
* 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.

* "2020 wildfires in California and the west: Everything we know and how you can help:" https://www.cnet.com/how-to/2020-wildfires-in-california-and-the-west-everything-we-know-and-how-to-help/

* Want a quick way to donate money to close senate races in hopes of flipping the senate? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ky_mcconnell_vid

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* "Widespread COVID-19 vaccinations not expected until mid-2021, WHO says:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-briefing/widespread-covid-vaccinations-not-expected-until-mid-2021-who-says-idUSKBN25V1B0

* "A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged:" https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

* "No, 94 Percent of COVID-19 Deaths Were Not Caused by Something Else:" https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/94-percent-covid19-deaths-not-caused-by-something-else.html

* "COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-can-wreck-your-heart-even-if-you-havent-had-any-symptoms/

* "Israel announces partial national lockdown after coronavirus surge:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-announces-partial-national-lockdown-after-coronavirus-surge-idUSKBN25U2T1

* "Cuba imposes Havana lockdown as coronavirus spreads:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/cuba-imposes-havana-lockdown-coronavirus-spreads-200901194133796.html

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 9/4/20 are 6,174,000. The death toll is 187,200. The real number is likely much higher.

* "Coronavirus in Illinois updates: 5,368 new known COVID-19 cases reported as state catches up following significant slowdown in data processing; Lake County now on warning list:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-covid-19-pandemic-chicago-illinois-news-20200903-dzsplixxhfhjlmhpzi6j5ybymi-story.html

* Can we stop reopening schools now? "Despite Mass Testing, University Of Illinois Sees Coronavirus Cases Rise:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/03/909137658/university-with-model-testing-regime-doubles-down-on-discipline-amid-case-spike

* "Missouri universities grappling with coronavirus spread:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-universities-grappling-with-coronavirus-spread/article_8827d84d-280e-59cc-aa8e-559c359dfba2.html

* "Video shows South Carolina college students crowding bar as COVID-19 cases spike:" https://thehill.com/homenews/news/515209-video-shows-south-carolina-college-students-crowding-bar-as-covid-19-cases

* "University of Iowa coronavirus cases among highest on U.S. campuses UI sees evidence surge has 'started to plateau':" https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/education/iowa-university-coronavirus-students-tests-positive-cases-20200904

* "Different coronavirus landscape increases risk of post-Labor Day weekend spike:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/different-coronavirus-landscape-increases-risk-of-post-labor-day-weekend-spike-91167813758

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* "Multiple news outlets mirror report of Trump denigrating veterans, military service:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/multiple-news-outlets-mirror-report-of-trump-denigrating-veterans-91166789918

* "'It fits': Reports of Trump disparaging veterans resonates with what we know about him:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/reports-of-trump-disparaging-veterans-resonates-with-what-we-know-91167301940

* "Gold Star Mom: Trump 'doesn't seem to have a concept of service':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gold-star-mom-trump-doesn-t-seem-to-have-a-concept-of-service-91166277850

* "Trump disdain for military service threatens morale of those serving:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-disdain-for-military-service-threatens-morale-of-those-serving-91165765942

* "This Former Log Cabin Republican Is on a Mission to Stop Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/9/03/former-log-cabin-republican-mission-stop-trump

* "Anti-Trans Ads Against Biden Incite Fury:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/9/03/anti-trans-ads-against-biden-incite-fury

* "Gay son gives his Trump-supporting mum a much-needed wake-up call in eye-opening new campaign ad:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/25/donald-trump-lgbt-gay-glaad-campaign-ad-fox-news-presidential-election/

* "Trump spins rumors about his own health into new attack on Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/03/trump-attacks-bidens-health-rally-408592

* "Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-older-facebook-ads_n_5f515dcfc5b6946f3eaf3fbe?vf&_guc_consent_skip=1599190225

* "What video analysis of the Aug. 29 Portland shooting tells us:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/09/04/portland-protest-shooting-video/

* "The Few, the Proud, the White: The Marine Corps Balks at Promoting Generals of Color:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/us/politics/marines-race-general.html

* "White House Orders End Of 'Un-American' Racial Sensitivity Training At Federal Agencies:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/racial-sensitivity-training-un-american_n_5f52e600c5b6578026ce23f1

* "Death of the Author 2: Rowling Boogaloo:"

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* "Shamelessly transphobic Polish minister urged to resign after lying about schools ‘stuffing’ kids with hormones:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/03/poland-mikolaj-pawlak-hormones-schools-transgender-pills-fact-checked/

* "Bishop who called for gay conversion camps claims church doesn't wants to force queer people into harmful 'therapy':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/03/polish-bishop-now-claims-misconception-church-force-lgbt-people-into-conversion-therapy/

* "Indonesian Police Arrest Nine in Raid on 'Gay Party':" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/9/03/indonesian-police-arrest-nine-raid-gay-party

* "You're Not Useless:"

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* "Burning Out:" https://longreads.com/2019/11/15/burning-out/

* "Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/black-paint-on-wind-turbines-helps-prevent-bird-massacres/

* "Once seen as loners, male elephants shown to follow elders:" https://apnews.com/ec1b2fcee31d80de93819897d2fe7441

* "Girl Talk with the Dead!:"

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* "Caged Congolese teen: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53917733

* "How Four Brothers Allegedly Fleeced $19 Million From Amazon:" https://www.wired.com/story/how-four-brothers-allegedly-fleeced-19-million-amazon/

* "R.I.P. David Graeber:" https://www.ianwelsh.net/r-i-p-david-graeber/

* "Amezaiku: The Nearly Lost Japanese Art of Candy Sculpture:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/628146/amezaiku-japanese-candy-sculpture

* "Mel Brooks, The Producers and the Ethics of Satire about N@zis:"

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* I was getting better. I swear I was. I started the second z-pac Thursday because while clearing, my lungs weren't clear. I also kind of felt crap Thursday evening, but in the expected ways given the war inside my body.

Ad then I had an ICU dream. These aren't nightmares. No really. I get them when my lungs are bad and the dream is about going on oxygen and having actual appropriate medical care. Other Americans will see why this is kind of an exciting concept. People in developed countries will likely be like: isn't that every day?

Anyway, I half woke up and thought, "Huh, that's odd. My lungs aren't bad enough for me to be dreaming about supplemental oxygen," and went back to sleep.

This was a mistake. I bet you can see the mistake already, but in my defense: half asleep and when I went to bed I was projecting them drying up by Monday.

I woke up with really bad lungs. Like worse than the day they started me on the second antibiotic bad lungs. I moved a little and ended up having to eject a cat and lean over the side of me bed in case I vomited from coughing bad.

My the time I got it together I was too late for the clinic call in hours, apparently. Like they were till open, but o longer answering phones.

Long time readers will know that I general get a virus and then an opportunistic bacterial lung infection moves in while my immune system is extra distracted between fighting off the virs and it's main goal of eating large sections of my body under the beleif that most of me is a foreign object.

Except this is clearly bacterial or it wouldn't have been responding to antibiotics. Which means odds are i just pulled the rare opposite scenario. What have I had to do a lot of the past three weeks? Go to assorted Doctors despite my real concern about infection risk. <.< >.>

Nothing could be done except wait for me to reach live people at the poverty clinic. I'm maxing out my lung treatments.

I think I need a COVID test. If I have it, odds are squirrel and I are both dead.

Update: as of 9AM, I have spent an hour so far hunting for an open Covid test slot before Tuesday. *digits cruciform*

* I watch a lot of zombie movies. Like most of them at least once. One'll slip by here or there only to be noticed a few years later and I'll have to wait for some to come up somewhere I can watch free, but I watch them all, even the terrible z-grade ones. I've been dreaming about zombies in one form another since I was literally three, before I knew the word. IDK, they resonate with me for a bunch of reasons, some of which I've written about before.

I have watched aquatic NAZI zombies, stripper zombies, lederhosen zombies, crappy racist pre-Romero zombies. I love Romero and always will. I love Cemetery Man. Train to Busan is now my favorite, but seriously Dawn of the dead in particular was formative in a bunch of ways. I even watched the zombienado thing the sharknado people made.

I may have found one of the worst zombie movies ever made last night. I mean, at least Zombienado and the zombie strippers had some camp value and the self awareness to know they aren't making a good flick here, just making a flick period, so they just had fun with it. It was a terrible, terrible thing, that made very little sense, couldn't pick a tone, was consistently horribly racist despite being made in 2014 and randomly casually homophobic, and had possibly the stupidest, most annoying collection of characters ever assembled in a zombie movie. Also it was simultaneously vehemently christian and anti-christian in a way that just kept confusing me. It seemed to be trying to say something about religion, but the whole thing was so incoherent, I can't venture a guess as to what.

When I say stupid, I mean I literally could not figure out how this collection of people could survive an hour in a zombie apocalypse let alone a year and a half. These zombies are attracted to noise, but they never shut up and like yelling and screaming all the fucking time. All of their ideas are terrible and frequently deadly. The teenager keeps wandering off by herself. they keep putting limbs and faces next to infected people. they don't pay attention to undead they can see coming towards them because their annoying petty personal dramas are more important than not getting bitten. They keep splitting up and getting attacked.... Like seriously, how'd they make it this far?

The two supposedly bright characters really, really weren't. One was a bunch of ableist tropes (both mental and physical) in a man suit. The other? Was supposedly a scientist, but was only marginally brighter than the others. If this movie wasn't from the UK and six years old, I'd have thought he was a trump CDC political appointee. Like get this: They did mass inoculations of the military with an experimental vaccine they had not bothered to test for safety and efficacy. They had no tests to see if there were any side effects apparently before they lined them up and dosed them with the stuff. What could go wrong? Dude!

So I have to ask, how did someone with 45's level of mental impairment get put in charge of a biological warfare vaccine development program of this magnitude? How did he get the credentials to get hired? What muppet let him handle level four pathogens? Did not one person anywhere in the process suggest at least one proper phase 3 study?

And his decisions stopped making any sense at all once they ran into literal Sweet zombie Jesus. No really. There is a literal zombie Jesus and what little sense the character had in their heads falls right out along with the already minimal coherence to the plot.

I just can't with this film. I keep trying to work out what any of the characters were thinking or why they did any of the things they did and I can't. I still have no idea why zombie Jesus' powers worked the weird inconsistent way they did, just as I can't explain WTF they had a live action first person shooter style intro tacked on at the start of the movie and what if any information it was meant to convey.

They'd have been better off killing off these people as an intro and then made another better movie with characters that I actually wanted to watch doing things that made sense instead of bickering loudly to attract zombies and occasionally literally feeding themselves to zombies on purpose.

Do not watch Zombie Resurrection.

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* How stupid is 45? This stupid, apparently. "U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-vaccine-trump/2020/09/01/b44b42be-e965-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 9/1/20 are 6,065,000. The death toll is 185,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* Republicans now want to kill 2.3 million Americans rather than lift a finger to stop COVID-19. I feel like it needs to be said in those terms, because that's what the new "herd immunity" COVID-19 plan requires.

* "Advisers See No Data Favoring Trump-Touted Plasma Therapy:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/nih-advisers-say-data-fails-to-back-trump-backed-plasma-therapy?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Twitter removes QAnon supporter's false claim about coronavirus death statistics that Trump had retweeted:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/politics/twitter-coronavirus-deaths-false-claim-qanon-trump/index.html

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* 45 announced out of the blue that he didn't have a bunch of mini strokes, much the way a toddler covered in cookie crumbs announces ze didn't eat any cookies before anyone asks.

* "Pence was on standby to 'take over' during Trump's unannounced Walter Reed visit, new book reports:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/trump-walter-reed-visit-pence/index.html

* "Court temporarily blocks enforcement of subpoena for Trump’s tax records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-tax-returns-subpoena/2020/09/01/a865b026-eb98-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar

* "Washington Post: Justice Department preparing to charge former Trump inaugural fundraiser Elliot Broidy:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/politics/elliot-broidy-charges-justice-department/index.html

* This isn't a reform. It's designed to let Bill Barr stop investigation of wrong doing. "Barr tightens rules on surveillance of political candidates and advisers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-surveillance-trump-campaign/2020/09/01/eacbe088-ec57-11ea-99a1-71343d03bc29_story.html

* The goal is to make the older, dirtier coal plants competitive with renewable energy by allowing them to pollute pretty much at will. Deregulation is always about helping corporations harm ordinary people in this country. "E.P.A. Relaxes Rules Limiting Toxic Waste From Coal Plants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/climate/trump-coal-plants.html

* "Congressional investigation finds over $1 billion in coronavirus aid fraud:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/congressional-investigation-finds-over-1-billion-ppp-fraud-n1239001

* They are still treating it like a PR problem. "HHS bids $250 million contract meant to 'defeat despair and inspire hope' on coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/31/hhs-contract-coronavirus-despair-hope-406361

* "Trump's Press Secretary Repeats Lie That He's Pro-LGBTQ+:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/31/trumps-press-secretary-repeats-lie-hes-pro-lgbtq

* They removed the career official who among other things is in charge of cyber security against foreign threats to the election and put in a political appointee with zero cybersecurity experience. "Barr reportedly removes national security official ahead of elections:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/31/william-barr-us-justice-department-elections

* "Facebook takes down Russian operation that recruited U.S. journalists, amid rising concerns about election misinformation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/01/facebook-disinformation-takedown/

* "New York City delays first day of school amid teachers' concerns:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/us/new-york-city-school-delayed/index.html

* "FEMA Says It Will Stop Paying For Cloth Face Masks For Schools:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/01/908413181/fema-says-it-will-stop-paying-for-cloth-face-masks-for-schools

* "2 Colorado Springs elementary schools quarantine classes over COVID-19 concerns:" https://gazette.com/news/2-colorado-springs-elementary-schools-quarantine-classes-over-covid-19-concerns/article_443882f2-ebb8-11ea-b5a6-bbfaa913b524.html

* "Colleges With Covid Outbreaks Advised to Keep Students on Campus:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-30/colleges-with-covid-outbreaks-advised-to-keep-students-on-campus

* "Coronavirus update: Infections rise to more than 1,000 on University of Alabama campus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/29/coronavirus-covid-updates/

* The University’s goal is to spread it to as many households as possible, presumably in hopes of killing members the extended families of their students and spreading it to as many communities as possible, because why else would you do this knowing the consequences. "Emails Show Chaos and Confusion at Ole Miss Over Coronavirus Exposure:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-exposure-sends-university-of-mississippi-ole-miss-into-chaos-emails-show

* "Texas colleges see surge in COVID cases as students return:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/education/article/Surge-in-COVID-19-cases-at-Baylor-prompts-15528173.php

* "Colorado College switches to remote learning, most students will have to leave campus:" https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/colorado-college-switches-to-remote-learning-most-students-will-have-to-leave-campus

* "Dozens of students suspended as coronavirus outbreak emerges at New York college, chancellor says:" https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-31-20-intl/h_9ab6b9dd910c900a9c0a26fa178d70f8

* "University of Notre Dame changes 'battle plan' after rise in COVID-19 cases:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/university-notre-dame-battle-plan-rise-covid-19/story?id=72576408

* "University responds to more than 200 reports of COVID-19 violations:" https://www.unc.edu/posts/2020/08/31/university-responds-to-more-than-200-reports-of-covid-19-violations/

* "We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.:" https://eand.co/we-dont-know-how-to-warn-you-any-harder-america-is-dying-26ff80912391

* "Trump delivers law-and-order message in Kenosha, Wis.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/09/01/election-2020-live-updates-trump-view-property-damage-talk-about-safety-during-visit-kenosha-wis/

* Let's call lies lies. He keeps claiming that if he fantasizes about something it becomes true. "Trump blames people in ‘dark shadows’ for protest violence, cites mysterious plane full of ‘thugs’ in black:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/01/trump-laura-ingraham-conspiracy-theory/

* So for Republicans, law and order means endorsing right wing terrorism against innocent Americans. "Trump defends accused Kenosha gunman, declines to condemn violence from his supporters:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-usa-trump-idUSKBN25R2R1

* "Trump compares police brutality to golfers who ‘miss a 3-foot putt’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/01/trump-police-brutality-golfers-406802

* "DHS Chief Tells Tucker the Feds Are ‘Working On’ Conspiracy Charges Against BLM Leaders:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/dhs-chief-chad-wolf-tells-tucker-carlson-the-feds-are-working-on-corruption-charges-against-blm-leaders

* "A woman died in solitary confinement because she was trans. Her family was just awarded $6 million:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/01/layleen-cubilette-polanco-rikers-settlement-new-york-trans-woman/

* I am furious about this. "Drunk teens attack trans woman and friends on Manchester Pride weekend because she wouldn't give them a hug:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/02/manchester-pride-canal-street-transphobia-anti-lgbt-attack-adam-ali-jack-weir-police/

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* "Episode 7 – The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok and His Sons:" https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/episode-7-the-saga-of-ragnar-lothbrok-and-his-sons/

* This is where I ended up on Blood Eagles back in the day for the same reasons. "Saga Brief 1: The Blood-Eagle:" https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/saga-brief-1-the-blood-eagle/

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* "Lebanese government resigns as public anger grows:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-53730902/lebanese-government-resigns-as-public-anger-grows

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* "Fresh guidance on sex during coronavirus says no kissing, no face-to-face positions – and condoms for oral:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/11/sex-covid-19-coronavirus-face-mask-kissing-terrence-higgins-trust-condom-dental-dam-michael-brady/

* This is a terrible idea. It’s not properly tested or peer reviewed. "Russian coronavirus vaccine given green light, says Putin:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-vladimir-putin-given-green-light/

* "New Zealand considers freight as possible source of new coronavirus cluster:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-newzealand/new-zealand-considers-freight-as-possible-source-of-new-coronavirus-cluster-idUSKCN25801P

* The Republican War on Reality continues. "Trump dismisses coronavirus cases in children, says they’re a ‘tiny fraction’ of deaths:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/10/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

* "How Trump Killed Tens of Thousands of Americans:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html

* "The lost days of summer: How Trump fell short in containing the virus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-struggled-summer-coronavirus/2020/08/08/e12ceace-d80a-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html

* "'Play College Football!' Trump demands as fall seasons collapse:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/10/trump-gop-college-football-393135

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* "Trump wielding presidency like an autocrat: to preserve his power:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-wielding-presidency-like-an-autocrat-to-preserve-his-power-89877061948

* "Secret Service escorts Trump from press briefing after shooting outside White House:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/10/trump-white-house-shooting-secret-service

* Sigh. "Trump unloads in morning interviews as U.S. struggles to tame virus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/11/trump-morning-interviews-coronavirus-393488

* I... have no words. "Trump erroneously says 1918 Spanish Flu 'probably ended' WWII, which happened two decades later:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/10/trump-1918-spanish-flu-probably-ended-wwii-which-happened-two-decades-apart/3340770001/

* "Trump walks out of news conference after reporter asks him about Veterans Choice lie he's told more than 150 times:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/trump-veterans-choice-paula-reid/index.html

* We are wandering deep into Dear Leader territory here. "Donald Trump denies asking how to add face to Mount Rushmore:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/10/donald-trump-denies-asking-how-to-add-face-to-mount-rushmore

"White House reportedly asked South Dakota official about expanding monument"

* Anyone believe him? Bueller? "Trump claims he would have not called for Obama to resign over 160,000 virus deaths:" https://www.axios.com/trump-obama-resign-787b042d-0361-48f1-bba5-c97b05837331.html

* "Judge balks at White House’s executive privilege claim over Ukraine emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/10/judge-trump-executive-ukraine-393153

* After all there's only been sworn testimony, multiple press reports, and a book credibly aledging a wide range of felonies. "Manhattan DA Vance 'still fishing for ways to justify' harassment of Trump over tax records, lawyers claim:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/10/trump-defends-challenge-to-tax-records-subpoena-by-manhattan-da-cyrus-vance.html

* "Sen. Blumenthal calls classified briefing on Russian interference "absolutely chilling":" https://www.axios.com/blumenthal-briefing-russian-interference-2ecde46b-1a7a-4f1e-a2c7-1215db70d348.html

* "Intelligence officials risk Trump's wrath delivering hard truths:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/intelligence-officials-risk-trump-s-wrath-delivering-hard-truths-89878597943

* The point of Deregulation is to remove all barriers to corporations harming ordinary people. "E.P.A. to Lift Obama-Era Controls on Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/climate/trump-methane-climate-change.html

* "Trump says he's considering order on pre-existing condition protections, which already exists:" https://www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-insurance-preexisting-conditions-6482b96a-e9fe-4efe-8d40-141d1adee730.html

The ACA, which 45 is trying to actively destroy, already does this. It's literally right there in the law. Indeed, part of the urgency republicans feel for getting rid of the ACA in the middle of a pandemic that can cause serious permanent disability is to not only prevent the sick from getting health care, but to make sure they won’t be able to get health insurance in future so they might afford medications and care they need going forward which would cost insurance companies money.

If Republicans have changed their minds on this policy goal, why not withdraw their suits to strike down the ACA? This executive order does nothing; it’s just political theater.

* "Nation’s governors raise concerns about implementing Trump executive moves, call on Congress to act:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/10/trump-coronavirus-stimulus-congress/

* "Trump’s Orders on Coronavirus Relief Create Confusion:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/politics/trump-stimulus-bill-coronavirus.html

* "Rep. Jeffries on COVID-19 relief: GOP cares about the 'rich and shameless':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-jeffries-on-covid-19-relief-gop-cares-about-the-rich-and-shameless-89871429779

* "Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/sensitive-claims-bias-facebook-relaxed-misinformation-rules-conservative-pages-n1236182

* "BLM Co-Founder Alicia Garza is Bringing Black Queer Folks to the Polls:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/8/11/blm-co-founder-alicia-garza-bringing-black-queer-folks-polls

* "Rep. Clyburn: Joe Biden does not take the Black community for granted:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/clyburn-joe-biden-does-not-take-the-black-community-for-granted-89932357710

* "Sen. Kamala D. Harris named as Joe Biden’s running mate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kamala-harris-joe-biden-vp-pick/2020/08/11/d7a51930-d1b7-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html

* "How the United States met Kamala Harris:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-the-united-states-met-kamala-harris-89932869590

* This is includes a pretty nuanced description of Kamala Harris as prosecutor from a defense attorney who regularly went up against her. "Vanita Gupta: Kamala Harris 'reflects the coalition that is the future of America':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kamala-harris-reflects-the-coalition-that-is-the-future-of-america-89931845940

* "Obama Senior Adviser: Kamala Harris is ‘more than ready’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/obama-senior-adviser-kamala-harris-is-more-than-ready-89924677676

* This is what the death of Democracy looks like. "Trump aides exploring executive actions to curb voting by mail:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/trump-wants-to-cut-mail-in-voting-the-republican-machine-is-helping-him-392428

* "The Postal Service is Not Ready for November:" https://www.democracydocket.com/2020/08/usps-not-ready/

* Who could have guessed this would happen, except everyone including literal children? "Georgia school in viral photos will close for cleaning after nine people test positive for coronavirus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/09/nine-people-test-positive-coronavirus-georgia-school-where-photos-packed-hallways-went-viral/

* We are the most infected country in the world! He wants to break the law to keep Americans from coming home from significantly less infected countries. "White House looks at plan to keep out citizens and legal residents over virus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-looks-at-plan-to-keep-out-citizens-and-legal-residents-over-virus/2020/08/10/d8233910-db0c-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html

* They claim that they are keeping children with COVID and sending ones that don't have it, because breaking the law and denying them their legal rights somehow prevents uninfected children from spreading a disease they don't have. "ICE Is Making Sure Migrant Kids Don’t Have COVID-19 — Then Expelling Them to “Prevent the Spread” of COVID-19:" https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-is-making-sure-migrant-kids-dont-have-covid-19-then-expelling-them-to-prevent-the-spread-of-covid-19

* That is some stunning projection on display there. Also, can we take a minute to appreciate that he is claiming anti-fascists are fascists? Is it just me or is the news extra Wonderland logic today? "'Their tactics are fascistic’: Barr slams Black Lives Matter, accuses the left of ‘tearing down the system’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/10/barr-fox-antifa-blm/

* "BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors’s Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/8/11/blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullorss-ongoing-fight-racial-justice

* "A gay man was refused entry to a casino because ‘men do not carry purses’. Yes, really:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/11/gay-man-refused-entry-casino-men-do-not-carry-purses/

* "Thugs beat a gay man unconscious while screaming homophobic slurs. Police refuse to recognise it as a hate crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/11/christian-council-beaten-unconscious-homophobia-hate-crime-attack-police-fbi-oklahoma/

The police want to remind yoou that people beating a man unconscious while screaming anti-gay slurs does not constitute any sort of proof of homophobia, so they were entirely justified in leaving these details out of the police report as well as the name and details of one of the participants as neither wwere pertinent to the minor crime of beating up a gay man.

* "'Bigot' Trump adviser launches transphobic attack on 'world class' trans official leading the fight against coronavirus:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/11/dr-rachel-levine-jenna-ellis-donald-trump-legal-adviser-transphobic-pennsylvania/

* "University that bans gay students on ‘morality’ grounds replaces scandal-hit anti-LGBT boss with another homophobic evangelist:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/11/liberty-university-bans-gay-students-scandal-anti-lgbt-homophobe/

* "Evil Queens: A Queer Look at Disney History:"

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* CW: Abuse. I wasn't a fan of her music, but I was furious about the way she was being treated when this was happening, and I am still horrified about the way the system is still abusing her. "Why #FreeBritney is a Disability Rights Issue:"

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* "Satellites record history of Antarctic melting:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53725288

* "Beer unsold during lockdown has been turned into renewable energy:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/australia/coronavirus-australia-beer-energy-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

* "DNA study finds London was ethnically diverse from start:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34809804

* "A Short History of Human Skulls as Drinking Cups:"

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* "The Grave of the SECRET PORPOISE *ssshh*:"

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* "Ok, But What Did Poor People Wear?:"

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* CW: Dead Bodies "We Recreated A Victorian Funeral:"

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* "Donald MacLean: The First of the Cambridge Five:"

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* So it turns out the reason they didn't send me for the expected COVID test Friday, was my nurse was out sick (not with COVID, she's fine). Apparently the sub was supposed to call me back and make an appointment for the ordered test, but I fell through the cracks and she was all, wait, where's the follow up on the pathogen and the shoulder?

So today I went down there and they sent me to the COVID hut. My belief that my oxygen level was likely fine was born out. I hated the test itself, but it was not nearly as bad as I was imagining, if that makes sense. It occurs to me in retrospect that I was remembering that time they stuck a tube down my nose without anesthesia at the ER and i bled off and on for a couple days.

Given my symptom set and medical history, she prescribed an antibiotic for the lungs. I'm going to see how I feel tomorrow before I start it, because it's strong and I'll need to go off my AS meds, plus, it's possible my immune system can beat it itself I want to give it another day or too to make the attempt. Seriously, right now it's a nuisance illness. Any lung thing has a chance to dangerous escalate given my immune system is much more interested in own goals than pathogens, but this doesn't feel like a particularly bad one just now, just the usual cf carrier nonsense that happens multiple times a year. The cold symptoms are solving themselves except for the sinus/runny nose/ear stuff which can as easily be at least half allergies, since this is the season for it. A rhinovirus should solve itself tomorrowish or the day after, which seems about right. Generally I pick up a bacterial secondary infection if I catch anything else or really if my bodies under a hint of stress and when I shifted from the dry upper respiratory cough to the deep in the lung wet cough I got the usual bacterial type results.

Better safe than sorry, so I'm following protocol for Covid. Squirrel's off work and we'll have results before he needs to go back in. Seriously though? It's likely going to be negative.

The pharmacy runner was only half listening and tried to get me to wait inside, because we had a chilly Alaskan wind off the bay ad I was just in a tee shirt. I was like, "I don't think that's safe; I don't want to breath on anyone even with masks. I think I should sit over there." Me pointing to an outside spot. Him: Oh right! Yellow Protocol!

I expect results in 2-3 days, this being a well run blue state with a robust health care system. I'll let y'all know, but don't panic, okay?

* In cat news, Tavy knocked over a bunch of pillows, which panicked Livia who clearly though the sky was falling. She instinctively ran for the safety of my bed. Which was comfortable. Really comfortable. She was wary, being afraid we'd come medicate her again, but next time I wandered by I offered her a finger to sniff, but otherwise left her alone. Next time, She let me pet her butt after the finger sniff. Time after that, she let me scritch her head. Squirrel came by after I'd warned him not to stress her out and she let him pet her butt. She was in there most of the evening. When I came in to go to bed she let me rub her tummy, which she hadn't allowed sine elder kitty, because she only wants a tummy rub if 1. she feels really safe and comfortable and 2. If she has room to roll around and that doesn't leave many options besides the bed and my bathroom. Once I was ready settled, she came for most of an hour of loves. She didn't sleep in the bed, but it's progress.

What little sleep I got today was massively and repeatedly disrupted. I may or may not get much accomplished. We'll see.

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

* Want to help people in Beirut? https://karolinadeaen.tumblr.com/post/625576504313741312

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "More than 10,000 join peaceful anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem, for fourth week in a row:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-thousands-in-jerusalem-for-anti-netanyahu-demo-protesters-allegedly-attacked-1.9057410

* Well, fuck. "Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa brothers strengthen grip in landslide election win:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/sri-lankas-rajapaksa-brothers-strengthen-grip-in-landslide-election-win

* "Macron promises help, Beirut residents vent fury at leaders:" https://apnews.com/9d10149b5d5f3e0e837edd6d5a8e0d8f

* "Indian Ocean island nation Mauritius scrambles to counter oil spill from grounded tanker:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-mauritius-indian-oil-spill-20200808-qhoekdvajnbtre6dk4qtduixuu-story.html

* "Nearly 40% of A-level result predictions to be downgraded in England:" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/07/a-level-result-predictions-to-be-downgraded-england

The plan is to institutionalize wealth and social inequalities by over riding teacher assessments in favor of a percentage system that harms students from less privileged backgrounds.

Look, I’m American, but I furious on behalf of both teachers and students. They are not treating these teachers like professionals who know their kids and how to do their jobs. They are fucking over students for classicist bullshit reasons, and none of it takes into account natural variation

And seriously, I've DONE grading for kinds who missed a portion of the term. you just use the grades you have. It's not that hard. Like you can't reasonably penalize a kid because their parents moved during term. Teachers know how to do this.

Grading on a curve based on three years previous performance? A, not a big enough sample size, and B institutionalizes inequalities and punishes kids on the bubble. Also, in real life out in the field, you get better and worse years. One class will randomly have 10 kids with serious intellectuals challenges and an extra dollop of asshole kids, or a toxic combination of personalities. Another class will get an extra helping of gifted or just a magic social dynamic.

There is shit you can't predict, like that one kid with learning disabilities who happened to look like Peeta in the Hunger Games movies (Which weren’t out yet, but that’s pretty much what he looked like only younger) in the 8th grade I student taught who was sweet and charismatic and the bright girls all took turns tutoring him so he was performing above what you'd expect even on stuff he did completely independently, or that kid with learning disabilities and massive executive function stuff who really loved his paper topic and worked incredibly hard on it and pulled out a grade in spring in English that might have looked like cheating compared to previous terms, but I was literally standing right there when he wrote it. Statistics can't account for me randomly being really into Latin senior year and getting near perfect scores on every test because I finally got a teacher I liked enough to actually work for instead of resist.

Using statistics leaves out the chance of the exceptional and punishes middle of the road kids who really pulled out the stops for whatever reason. Maybe they randomly got a higher percentage of kids who were really good at math or extra motivated for some reason this year.

My entire grade was notoriously nightmarish for every teacher we hit. We had an above average level of assholes and future sociopaths and they'd work together to torment teachers in often creative and psychologically adept ways. (Not me personally, but my grade in aggregate). As a group we caused several nervous breakdowns and drove several people out of the teaching profession entirely. Our grades weren't average either because, you know massive disruption. We also had a lot of kids with trauma (see assholes and future sociopaths and add in some incredibly psychologically abusive stuff from staff, targeted at already traumatized or marginalized kids). There was a ton of attrition in grades 4-9 because of mental health stuff, as in kids being pulled out for health and safety reasons sent to less traumatic and violent prep school. Would it be fair to judge the grade ahead or behind based on my classes scores? Would it be fair to average all three of those grade sets and impose a curve based on them on the grade below them?

Statistical average doesn't prove individual performance.

Or maybe,just maybe, we should just the fuck give kids a break because there's a fucking pandemic on.

* I've been watching the latest row between UK andfrance over refugees, and I have to admit, in France's place I'd be very tempted to step down patrols to rescue missions only. <.< >.>

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* "How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias:" https://bostonreview.net/science-nature-race/amy-moran-thomas-how-popular-medical-device-encodes-racial-bias

* "There Is Little Evidence That Mass Transit Poses a Risk of Coronavirus Outbreaks:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-little-evidence-that-mass-transit-poses-a-risk-of-coronavirus-outbreaks/

* "India passes two million Covid-19 cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53674857

* "Fauci says he'll repeat the importance of public health principles 'until I'm exhausted':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html

* Republicans continue to insist that slowing testing deliberately is the right thing to do as if you don't test for Covid you don't have cases, much in the way if you don't test for cancer no one gets it and if you don't take a pregnancy test you can't get pregnant. "Virus testing in the US is dropping, even as deaths mount:" https://apnews.com/aebdc0978de958f20ab3f398cdf6f769

* "Ben Rhodes: Trump ‘literally withdrew us from the rest of the world’ with WHO decision:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ben-rhodes-trump-literally-withdrew-us-from-the-rest-of-the-world-with-who-decision-89678917541

* "‘Like a Horror Movie’: A Small Border Hospital Battles the Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/us/texas-coronavirus-rio-grande-valley-starr-county.html

* "'We are no less American': Deaths pile up on Texas border:" https://apnews.com/c5da90cb311e320d9ece7310b4fe257e

* "He fled Congo to work in a U.S. meat plant. Then he — and hundreds of his co-workers — got the coronavirus.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/he-fled-the-congo-to-work-in-a-us-meat-plant-then-he--and-hundreds-of-his-co-workers--got-the-coronavirus/2020/08/06/11e7e13e-c526-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html

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* "TikTok threatens legal action against Trump executive order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/07/tiktok-trump-executive-order-392558

* "Trump advisers hesitated to give military options and warned adversaries over fears he might start a war:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/trump-advisers-fears-military-options/index.html

* "Pompeo Warned Russia Against Bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/world/asia/pompeo-russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

* "Appeals court rules for U.S. House over subpoena for ex-White House lawyer:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-trump-idUSKCN25326S

* "Covid-19 Pandemic Triggers Wave of Long-Term Unemployment:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-pandemic-triggers-wave-of-long-term-unemployment-11596817137?mod=hp_lead_pos5

* "Queer Black Americans have taken a ‘disproportionate’ financial hit during COVID-19 by every measure:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/07/black-lgbt-covid-19-americans-disproportionate-economic-impact-coronavirus-pandemic-report-human-rights-campaign/

* "James Carville on Trump deferring payroll tax to next year: Not very good policy, a lot of people not on a payroll:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/james-carville-on-trump-deferring-payroll-tax-to-next-year-not-very-good-policy-a-lot-of-people-not-on-a-payroll-89751109777

* I don't understand how he has the power to do that. I thought the Congress was the only branch empowered by the constitutions to make appropriations. "Coronavirus relief package talks stall; Trump might use executive actions to bypass congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/07/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

* "Bennet Statement Following President Trump’s Inadequate Executive Orders to Extend COVID-19 Economic Relief:" https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=5E7FC20B-13A0-47FE-BA67-7E78FA9E396F

* "Facebook Fired An Employee Who Collected Evidence Of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results

* "Russian anti-Biden election interference finds ready conduit in Republican senators:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russian-election-interference-finds-ready-conduit-in-gop-senators-89763397688

* "Sam Seder: Trump flails for reelection strategy after Plan A falls apart:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sam-seder-trump-flails-for-reelection-strategy-after-plan-a-falls-apart-89756229774

* "Trump campaign reportedly considering whether to weaponise transphobia to save the president’s flailing re-election bid:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/07/donald-trump-campaign-november-election-weaponise-transgender-rights-lgbt/

* "Postal Service overhauls leadership as Democrats press for investigation of mail delays:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/07/postal-service-investigation-dejoy/

* "Postal Workers Union head confirms slowdown of postal service:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/postal-workers-union-head-confirms-slowdown-of-postal-service-89754181966

* "Hybrid Schooling May Be the Most Dangerous Option of All:" https://www.wired.com/story/hybrid-schooling-is-the-most-dangerous-option-of-all/

* This is going to be incredibly deadly. "Cuomo OKs New York schools for in-person instruction:" https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/08/07/cuomo-oks-new-york-schools-for-in-person-instruction-1305884

* "Virus keeps spreading as schools begin to open, frightening parents and alarming public health officials:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/virus-keeps-spreading-as-schools-begin-to-open-frightening-parents-and-alarming-public-health-officials/2020/08/06/7ef4f362-d80d-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html

* "Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms:" https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200807/health-directors-told-to-keep-quiet-as-fla-leaders-pressed-to-reopen-classrooms

* "Charles Booker: We are dealing with the trauma of gun violence as a public health crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/charles-booker-we-are-dealing-with-the-trauma-of-gun-violence-as-a-public-health-crisis-89680453861

* CW: Dead Animals "VULTURES, FORENSICS, & BORDER POLICY: Why Migrant Bodies Disappear:"

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* "Brittany Gilliam, handcuffed with kids by Aurora Police, says their apology is ‘not good enough’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/brittany-gilliam-handcuffed-with-kids-by-aurora-police-says-their-apology-is-not-good-enough-89679941752

* "Breonna Taylor warrant was part of gentrification scheme, attorneys say:" https://www.ajc.com/news/breonna-taylor-warrant-was-part-gentrification-scheme-attorneys-say/gWlfh0zwq84wL0AshqizmM/

* "Joy on 'pig laws': ‘The rot from slavery is still with us in a thousand different ways’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-on-pig-laws-the-rot-from-slavery-is-still-with-us-in-a-thousand-different-ways-89751621631

* CW: Rape "E. Jean Carroll, Who Accused Trump of Rape, Can Go Forward With Suit:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/nyregion/jean-caroll-donald-trump-lawsuit-rape.html

* "Satanic Temple says religious freedoms exempt abortion rights from state laws:" https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/satanic-temps-says-religious-freedoms-exempt-abortion-rights-from-state-laws

* "Terrified queer Poles are fleeing the country as homophobic president Andrzej Duda is sworn in for second term:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/06/poland-president-andrzej-duda-swearing-in-homophobia-lgbt-rights-same-sex-marriage-family/

* "‘Violent and homophobic’ cyclists threaten same-sex couple simply for asking them not to use a private lane:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/08/homophobic-hate-crime-rothwell-caistor-west-yorkshire-cyclists-queer-couple/

* Looks like William is really putting the "Shat" in Shatner yet again. Bonus points for making our lives all about him.

* "Autism Tropes in Media:"

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* "Devastating impact of lockdown on LGBT+ mental health laid bare as study reveals seven in 10 are suffering from depression:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/08/lgbt-mental-health-lockdown-queeratine-study-university-college-london-sussex/

* "The (Real) Delusion That You're a Corpse:"

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* "'I'm not Batman': Libertarian presidential candidate makes light of bat bite:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/08/jo-jorgensen-bat-bite-libertarian-392698

* CW: Dead People, Body Horror, Dissection. "A Brief History of the Dead in Art:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE- Warrior Women Scorned!:"

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* "The Mask Slackers of 1918:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html

* This is even faster than that time a new character was so obnoxious we hunted and killed him about an hour in: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/625855710003118080

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

* Want to help people in Beirut? https://karolinadeaen.tumblr.com/post/625576504313741312

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Bells toll to mark 75 years since Hiroshima bomb:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53660059

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* Please, please, please, can we keep the schools closed now? "COVID-19 may have lasting effects on some children's brains:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-19-children-doctors-see-link-between-virus-neurological-side-n1235501

* "Fauci says the length of time to get a Covid-19 test result is "totally unacceptable":" https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-05-20-intl/h_539c8c048e47a1beb3048d187cfd198e

* "Stay Away From These 115 Hand Sanitizers, F.D.A. Warns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/health/fda-hand-sanitizer-recall.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

* "Johnson & Johnson reaches deal with U.S. for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine at more than $1 billion:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/jj-reaches-deal-with-us-for-100-million-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-at-more-than-1-billion.html

* "How the Pandemic Defeated America:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/

* "U.S. caught in spiral as coronavirus exacerbates societal flaws:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-caught-in-spiral-as-coronavirus-exacerbates-societal-flaws-89513029559

* "Trump dinged by social media for 'harmful COVID misinformation':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-dinged-by-social-media-for-harmful-covid-misinformation-89623109742

* "Mississippi's governor just mandated masks in public gatherings and school. The state is top 5 for coronavirus cases per capita:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/health/mississippi-coronavirus-masks-schools-positivity-rate/index.html

* "'So many bodies ... I lost count': The grim business moving Latino coronavirus victims as death toll spikes:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-02/grim-business-moving-latino-coronavirus-victims-grim-business-as-death-toll-mounts-so-many-bodies-i-lost-count

* "Journalist tests positive for coronavirus after covering President Trump’s visit to Tampa Bay:" https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/08/03/journalist-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-covering-president-trumps-visit-to-tampa-bay/

* The Interior department refused to testify and Louis Gohmert refused to wear a mask so here we are. "Rep. Raul Grijalva tests positive for Covid-19:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/01/raul-grijalva-tests-positive-covid-19-390111

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* "US defense officials contradict Trump: No indication yet of attack in Beirut:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/defense-officials-contradict-trump-beirut/

* "Trump had US ambassador press UK for golf deal: former diplomat:" Trump had US ambassador press UK for golf deal: former diplomat

* "Report on Trump scheme to profit from UK favors withheld; IG fired:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-on-trump-scheme-to-profit-from-uk-favors-withheld-ig-fired-89621573520

* "Trump’s Bank Was Subpoenaed by N.Y. Prosecutors in Criminal Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/nyregion/trump-taxes-vance-deutsche-bank.html

* "Investigation of Trump Org follows familiar white collar contours:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/investigation-of-trump-org-follows-familiar-white-collar-contours-89511493965

* "James Comey Wrote a Letter in 2016. What Will Bill Barr Do?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/opinion/bill-barr-trump-biden-2020.html

* "Schatz slams Esper for allowing Trump appointment of ‘racist nutball’ to Pentagon:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/schatz-slams-esper-for-allowing-trump-appointment-of-racist-nutball-to-pentagon-89506885816

* "Democrats launch probe into $765M Kodak loan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/05/democrats-probe-765m-kodak-loan-391882

* "Former clients of acting Homeland Security chief Chad Wolf received millions in department contracts:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/former-clients-of-acting-homeland-security-chief-chad-wolf-get-millions-in-dhs-contracts.html

* "Trump threatens executive actions as coronavirus relief deal remains elusive on Capitol Hill:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/05/congress-unemployment-trump-stimulus/

* "Sen. Schatz: Trump and GOP allowing an 'economic extinction event':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-schatz-trump-and-gop-allowing-an-economic-extinction-event-89507397764

* "Trump confirms he’s considering delivering convention speech from White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/05/trump-convention-speech-white-house-391752

* "Trump campaign sues Nevada over mail-in voting bill:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/politics/trump-campaign-nevada-mail-in-ballots/index.html

* "Nevada passes law to make voting easier, defying Trump bluster:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nevada-passes-law-to-make-voting-easier-defying-trump-bluster-89512005965

* "Trump political games with post office messes with American lives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-political-games-with-post-office-messes-with-american-lives-89560133587

* "Hayes: Trump plan is to attack legitimacy of voting system while also undermining it:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-plan-is-to-attack-legitimacy-of-voting-system-while-also-undermining-it-89506373993

* "Chris Hayes breaks down Trump’s plan to undermine democracy ahead of election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-breaks-down-trump-s-plan-to-undermine-democracy-ahead-of-election-89552453920

* "Sen. Booker says Trump’s attacks on voting process are ‘shameless’ and ‘dangerous’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-booker-says-trump-s-attacks-on-voting-process-are-shameless-and-dangerous-89552965881

* "Trump administration sticks to schools plan as U.S. nears 5 million coronavirus cases:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-sticks-to-schools-plan-as-us-nears-5-million-coronavirus-cases/2020/08/04/733e7de8-d68e-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html

* "Chicago says students will stay home, New York erects COVID-19 checkpoints:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/new-york-city-erects-quarantine-checkpoints-to-curb-coronavirus-idUSKCN251281

* "‘I’m sorry, but it’s a fantasy’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/01/schools-reopening-coronavirus-arizona-superintendent/?arc404=true

* "Over 100 students quarantined in Mississippi school district after several individuals tested positive for Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/us/mississippi-school-district-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

* "With coronavirus cases reported at some reopened schools, protesters take to the streets with fake coffins:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/04/with-coronavirus-cases-reported-some-reopened-schools-protesters-take-streets-with-fake-coffins/

* "Middle Tenn. teachers hold mock funeral procession to protest return to school:" https://www.wjhl.com/news/regional/tennessee/middle-tenn-teachers-hold-mock-funeral-procession-to-protest-return-to-school/

* "Agonizing school decisions made harder by flippant Trump remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/agonizing-school-decisions-made-harder-by-flippant-trump-remarks-89559621690

* "Coronavirus resurgence could prompt state's reopening step-back:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-resurgence-could-prompt-state-s-reopening-step-back-89558597947

* "‘I cannot lose another teacher’: Ariz. superintendent terrified over school reopening:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-cannot-lose-another-teacher-ariz-superintendent-terrified-over-school-reopening-89506885922

* "Trump hedges bet against 2020 win with early census data grab:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-hedges-bet-against-2020-win-with-early-census-data-grab-89558597755

* CW: Descriptions of torture. This is a bad one. "El Salvador Police Sentenced in Country's 1st Trans Murder Conviction:"

* "‘The Biggest Monster’ Is Spreading. And It’s Not the Coronavirus.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html

* "I Make the Pandemic Fun for People Who Don’t Realize It’s Happening:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/08/coronavirus-diaries-assisted-living-facility-activities.html

* So I'm sick again. I wouldn't even mention it if it weren't for the context. Headache, sinus symptoms, sore throat, dry cough. No noticeable lung involvement. This probably explains why I've been so tired. How the fuck am I catching things still?

*fingers crossed*

A friend sent me an adult sized sling last week, and partially as a result, my arm is improved enough that I didn't need it tonight, though the pain is still seriously fucking with my sleep.

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

* Want to help people in Beirut? https://karolinadeaen.tumblr.com/post/625576504313741312

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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