Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

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* "Israel to expand its control in West Bank, make settlers' land seizures easier, media say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-take-more-west-bank-powers-relax-settler-land-buys-media-say-2026-02-08/

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* "Trump says U.S. used secret 'discombobulator' on Venezuelan equipment during Maduro raid:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-says-u-s-used-secret-discombobulator-on-venezuelan-equipment-during-maduro-raid

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* "To Build a Fire: How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe.:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/to-build-a-fire

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* "Iran’s shadow fleet is fueling the Myanmar junta’s air war:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-MYANMAR/JET-FUEL/jnpwkonqrpw/

* "Ethiopia Builds Secret Camp to Train Sudan RSF Fighters :" https://english.aawsat.com/features/5239544-ethiopia-builds-secret-camp-train-sudan-rsf-fighters%C2%A0

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* "The Fall of the House of Assad:" https://archive.ph/ng3Do

* "Canadian school shooting sparks anti-trans uproar after shooter identified:" https://www.advocate.com/news/tumbler-ridge-school-shooting-transgender

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* CW: CSA "How the Epstein scandal has shaken the British government to its core:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/how-epstein-scandal-shaken-british-government-peter-mandelson

I'd bet real money this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News (Sort likely a little rough)***

* "CBP shot down party balloons with anti-drone tech before FAA closed El Paso airspace, sources say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/cbp-shot-party-balloons-anti-drone-tech-faa-closed-el-paso-airspace-so-rcna258731

* "Trump admin’s ‘cartel drone’ story bursts like a balloon. Or four.:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/trump-admin-s-cartel-drone-story-bursts-like-a-balloon-or-four-2487019587829

* "Kristi Noem’s Audience of One:" https://archive.ph/EqgZz

* "Immigrants Delivered $14.5 Trillion Surplus to US Economy Over Last 30 Years: Report:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/do-immigrants-drain-the-us-economy

* "Immigration detention passed 70,000 in January:" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/020626_immigration_detention/immigration-detention-passed-70000-january/

* "ICE has violated America:" https://westvirginiawatch.com/2026/02/05/ice-has-violated-america/

* "Trump's immigration crackdown is straining federal courts. A Georgia judge is raising the alarm:" https://www.wabe.org/trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-straining-federal-courts-a-georgia-judge-is-raising-the-alarm/

* "Trump administration must facilitate return of men sent to El Salvador’s CECOT back to the U.S., judge rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-orders-return-venezuelans-cecot

* "Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/habeas-petitions-immigrant-detentions-trump

* "Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign:" https://archive.ph/74Rqr

* Meanwhile in Texas. "A federal appeals court just greenlit Trump’s mass detention policy. Here’s what it means for Minnesota.:" https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/texas-fifth-circuit-ruling-immigrants-indefinite-detention/

* "Most WA federal rulings found immigrant detentions flouted due process:" https://www.investigatewest.org/rulings-found-immigrant-detentions-flouted-due-process/

* "How ICE defies judges’ orders to release detainees, step by step:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-immigration-detention-court-orders-00771727

* "Military Lawyers Forced to Work After Mass Resignations in Minnesota:" https://newrepublic.com/post/206247/department-justice-military-lawyers-mass-minnesota-resignations

* "ICE Lawyer Ruins Her Life:"

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* "ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America:" https://newrepublic.com/post/205982/ice-buying-mega-warehouses

It is essential we resist this!

* "Two cases of tuberculosis detected at El Paso ICE facility:" https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/ice-facility-el-paso-tuberculosis/

* "The black hole of Camp East Montana: Three deaths in 44 days at the largest migrant detention center in the US:" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-01-21/the-black-hole-of-camp-east-montana-three-deaths-in-44-days-at-the-largest-migrant-detention-center-in-the-us.html

* "After El Paso’s ME ruled migrant’s death a homicide, ICE sent the next body to an Army hospital:" https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/texas-ice-detention-deaths-autopsy-el-paso/

They keep trying to cover up murder.

* "Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912

This is child abuse and attempted murder.

* "Commissioner forced to resign after Merrimack ICE facility controversy:" https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-02-09/merrimack-ice-detainee-plans-nh-dncr-stewart-resigns

* "Border Czar Tom Homan announces end to Minneapolis immigration operation, claiming success:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/immigration/operation-metro-surge-ends

* "‘This did not go well for them’: Mayor Frey reacts as Minneapolis ICE surge ends:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/this-did-not-go-well-for-them-frey-reacts-as-minneapolis-ice-surges-ends-2487013956000

* "Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them:" https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5701432/minneapolis-ice-air-deportation-flights

* "Masked ICE arrests drive 12,000% uptick in Mass. lawsuits challenging detainments:" https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/02/masked-ice-arrests-drive-12000-uptick-in-mass-lawsuits-challenging-detainments.html

* "Court rebukes Trump administration for denying immigration detainees access to lawyers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/court-trump-administration-denying-immigration-lawyers-00779762

* "Judge tells ICE to free man arrested in Chinatown sweep, warns of unconstitutional arrests:" https://gothamist.com/news/judge-tells-ice-to-free-man-arrested-in-chinatown-sweep-warns-of-unconstitutional-arrests

* "Hundreds protested against this Venezuelan’s detention by ICE. Now he’s free after seven months:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/venezuelan-freed-after-seven-months-ice-detention-washington-state

* "Court rules government can't deport Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student who criticized Israel, her lawyers say in filing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/court-rules-government-cant-deport-rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-rcna258277

* "Federal judge orders release of four ICE detainees in Louisiana :" https://www.wafb.com/2026/02/12/federal-judge-orders-release-four-ice-detainees-louisiana/

* "Mexican father of 3 U.S. Marines in California gets deportation reprieve:" https://archive.ph/c86rb

* "Trump admin fast-tracks Liam Ramos and his dad for deportation:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/trump-admin-fast-tracks-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-for-deportation-2485912131614

Reminder: They are here legally, have an open asylum claim, and have done nothing wrong.

* "ICE Kidnapped a Child:"

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* "Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer with broom and shovel:" https://wtop.com/national/2026/02/prosecutors-move-to-dismiss-charges-against-men-accused-of-hitting-ice-officer-with-broom-and-shovel/

The men were not visible, so ICE shot wildly through the door of an apartment in hopes of injury and/or killing as many innocent people as possible, endangering a baby in the process for the sheer pleasure of it, then lied about it.

* "Hayes: Trump bet Americans were as bigoted as Stephen Miller—he was wrong:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-bet-americans-were-as-bigoted-as-stephen-miller-he-was-wrong-2487012419938

* "This trans street medic was among 67 protesters arrested at Minneapolis hotel hosting ICE agents:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minneapolis-hotel-ice-arrests-67

* "Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention

* "American dream denied: A Frenchman's ICE nightmare:" https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5696428/american-dream-denied-a-frenchmans-ice-nightmare

* "Becca Good attends memorial for wife Renee, offers statement: 'Renee always showed up':" https://www.advocate.com/news/becca-good-attends-memorial-renee

* "Minnesota AG: Feds still not cooperating on Pretti and Good investigations:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/12/minnesota-keith-ellison-good-pretti-investigation-00778112

* "Don Lemon hires ex-federal prosecutor who quit after Trump admin tried to investigate Renee Good's wife:" https://www.advocate.com/news/don-lemon-joseph-thompson-minnesota

* "Don Lemon faces judge who rejected DOJ’s previous attempt to charge him with a crime:" https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/don-lemon-arraignment-minnesota

* "Defiant Don Lemon says ‘the process is the punishment’ after lawyers reveal feds took his phone:" https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/don-lemon-process-is-punishment

* "Border Patrol boss kicked out of a Las Vegas bar to protect patrons:" https://www.advocate.com/news/border-patrol-greg-bovino-kicked-out-of-bar

* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

"Project Salt Box:" https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/
"MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807223113540599808?source=share
"Here are Minnesota groups that need your help organizing against ICE and DHS operations:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mutual-aid-groups-ice
Links to Help organize in advance of ICE Occupation: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807226885129060352?source=share
"How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota:" https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/
"Support minnesotans defending their communities from ICE:" https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
"When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers
Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
"Know Your Rights:" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
"Disappeared In America:" https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/

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* "Trump says he won't apologize for racist post depicting the Obamas as apes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-shares-racist-video-depicting-obamas-monkeys-rcna257756

* "Steele: Trump thought Americans would accept his racist post:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/steele-trump-thought-americans-would-accept-his-racist-post-2485936707580

* "Questions about the role of racism in Trump’s MAGA support follow offensive social media post:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/questions-about-the-role-of-racism-in-trump-s-maga-support-follow-offensive-social-media-post-2485943363564

* "‘To his bones a racist’: Hayes says Trump ‘taking the mask off’ with Obama video:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/to-his-bones-a-racist-hayes-says-trump-taking-the-mask-off-with-obama-video-2485910083546

* "Trump excludes the only gay man and Black governors from White House dinner:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/polis-moore-trump-governors-dinner

* "Trump Sues Himself; Wants $10 Billion Payout:"

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* "Democrats Pushback Against Trump’s Reported Bid To Rename Penn Station And Dulles Airport After Himself:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/02/06/democrats-pushback-against-trumps-reported-bid-to-rename-penn-station-and-dulles-airport-after-himself/

* "Judge orders Trump administration to restore funding for rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-gateway-new-york-new-jersey-tunnel-d0ebf5a8b54a0729d4621cd1bcb5be95

* "FBI invites state election officials to an 'unusual' briefing on the midterms:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/fbi-state-election-officials-unusual-briefing-midterms-rcna257721

* "The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia:" https://www.propublica.org/article/kevin-moncla-election-researcher-fulton-county-georgia

* "Justification unsealed for FBI’s seizure of 2020 Fulton County ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/fulton-county-search-warrant-affidavit-00774751

* "Intelligence Dispute Centers on Kushner Reference in Intercepted Communication:" https://archive.ph/8ICEb

* "Tulsi Gabbard calls claim she mishandled whistleblower complaint a 'blatant lie':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/tulsi-gabbard-responds-senators-criticism-handling-whistleblower-compl-rcna257952

* "Gabbard’s office warns attorney against sharing classified complaint with Congress:" https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-classified-complaint-inspector-general-67ef429356fe1c517c0d8d4ee1f54b38

* "DHS Reportedly Fired a Pilot for Forgetting Kristi Noem’s Blanket on a Plane:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-pilot-fired-blanket-dhs-1235516775/

* "‘Private cabin’: New scrutiny on Noem, Lewandowski’s ‘close relationship’ amid DHS chaos:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/private-cabin-new-scrutiny-on-noem-lewandowski-s-close-relationship-amid-dhs-chaos-2487243843848

* "Trump EPA to take its biggest swing yet against climate change rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/trump-revoke-climate-change-rules-00773418

* "Project 2026 Is Here:"

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* "California sues Trump admin over its demand to forcibly out trans students, obtains restraining order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/education/california-sues-trump-forced-outing

* "Protest set at NYC’s Stonewall after Trump administration removes Pride flag from national LGBTQ+ monument:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/stonewall-monument-pride-flag

* "Mamdani, Schumer & NYC Council demand National Park Service return Pride flag to Stonewall National Monument:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/new-york-mamdani-stonewall-pride-flag

* "New Yorkers rally in solidarity with LGBTQ+ community after Trump ordered Stonewall Pride flag removed:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/advocacy/stonewall-flag-removal-protest

* "New York City Council advances resolution opposing Stonewall Pride flag removal:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nyc-council-stonewall-pride-flag

* "They can take down the flag, but they can’t take down the history of Stonewall:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/adminstration-cannot-erase-stonewall-history

**** Corruption of the Justice System, Pushback, and Related ****

* "Judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Mark Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders:" https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-kelly-hegseth-illegal-orders-lawsuit-f028eade00c78123263bc3e28b3caa0e

* "Trump administration fails to indict Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/doj-fails-secure-indictment-democrats-involved-illegal-orders-video-rcna258385

The Trump Administration contends that the Military code of justice is inherently seditious and anyone quoting it is guilty of sedition conspiracy and also that anyone who has ever been in the military has all their first Amendment rights terminated.

A Grand Jury and a judge do not agree under the belief that the US Constitution and Rule of Law in General are still in effect.

* "Rep. Jason Crow asks Pirro to preserve evidence related to failed indictment:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/11/congress/rep-jason-crow-asks-pirro-to-preserve-evidence-related-to-failed-indictment-00776376

* "Trump DOJ fails to indict Dem lawmakers on sedition charges :" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/trump-doj-fails-to-indict-dem-lawmakers-on-sedition-charges-2486530628001

* "Trump elevation of obnoxious cable TV host to DOJ backfires with embarrassing string of failures:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-elevation-of-obnoxious-cable-tv-host-to-doj-backfires-with-embarrassing-string-of-failures-2486809667710

**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****

* CW: CSA. "Pam Bondi clashes with House Democrats over Epstein files at DOJ oversight hearing:" https://www.npr.org/2026/02/11/nx-s1-5707280/pam-bondi-oversight-hearing-department-of-justice

* CW: CSA. "Massie becomes first Republican to spar with Bondi during House Judiciary hearing:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/11/congress/massie-vs-bondi-00775966

* CW: CSA. "Pam Bondi suggests Jewish lesbian lawmaker is anti-Semitic in explosive hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pam-bondi-disrespect-becca-balint

Her grandmother literally died in the Holocaust.

* CW: CSA. "‘Astounding’: Chris Hayes stunned Bondi still has DOJ job:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/astounding-chris-hayes-stunned-bondi-still-has-doj-job-2486770755990

* CW: CSA. "Pam Bondi makes an absolute fool of herself frantically ducking Epstein questions:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/pam-bondi-makes-an-absolute-fool-of-herself-frantically-ducking-epstein-questions-2486803523983

* "House members seek inquiry into DoJ’s tracking of their Epstein files research:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/congress-doj-pam-bondi-epstein-files-searches

* "Members of Congress start viewing unredacted Epstein files at Justice Department:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/jamie-raskin-doj-cover-up-epstein-files

* "Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/jamie-raskin-doj-cover-up-epstein-files

* "Ghislaine Maxwell appeals for clemency from Trump as she declines to answer questions from lawmakers:" https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-congress-f1e947bb9128aaa626390f0987f322e9

* "House Dem identifies ‘wealthy, powerful men’ DOJ redacted in Epstein files:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/10/congress/ro-khanna-names-names-00774551

* "‘Likely incriminated’: Congressman names six men unredacted from Epstein files:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/likely-incriminated-congressman-names-six-men-unredacted-from-epstein-files-2486557763671

* "Ex-Florida police chief claims Trump told him ‘everyone’ knew what Epstein was doing in 2006:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/trump-epstein-phone-call-florida-police

* "Trump Stands by His Epstein Files Companion After Calls to Resign:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-stands-by-his-epstein-files-companion-after-calls-to-resign/

* "Epstein Files Put Two More Top Trump Officials in the Spotlight:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-files-put-two-more-top-trump-officials-in-the-spotlight/

* "Dr. Oz Appears In Epstein Files: What We Know:" https://www.newsweek.com/dr-mehmet-oz-epstein-files-disclosure-11511374

* "Chairman of major US law firm steps down after Epstein files release:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v02m633mjo

* "Epstein’s Secret Pic of ‘Wild’ Dinner With Tech Titans Exposed:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/epsteins-secret-pic-of-wild-dinner-with-tech-titans-exposed/

* "Epstein engineered intimate relationship for Tesla’s Kimbal Musk, emails show:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/jeffrey-epstein-tesla-kimbal-musk

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* "Corporate crime persists in the shadows:" https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2026/corporate-crime-poorly-tracked-usa

* "ICE chief defends his officers to Congress as lawmakers mull DHS funding:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-todd-lyons-dhs-funding-hearing-00774309

* "DHS shutdown all but certain after failed Senate vote:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/12/congress/dhs-shutdown-all-but-certain-00778721

Please call your Senators and encourage them to stay firm.

* "House votes to disapprove of Trump’s Canada tariffs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/11/house-rebukes-trumps-canada-tariffs-00776898

It goes to the Senate now! Please contact your senators!

* "House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote:" https://19thnews.org/2026/02/house-passes-save-america-act-married-women-vote/

The goal of this legislation is to make it illegal on a federal level for married women and trans people to vote.

Please tell Quisling Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar exactly what you think of his decision to vote to permanently disenfranchise so many American citizens if he is your Congress Critter.

Please contact your US Senators to tell them to vote AGAINST the SAVE ACT

* "Former State Dept officials warn that racist Trump nominee could dismantle human rights protections at the UN:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/diplomats-worry-jeremy-carl-nomination

* "Mike Johnson lecturing the pope Is a blasphemy that LGBTQ+ people know all too well:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/mike-johnson-lectures-pope

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* Our until Midterms is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

"Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

"Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* I would like to congratulate New Jersey! "Malinowski concedes to Mejia in Democratic House special primary in New Jersey:" https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5703636/nj-primary-election-mejia-malinowski

* "‘It’s pissing people off’: Centrist Democrats are livid with AIPAC after primary fiasco:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/centrist-democrats-are-livid-with-aipac-after-primary-meddling-00769461

* I would like to congratulate New Jersey!

THIS is why it's important to vote in every primary and every special election.

She's a strong progressive with views aligned with people like Sanders and Mamdani. She beat out a shitty centrist in a very close primary.

People turned out, so New Jersey got a WAY better candidate.

Now let us hope people also show up for the Special election because we need her in the House.

We are entering primary season just generally. States vote at different times, so I beg ALL of you to check when your state is voting. If you are in an in-person vote state, research ahead of time so you can vote for the candidate with views closest to your own. If you vote by mail, take the time to look them up when your ballot comes.

THIS is how you move the party further LEFT.

Primary schedule here:

* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/

I don't know where you live, so I can't link this for you, but I find the Progressive Voter Guide online very helpful in narrowing down candidates in the often packed primaries where I live.

I also suggest looking at things like volunteer work and endorsements, because it really, really helps with things like sheriff and judicial elections, but can be useful in all sorts of primaries when you have multiple good options.

REMEMBER: Don't just vote for the big things like US Congress. Vote in every State and local race down to the smallest and on all the referendums.

State and local elections have a massive impact on your quality of life.

* "Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger sends marriage equality & abortion rights amendments to voters:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/spanberger-signs-marriage-referendum

* "Utah Republicans, ignoring their own study, pass ban on gender-affirming care for youth:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-gender-affirming-care-ban

* "Police release man detained in connection to Nancy Guthrie disappearance:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5l4yy3ezmo

* "Kash Patel under fire as Nancy Guthrie investigation enters Day 11:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/kash-patel-under-fire-as-nancy-guthrie-investigation-enters-day-11-2486774339914

* "Andrew Jarecki - Exposing the Alabama Prison System in “The Alabama Solution” | The Daily Show:"

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* "What to know about LGBTQ+ rights — or lack thereof — in Italy as Olympics begin:" https://www.advocate.com/news/italy-olympics-lgbtq-rights

* "Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-youth-suicides-skyrocketed

* "Under new name, supportive schools group will help young LGBTQ+ people Glisten:" https://www.advocate.com/news/education/glisten-will-help-youth-shine

* "Black Americans are disproportionately criminalized for living with HIV. Here's how :" https://www.advocate.com/health/black-american-hiv-rates-criminalization

* "Florida restores funding for 16,000 people's HIV medication — for now:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-reverses-hiv-funding-cuts

* "National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: a time for action on many fronts:" https://www.advocate.com/health/hiv/black-hiv-aids-awareness-day

* "U.S. life expectancy hits a new high as deaths from overdoses and COVID fall:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5689902/us-life-expectancy-rises?

* "Amazon workers at Coventry warehouse tested for tuberculosis after outbreak:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/amazon-workers-at-coventry-warehouse-being-tested-for-tuberculosis-after-possible-outbreak

* "Memorizing London’s 25,000 streets changes cabbies’ brains — and may prevent Alzheimer’s:" https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-knowledge-of-london/

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* "There May Be No Turning Back This Climate Crisis:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/accelerating-climate-emergency-science-tipping-points-solutions/

* "Extreme cold in New York City leaves 18 dead:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9g8nxdexko

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* "Decades of memories swept away: Thousands lose homes as 'Venice of Nigeria' is demolished:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/decades-memories-swept-away-thousands-lose-homes-venice-nigeria-is-demolished-2026-01-28/

* "The Cities That Battle Winter With Beets:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-15/to-beat-winter-cities-fight-back-with-beets

* "Why do HOAs even exist?:"

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* "Earth still had seasons during its longest deep freeze:" https://www.earth.com/news/earth-still-had-seasons-during-its-longest-deep-freeze/

* "These 773,000-year-old fossils may reveal our shared human ancestor:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260206012221.htm

* "From bones to steel: Why ice skates were a terrible idea that worked:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/ice-skates-history/

* "Answering White People's Questions About Slavery: The London History Show:"

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* "The History of Alaskan and Hawaiian Statehood: Ep 18 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "The lush life of Billy Strayhorn, the gay Black man who was Duke Ellington's 'right arm':" https://www.advocate.com/history/billy-strayhorn-black-gay-musician

* "The Era of Native Urban Relocation: Ep 17 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "A History of Indigenous Women with Lily Gladstone: Ep 19 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "Modern Tribal Governments Explained: Ep 20 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "Native Languages & The Indian Education Act: Ep 21 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "Introduction to Federal Indian Law: Ep 16 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "The Land Back Movement Explained: Ep 22 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "Hollywood, Pretendians, and Cultural Appropriation: Ep 23 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "What Can a Prophecy Tell Us About Climate Change?: Ep 24 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* I woke up with basically no spoons Friday. We are talking it took me seven hours of effort to make it into the living room to eat bread slices and dried fruit and hydrate because I couldn't handle even boiling water for soup cups. It took another most of two hours to make it to the desk from the sofa for more hydration before going back bed. Hence very little that wasn't pre-programmed getting done.

I feel like a slacker taking two days off from physio, but it was pretty clear I could do things like make food or do physio Saturday and not both.

* Low sleep quality again Saturday. Livia and I did a lot of reading in bed (with pets). When I reached for the remote above my head to turn the TV on for physio time it fell between the pillows and the headboard, which is a problem because periodic pushing of the mattress back against the headboard requires me moving all the pillows and things off the bed because the extra weight makes it impossible. Anything to do with the mattress is a spoon devouring nightmare. I have no help for changing bedding and it's really a two person job because of the weight of the mattress. The result is, there is currently more space than I like between headboard and mattress.

When I tried to rescue it, it slid further down behind the pillows. Moving is always a risk in this situation, but there was nothing forward. I heard the tell take sound of it hitting the floor the moment I moved to try to get a better grip.

There was nothing for it. Everything had to come off the bed and I was going to have to try to shift the mattress myself. Worse, I had no one with longer arms, so I was going to have to get a dustpan between the slats, awkwardly try to sweep things into it without losing my grip, pick everything out of the dustpan, then pull the dustpan out. More things inevitably fell into the crack of doom during the process, compounding the problem. Sigh.

I had been doing a good job holding the crack closed, as there were only three things in there besides the escaped remote that had fallen from the shelf before I started knocking more things into the hole, plus a small collection of medical packaging. Go me!

I still had to change the fitted sheet as I'd gone this far, which is really right at the edge of possible for my shoulder joints. Then pull more things that had fallen into the crack of doom. Then try to force the mattress back into place alone. Then put everything back. I never really get everything back, small things get misplaced and must be found later.

Even with several hours of rest including two naps and lots of pettins, it took another couple hours for half assed physio, and I keep getting the shakes.

There were all these other things I needed to to today, but likely I'd already eaten a bunch of tomorrow's spoons. Sigh. At least there are clean sheets.

* Monday, I noticed the early stages of an eye infection. My car can't make the distance to the next town where there were appointments open, but they found me one Tuesday. I dropped off library books after and tried to hit the discount grocery in search of five things it turned out they were out of. I did get my second choice for one of them, which wasn't a hardship as both are things I buy on the regular; I was just more in the mood for the other. There were no mushrooms or bags of frozen broccoli. The other two things? Sigh. One they only had a tiny over priced side dish version from another brand instead of two full meals worth from the good brand, so I passed. The other, I got the smallest I could find of a different brand and flavour to test instead of what I actually wanted.

I had started lunch and was putting my meager purchases away, when squirrel appeared, trying to work out how we were going to take the trash out. I proposed once again that we just put the whole thing can and all on the dolly and take it out to the dumpster together that way. We have two working arms between us and it would be a lot easier to each take a handle a dump the tied off bag that way, letting gravity do most of the work, then take the can and dolly back where they go. Squirrel gave in and while it was still annoying, it was far better than any of the alternatives.

I then needed to lie down because I was already pretty much at the end on hobbling about without a really long rest. I did lungs, had lunch, rested a whole bunch more. I did eventually manage a few small household tasks between rests, but I just feel like too little butter on too much bread.

Really, I need to finish putting things away from all the displacement. Really, I need to try the reorganization in the garden, as it will help when planting time comes. These are big exhausting things and one of them, I am not convinced I can do even sitting down and using my feet, but I can't know for sure until I move the rack and give it a try. If it does work, it will take better advantage of the extra sun we have since they pulled the massive bush out and will also give me better access to the far tomato planters.

* Thursday was exhausting and full of too many things and I made two key errors that fucked some things up. All this, plus my ankle kept disjointing, jointing, disjointing, joining so many times I lost count as I slogged painfully about trying and mostly failing to achieve essential tasks. Bonus: Physio tomorrow at entirely The Wrong Time.

* I did make it to physio Friday. My ankle was still bad, but properly in it's socket, which is important as we added a bunch of standing stuff. (Ugh.) We also upgrading a lying down and the sitting exercise. At check in, I saw one of the arm guys and said high. Later on the leg physio mentioned she'd spoken to him about me before we started and he said I was a really hard worker, which is nice to hear.

I made it home and had to lie down for a good long while before making food. Then I did lungs and had another long lie down before sorting forage. When I got up to put forage away, I discovered my legs were just DONE. It would have been a brilliant day to own one of those little lightweight indoor electric chairs. Instead I had a really scary trip to my room for pettins alternating with cuddle naps with Livia for most of the afternoon.

I did eventually make it back out to put away the perishable forage, feed and water Livia and the fish, etc., but it's just really bad tonight. At some point I will have to make more food. *shudder*

I had hoped to do a Friday morning aggregate, but I was just too tired to manage it, which sucks as there are multiple congressional action items it would have been better to start on before the recess.

* "‘It’s emptiness’: banned Ukrainian athlete accuses IOC of fueling Russia’s propaganda:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/12/ukraine-vladyslav-heraskevych-disqualified-winter-olympics-skeleton-helmet-protest-war-deaths

* "Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/penisgate-erupts-at-olympics-scandal-exposes-risks-of-bulking-your-budge/

* They were quite audible in the Canadian coverage and the commentators deliberately pointed it out. Rightly so. "NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast

* "Winter Olympics 2026: All the queer athletes who won medals:" https://www.advocate.com/news/winter-olympics-lgbtq-medals

* "LGBTQ+ Olympians receive death threats after speaking out against the Trump admin.:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-olympians-death-threats-trump

* "US Olympians speaking up about politics at home face online backlash — including from Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-us-athletes-speaking-out-backlash-6ad0274b0aa2f44795fdf1c44e2eb252

* "NBC apologizes for misgendering trailblazing trans Olympian Elis Lundholm:" https://www.advocate.com/news/people/olympian-elis-lundholm-misgendered

* "Gay ice dancer Guillaume Cizeron's gold medal is questioned as judging scandal heats up:" https://www.advocate.com/news/guillaume-cizeron-and-laurence-fournier-beaudry-judging-scandal

* "Ben & Jerry's co-founder needs your help to 'prevent the destruction' of beloved ice cream brand:" https://www.advocate.com/news/people/ben-and-jerrys-dei-interview

* "Donald Trump Is Nothing To Smile About | Mike Johnson vs. Pope Leo XIV | Bezos "Murders" Journalism:"

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* CW: CSA "Trump: ICE Killings Create Bad Publicity | America's Secret Weapon | Epstein's Muffin Recipe:"

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* "Gavin Newsom: Leading Man, For Your Consideration | The Daily Showography:"

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* "Super Bowl: Bad Bunny puts on a queer-inclusive show with Lady Gaga & Ricky Martin:" https://www.advocate.com/news/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-recap-watch

* "Who is American? Bad Bunny at the Superbowl:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dtnNqaOACNI

* "Bad Bunny spread love, making Trump look selfish, stupid, and stale:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/bad-bunny-spread-love-halftime

* "Right-Wingers Who Boycotted Halftime Show Still Saw Enough of It to Be Furious:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maga-furious-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-1235513261/

* "TN Republican demands official probe after calling Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show 'gay pornography':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bad-bunny-gay-porn-andy-ogles

O.o What does he think gay men do in bed. Does he think sugar cane is somehow involved?

Follow up question: Has he ever had sex with anyone?

I am remembering Ivonova in B5 tricking that ambassador into thinking they were having sex. Does his wife dance around fully clothed and tell him it is sex?

* "Ian McKellen recites Shakespeare to slam 'mountainous inhumanity' in U.S.:" https://www.advocate.com/television/sir-ian-mckellen-shakespeare-stephen-colbert

* ""There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW:"

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"Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs with their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silenced by your brawl,
And you in rough of your opinions clothed;

What had you got? I'll tell you: you had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.

O, desperate as you are,
Wash your foul minds with tears, and those same hands,
That you like rebels lift against the peace,
Lift up for peace, and your unreverent knees,
Make them your feet to kneel to be forgiven!

You'll put down strangers,
Kill them, cut their throats, possess their houses,
And lead the majesty of law in liom,
To slip him like a hound. Say now the king
(As he is clement, if th' offender mourn)
Should so much come to short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whether would you go?

What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbor? go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, any where that not adheres to England,—

Why, you must needs be strangers: Would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God

Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity."

* "Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise:"

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* "5 Iconic Archers that Fantasy Forgets:"

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* "True Facts: Electric Nematodes and Flying Spiders:"

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* "True Facts: Is The Goffin's Cockatoo The Smartest Bird?:"

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* "Blatantly Bumbling Baffling Battles:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G4c_KbJpFhc

* "Verily Vernacular:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qWzCDJi5Lx8

* "Vain Versailles 2:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SSSCS-k_KjI

* "1700s Fboys:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SkETKY1T2q8

* "Egregious East India Company:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LxmCARCh2uA

* "Manic Musical Mozart:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MOnrUAleY28

* "Sorrowful Salieri:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KaXWdLRA_7I

* "Let's Give Women Something To Smile About:"

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* "Introducing "Coalie":"

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* This is and was and likely always will be my favorite of his songs. ""You Can Close Your Eyes" - James Taylor (LIVE on The Late Show):"

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* "This Groundbreaking New Showcase of Nearly 60 Works Is the Biggest-Ever Exhibition of LGBTQ+ African Art:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/this-groundbreaking-new-showcase-of-nearly-60-works-is-the-biggest-ever-exhibition-of-lgbtq-african-art-180988095/

* "10 If-You-Know-You-Know Classics of Queer Black Literature:" https://www.them.us/story/black-queer-literature-roundup

* "Winter storm across the US in photos:" https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/winter-storm-weather-photo-gallery-660aec5749dc23108311a31a8627345c?

* "Bakers Are Topping Each Other By Creating Cakes That Look Like Paradise Islands (30 Pics):" https://www.boredpanda.com/paradise-island-cake-art/

* "You're In A Lesbian Pulp Novel From 1958! What's Distracting You From Work And Causing Your Heterosexual Coworker Nora To Glance Curiously Over At Your Desk?:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/youre-in-a-lesbian-pulp-novel-from-6b1?publication_id=5&post_id=187703313&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true

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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.

* "Project Salt Box:" https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/

* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

* "MASTER LIST OF WAYS TO HELP IN MINNEAPOLIS:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807223113540599808?source=share

* "Here are Minnesota groups that need your help organizing against ICE and DHS operations:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mutual-aid-groups-ice

* Links to Help organize in advance of ICE Occupation: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/807226885129060352?source=share

* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

* Contains link to trans girl sales pages. "Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-on-cookie-list

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* There are a bunch of things to do before the Congress Critters go on Holiday, so I'm doing a truncated post again.

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* "Who are the Bondi shooting victims? :" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgz15d5718o

* "Australia Begins Burying Victims of Bondi Shooting:" https://archive.ph/0NUrF

* "Australian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State group:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/16/g-s1-102389/bondi-beach-shooting-inspired-islamic-state

* "Antisemitic slogans, smoke bombs reported at protests at Concertgebouw Hanukkah concert:" https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880316

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*** Immigration/I.C.E/Autocracy/Slow Motion Civil War/Violent Illegal Occupation of Blue Cities News ***

* "Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/tourists-social-media-trump

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* "Sweeping US defense bill passes, with Ukraine, Venezuela provisions defying Trump:" https://archive.ph/yDKoK

* "House Republicans pass health care plan without re-upping insurance subsidies:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/17/congress/house-republicans-obamacare-subsidies-00695982

* "4 Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies:" https://apnews.com/article/health-care-subsidies-aca-speaker-johnson-1087a9f64168d66b2acf9082af16c253

This is a discharge Petition to force a vote on ACA subsidies. Mike Johnson won't hold the vote now, but it is an excellent time to thank for siding with the Democrats on saving affordable healthcare for workers:

Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania)

Robert Bresnahan (Pennsylvania)

Ryan Mackenzie (Pennsylvania)

Mike Lawler (New York)

And to tell the rest of them what you think of their votes.

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors passes with Democrats’ support:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mtg-trans-youth-care-ban

* "Sarah McBride says GOP should protect Americans’ health coverage, not criminalize trans kids’ medical care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-gop-transgender-care
She wants to lock Doctors in prison over puberty blockers because that's how keen she is to harm children and teens.

It is unlikely to pass the Senate, but it can't hurt to remind your senators that it's important to protect trans children and their access to healthcare.

Three Democratic Quislings betrayed our community:

Henry Cuellar (Texas)

Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)

Don Davis (North Carolina)

If these are your Congress Critters, please call them to tell them what you think of them voting with Republicans to HARM CHILDREN.

Also, the following did not bother to vote against this terrible bill. Tell them why they need to show up for the queer community:

Eric Swalwell (California)

Lucy McBath (Georgia)

Joe Courtney (Connecticut)

There is a long, long history of Democrats throwing Trans People under the bus. A few years ago they did fight for us repeatedly in budget negotiations, and a lot of that was because Queer Folk and Allies called every time to tell them how important it is to keep gender affirming care accessible.

This bill likely won't pass the Senate, but the next one might if we don't make a lot of noise every time republicans try this.

It is also a GREAT time to call the Democrats who actually did stand up for us that you appreciate them doing that because we'll be fighting this battle over and over next year.

* "House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package:" https://www.theverge.com/news/829492/house-energy-commerce-kids-online-safety-package

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html

* "Big batch of Trump nominees moves through US Senate after Republicans change rules :" https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/big-batch-trump-nominees-moves-through-us-senate-after-republicans-change-rules

The Republican goal is to get as many unqualified, pro-fascist nominees throw as fast as possible to do as much long term damage as possible.

To give you an idea of how bad these nominees are:

* "A Congressman Had an Affair. Then He Put His Lover on the Payroll.:" https://archive.ph/wbcxQ

* "Is FEMA Getting Its Very Own RFK Jr.? The nation’s disaster-response agency needs serious people. Trump has picked a QAnon-friendly conspiracy theorist.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/gregg-phillips-trump-fema-pick-conspiracy-theories.html

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* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* "New FBI video shows man sought in Brown University shooting walking near police after attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/brown-university-shooting-manhunt-continues-fbi-offers-reward/story?id=128443272

* "Brown Shooter Still at Large After Nearly Three Days:" https://archive.ph/7szlm

* "Jewish Man Stabbed in Crown Heights:" https://collive.com/jewish-man-stabbed-in-crown-heights/

* "Exploring the Association Between COVID-19 and Avascular Necrosis: A Systematic Review :" https://www.cureus.com/articles/345835-exploring-the-association-between-covid-19-and-avascular-necrosis-a-systematic-review#!/

* "Scientists Trace Lupus to One of The World's Most Common Viruses:" https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-trace-lupus-to-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-viruses

* "The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.:" https://web.archive.org/web/20180613223948/https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication

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* "Washington state takes stock of flooding damage as another atmospheric river looms:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/washington-state-takes-stock-flooding-damage-another-atmospheric-river-rcna248916

Some people were worried, but the Millennials and I are okay. We all live in areas that don't flood, though many others aren't so lucky.

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* "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot:" https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot

* "Permission Structures: How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers:" https://mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptical-professors-guide?triedRedirect=true

* "Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome:" https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/discovery-in-the-judean-desert-reveals-a-widespread-practice-of-forging-royal-purple-garments-in-ancient-rome/

* "Rob Reiner’s son arrested on suspicion of homicide after director and his wife are found dead:" https://archive.ph/TPxZG

* "this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.:" https://wilwheaton.net/2025/12/this-is-such-a-painful-loss-my-heart-is-broken/

* Trump decided to go full on victim blaming political attack on the murdered people and made it all about himself, because of course he did. "Trump baselessly says Rob Reiner died because he was anti-Trump, politicizing the director's killing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-rob-reiner-died-politicizing-rcna249320

* "‘Gross new low’: Hayes reacts to Trump’s Rob Reiner post:"

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* On Cryofreezing. "First of June: In April the CEO and CFO were arrested and the liquidators moved in to recover what they could.:" https://infinitegossip.ghost.io/first-of-june/

* "Raccoon Caught After Alcohol-Fueled Bender at Liquor Store Revealed to Have a Rap Sheet Including 2 Other Break-Ins:" https://people.com/raccoon-caught-at-liquor-store-revealed-to-have-a-rap-sheet-including-2-other-break-ins-11868546

* …And when I logged on Monday Night, Dreamwidth had rolled back a week. This could easily have been worse. I'd published the aggregate. I had to clean all the non-urgent news I scaffolded eightish days ago, but that's not time consuming. The nasty bit was I lost all the tumblr programming which I then had to dig around in tumblr queue to reconstruct. Sigh.

Poor Livia needed medicating, which she Hates. I'd been putting it off for her grief, but she needed it. I zapped her in her room, and she fought like a demon. I expected her to hide for 6-10 hours, but instead she came for consolation pets like Tavy used to. She gets medicated 4-5 times a year, but Tavy was getting medicine fairly often his whole life. He'd try to avoid it, but he always came right back for cuddles after and she used to look at him like he had lost his mind, but this time she tried it and really liked it.

Another little piece of him living on in her.

* The horror movie Tournament poll is close to the end: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

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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.

* CW: Suicide "These hotlines are still available for LGBTQ+ youth after Trump kills 988 services:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-youth-hotlines-still-available

* "Hospital Crisis Watch:" https://www.protectourcare.org/hospital-crisis-watch/

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* No one should share intelligence with us. We can't be trusted. "Trump’s targeting of alleged drug vessels strains UK-US intelligence ties:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/14/trump-targeting-alleged-drug-vessels-uk-us-intelligence-ties-analysis

* "Why Is The U.S. Striking Venezuela? with Benjamin Gedan:" https://open.spotify.com/episode/6QJyDHMD0fbm4WVsScHPw1

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* "Ten years on, France bears the scars of the November 13 attacks:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ten-years-france-bears-scars-november-13-attacks-2025-11-10/

* "Born to Unwed Mothers, These Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia:" https://archive.ph/WivQ5

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* "Trump announces tariff cuts on food, citing high prices:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-announces-tariff-cuts-on-food-citing-high-prices-252104261690

This is a crisis he caused for fun. Stab five inches, pull back one.

* **ACTION ITEM** It's open for public Comment. Please give them one. "Collection and Use of Biometrics by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services :" https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/03/2025-19747/collection-and-use-of-biometrics-by-us-citizenship-and-immigration-services#open-comment

* "Federal judge says he’ll order release of hundreds of Operation Midway Blitz arrestees on bond:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/federal-judge-says-hell-order-release-of-hundreds-of-operation-midway-blitz-arrestees-on-bond/

* "ICE Almost Deports Native American:" https://www.newsweek.com/ice-almost-deports-native-american-11046193

* "Watch 15 videos of LGBTQ+ and ally protestors making clowns of ICE:" https://www.advocate.com/news/watch-15-videos-of-lgbtq-and-ally-protestors-making-clowns-of-ice

* Here are some ways to help Immigrants and the anti-ICE Protesters:

Immigrant Defenders: https://give.immdef.org/give/545119/#!/donation/checkout
The Bail Project: https://bailproject.org/
National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Amnesty International: protect asylum-seekers: https://donate.amnestyusa.org/page/113080/donate/1
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: https://www.theyoungcenter.org/
CHIRLA: https://www.chirla.org/
AL Otro Lado: https://alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/63833-al-otro-lado-fund
Mid-South Immigration Advocates: https://miamemphis.org/
"Know Your Rights:" https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
"Disappeared In America:" https://www.disappearedinamerica.us/

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* "Jonathan Karl Reveals Mike Pence's Dramatic Handwritten Notes From January 6, 2021:"

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* "Trump taps Ingrassia for new role after texting scandal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/trump-ingrassia-gsa-texts-00651340

* "Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts:" https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-group

* "New report exposes massive corruption in Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/new-report-exposes-massive-corruption-in-kristi-noem-s-department-of-homeland-security-252111429843

* "TSA officer sues Kristi Noem over trans personnel being banned from doing pat-downs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-tsa-officer-sues-noem

* "Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage:" https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-male-breast-cancer-coverage-trump-executive-order

* "Will Trump’s Goons Ever Be Held Accountable?:"

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* "Judge appears skeptical of DOJ arguments for keeping Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor in James Comey and Letitia James cases:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hearing-lindsey-halligan-trump-comey-james-rcna243270

* "Swalwell is latest Trump foe targeted for alleged mortgage fraud:" https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/trump-california-mortgage-taxes-fraud-democrat-justice-department

**** Trump/Epstein/Maxwell, etc. CW: CSA ****

* "Bizarre Epstein files reference to Trump, Putin, and oral sex with ‘Bubba’ draws scrutiny in Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-blowing-bubba-epstein

* "Jefrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mark-epstein-bubba-not-clinton

* "The 9 most shocking revelations in the Epstein docs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/here-are-9-of-the-most-shocking-revelations-in-the-latest-batch-of-epstein-documents-00649853?cid=apn

* "Epstein Implicates Trump:"

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* "'A slap in the face': Family members rage at Trump defenders hijacking Epstein victim's remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-a-slap-in-the-face-family-members-rage-at-trump-defenders-hijacking-epstein-victim-s-remarks-252029509618

* "New document appears to validate photo of Epstein victim with former Prince Andrew:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/new-document-appears-to-validate-photo-of-epstein-victim-with-former-prince-andrew-252031045716

* "Trump’s morality problem becomes full-blown crisis as Epstein returns to headlines:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-s-morality-problem-becomes-full-blown-crisis-as-epstein-returns-to-headlines-252111941833

* "Rep. Lauren Boebert helps force House vote on release of Epstein files:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/11/12/boebert-name-on-petition-demanding-epstein-files-released/

* "Republicans expecting mass defections on Epstein vote:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/12/congress/house-epstein-vote-gop-defections-00649624

* "Epstein survivors keep the pressure on Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/epstein-survivors-keep-the-pressure-on-congress-252021317996

* "Trump yanks support for ‘lunatic’ Marjorie Taylor Greene in unhinged rant as Epstein scandal squeezes him:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-dumps-marjorie-taylor-greene

* "Trump frantic to deflect attention from his prominence in Epstein emails:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-frantic-to-deflect-attention-from-his-prominence-in-epstein-emails-252115525973

* "Epstein scandal is a reminder of what sparked the Me Too movement:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/epstein-scandal-is-a-reminder-of-what-sparked-the-me-too-movement-252104261860

* "Democratic lawmaker calls Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik a 'pedophile protector':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/libs-of-tiktok-rosa-delauro

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* "‘No hire’ job market leaves unemployed in limbo as threats to economy multiply:" https://apnews.com/article/jobs-hiring-economy-c48fd84dfaa71eee962feb3a88fd8575?u

* "New foreclosures jump 20% in October, a sign of more distress in the housing market:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/foreclosures-rise-october-housing-market-distress.html

* "Wall Street drops to one of its worst days since April on worries about AI stocks and interest rates:" https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-trump-government-shutdown-c388d97a4e4acf5cca538fd901e46b2d

* "Massachusetts's Millionaire Tax Still Going Very Well, Thank You!:" https://www.wonkette.com/p/massachusettss-millionaire-tax-still

* "Starbucks workers kick off 65-store US strike on company’s busy Red Cup Day:" https://apnews.com/article/starbucks-workers-strike-stores-union-6d9a5c8761fb7a251cb9bf7c13908877

* "Provision Killing Food Safety Rules Into Shutdown Bill :" https://www.commondreams.org/news/government-funding-bill-axes-food-inspection-regulations

* "Newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva vows to protect LGBTQ+ rights in fiery floor speech :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/adelita-grijalva-first-floor-speech

* "Don’t STEAL Act:" https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5048?s=1&r=1

* "H.R.5106 - Restore Trust in Congress Act:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/315708.html

* "End arms sales to UAE:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/318426.html

* Interview with Rep. Clayburn

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* Our job for the next year and a half is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

"Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

"ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

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* "DOJ joins California Republicans’ lawsuit against Gavin Newsom over Prop. 50 vote:" https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312906418.html

* "Clash over healthcare subsidies threatens to reshape 2026 midterms:" https://archive.ph/IDjIG

* "Gay NYC city council member Erik Bottcher joins Jack Schlossberg in packed race for Jerry Nadler’s House seat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-new-york-congress

* "Meet the Michigan state senator pushing to enshrine marriage equality protections in the state constitution:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jeremy-moss-michigan-marriage-protections

* "Marginalized communities turn to gun ownership in fear of Trump’s authoritarianism:" https://www.advocate.com/news/liberals-lgbtq-embrace-gun-ownership

* "Texas A&M bans teaching 'race or gender ideology' at universities:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-gender-ideology-ban

* "Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.:" https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

* "Catholic Church formally bans gender-affirming care at its hospitals:" https://www.advocate.com/news/catholic-church-gender-affirming-care

* "Groundbreaking study could revolutionise HRT for trans women:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/12/hrt-trans-women-study-feminising-hormones/

* "Gen Z men do care about abortion, actually:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gen-z-men-abortion

* "A devastating reality: New report finds violence and erasure ahead of Transgender Day of Remembrance:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-violence-erasure-report

* "Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens:" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2834486

* "Future mRNA vaccines may prevent food and seasonal allergies:" https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/future-mrna-vaccines-may-prevent-food-and-seasonal-allergies

* "Coffee may protect people against irregular heartbeats, study finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/10/coffee-irregular-heartbeat-protection-study?

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* "Protests return to climate summit with calls for Indigenous rights (and a dash of Trump mockery):" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/15/protests-climate-summit-brazil-00653476

* From here down, many items are older.

* "How Social Media Exacerbates Disaster & Disinformation | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart:"

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* "AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/

* Nope. Nopenopenope. "Watching AI Testimony at a Real Murder Trial:"

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* "Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art:" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

* "The AI that we'll have after AI:" https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/post-ai-ai/#productive-residue

* "Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show:"

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* "Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post:" https://futurism.com/ai-browser-hackers-drain-bank-account-public-reddit-post

* "YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

* "TikTok tradwives: femininity, reproduction, and social media:" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2025.2546050#abstract

* "The urgent question about AI: How will replaced workers make a living?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/ai-replacing-workers

* "Nuclear codes, voicemail hacks and businesses going bust. These are some of the biggest password blunders:" https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/europe/louvre-heist-weak-password-blunders-hackers-intl?

* "Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-10-07/humpback-whales-eastern-population-numbers-rebound-estimate/105843256

* "Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia:" https://apnews.com/article/australia-koala-chlamydia-vaccine-endangered-8fd0b6bf87ebe1e65c27b5f910a20ff1

* "Playing for both teams: 6 LGBTQ+ spies from history :" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-queer-spies-double-agents

* "15 secret symbols queer people used throughout the ages :" https://www.advocate.com/history/guide-to-queer-symbols-in-history#rebelltitem1

* "Conquest Archaeology: The Military Occupation of Babylon in the Iraq War:" https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_301-2

* "The Legend Lives on From the Chippewa on Down:" https://slate.com/technology/2025/11/edmund-fitzgerald-wreck-sinking-lyrics-gordon-lightfoot.html

* I did do the primer and later the paint before bed last night on the lower sections of the conduit New Millennial did the upper parts of and it looks fine. Most of it is behind the bookcase that is now where it goes in any case. We just painted it the same as the wall so it is now reasonably unobtrusive. The plan is for the to do the other two the same. These are less urgent though as they aren't essential to migrating the room back.

I spent six or seven hours today doing things like putting books back on shelves, moving small stuff, and doing clean and sort type things, luckily mostly sitting down, ahead of the big nightmare furniture move. Once I start this part I can't really stop as I will need to block the patio door to make space for the re-configuring and for part of it the room is effectively cut in half. So I have to commit entirely, I get no help and I don't get to stop until the furniture is all migrated left where it belongs.

Friday I have forage delivery. I'm also supposed to go to the library, but the recycling is blocking the exit because Squirrel keeps coming home utterly thrashed from work. So I need to either move it or try to take it out myself if I literally want to leave the apartment.

I figure I'll try to do more advance cleaning and organizing and do the big push Saturday or Sunday if I wake up with the shakes again.

This all hurts so much Last two days I keep pushing the mechanical limits of my artificial shoulder and it feels like I've been stabbed with a stiletto I can't remove.

* I did end up staying up to do a library run and bring in and sort forage Friday, which meant a very late start. It could not be helped. And as expected I was exhausted and in pain and had the shakes. The thing I planned to do was pull things out from under the desk with the four shelf book case, and clean there and also rewire to spread out the load, which also involved untangling all the wires and pulling out any not currently attached to anything. I have set those aside for later. I actually know what most of them are meant to go to, but this was a lot of crawling around on the floor and randomly injuring myself and I'm already covered with scrapes and bruises from Thursday and also my dominant arm wasn't really load bearing after the things I did to it Wednesday and Thursday.

I did not alas finish reorganizing that desk, but I got most of it Thursday and worked on it a little Friday night. This is fine. I'm well past the bits that are annoying to work with when the sofa is on the Left where it belongs, which is what really matters.

This is why I wanted to do the desk area now. It is just way easier to do this, particularly the rewiring part with the main desk and sofa moved. I also wanted a little time to just sort of live with it a bit and notice things like: I forgot to tuck a power strip back in (I tuck them back under the table and put a little box over them to keep cats from messing with them and to make it less likely things might fall or spill on them. Some of them unplug when even mildly jostled including the modem and the emergency alert system for me). or that two wires were hung up on a boot in a way that would likely lead to disastrous breakage later on unless I untangled them from my boots. This is a thing that literally happened while I was typing this paragraph. <.< >.>

Livia's still really struggling with the furniture and just generally scared of this uncanny valley version of the living room, possibly even worse than last time, given it coincides with her loss. I keep having to go to her room and reassure her when she panics, poor Button.

We all really can't wait for things to be normal.

I am really not looking forward to trying to move all the furniture back. There are a ton of smaller things needing to be put back and/or cleaned and organized after this, but the sofa/two desks/filing cabinet step is going to completely thrash me and will likely eat so many spoons, most of which will be borrowed from future days and my body charges loan shark interest.

This would be so much easier with help, but there isn't much chance of it.

* I did manage to get the desks, filing cabinet stack, and sofa back in place Saturday. It took everything I had really. There is so much moire to do to get the living room back properly, but Sunday both my dominant arm and the hip joint on that side were not having it, even though the next logical step is mostly kneeling or sitting.

Livia hid all Saturday from the Scary sounds. She barely ate her meat. She did have food and her box in my room and I did periodically visit her, but she is still not really recovered, though she was darting out to my bathroom for litter and was drinking her water.

The Millennials came and did cleaning and brought dinner, which was a massive help Sunday. After they left, Livia decided she can handle pettin throne pets as the office part of the living room is back to normal so not scary.

At some point this week, we get new smoke detectors, at which point we schedule city inspection and sign off.

* I'm still running the horror movie Tournament poll: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls/tagged/Horror%20Movies

* "Nick Offerman: America's Small Farms Are Being Slaughtered by Corporations | The Daily Show:"

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* "Epstein Emails Implicating Trump Surface as Ghislaine Gets VIP Treatment in Prison | The Daily Show:"

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* "Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show:"

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* "Is AI Making College Students Dumber? Ronny Chieng Investigates | The Daily Show:"

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* "Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "America's Arctic Blast | Trump Threatens Air Traffic Controllers | The Math On 50-Year Mortgages:"

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* ""Of Course [Trump] Knew About The Girls" | Probably Illegal $1 Coin | The Ghost Of Abraham Lincoln:"

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* If you want to bid to help PBS: JohnOliversJunk.com

* "Stephen Colbert's Cyborgasm: A.I. Matthew McConaughey | "Walk My Walk" | Russian Robot Fail:"

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* "What a week as a Hobbit taught me about Capitalism:"

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* "The Donald J. Trump 50 Year Mortgage:"

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* "A.I. Love Country:"

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* "Epstein White House Briefing Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "AI Photos - SNL:"

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* "I Miss My Ex's Dad - SNL:"

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help Nathan Sage against Joni Ernst? https://www.sageforsenate.com/

* Want to help Dr. Annie Andrews beat Lindsey Graham?" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_annie_fr_txt_q22025?refcode=LOC_RTL_FR_2025.05.29_Lindsey-Bad-Job_B1_C1_Pros_N_Peony_RG-T1&amount=5

* Want to help Mike Pruitt in Virginia? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mike-pruitt-1?refcode=directory

* Want to help Roy Cooper in North Carolina against Michael Whatley? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/roy_cooper_email?refcode=directory

* Want to help James Osyf in Virginia Beach? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/james-osyf-1?refcode=directory

* Want to help Omar Fateh in Minneapolis? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/campaign-fund-of-omar-fateh-1?refcode=directory
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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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* "Israel redraws Gaza map, limiting Palestinians to a third of the enclave:" https://archive.ph/5eN2N

* "Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 12 overnight in Gaza, including kids:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-airstrikes-latest-0f9a737e82458cf2e74259adab530749

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* "Ukraine, US sign minerals deal sought by Trump:" https://archive.ph/WVRyL

* "Russian drone attack kills two, injures 15 in Ukraine's Odesa:" https://archive.ph/7AozJ

* "Russian troops try to advance in Ukraine's Sumy region, governor says:" https://archive.ph/WmIdU

* "Russians fighting more intensely despite ceasefire talk, Ukrainian commander says:" https://archive.ph/3Tsny

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* "More than a dozen killed in sectarian clashes near Syrian capital:" https://archive.ph/Ekp9J

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* "Georgian police raid homes of activists providing financing to anti-government protesters:" https://archive.ph/IOumz

* "European court tells Serbia to ‘prevent the use of sonic weapons’ after protesters’ claims at rally:" https://apnews.com/article/serbia-sonic-weapon-human-rights-court-30de60760590703a457a896239e886e9

* "Serbian students, unions join forces six months into mass protest campaign:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250501-serbian-students-unions-join-forces-for-anti-corruption-protest

* "Black Sea may hold back world wheat supplies into 2026:" https://archive.ph/tDVpb

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* "The Senate votes down resolution to block Trump’s global tariffs amid economic turmoil:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economy-7f81370d120d9529a354d2a4db32a7e5

* "Trump shrugs off shortage fears: Kids may get 'two dolls instead of 30’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-shrugs-off-shortage-fears-kids-may-get-two-dolls-instead-of-30-238666821858

* "Trump claims he 'could' have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. His administration has said otherwise.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-claims-kilmar-abrego-garcia-returned-us-administration-said-othe-rcna203734

* "SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison:" https://archive.ph/JgmYi

* "‘Hands off our neighbors’: Protestors gather in Evansville after day of ICE raids:" https://www.14news.com/2025/04/30/hands-off-our-neighbors-protestors-gather-evansville-after-day-ice-raids/

* "Trump Administration’s ICE Immigration Raids Have Dairy Farmers on Edge:" https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/04/trump-administrations-ice-immigration-raids-have-dairy-farmers-on-edge/

* "Active duty military caught in immigration raid at makeshift night club in Colorado Springs, no criminal charges filed:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/28/colorado-springs-immigration-raid-no-charges/

* "He was sent to El Salvador; she was sent to Venezuela. Their 2-year-old is still in the US:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvador-venezuela-2-year-us/story?id=121296196

* "FAMILY SEPARATION upon Deportation; 40,000 Pets Reunified:"

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* "Homeland Security admits Oklahoma raid targeted wrong people:" https://kfor.com/news/local/homeland-security-admits-oklahoma-raid-targeted-wrong-people/

* "Protests erupt as border czar Tom Homan visits Rochester:" https://13wham.com/news/local/protests-erupt-as-white-house-border-czar-tom-homan-visits-rochester-police-locust-club-union-immigration-traffic-stop-trump-administration

* "'I am not afraid of you,' Columbia student says of Trump after release from ICE:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-columbia-student-detained-ice-seek-release-case/story?id=121317902

* "ICE Goes After US-Born Children:"

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* "'Historic debacle': Trump sets new standard for poor presidential performance; Americans displeased:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-historic-debacle-trump-sets-new-standard-for-poor-presidential-performance-americans-displeased-238684229542

* This terrifies me. "‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State:" https://archive.ph/aFMlT

* "Real mission of DOGE seen in new insights on federal data and privacy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/real-mission-of-doge-seen-in-new-insights-on-federal-data-and-privacy-238682181934

* "US CDC cancels science group workshop on preventing human bird flu infections:" https://archive.ph/KmB0Y

* "In visit to Texas, RFK Jr. said autism, diabetes deserve more attention than measles:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/texas-measles-robert-kennedy-autism/

It would be so much cheaper to just vaccinate people with measles then to let them get measles. It would also cut down on things like long term health effects, measles related disabilities, and children dying.

I'm not against diabetes research. I'm just saying we could have both.

Re Autism Disinformation from RFK Jr.: https://www.tumblr.com/hyperlexichypatia/781765301357379584?source=sha

* "The US has nearly 900 measles cases, and 10 states have active outbreaks. Here's what to know:" https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/measles-outbreaks-what-to-know/507-958f9508-c77b-474e-bae5-d0b1a960e9b6

* "Measles jumps borders in North America with outbreaks in Canada, Mexico and US:" https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-mexico-canada-ontario-0956a30c043b030ae79bc9f67c6ce89c

* "‘Insane’: Workers who protect coal miners face termination thanks to DOGE:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-insane-workers-who-protect-coal-miners-face-termination-thanks-to-doge-238668869911

* "Can the Trump administration intervene on Colorado’s new gun-control law? Republicans hope so.:" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/04/17/colorado-gun-control-law-pam-bondi-legislature/

* "US, Kari Lake Must Disburse $12 Million to Radio Free Europe:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/us-kari-lake-must-disburse-12-million-to-radio-free-europe

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* "List of USA protests today:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3623856.html

I would like to thank all those protesting today!

* "Financial Services Republicans approve CFPB cuts for GOP megabill:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/30/congress/financial-services-republicans-approve-cfpb-cuts-for-gop-megabill-00320143

* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.html

If these are your Sewnators, please stop what you are doing and call now:

KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)

* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526

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* Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

* "Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

Some semi-organized snail mail campaigns:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

White house (Possibly Dangerous): https://www.whitehouse.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

* "The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/

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* " In ‘Partisan Effort to Steal a Seat on the Supreme Court,’ Ruling Gives GOP Control of NC Election Board:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-court-state-election-board-republican-control/

* "Illinois governor says don’t blame trans kids for losses by ‘do-nothing Democrats’ in fiery speech:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jb-pritzker-defends-trans-kids

* "Wide-ranging crackdown on abortion pills passes Texas Senate:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/29/texas-senate-abortion-pill-bill/

* "Missouri Senate committee advances reinstating statewide abortion ban:" https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-04-30/missouri-senate-committee-advances-reinstating-statewide-abortion-ban

* "Poland's last 'LGBTQ-free zone' is no more:" https://www.advocate.com/news/poland-lgbtq-free-zone-abolished

* "Spokane City Council passes measure protecting LGBTQ+ rights and gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/spokane-washington-lgbtq-ordinance

* "Bacteria use ancient war trick to outsmart viruses—and it could help us fight superbugs:" https://phys.org/news/2025-04-bacteria-ancient-war-outsmart-viruses.html

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* "How 50 years of climate change has changed the face of the 'Blue Marble' from space:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-how-50-years-of-climate-change-has-changed-the-face-of-the-blue-marble

* "Countries agree to global carbon tax on shipping, opposed by Trump:" https://archive.ph/uYefp

* "Almost half of Americans are now exposed to unhealthy air pollution:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/air-quality-climate-change

* "Severe weather brings deadly storms and flash flooding across swath of U.S.:" https://archive.ph/0PMAQ

* "Myanmar quake: Ongoing aftershocks spread fear:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/04/1162711

* "Myanmar Earthquake Relief:" https://www.myanmarearthquakehelp.com/en/donate

* "Native Village of Tyonek, 40 miles from Mount Spurr, prepares for potential eruption:" https://alaskapublic.org/news/public-safety/2025-04-29/native-village-of-tyonek-40-miles-from-mount-spurr-prepares-for-potential-eruption

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* "Managing Our Forests Better:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JGNEdVhBw3w

* "Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing :" https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/

* "A Researcher Found Hidden Messages on an Obelisk. They Weren’t Meant for Ordinary Eyes.:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64565606/hidden-messages-obelisk/

* "Medieval tapestry’s penis count remains a bone of contention:" https://www.popsci.com/science/medieval-tapestry-controversy/

* "Selling Your Wife At Market: The London History Show:"

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* "The Unhinged Trials of Oscar Wilde:"

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* "The First Cat Memes: History of Cats 3 | World History | Extra History:"

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* "77 Colorized Images That Show The Roaring Twenties As It Truly Was:" https://allthatsinteresting.com/1920s-colorizations

* "These 27 new LGBTQ+ movies & TV shows are heating up May:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/upcoming-movies-tv-shows-lgbtq#rebelltitem1

* "Why Do I Love These VICIOUS Queens?:"

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* "What's the Difference Between Art & Design?:"

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* "Who Gets to Be a "Real" Artist? (Amateur & Outsider Art): Crash Course Art History #13:"

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* "How a Banana Sold for $150,000 : Modern Art:"

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* "Why Is Art So Expensive?:"

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* "True Facts: The Bizarre Magic of Water Walkers:"

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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.

* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986

* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network

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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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* I think I need to say this again because of what is going on in my Tumblr notes. I am against the rape, torture, and murder of civilians, especially children REGARDLESS OF WHO IS DOING IT. Yes, that means Hamas. Yes, that means the IDF/Israeli government. It also means the US Military. It means ANYONE doing it.

I can be against it whoever is doing it.

Opposing Netanyahu for his horrific policies does not mean I hate Jewish people. Being against the things that were done to civilians on October 7 doesn't mean I hate all Palestinians, nor that I support genocide. I am very much against genocide whoever is doing it. See also my opinions on the Holocaust, what Russia is doing to Ukraine, the horrific shit my government and Canada's and Australia's did to indigenous people over centuries.

I can be against Netanyahu the way I am against Trump, Putin, and Viktor Orbán.

The Israeli government is a government. It is wrong and antisemitic to blame every Jewish person everywhere in the world for things they may not support and didn't have a say in unless they specifically support and/or voted for Likud or one of the right wing parties they coalition with. Jewish people inside and outside of Israel have been and are protesting war crimes the Israeli government has committed. It is possible to have a nuanced understanding of Israeli politics.

It strikes me as pretty weird to claim all Jewish people only have one opinion about everything and to call me antisemitic for opposing one particular politician for doing things that are harmful.

I do, in fact, want all hostages free, both the ones Hamas have and the ones the Israelis have. It sure looks to me and to a lot of people, including some rather vocal families of hostages, that Netanyahu has deliberately and repeatedly stood in the way of this happening for personal political gain and so that he can stay in power and out of jail for corruption he's credibly accused of.

My holding this opinion is very similar to my opinion of Donald Trump. Just saying.

I want Netanyahu out of power because that is the only way there is a chance of anything getting better in that part of West Asia. Which is the goal. I have been in favour of the two state solution since I was old enough to understand, which is longer than a lot of you have been alive, or at least longer than many of you have been old enough to follow the news. I have seen good and bad Israeli and Palestinian leaders come and go. I've seen Netanyahu break agreement after agreement over for decades whenever he's been in power. I don't trust him to make an agreement he will follow any more than I trust Trump to make one, especially when Netanyahu's personal agenda conflicts with that agreement, because that is how he has behaved over and over, including him not holding up his end of the ceasefire just recently.

My side is not that of one government, not even my own. My side is the greater good and the lets not murder children side. It pretty much always has been.

I'd love for the violence to be over. I'd love for everyone's kids to be safe. That's the side I'm on.

* "Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket attack in the heaviest exchange since the truce with Hezbollah:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-03-22-2025-32ca8fa2c5f6e887e1d51b9ffea6f836

* "Israel returns to war in Gaza with wider aims and almost no constraints:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-trump-iran-protests-bb504392b25e111e11a2ac1ecb8f4fc5

* "At least two people killed, 19 injured in Israeli strikes on Syria's Daraa:" https://archive.ph/u4Pr9

* "Al Jazeera journalist targeted in Gaza: 'If you're reading this, it means I've been killed':" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/03/25/al-jazeera-journalist-targeted-in-gaza-if-you-re-reading-this-it-means-i-ve-been-killed_6739505_4.html

* "Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate:" https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-gazas-only-cancer-hospital-as-genocide-continues-to-escalate/

* "West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54280/west-bank-displaced-palestinians-israel-idf-military

* "Palestinians in Gaza protest against Hamas for a second day:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340645/palestinians-protest-hamas-rule-in-gaza

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* "EU says 'unconditional withdrawal' of Russia from Ukraine is a precondition to amend sanctions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-unconditional-withdrawal-russia-ukraine-is-precondition-amend-sanctions-2025-03-26/

* Of course there are more conditions. "Kremlin says various conditions must be met before Black Sea security deal can be activated:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-various-conditions-must-be-met-before-black-sea-security-deal-can-2025-03-26/

* Putin is playing Trump like a harp as usual and Trump continues to negotiate the cutting up Ukraine without involving Ukraine in the talks.

* "In Ukraine call, Putin furthers his goals and cedes little to Trump, say analysts:" https://archive.ph/KLtTB

* "Russia and US to discuss Black Sea shipping and Ukraine peace in Saudi Arabia:" https://archive.ph/caisN

* "Putin wants Trump to formally recognize all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports:" https://archive.ph/mFjIy

* "How Trump’s policies have helped Russia and furthered Putin’s goals:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-trump-s-policies-have-helped-russia-and-furthered-putin-s-goals/ar-AA1BHkRP

* "Trump administration halts program to track abducted Ukrainian children, lawmakers say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

* "As Trump cuts funding, Ukrainians wonder who will answer for kids abducted in war:" https://archive.ph/Ix1p2

* Things on Putin's wish list. "Musk Calls on US to Quit NATO, Stop Paying for Defense of Europe:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/musk-calls-on-us-to-quit-nato-stop-paying-for-defense-of-europe

* "Czech President Pavel was in Odesa as Russia pounded the city with drones:" https://archive.ph/pFgMa

* "3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite truce talks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-drones-zaporizhzhia-84dab972755f90ad7592a2a13758ed9c

* "Russian missile attack wounds 88 in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-attack-ukraines-sumy-injures-28-people-local-official-says-2025-03-24/

* "Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-europe-hybrid-campaign-d61887dd3ec6151adf354c5bd3e6273e

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* "In Syria, Being Wanted Went From Something to Fear to a Badge of Honor:" https://archive.ph/8PVpd

* "Can One Man Hold Syria Together?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/syria-assad-downfall-sharaa/682135/

* "Russia ships its Arctic oil to Syria for first time as sanctions limit buyers:" https://archive.ph/ePJe8

* "Erdoğan's endgame: outlawing the Turkish opposition:" https://www.metafilter.com/208141/Erdoans-endgame-outlawing-the-Turkish-opposition

* "Thousands join march in Turkiye’s Istanbul to protest mayor’s arrest:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/thousands-join-march-in-turkiyes-istanbul-to-protest-mayors-arrest

* "Huge pro-democracy protests grip Turkey after Erdogan rival is imprisoned: The detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is widely viewed as politically motivated.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-erdogan-protests-ekrem-imamoglu-prison-istanbul-mayor-rcna197925

* "Ministers unanimously vote no confidence in AG, beginning formal process to dismiss her: Justice minister claims Gali Baharav-Miara caused rift with government by blocking its policies; she says it ‘seeks to be above the law,’ wants unlimited power; demonstrations grow:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-unanimously-vote-no-confidence-in-ag-beginning-formal-process-to-dismiss-her/

* "The ‘ghost reporters’ writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa:" https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/20/the-ghost-reporters-writing-pro-russian-propaganda-in-west-africa

* "Greenland Solves Political Crisis Hours Before JD Vance Visit:" https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-solves-crisis-before-vance-visit-2051938

* "The Tech CEOs Who Want a DOGE for Canada:" https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/28/Tech-CEOs-DOGE-Canada/

Canadians! Do not follow us into the dark. If you aren't yet registered: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=reg&document=index&lang=e

* "Canada aims for free internal trade that can offset any US tariffs, Carney says:" https://archive.ph/cGDGZ

* "No One Wants to Work? The Real Reason Boomers Are Wrong:"

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* "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans:" https://archive.ph/xdRkf

* "As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/

* "Classified material laws and why experts say Signal chat raises concerns:" https://archive.ph/Tbe5c

* "Democrats call Trump intelligence officials' use of group chat "reckless, sloppy and stunning":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-worldwide-threats-hearing/

* "Gabbard questioned on participating in Signal chat where war plans allegedly leaked:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-gabbard-questioned-on-participating-in-signal-chat-where-war-plans-allegedly-leaked

* "'Holy crap on steroids!': Top Trump officials exposed in shocking, sloppy military security blunder:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-holy-crap-on-steroids-top-trump-officials-exposed-in-shocking-sloppy-military-security-blunder-235260485849

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "'Unheard of': Slotkin says Trump war plans breach endangers 'human beings':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unheard-of-slotkin-says-trump-war-plans-breach-endangers-human-beings-235365957721

* "‘Sheer, unfettered, Olympian incompetence’: Hayes on the Trump war plans breach :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sheer-unfettered-olympian-incompetence-hayes-on-the-trump-war-plans-breach-235364421753

* "Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal:" https://archive.ph/vWtKn

* "Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-trump-signal-security

* "Trump & Co Blame Journalist For Major National Security Slip Up:"

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* "Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

* "‘Four-alarm fire’: Passwords for Hegseth, Gabbard and Waltz reportedly found online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-four-alarm-fire-passwords-for-hegseth-gabbard-waltz-reportedly-found-online-235480133798

* "Israel Supplied Intelligence in Airstrike Discussed in Signal Chat, Officials Say:" https://archive.ph/YDDHo

* "Allies wary of Trump admin's incompetence after scandal over military plan group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/allies-wary-of-trump-admin-s-incompetence-after-scandal-over-military-plan-group-chat-235646533990

* "Judge orders government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56821/signal-houthi-strike-chat-judge

* "Mike Waltz Under Fire After Leaving Venmo List Public: What To Know:" https://www.newsweek.com/mike-waltz-venmo-list-public-2051249

* "Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/10-years-hillary-clinton-server-trump-officials-military-plans-rcna197880

Republicans keep claiming Hillary having recipes and social stuff plus some things later designated sensitive on a private server is so much worse than inviting a reporter to a text chat on their private phones using a commercial app instead of a SCIF or the situation room, endangering the lives of military pilots and revealing an information source on the ground in Yemen.

Like, yes, she shouldn't have done that, but this is running a stop sign versus driving drunk at high speed the wrong direction on a highway.

They definitely knew they were doing the wrong thing because several of them attacked Hillary back in 2016 over her server and Matt Walz himself sent out warnings about Signal and threats against leakers days previously.

Why are the recipes "Lock her up" worthy, but this Republican clusterfuck isn't even worth a slap on the wrist?

* "What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat:" https://archive.ph/GNe7C

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "‘Where was the president?’: Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-where-was-the-president-hayes-on-trump-s-alarming-absence-amid-war-plans-group-chat-235478085667

* "'F---ing liar': Sen. Duckworth rips Pete Hegseth; calls for his resignation over group chat scandal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-f-ing-liar-sen-duckworth-rips-pete-hegseth-calls-for-his-resignation-over-group-chat-scandal-235500101599

* "‘Sound familiar?’: DHS staffer accidentally added reporter to email about ICE raids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sound-familiar-dhs-staffer-accidentally-added-reporter-to-email-about-ice-raids-235620421884

* "The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home:" https://theintercept.com/2025/03/26/signal-chat-yemen-strike/?

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Signalgate, Trump’s tariffs, and defending the LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elizabeth-warren-signalgate-trump-musk

* "Texting War Plans = Illegal:"

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* "Scoop: Senate Dems propose sprawling Signal chat probe:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/senate-democrats-signal-chat-probe

* "Sen. Mark Kelly shreds Hegseth for attack plans breach: ‘He crossed the line’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-mark-kelly-shreds-hegseth-for-attack-plans-breach-he-crossed-the-line-235747909799

* "Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials:" https://archive.ph/615Pj

* "Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen says U.S. Greenland visits meant to cause 'pressure':" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/03/25/Denmark-Greenland-denounce-Usha-Vance-visit/6201742904783/

* "VP Vance and his wife change up trip to Greenland amid protests:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5338629/vp-vance-and-his-wife-change-up-trip-to-greenland-amid-protests

* "Former Denmark Ambassador Rufus Gifford responds to VP Vance's 'not a good ally' comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/denmark-rufus-gifford-jd-vance

* They made no friends and influenced people to despise us even more. "JD Vance blasts Denmark in visit to Greenland with wife Usha as Trump administration eyes territory:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-usha-vance-visit-greenland-most-greenlanders-dont-want-to-join-america/

* "'This is shameful': Trump sows animosity and mistrust abroad, degrading Americans in the process:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-shameful-trump-sows-animosity-and-mistrust-abroad-degrading-americans-in-the-process-235758149579

* "Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-00244832

How this will work with US companies using Venezuelan oil is a question.

* "Trump Says He Could Cut China Tariffs to Secure TikTok Deal:" https://archive.ph/DNx0x

* "Trump auto tariffs: President slaps 25% duties on car imports to US:" https://archive.ph/IWGvK

* "US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-7c4851c705d18e0cc891c3ce085e15e4

* "US to end funding for childhood vaccines in poorest countries, document shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-end-funding-child-vaccines-developing-countries-new-york-2025-03-26/

So many people, particularly children will die.

* "Elon Musk won’t receive secret China briefings, Trump says:" https://archive.ph/zXhsc

This is why we need a robust media and why our out cry is helpful.

Stay Noisy.

* "Media reports prompt Trump to end plan to brief Musk on secret potential war plans for China:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/media-reports-prompt-trump-to-end-plan-to-brief-musk-on-secret-potential-war-plans-for-china-235108421909

* "How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China:" https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

* "Map Shows Countries With Visa Warnings About US:" https://www.newsweek.com/travel-visas-germany-uk-usa-denmark-finland-2048695

* "Trump's transgender rights rollbacks prompt allies to adjust travel warnings:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/allies-issue-usa-travel-guidlines-transgender

* "If Trump didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, who — or what — did?:" https://archive.ph/N1ATk#selection-772.0-772.1

* "Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-foreign-prison-threats-civil-rights-groups-027162

You know how I said sending Venezuela refugees to El Salvador for 'crimes' like having a soccer team tattoo and being gay by labeling them gang member terrorists was a trial balloon for summary deportation of anyone Trump wants to with zero due process?

It was.

It's the same tactic the right wing always uses to steal civil liberties. Trans people are a tiny percentage of the population, so a lot of people don't know any personally. Trans people = low hanging fruit for the right. So they demonize trans people accusing even our children of being sex predators for just existing, then use the hate they whipped up over lies to ban books and anyone LGBTQIA+ from public spaces and claim anyone who disagrees is a pedophile, so that the people who should be standing up to Christo-facists abandon principle by principle until it's to late and the Right comes for them.

This is the same sort of thing, Round up a bunch of Venezualan refugees and rendition them without legal justification or due process while demonizing them to whip up hate they can use to move the Overton window towards fascist autocracy so they can do this to anyone they want.

Poof all civil liberties are gone. Refugees = low hanging fruit to the right.

Stand up NOW while you still can.

* "US judge blocks Trump administration from fast-tracking deportations:" https://archive.ph/Kj8vX

* "Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations/

* "Judge smacks down Trump DOJ: This court will not be ‘gaslit’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-smacks-down-trump-doj-this-court-will-not-be-gaslit-235097157508

* "Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to resume deportations under Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/alien-enemies-act-trump-denied-court-00252157

* "Why federal judges have few tools to rein in Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/why-federal-judges-have-few-tools-to-rein-in-trump-235126341779

* "Judge rebukes Justice Dept., raises due process questions in Alien Enemies Act deportation case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rebukes-justice-dept-due-process-alien-enemies-act-deportation-case/

* "We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not :" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69560/we-will-deport-you-if-we-have-evidence-against-you-and-if-we-do-not

* "Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-names/

* "What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced:" https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

* "Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has no criminal record, documents show:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-migrant-deported-el-salvador-no-criminal-record/

* "Deported soccer player wrongly accused of gang membership over tattoo, lawyer says:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/21/deported-soccer-player-venezuela-tattoo/82589688007/

* " Gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker ‘disappeared’ to Salvadoran mega-prison under Trump order, Maddow reveals :" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-makeup-artist-deported-prison

I know I already posted the interview, but I want to remind people just how bullshit the Republican lies that these are all gang members are. This is WHY everyone needs do process. Yes, even people actually accused of crimes, because accusations aren't convictions. If he'd been allowed to go to his scheduled court hearing, he'd be here, not in mortal peril in a for profit prison with no over sight.

* "What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/venezuela-trump-deportation-el-salvador-prison-human-rights-cecot-due-process/

* "Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125

* "“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”: The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers. :" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/

* "'Incredible’: Trump admin reportedly deports man over autism awareness tattoo:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-incredible-trump-admin-reportedly-deports-man-over-autism-awareness-tattoo-235625029616

* It also looks like we are sending refugees back to Venezuela where they will be in danger: "Venezuela reaches deal to accept deportation flights from U.S.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-reaches-deal-to-accept-deportation-flights-from-u-s/

* "IRS close to finalizing data-sharing agreement with ICE, sources say:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-close-finalizing-data-sharing-agreement-ice-sources/story?id=120063278

* "Rubio says U.S. may have pulled more than 300 visas:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/rubio-state-department-more-than-300-visas

* "Columbia University protester Khalil remains jailed while judge weighs case transfer:" https://archive.ph/4jD5z

* "Cornell student activist asked to surrender to ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/momodou-taal-cornell-student-activist-surrender-ice-rcna197604

* "Federal judge orders ICE not to remove immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra:" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/federal-judge-orders-ice-not-remove-immigration-activist-jeanette-vizguerra/

* "Visa renewal leads to Arizona ICE detention for Canadian actress:" https://www.azfamily.com/2025/03/21/visa-renewal-leads-arizona-ice-detention-canadian-actress/

* "Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her:" https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

* "‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-flatly-authoritarian-new-video-shows-masked-agents-arresting-tufts-student-235484229584

The Secret police had their faces covered and grabbed her without identifying themselves. When challenged they eventually said what agency they were from but didn't show proof or give their names.

They did this terrible thing because of her political views in clear violation of her 1st Amendment rights.

* "US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts:" https://archive.ph/gzNXj

* "‘ICE kidnapped our neighbor’: Outrage at arrest of Tufts student spreads as lawmakers demand answers:" https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/28/ice-kidnapped-our-neighbor-outrage-at-arrest-of-tufts-student-spreads-as-lawmakers-demand-answers/

* "'Absolutely unconstitutional': attorney for abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk speaks out on her detainment:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-absolutely-unconstitutional-attorney-for-abducted-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-speaks-out-on-her-detainment-235779653738

* Rubio's such a horrible person that he's proud of it. "Rubio confirms he revoked Tufts student's visa, says he pulls visas 'every day':" https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/27/tufts-student-deportation-court-order

* "Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-medical-researcher-harvard-protested-ukraine-war-detained-ice-rcna198528

She broke no laws in the United States and will be in danger if returned to Russia because of her opposition to their invasion of Ukraine.

* "ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-alabama-doctoral-student-detained-ice-governments-college-c-rcna198320

* "Columbia student protester can’t be detained for now as she fights deportation, judge rules:" https://apnews.com/article/university-protests-palestinian-immigration-2d7bd689b013b8bb6300fd6ab54de933

* "A look at who has been detained or deported in a US crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/

* Shameful that we are doing this. Shameful and Cruel. These are refugees. "They did things ‘the right way.’ Now Trump is turning them into undocumented migrants | Opinion:" https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article302686929.html

* "Judge orders release of Venezuelan couple caught up in Trump gang crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/venezuelan-couple-release-00258414

Another bullshit illegal deportation attempt based on Government lies.

* "Courts smack down Trump's signature program; Americans instantly outraged over street snatchings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/courts-smack-down-trump-s-signature-program-americans-instantly-outraged-over-street-snatchings-235756101583

* "Trump Administration Aims to Bring Back Detention Centers for Immigrant Kids:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-administration-plans-detention-centers-for-migrant-children

* "DHS shuts down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for immigrants:" https://archive.ph/q7CP9

* CW: CSA. Cruelty is the point. "Legal groups helping immigrant children who survived sex trafficking, abuse sue to regain federal funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hhs-federal-funding-cuts-sex-abuse-child-trafficking-immigrants-rcna198602

* "Immigrant Children as Young as 2 Years Old Are Now Expected to Represent Themselves After Federal Funding Cut, Attorneys Say:" https://www.latintimes.com/immigrant-children-young-2-years-old-are-now-expected-represent-themselves-after-federal-funding-579387

* "Immigrant advocates protest inhumane conditions in Baltimore ICE detention facility:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-immigration-ice-detention-facility-conditions/

* "'Soul of democracy': Hundreds protest ICE detaining workers:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ice-arrests-spark-protest-at-tacoma-immigration-detention-center/

* "Liberals Have Been Waiting for This Moment Since Trump Took Office. They Need to Act Now.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-rumeysa-ozturk-arrest-tufts-student-protest.html

* "'Felt like a kidnapping': Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5335524/wrong-turn-bridge-detention-ordeal

* "Trump Team Claims it Made Billions Off a Gold Card That Doesn’t Exist:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193160/donald-trump-commerce-howard-lutnick-us-residency-gold-cards

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* "Convicted of bilking investors, Nikola founder and Trump donor gets a presidential pardon:" https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

* "Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-espionage-doge-032d2eb798e4d9d97ea7c5d6dc2ecf93

* "Appeals court refuses to halt an order for the rehiring of thousands of fired federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-probationary-workers-b96a01e7460321df8b9d500f922ba257

* "Indeed report: Job applications from agencies targeted by DOGE surge:" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/25/federal-work-DOGE-Trump-job/2641742910254/

* "Resistance is alive and well in the United States:" https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

* "47 signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/47-signs-spotted-anti-trumpmusk-protests-2025-03-21/

* "Anti-Elon Musk protests held at Tesla dealerships:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708

* Do I smell desperation? "Musk deploys squandered credibility in desperate bid to hold ailing Tesla together:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-deploys-squandered-credibility-in-desperate-bid-to-hold-ailing-tesla-together-235111493549

* "From Seattle to Miami, anti-Musk protesters gather at hundreds of Tesla locations:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343986/anti-musk-protests-planned-worldwide

* "Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/bondi-jasmine-crockett-musk-tesla-protests-00244256

* "The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters:" https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-tesla-arson-domestic-terrorism-protests/

* Unlike protesting Tesla/Musk, this attack is actual terrorism. "Florida man accused of driving toward anti-Musk protesters at Tesla dealership is charged with assault:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-assault-tesla-dealership-driving-car-protesters-rcna197746

* "Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk:" https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab

* "Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters :" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-voting-elections-executive-order/

The details are scary and blatantly unconstitutional, but I don't trust we still have rule of law.

It over rides the constitutionally protected right of states to run their election, throws out millions of legally cast votes, and puts the entire election in the hands of the President.

Basically, it's a way to let Trump and Republican successors finally put an end to free and fair elections while still pretending to hold them, like the other autocrats generally do.

They win this, Democracy is likely finished in the United States for my lifetime.

* "DOGE’s Supposed Savings Are About to Cost the U.S. a Lot of Money:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193093/irs-revenue-elon-musk-doge-cuts

The IRS collects taxes. If you decimate the IRS, they can't go after rich tax cheats, since that takes lots of hours of work by skilled auditors.

To give an idea of how much not collecting taxes from billionaires is going to cost, one of the people recently laid off by billionaire Elon Musk in the name of "efficiency" personally won back more than 8 million dollars over the years. (This isn't from this article, but from Msnbc reporting... last week? Maybe the week before. Anyway, it stuck in my head as illustrative).

Basically, IRS auditors make back way more money than it costs to pay them. The more money we invest in auditors, the more money rich people refuse to pay that they owe goes back into the treasury.

Every time Republicans cut the IRS budget and clain it's for cost saving, they are lying. It is always about the rich, who are already not paying their share getting to illegally pay even less, while people who actually work and pay their taxes get more and more of the social safety net ripped away from them.

* "DOGE stimulus checks: Here's why Americans may not receive the full $5,000 amount:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2025/03/28/doge-stimulus-checks-not-full-5000-dollars-amount-musk-trump/82704076007/
The original plan was to only give them to middle class and higher income people, instead of the people who's services are being cut as a result of the cruel and often illegal cuts.

Now they are saying maybe they will have to be smaller because they aren't really saving much money.

I will believe these supposed stimulus checks when I see them. It sounds a lot like lies they told to make killing Social Security go down easier as if a small one time payment most people on social security won't even get will make of for all the people becoming homeless when their rent money doesn't arrive.

* "Exclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/?

* Originally, they announced they were shutting it because the judge told them they had to stop mining your private data. Stay noisy. It matters. "Acting Social Security chief now says he won't shut down agency after DOGE ruling:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-social-security-chief-now-shut-agency-after/story?id=120046608

* "Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/social-security-cuts-doge

They have postponed smashing Social Security until Monday on the grounds they did zero trainings, fired the people that would be writing the program that doesn't exist yet, so... Yeah.

There is a rush to do it as, if the agency is still functional on April 2, they will have to actually send people their money and the Republicans absolutely don't want to do that, hence them aiming for the 1st of the month.

UPDATE: They were forced to postpone until the 14th. Keep complaining.

* "Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security:" https://archive.ph/iAMdN

Hint: The fraud rate is less than one percent and the dead people collecting checks are imaginary.

* Ya Think? "The Social Security Administration's many proposed changes are worrying advocates:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office

* "10,000 Social Security Administration workers could accept buyout offer, former commissioner says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-administration-voluntary-separation-incentive-payment/

* "Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/social-security-lutnick-doge-checks

So the argument is, if you complain because you need your social security money for rent, electricity, etc. and they stole it, you are a fraudster who doesn't deserve it, and if you are rich enough not to need it so you wait and don't complain you doesn't need it and shouldn't get it, therefore no one should get the social security payments they earned and need to survive.

Welcome to Catch 22.

see also, this is why people who have never been actually poor in their lives should be allowed into positions of power where they can do this kind of harm.

I am completely fucked if my check doesn't come. They start assessing late fees for housing after seven days. The Bank fee for this auto-withdraw will likely overdraw my account. No gas, no electricity. My insurance will try to auto-withdraw mid-month causing bank fees to continue to grow exponentially. I am contractually required to have insurance on my apartment. I can't cancel it. I can't drive without gas or car insurance and I am disabled with very limited mobility. A bus pass costs about a months gas an requires lots of walking I can't do or someone else doing a lot of walking pushing my in a chair because my arms are fucked too.

No supplemental food or medical supplies or cleaning stuff or toilet paper or things the cats absolutely need. No credit card or other bill payments.

Not paying any bills for one month would dig me into a hole I could never get out of. With all the staff cuts and closures, how many months would it take to get reinstated? Will I automatically be labelled a fraudster and be denied reinstatement for the crime of being to poor to float all my bills for months?

* "Missed Social Security checks no big deal to Trump commerce secretary as attacks on agency escalate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/missed-social-security-checks-no-big-deal-to-trump-commerce-secretary-as-attacks-on-agency-escalate-235110981853

* "Trump official doubts seniors would mind if their Social Security checks stopped:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-official-doubts-seniors-would-mind-if-their-social-security-checks-stopped-235096133996

I beg of you complain and/or protest now. People will die.

* Keep complaining. It's slowing them down. "Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services after backlash:" https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/social-security-backs-off-plan-to-cut-phone-servic/

* "New Social Security clawback policy starts this week: What to know:" https://thehill.com/homenews/5215878-new-social-security-clawback-policy-starts-this-week-what-to-know/

This is usually mistakes, not fraud, sometimes on the part of the agency. Taking 100% means some people will be homeless.

* "Trump's Social Security check change could affect half a million Americans:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-social-security-paper-checks-direct-deposit

The change in payment method is designed to harm the poorest and most vulnerable recipients, because of course it is.

* "‘It is wrong’: Warren sounds off on the Trump-Musk attack on Social Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-is-wrong-warren-sounds-off-on-the-trump-musk-attack-on-social-security-235367493850

* "Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/social-security-official-ended-program-for-maine-newborns-because-he-was-ticked-at-mills/

So he decided to not automatically register the social security numbers of newborns, forcing the exhausted parents to go through hoops for something that should be simple because he's a misogynist and transphobe

* ":" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-musk-dismantle-social-security

* "'Cycle of doom': Social Security degradation evident as Trump cuts and changes cause feedback loop:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cycle-of-doom-social-security-degradation-evident-as-trump-cuts-and-changes-cause-feedback-loop-235384901689

* "Demonstrators rally against plan to cut 7,000 Social Security workers:" https://pix11.com/news/local-news/demonstrators-rally-against-plan-to-cut-7000-social-security-workers/

* "New political leadership: Regular Americans show how to stand up to Trump as political leaders fail:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-political-leadership-regular-americans-show-how-to-stand-up-to-trump-as-political-leaders-fail-235651653560

* Presumably because Republicans feel that they aren't killing women fast enough by denying them life saving health care in some states. "Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-medicaid-trump-planned-parenthood-supreme-court-c512ec676b99d521d240bedeb7f85574

* "About 200 people rally against potential cuts to Medicaid in downtown Yakima:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/about-200-people-rally-against-potential-cuts-to-medicaid-in-downtown-yakima/article_3766b3da-00b7-4df7-ae18-d22d1dae519d.html

* "Federal judge prevents Trump administration from dismantling CFPB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5315118/cfpb-shuttering-trump-doge

* "Elon Musk throws weight behind merging FTC and DOJ antitrust units:" https://archive.ph/nkuBj

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "‘Elon Musk is playing with fire—but he’ll never get burned’: Michael Lewis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-elon-musk-is-playing-with-fire-but-he-ll-never-get-burned-michael-lewis-234994245830

* "White House Reveals How Trump Could Buy More Bitcoin—Priming A Price Earthquake:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/22/white-house-reveals-how-trump-could-buy-more-bitcoin-priming-a-price-earthquake/

The goal is to drain the treasury of valuable assets to give Trump and a handful of his mega-donors by buying up their scam bitcoin. This will be a massive transfer of taxpayer money directly into the pockets of billionaires.

* This is NOT a coincidence: "Trump family crypto venture to launch a stablecoin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/trump-family-crypto-venture-to-launch-a-stablecoin-00247455

* Now is a great time to tell your Senator's to oppose Cynthia Lummis' Crypto bill.

* Which was of course the goal. "Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-department-of-education-closure-civil-rights-4c5f4e8347dd3318d2f23ad8632d7b74

* "Trump administration transferring student loan, nutrition programs out of Education Dept:" https://archive.ph/iytkd

The SBA is a lot smaller than the education Department and is already swamped. They have zero experience doing any of this.

Students Loans and Grants are how nearly everyone not born so rich they can pay cash upfront goes to college. Clogging this system to uselessness stops a whole lot of talented and hard working people from getting degrees.

Kids can't learn very well if they are too hungry to con concentrate. starving them of essential nutrients causes long term learning delays and health issues. This is designed to keep the children of the poor sick and poor and combined with strangling the student loan program is a way to deny them a life time of opportunities.

This is the rich pulling up the ladder of success after them to prevent everyone else achieving a decent standard of living.

* Bonus they are dumping this on the SBA while slashing it to ribbons as part of their plan to crush small businesses to help the Billionaires who bought Trump:

"Small Business Administration plans to slash staff by over 40 percent amid agency-wide reorganization:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/small-business-administration-job-cuts-00003736

* How to in post. "hey it's probably a really good idea to download a copy of your Master Promissory Note:" https://www.tumblr.com/becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys/778806373433720832

* "So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans?:" https://slate.com/life/2025/03/trump-news-department-of-education-order-means-chaos-for-student-loans.html

* "Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/20/trump-order-library-museum-federal-employee-leave/82572108007/

* "'Deeply outraged': Mayor Justin Bibb slams Trump administration for cutting 553K pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank:" https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/greater-cleveland-food-bank-president-donald-trump-administration-cancel-order-mayor-justin-bibb-usda/95-fad2bf18-a66b-4c1f-8859-d3e22694e486

* They are obeying in advance. "Columbia bows to Trump administration, hoping to restore federal funding:" https://gothamist.com/news/columbia-bows-to-trump-administration-hoping-to-restore-federal-funding

* They are obeying in advance. "Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/legal-community-shaken-powerful-law-firm-paul-weiss-trump-rcna197490

* Perkins Coie is not and they are doing the right thing. If no one stands up now, no law firm is likely to ever stand up to Trump again. "Legal organizations alarmed over Trump’s targeting of Seattle law firm Perkins Coie:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/16/seattle-legal-organizations-perkins-coie/

* "DOJ moves to boot federal judge from Perkins Coie case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/doj-federal-judge-perkins-coie-case-00243928

* "One Firm Fights; One Firm Forfeits ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Trump executive order targets law firm challenging anti-trans policies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-targets-jenner-block

* This looks illegal on it's face. Apparently judges are agreeing "In back-to-back rulings, federal judges rule against Trump orders targeting law firms:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56890/law-firms-sue-trump

* "Major law firm strikes preemptive deal with White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/skadden-arps-trump-law-deal-028324

* ...And another law firm caves so that's 2 fought and won, one still fighting, and two caved in advance.

* "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State: For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

* "Judge says Justice Department attacked her character to ‘impugn the integrity’ of US judicial system:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-executive-power-lawsuits-547ba740ad8689c8b8bd80291d2f4ad0

* "Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appoints-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/story?id=120099632

* "USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

You realize that without this, there will be hardly any protein, right?

Reminder: We have so much extra money that we have wasted 18.2 million dollars on Trump's golf outing as of last week. Why is that a better use of taxpayer money then helping farmers and feeding people?

* "School Lunches Should Be Free:"

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* "Protests Break Out Across US Over Plans To Change Postal Service:" https://www.newsweek.com/protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

* "US Postmaster General DeJoy steps down:" https://archive.ph/AGasQ

* Republicans decided we should no longer "waste money" on weather balloons used to track hurricanes in Tornado alley amoung other things. "National Weather Service Suspends Critical Service Again Amid DOGE Cuts:" https://www.newsweek.com/national-weather-service-suspends-critical-service-again-amid-doge-cuts-2048313

* "Fired National Park Service Staff Will Be Reinstated, but Long-Term Threats Loom:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032025/todays-climate-fired-national-parks-workers-reinstated/

* "Protesters descend on Yosemite, Channel Islands and 91 other national parks:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/protests-national-parks-budget-20234508.php

* "Mount Rainier rally part of nationwide push to protect parks, federal workers:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/national/mount-rainier-rally-nationwide-push-to-protect-parks-federal-workers-washington/281-9fd675cc-5907-4965-82f2-dda739c1bca2

* "Protesters gathered outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park amid federal cuts:" https://www.wate.com/news/smoky-mountains/protesters-gathered-outside-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-amid-federal-cuts/

* "As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18032025/trump-administration-attacks-national-monuments-protests/

* "Kristi Noem to Trump’s Cabinet: I’m ‘Going to Eliminate’ FEMA:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-to-trumps-cabinet-im-going-to-eliminate-fema/

* "Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristi-noem-fema-donald-trump-rcna198190

* "“This man is not our boss” — EPA workers rally against DOGE cuts:" https://www.theverge.com/news/635710/doge-musk-trump-environmental-protection-agency-epa

* "EPA employees rally in Denver against President Trump’s job and funding cuts:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/03/26/epa-employees-rally-in-denver-against-president-trumps-job-and-funding-cuts/

* Yet they are purging all these extremely competent people at the top based entirely on skin colour or gender to make room for mediocre or worse white men."Hegseth Brings in Emotional Support Brother as Pentagon Aide:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-brings-in-emotional-support-brother-as-pentagon-aide/

* "Protestors outside Neal Dunn’s info session believe that Veterans Association cuts are unjust:" https://www.wjhg.com/2025/03/23/protestors-outside-neal-dunns-info-session-believe-that-verterans-association-cuts-are-unjust/

* "Veterans becoming face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/veterans-becoming-face-of-trumps-government-cuts-and-democrats-resistance

* "Another judge blocks the Pentagon from implementing Trump's transgender military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-military-ban-injunction

* "BREAKING: Judge reinstates nationwide stop to Trump’s trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-injunction-reinstated

* "​Internet drags Pete Hegseth after he mocked judge who blocked Trump's trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-dragged-mocking-judge#rebelltitem5

* "Congress members denounce VA's end to gender-affirming care, demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/congress-members-condemn-va

* "Opinion | The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/19/dei-pentagon-hegseth-trump-00236799

* "DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dod-pages-dei-holocaust/

* "Trump administration scrubs 'Golden Girls' star's Marine Corps contributions in latest DEI purge:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-bea-arthur-golden-girls-dei

* "These are the US military's diversity photos Trump doesn't want you to see:" https://www.aol.com/us-militarys-diversity-photos-trump-093001345.html

* Nearly all our Domestic Terrorists are Republican, so.... "Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/dArH6#selection-558.0-558.1

* Mine's up in threeish years. "Trump’s Gender Order Won’t Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed:" https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/trump-gender-sex-order-passports

* "Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-vs-maine-explained

* "DO THIS: Oppose Trump administration move to ban trans health care coverage in the ACA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2030901.html

Direct Link to Comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

* NYU Obeyed in advance. "‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

* I may have missed this, so I'm posting it. "CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.:" https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

* "U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-plans-10000-hhs-job-cuts.html

* I know I keep saying this, but so many people are going to die because of RFKJr's policies.

* "US pulls back $12 billion in funding to state health departments:" https://archive.ph/oLqwH

* "$160M in WA health funding axed by Trump administration:" https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/27/160m-in-wa-health-funding-axed-by-trump-administration-cuts/

* "CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pulling-back-11b-covid-funding-sent-health-departments-us-rcna198006

* NOTE: not all the grants. "NIH restores some long COVID grants:" https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-restores-long-COVID-grants/103/web/2025/03

* RFK Jr.'s disinformation campaign is doing a massive amount of damage. "Growing measles outbreak in Texas pushes U.S. cases above 520:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-us-cases-rcna198557

Not vaccinating children who can be safely vaccinated is child abuse, in my opinion.

* "The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations:" https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

* Because RFK Jr. lied about vitamin A, people are now damaging their children's livers rather than give the safe vaccines. "West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak:" https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

* "Why I left my job leading public health messaging for the CDC: Public health policy must be guided by facts and not fantasy.:" https://archive.ph/rx1KR

* "The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies':" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5344010/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr

* "RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/health/office-infectious-diseases-hiv-closing

* "The War on Poppers Started Long Before RFK Jr. Took Over HHS :" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/popper-drug-crackdown-rfk-lgbtq-1235299650/

* "POPPERS 101 and HIV/AIDS Dropped by CDC:"

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* And now for some bonus RFK Jr. body shaming and assholery: "RFK Jr. Tells Governor to His Face He Needs to Lose 30 Pounds:" https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-west-virginia-governor-patrick-morrisey-weight-2052287

* EBT/SNAP is not HHS, but the Agriculture Department/USDA. "RFK Jr.'s food stamp plan fuels tension with USDA:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-usda-tension-00252045

* "Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism:" https://archive.ph/4nc3I

There is no link. It's been proved over and over.

We are not only wasting time and money on this we could be spending vaccinating kids in the middle of a measles epidemic, but we aren't hiring a scientist to run it, but a propagandist.

* "Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-a1ed0ad37917055a1565da5325bd4fd8

* "Radio Free Europe says Trump administration rescinded its grant termination order:" https://archive.ph/ccFBJ

* "Trump signs order to ‘remove improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums and zoo:" https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-27-2025

* "Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa

* "Trump directs JD Vance to go after ‘woke zoos’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-directs-jd-vance-to-go-after-woke-zoos-235744325555

* "Donald Trump's Spiritual Advisor Faces Christian Backlash:" https://www.newsweek.com/paula-white-cain-christians-donald-trump-2050102

* "Trump has big dreams for the Kennedy Center but doesn't seem to know what it does:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-kennedy-center-audience-rcna197179

* "Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-portrait-colorado-polis-00244561

* "Some underreported news and the return of Your Moment of Zen:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2031467.html

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* "Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/trump-supreme-court-teacher-training-00251211

* "Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass firings of probationary workers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-supreme-court-fired-probationary-workers-00244890

* "Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-bf404db1d4ece56203c8748b2544dc02

* "Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”: The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/

Once again Christians are claiming corporations are people have religious convictions and that their right to deny bodily autonomy for religious reasons are more important than mere human type people's right to bodily autonomy.

* "Is America a Kleptocracy?:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/25/america-kleptocracy-trump-musk-corruption/

* "Whipsawed by Trump’s tariffs, the US public is getting a lot more nervous about the economy:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-consumer-confidence-tariffs-inflation-849d658cbab7992590a5a3bb3449aa52

* "Everything Owned by Nestlé:" https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everything-Owned-by-Nestle

* "US likely to reach debt limit X-date in August or September, Congress’ scorekeeper predicts :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/26/congress/us-likely-to-reach-debt-limit-x-date-in-august-or-september-congress-scorekeeper-predicts-00250525

* Scary Shit. "US House Speaker Johnson says Congress can 'eliminate' district courts:" https://archive.ph/FUgTk

* "Elon Musk’s Space Business Partner Is Poised to Take Over NASA:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-jared-isaacman-nasa-spacex-business-partner-1235301236/

* "Who Is Frank Bisignano? Democrats Grill Trump’s Social Security Pick At Confirmation Amid DOGE Cuts To Service.:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/25/who-is-frank-bisignano-democrats-grill-trumps-social-security-pick-at-confirmation-amid-doge-cuts-to-service/

* "Fallout coming for House GOP over Trump's rug pull on Stefanik:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-trump-un-ambassador

* "Trump yanks Elise Stefanik’s Cabinet nomination, citing ‘very tight’ GOP majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-yanks-elise-stefanik-s-cabinet-nomination-citing-very-tight-gop-majority-235623493907

* "Jasmine Crockett mocks sports bans: 'Find the little trans child that is ruining your life':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-transgender-sports-bans

* "Why anger has shifted from Trump's overreach to the Democrats' disunity and apathy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-overreach-democrats-disunity-opinion

* As always, these are representative samples. There are way more out there.

Pressure both sides. Ask hard questions. Complain. Embarrass them. Keep pushing because we deserve better.

Stay Noisy.

* "Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center:" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/03/21/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-denver-civic-center-trump/

* "Fourth Protest outside Rep. Pete Stauber’s office Demanding answers:" https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/03/20/fourth-protest-outside-rep-pete-staubers-office-demanding-answers/

* "Republican Senator Faces Angry Protesters, Questions in Red State:" https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-faces-protestors-questions-red-state-2048906

* "Nevada voters pack town hall to voice concerns about Trump policies:" https://knpr.org/politics/2025-03-21/nevada-voters-pack-town-hall-to-voice-concerns-about-trump-policies

* "‘Do your job’: Voters voice frustration after Nancy Mace declines town hall invite:" https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/do-your-job-voters-voice-frustration-after-nancy-mace-declines-town-hall-invite/

* "Protestors gather outside Rep. Buddy Carters’ office:" https://www.wsav.com/news/protestors-gather-outside-rep-buddy-carters-office/

* "Andy Barr knew Lexington town hall was locally organized. He still lied about attendees | Opinion:" https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article302754904.html

* "Democrat Confronted by Angry Protesters at Town Hall:" https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-confronted-angry-protesters-town-hall-2048388

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* Our job for the next two years is to survive, to build grassroots resistance, to do all in our power to slow the republican Christo-fascist agenda, and to prepare for 2026 in case there is still Democracy.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

* Trump 2.0 Indivisible Guide.  https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

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

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

ACLU advice for writing to your Critters: https://www.aclu.org/writing-your-elected-representatives

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

* This tracks legislation: https://www.govtrack.us/

* "Vote Smart:" https://justfacts.votesmart.org/

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

* Run for Something: https://runforsomething.net/

* How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

* "ICE Raids Toolkit: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests:" https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit/

* Contains a raid tip hotline amoung other things. "Know Your Rights
LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY:" https://wearecasa.org/know-your-rights/

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/

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* "Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-democratic-party-donald-trump-election-094e907bd9af0d55a3ac76bb5e22d17c

* Voting has started for the April 1 special Election. Republicans have a wafer thin majority in the House of Representatives. "Democrats raise millions for Florida special elections in Trump territory:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-raise-millions-florida-special-elections-trump-territory-rcna197311

* "Josh Weil shocks by raising more than $10M for CD 6 Special Election:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/727090-josh-weil-shocks-by-raising-more-than-10m-for-cd-6-special-election/

* "Ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Elon Musk PAC offers cash for pledge: The group backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel is offering $100 to people who sign a petition against 'activist judges':" https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-elon-musk-cash-for-pledge

This was wildly illegal last time Musk did it, but he wasn't arrested and laws no longer apply to republicans, so here we are.

* "Wisconsin attorney general sues Elon Musk to block $1 million payment offers:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-d75807980ac311b87606fb4ec58cc466

* "Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-musk-million-dollar-checks-43fa79215e16c333a1079a86cb9aab08

* "Special election to fill former Sen. Justin Eichorn’s seat set for April 29:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/25/special-election-to-fill-former-sen-justin-eichorns-seat-set-for-april-29

* "Have LGBTQ+ rights in Florida reached a turning point? Advocates have hope:" https://www.advocate.com/florida-lgbtq-hope

* "Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vetoes anti-DEI bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kentucky-beshear-vetoes-anti-dei-bill

* "NJ Democrats for governor want to amend the constitution for abortion. Legal experts call it ‘unnecessary’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/nj-democrats-for-governor-want-to-amend-the-constitution-for-abortion-legal-experts-call-it-unnecessary-00244111

* "How Republican State Lawmakers Are Trying to Have It Both Ways on Lifesaving Abortions:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/abortion-exceptions-republicans-kentucky-texas-fetal-personhood.html

* "After reported deaths, Texas lawmakers file bills to clear confusion over medical exceptions to state's near abortion ban:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/deaths-texas-lawmakers-file-bills-clear-confusion-medical-exceptions-near-abortion-ban/

* "How Texas Republicans plan to keep cracking down on abortion:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/texas-abortion-fight-pills-travel-fund/

* "Transgender Texans refuse to be erased as Republicans try to make their existence illegal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-transgender-community-under-attack

* "Texas Bill Would Require Photo ID to Buy Sex Toys Online, Calling Them 'Obscene Devices':" https://people.com/texas-bill-will-require-id-to-purchase-a-sex-toy-online-11703746

* "Florida bill to allow teens to work overnight hours on school days moves forward:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-senate-panel-advances-bill-to-further-roll-back-child-labor-restrictions/

* "Top Florida lawmaker has ‘personal concerns’ about a push to loosen child-labor laws:" https://archive.ph/hP1Wk

They want children to work all night on school nights to make up for all the people being deported.

Florida, please protest!

* "West Virginia lawmakers vote to overturn local protections for LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/wv-gop-vote-overturn-lgbtq-protections

* "Utah becomes the first state to ban Pride and other flags on public schools and government buildings:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-bans-pride-flags-public-buildings

* We are headed to an even scarier place. "GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-in-10-states-introduce-bills-to-treat-abortion-as-homicide/ar-AA1BPSFB

* "Youngkin vetoes bills that would have raised minimum wage, given paid sick leave to all and more:" https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/youngkin-vetoes-minimum-wage-paid-sick-leave-bills/

* "Mayor Michelle Wu - Making Boston A Home For Everyone | The Daily Show:"

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* "Demonstrators rally at site of Patrick Henry’s ‘Liberty or Death’ speech:" https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/demonstrators-rally-at-site-of-patrick-henrys-liberty-or-death-speech/

* "Parents call out school board member for anti-LGBTQ+ posts:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-school-board-member-homophobia

* "3 killed, 15 injured in shootout at 'unsanctioned car show' in New Mexico park:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-killed-14-injured-new-mexico-mass-shooting-rcna197615

* " Texas officials demand answers after video shows Austin police slamming transgender woman to ground :" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-manhandled-austin-police

* "Minneapolis to pay $600,000 to settle with woman who says Derek Chauvin knelt on her neck:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-pay-600000-settle-woman-says-derek-chauvin-knelt-neck-rcna190312

* "'Ridiculous': George Floyd's girlfriend reacts to far-right effort to pardon Derek Chauvin:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/ridiculous-george-floyd-s-girlfriend-reacts-to-far-right-effort-to-pardon-derek-chauvin-235151429763

* "I’m an Incarcerated Nurse — Women’s Health in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/prison-health-incarcerated-nurse-trump-healthcare-america-1235299298/

* "The Succession Battle For A Prison Empire:" https://archive.ph/rkzWe#selection-736.0-736.1

* "'Nazis are not welcome in Austin' | UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference:" https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/natal-conference-ut-austin-campus-protest/269-26e25360-d2f7-4558-82e5-d2b7a6ef6e00

* "Texas A&M's drag ban blocked by federal court as judge cites free 'speech rights':" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-drag-ban-blocked

* "Federal judge again blocks Iowa book ban; expected to rule on 'don't say gay' restrictions soon:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-blocks-iowa-book-ban

* CW: Rape. "Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia: East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.:" https://archive.ph/avdTi

* Every Republican against us accusation is a confession. CW: CSA "Minnesota anti-trans state senator, who touted Trump derangement syndrome, arrested for soliciting a minor:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Rebecca Marodi murder: Wife accused of fatally stabbing fire captain detained in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/rebecca-marodi-stabbing-wife-detained

* "Texas’ first abortion arrests stem from monthlong attorney general investigation:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/

* "Notes from a gender clinician:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-clinician-affirming-care

* "Hungarians protest Pride ban; Budapest mayor promises LGBTQ+ support:" https://www.advocate.com/news/hungarians-protest-pride-ban

* "Missing gay Arizona yoga instructor, Marcus Freiberger, found dead after blind date:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/missing-gay-yoga-arizona-dead#toggle-gdpr

* "Gay men's chorus member killed in suspected Texas road rage attack — family and police seek help:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/road-rage-gay-killing-texas

* "Mississippi restaurant gets lambasted for straight-couples-only offer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-restaurant-lambasted-for-homophobia

* Gender Policing and Transphobia harm everyone. "Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/walmart-fires-mistaken-trans-woman

* "Texas is poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic, public health experts say:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/texas-measles-vaccine-new-mexico-oklahoma-us/

* "2 more cases of measles confirmed in Maryland:" https://wtop.com/health-fitness/2025/03/2-more-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-maryland/

* "New Mexico measles cases continue to rise in SE corner:" https://sourcenm.com/briefs/new-mexico-measles-cases-continue-to-rise-in-se-corner/

* "An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/als-outbreak-montchavin-mystery/682096/

* How to fight your insurance company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

* "Video: UW-led research links wildfire smoke exposure with increased dementia risk:" https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/11/25/video-uw-led-research-links-wildfire-smoke-exposure-with-increased-dementia-risk/

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* "Over 25 million remain under red flag warnings with heightened risk of wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfire-warnings-continue-parts-country-strong-winds-persist/story?id=120030148

* "Most Texas wildfires are contained Saturday despite elevated threats, forest service says:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/03/22/most-texas-wildfires-are-contained-saturday-despite-elevated-threats-forest-service-says/

* "Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wildfires-force-mandatory-evacuation-order-western-north-carolina-120068816

* "Firefighters battle four uncontained wildfires, evacuations in effect:" https://www.wyff4.com/article/polk-county-wnc-wildfires-high-fire-danger/64243054

* "Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-north-south-carolina-evacuations-af970ce0551007bfa0a5940aed58d68a

* "Aid rushes into Myanmar after earthquake kills over 1,600, ravages cities:" https://archive.ph/jsXsV

* "Myanmar junta accused of air strike even after quake:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250330-myanmar-junta-accused-of-air-strike-even-after-quake

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* "'Magnets for human connection': Why Japanese ‘micro-forests' are transforming our cities:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/17/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

* "Debunking Garden Watering Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JAeCFM8H9E

* "Scientists were in Antarctica when a giant iceberg broke free. Here’s what they found in its shadow:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/23/scientists-were-in-antarctica-when-a-giant-iceberg-broke-free-heres-what-they-found-in-its

* "This Fly Larva’s Butt Looks Like a Termite’s Head—and Termites Are Falling for It:" https://gizmodo.com/this-fly-larvas-butt-looks-like-a-termites-head-and-termites-are-falling-for-it-2000563456

* "This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-apex-predator-was-king-of-the-ancient-egyptian-forest-then-mysteriously-went-extinct/

* "The Only Black Police Precinct in U.S. History: How Miami Was Policed During Segregation:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-police-precinct-history-miami

* "New photo from Pulse shooting shows exit blocked by refrigerator, which may have cost lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-photo-pulse-exit-blocked

* "Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise:" https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/identity-poetry-activism-video/this-is-the-way-we-rise-american-masters/

* "Scientist’s ‘disturbing’ behavior, death threats at Antarctic base prompts probe:" https://interestingengineering.com/culture/scientist-disturbing-behavior-antarctic-probe-begins

* "TSA stops man with live turtle in his pants:" https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/tsa-stops-man-with-live-turtle-in-his-pants/video_29a3b6d1-67d9-5dfc-a44e-765beb8ebc5d.html

* "Passenger Allegedly Swallowed Rosary Beads and Attacked Crew Members During Mid-Flight Meltdown:" https://people.com/plane-passenger-allegedly-swallowed-rosary-beads-and-attacked-crew-members-11695552

* Thursday a week ago, I had thought I was likely going to crash again 2AMish as I woke up exhausted, headachy, with all my joints screaming at me, but it got better about 2-3, so I soldiered on and got the aggregate out. Friday, I was well enough to do almost bare minimum physio, which I'm counting as a win.

My hopes of being super productive Friday night failed, alas, but for good reasons. The cats were doing Peaceable Kingdom in my bed, so I read most of Tidal Creatures while administering pettins on demand and cuddle naps for cats. I also had a bunch of small things needing doing I'd been in too much pain to handle around the Cat Asylum, which I spaced out in classic chronic pain fashion in between rests. Also I fell down a medieval history rabbit hole for about an hour. <.< >.>

Tonight was I was also migrating another function across to Killian laptop, and inevitably diving in and out of settings as I found things needing tweaking. This is why it generally takes several weeks to get a lap top going right, and this time having to use waterfox classic instead of standard waterfox meant I had to rethink job distributions, since a bunch of extensions don't work on classic. Limited utility means I need to switch some functions for other browsers. It's mostly sorted now, though I may need more tweaks.

Part of why Thursday worked out so well for me is I'm getting better at the new work flow pattern, so certain things can move a little faster.

So progress, basically, even though it feels like running on sand.

* Thursday this week, I had to stay up for painful x-rays and doctor prodding, as well as to have blood taken. The x-rays were incredibky painful as my hip joint are terrible right now and it's a lot of standing in fixed positions. My shoulder joint healed correctly. I have been released in the wild to do more at home physio. I am to focus particularly on inward motion, which means I will need to get creative. Sigh.

* So about a week and a half ago, a friend sent me NasalCrom to see if it could make a dent in my chronic sinus infection/sinusitis situation. It's really impressive, as it turns out. My sinuses have been slowly draining, which is not pleasant, but neither was several years of sinus headaches and the constant need to manually drain them 1-3 times a day depending on how much worse my allergies to Outside are making things. This, at least is progress towards an actual solution.

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* New Tavy pics: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/778947425672019968/the-emperor-has-found-a-new-perch-from-which-to?source=share

* "DOGE Protestors Turn Their Focus on Tesla & Delayed NASA Astronauts Make It Home | The Daily Show:"

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* "GOP Pumps Tesla As Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover | Kristi Noem Taunts Canada | Taking Greenland:"

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* "Signalgate: Trump Tries To Dodge Explosive National Security Scandal | All Of Them Should Be Fired:"

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* "Hegseth's Sloppy Security Breach | Mike Waltz: Goldberg's Number Got "Sucked In" To My Phone:"

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* "Blame Mike Waltz | Trump Team's Sloppy Digital Footprints | The Fertilization President:"

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* "How Many Dildos Is Too Many? Texas Offers An Answer:"

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* "Consumer Watch: Delete Your DNA | Toys For Kidults | Tax Prep For Kids:"

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* "Survive the Apocalypse in Luxury at this Doomsday Prepper Ranch | The Daily Show:"

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* "‘Why I’m Misogynistic’ | Are The Straights OK?:"

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* "the idea of odysseus as, like, a military propagandist/PR officer is really fun for me in a fucked up way, given that he Did Not Want To Go To War In The First Place.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/779357773890732032/to-me-this-also-fits-with-him-taking-neoptolemus

* "Tumultuous 1066:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XdqjwPHWps

* "Worrisome War Wolves:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1o5nXucddGQ

* "Perilous Pazzis:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G0MaPqF_Cqs

* "Woeful WWI:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRR2rKDo1IM

* "White House Easter Egg Roll Sponsors:"

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* "Resurrecting The Wooly Mammoth:"

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* "Styling the Whole World:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XDxRiYF-v8s

* "Take a look at the winning images from this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards:" https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/19/take-a-look-at-the-winning-images-from-this-years-british-wildlife-photography-awards

* "Sunday Sweets Springs In:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-springs-in-2025

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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.

* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986

* How to fight your insurace company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

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