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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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

I am once again having to cut things off before I'm done. Apologies.




* "Exclusive: Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities:" https://archive.ph/G1vWp

* "Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 50, Palestinian officials say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g28g02ng2o

* "Israeli bombardment of Gaza kills 92 in two days: Health Ministry:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/19/israeli-bombardment-kills-92-in-two-days-gaza-government

* "Gazans survive among unexploded bombs:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA-ORDNANCE/byvrxbenwve/

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* "Trump says he’s got his ‘own deadline’ for Ukraine talks as tensions flare:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-ukraine-deal-norwegian-leaders-00307891

* This is what Russian promises are worth.

* "'Russian peace in all its glory' — Mass Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 12, injures 87:" https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-heard-in-kyiv-amid-russian-missile-attack/

* "Russia intensifies push in Kursk, Sumy border areas as Ukraine holds line, Syrskyi says:" https://kyivindependent.com/russia-steps-up-assault-on-sumy-oblast-kursk-border-as-ukraine-holds-line-syrskyi-says/

* "Russian attacks during Easter ceasefire killed 3 in Ukraine's Kherson region:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-attacks-easter-ceasefire-declared-putin-killed-3-121004572

* "Russian forces stage mass drone attack on Ukraine's Odesa, governor says:" https://archive.ph/kXs2r

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* "Sudan - The Biggest Humanitarian Crisis In The World Today:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2025/04/19/sudanthe-biggest-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-world-today/

* "Haiti’s government adopts a ‘war budget’ as town after town falls to gangs:" https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gangs-violence-war-budget-mirebalais-saut-deau-daa19487d58e9ada1846ad674bca0e54




* "EU to present roadmap in May to phase out all imports of Russian fossil fuels:" https://archive.ph/mDDq1

* "Witchcraft accusations putting hundreds at risk of "physical attacks or even death" in Ghana, Amnesty says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/witchcraft-accusations-hundreds-risks-ghana-amnesty-international/

* "Europe’s streets are alive with the sound of protests:" https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/16/europes-streets-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-protests

* "Nearly 200 students, journalists go on trial in Turkey over Istanbul protests:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250418-nearly-200-students-journalists-go-trial-in-turkey-over-istanbul-protests-erdogan-crackdown

* "Georgia fired 700 civil servants for supporting pro-EU protests, watchdog says:" https://archive.ph/OZcxV

* "Donald Trump's shadow looms large over Australian and Canadian elections:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/donald-trump-affecting-opposition-in-canada-and-australia/105196740

* "Visions of Solidarity: Lesbian writers on how we save the world from fascism:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/visions-of-solidarity-schulman-vaid




* "Syrian letter delivers response to US conditions for sanctions relief:" https://archive.ph/DIIEK

* "Trump may get a nuclear deal — on Iran’s terms:" https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-may-get-a-nuclear-deal-on-irans-terms/

It seems to me we had a really good deal with Iran that was working. Wouldn't it have been simpler to keep it in place and negotiate changes now instead of ripping it up in Trump's first term because a black man touched it? Because now there is zero trust in any agreement we might make.

Just saying.

* Who are we to demand reforms of anything while we are descending into kleptocracy? Are reforms a good idea? Yes, but not along fascism oligarch lines, but rather progressive ones. "Bessent says US will seek reforms of IMF, World Bank:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/bessent-says-us-will-seek-reforms-of-imf-world-bank-00305728

* "US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says:" https://apnews.com/article/recession-imf-economy-tariffs-5ec37492c9fac499923c094776b87552

* "Sherrod Brown: What Worries Me Most About Trump’s Failing Economy:" https://archive.ph/AKKS5

* "Stocks, Bonds Sink in Broad Retreat From US Assets: Markets Wrap:" https://archive.ph/wGf6g

* "Why Trump Decided Not to Try to Fire Jerome Powell:" https://archive.ph/mO1eL

Jerome Powell is just about the last thread holding the Trump ravaged economy together.

* "Key House Republican defends Fed against Trump interference:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/trump-powell-fed-lucas

* "Conflicting US-China talks statements add to global trade confusion:" https://archive.ph/WXU0l

* "Trump’s fixation on a tariff battle win against China could cost him the trade war:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trumps-xi-trade-war-battle-wins-00309223

* "Gamers Nexus out there casually providing the best coverage of tariffs:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036344.html

* "Rubio unveils a massive overhaul of the State Department that would cut staff and bureaus:" https://apnews.com/article/state-department-rubio-reorganization-trump-usaid-3fc186fefddaaa72c3040db9fb380af4

These are essential experts that will be hard to replace.

* "Trump administration denies draft executive order outlining State Department changes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-draft-executive-order-sweeping-changes-state-department-rcna202047

Notice the racism and the complete lack of understanding of why we need embassies and linguists and diplomats and people who are experts in a particular country.

* "A jungle route once carried hundreds of thousands of migrants. Now the local economy has crashed:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-darien-gap-trump-panama-colombia-ba393b4cf8caecdcf24556f7f84be508?

* "ACLU says Trump officials not complying with Supreme Court in deportation case:" https://archive.ph/YODZ6

* "Trump admin must seek return of another man who was improperly deported to El Salvador, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-el-salvador-deportation-venezuelan-minor-judge-00307336

* "Gay asylum-seeker's lawyer worries for the makeup artist's safety in Salvadoran ‘hellhole’ prison :" https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-romero-attorney-cecot

* "Robert Garcia demands answers in case of gay Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador prison:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-cecot-ice-demand

* "Rep. Garcia on Trump deportations: 'Everyone has a right to due process':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-garcia-on-trump-deportations-everyone-has-a-right-to-due-process-238412357851

* "Democratic lawmakers fly to El Salvador and demand action on gay man Trump sent to CECOT prison:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-andry-hernadez

* "He disappeared after detention. Now ICE is silent on the fate of Venezuelan man:" https://archive.ph/XGkmh

* "Administration ordered to more fully respond to discovery requests from Abrego Garcia's lawyers:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-attorneys-decry-administrations-failure-comply-court/story?id=121046788

* Doxxing her is state terrorism. "Abrego Garcia’s Wife Moved To Safe House After DHS Exposed Her Address On X:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-dhs-doxx_n_68094822e4b047d19264e2d7

* "Mahmoud Khalil misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371757/mahmoud-khalil-misses-sons-birth-after-ice-official-denies-his-request-to-be-there

* "Lawmakers visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at Louisiana ICE facilities:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-22/lawmakers-visit-mahmoud-khalil-and-rumeysa-ozturk-at-louisiana-ice-facilities

* "Palestinian student remains detained in Vermont with a hearing set for next week:" https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-detained-ice-vermont-2078326229e424b722e837595a03a042

* "Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he's 'in good hands':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detained-palestinian-activist-vermont-prison-good-hands-focused-121053604

* "New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180

* "Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/activist-who-took-sanctuary-in-a-church-during-first-trump-term-detained/83197570007/

* Stay Noisy. It can work. "Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-admin-reverses-termination-foreign-student-visa-registrations-00309407

* "German Teens Try to Visit Hawaii, End Up Deported :" https://ground.news/article/german-teens-try-to-visit-hawaii-end-up-deported

* "Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/activist-who-took-sanctuary-in-a-church-during-first-trump-term-detained/83197570007/

* "Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant:" https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant

Republicans claim the 4th Amendment doesn't apply if they don't want it to. They are attacking the most vulnerable now, but no one is safe if they can do this.

Stand up now.

* "Tents could soon house more immigrants at Krome Detention Center:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/tents-could-soon-house-more-immigrants-at-krome-detention-center/

* "‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ with Peter Beinart:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-jewish-after-the-destruction-of-gaza/id1382983397?i=1000703563937

* "How the weaponization of antisemitism is becoming a grave threat to freedom of speech in America:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/how-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism-is-becoming-a-grave-threat-to-freedom-of-speech-in-america-238415941640

* I can't cover all the protests, but here is a small sample.

* "ICE activity at Rhode Island Hospital draws protesters. What we know.:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/24/ice-officers-at-rhode-island-hospital-attract-protesters/83254959007/

* "Rally outside New Orleans ICE office draws over 100:" https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/protest-ice-detention-mahmoud-khalil-new-orleans-rally/289-6a6c842a-c15e-433f-8912-2da50e2834bf

* "Protests call for ICE to leave Washington:" https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/protests-call-for-ice-to-leave-washington/article_7f4158f8-b34d-4bbc-b968-2efd8903499b.html

* "Federal raid and arrests in Pomona spark concern, outrage in community:" https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-raid-and-arrests-in-pomona-sparks-concern-outrage-in-community/

* "Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data:" https://archive.ph/pum5L

* At least a judge is intervening here. "Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities that limit immigration cooperation:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-sanctuary-cities-immigrants-san-francisco-b20f3c9f44e81e2c2cbc248236762ac4

They have started illegally deporting American citizens with no due process, as they promised to do.

* "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation:" https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation

They were denied access to a lawyer, presumably because a preschooler with cancer is such a danger to society that ICE had to throw out the entire constitution.

* Bet they ignored all evidence, them lied when they got caught. "U.S. citizen DHS detained for 10 days has intellectual disabilities, family claims:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citizen-detained-border-nogales-arizona-dhs-10-days-intellectual-disabilities/

* "U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false:" https://popular.info/p/us-citizen-wrongly-detained-by-border

* "Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-wisconsin-congress

* "Arrest of judge triggers public outrage as Trump escalates his war on the judiciary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arrest-of-judge-triggers-public-outrage-as-trump-escalates-his-war-on-the-judiciary-238387781902

* "‘We will find you’: Trump FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin, AG warns more to come:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-will-find-you-trump-fbi-arrests-judge-in-wisconsin-ag-warns-more-to-come-238380101651

* "Trump Is Arresting Judges To Send A Message:"

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* "Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5340753/trump-democracy-authoritarianism-competive-survey-political-scientist

* "‘It Sucks!!!’ Trump Bitterly Rages Against Fox News and Calls for Heads to Roll at The Wall Street Journal in Truth Social Tirade:" https://www.mediaite.com/news/it-sucks-trump-bitterly-rages-against-fox-news-and-calls-for-heads-to-roll-at-the-wall-street-journal-in-truth-social-tirade/

* "Trump's second term already falling apart less than 100 days in, polls show:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-second-term-already-falling-apart-less-than-100-days-in-polls-show-238312517562

* "‘Unpopular’: Trump whines about Fox News poll showing his approval rating cratering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unpopular-trump-whines-about-fox-news-poll-showing-his-approval-rating-cratering-238296645722

* "Thousands of protesters rally against Trump across US:" https://archive.ph/KK2kF

* "PHOTOS: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities and towns across the country:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/photos-anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-cities-and-towns-across-the-country

* "Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-trump-protests-sweep-the-nation-crossing-the-threshold-of-mainstream-media-attention-238047301545

* "Oops!: Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw-ups and frantic walk backs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oops-trump-s-first-100-days-marked-by-incompetent-screw-ups-and-frantic-walk-backs-238218821744

* "'Unadulterated disaster': Trump spends first 100 days sabotaging what makes America great:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-unadulterated-disaster-trump-spends-first-100-days-sabotaging-what-makes-america-great-238224453805

* "Trump facing impotence as courts hand him loss after loss; court of public opinion no less harsh:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-facing-impotence-as-courts-hand-him-loss-after-loss-court-of-public-opinion-no-less-harsh-238316101946

* "Trump gets reckless as his agenda tanks and pushback intensifies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-gets-reckless-as-his-agenda-tanks-and-pushback-intensifies-238390853787

* "Sen. Warren Extended Interview:

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* "Jon Lovett warns Democrats that ‘every inch Trump gets is an inch we don’t get back’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/jon-lovett-warns-trump-authoritarianism

* "'Anyone with a working brain is outraged': Dems react to Trump's first 100 days:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-anyone-with-a-working-brain-is-outraged-dems-react-to-trump-s-first-100-days-238435909774

* "Rep. Raskin: Trump's first 100 days were 'a horror show,' but Americans are standing up:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-raskin-trump-s-first-100-days-were-a-horror-show-but-americans-are-standing-up-238440517796

* WTF?!? "Trump really showed kids 'assassination trading card' at White House Easter event:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-easter-assasination-card/

* "Trump’s made-for-TV cabinet is backfiring:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-made-for-tv-cabinet-is-backfiring-238442053542

* "Judge blocks Trump administration from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-blocks-trump-administration-requiring-proof-citizenship-register/story?id=121134512

* The bribery is completely in the open now. "Dinner with the president: Trump meme coin surges on offer to top buyers:" https://archive.ph/RiOyC

* "Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts senators to demand ethics probe:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trump-dinner-for-meme-coin-prompts-senators-to-demand-ethics-probe.html

* "Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/musk-bessent-trump-white-house-irs

* "Tesla Stock Dives 6% Ahead Of Possible ‘Code Red’ Earnings For Elon Musk’s Firm:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/04/21/tesla-stock-dives-7-ahead-of-possible-code-red-earnings-for-elon-musks-firm/

* "As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he'll spend less time on DOGE:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5371552/tesla-earnings-april-2025-elon-musk-doge

Who could have guessed that a mostly left electric car buying demographic would not want to associate them selves with NAZI salutes and the Autocratic horrors of DOGE, except everyone with a working brain?

* "Why Elon Musk is the new Mike 'MyPillow' Lindell:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/elon-musk-new-mike-lindell

* "Polling debunks Musk excuse that his unpopularity, collapse of Tesla, is because of paid protesters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/polling-debunks-musk-excuse-that-his-unpopularity-collapse-of-tesla-is-because-of-paid-protesters-238140485802

* "Musk eyes the exit after humiliating turn in politics: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-eyes-the-exit-after-humiliating-turn-in-politics-report-238048325643

* "Trump replaces acting IRS commissioner just days after appointing him:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-replaces-acting-irs-commissioner-days-after-appointing/story?id=120959980

* "Judge blocks mass layoffs at CFPB in the latest twist over the fate of the agency:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368206/cfpb-layoffs-rif

* "Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program :" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system?

* We warned them and warned them, but most Republican Senators decided to betray their country by putting him in charge of our military.

* "Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer:" https://archive.ph/1HA2P

* "'Mindblowing': Hegseth's phone number found all over web, posing massive security risk:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-mindblowing-hegseth-s-phone-number-found-all-over-web-posing-massive-security-risk-238380613558

* "White House backs Hegseth, Leavitt says ‘entire Pentagon’ is resisting him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/leavitt-trump-stands-strongly-behind-embattled-hegseth-00300749

* "Controversial Hegseth chief of staff to leave Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

* "Former Pete Hegseth aide in op-ed: 'Total chaos at the Pentagon':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/john-ullyot-op-ed-pete-hegseth-rcna202071

* "Hegseth says staffers found leaking ‘will be prosecuted’ amid Pentagon chaos:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/pete-hegseth-leaks-investigation-00302506

* "Third top Pentagon official suspended in leak investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/pentagon-official-suspended-leak-investigation-00293473

* "'Purely personal pettiness': Inside the ‘vicious rivalries’ roiling Hegseth’s Pentagon:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-purely-personal-pettiness-inside-the-vicious-rivalries-roiling-hegseth-s-pentagon-238213189802

* "‘Plainly unraveling’: New reporting on chaos at Pentagon under Hegseth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-plainly-unraveling-new-reporting-on-chaos-at-pentagon-under-hegseth-238125637882

* "Sen. Tammy Duckworth - Veterans Deserve Better than Trump, Hegseth, & DOGE | The Daily Show:"

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* "Veterans Affairs secretary tells employees to report 'anti-Christian discrimination':" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/04/23/veterans-affairs-tells-phoenix-workers-to-report-anti-christian-bias/83220624007/

* ""Do Something Group" rallies in downtown Kalamazoo to protest cuts to veterans' benefits:" https://wwmt.com/news/local/do-something-group-rallies-downtown-kalamazoo-protest-cuts-veterans-benefits-trump-doge-va

* "Trump's DOJ struggles defending trans military ban during D.C. appeals court hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/dc-circuit-trans-military-ban

* "Is Pete Hegseth violating judges’ orders blocking the Pentagon’s trans military ban? Senators demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senators-hegseth-trans-ban-answers

* "Defense Department reinstates gender-affirming care for trans troops:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-troops-care-reinstated

* "Trump AG Pam Bondi falsely compares gender-affirming care for minors as the same as female genital mutilation:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pam-bondi-targets-transgender-care

* "Trump Retaliates by Taking Kids' Lunch Money (Literally) ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children:" https://archive.ph/9MfDh

* "Why the White House wanting women to have more kids will lead to outlawing same-sex relations:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-assaults-bodily-autonom

* "Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

* "Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More :" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?

* "A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

* Censoring facts while promoting conspiracy theories. "'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/18/g-s1-61324/lab-leak-white-house-covid-origins

* "Health on Wheels van and COVID-19 programs to see reduced services amid grant loss:" https://krcgtv.com/news/local/health-on-wheels-van-and-covid-19-programs-to-see-reduced-services-amid-grant-loss

* "Trump Cuts Threaten Meals and Services for People With Disabilities and the Aging:" https://archive.ph/hOZtg

* "RFK Jr.’s Wish Is Coming True: Everybody’s Getting Measles:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-wish-is-coming-true-everybodys-getting-measles/

* "CDC Reports 800 Confirmed Measles Cases Across the US, 624 Being in Texas:" https://www.contagionlive.com/view/800-confirmed-measles-cases-in-the-us-by-april-18-2025-across-25-states

* "More Americans exposed to false claims about measles and its vaccines, KFF poll shows:" https://archive.ph/PzOHp

* "Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline:" https://archive.ph/Zk7fq

* "Why ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ with John Green:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-everything-is-tuberculosis-with-john-green/id1382983397?i=1000701696135

* "US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts:" https://archive.ph/df2sT

* "FDA head falsely claims no scientists laid off, as agency shutters food safety labs:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-head-falsely-claims-no-scientists-laid-off-as-agency-shutters-food-safety-labs/

* "I Know It Seems Impossible to Remember, but There Is Actually a Reason We Had an FDA:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64555033/us-fda-quality-testing-milk-fired-workforce/

* "In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5376473/hhs-restores-funding-for-womens-health-initiative

* Why it's important plus some other things. "‘Who voted for this?’: Trump guts first and largest women’s health study:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-who-voted-for-this-trump-guts-first-and-largest-women-s-health-study-238208581957

* But they were. "Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-agencies-not-creating-autism-registry-hhs-nih/

* CW: Suicide "HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

* People will die. "Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures:" https://archive.ph/L4bRd

* "RFK Jr. Is Set to Cut Synthetic Food Dyes From US Food Supply:" https://archive.ph/bX9h5

* "Interior secretary gives DOGE aide sweeping powers to remake department:" https://archive.ph/Bgo1z

* "National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English speakers :" https://www.kait8.com/2025/04/25/national-weather-service-resume-translating-its-products-non-english-speakers/

* "Trump’s Most Unhinged Policy May Be Starving MAGA Arkansas of Disaster Relief Snuffing out FEMA is causing some collateral damage.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-huckabee-sanders-fema-arkansas-disaster-relief-denial.html

* "After Arkansas: The Future Of FEMA And U.S. Disaster Relief:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderpuutio/2025/04/25/after-arkansas-the-future-of-fema-and-disaster-relief-in-america/

* "EPA starts layoffs of environmental justice employees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/epa-starts-layoffs-environmental-justice-employees-rcna202287

* "NWLC Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Seeking to Repeal Core Tenet of Civil Rights Act:" https://nwlc.org/press-release/nwlc-statement-on-trumps-executive-order-seeking-to-repeal-core-tenet-of-civil-rights-act/

* "Trump to target ActBlue in presidential memorandum:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-to-target-actblue-in-presidential-memorandum-00307251

This is the main fundraising vehicle of the Democratic Party. He has no proof. Meanwhile he's using his crypto scam to take direct bribes.

For Republicans, every accusation is a confession.

* "MAGA Is Aiming to Take Over the D.C. Bar. Be Afraid.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/pam-bondi-legal-news-maga-dc-bar.html

* "DOJ Reverses Grant Cancellations For Crime Victim Support:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/doj-reverses-grant-cancelations-for-crime-victim-support/

* "Trump orders revamp of school discipline policies, college accreditation and funding:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/trump-orders-schools-colleges-funding-accreditors-00307055

* "Harvard sues Trump administration over threats to cut funding if demands go unmet:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration-threats-cut-funding/story?id=121030309

* "Harvard sues federal government after Trump administration slashed billions in funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-rcna202276

* "As Harvard fights Trump, one campus quietly prepares for the worst:" https://archive.ph/3UXOo

If you are going to George Washington University, know anyone who is or has gone, or are an Alumni, now is the time to take action to stiffen their spines.

* ""Shocked and Disgusted." UA Democrats respond to news of President Trump at UA:" https://abc3340.com/news/local/shocked-and-disgusted-ua-democrats-respond-to-news-of-president-trump-at-ua-national-news-politics

* "Trump administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371723/trump-administration-collections-on-defaulted-student-loans

* "Judges blocks Trump push to cut funding to public schools over diversity programs:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-public-schools-diversity-equality-inclusion-dei-7d7ad707d91565753263a19ebde044e0

* "Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firms-perkins-coie-wilmerhale-7dba5f0c38ac547bf3f2bb1f31a2ef38

* "Are Law Firms Breaking the Law by Caving to Trump?:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/are-law-firms-breaking-the-law-trump-deal.html

* "Federal judge blocks Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-f30c48df0c16de622ec5fd99ee6c627c

* "'60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372733/60-minutes-bill-owens-cbs-trump-paramount

* "In unintended filing, federal attorneys poke holes in Trump administration’s effort to end NYC toll:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyc-toll-congestion-pricing-6a0a3306f8625474d63c39d75b571521




* "BREAKING: Trump Justice Department asks Supreme Court to reinstate trans military ban blocked by courts:" https://www.advocate.com/news/doj-scotus-trans-military-ban

* "Obamacare returns to SCOTUS, with preventive care on the line:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/obamacare-scotus-preventive-care-aca-00296631

* "After oral argument, court calls for new briefs in HHS task force case:" https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/after-oral-argument-court-calls-for-new-briefs-in-hhs-task-force-case/

* "The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit:" https://apnews.com/article/georgia-fbi-raid-supreme-court-lawsuit-9cb55aa6f45bbf02c29d84363c7c9e6f

* "Supreme Court conservatives sympathize with parents objecting to LGBTQ-inclusive books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conservative-justices-sympathize-religious-objections

* "Compilation of Protests and Actions Against the Supreme Court:" https://whatthetrans.com/compilation-of-protests-against-the-supreme-court/

* "Economic insecurity linked to LGBTQ+ youth mental health issues: Trevor Project report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/economic-insecurity-lgbtq-youth

* The Boycott is working! Keep at it! "Target foot traffic down for 10th consecutive week amid boycott over DEI abandonment:" https://www.advocate.com/news/target-foot-traffic-down-dei

* "Trump, Johnson squelch talk of tax hike for wealthiest Americans:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/johnson-doesnt-expect-tax-hike-on-wealthy-in-gop-budget-plan-00306708

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

If these are your Senators, 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

* "A tax on credit unions is a tax on me.:" https://www.donttaxmycreditunion.org/

* "Nancy Mace calls transgender student a transphobic slur at University of South Carolina event:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nancy-mace-usc-trans-slur

* "12 batsh*t things Nancy Mace has done in her anti-transgender attention grab :" https://www.advocate.com/voices/nancy-mace-south-carolina-transgender#rebelltitem13

* "Sarah McBride says she won’t let Republicans make her the main character in their anti-trans crusade:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sarah-mcbride-pod-save-america

* "'Welcome to the team': Chris Murphy, Maxwell Frost hold town halls where Republicans won't:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-welcome-to-the-team-chris-murphy-maxwell-frost-hold-town-halls-where-republicans-won-t-238300741912




* 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/

"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

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/




* "Long-running legal saga over N.C. Supreme Court race could pave way for future election challenges, critics warn:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/legal-saga-north-carolina-supreme-court-future-election-challenges-rcna202634

* "Military and overseas voters at center of challenges in Riggs-Griffin NC Supreme Court race:" https://abc7chicago.com/post/military-overseas-voters-center-challenges-north-carolina-supreme-court-race-between-allison-riggs-jefferson-griffin/16209562/

* "How Process is Killing Progress with Ezra Klein:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-process-is-killing-progress-with-ezra-klein/id1382983397?i=1000702661938

* "In unprecedented move, DNC official to spend big to take down fellow Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/david-hogg-dnc-vice-chair-to-spend-big-to-take-down-safe-democratic-incumbents-00292535

* "Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, won’t seek reelection to a sixth term in 2026:" https://apnews.com/article/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-majority-02ff2de634c0e6b62842f80eef01f72e

* "The Democract Doing Trump's Dirty Work:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7fv8fZXjsrA

Coloradans! Pressure him not to veto. Unionization is essential.

* "Tennessee pauses bill targeting right to education regardless of immigration status:" https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-immigration-students-bill-9dfe0022df01d5756384cd5a4a942a24

* Stopped clocks. "North Dakota’s GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program:" https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-governor-vetoes-book-bans-vouchers-a5a52e027a37b14acb55ffae7ec828e3

* "Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety:" https://archive.ph/vsdFG

* "George Santos sentenced to prison:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-sentenced-prison

* "Countering DeSantis, $10M Hope Florida donation came from Medicaid, draft shows:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/22/desantis-casey-medicaid-settlement-hope-charity-andrade/

* Because of course. "George Santos begs Trump for pardon after judge handed down 7-year sentence:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-trump-pardon-cameo

* "Senate staffer accused of having sex in Capitol building recounts 'horrific' backlash:" https://www.advocate.com/news/senate-staffer-sex-speaks-out

* CW: Mass Murder. "Car plows through Vancouver Filipino festival, killing at least 11:" https://archive.ph/npHP0

* "What is Lapu-Lapu Day? Filipinos shocked by festival tragedy in Vancouver:" https://archive.ph/jUC0y






* "Thailand Plastic Waste Law Challenges Developed Nations’ Waste Practices:" https://happyeconews.com/thailand-plastic-waste-law/

* "Behind Closed Doors: The Secret World of Molly Houses in 18th-Century England:" https://gaylifetoday.com/2025/04/21/behind-closed-doors-the-secret-world-of-molly-houses-in-18th-century-england/

* "Weaponization of the FBI from Hoover to Trump 2.0 with Beverly Gage:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weaponization-of-the-fbi-from-hoover-to-trump-2/id1382983397?i=1000700716486

* "Pope Francis dead at 88: Looking back on his LGBTQ+ rights legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pope-francis-dead-lgbtq-rights

* "Pope Francis changed the conversation on LGBTQ+ Catholics—will the next Pontiff hit mute?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/pope-francis-lgbtq

As a trans person who is not a Christian, I was not a fan and I side eye a bunch of things that happened under his watch as far as cover ups and corruption. That said, he was better than I had any hope of him being and so much better than predecessors in so many ways and on so many issues. He DID represent progress, even though he didn't go as far as one would wish. His anti-authoritarian moves were important.

I am really worried about what comes next.

So many things are getting so much worse. I would love for the catholic Church to keep moving forward, even if not as quickly as I would wish, instead of back sliding into horror.

* "'Evil is being defeated': Marjorie Taylor Greene sparks outrage after Pope Francis' death:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/evil-being-defeated-marjorie-taylor-130338336.html

* "Maddow on Pope Francis, advocate for migrants: 'He changed the world, he changed the church':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-on-pope-francis-advocate-for-migrants-he-changed-the-world-he-changed-the-church-238046789972

* "Pope Francis’ Legacy of Compassion for Palestinians:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/pope-francis-legacy-of-compassion-for-palestinians-238414917852

* " Blasphemy is coming to St. Peter’s Square as Trump tries to hijack Pope Francis’s funeral to feed his ego:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/donald-trump-pope-funeral-blasphemy

* "Frito-Lay recall: What to know about the Tostitos tortilla chips pulled from shelves:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/04/09/frito-lay-tostitos-chips-recall/83012547007/

* "Tri-Union Seafoods Issues Recall of Select Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s® Tuna Cans Due to Clostridium Botulinum Risk:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/tri-union-seafoods-issues-recall-select-genovar-van-campsr-h-e-b-and-trader-joesr-tuna-cans-due

* Wednesday, on my way out the door to collect Millennials for group errands, I found a bureaucracy packet. Worryingly, it was not the standard bureaucracy packet. O.o It takes the same documents I already had assembled for the late April or early May bureaucracy, which helps, but also suggests a second, more complicated bureaucracy will arrive soon.

I worked on it the whole time Millennials were here, and finished it, except for the one piece I need someone to print off the computer. Last time I circled and labelled the relevant items on the bank statements and it worked out. It would be better to belt and suspenders it, but in any case I hope to drive the packet and documents up there for copying, stamping, and filing.

I like to turn them in as early as I can just generally, but speed is extra important now, given the givens.

Bonus I have all the items ID number marked so when I have to take them back to the same office within the month that will speed things up a bit on my end. *eye roll*

I did not sort the things assorted people dumped on the floor and shoveled back in the wrong place repeatedly last Summer and Autumn, but I need to. I keep a year of documents out in case there is random surprise bureaucracy in the off season (Which really does happen). I just need to go through them now before boxing them for seven year storage, in case something got in there that shouldn't.

So that's a couple hours, but less urgent.

It did eat my whole evening, alas.

* …And despite the Millennials being told they were cleared to work, they for some reason haven't been reinstated and are not getting paid. Fuckssake!

So phone bureaucracy tomorrow, I guess.

Bonus: I managed to really fuck up my hand about 7 minutes after they left for the night checking if Tavy's pads were dry. Sigh.

* "Jon Stewart on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation and How Trump Fails to Deliver | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump’s Tariffs Ruined America’s Reputation. Does Anyone Still Respect Us? | The Daily Show:"

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* "Meet the Scientists Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth to Fight Climate Change | The Daily Show:"

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* "Harvey Fierstein to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Award:" https://www.theatermania.com/news/harvey-fierstein-to-receive-a-lifetime-achievement-tony-award_1773609/

* "Must-see LGBTQ+ films every straight ally should watch :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/gay-movies-for-straight-allies-watch#rebelltitem12

* "Bernie Rocks Coachella:"

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* "Elmo Drops A Trump Diss Track:"

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* Cool Person in need of help. "So, due to a combination of things hitting at once we're overdue on both the electric and gas bills:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3618944.html

* There's this Evangelical sect that makes creepy ass recruitment ads. They have one that uses Depecge Mode's "Personal Jesus."

Me: do they know?

So every time it comes on, my head snaps up, and then I remember it's an evangelical ad and I chuckle to myself.

*****
* 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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* I'm doing better, but I still tire easily and the physio is already getting ugly. This means I'm going to run out of things like energy and pain resistance without much warning.

The pain has been and continues to be stunning this week.




* "Israel says it will send more troops to Rafah, as fighting also rages in Gaza’s north:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-hamas-latest-05-16-2024-c7318fc513e79580082c0a80ae6878b6

* "Strike kills U.N. aid worker, injures another in southern Gaza:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251272912/gaza-united-nations-un-aid-worker-killed

* "‘Outrageous’ arson attack forces UNRWA to temporarily shutter East Jerusalem compound:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149586

* "Israeli activists attack Gaza aid convoy, drawing U.S. condemnation and highlighting risk to aid work:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-gaza-aid-west-bank-settlers-united-nations/

* "Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/14/gaza-israelis-attacking-known-aid-worker-locations#:~:text=As%20of%20April%2030%2C%20the,injuring%20at%20least%20one%20more.

* It won't be enough. "US establishes Gaza pier to try to boost aid to hungry enclave:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-establishes-gaza-pier-try-boost-aid-hungry-enclave-2024-05-16/

* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

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* "U.S. report says it's 'reasonable to assess' that Israel has violated humanitarian law:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250442216/u-s-report-says-reasonable-to-assess-that-israel-has-violated-humanitarian-law

* "Rep. Jayapal on Contradictions in State. Dept. Report on Israeli Conduct in Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-jayapal-on-contradictions-in-state-dept-report-on-israeli-conduct-in-gaza-210763333765

* "Army Officer Resigns in Protest of ‘Unqualified’ U.S. Support to Israel:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

* "Interior Dept staffer becomes first Jewish Biden appointee to publicly resign over war in Gaza:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/interior-dept-staffer-jewish-biden-appointee-publicly-resign-110272884

* "Member of Israel’s War Cabinet says he’ll quit the government June 8 unless there’s a new war plan:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-war-05-18-2024-3ac9d8e59198d5884d0faa6649a53e4f

* "Water cannon used to disperse anti-government protesters in Tel Aviv:" https://apnews.com/video/israel-hamas-war-protests-and-demonstrations-tel-aviv-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-14c6787047b940caa67d663c59c15702

* "Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-lindsey-graham-suggests-nuking-gaza-calls-hiroshima-the-right-decision

* "Republican Congressman Joins Lindsey Graham in Calls to Nuke Gaza:" https://newrepublic.com/post/181580/republican-congressman-greg-murphy-nuke-gaza

* "Pro-Palestinian protests continue on I-5 overpass in Bellingham:" https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-pro-palestinian-protests-continue-on-i-5-overpass-in-bellingham/

* "Pro-Palestine encampment forms on WWU campus:" https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-pro-palestine-encampment-forms-on-wwu-campus/

* "Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

* "Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters Celebrated for ‘Moral Clarity’ at ‘The People’s Graduation’:" https://time.com/6979149/pro-palestinian-student-protesters-the-peoples-graduation/

* "50 powerful photos from ACT UP's pro-Palestine rally at the GLAAD Media awards:" https://www.advocate.com/news/act-up-glaad-media-protest

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* "The changing face of protest:" https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-protest-surveillance/#/an-end-to-privacy

* "A growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails. The prospects for their release are unclear:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-prisoners-swap-gershkovich-whelan-putin-2a53c30a7ee686ee85de412ee833d154

* "Slovak PM Fico's attacker may not have acted alone, says minister:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/worst-fears-slovak-pms-health-are-over-says-deputy-prime-minister-2024-05-19/

* "German far-right leader intentionally used banned Nazi slogan, court rules:" https://www.politico.eu/article/german-far-right-leader-found-guilty-of-using-banned-nazi-slogan-bjorn-hocke-afd-alternative-for-germany-thuringia/

* "Venezuela’s barred opposition candidate is now the fiery surrogate of her lesser-known replacement:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-presidential-election-maduro-opposition-machado-edmundo-aecb49c26aba7dd7c98c0139282c8ade

* "Search and rescue efforts underway as helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi suffers 'crash landing':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/helicopter-carrying-irans-president-suffers-hard-landing-state-tv-says-rcna152961

* "Vatican Museums staff challenge the pope with a legal bid for better terms and treatment:" https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/ap-top-news/2024/05/13/vatican-museums-staff-challenge-the-pope-with-a-legal-bid-for-better-terms-and-treatment

* I have serious concerns. "Seeking Access to Congo’s Metals, White House Aims to Ease Sanctions: A deal to allow the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler to cash out his mining positions in the Democratic Republic of Congo has enraged human rights activists and some government officials.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/politics/congo-cobalt-us-sanctions.html

* "Biden announces new tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, including electric vehicles:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1250987721/biden-china-tariffs-electric-vehicles

* "US issues warning about possible terror attacks at LGBTQ+ Pride events worldwide:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/20/pride-month-warning-us-state-department/

* "US to send additional $2 billion in Ukraine aid, Blinken says:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-send-additional-2-billion-ukraine-aid-blinken/story?id=108534198

* "US greenlights potential weapons sale to Israel:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/14/us-greenlights-potential-weapons-sale-israel-00158045

* "Justice Department formally moves to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in historic shift:" https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-rescheduling-drug-policy-biden-15b43441670757b0c2bfa36731e47d07

* "Over 20 Republican-led states are challenging Biden admin's LGBTQ-inclusive Title IX rule:" https://www.advocate.com/news/title-ix-lgbtq-lawsuits

* "Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-supreme-court-congressional-redistricting-black-representation-201c1fa9e494ad0d88e4d9ed8328eae0

* "A 'Stop The Steal' Symbol Was Displayed At Alito's House In 2021:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-samuel-alito-stop-the-steal-flag_n_6646913ae4b0dd63cd2bd6ae

* "Alito offers strikingly petty excuse for upside-down flag, affirms pro-Trump bias:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/alito-offers-strikingly-petty-excuse-for-upside-down-flag-affirms-pro-trump-bias-211175493923

* "Justice Alito's upside-down flag sparks another SCOTUS ethics scandal:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/justice-alito-s-upside-down-flag-sparks-another-scotus-ethics-scandal-211197509527

* "Rep. Raskin: “the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards.”:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-raskin-the-highest-court-in-the-land-has-the-lowest-ethical-standards-211224645780

* "Elizabeth Warren on the Biden admin's big win for airline passengers:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elizabeth-warren-on-the-biden-admin-s-big-win-for-airline-passengers-211026501692

* "White House to Republicans: You’re not getting audio of Biden’s interview with Hur:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/16/biden-moves-to-block-house-from-getting-his-classified-docs-interview-tapes-00158323

* "House Democrats launch probe of Trump’s dinner with oil executives:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/14/trump-oil-executives-investigation-democrats/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Been Obsessed With AOC for Years:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aoc-marjorie-taylor-greene-feud-history-1235023214/

* "School leaders push back on House GOP claims of inaction over antisemitism:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/05/08/antisemitism-house-hearing-k-12-schools/

* "Republicans follow through on their odd home appliance fixation:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-follow-odd-home-appliance-fixation-rcna151249

* Stop the government censoring queer and other minority voices off the Internet in the US : https://www.stopkosa.com/

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Meet RAGA—One of the Scariest GOP Groups You’ve Never Heard Of:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/republican-attorney-general-raga/

* "In Arizona, election workers trained with deepfakes to prepare for 2024:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/08/arizona-election-workers-trained-with-deepfakes-prepare-2024/

* "'He is dangerous': Rep. Balint on the Trumpian threat Speaker Johnson poses to democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-he-is-dangerous-rep-balint-on-the-trumpian-threat-speaker-johnson-poses-to-democracy-211225157642

* "MAGA Candidate Draws Outrage After Bizarre “Weak and Gay” Video:" https://newrepublic.com/post/181592/gop-candidate-weak-gay-video

* "‘Outside money in Oregon swing district prompts claims of Republican meddling:" https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/05/17/outside-money-in-oregon-swing-district-prompts-claims-of-republican-meddling/

* "OUTSIDE GROUPS SPENT $285,000 BACKING JAMAAL BOWMAN. AIPAC ALONE JUST DROPPED NEARLY $2 MILLION TO ATTACK HIM.:" https://theintercept.com/2024/05/16/aipac-jamaal-bowman-attack-ads-george-latimer/

* "Rep. Jamaal Bowman on being AIPAC’s top target:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-jamaal-bowman-on-being-aipac-s-top-target-211195973612

* Primaries are Ongoing:
Important! Remember to vote in all primaries, not just presidential!!!

NOTE: There is a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The pressure from all the different types of protests do seem to be working, if far slower than we'd like.

NOTE 2: There is a similar protest against Trump where people vote for a candidate who isn't running. Check your state to see who people are promoting.

NOTE 3: Important non-Presidential Primaries are also ongoing! Vote the whole ballot!

Georgia, Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho: 5/21/24 (House Primaries as well! Important!!!)

Idaho (Democrat): 5/23/24

Texas (Run Off Election): 5/28/24

Iowa (House Primary), District of Columbia (Democrats), Montana (General Primary, Important!), New Jersey (General Primary, Important), New Mexico (General Primary, Important!), South Dakota: 6/4/24


Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "Biden and Trump agree to debates. And then debate about more debates.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/biden-proposes-2-debates-with-trump-ditching-bipartisan-commission-00158082

* "Why Trump's 2020 debates should make him think twice about meeting Biden again in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-trump-s-2020-debates-should-make-him-think-twice-about-meeting-biden-again-in-2024-211038789777

* "How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again?:" https://newrepublic.com/article/181287/can-america-possibly-elect-trump-again

* "Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-second-term-plans-wildest-proposals-1234947327/

* "Trump Says He’d Deport ‘Anti-American’ Protesters in Bizarre Rally Speech:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-deport-protesters-hannibal-lecter-new-jersey-rally-1235019174/

* "Trump's election denialism is a 'dagger at the heart of American democracy':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/trump-s-election-denialism-is-a-dagger-at-the-heart-of-american-democracy-210771525632

* "Trump pledges to 'roll back' Biden gun rules, fire ATF chief at NRA rally:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-fire-up-supporters-nras-annual-us-gathering-2024-05-18/

* "Why Donald Trump ended up praising Hollywood’s most famous cannibal:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/13/trump-hannibal-lecter-immigration/

* "Biden and Trump split screen: "Unhinged" and "Hannibal Lecter":" https://www.axios.com/2024/05/12/biden-trump-rallies-fundraiser-hannibal-lecter

* "NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons:" https://www.wral.com/amp/21433199/

* "South Carolina has passed a gender-affirming care ban. Here's what families can do:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/south-carolina-gender-affirming-care-resources

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill that strikes climate change from state law:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251769080/florida-desantis-climate-change-law

* "A Virginia county board votes to restore Confederates' names to schools:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250446827/virginia-confederate-school-names-restored

* "Louisiana bill would place abortion pills on same list as opiates:" https://www.axios.com/2024/05/13/abortion-pills-controlled-substance-louisiana-amendment

* Republicans continue to champion CSA as part of their core anti-bodily autonomy agenda. "Why Are Some Republican Lawmakers Hellbent on Preserving Child Marriage?:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republican-lawmakers-child-marriage-abortion-1235018777/

* "Rudy Giuliani still hasn’t been served his Arizona indictment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/14/rudy-giuliani-arizona-charges/

* "DOJ requests judge order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-requests-judge-order-steve-bannon-begin-prison/story?id=110209704

* "US Senator Robert Menendez goes on trial for corruption, no jurors chosen:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senator-bob-menendez-trial-jury/story?id=110269043

* "Witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says meat-export monopoly made costs soar:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/witness-sen-bob-menendezs-bribery-trial-meat-export-110349002




* I can't cover Trump legal stuff in the detail I normally would. Physio ramped up and my arm isn't up to much right now. I am just to tired and in too much pain for blow by blows. Apologies.

* "IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes

* "Trump Campaign Hid Settlements With Women, New Complaint Says:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-hid-settlements-with-women-new-complaint-says

* "'Utterly humiliating': Trump sycophants in matching suits audition for Trump outside trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-utterly-humiliating-trump-sycophants-in-matching-suits-audition-for-trump-outside-trial-210954309549

* "Trump sycophants parroting attacks on justice system risk further provoking MAGA extremists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-sycophants-parroting-attacks-on-justice-system-risk-further-provoking-maga-extremists-211040325835

* "Maddow slams 'corrosive' rhetoric as spectacle of Trump's Republican cheering squad grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/maddow-slams-corrosive-rhetoric-as-spectacle-of-trump-s-republican-cheering-squad-grows-211113541653

* "GOP rep invokes Proud Boys at Trump trial: 'Standing back and standing by':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-invokes-proud-boys-at-trump-trial-standing-back-and-standing-by-211101765671

* "‘Bizarre’: Lauren Boebert says Trump ‘looks pretty while he sleeps’ in court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bizarre-lauren-boebert-says-trump-looks-pretty-while-he-sleeps-in-court-211169349830

* "Michael Cohen says Trump was concerned about election when he sought to bury Stormy Daniels' story:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/13/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/a-critical-line-of-testimony-00157625

* "Stunning lack of effort: Trump defense tepid in attack on Cohen's damning testimony:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/stunning-lack-of-effort-trump-defense-tepid-in-attack-on-cohen-s-damning-testimony-210952261967




* "Pennsylvania state trooper who violently arrested Black transgender official on video is fired:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pa-state-trooper-fired-arresting-trans-official

* "‘Horrible’ and ‘beyond F'd up’: Texas Democratic lawmakers outraged by Abbott pardon of Daniel Perry:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/17/congress/texas-democrats-house-react-daniel-perry-pardon-abbott-protest-garrett-foster-00158651

* "Starting over: Women emerging from prison face formidable challenges to resuming their lives:" https://apnews.com/article/women-prisoners-reentry-challenges-program-shortage-d56afe6283c25e981d37d6e925d90ffd

* "Vivek Ramaswamy Praises Ann Coulter for Saying He’s Too ‘Indian’ to Vote For:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ann-coulter-tells-ramaswamy-she-wouldnt-vote-for-him-because-youre-an-indian

* "Two Black cadets and the struggle for diversity at an elite US military institution:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-race-academy/

* "Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/camden-alabama-segregated-schools-brown-v-board

* "This Map Lets You See How School Segregation Has Changed in Your Hometown:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/school-segregation-interactive-map-180984360/

* "A GOP school board member tried to ban a student's art for being 'offensive' to Christians:" https://www.advocate.com/news/virginia-augusta-school-board-gay-art
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* CW: CSA. "Attorney General Ferguson announces investigation into Catholic Church’s handling of child sex abuse allegations:" https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-ferguson-announces-investigation-catholic-church-s-handling

* "Even more salacious details emerge about the Zieglers' sex lives as they seek evidence be suppressed:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/zieglers-sex-lives-police-evidence

* "Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker goes on transphobic, sexist rant during graduation speech:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/harrison-butker-misogynistic-transphobia

* "Gay couple sues NYC over 'discriminatory' denial of IVF benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-couple-ivf-benefits-lawsuit

* "Third lesbian killed after boardinghouse arson attack in Argentina:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/third-lesbian-dies-fire-argentina

* Hospital wait times can kill. Denial of care can kill. "Trans teen ‘attempts self-mastectomy’ while waiting for surgery in ‘act of desperation’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/17/trans-teen-mastectomy-new-zealand/

* "Unsurprisingly, LGBTQ+ staff more likely to leave the NHS after Tory ‘gender ideology’ crackdown:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/18/lgbtq-nhs-workers/

* "Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards:" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

* "Las Vegas man shot at his gay neighbors while screaming homophobic slurs, police say:" https://www.advocate.com/las-vegas-hate-crime-bb-gun

* "Bay Area man convicted for attacking, robbing, abandoning Grindr hookup:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/grindr-hookup-robbery-sf

* "female loneliness and the catch-up friendship crisis:"

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* "The CDC Is Squandering the Breakthrough RSV Vaccine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/cdc-rsv-vaccine-babies-eligible/677907/




* "Largest Year–Over-Year Gain in Keeling Curve Set in March:" https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2024/05/08/largest-year-over-year-gain-in-keeling-curve-set-in-march/

* "A mountainous country loses its last glacier:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/15/venezuela-corona-glacier-humboldt/




* "I Was Scammed By Taylor Swift’s Boyfriend:"

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* "Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?:" https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why

* "The Actual History of Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys:"

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* "Trans women discussed trans rights on the BBC over 50 years ago—here’s what it looked like:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-week/

* "California political activist couple Peggy Moore and Hope Wood killed in car crash:" https://www.advocate.com/news/peggy-moore-hope-wood-killed

* "Black trans woman Kita Bee killed in hit-and-run in Kansas City:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-woman-killed-kita-bee

* 5/13/24: I meant to write a lot last week, but the weather has been very uneven and physio is moving into the two days to recover phase. By the time I was up to writing, I felt I really just needed to push the aggregate out.

Friday freaked me out a little. I was exhausted and in pain and not at my best. Now that I know the asshole agency app makes them fill out a form about me every time they come and that one of them snitched on me last month, leading to medical social worker trying to Hard sell a home visit I don't want or need, I am wary about every interaction with this one, even though it definitely wasn't her. Is the suggestion about organizing the tea station, something no one has been up to all winter and is on our when we have time list, just a suggestion or the beginning of the Asshole Agency/social services deciding they need to steal my autonomy because I'm disabled? Probably not, but it worries me she was here on a bad pain day in case she types something into the app they DO flag.

Fuck. We can't manage without the help as my primary purpose until Autumn is basically just physio and it eats most of my time, energy, and pain resistance.

Sunday, I had a visitor until 3ish in the morning, which is fine. I'm nocturnal.

Except today is bloodwork day, and they didn't say it was fasting, but this batch usually is. I was having some juice and a snack when I looked at the time. Fuck!

So I'll be staying up to do blood draw waaay later than expected. I am exhausted and hungry and I can't take the morning meds dose, including half the days arthritis pill until I get back because arthritis pill needs food.

And I have an online social engagement in the evening as I generally do on Monday and Tuesday.

On the upside, we went grocery shopping Sunday evening before dinner, and I now have pastry rising in the kitchen so I can have a special treat later.

Miles to go before I sleep. Sigh.

* 5/16/24: Wednesday, we went out to the prettiest local lake for a picnic dinner. We sat amoung the trees and looked out at the water. Later, We went down to the bay to watch sunset over water, seagulls circling and diving in front of salmon belly sky.

It is so beautiful here, still.

It is strangely cold, the coldest it's been in May since I moved up here. The plants will perk up and then the strange cold returns. The once reliable range of weather shattered a decade ago and each Spring brings surprises. I suspect we'll lose half the starts in the end. The marigolds are my fault. I accidentally weeded them.

The mint is finally bouncing back at least and I still have hope for the tomatoes. They are full grown and tomatoes respond well to a touch of mortality.

I got a new exercise and an upgrade to my home physio Wednesday. I was so exhausted I went to bed early and didn't even try any that evening, which is fine. I'm allowed to take physio evenings off. Thursday I managed ten of the upgraded exercise and did two other sets of regular. I only managed three of the new exercise before my shoulder hard vetoed. Sigh. I suspect the cold isn't helping.

The current goal is to rebuild enough strength for me to independently lift my arm above my shoulder and hold it for a five count.

* Looks like state election polling season has started. Long time readers will know I get polled a lot, being in possession of a land line, and I generally answer them unless there is a pressing need not to, because I'm a bit of a connoisseur.

I just (Thursday) got extensively polled on the Attorney general race in my state, which is unusual. They occasionally get folded into a governor or state legislature poll, but dedicated attorney general polls are rare. It started with the usual baseline questions and there were the usual demographic questions at the end, but 3/4 of the poll was attorney general stuff. It came off as legit as apposed to a push poll and was very issue oriented. I suspect one of the democratic candidate campaigns was funding it and I suspect they are working out ad strategies.

Usually, I'm more interested in biases and poll design, but this one had so much issues based stuff it left me legitimately weighing who I should vote for this summer. We're early enough in I haven't done the research yet. It's clear I'll need to do more than average. Of the people in the polls, it was the Republican I knew best and instantly dismissed. (On the Republican scale of conservative to nightmare, he's on the more reasonable end but there is no universe were I vote "back the blue.") One of the Democrats I've never heard of and the other I had a vaguely positive opinion, but neither did I know well. Both have some negatives but also really strong positives, hence the need to dig properly to see how much is real, how much is puff, and if there is anything disqualifying. Exciting!

* 5/17/24: So Thursday I was exhausted and in pain so I went to bed early. Alas, very little actual sleep was involved for reasons beyond my control. Livia got lots of pettins out of it at least, as one of her skills is responding to people waking me up my waiting for me to come back from the bathroom and climbing on while the emperor is elsewhere. This was good and important as Tavy's guarding me again, likely due to the obvious physical distress I've been in the last week and a half. When he gets anxious it's everyone's problem. Between Millennial outdoors adventure and the Emperor being the emperor she didn't get any really long bed pets Wednesday.

I had a very early telemedicine thing Friday morning. I had the cleaner scheduled for 10. Goth Millennial wanted to come over and work on some stuff of their own, which is a thing some of them do sometimes. I said sure, as I'd definitely be up all morning. Telemed was fine. Apparently one of my older vaccines is no longer good, so I need go get part one, preferably next week. It was also fast, so I offered to collect Goth Millennial. The Cleaner had a family emergency, which I believe, given things she's said about her circumstances. so I ordered an extra Tuesday because there is a lot needing doing and I barely used any hours the first three months of the year so there is plenty.

My original plan involved going back to bed noonish, but there were a bunch of phone calls and emergency errands and such so i accomplished very little of the things I had on my original agenda for today. Goth Millennial ended up doing some house and garden things as well as the stuff on their agenda, and i couldn't really do any uninterrupted thing until mid afternoon.

By which point my successfully completing my daily physio homework had become a serious liability to everything else because I felt like I was being attacked with knives. In physio's defense Tavy also managed to pin me in a stress position twice, including during lung time this evening, so some of it is Anxious Cat. By dinner time I gave up and took my emergency meds. no noticeable improvement occurred. Indeed as of 9:45PM it is escalating. O.o Which means I'm going to have to employ All the Techniques and home I can chip enough away to sleep.

So I'm trying not to scream and or cry. Still haven't finished the original three to four hours of stuff I was supposed to do today, though I have hopes of Before Midnight local time, and Friday morning aggregate is late again. Tomorrow maybe? Because no way can I push this out tonight.

* Techie Millennial came to Sunday dinner for the first time in ages. I missed them.

I continue to struggle with physio, exhaustion, and my shoulder screaming at me. Sigh.

* "Opioid Settlements: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Robert Menendez a Corruption Lesson | The Daily Show:"

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* "The History of Museums: Crash Course Art History #3:"

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* "Gender Census:" https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCensus2024

* "Summer of Trump Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Fast Fashion Ad - SNL:"

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* "Would Jeeves and Wooster survive Castle Dracula?:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/750210068089389056?source=share

* "Hot Vampire Hunters in Your Area!:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-1-hot-vampire-hunters-in-your-area/id1679833472?i=1000606859900

* "Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part II:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/jane-austens-persuasion-part-ii?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=144622588&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

* "Sunday Sweets' Crowning Achievement:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-crowning-achievement-2024

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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.

* "Gender Census:" https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GenderCensus2024

* "Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards:" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* "Israel plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it’s a response to a Palestinian attack:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-settlements-hamas-gaza-war-netanyahu-smotrich-1d2306d55c24c8559b630d9f20db30e2

* CW: Rape. "U.N. report finds ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe victims were sexually assaulted Oct. 7:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/04/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/#link-MVPCJFYKPVHJHIVS2GUXLG6WQQ

* "Gaza: Worst famine fears realised as 10th child reportedly ‘starves to death’:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147112

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

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* "Harris urges a Gaza cease-fire for hostage deal, presses Israel to ease aid delivery:" https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1235712368/kamala-harris-gaza-ceasefire-israel-aid

* "HOW ISRAEL QUIETLY CRUSHED EARLY AMERICAN JEWISH DISSENT ON PALESTINE:" https://theintercept.com/2024/03/03/israel-our-palestine-question-zionism-american-jews/

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* "In Ethiopia, a secret committee orders killings and arrests to crush rebels:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-violence-committee/

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* "31,000 Ukrainian troops killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Zelenskyy says:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-troops-killed-zelenskyy-675f53437aaf56a4d990736e85af57c4

* "How one officer class offers a glimpse into Russia’s military amid Ukraine war:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-officers/

* "Indians are unwittingly recruited into the Russian army:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/29/indians-are-unwittingly-recruited-into-the-russian-army_6573586_4.html

* "How Russian officials and their collaborators spirit away Ukraine’s children:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-children/

* "Ukrainian veterans protest after church withdrawals gay soldier's medal:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ukrainian-gay-soldier-medal-withdrawn

* "With lives shattered by war, Ukrainian teens build new dreams:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-anniversary-teenagers/

* "Inside Ukraine’s Wartime Salons:" https://www.allure.com/story/ukraine-wartime-salons?utm_source=pocket_discover




* "Russia’s Wagner Group expands into Africa’s Sahel with a new brand:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/12/russias-wagner-group-expands-into-africas-sahel-with-a-new-brand.html

* "Yulia Navalnaya once avoided the limelight. Now she’s Russia’s newest opposition leader:" https://apnews.com/article/yulia-navalnaya-navalny-death-92efe8fa54fa6a6614fb3433c27e4878

* "Inside ‘The Game’: The dangerous new path migrants are risking to get to the EU:" https://inews.co.uk/news/world/refugee-europe-bosnia-asylum-seeker-2916539

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Inside North Korea's Forced-Labor Program:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/inside-north-koreas-forced-labor-program-in-china

* "Asylum-seekers risk lives to cross Rio Grande into US:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/asylum-seekers-risk-lives-cross-rio-grande-into-us-2024-02-26/

* "A unanimous Supreme Court restores Trump to the Colorado ballot:" https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1230453714/supreme-court-trump-colorado-ballot

* "4 takeaways from the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump and 14th Amendment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/takeaways-supreme-court-trump-ruling/

* "Amazon’s Big Secret:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/amazon-profits-antitrust-ftc/677580/

* "Republicans who say they support IVF backed a bill protecting life ‘at conception’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/25/ivf-republicans-legislation/

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* The Republican War on Democracy continues. "Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/us/politics/trump-voter-rolls.html

* "It Can Happen Here: A new project tracking creeping authoritarianism.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/it-can-happen-here-trump-authoritarianism-fascism/

* "She’s a Prophet. She’s a Theocrat. She’s the Most Powerful Lobbyist You’ve Never Heard Of.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/abby-abildness-lobbyist/

* "'The Republican Party is going through some things': Maddow marvels at GOP veering into extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-marvels-at-gop-veering-into-extremism-right-up-to-the-top-205461573974

* "U.S. voters face stark contrast in 2024 choices, with no 'magic wand' coming to help:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-voters-face-stark-contrast-in-2024-choices-with-no-magic-wand-coming-to-help-205463621504

* "Laverne Cox is begging all queer Americans to vote Democrat in the 2024 election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/laverne-cox-election-2024

* "Black LGBTQ+ candidates still face bigotry — here's how they're fighting it:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/black-lgbtq-politicians-obstacles

* "Oregon mayoral candidate was involved in 1984 gay bashing but says he's changed:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/oregon-mayoral-candidate-gay-bashing

* "Missouri Republicans try to remove man with ties to KKK from party ballot:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Offensive comments by N.C. Republican stand out even in Trump’s party:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/02/mark-robinson-governor-candidate-north-carolina-offensive-comments/

* "Donald Trump endorses Mark Robinson, who said gays are ‘filth’ and ‘maggots,’ for NC governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-mark-robinson-mlk

* "Trump calls GOP's most toxic candidate 'Martin Luther King times two':" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/4/2227413/-Trump-calls-GOP-s-most-toxic-candidate-Martin-Luther-King-times-two

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

NOTE: There is now a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy, I have voted that way in my up coming primary. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The more of us who do this the more likely he'll actually do something.

Alabama, Alaska (Republicans), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa (Democrats), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, American Samoa (Democrats): 3/5/24

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "'Uncommitted' protest over Biden's Israel support heads to Minnesota:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uncommitted-protest-aims-minnesota-over-bidens-israel-support-2024-03-04/

* "Biden says Trump wouldn't concede next time: "Losers are never graceful":" https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/biden-trump-2024-election-concede

* "Nikki Haley wins DC primary, first victory for campaign:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/haley-dc-primary-results-00144502

* "Hungarian PM Orban to meet ally Trump on March 8:" https://www.reuters.com/world/hungarian-pm-orban-meet-trump-march-8-florida-2024-03-04/

* "At CPAC, Trump Invokes Clashing Visions of America’s Future:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/politics/trump-cpac.html

* ""Truly dystopian": Experts worry Trump's school vaccine plan will spark "public health catastrophe":" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/truly-dystopian-experts-worry-school-vaccine-plan-will-spark-public-health-catastrophe/

* ""He looks lost": Alarm after Trump's "mind blanks out" repeatedly during speech:" https://www.salon.com/2024/03/04/he-looks-lost-alarm-after-mind-blanks-out-repeatedly-during-speech/

* "Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

* "Kentucky bill threatens to take custody of trans kids using ‘wrong’ school bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-bill-take-trans-children

* I think we all know why they want this and what they are going to do to the women. "New Oklahoma bill could allow state to create database of women who had abortions:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/15/oklahoma-abortion-law-kevin-west-bill-creates-database-women/72613836007/#:~:text=New%20Oklahoma%20bill%20could%20allow,of%20women%20who%20had%20abortions&text=A%20Democratic%20lawmaker%20expressed%20concerns,procedure%20and%20ban%20emergency%20contraception.

* "A bill protecting birth control access is headed to Virginia’s governor. Here’s why Republicans said they opposed it.:" https://www.pilotonline.com/2024/03/01/a-bill-protecting-birth-control-access-is-headed-to-virginias-governor-heres-why-republicans-said-they-opposed-it/

* "As Missouri lawmakers continue attacking LGBTQ+ rights, one city is taking a stand against hate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/columbia-missouri-lgbtq-safe-haven

* "Georgia Senate passes bill to create ‘America First’ license plate:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-senate-passes-bill-creating-america-first-license-plate/XHE3RYKTN5DLPAOJ6PKZRK3HH4/

Reminder: "America first" is a NAZI slogan broadly adopted by Trump and the Republicans for obvious reasons.

* "California Sen. Laphonza Butler reads Audre Lorde in protest of GOP book banning:" https://www.advocate.com/books/banned-books-laphonza-butler

* "Oklahoma superintendent’s ties to anti-trans influencer spark outrage in wake of Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ryan-walters-transphobic-influencer-ties

* "Oklahoma superintendent and Libs of TikTok celebrate bullying gay principal out of job for drag persona:" https://www.advocate.com/news/oklahoma-drag-principal-resignation







* "San Francisco prosecutors will seek a retrial in bondage and poppers killing of gay man:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/san-francisco-poppers-murder-retrial

* "Oklahoma High School’s atmosphere of bullying exposed in wake of Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/owasso-high-school-bullying-oklahoma

* "After Nex Benedict's death, 350 LGBTQ+ groups, activists, and celebs urge Oklahoma superintendent's removal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/activists-demand-ryan-walters-removal

* "Nex Benedict's death spurs student walkout at his Oklahoma high school over anti-LGBTQ+ bullying:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-walkout-lgbtq-bullying

* "Nex Benedict vigils are erupting across the country. Here are powerful photos from these memorials:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-vigils-gallery#rebelltitem71

* "Attackers yelled antigay, racist slurs during beach party stabbing of teen boy in California:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/antigay-slurs-teen-attacked-california

* "Colorado police looking for two men who attacked a man in potential antigay hate crime:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/colorado-police-2-men-looking

* "Teachers are tired of the culture wars — and many support LGBTQ+ curricula, Pew survey finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/teachers-lgbtq-race-education-legislation

* Republicans are winning their war on Bodily Autonomy. "Texas quietly restricts gender-affirming care for trans adults: 'Canary in the coalmine':" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-gender-affirming-care-medicaid

* "Appeals court lets Indiana's gender-affirming care ban go into effect:" https://www.advocate.com/news/indiana-trans-care-ban-upheld

* "The fight to decolonize queer identity:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trinah-kakyo

* "Transgender rights are under attack not just in the U.S., but around the world: study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-rights-attack-world

* "Ghana: UN and human rights groups condemn passage of ‘profoundly disturbing’ anti-LGBTQ+ bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill-condemn-un-human-rights-groups/

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

* "Police raid ‘My Little Pony’ gathering and a gay night at a local club in Russia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/russia-my-little-pony-raid

* "Gay airline employee subject to 'torture' after arrest in Qatar, family says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-airline-torture-qatar-grindr

* "The Czech Republic expands unions for same-sex couples but rejects marriage and full adoption rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/czech-republic-vote-against-queer-community/

* "Nepal must not move backwards on trans rights:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/manisha-dhakal

* "New South Wales Police commissioner vows to ‘do better’ for victims of LGBTQ+ hate crimes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/26/new-south-wales-police-report-lgbtqia/

* "Police find bodies of murdered reporter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/jess-baird-murder-details

* "Sydney Mardi Gras comes to a halt as parade pays moving tribute to killed gay couple:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/02/jesse-baird-and-luke-davies-sydney-mardi-gras/

* "Trans woman Tiffany Scott dies in custody at high-security Scottish prison:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/trans-woman-tiffany-scott-dies-in-custody-at-high-security-scottish-prison/

* "MP praised for defending trans rights as conversion therapy ban debate turns into ‘garbled mess’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/02/conversion-therapy-bill/

* "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tells U.N. to 'go pound sand' after LGBTQ+ rights criticism:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-greg-abbott-un-lgbtq

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton can't get PFLAG's data on trans members and care: court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ken-paxton-pflag-transgender

* "The sinister reason why the Texas Attorney General is demanding LGBTQ+ group members’ names:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/ken-paxton-pflag-national/

* "A pious Church and Cardinal Dolan trashes a dead trans woman who, like Jesus, helped the marginalized:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/cecilia-gentili-dolan-marginalized

* "Ohio man faces charges after urinating on LGBTQ+ Pride flag in porch while shouting ‘f**k the gays’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/28/ohio-man-pees-lgbtq-pride-flag-home/

* "Australian man awkwardly humps his way up a set of railings to avoid using ‘woke’ Pride stairs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/03/man-avoids-gay-stairs/

* "Love Lost, And Found:" https://storycorps.org/animation/love-lost-and-found/

* "Is this the future of PrEP?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/prep/future-of-prep

* "The FDA Says This Group Can Now Use Biktarvy Safely:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/fda-new-group-biktarvy-safely

* Wrap it up and get tested regularly. "Queer men aren't the only ones affected by recent syphilis spike:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/women-babies-affected-syphilis-spike

* "Gender and sexuality in autism, explained:" https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/gender-and-sexuality-in-autism-explained/

* They are going to kill some kids, aren't they? "Florida defies CDC in measles outbreak, telling parents it's fine to send unvaccinated kids to school:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-measles-outbreak-unvaccinated-kids-school/

* "There's a norovirus outbreak. Here's how to avoid it — and what to do if you catch it.:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/theres-a-norovirus-outbreak-heres-how-to-avoid-it--and-what-to-do-if-you-catch-it-224854240.html

* "Beyond the myths: ADHD explained in powerful comics:" https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/01/beyond-the-myths-adhd-explained-in-powerful-comics.html

* "Silent brain changes precede Alzheimer’s. Researchers have new clues about which come first:" https://apnews.com/article/alzheimers-dementia-amyloid-tau-b31db4ce15caf8b5c9c722b6240b2951







* "Why industry is blocking the push for more energy efficient homes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/21/homebuilders-energy-efficiency-climate/

* "In Cincinnati, redevelopment can mean artwork — and people — disappear:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1231466640/in-cincinnati-redevelopment-can-mean-artwork-and-people-disappear

* "The Future of Silk:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-future-of-silk/

* "Apple’s Car Was Doomed by Its Lofty Ambitions to Outdo Tesla:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-03/why-was-apple-car-canceled-the-hubris-in-apple-thinking-it-could-outdo-tesla-ltbke5ut

* "X/Twitter has ‘quietly restored’ a ban on misgendering and deadnaming trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/x-twitter-has-quietly-restored-a-ban-on-misgendering-and-deadnaming-trans-people/

* "Elon Musk sues OpenAI's Sam Altman for breach of contract:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sam-altman-openai-elon-musk

* "Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazine/mars-isolation-experiment.html

* "Twin Bell's turtles hatch during research project to repopulate the species in the NSW New England region:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/belles-turtle-repopulation-program-produces-twin-hatchlings-une/103485442

* "Getting that 'Moby Dick' — The first humpback whales to be seen having sex are both male:" https://www.advocate.com/news/humpback-whale-gay-sex

* "Charlotte, a stingray with no male companion, is pregnant in her mountain aquarium:" https://apnews.com/article/stingray-pregnant-charlotte-north-carolina-1da7d7ab06bf22169ef2c8e589db9cb4

* "Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds:" https://phys.org/news/2024-02-pythagoras-wrong-universal-musical-harmonies.html

* "Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/antiquity-roman-female-merchants

* "A mysterious 2,000-year-old Iron Age warrior was female, a new study shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/old-iron-age-female-warrior-scilly-iburial-rcna96595

* "The Humour of Medieval Scribes:" https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/humour-medieval-scribes/

* "Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855):" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/earthquakes-in-japanese-woodblock-prints/

* "Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recovering-lost-aviators-world-war-ii-180983690/

* "Meet the Boston native at the center of the Tuskegee Airmen mural at Logan Airport:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-02-29/meet-the-boston-native-at-the-center-of-the-tuskegee-airmen-mural-at-logan-airport

* "Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02144-4

* "What Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/

* "The Endangered Languages of NYC:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/22/magazine/endangered-languages-nyc.html

* "The Black Women of Gee’s Bend Work Hard and Easy: The wonder world of quilt-making:" https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/the-black-women-of-gees-bend-work-hard-and-easy/

* "Some Museums Scrambled to Remove Native American Items From Display. These Museums Didn’t Need to.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/why-museum-of-us-history-colorado-didnt-scramble-meet-new-repatriation-rules

* "Pat Logue, Lambda Legal attorney who won landmark cases, has died:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pat-logue-lambda-legal-obituary

* Saturday physio still gave me the shakes, but it was the first time I made any real progress with the hardest Exercise.

Monday, the car fix was cheaper than expected, but they discovered the power steering is about to Go. I've already paid the housing tax, which ate most of my discretionary funds, and I blew the entire EBT on shelf stable easy to make things for while I'm laid up plus a few perishables and I still need to hit the other store for fresh veg and such.

The car fix is expensive, as there aren't that many places carrying compatible parts for a car this ancient, so the price is like twice what it would have been a decade ago. I made the appointment for mid-April, when I hope to be allowed to drive as it takes two of us to drop off and pick up the car. The hope is it can survive another week, as I shan't be allowed to drive for any of March past the 12th.

Sigh. Being Poor is so damned expensive.

I have decided not to worry about it now. Getting through March is going to be hard enough given the surgery stuff. If worse comes to worst I'll just not pay anything but housing next month.

On the up side, the completely immobilized arm for two weeks turns out to have been for the rather extreme and complex surgery we though i was going to need. I am getting the medium surgery instead, so I'll be able to move it a little. It won't be good for much, but can move it a little will be a bit easier than not at all.

I am still stressed out about trips to the toilet and the like, trying to manage one handed without practice. I know lots of people manage fine with one or no arms. I once had a lover who only had one part of one arm and he was the most graceful man I've ever seen including professional dancers. I have no practice though, and I'm not going to be in great shape the first few days.

* "Pig Butchering Scams: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Black writers share their favorite books to honor Black History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/books/black-writers-black-history-month

* "New Indigenous heist movie focuses on repatriation of belongings:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-great-salish-heist-1.7112633

* "A gender-bending Civil War soldier's tale comes to the musical stage:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/rosetta-project-civil-war-gender

* "Detectives - SNL:"

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* "Airbnb Design Commercial - SNL:"

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* "Sunday Sweets Sings It's Not Easy Being Green:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-sings-its-not-easy-being-green-2024

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* "Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food. Israel says scene was deadly stampede:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-29-2024-f9b5a62a80d8b83eac4946d3c85af58b

* "Israel’s Cultural Genocide Is Destroying Gaza’s Very Memory:" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-cultural-genocide/

* "US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-airdrop-humanitarian-assistance-f8bc071193f89906abf21478bc70a084

* "'One step away from famine' for more than 500,000 people in Gaza, UN official says:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/half-million-people-gaza-one-step-from-famine-un-official/story?id=107630405

* "These babies were rescued from Gaza. What future awaits them?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/15/gaza-babies-shifa-hospital-egypt/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

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* "Israel and Hamas indicate no deal is imminent after Biden signals Gaza cease-fire could be close:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-27-2024-e17abedeaf5a005fcd5e7095fecacb7a

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* "Two Years of War in Ukraine:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/02/photos-two-years-war-ukraine/677519/

* Republicans are playing politics with Ukrainian lives and freedom by siding with Russia. "Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Help Russian Advance:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/world/europe/ukraine-defenses-avdiivka.html




* "Billionaire politicians have become ‘shockingly common’ around the world, new study finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/billionaire-politicians-shockingly-common-study.html

* "Why the 2024 elections will be a turning point for LGBTQ+ rights all over the world:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/maria-sjodin

* "It’s official: Sweden to join NATO: Hungary finally lets Sweden into the military alliance, dealing a blow to Russia.:" https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-to-join-nato/

* "Russians embrace hope amid despair as Alexei Navalny says his final goodbye:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-alexei-navalny-funeral-c67cba86f99c0190cb3640c9e3fe67e8

* "US: Ex-FBI counterintelligence agent aided Russian oligarch:" https://www.kcra.com/article/ex-fbi-counterintelligence-agent-aided-russian-oligarch/42627263

* "A Canadian family moved to Russia to escape ‘wokeness’ and LGBTQ+ people. It did not go well:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/21/canadian-family-moved-to-russia-to-escape-wokeness/

* "An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance:" https://apnews.com/article/china-cybersecurity-leak-document-dump-spying-aac38c75f268b72910a94881ccbb77cb

* "Something’s Fishy About the ‘Migrant Crisis’:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/asylum-seekers-migrant-crisis/677464/

* "Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants suspected of being in country illegally blocked by federal judge:" https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/29/texas-arrest-migrant-illegal-senate-bill-4-blocked/

* "FTC and 9 states sue to block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1232948796/ftc-lawsuit-krogers-albertsons-grocery-merger

* "Out State Dept. official Ned Price to be deputy to U.N. ambassador:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ned-price-deputy-ambassador

* "Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/26/1233506273/supreme-court-social-media-laws

* "Supreme Court leaves sanctions in place against Sidney Powell and others over 2020 election suit in Michigan:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-sanctions-lawyers-sidney-powell-2020-election-michigan/#:~:text=Washington%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Supreme%20Court%20on,election%20was%20rife%20with%20fraud.

* "Bump-stock ban comes before Supreme Court:" https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/02/bump-stock-ban-comes-before-supreme-court/

* "SCOTUS torn on 'shooting device so horrifying even Trump wanted it banned':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/scotus-torn-on-shooting-device-so-horrifying-even-trump-wanted-it-banned-205314629675

* End of April! Fuck!!! "Supreme Court agrees to consider Trump immunity claim in further delay of election interference trial:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-trumps-immunity-claim-election-interference-case-rcna139026

* "‘The fix is in’: Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court ‘in cahoots’ with Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-fix-is-in-coup-trial-delay-reveals-supreme-court-in-cahoots-with-trump-205146693530

* "‘This is B.S.’: Maddow shreds ‘cravenness’ of Supreme Court delaying Trump trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-b-s-maddow-shreds-cravenness-of-supreme-court-delaying-trump-trial-205144645897

* "'Historic proof': If the Supreme Court wanted to move quickly it could:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-historic-proof-if-the-supreme-court-wanted-to-move-quickly-it-could-205232709938

* "'Republicans in robes': Supreme Court critics see politics behind action on Trump immunity case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-republicans-in-robes-supreme-court-critics-see-politics-behind-action-on-trump-immunity-case-205156933869

* "Chris Hayes Extended Interview:"

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* "Exxon, Chevron ask US Supreme Court to toss ruling in Honolulu climate change suit:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/exxon-chevron-ask-us-supreme-court-toss-ruling-honolulu-climate-change-suit-2024-02-28/

* "Republican states can't join appeal in abortion pill case, Supreme Court rules:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republican-states-cant-join-appeal-abortion-pill-case-supreme-court-rules-2024-02-20/

* "145 GOP Members of Congress Ask Supreme Court to Slash Access to the Abortion Pill:" https://www.jezebel.com/145-gop-members-of-congress-ask-supreme-court-to-slash-access-to-the-abortion-pill

* "Justice Samuel Alito wishes homophobia was acceptable:" https://www.advocate.com/news/samuel-alito-supports-homophobia

* "Samuel Alito is afraid of being called a bigot? Jim Obergefell has heard far worse (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/people/alito-jim-obergefell-homophobia

* "The Scandal of Clarence Thomas’s New Clerk:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-scandal-of-clarence-thomass-new-clerk?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter

* "These are the regressive work culture trends currently fuelling the unfair LGBTQ+ pay gap:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/lgbtq-pay-gap-2/

* "Feds cite meatpacking cleaning company for 'oppressive child labor' practices:" https://abc7chicago.com/feds-cite-meatpacking-cleaning-company-for-oppressive-child-labor/14458692/

* "A Life Without a Home:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/21/opinion/homelessness-crisis-america-stories.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE0.FDQj.MKmUIJ2sijGj&utm_source=DamnInteresting

* "Congress passes stopgap spending bill, preventing a partial government shutdown:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234679367/congress-spending-deal-government-shutdown

* ""The clue phone is ringing. Pick it up.": Rep. Balint hammers GOP for failure to draft long-term spending deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-the-clue-phone-is-ringing-pick-it-up-rep-balint-hammers-gop-for-failure-to-draft-long-term-spending-deal-205345349602

* "Russian Dolls Trump has finally remade Republicans into Putin’s playthings.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-republicans-vladimir-putin-puppets.html

* "Poland warns US House speaker: you're to blame if Russia advances in Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/west-must-help-ukraine-more-prevent-spillover-polish-fm-says-2024-02-26/

* "Nearly two dozen European parliament leaders urge Johnson to act on Ukraine aid:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/28/congress/international-plea-for-johnson-ukraine-aid-house-republicans-00143828

* Extended Bernie Sanders interview: https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-we-need-to-do-more-sanders-calls-for-increased-pressure-on-netanyahu-to-ease-suffering-in-gaza-205318213937

https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/where-sen-bernie-sanders-finds-optimism-amid-dismal-politics-205320773852

* "Ex-FBI informant will remain in jail while awaiting trial on charges of lying to FBI about Bidens:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/26/fbi-informant-smirnov-hearing-california-00143335

* "Mitch McConnell will step down as Senate minority leader in November:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1163447619/mitch-mcconnell-steps-down

* "Enabling Trump, distorting the Supreme Court define McConnell legacy as he exits leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/enabling-trump-distorting-the-supreme-court-define-mcconnell-legacy-as-he-exits-leadership-205159493682

* "Hyde-Smith blocks Senate vote on federal IVF protections:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/28/congress/blocks-ivf-vote-gop-senate-protections-00143918

* "Pelosi rips GOP anti-IVF bill: They 'need a lesson in the bird and the bees’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/pelosi-rips-gop-anti-ivf-bill-they-need-a-lesson-in-the-bird-and-the-bees-205236293634

* "GOP spins in circles to reconcile anti-abortion zeal with public IVF support:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gop-spins-in-circles-to-reconcile-anti-abortion-zeal-with-public-ivf-support-205322821774

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "New York Democrats reject bipartisan congressional map, will draw their own:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-congress-redistricting-house-elections-4b8768b63e0ab7a05d184a52f8979968

* "The first trans voting centre in the US is set to open in Los Angeles:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/02/vote-centers-in-los-angeles-county/

* "Wisconsin ethics panel recommends felony charges against Trump committee, lawmaker:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wisconsin-vos-ethics-7d5dd7fd8d2da6001634a747b683b748

* "Federal judge affirms MyPillow’s Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute:" https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-election-denial-arbitration-award-a9b27dd8d37eab1d0f22111566feba93

* "Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/elon-musk-election-misinformation-x-twitter.html

* "Calls to 'fight' and echoes of Jan. 6 embraced by CPAC attendees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jack-posobiec-jan-6-2024-cpac-rcna140225

* "MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179247/jack-posobiec-democracy-cpac-2024

* This IS the Republican Mainstream now. "Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

* "Matt Schlapp: “We have to intimidate, in the nicest of ways, all these elected officials that continue to flout the law”:" https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/matt-schlapp-we-have-intimidate-nicest-ways-all-these-elected-officials-continue-flout

* "New Matt Schlapp Subpoenas Target Document-Shredding at CPAC:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-matt-schlapp-subpoenas-target-doc-shredding-at-cpac

* "Ohio Law Requires a Transgender Man to Use His Deadname on State Legislature Ballot:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/ohio-law-requires-a-transgender-man-to-use-his-deadname-on-state-legislature-ballot/

* "Republican Opposition to Birth Control Bill Could Alienate Voters, Poll Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/politics/republicans-birth-control-ivf.html

* "Maddow: With each new election cycle, Republicans accept Russian help with greater ease:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-each-new-election-cycle-republicans-accept-russian-help-with-greater-ease-204987461939

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

NOTE: There is now a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy, I have voted that way in my up coming primary. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The more of us who do this the more likely he'll actually do something.

District of Columbia: (Republicans), 3/3/24

North Dakota: (Republicans), 3/4/24

Alabama, Alaska (Republicans), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Iowa (Democrats), Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, American Samoa (Democrats): 3/5/24

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "Magician says political consultant hired him to create AI Biden robocall ahead of New Hampshire primary:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/magician-says-political-consultant-hired-him-to-create-ai-biden-robocall-ahead-of-new-hampshire-primary

* "Biden's substantive border visit exposes hollow Trump stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-s-substantive-border-visit-exposes-hollow-trump-stunt-205246021788

* "The push to vote 'uncommitted' to Biden in Michigan exceeds goal:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1234279958/biden-uncommitted-democrats-michigan-primary-election-2024-

* "Inside the Democratic rebellion against Biden over the Gaza war:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/inside-democratic-rebellion-against-biden-over-gaza-war-2024-02-27/

* "'He needs to listen to us': Gaza ceasefire activists make statement in Michigan Democratic primary:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gaza-ceasefire-activists-make-statement-as-uncommitted-in-michigan-democratic-primary-205070917730

* I have already done this. "Push for WA Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ instead of for Biden in March 12 primary picks up steam:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/push-for-wa-democrats-to-vote-uncommitted-instead-of-for-biden-in-march-12-primary-picks-up-steam/

* "Washington state’s largest labor union endorses ‘uncommitted’ over Biden:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/washington-states-largest-labor-union-endorses-uncommitted-biden-rcna141139

* "Colorado "noncommitted" campaign launches Biden protest ahead of Super Tuesday primary:" https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2024/02/29/colorado-noncommitted-primary-vote-biden-protest-super-tuesday

* "Trump's 'rambling and incoherent' victory speech leads to Maddow bestowing new nickname:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-uncle-ramble-standers-see-maddow-shred-trump-s-messy-south-carolina-victory-speech-204867141905

* "Trump wins Missouri, Michigan and Idaho caucuses, CBS News projects:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-wins-missouri-michigan-idaho-republican-caucuses/

* "Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis rule out being US election running mates as their bickering continues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/donald-trump-ron-desantis-not-running-mates-2024-election/

* "Illinois judge rules Trump ineligible for Republican primary ballot over Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/illinois-judge-rules-trump-removed-republican-primary-ballot-jan-6-rio-rcna141065

* "The Pro-life Movement’s Not-So-Secret Plan for Trump:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/02/donald-trump-abortion-limit-republicans/677540/

* "Inside Trump's plan for mass deportations: 'America is going to target people who are not white':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/inside-trump-s-plan-for-mass-deportations-america-is-going-to-target-people-who-are-not-white-204901957994

* "'Burn it all down': Rule-of-law stands as bulwark against Trumpian lies, so he attacks it:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rule-of-law-stands-as-bulwark-against-trumpian-lies-so-he-attacks-it-204991557767

* "An RNC member is trying to stop the party from paying Donald Trump’s legal bills:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-republican-national-committee-stop-legal-bills-ff51a7ae8b5d872344e64a9a18851350

* The Republican War on Bodily Autonomy continues. "An uptick in state personhood bills fuels growing fears over IVF restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/personhood-bills-ivf-restrictions-alabama-rcna140228

* "Alabama Senate and House pass bills to protect IVF after court ruling:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/alabama-senate-house-pass-bills-protect-ivf-rcna141184

* "The anti-trans legislation risk map: A state by state breakdown:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-trans-laws-by-state

* "Wyoming bill could take trans kids from parents:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/wyoming-bill-could-take-kids

* "Mississippi bill would let those incarcerated sue state over trans inmates:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-bill-trans-inmates

* "Florida LGBTQ+ activist is forcibly removed at a House hearing on gun laws:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-lgbtq-activist-removed

* "LGBTQ+ community marches to Florida capitol en masse in powerful protest against Trans Erasure Bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/lgbtq-community-marches-to-florida-capitol-in-powerful-protest-against-trans-erasure-bill/

* "Good news: Utah kills bill banning LGBTQ+ Pride flags in classrooms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/good-news-utah-kills-bill-banning-lgbtq-pride-flags-in-classrooms/

* "Montana issues rule banning gender marker changes on birth certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/news/montana-bans-trans-birth-certificates

* The Republican War on Marriage and Freedom continues. "Tennessee GOP quietly overturns marriage equality by giving officials the right to refuse:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-marriage-licenses-officials-lgbtq

* CW: Suicide "West Virginia Republicans want to prevent suicidal transgender youth from receiving care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/west-virginia-trans-care-suicide

* "Michael Whatley officially announces for RNC Chair:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/26/michael-whatley-officially-announces-for-rnc-chair-00143364

* "America's first Black gay statewide elected official on being authentic and confident:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erick-russell-black-gay-trailblzer

* "Virginia lieutenant governor misgenders trans senator Danica Roem, calling her ‘sir’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/virginia-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-misgenders-trans-senator-danica-roem/

* "Fury as Oklahoma senator calls LGBTQ+ people ‘filth’ after being asked about Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/26/oklahoma-senator-tom-woods-lgbtq-filth-nex-benedict/

* "Utah governor condemns, censures transphobic school board member:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-governor-condems-natalie-cline

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s son arrested for alleged Colorado crime spree:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/28/anti-lgbtq-congresswoman-lauren-boeberts-son-arrested-for-alleged-colorado-crime-spree/

* "Watch Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik exposed in stunning, cringe-worthy interview:" https://www.advocate.com/news/taylor-lorenz-chaya-raichik-interview

* "PETITION: Remove Libs of Tik Tok (Chaya Raichik) From Oklahoma Library Board:" https://www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/petition-remove-libs-of-tik-tok-chaya-raichik-from-oklahoma-library-board




* "Appellate judge refuses to halt Trump’s $454 million fraud penalty while he appeals:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-james-appeal-bond-fraud-new-york-3093352e94274f9daba3d84f0c43467e

* "Architect of Trump's social media deal sues to block transaction:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/architect-trumps-social-media-deal-sues-block-transaction-2024-02-29/

* "Trump Wants a Break on $464 Million Judgment. The AG Says Trump Is Sneaking Assets to Florida.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-break-on-dollar464-million-judgment-the-ag-says-trump-is-sneaking-assets-to-florida

* "Scrambling to keep his fortune from being stripped away, Trump may have gone too far:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/scrambling-to-keep-his-fortune-from-being-stripped-away-trump-may-have-gone-too-far-205246021886

* "Donald Trump’s team tries to prevent porn star Stormy Daniels testifying at hush-money trial:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/28/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-block-testimony-hush-money-trial/

* "“More indictments await”: Experts say Jan. 6 architect’s secret tweets may lead to "felony charges”:" https://www.salon.com/2024/02/27/more-indictments-await-experts-say-jan-6-architects-secret-tweets-may-lead-to-felony-charges/

* "True the Vote fails to reveal evidence of Georgia voting fraud claims:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/true-the-vote-tells-court-it-has-no-records-to-back-up-fraud-claims/77FJUQMWBZFYHEYVF6M54BUBDQ/

* "Listen to Fani Willis' fiery testimony: 'You lied':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/listen-to-fani-willis-fiery-testimony-you-lied-204455493616

* "Key Witness Against Fani Willis Completely Crumbles on the Stand:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179339/key-witness-georgia-fani-willis-crumbles

* "Judge: I may not need more evidence to decide:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/judge-i-may-not-need-more-evidence-to-decide/3PXR5GV2AZEEJKU35XOCJM4B6A/

* "Judge Cannon signals doubts about Jack Smith’s timeline for Trump trial in Florida:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/01/judge-cannon-signals-doubts-about-jack-smiths-timeline-for-trump-trial-in-florida-00144449

* "'Ice her': The likely scheme behind Trump's proposed start date for his classified documents trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-ice-her-the-likely-scheme-behind-trump-s-proposed-start-date-for-his-classified-documents-trial-205248069764




* "More than 60 religious institutions have been targeted for supporting LGBTQ+ rights: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-religious-institutions-report

* This is from several years ago, but I've been thinking about it lately. "You’re My Line:" https://storycorps.org/animation/youre-my-line/

* "WHY THE MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE IN AMERICA FALL FOR ANTI-SEMITIC LIES:" https://archive.is/20240216133850/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/jewish-anti-semitism-harvard-claudine-gay-zionism/677454/

* "How American Gun Culture Fuels Anti-Immigrant Politics:" https://www.thetrace.org/2024/02/us-gun-culture-immigration-politics/

* "'It is historic': US poised to see record drop in yearly homicides despite public concern over crime:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-numbers-poised-hit-record-decline-nationwide-americans/story?id=105556400

* "Debunking the right-wing myth of the ‘migrant crime surge’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/debunking-the-right-wing-myth-of-the-migrant-crime-surge-205235269880

* "Man convicted in first federal hate crime trial based on gender identity for murder of Black trans woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/federal-hate-crime-gender-identity

* "Charges dropped against Florida family accused of blinding gay man in brutal assault:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/makarenko-family-charges-dropped

* "Watch alarming video of Nex Benedict explaining to police that they were bullied:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nex-benedict-police-video

* "Federal investigation opens into Owasso Public Schools after death of Nex Benedict:" https://www.advocate.com/news/federal-investigation-nex-benedict

* "In Oklahoma, a bathroom law and other policies endanger transgender residents:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/oklahoma-bathroom-law-dangers

* "Karine Jean-Pierre ‘absolutely heartbroken’ over Oklahoma teen Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/white-house-highlights-nex-benedict

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

* "Historic $1 Billion Donation to N.Y.C. Medical School Means Students Won't Have to Pay Tuition Anymore:" https://people.com/usd1-billion-donation-n-y-c-medical-school-students-are-tuition-free-8600732

* "West Virginia Republicans want to prosecute 'pedophile librarians' over 'obscene' material:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/west-virginia-obscene-matter-books

* "Texas high school faces backlash after cancelling upcoming LGBTQ+ play The Laramie Project:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/matthew-shepard-play/

* CW: Rape, CSA. "Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens ‘should never have been a police officer’, inquiry finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/sarah-everard-wayne-couzens/

* CW: CSA "Police officer quits after sending ’14-year-old boy’ Grindr messages: ‘Let’s see this skinny bod’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/anthony-french/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Conservative anti-gay movement built on foundation of questionable credibility:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/conservative-anti-gay-movement-built-on-foundation-of-questionable-credibility-204988997940

* CW: Sexual Assault "Album producer accuses Diddy of sexual assault and forcing him to sleep with sex workers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/27/sean-diddy-combs-accused-sexual-assault-male-producer/

* "Women take part in Japan’s Naked Man festival for first time in 1000 years:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/women-take-part-in-japans-naked-man-festival-for-first-time-in-1000-years/BG5RWUZ5HFE5VMO3TPRDKM6RTU/

* It IS work. "Most British people think that sex work should be legal, but is it ‘real work’?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/01/most-british-people-think-that-sex-work-should-be-legal-but-is-it-real-work/

* "World’s largest psych organisation says ‘damaging’ gender affirming care bans are wrong:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/29/gender-affirming-care-report-american-psychological-association/

* "Family planning and fertility services grind to halt in Alabama after devastating ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/news/fertility-services-alabama

* "‘Wake up, America’: Birth control, IVF in jeopardy under GOP, warns Porter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-wake-up-america-birth-control-ivf-in-jeopardy-under-gop-warns-porter-205312069829

* "A South Carolina woman was forced to leave the state for an abortion. Now, she's suing:" https://www.advocate.com/south-carolina-woman-abortion

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate







* "Richard Lewis, Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Star, Dies at 76:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/richard-lewis-dead-comedian-curb-your-enthusiasm-1235925744/

* I have lost track of how many missed cleaning appointments there were. It's been weeks. I've been scheduling twice a week since November in hopes of getting one a month. Which is annoying, but not nightmarish right now, but gets ugly fast in March, when Goth Millennial is going to burn through all their hours fast taking care of me post surgery.

The Millennials are working out a cooking schedule between them, but this is a huge load on Goth Millennial's shoulders.

Basically the company Medicare is out sourcing to is falling apart because treating their contract workers like shit and lying to them about things like mileage compensation when hiring them is a terrible business model in this economy on top of being an incredible shitty way to treat humans. My decision to start calling them the Asshole Agency within a week or two of starting to deal with them continues to be vindicated. The workers there need a union since the company is devoted to it's assholery, but I get why it's easier to quit.

The system is collapsing, basically. The Medicare advantage people know this and are "discussing options."

So Friday I spent hours playing phone tag with local volunteer organizations trying to get six weeks of help, but those systems are already flooded with people who are supposed to be getting Medicare advantage help, but can't because the Asshole agency isn't sending people and hasn't been for months. Still, I was hoping a short term acute need might get me in. The secular one got right back to me. They are full up. No word yet from the Catholics and the group that coordinates a bunch of protestant organizations.

I have been told over and over to try to get a church involved, but I'm not Christian and it feels weird, especially since most of my contacts with Christian strangers in the last couple decades involve aggressive proselytizers. I have Christian friends who are cool. I have no beef with the Quakers or the Unitarians or the Episcopalians or the Catholics who are trying to change things from within (Nuns on a Bus, queer friends trying to push their parish left) or what have you. I do have a beef with extremists, which most evangelicals are and the more conservative strands of catholic, orthodox, and Protestantism and there are a lot of door to door Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, etc. in my part of the country.

Look, a had late family members who were very involved in their churches who were decent people with reasonable views. I was a Queer Medievalist and I have some sexy late medieval saint pin ups to prove it mixed in with all my other art, some of which references assorted other religions, despite never having been Catholic. I have a Quaker friend closer to me than my own sister.

I just... Christian religious strangers in my house make me uncomfortable as a queer non-Christian in a country where Christo-fascists are trying to make me literally illegal.

I know it would likely be fine. I did fine and made lots of friends at University which doing a major that is mostly Catholics, Ex-Catholics, and people in the process of converting. I come from a debate culture. I can quote scripture like Satan. ;) I was in Philosophy before I dropped out and moved west and switched to History in one form or another. I can talk theology across a whole lot of denominations and the major "heresies." I just don't want to anymore and I haven't wanted to for a long time. That was long ago and far away when I wasn't so exhausted and in pain.

I should have started looking last August or October.

I am likely fucked because I waited too long.

Sigh.

In other news, I've been really doing well on the massive number of now mostly advanced physio things I have to do every day.

Sunday I was about a third of the way in when my arm noped out of about another third of Sunday's quota. I am trying to do all the remaining ones that don't move my arm that way, but I'm not sanguine.

I forgot to do my blood work Friday. I have an afternoon pre-op appointment Monday. Let us hope I remember then. I am so tired and it all hurts so much.

* Sunday the Millenials helped me make bread, as kneading's been beyond me for years, but I've been wanting fresh baked bread for weeks. I got started way later than intended, and then discovered my yeast was too old which added yet more delay so they went home before it was rteady, which saddened me, I was trying the recipe from B. Dylan Hollis's cookbook that went against every instinct in my body as someone who grew up poor and who's mom baked bread a lot. Like I've been involved in bread making since I was a toddler. The instinct is a well worn groove.

I made some small modifications because 1. I don't put that much salt in anything. (I put in some salt, just not as much as one is supposed to). 2. There was more yeast in it than intended as I added the fresh ayeast on top of the mostly exhausted yeast I'd already put in. 3. I wanted a round loaf rather than a loaf shape, so YMMV.

The yeast did not perform the way I am used to, which I theorize is do to the weird slurry situation they have going on instead of the classic water/sugar/yeast and wait situation I'm used to. As a result it is possible my yeast was mostly fine, but I didn't know that at this stage. Indeed, at no point did this bread rise the way I am used to bread rising, which both I and the Millenial who'd also grown up baking bread found vaguely unnerving. Like it did rise some, but not even close to our expectation.

This bread is dense. Super dense. Even knowing the ingredients and predicting it would be dense from the rise pattern, I was not remotely ready for the texture of the finished product. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad texture, just way closer to cornbread than bread bread despite the comparatively small amount of corn meal in it. I knew this was a molasses heavy bread and was expecting it to be slightly sweeter than normal bread. I don't think I had quite envisioned the particular way the molasses shifted the flavor profile. Again, not bad, just different and with the unexpected texture I took a while to adjust.

It's very filling to the point where I'm not convinced we can eat a whole loaf before it turns. Like armies could march on this. It is exactly a thing that would be good to feed people plowing a field with horse or ox. It's hearty in a way I associate with early modern and 19th century food. I need to think about what to pair it with besides the butter I already tried on it. I'm not sorry I tried it as it is interesting. I'm not sure I'd make it again as I like other breads I know how to make better.

* The Catholics are a no go on helping. I am now waiting on the Protestant Coalition to see if they will send anyone to help. In related news, the nice lady in charge of my disability aide stuff has put in for a bunch of extra hours for Goth Millennial for March, given how much help I'm going to need. We should here back from the supervisor soon so Goth Millennial can plan. I am thinking I'm going to up reservations with the asshole agency to four a week or so after my first forty eight post surgury in hopes of getting two cleaning sessions a month instead of one. I need to think about distribution for when we have our no one is coming again conversation Friday morning.

I have done my pre-op consult thingie. It looks like as the surgery is less extreme than what had initially been projected they won't need to completely immobilize the arm, just severely limit it. I am hoping "can move it slightly in an up and down fashion" will really help with the trousers on and off situation when I need the bathroom. It is a small thing making a massive difference. I will see if I will be able to type at all when we get there.

It took me three days, a ridiculous amount of time, energy, gas, and most of the oil in my car to get the blood work they wanted. It was an infuriating saga. Hospital won't take blood work from the normal easy to access lab. The one I was sent to consists of a collection of chairs and a sign directing me to what two hours of driving through the street maze north of a certain middle school suggests is a mythical location. waited an hour with an annoyingly loud loop blasting directions in a tiny windowless waiting room to be sent home to try again. That site had the wrong hours listed on the internet and was closing also indefinitely.

This left literally two open slots at the one remaining site, which was the basement of a very pretty craftsman house with no signage visible from the street. I parked in the right place, but the person in the building proper had no idea they had a phlebotomist in the basement, so I spent the next 20 minutes driving up and down and eventually systematically trying unmarked buildings on foot until a kind older gentleman led me to the secret vampire basement. Then I had to hobble up hill back to my car.

This could have easily been solved by a larger sign instead of a tiny one half hidden by landscaping, or one of those tent signs closer to the street. Just saying.

So they have their four vials of blood.

I've had my phone consult with the hospital about meds and things, during which I discovered that the intake lady at the formerly Extremely Catholic Hospital now owned by an Evil Corporate Conglomerating that has successfully enshitified healthcare across broad sectors in at least two counties knows nothing at all about gender confirmation surgeries, literally didn't understand what I was talking about without a five minute explanation, and had no way to enter such a thing into the computer so had to hand write it into my previous surgery list in vague terms because her google fu wasn't up to trans stuff and there was no medical code for it in the computer. O.o

And this is why I never feel safe at that hospital even though I'm pretty sure they stopped having everyone drop whatever they were doing including surgery prep for mandatory prayers when the Evil Corporate Overloard took over. I trust neither super Christian hospital not evil corporate hospital that fires whistle blowers, and wish we were doing this at the modern hospital one county south, but here we are.

I do have trust in my surgeon though. The person who did my swabs, BP, and med list at the surgeons place was clearly trans. I wasn't sure which direction they were going or if they were nonbinary, but it made me feel safer. They weren't weird about my botched surgery situation when I had to partially disrobe for swabs. He also has good recommendations for joint surgery from the physios because the outcomes are excellent without much in the way of complications. My interactions with him show he listens and takes problems seriously. I am comfortable with no nonsense, which he is.

I am going to hate being mostly helpless. The rehab will Suck, but it would be harder to suck more than physio already is. I am already thinking about maybe trying for a new hip next year or the year after. Best to start cycling through the process on big four since I've already started, and that left hip is deteriorating noticeably faster than the right.

My car needs to go in Monday. I need to make a mental note that oil is now three times a year. Sigh. And jiffy lube won't touch anything under my hood for liability reasons. I am trying not to stress out about housing tax, as right now I just need to focus on doing as much physio as my arm can take, laying in supplies for March, getting through what is about to be a terrible, terrible month.

I would like to thank the donor who sent some funds to allow me to order out a couple times while I'm laid up, and the Millennials who are organizing Batch Cooking so I will have things I can heat up to eat.

* Friday I kept being awakened by medical phonecalls, as has been the case all week, but it was 8 or 9 today, which feels like a lot. Nevertheless, I think I am actually getting a handle on the last two batches of advanced exercises, which is a relief.

I think I figured out why the Emperor has been so anxious and Livia's been extra cuddly. They think something is very wrong with me from how I'm moving, poor buttons. They spent most of the week trying to herd me back into bed every time I leave it.

* "Supreme Court Ethics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Michigan Dems Vote “Uncommitted” | Biden Talks Ceasefire Over Ice Cream | GOP Targets Birth Control:"

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* "Meanwhile… Subway Surfer Sex | Airplane Mode Unnecessary | Stephen Tries KFC’s Chizza:"

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* "What’s Going On Over There? The Late Show's News From Around The World:"

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* "Trump Victory Party Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "The Republican Hip-Hop Task Force:"

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* "Call The Joe Biden Phone Sex Line:"

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* "Mitch McConnell Steps Down:"

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* Matthew Peary vs Matthew Henson: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=208

* "Sunday Sweets Brings You SKULLS ON PLATTERS:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-brings-you-skulls-on-platters-2024

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* "How you can support queer and trans kids in Oklahoma after Nex Benedict’s death:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-to-help-trans-kids

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* Extremely Behind. Sorry.




* "What Israeli Soldiers’ Videos Reveal: Cheering Destruction and Mocking Gazans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/world/middleeast/israel-idf-soldiers-war-social-media-video.html

* "Israel Has Created a Medical Apocalypse in Gaza:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fourteen-patients-evacuated-besieged-gaza-hospital-ministry-says-2024-02-19/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

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* "The US vetoes an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/un-israel-palestinians-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-vote-350c86ef261bf1a00a2515cf22764de5

* "UK parliament descends into chaos over Gaza ceasefire vote:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-parliament-descends-into-chaos-over-gaza-ceasefire-vote-2024-02-21/

* "Large Antigovernment Protest Returns to Tel Aviv, as Criticism of Netanyahu Mounts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/world/middleeast/tel-aviv-protest-netanyahu-israel.html

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* "Analysis: A key withdrawal shows Ukraine doesn’t have enough artillery to fight Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-avdiivka-war-063ab1bd47a500ad4a815b12f3d1386d

* "Ukrainian workers describe fleeing the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1180030838/ukraine-s-nuclear-workers

* "The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine’s Surface:" https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-mine-problem/

* "Russian Chopper Pilot Who Defected to Ukraine Found Dead in Spain:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-chopper-pilot-who-defected-to-ukraine-found-dead-in-spain




* "Most of Russia’s opposition is either dead, in exile abroad or in prison at home. What happens now?:" https://apnews.com/article/navalny-russia-opposition-putin-8554f74e229c451f96956939b05d2a99

* "US to announce ‘major sanctions package’ on Russia following Navalny death:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/russia-sanctions-navalny-putin-00142183

* "More than 400 detained in Russia at events in memory of Navalny, rights group says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/over-110-people-detained-across-russia-rallies-memory-navalny-rights-group-2024-02-17/

* "Maddow: The world needs Russian dissidents against growing threat of Putin aggression:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-the-world-needs-russian-dissidents-against-growing-threat-of-putin-aggression-204522053892

* "Biden will email 153,000 student loan borrowers: I’m canceling your debt:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/21/biden-student-loan-borrowers-00142343

* "Federal appeals court revokes Obama-era ban on coal leasing:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1233039539/federal-appeals-court-revokes-obama-era-ban-on-coal-leasing

* "Supreme Court tells Marjorie Taylor Greene’s anti-mask lawsuit to kiss off:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/supreme-court-tells-marjorie-taylor-greenes-anti-mask-lawsuit-to-kiss-off/

* "The Supreme Court leaves in place the admissions plan at an elite Virginia public high school:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-virginia-school-admissions-asian-discrimination-bdac4a3d720c0355f9da1c9539b05c2d

* "Sam Alito Launches Broadside Against Marriage Equality in Homophobic Juror Case:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/sam-alito-marriage-equality-homophobic-juror-scotus.html

* "'Absolutely absurd': White House connects Ukraine losses to House GOP stalling on aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/white-house-connects-ukraine-losses-to-house-gop-stalling-on-aid-204594245983

* "FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company:" https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-fbi-informant-lying-6969656f6012780a23a4b8841ce2689b

* "10 Republicans who treated the Biden bribery claim like gospel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/21/10-republicans-who-treated-biden-bribery-claim-like-gospel/

* "'Grow a little bit of a spine': AOC rejects immigration crisis framing by duplicitous GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-grow-a-little-bit-of-a-spine-aoc-rejects-gop-crisis-framing-duplicitousness-on-immigration-204848197566

* We are almost out of time to stop this. Please contact your critter in the House. "Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate:" https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/24073878/kids-online-safety-act-new-senate-support

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* It is possible Wisconsin is about to have their first free and fair election in years. "Wisconsin dumps GOP-manipulated maps to better reflect voters' will:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wisconsin-dumps-gop-manipulated-maps-to-better-reflect-voters-will-204520005771

* "CPAC Panel Singles Out Michelle Obama and Kamala Harris … for Some Reason:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cpac-cat-fight-panel-michelle-obama-kamala-harris-1234973931/

* "Michigan Republicans plan dueling conventions for presidential nomination as turmoil continues:" https://apnews.com/article/michigan-gop-presidential-convention-nominating-c39147c98073eea712611648b31345b8

* "Goat rodeo: Michigan GOP reeling in chaos as empowering election denier backfires:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/goat-rodeo-michigan-gop-reeling-in-chaos-as-empowering-election-denier-backfires-204683845627

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

Republicans: South Carolina votes 2/24/24

Michigan: All vote 2/27/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "Rep. Rashida Tlaib urges Michigan Democrats to vote against Biden in the primary:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rep-rashida-tlaib-urges-michigan-democrats-vote-biden-primary-rcna139360

* "Biden calls Putin a 'crazy SOB,' hits Trump for Navalny comparison:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-calls-putin-crazy-sob-hits-trump-navalny/story?id=107433543

* "Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/donald-trump-allies-christian-nationalism-00142086

* "Trump won’t rule out 16-week abortion ban, but won’t commit either:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/16/trump-16-week-abortion-ban-00142007

* "Christian nationalists await Trump's return with plans to undo sexual revolution: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/birth-control-gay-marriage-likely-targets-as-christian-nationalists-plan-for-trump-s-return-report-204597317923

* "Christian extremists poised to overtake Trump agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/christian-extremists-poised-to-overtake-trump-agenda-204769349565

* "Trump wants to fire thousands of government workers. Liberals are preparing to fight back if he wins:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-2024-government-regulations-democrats-6badc3b424b9eff3ba51e0ec35a8d824

* "Trump hawks $399 branded shoes at ‘Sneaker Con,’ a day after a $355 million ruling against him:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-sneakers-sneaker-con-philadelphia-4de093eda6f8d1c68baf8fe8095f777b

* "Anti-Trans Policies Draw Scrutiny After 16-Year-Old’s Death in Oklahoma:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/oklahoma-transgender-law-teen-dead.html

* "Oklahoma Republicans Passed a Bathroom Bill. Now a Trans Kid Is Dead.:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179161/oklahoma-nonbinary-teen-nex-benedict-dead

* "Nex Benedict: Human Rights Campaign demands federal investigation into non-binary teen’s death:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/23/nex-benedict-hrc-investigation-demand/

* "New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Regrets Implying Israel’s Right To Destroy Gaza:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/ny-gov-hochul-regrets-implying-israel-right-to-destroy-gaza




* "Judge orders Trump to pay $355 million for lying about his wealth in staggering civil fraud ruling:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-verdict-engoron-244024861f0df886543c157c9fc5b3e4

* "Trump Guilty of Civil Fraud in New York:"

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* "Concerns grow that legal losses could make Trump desperate, even more open to corruption:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/concerns-grow-that-legal-losses-could-make-trump-desperate-even-more-open-to-corruption-204523589929

* "Judge denies Trump's request to delay enforcement of $355M fraud case penalties:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-asks-judge-delay-penalties-civil-fraud-case/story?id=107433418

* "Trump's new legal debts could have catastrophic 'domino effect' on existing debts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-faces-catastrophe-as-new-legal-debts-could-have-domino-effect-on-existing-debts-204765765975

* "'Trump would sell this country for a dollar': AOC highlights stakes of Trump's desperation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-trump-would-sell-this-country-for-a-dollar-aoc-highlights-stakes-of-trump-s-desperation-204844101882




* "More than 60 anti-LGBTQ attacks or threats against religious venues in 18-month period:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/22/religious-institutions-anti-lgbtq-attacks-threats-churches-glaad-adl/

* "Alex Jones Estate Liquidation Gets Sandy Hook Families’ Vote:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/sandy-hook-families-vote-to-liquidate-alex-jones-bankrupt-estate

* "Michigan State Police were sent into cash-strapped towns to help. Beatings, complaints and lawsuits followed.:" https://www.mlive.com/news/2024/02/michigan-state-police-were-sent-into-cash-strapped-towns-to-help-beatings-complaints-and-lawsuits-followed.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fpolice

* "Michigan State Police trooper pleads to beating handcuffed Saginaw man, agrees to stop being cop:" https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2024/01/michigan-state-police-trooper-pleads-to-beating-handcuffed-saginaw-man-agrees-to-stop-being-cop.html

* "Transgender teen killed after first date was stabbed and cut 37 times, report says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/17/jacob-williamson/

* "Connecticut pastor found with crystal meth during traffic stop, police say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/connecticut-pastor-herbert-miller-crystal-meth-traffic-stop-police/

* CW: Domestic Violence "Imprisoned mom wins early release but same relief blocked for some other domestic violence survivors:" https://apnews.com/article/women-resentencing-law-illinois-crystal-martinez-941e5aefbdcbc844863957f0dd33529d

* "Neo-Nazis March Through Downtown Nashville in the Middle of Black History Month:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazis-march-through-downtown-nashville-in-the-middle-of-black-history-month?ref=home

* "Virginia sued over Glenn Youngkin’s anti-transgender student policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/aclu-sues-virginia-model-policies

* "Florida school asks parents for permission to have book by an African American author read to students:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-school-asks-parents-permission-african-american-author-read-st-rcna138685

* CW: Rape "Maryland man charged for allegedly raping and robbing trans women he targeted on dating app:" https://www.advocate.com/maryland-man-charged-rape-trans

* CW: Domestic Violence."Divorce rates reach 50-year low amid cost of living crisis, sparking concern for domestic violence victims:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/24/divorce-rate-england-2022/

* "Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198916105/mens-health-masturbation-abstinence

* "Protestors rally for sex workers’ Bill of Rights which would end police raids on gay bars:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/23/strippers-bill-of-rights/

* "Tory peer says trans youth should be discouraged from transitioning ‘until their late twenties’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/23/trans-transition-house-of-lords-debate/

* Republicans continue to win their war on bodily Autonomy. "Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are 'children' under state law:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/20/1232815486/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos

* "Major Alabama hospital stops IVF treatment after court rules embryos are children:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/21/embryos-children-uab-alabama-00142508

* "IVF in red states under threat as Alabama Supreme Court says embryos are children:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ivf-in-red-states-under-threat-as-alabama-supreme-court-says-embryos-are-children-204679237699

* "Biden slams ‘outrageous’ Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are ‘children’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/23/joe-biden-alabama-supreme-court-ruling-frozen-embryos-children-ivf/

* "Republicans left sputtering as anti-abortion zeal runs amok, puts IVF at risk:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-left-sputtering-as-anti-abortion-zeal-runs-amok-puts-ivf-at-risk-204765765929

* "'This was intentional': AOC calls out Republicans trying to hide from reproductive rights backlash:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-this-was-intentional-aoc-calls-out-republicans-trying-to-hide-from-reproductive-rights-backlash-204846661740

* "The Enshittification of Online Leftist Discourse:"

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* She is a lot kinder to south Park than I would be. "When You're Starting To Run Out of Jokes...:"

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* Not even close to all the news, but this week was HARD.




* "Israel stages airstrikes across Gaza, makes arrests at hospital:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-stages-airstrikes-across-gaza-makes-arrests-hospital-2024-02-17/

* "Israel raids main Gaza hospital as Rafah concerns grow:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-raids-main-gaza-hospital-rafah-concerns-grow-2024-02-15/

* Note: I don't trust a thing Netanyahu's government says, given how often they've lied before to justify war crimes in the last few months. "Israeli forces storm the main hospital in southern Gaza, saying hostages were likely held there:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-15-2024-d3a25caf6b60fe560e1a31d4f8f6b45e

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

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* *glares at Biden while tapping my watch* "Biden disparages Netanyahu in private but hasn’t significantly changed U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/biden-disparages-netanyahu-private-hasnt-changed-us-policy-israel-rcna138282

* "Israeli strikes hit Rafah after Biden warns Netanyahu to have ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-11-2014-785309c668e15728c6aac9905f290b4d

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* "Ukrainian civilians vanish and languish in Russian-run jails:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-government-donetsk-business-prisons-59837e2f8006bfd1dc3347522e87efc5




* "Out of options, Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat despite soaring death toll:" https://apnews.com/article/rohingya-migration-bangladesh-myanmar-boats-c03221ad9bf90a9467bf4030b961dbd3

* "Shehbaz Sharif to be coalition candidate for next Pakistan PM -spokeswoman:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/independent-members-welcome-form-government-if-they-can-show-majority-pakistan-2024-02-13/

* "Imran Khan’s ‘Victory Speech’ From Jail Shows A.I.’s Peril and Promise:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/world/asia/imran-khan-artificial-intelligence-pakistan.html

* "Head of French farmers union says protests could resume:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/head-french-farmers-union-says-protests-could-resume-2024-02-13/

* "India's controversial plans for untouched Nicobar Isles:" https://news.yahoo.com/indias-controversial-plans-untouched-nicobar-041530890.html

* "The Shompen face obliteration: they urgently need your support:" https://act.survivalinternational.org/page/128615/action/1

* "Panama denies Nicaragua's request to allow ex-Panamanian president's exit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/panama-denies-request-nicaragua-ex-president-martinellis-exit-2024-02-10/

* "The London Overground lines have been renamed – and one line honours a piece of LGBTQ+ history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/15/the-london-overground-lines-have-been-renamed-and-one-line-honours-a-piece-of-lgbtq-history/

* "Venezuela orders UN human rights office to close, accusing it of anti-government activity:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-un-human-rights-ordered-closed-baea877b4ab2cf2891d8c5743fb2e3ed

* "Venezuela defends military buildup, accusing neighboring Guyana of granting illegal oil contracts:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/venezuela-defends-military-buildup-accusing-neighboring-guyana-granting-107142331

* "Whereabouts of Venezuelan human rights attorney and her family remain unknown days after detentions:" https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-human-rights-activist-arrested-maduro-ca2f380379806338109aa74c2785aa1a

* "US says it’s taken possession of a Boeing 747 that Iran sold to a Venezuelan firm:" https://apnews.com/article/argentina-venezuela-iran-justice-department-boeing-e2066c62c48654a2aace58d23baafa22

* "Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-navalny-dead-opposition-leader-2d11644f7ae5332587b39150f1fd1738

* "'Democratic superhero': Russian journalist reacts to death of Alexei Navalny:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-democratic-superhero-russian-journalist-reacts-to-death-of-alexei-navalny-204393541606

* "How the US is preparing for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/logistics-war-how-washington-is-preparing-chinese-invasion-taiwan-2024-01-31/

* "Russia Is Boosting Calls for ‘Civil War’ Over Texas Border Crisis:" https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-campaign-civil-war-texas-border/

* "The ‘disturbing’ intel roiling the Hill is about Russian nukes in space:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/house-intel-national-security-threat-russia-space-power-00141473

* "Tucker Carlson Promised an Unedited Putin. The Result Was Boring:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/tucker-carlson-promised-an-unedited-putin-the-result-was-boring

* "Poland Angrily Responds to Putin's Claims About Hitler and World War II:" https://www.newsweek.com/poland-angrily-responds-putins-claims-about-hitler-world-war-ii-1868707#:~:text=During%20Putin's%20controversial%20interview%20with,of%20part%20of%20its%20territory.

* "Putin is cashing in on his ‘enormous’ investment in Trump, says Hayes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/putin-is-cashing-in-on-his-enormous-investment-in-trump-says-hayes-204170309597

* "Illegal border crossings from Mexico plunge after a record-high December, with fewer from Venezuela:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-security-migrants-homeland-security-1c6e9f612dff721191c0254f980947a5

* "‘Massive benefit’: Immigration surge set to boost U.S. economy by $7 trillion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-massive-benefit-immigration-surge-set-to-boost-u-s-economy-by-7-trillion-204283461708

* "Kamala Harris marks 20 years since first officiating same-sex marriages and reunites with gay couple she wed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kamala-harris-gay-marriages-anniversary

* "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cancels overseas trip following hospitalization:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/ex-fbi-informant-charged-with-lying-about-biden-his-son-special-counsel-says-2024-02-15/

* Rightly so. Those things were stolen and belong to the descendants of people they were stolen from.
"Museums close Native American displays after new regulations take effect:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227434311/museums-close-native-american-displays-after-new-regulations-take-effect

* "Special counsel urges Supreme Court to end Trump’s delay of federal election trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/special-counsel-scotus-trump-delay-00141561

* "Trump is Not Immune from Prosecution, Duh.:"

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* "Over 500,000 workers went on strike in 2023 — double from last year:" https://www.businessinsider.com/strikes-striking-workers-surge-2023-actors-writers-teachers-uaw-contribute-2024-2

* Well played. "Uber, Lyft, DoorDash drivers in the U.S. to strike on Valentine’s Day for fair pay:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-lyft-doordash-drivers-us-strike-valentines-day-fair-pay-rcna138450

* "Disneyland cast members announce plans to form a union:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/disneyland-characters-union-actors-equity-association/

* "Alaska Air flight attendants authorize strike for first time in three decades:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/flight-attendants-join-hands-picket-outside-30-airports-better-pay-2024-02-13/

* "How African-Americans get left out of conversations about the American working class:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/how-african-americans-get-left-out-of-conversations-about-the-american-working-class-204026437515

* "The Paradox of Stay-at-Home Parents:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/02/stay-home-parents-support-working-parents-social-security/677400/

* "Senate passes $95B aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan despite Trump attacks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/senate-aid-package-ukraine-israel-taiwan-00141135

* "Why 22 Senate Republicans defied Trump and voted for aid to Ukraine:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/22-senate-republicans-defied-trump-voted-aid-ukraine/story?id=107193651

* "J.D. Vance’s sloppy effort to turn MAGA world against Ukraine funding:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/12/jd-vance-ukraine-funding-trump/

* "Ukraine Aid Bill Faces Hurdles in the House Amid G.O.P. Opposition:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/us/politics/ukraine-aid-bill-house.html

* "Biden warns opposing Ukraine funding plays ‘into Putin’s hands,’ but faces resistance in House:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-aid-congress-senate-5fdcf8cb1964681dcce0f4fe7b9a0f86

* URGENT: Ukraine Aid Bill

Ukraine is literally running out of bullets.

Trump has ordered Mike Johnson to block Ukraine Aid in the House of Representatives, which he is doing.

The only way to get Ukraine aid is a discharge petition which requires a couple Republican votes to pass.

Yes, the Aid Package is not ideal and there are things I wish weren't in it, but we can't amend at this point and it is likely life or death for Ukraine. A discharge petition is the only way to do an end run around the Putinists blocking the normal process.

If you have a Republican Congress critter in the House, please let that critter know you support the discharge petition for Aid to Ukraine.

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene responds to David Cameron’s call for US to aid Ukraine: ‘Kiss my ass’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/16/marjorie-taylor-greene-responds-to-david-cameron/

* "'Put the bill on the floor': Dem rep calls on GOP to stop blocking Ukraine aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-put-the-bill-on-the-floor-dem-rep-calls-on-gop-to-stop-blocking-ukraine-aid-204395589709

* "Rep. Garcia: GOP hardliners "don't want solutions" on border security, foreign aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-garcia-gop-hardliners-don-t-want-solutions-on-border-security-foreign-aid-204424262001

* Matt Gaetz is shocked that his actions occasionally might have consequences. "Matt Gaetz says he misses Kevin McCarthy after House GOP's humiliating week:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/matt-gaetz-says-he-misses-kevin-mccarthy-after-house-gop-s-humiliating-week-204014661632

* "FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian firm:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231884999/fbi-informant-charged-lying-joe-hunter-biden-ukraine-burisma

* "‘Amazing turn of events’: Raskin reacts to arrest of GOP's Hunter Biden ‘informant’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-amazing-turn-of-events-raskin-reacts-to-arrest-of-gop-s-hunter-biden-informant-204318789912

* Republicans refuse to name any crime, let alone produce evidence of one. "Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House Republicans:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/13/1230977868/house-impeachment-mayorkas-border

* "House Republicans impeach Mayorkas by the margin of a medical absence:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-republicans-impeach-mayorkas-by-the-margin-of-a-medical-absence-204173893994

* "House Republicans are 'obsessed' with attacking LGBTQ+ people, say Democratic lawmakers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-caucus-republicans-obsessed

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* Special elections are important. I'm so happy people turned out for it. "Pennsylvania Dems seal House majority with special election win:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/pennsylvania-dems-house-majority-special-election-00141340#:~:text=to%20the%20left.-,Jim%20Prokopiak's%20election%20to%20the%20Bucks%20County%20seat%20will%20give,win%20kept%20it%20in%20place.

* "'Voting integrity is on the line': PA special election winner shares insights for fellow Democrats:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-voting-integrity-is-on-the-line-pa-special-election-winner-shares-insights-for-fellow-democrats-204423237633

* "Democrat Tom Suozzi wins George Santos's seat in House of Representatives:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tom-suozzi-wins-special-election

* "'Losing streak': GOP refuses to learn lessons from ‘crushing’ election losses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-losing-streak-gop-refuses-to-learn-lessons-from-crushing-election-losses-204243525585

* "Trump endorses new RNC chair and Lara Trump as co-chair:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/12/trump-republican-national-committee-chair-whatley-00141061

* NOTE: The RNC normally distributes the money strategically to various state parties and candidates. "Lara Trump vows ‘every single penny’ of RNC funds will go to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lara-trump-vows-every-single-penny-of-rnc-funds-will-go-to-trump-204321861629

* "Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is running for the U.S. Senate:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/10/1230600501/former-maryland-gov-larry-hogan-running-us-senate

* "Gallagher says he won’t run for Congress again after refusing to impeach Homeland Security chief:" https://apnews.com/article/mike-gallagher-retirement-impeachment-mayorkas-wisconsin-a125c50142905225ae58f7f36f9bd1e1

* "Senate GOP campaign arm endorses Kari Lake:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/13/kari-lake-nrsc-endorsement-00141107

* "'Full-on, the MAGA party': Election deniers advance as Trump plots RNC takeover:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-full-on-the-maga-party-election-deniers-advance-as-trump-set-to-take-over-rnc-204179525687

* "DACA recipient resigns from Biden administration, runs for office:" https://www.axios.com/2024/02/05/daca-recipient-biden-administration-runs-office

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

Republicans: South Carolina votes 2/24/24

Michigan: All vote 2/27/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won’t run for president in 2024:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-manchin-2024-presidential-run-8377c2c336b14c660807941fe943b3b7

* It's worse than the headline makes it look. "Trump’s NATO-bashing comments rile allies, rekindle European fears:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/11/trump-nato-russia-invade/

* Everything is transactional with him. "Top Senate Dem reacts to Trump’s alarming NATO Comments:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/top-senate-dem-reacts-to-trump-s-alarming-nato-comments-204025413656

* "Nikki Haley blasts Donald Trump’s threat to dump NATO allies behind on bills:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/14/nikki-haley-donald-trump-nato-russia-attack/

* "G.O.P. Officials, Once Critical, Stand by Trump After NATO Comments:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/trump-nato-republicans.html

* "Trump exposes true allegiance, worrying U.S. NATO allies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-allies-fear-a-faithless-america-under-trump-in-thrall-to-putin-204102725539

* "As Republican sounds alarm on Russian threat, GOP makes excuses for Trump attacks on NATO:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-republican-sounds-alarm-on-russian-threat-gop-makes-excuses-for-trump-attacks-on-nato-204254789782

* "Trump Wants an Abortion Ban Based on the Weirdest Logic Ever:" https://newrepublic.com/post/179097/trump-16-week-abortion-ban

* "‘Trump is losing it’: New scrutiny on Trump’s ‘gibberish’ at campaign rallies:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-trump-is-losing-it-new-scrutiny-on-trump-s-gibberish-at-campaign-rallies-204170309716

* "One in five Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of plot to help Joe Biden win election, poll finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/15/taylor-swift-joe-biden-conspiracy-theory-2024-election/

* "‘He Gets Us’ Ad Sponsors Don’t Believe in the Jesus They’re Selling:" https://www.texasobserver.org/he-gets-us-campaign-superbowl-jesus/

* "Republican Tennessee goes after marriage equality:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1961062.html

* "New gun, abortion, prevailing wage, right-to-work repeal laws take effect in Michigan:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/13/new-michigan-abortion-gun-labor-laws-take-effect/72576434007/

* "Reporter asks Ron DeSantis why he can affirm his height with lifts, but stands against gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-shoe-lifts-presser

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene calls LGBTQ+ people ‘groomers’ as she backs LibsofTikTok:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/15/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-lgbtq-people-groomers-as-she-backs-libsoftiktok/




* "Trump hit with $354.9 million penalty, 3-year ban in NY civil fraud case:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/maxwell-frost-credit-card-pulse

* "'He is a cheat.': Devastating court penalty shatters myth of Trump business savvy for good:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-he-is-a-cheat-devastating-court-penalty-shatters-myth-of-trump-business-savvy-for-good-204398661867

* "Trump meets his match in U.S. justice system with another staggering court loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-meets-his-match-in-u-s-justice-system-with-another-staggering-court-loss-204403269637

* "Trump's New York hush money trial will start March 25:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231707111/trump-hush-money-case-new-york-trial

* "Stormy Monday: More than just a hush money case, Trump's first criminal trial gets a date:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/stormy-monday-more-than-just-a-hush-money-case-trump-s-first-criminal-trial-gets-a-date-204328517812




* "Kansas City police link Super Bowl rally shooting to dispute, not extremism:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-seek-clues-kansas-city-mass-shooting-with-3-people-custody-2024-02-15/

* "Livid Kansas City congressman rips thoughts-and-prayers Congress for doing 'nothing at all' on guns:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/livid-kansas-city-congressman-rips-thoughts-and-prayers-congress-for-doing-nothing-at-all-on-guns-204251205598

* "‘I’m pissed off’: Jason Kander reacts to mass shooting at Chiefs Super Bowl parade:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-m-pissed-off-jason-kander-reacts-to-mass-shooting-at-chiefs-super-bowl-parade-204241477785

* "Fox News and GOP politicians falsely claim Lakewood Church shooter was transgender:" https://www.advocate.com/news/false-transgender-claim-texas-shooter

* "Four high school students shot in Atlanta:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/four-high-school-students-shot-atlanta-2024-02-14/

* "13-year-old accidentally shoots 11-year-old sibling in Whatcom County:" https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/13-year-old-accidentally-shoots-11-year-old-sibling-whatcom-county/H6JSPMYSDFDIJMETWJ5OWD7SSU/

* "Transgender people are being killed at an alarming rate, especially in the South:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-homicides-alarming-rate

* "Libs of TikTok loses it after Kansas university participates in ‘Glitter Ash Wednesday’ event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kansas-university-glitter-ash-wednesday

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Kandy Muse assaulted & groped at a club — shares details of what happened:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rupauls-drag-race-kandy-muse

* "The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They? Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/us/colleges-antisemitism-gender.html

* "Trans 18-year-old sues hospital for last-minute cancellation of gender-affirming surgery:" https://www.advocate.com/trans-teen-sues-hospital

* "Polish state TV host: Our anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric was shameful:" https://www.advocate.com/news/poland-tv-host-apologizes-homophobia

* "Greece approves marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/world/greece-approves-marriage-equality

* "Transgender teen girl stabbed 14 times at roller rink birthday party:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-girl-stabbed-14-times

* "Florida man arrested for defacing Pride intersection painted to honor Pulse nightclub victims:" https://www.advocate.com/pride-intersection-burnout-florida

* "New York Times continues to fail on trans issues one year after demands made:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/new-york-times-transgender-fail

* "Meet the newscaster in drag making LGBTQ+ history in Mexican television:" https://apnews.com/article/drag-queen-mexico-tv-barraza-verdrag-4fc003d08a24cef9a9427431004d784b

* CW: Suicide. "Black trans, nonbinary youth have higher suicide risk than cisgender queer peers:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/black-youth-suicide-risk-trevor

* CW: CSA, Sexual Assault, Suicide. "Three Days of Tragedy: How a VA Clinic’s Inability to Help Veterans in Crisis Destroyed Two Families:" https://www.propublica.org/article/when-veterans-cant-access-the-psychiatric-care-they-need

* A good summary of current prevention advice. "The Swiss Cheese Model of Covid Prevention:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/742090895497773056?source=share




* "If the Atlantic Ocean Loses Circulation, What Happens Next?:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-the-atlantic-ocean-loses-circulation-what-happens-next/

* "Up to 47% of Amazon Rainforest At Risk of Collapse by Mid-Century Due to ‘Unprecedented Stress’ From Global Warming and Deforestation:" https://earth.org/up-to-47-of-amazon-rainforest-at-risk-of-collapse-by-mid-century-due-to-unprecedented-stress-from-global-warming-and-deforestation/

* "Climate change is erasing previous gains in air quality — fires are mostly to blame:" https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24066572/air-pollution-quality-climate-change-wildfire-smoke-smog

* "The Perverse Policies That Fuel Wildfires:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/the-perverse-policies-that-fuel-wildfires

* "Hurricanes are getting so intense, scientists propose a Category 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/05/hurricanes-category6/

* "Victorian fires live: Half a million Victorians without power as bushfires, storms wreak havoc:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/live-blog-vic-fires-watch-and-act-warnings-grampians-wimmera/103459362

* "Blizzard conditions bear down on central US, closing schools and highways:" https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-weather-09d8e810fc5d80a34ef8bf008bfec7a1

* "Los Angeles’s Floods Show Why Sewers Matter:" https://newrepublic.com/article/178814/sewers-floods-california-climate




* "Driver dead, 5 injured when vehicle crashes into emergency room in Austin:" https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/1-person-killed-and-10-injured-when-vehicle-crashes-into-emergency-room-in-austin/3461627/

* "Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too:" https://apnews.com/article/kazakhstan-uzbekistan-aral-sea-drying-climate-change-cb565954d5bd2ef72c02a1db8231800d

* "Demand for minerals sparks fear of mining abuses on Indigenous peoples' lands:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1226125617/demand-for-minerals-sparks-fear-of-mining-abuses-on-indigenous-peoples-lands

* "The Case for Destroying Old Forest Roads:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/case-destroying-old-forest-roads-180983693/

* "Instagram and Threads won't promote ‘political’ content. No one knows what they define as ‘political’:" https://www.advocate.com/business/instagram-threads-no-longer-politics

* "Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-stephen-king-deadname

* "Ingenuity Mars helicopter mission ends after 72 flights:" https://spacenews.com/ingenuity-mars-helicopter-mission-ends-after-72-flights/

* "Zoozve — the strange 'moon' of Venus that earned its name by accident:" https://www.space.com/venus-quasi-moon-zoozve-radiolab-nasa

* "Japan's space agency says it may now have clues about the origins of the moon:" https://www.npr.org/2024/02/15/1231636892/japans-origins-of-the-moon

* "Big, dead European satellite will crash back to Earth this month:" https://www.space.com/european-space-agency-ers-2-satellite-reentry-preview

* "The ‘Unthinkable’ New Reality About Bedbugs:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/bedbugs-pesticide-resistant-tropical/677415/

* "James Holman, the “Blind Traveller”:" https://daily.jstor.org/james-holman-the-blind-traveller/

* "LOST PHOTOGRAPHS OF BLACK AMERICA:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/ernest-cole-true-america-photographs/677169/

* "How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case:" https://undark.org/2024/02/09/wilo-serial-killer-nuclear-lab/

* "Steven Ostrow, creator of NYC's legendary Continental Baths, dead at 91:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/steven-ostrow-continental-baths-dead

* "In this centuries-old English pancake race, ‘you just have to go flat out’:" https://apnews.com/article/britain-pancake-race-england-3e6e2c1ed8b9aefefe7d13e9944009cb

* The decoy computer is not working as a decoy, but he likes sitting in front of it and staring at the cardboard "screen" as if contemplating how to reply to important email when Goth Millennial and I are on the sofa.

Monday, I was an hour later leaving for bureaucracy than intended, basically because my limbs were barely working. This turned an hourish errand into a two and a half hour errand. (Does not count the commute.) This ate nearly all the spoons I had. I ended up eating bread and the forage bananas for first meal, because I had the shakes and nothing left really for even cup of soup prep.

I took my eat with food meds and went to lie down, alarming the cats because this was a break in routine. They did settle down with me. Eventually. I was in far too much pain to sleep. sometimes you just have to lie still and see if it helps. after an hour or so, it became clear I'd need the strong meds and lying down was actually making the pain worse, so up I got to try to sort things. I couldn't even Start physio exercises until well after midnight and couldn't complete.

Tuesday is better, but not great. Sigh. Torture appointment is Wednesday.

And then a computer hiccup ate an evening's worth of work. I recreated most of it in about two hours. And then Firefox crashed wiping all my tabs. I spent an hour trying to recreate what I could as they weren't in history: recently closed pages for some reason. I lost so much data tonight and wasted so much time and energy. *facepalm*

I am seriously worried that I won't get enough rehab done in time.

* Wednesday's arm torture appointment was a nightmare. The new exercises are incredibly hard and painful. I was such a mess that I took home Goth Millennial early so I could go to bed eightish.

I am still slugglish to stand for more than a minute, which is really fucking with Thursday physio exercises, about half of which require standing. My system is under to much stress for my always barely function body temperature regulation to work. I keep getting the shakes and had trouble getting spaghetti to the table. I still have a bunch of sets to go as of this writing at 8:15PM. I outright couldn't do more than seven of the worst of the new ones and have nixed it for the night.

* "Carnival in Brazil: Scenes from the Sambadromes:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/carnival-brazil-scenes-sambadromes-2024-02-12/

* "The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion:" https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/comment-page-1/

* "Postgame Time:"

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* "Miss Universe National Costume 2023:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/742216698580566016?source=share

* "Superb Owl Sunday Sweets:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/superb-owl-sunday-sweets-2024

*****
* 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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* "Photos of life in war: Palestinians flee south in Gaza, Israel mourns dead soldiers:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2024/01/29/1225728725/israel-gaza-war-photos

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

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* "Document spells out allegations against 12 UN employees Israel says participated in Hamas attack:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-29-2024-4c49c2fb89c3bfd4963f2260b34943c1

* Sigh. "US says its Israel policy unchanged after report on leveraging weapon sales:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-its-israel-policy-unchanged-after-report-leveraging-weapon-sales-2024-01-28/

* "State Department reviewing options for possible recognition of Palestinian state:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/31/palestine-statehood-biden-israel-gaza-war

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* "Enemy drone that killed US troops in Jordan was mistaken for a US drone, preliminary report suggests:" https://apnews.com/article/jordan-drone-attack-attack-confusion-f175962e058b9b6f668303faf248d8e6

* "U.S. blames Iran-backed militia for deadly attack, leaving Middle East on edge:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-blames-iran-backed-militia-for-deadly-attack-leaving-middle-east-on-edge

* "Hayes on the ‘looming threat’ of a widening Middle East conflict:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-the-looming-threat-of-a-widening-middle-east-conflict-203279941771

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* "‘Kharkiv is their priority’: Deadly Russian attacks hit Ukraine’s northeast:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/29/kharkiv-ukraine-intensified-shelling

* "Russian mayor orders quote from ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov on choreography school wall to be replaced by ‘words of a true patriot’:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/29/russian-mayor-orders-quote-from-ballet-dancer-mikhail-baryshnikov-on-choreography-school-wall-to-be-replaced-by-words-of-a-true-patriot?utm_source=email&utm_medium=briefly&utm_campaign=2024-01-30




* "The right-wing’s latest manufactured outrage? An EU inclusive language toolkit from 2019:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/29/european-union-language-gender/

* "Why has the Maori king of New Zealand called a national meeting?:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/19/why-has-the-maori-king-of-new-zealand-called-a-national-meeting

* "China's ageing population threatens switch to new economic growth model:" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ageing-population-threatens-switch-new-economic-growth-model-2024-01-18/

* "FBI director warns Chinese hackers aim to 'wreak havoc' on U.S. critical infrastructure:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/fbi-director-warn-chinese-hackers-aim-wreak-havoc-us-critical-infrastr-rcna136524

* "Two LGBTQ+ women may soon be confirmed as lifetime judges: 'It's crucial right now':" https://www.advocate.com/news/federal-judge-lgbtq

* "Lost Highway: The trials of trucking school:" https://harpers.org/archive/2024/02/lost-highway-emily-gogolak/

* "Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady as consumer confidence improves and inflation slows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/federal-reserve-interest-rate-decision-january-2024-increase-decrease-rcna136429

* "Trump slams deal that would give Biden authority to close border:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/27/trump-dunks-on-bipartisan-senate-border-deal-00138210

* ""Chaos Caucus in Action" GOP split over tanking border deal for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-chaos-caucus-in-action-gop-split-over-tanking-border-deal-for-trump-203113029829

* "House GOP turns immigration issue into political theater:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-gop-turns-immigration-issue-into-political-theater-203382853700

* "Wyden Slams Backroom Scheme to Cut Social Security, Medicare as Bill Clears House Committee:" https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-slams-backroom-scheme-to-cut-social-security-medicare-as-bill-clears-house-committee

* "Can Federal Transit Operations Funding Foster Healthy, Thriving, Sustainable Communities? Yes, Here’s How.:" https://cleantechnica.com/2024/01/19/can-federal-transit-operations-funding-foster-healthy-thriving-sustainable-communities-yes-heres-how/

* This is some more racist bullshit in hopes of distracting people from the fact the Republicans are backing an adjudged sexual predator for president. "House Republicans unveil Mayorkas impeachment articles:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/28/house-republicans-mayorkas-impeachment-articles-00138235

* "Rep. Maxine Waters: Mayorkas impeachment inquiry all comes back to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-maxine-waters-mayorkas-impeachment-inquiry-all-comes-back-to-trump-203112005996

* "Gay Democratic reps demand Pentagon resolve cases of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ dishonorable discharges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dont-ask-dont-tell-pentagon

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* We are fucked if the Supreme Court doesn't reverse this decision. "US court will not revisit ruling limiting voting rights lawsuits:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-will-not-reconsider-ruling-limiting-voting-rights-laws-scope-2024-01-30/

* "Rep. Nancy Mace's former chief of staff files to run against her in South Carolina:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nancy-mace-former-chief-of-staff-daniel-hanlon-south-carolina/

* Early voting has already started in a few places.

Democrats: South Carolina votes 2/3/24

Democrats: Nevada votes 2/6/24

Republicans: Nevada votes 2/8/24
Republicans: Virgin Islands votes 2/8/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary. Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* I forgot to mention I voted the other day. No, not in the Primary. My state is late in the calendar and has a tiny delegate count. No, it was a local special election.

A lot of people ignore special election and local elections, but as I keep saying, a lot of really important things for quality of life happen in local elections.

In this case, it was a pair of really important school funding measures, including one that made sure kids had access to modern computers.

This stuff feels small, but education funding is an important investment in the future.

Wherever you are, if you can legally vote, vote every chance you have.

* "Biden planning post-UAW endorsement trip to Michigan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/30/biden-uaw-endorsement-trip-michigan-00138594

* "'Booming' Biden economy forces GOP to shift focus to new 'shiny object':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-booming-biden-economy-forces-gop-to-shift-focus-to-new-shiny-object-203368517740

* "Haley, shy with Trump attacks, reaches for alternative opponents:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/haley-shy-with-trump-attacks-reaches-for-alternative-opponents-203380805772

* "Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as the election board says it lacks power to remove him over Jan. 6:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-14th-amendment-insurrection-ballot-illinois-8709a8dbf12f845ed30fce22c9bff469

* "Trump Urges States to Send Troops to Texas Border:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/trump-abbott-border-send-troops-national-guard-texas/

* "'Extraordinarily destabilizing and dangerous': 10 GOP Governors answer Trump’s call to send troops to border:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-extraordinarily-destabilizing-and-dangerous-10-gop-governors-answer-trump-s-call-to-defy-biden-and-send-troops-to-border-203102277701

* "Trump calls UAW president a ‘dope’ after union endorses Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/29/trump-uaw-president-dope-biden-00138310

After all, Biden has merely stood with worker's his whole career and fought for union and worker's rights, while Trump has done the massive work of doing a few photo ops and made lies and hollow promises while helping the posses and trying to repeal things workers need.

What a dope for Fain to side with the interest of the people he represents instead of against them, like Republicans generally do.

* "Report: Trump spent $50 million in donor money on legal bills in 2023:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-trump-spent-50-million-in-donor-money-on-legal-bills-in-2023-203285061707

* "Trump Allies Pledge ‘Holy War’ Against Taylor Swift:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-more-popular-taylor-swift-maga-biden-1234956829/

* "Right-Wingers Say Super Bowl Is Rigged So Taylor Swift Can Endorse Biden:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taylor-swift-targeted-conspiracies-chiefs-super-bowl-1234955940/

* "Utah is the latest state to ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on campus and in government:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/utah-is-the-latest-state-to-ban-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-efforts-on-campus-and-in-government/

* This is a fundamental safety issue. "Florida criminalizes changing gender on driver’s licenses in latest attack on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-criminalizes-changing-gender

* Republicans want you to know that as Pro-life Christians they believe in taking food out of the mouths of children for both the pleasure of it and political gain, just as Jesus would have wanted. "Republican governors in 15 states reject summer food money for kids:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/10/republican-governors-summer-lunch-program/

* "Ohio, Michigan Republicans in released audio: 'Endgame' is to ban trans care 'for everyone':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-republicans-ban-trans-care

* "Michigan’s GOP Chair Drama Takes Another Nasty Turn:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ousted-michigan-gop-chair-kristina-karamo-now-claims-the-rnc-is-colluding-against-her

* "Arizona GOP boss quits after leaked tape shows him floating a job for Kari Lake to skip Senate race:" https://apnews.com/article/jeff-dewit-resigns-kari-lake-recording-bribe-07319f36b057f804f880a7e07f8d16b1

* "Oklahoma GOP rescinds censure of Sen. Lankford, calls meeting 'illegitimate':" https://okcfox.com/news/local/oklahoma-gop-censures-sen-lankford-for-open-border-deal-collaboration-with-democrats-rep-jacob-rosecrants-border-security-illegal-immigration-anthony-ferate-republican-party-bipartisanship-oath-constitution-ok-politics-chuck-schumer

* "Oregon’s newest Republican lawmaker says LGBTQ+ support is akin to child abuse:" https://www.advocate.com/dwayne-yunker-oregon-lawmaker-gop

* "Judge tosses Disney suit claiming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis retaliated over 'don't say gay' critique:" https://www.advocate.com/law/disney-desantis-suit-dismissed

* "Nancy Mace said she wanted to 'get punched in the face' by rioters on January 6 for attention:" https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-mace-wanted-to-get-punched-in-the-face-by-a-rioter-on-january-6-2024-1




* "Trumps Throw Tantrum Over Court Monitor’s Financial Bombshell:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-throw-tantrum-over-court-monitors-financial-bombshell

* "Bad timing for Trump as court-appointed monitor flags accounting of tens of millions of dollars:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/bad-timing-for-trump-as-court-appointed-monitor-flags-accounting-of-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-203297349831

* CW: Rape "E. Jean Carroll says she plans to use $83 million on 'something Donald Trump hates':" https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/jean-carroll-plans-83-million-donald-trump-hates/story?id=106751516

* CW: Rape "Don't fear Donald Trump, say the women who won an $83 million damages award:"
https://www.advocate.com/news/jean-carroll-trump-is-nothing

* CW: Rape "Why E. Jean Carroll's legal defeat of Donald Trump matters :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-e-jean-carroll-s-legal-defeat-of-donald-trump-matters-203201605654

* "‘We beat Donald Trump’: E. Jean Carroll and lawyers on Trump's fallibility:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-we-beat-donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-and-lawyers-on-trump-s-fallibility-203205701999

* "Criminal prosecution of Trump in Georgia bogs down with attacks on Willis:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/criminal-prosecution-of-trump-in-georgia-bogs-down-with-attacks-on-willis-203382853919

* "Meet the woman who secretly taped Trump saying, ‘I need 11,000 votes’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-the-woman-who-secretly-taped-trump-saying-i-need-11-000-votes-203286085898




* "Arson at Georgia gender-affirming care clinic investigated as hate crime:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-care-clinic-arson-georgia

* "Some supporters of a far-right convoy headed to the Texas border are calling for civil war:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/supporters-far-right-convoy-headed-texas-border-are-calling-civil-war-rcna136058

* "An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/nyregion/mathew-bianchi-nypd-traffic-tickets.html

* "Pennsylvania man rants about ‘LGBTQ+, woke-left mob’ in YouTube video with his father’s severed head: report:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/pennsylvania-beheading-youtube-rant

* "Charlie Kirk's 'Black Pilot' Remark Sparks Fury:" https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-black-pilots-racism-accusations-1863546

* "Florida LGBTQ+ advocates slam ban on sociology, DEI at state’s universities:" https://www.advocate.com/news/dei-florida-lgbtq-advocates

* "Experts say that gender-affirming care bans amount to 'abuse.' Why won't lawmakers listen?:" https://www.advocate.com/gender-affirming-care-bans-abuse

* "Trans patient makes hundreds of paper stars to represent others receiving gender-affirming care in hospital:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/01/paper-stars-trans-patient/

* "Health workers call to make morning-after pill available ‘for everyone’ in shops and petrol stations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/31/morning-after-pill-supermarket/

* "Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act must be stopped. Now.:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/uganda-anti-homosexuality-law-voices

* "Germany’s transgender community confronts surge in far-right disinformation:" https://www.advocate.com/news/german-transgender-law-disinformation

* "Doctor blames man's chronic back pain on gay sex, couple says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/doctor-blames-pain-gay-sex

* "Seattle gay bars raided over ‘lewd conduct violations’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/30/seattle-gay-bars-raided-lewd-conduct/

"SAW director Madison Zack-Wu told Capitol Hill Seattle: “These regulations that are so paternalistic, that control people’s bodies and sexualities, pretty much only affect marginalised communities and non-conforming people."

* CW: Harassment. "New York pizzeria to pay $25,000 to settle harassment suit by transgender cook:" https://www.advocate.com/law/trans-cook-settles-pizzeria

* "Are transgender athletes allowed in the Olympics? The truth behind the myths:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/29/are-transgender-athletes-allowed-in-the-olympics-the-truth-behind-the-myths/

* "Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas files lawsuit against World Aquatics:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/lia-thomas-sues-world-aquatics

* "Amber Glenn becomes the first out queer woman to win the US Figure Skating Championship:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/29/amber-glenn-figure-skating/

* "Transgender women have a higher risk of HIV infections. A new CDC report reveals why:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-women-hiv-infections-discrimination

* I can't donate, but if you can, consider doing it. "Red Cross declares an emergency blood shortage, as number of donors hits 20-year low:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/09/1223734878/red-cross-blood-shortage-national-blood-donor-month

* "Drinking black tea linked to longevity:" https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drinking-black-tea-linked-to-longevity#:~:text=A%20large%20study%20published%20online,associated%20with%20a%20longer%20life.







* "Girls, ages 13 and 14, save tourists from riptide in Barbados:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/01/17/teens-save-tourists-riptide-barbados/

* "Elon Musk says he's 'Jewish by association' after Auschwitz visit, sees 'almost no antisemitism':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elon-musk-says-jewish-association-auschwitz-visit-sees-almost-no-antis-rcna135271

* "LGBTQ+ people have been arrested through social media. Meta must protect them, says human rights groups:" https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-lgbtq-digital-targeting-hrw

* "Stunned devs left scrambling for livelihoods in wake of yesterday's layoff bloodbath: 'In the end the contributions didn't matter':" https://www.pcgamer.com/stunned-devs-left-scrambling-for-livelihoods-in-wake-of-yesterdays-layoff-bloodbath-in-the-end-the-contributions-didnt-matter/

* "‘Serious Sketchball’: How a Crypto Pastor Scammed His Flock:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/colorado-crypto-pastor-was-always-a-serious-sketchball-acquaintances-say#:~:text=This%20month%2C%20Colorado's%20Securities%20Commissioner,misappropriated%20for%20their%20personal%20benefit.

* "Japan becomes the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon:" https://apnews.com/article/japan-moon-landing-jaxa-probe-slim-845d4868636df5ced2e1818c588f29a4

* "In World First, Horned Oryx Upgraded from Extinct in Wild to Endangered Owing to Decades of Zoo Work:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-world-first-scimitar-horned-oryx-upgraded-from-extinct-in-wild-to-endangered-owing-to-decades-of-zoo-work/

* "Alligators get more intimidating after study reveals they have an amazing ability:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article284329364.html

* "‘Incredible.’ Mangled shark off Florida took just months to repair fin, study says:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article283553633.html

* "Grizzly Bears Are Mostly Vegan: But humans made them more carnivorous.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/grizzly-bear-california-carnivore-meat-eating/677070/

* "Billions of cicadas will emerge in the US this year in a rare double-brood event:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/billions-of-cicadas-will-emerge-in-the-us-this-year-in-a-rare-double-brood-event/3317523/

* "Megalodon didn't look like a 50-foot great white shark, controversial study claims:" https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/controversial-study-claims-megalodon-didnt-look-like-a-50-foot-giant-great-white-shark

* "Broadway legend Chita Rivera dies aged 91:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/30/chita-rivera-movies-and-tv-shows/

* "Pioneering LGBTQ+ activist Ann Maguire has died at 80:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/pioneering-activist-ann-maguire-obituary

* Tuesday torture appointment was terrible, but not quite as bad as Thursday. Apparently the Medicare Advantage covered para-transit is also a lie as I discovered when I got picked up. Luckily I had a dollar left. so now I need to call around again to various social services that claimed it was a thing and find out WTF.

Being disabled is exhausting.

In other news, I'd forgotten our little storage closet is upstairs. Next to the elevator. The one that filled entirely with water and they had to pump out that still isn't safe to use.

So after physio I hobbled upstairs to check. There is zero chance of me pulling everything or much of anything out by myself, let alone carrying it all downstairs without an elevator. There is no one to help. Still I had to check in case I needed to try to work something out immediately. Asshole Agency Maybe? Idk.

The carpet just inside the closet was dry as were the boxes in front. There is no telling what's going on in the back. We'll still need to pull it all out and move it when they do damage inspections, but I have a little more time. Maybe the elevator will be fixed by then and we can use a dolly? Where to store it idk.

It was encouraging that the cleared and damaged ones were all closer to the waterfall, and the damage didn't look that bad. I am hoping that the closets on the other side of the elevator shaft were spared or partially spared by the water pouring down the shaft.

I think it's mostly paper records in the back in case of need, the ones that are oldest need recycling anyway as you only need to keep the seven years. I am hoping the missing photo album is further front. If the tax stuff sucked up any water it is not a loss. If it's old letter and the like, it's irreplaceable.

We are incredibly lucky. Most of the upper floors of two buildings have mostly been without electricity. some without water. People lost everything and have been living out of hotels. Dire damage happened in the apartments next door; We had a slow drip in the laundry closet that stopped on it's own.

It is apparently much worse in the other building.

Seriously, every time I look up at the darkened upper windows I think of how catastrophic this has been for so many people.

* "Meanwhile… How To Pronounce “Kelce” | Highway Horse | MTA’s $700k Fare Hack:"

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* "Trump Is Big Mad At Nikki Haley | White House Pharmacy Scandal | Many Loose Bolts Found On Planes:"

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* "Sound of Science: Skinny Sharks | Why Dogs Wag Their Tails | Blame Gen Z For The Blood Shortage:"

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* "Taylor Swift Inspires Super Bowl Conspiracies | Trump Ordered To Pay $83M | Biden Blasts Snickers:"

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* "GOP Backs Out Of Border Deal | Abbott’s Texas Rebellion Moves U.S. Towards Civil War:"

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* "MAGA’s Holy War On Taylor Swift | Elmo Taps America’s Angst | God’s Army Convoy Limps Toward Texas:"

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* "The Late Show’s I’s On Edjukashun: Furries Rumor Debunked | Florida’s Ban On Pride Flags:"

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* "The Late Show Presents: “The Twilight Zone: Just The Twists”:"

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* "Alaska Airlines Updates Its Fleet:"

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* "New From Hasbro: Trauma Me Elmo:"

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* "World Court says Israel must prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ceasefire order:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-braces-world-court-ruling-focuses-attack-south-gaza-2024-01-26/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544




* "Biden administration creates $700k grant to create inclusive sex ed for trans male teens:" https://www.advocate.com/health/trans-boys-sex-education

* "Border standoff between Texas, feds intensifies as governor defies Supreme Court ruling:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/border-standoff-between-texas-feds-intensifies-as-governor-defies-supreme-court-ruling

* "Walmart engaged in illegal union busting at California store, U.S. agency says:" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-engaged-illegal-union-busting-182620662.html

* "Proposed funding deal will be deadly for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-asylum-seekers-deadly-deal

* "Senate Democrats urged to reject anti-LGBTQ+ measures in funding bills by coalition:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/advocacy-groups-demand-democratic-support

Democrats held firm for us in all the negotiations last summer. The deluge of calls reminding them why they need to protect them worked.

However, it might be a good idea to contact your senators just in case.

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* Early voting has already started in a few places.

Democrats: South Carolina votes 2/3/24

Democrats: Nevada votes 2/6/24

Republicans: Nevada votes 2/8/24
Republicans: Virgin Islands votes 2/8/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary. Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "Assembly lawmakers pass 14-week abortion ban Evers has vowed to veto:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/01/26/assembly-lawmakers-pass-14-week-abortion-ban-evers-has-vowed-to-veto/

* "GOP Lawmaker Thinks He’s an Abortion Expert Because He’s a Veterinarian:" https://newrepublic.com/post/178471/wisconsin-republican-lawmaker-abortion-expert-veterinarian

* "GOP lawmaker claims he's ‘qualified’ to ban abortion because he's a veterinarian:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-lawmaker-claims-he-s-qualified-to-ban-abortion-because-he-s-a-veterinarian-203061317913

* "Maine Democrats bail on bill making state sanctuary for trans people amid far-right uproar:" https://www.advocate.com/news/maine-gender-care-bill-fails

* "Missouri Republicans add trans bathroom ban to 'parents' rights' education bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-republicans-trans-bathroom-ban

* Republicans are out legislating in favour of child abuse. "Bill weakening child labor laws in Florida clears major legislative hurdle:" https://www.wptv.com/news/political/bill-weakening-child-labor-laws-in-florida-heads-clears-major-legislative-hurdle

* "Kemp plans to make it tougher for workers to organize, form unions in Georgia:" https://www.wabe.org/governor-kemp-wants-to-make-it-tougher-for-workers-to-organize-in-georgia/

* I get where she's coming from, but I think cutting queer kids off from information and support is always bad, but in this age of censorship and books bans so much worse. "Out Florida lawmaker defends bill banning kids from social media:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/out-florida-lawmaker-defends-bill-banning-kids-from-social-media

* "Homophobe Matt Gaetz is being investigated for sex trafficking and lobbying violations by the House:" https://www.advocate.com/matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-lobbying




* "Trump ordered to pay $83.3M for defaming E. Jean Carroll:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/26/trump-trial-jean-carroll-defamation-verdict-00138171

* "E. Jean Carroll jury slaps Trump with penalty big enough to hurt:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/e-jean-carroll-jury-slaps-trump-with-penalty-big-enough-to-hurt-203068997914

* "E. Jean Carroll attorney: Trump verdict proves 'your lies' catch up to you:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/e-jean-carroll-attorney-trump-verdict-proves-your-lies-catch-up-to-you-203061829620




* As usual, the U.S. is not sending it's best people, but rather, it's worst. "The MAGA Truckers Are Back—And Heading to the Border:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-maga-truckers-are-backand-heading-to-the-border

* "Alabama man shook violently on gurney during first-ever nitrogen gas execution:" https://apnews.com/article/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-6d66344d3199f8c58f2408baa3df0738

* "Brown, Yale, Columbia among latest to settle financial-aid lawsuit:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/brown-yale-columbia-among-latest-settle-financial-aid-lawsuit-2024-01-24/

* "Oklahoma superintendent faces blowback for putting Libs of TikTok creator on library panel:" https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-education-superintendent-walters-libs-tiktok-raichik-4db2bcb9d8e0582f67329f6879bdf6ba

* "Watch dildos dominate discussion during Moms for Liberty MSNBC interview:" https://www.advocate.com/media/tiffany-justice-obsessed-dildo

* CW: Harassment. "Kansas transgender prison employee sues over alleged gender identity harassment:" https://www.advocate.com/law/kansas-transgender-prison-supervisor-lawsuit

* "Over a third of US adults never received sex education on gender identity, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/25/sex-education-usa-news/

* Once again, America lets down our veterans. "Trans veterans were promised access to gender-affirming surgeries — but it never happened:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/transgender-veterans

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton won't leave trans people alone, again requests data from out of state:" https://www.advocate.com/texas-ag-paxton-georgia-trans

* "Ohio families request emergency funds to flee state after trans care ban passed:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/24/ohio-families-emergency-funds-trans-care-ban/

* CW: Rape. "Raped, pregnant and in an abortion ban state? Researchers gauge how often it happens:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/24/1226161416/rape-caused-pregnancy-abortion-ban-states

* "What does pansexual mean, and how is it different from bisexual and polysexual?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/24/what-is-pansexual-meaning-flag-definition-define-bisexual-difference/

* "LGBT History Month 2024: Here’s why the UK and US celebrate in different months:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/26/lgbt-history-month-2024-uk-us-date-theme/

* ...And he's already walking it back. Sigh. "Pope Francis: Blessings for same-sex couples are for the people, not the unions:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/pope-francis-blessings-same-sex

* "Man sentenced to 48 years for the murder of a Black trans woman in Maryland:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/25/taya-ashton-maryland-usa-sentencing/

* CW: Rape. "San Francisco man convicted of poisoning, raping, and murdering young man adopted by gay couple:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/san-francisco-man-convicted-murder

* "An LGBTQ+ nonprofit in North Carolina was broken into and robbed over the weekend:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lgbtq-nonprofit-north-carolina-burglary

* "Adoption discrimination ‘holding back’ potential LGBTQ+ families in US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/25/lgbtq-people-foster-children-gallup/

* "The CDC finds discrimination puts trans women at higher risk of HIV:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/25/trans-woman-risks-health/

* "The latest on an HIV vaccine:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/prevention/latest-hiv-vaccine







* I didn't really recover from the Thursday torture appointment until Sunday, and it took a stupid amount of bedrest to get there. I kept getting the shakes trying to do the exercises Friday and Saturday. One of the things I literally couldn't get my arm in position to start Friday. Saturday, I was able to hook it into place with my other hand and hold it in start position for a 15 count stretch which is as good as it was getting without Beowulf pulling a Grendel on me.

Meanwhile, news has been piling up on Klaus laptap as I struggle to keep my head above water and out of bed long enough for basics.

I did manage to do all eighteen twice (if you count the stretch as doing an exercise), Saturday, but it cost me a lot. Sunday I did manage three sets. I am concerned about how Wednesday physio, but onward we must go because what I take into surgery is the range of motion ceiling on the arm for the rest of my life. Tick Tick Tick sigh.

I asked Goth Millennial to make a cardboard decoy laptop to distract Tavy from his attempts to kill Klaus. Livia was initially terrified of it, so I can't sit it in Klaus' old spot if I want her to feel safe out here. I have set it at right angles instead, which is less alarming for her while she gets used to it. Meanwhile Tavy has started gnawing on it, so at least he has a new project. we'll need more time to see about effectiveness.

The second of the surgery shirts my Aunt funded arrived. It is marked the same size as the more generic one that is a tent, but is actually the exact right fit for me. Not ideal for post surgery, but large enough if someone is there to dress me, and it means I now own four shirts I can wear for medical appointments and such while convalescing. I plan to wander around the apartment just in boxers for a lot of this, because that's far better than having to figure out how to get in and out of shirts everyday.

I love this octopus shirt. It is beautiful and goth and pride flag coded. I was not prepared for the cuteness of the squids up close.

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* Thursday's news mostly isn't on here.




* "Israeli Attack on Al Nasser Hospital Sends Displaced Families Fleeing:" https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/17/headlines/israeli_attack_on_al_nasser_hospital_sends_displaced_families_fleeing

* CW: Rape. "Israeli military chief rabbi-designate under fire over remarks on rape:" https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ZS1Q0/

They are really making South Africa's case for them, aren't they.

* "Chaotic wave of attacks and reprisals in Middle East fuel worries of a broader regional war:" https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-rebels-missiles-iran-seizure-us-8112fbadd3b0689c71a92890895a9368

* "U.S. puts Yemen's Houthi rebels back on global terrorist list:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/houthis-terrorist-organization-biden

* "Gaza death toll tops 24,000 as UN agencies call urgently for more aid:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-01-15-2024-966bd5a9375e7439dd3de5fc113a7e7d

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "Netanyahu says he told the US that he opposes a Palestinian state in any postwar scenario:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-18-2024-73d552c6e73e0dc3783a0a11b2b5f67d

* And yet he still funds the war. "Biden "running out" of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/14/biden-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war-tensions

* "Bernie Sanders: Netanyahu telling Biden, ‘Screw you’ on Gaza de-escalation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-netanyahu-telling-biden-screw-you-on-gaza-de-escalation-202149445947

* "US Senate rejects measure to force human rights report on Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/world/senate-rejects-measure-force-human-rights-report-israel-2024-01-17/

* To complain to your Congress Critters:
Senate: https://contactsenators.com/senator-phone-numbers/
Congress in General: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member




* "Home Office knew Rwanda was refusing LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in 2022, report claims:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/rwanda-refusing-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-home-office/

* "Labour candidate apologises for transphobia – then announces she is ‘gender critical’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/laura-pascal-labour-hackney-trans-suspension/

* "President Biden Signs Food Donation Improvement Act:" https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/2023/01/president-biden-signs-food-donation-improvement-act/

* "Conservative justices seem poised to weaken power of federal agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/17/conservative-justices-seem-poised-to-weaken-power-of-federal-agencies-00136112

* "Maine court puts decision barring Trump from the state's primary ballot on hold:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1225178547/trump-appeal-maine-14th-amendment

* "Sex-positive adult toy store employees file for unionization:" https://www.advocate.com/business/adult-toy-store-employees-unionization

* The music industry is fucking over smaller artists over streaming rights. Want to help? "UMAW aims to organize music workers to fight for a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society. :" https://weareumaw.org/

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

* Democrats are trying to block funding to the propaganda clinics that try to trick pregnant people into entering to be barraged by misinformation in the guise of medicine. "GOP tries to block proposed federal rule that restricts funds for anti-abortion centers:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-tries-to-block-proposed-federal-rule-that-restricts-funds-for-anti-abortion-centers

* "Elise Stefanik Targeted for Censure for Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ Comment:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-rep-dan-goldman-plans-to-censure-elise-stefanik-over-hostages-comment

* "GOP Rep. Stefanik faces censure push for calling Jan. 6 rioters ‘hostages’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-stefanik-faces-censure-push-for-calling-jan-6-rioters-hostages-202148933871

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Baltimore Sun’s New Right-Wing Owner Kicks Things Off by Insulting Everyone on Staff:" https://newrepublic.com/post/178181/baltimore-sun-new-owner-smith-sinclair-insult-everyone-staff

* "Right-wing executive's media empire exemplifies dangerous bias he warns against:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/right-wing-executive-s-media-empire-exemplifies-dangerous-bias-he-warns-against-202171973898

* "MAGA's sexy beer calendar scandal cracks up the Christian right:" https://www.salon.com/2024/01/12/magas-sexy-beer-calendar-scandal-cracks-up-the-christian-right/

* "Texas theocrats are a home-grown threat to American democracy:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/dunn-wilks-paxton-texas-theocracy-democracy-18380689.php

* "Republicans Are Making ‘Dark Money’ Even Darker for 2024:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-are-making-dark-money-even-darker-for-2024

* Mysterious crypto ‘dark money’ group ramps up lobbying efforts ahead of 2024 election:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/08/crypto-dark-money-lobbies-as-industry-aims-to-influence-2024.html

* "Ohio Republican Governor defends trans candidates who are being disqualified:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/ohio-governor-trans-candidates/

* Early voting has already started in a few places.

New Hampshire votes 1/23/24.
South Carolina votes 2/3/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary. Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us win.

* "Biden supporters urge NH voters to embrace unusual write-in campaign:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-supporters-urge-new-hampshire-voters-embrace-writein/story?id=106198673

* "Pranksters add insult to ignominy for Republican caucus losers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/pranksters-add-insult-to-ignominy-for-republican-caucus-losers-202048581690

* "Iowa voting in popcorn buckets exposes GOP ‘election integrity’ hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/iowa-voting-in-popcorn-buckets-exposes-gop-election-integrity-hypocrisy-202040901861

* Republicans are proudly and openly NAZI now. The people who weren't already left the party. "CBS News analysis: Most Republicans agree with "poisoning the blood" language:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-analysis-most-republicans-agree-with-poisoning-the-blood-language/

* "Trump leads GOP rightward march and other takeaways from the Iowa caucuses:" https://apnews.com/article/iowa-caucus-trump-desantis-haley-takeaways-d1b8be2d9f95969fd6d62f73fa95226b

* "Vivek Ramaswamy suspends his 2024 Republican presidential bid and endorses rival Donald Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/vivek-ramaswamy-ends-2024-presidential-campaign-4b794ed3fbb41cc7f2a6a95d20458843

* "How Vivek Ramaswamy Got Richer While Pumping Millions Into Failed Presidential Campaign:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2024/01/17/how-vivek-ramaswamy-got-richer-while-pumping-millions-into-failed-presidential-campaign/?sh=1af1a0f25e78

* "Asa Hutchinson drops out of 2024 GOP presidential race after last-place finish in Iowa:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asa-hutchinson-drops-out-2024-presidential-race-iowa/

* "'Sniveling coward': Once tough-talking Republicans waste no time capitulating to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-sniveling-coward-once-tough-talking-republicans-waste-no-time-capitulating-to-trump-202172997815

* "Trump again vows to be a day-one ‘dictator’ in Iowa town hall:" https://news.yahoo.com/trump-again-vows-day-one-035107839.html?guccounter=1

* ""Tectonic shift in power": How MAGA pastors boost Trump's campaign:" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/12/how-maga-pastors-boost-trump-campaign-2024

* "'A certain kind of religion': Trump's MAGA movement hijacks evangelicalism; leaves gospel behind:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-a-certain-kind-of-religion-trump-s-maga-movement-hijacks-evangelicalism-leaves-gospel-behind-202049605606

* "Trump, the ‘religious right’ and white Christian nationalism:" https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/01/05/white-christian-nationalism-rise-246538

* "Dr. Clarence Jones: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would call Donald Trump a 'moral fraud':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/dr-clarence-jones-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-would-call-donald-trump-a-moral-fraud-201916485532

* "Trump and the GOP are coming for you: Warren stresses reproductive rights at stake in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-and-the-gop-are-coming-for-you-warren-stresses-reproductive-rights-at-stake-in-2024-202169413926

* "Stephen Colbert Chews Apart Trump's Brazenly Weird New Claim:" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-chews-apart-trumps-brazenly-weird-new-claim_uk_65a8deade4b076abd7aa6b71

* "Trump just promised an authoritarian ‘task force’ to impose Christian ideology:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2024-christian-right-truth-social-rcna132082

* "Former Trump national security advisor gushes over QAnon in leaked footage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/14/michael-flynn-donald-trump-qanon/

* "You Could Soon Be Fined for Defamation for Calling Someone Racist in Florida:" https://newrepublic.com/post/177920/florida-bill-fine-defamation-racist-discrimination?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

* "Erin's 2024 Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/erins-2024-anti-trans-legislative

* "It’s only January and 2024 is set to break records with vile anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/anti-lgbtq-bills-trans-2024/

* "Missouri Republicans to consider removing trans people from state law:" https://www.ky3.com/2024/01/16/missouri-republicans-consider-carving-trans-people-out-state-law/

* "House GOP lawmakers introduce bill imposing near-total ban on abortion in Kansas:" https://kansasreflector.com/2024/01/11/house-gop-lawmakers-introduce-bill-imposing-near-total-ban-on-abortion-in-kansas/

* "Lauren Boebert claims abortions are the reason why the US birthrate is so low:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/lauren-boebert-abortions-us-birthrate/

* "Abortion foes launch campaign against abortion rights ballot initiative:" https://www.azmirror.com/2024/01/11/abortion-foes-launch-campaign-against-ballot-initiative-spread-misinformation/

* "Massachusetts governor seeks IVF coverage for veterans in same-sex relationships:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/veterans-ivf-massachusetts-maura-healey

* "Republican who voted to ban trans healthcare now wants kids to drop out of schools to work on farms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/joanna-king-indiana-child-labour-trans-healthcare/

* "Lawmakers in South Carolina approve ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/18/transgender-health-care-south-carolina/

* CW: Rape. "Moms For Liberty leader Bridget Ziegler still hasn’t resigned over sex scandal – and people in Florida aren’t happy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/17/bridget-ziegler-moms-for-liberty-resign-sex-scandal/




* "Trump returns to a New York courtroom for second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/16/1224523186/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial

* CW: Sexual Assault "Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-defamation-lawsuit-70d4477120399373934253c7e450643e

* CW: Sexual Assault "Trump dares judge to kick him out of court: ‘I would love it’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-dares-judge-to-kick-him-out-of-court-i-would-love-it-202140741790

* CW: Sexual Assault "The Donald Trump Doom Loop:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-donald-trump-doom-loop

* "'Fantastical narrative': Trump concocts DOJ, Biden conspiracy theory in new classified docs filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-fantastical-narrative-trump-concocts-doj-biden-conspiracy-theory-in-new-classified-docs-filing-202046533884




* "Violent political threats surge as 2024 begins, haunting American democracy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/09/public-officials-death-threats-swatting-surge/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA0Nzc2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA2MTU4Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDQ3NzY0MDAsImp0aSI6ImVhZmQ1MDgyLTMwYTYtNDg5Ni05YzA0LWE1ZWI2Y2MyNDI3YSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzAxLzA5L3B1YmxpYy1vZmZpY2lhbHMtZGVhdGgtdGhyZWF0cy1zd2F0dGluZy1zdXJnZS8ifQ.PiUCh_5cfV5fR_rdKbvfV68TcQ2d54Q7FuXeZMMbuV4

* I don't understand how this is legal. "Texas Just Took Its Border Battle With the U.S. Government Up a Notch:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-national-guard-shelby-park-eagle-pass-border-patrol-1234945639/

* "3 migrants drowned near area where Texas has denied entry to federal border agents:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3-migrants-drown-near-shelby-park-eagle-pass-texas-soldiers-denied-entry-federal-border-agents/

* "Governor Says Texas Isn’t Shooting Migrants Because Biden Would ‘Charge Us With Murder’:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greg-abbott-podcast-shooting-migrants-murder-charges_n_65a0b537e4b0fbd2bc062957

* "3 Tacoma police officers found not guilty in 2020 death of Manny Ellis:" https://www.kuow.org/stories/3-tacoma-police-officers-found-not-guilty-in-2020-death-of-manny-ellis?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=BOK062520&tier=&utm_id=774005&sfmc_id=133071869&sfmc_subkey=0034R0000463jY7QAI&utm_content=NL+BoK

* "There is little scrutiny of 'natural' deaths behind bars:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1219667393/there-is-little-scrutiny-of-natural-deaths-behind-bars

* "She risked her job to care for an incarcerated woman’s newborn. Now she wants to start a center to help others in need.:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/08/11/roberta-bell-raised-baby-of-incarcerated-woman/#:~:text=Roberta%20Bell%2C%20a%2058-year-old%20grandmother%20who%20lives%20in,of%20a%20pregnant%20woman%20jailed%20at%20her%20workplace.

* "Things to know about Minnesota's new, non-racist state flag and seal:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/things-minnesotas-new-racist-state-flag-seal-106064631

* "IU suspends professor after Palestine Solidarity Committee event. Other faculty denounce the decision:" https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/01/iu-political-science-professor-sinno-suspended-psc-administration-palestine

* "In Texas, debate over school chaplains escalates school board culture wars:" https://religionnews.com/2023/12/14/in-texas-debate-over-school-chaplains-escalates-school-board-culture-wars/

* "Pornhub blocks access in two states after age verification laws take effect:" https://www.advocate.com/business/pornhub-access-north-carolina-montana

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Gypsy Rose Blanchard released from prison early after serving time for the murder of her abusive mother:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gypsy-rose-blanchard-released-prison-early-serving-time-murder-abusive-rcna131423

* "Russian rapper who attended ‘almost naked’ party jailed for second time:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/06/russian-rapper-who-attended-almost-naked-party-jailed-for-second-time

* "Leonard Leo is at the center of dark money effort to limit medication abortion:" https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/01/04/leonard-leo-is-at-the-center-of-dark-money-effort-to-limit-medication-abortion/

* "Americans Are Stockpiling Abortion Pills…Just in Case:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/abortion-pills-advance-provision-mifepristone/

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/







* When I looked outside at dawn Wednesday, there was a lot of snow, so I figured, "I'll just call when they open and cancel Friday's appointment." Bwahahaha! No. The callback option takes 3-5 days so is useless under nearly every circumstance including this one. Waiting on hold longer than fifteen minutes breaks the hold system, which means hours of calling back over and over while three days of other people try to cancel appointments at the same time as the snow comes down alarmingly fast and hard even to my East coast Snow country trained eyes. It's basically a lottery since you start at the back of the line every fifteen minutes. I still need to do another round of physio things and eat and lung, none of which I can do while on hold. Grrrr.

I got through twice over the next two hours. They couldn't hear me.

Squirrel lent me his phone. I've now got two phones in one hand hold crap moving in and out of sync.

Bonus: My fingers are badly burned because whoever put the turn table back in the mic last time half assed it and there was a hot spot on my plate.

* I finally got through to a live human on Squirrel's phone after 11AM. It was still snowing when i went to bed Wednesday. It was also still snowing when I went to bed Thursday. It rained some in the evening, then iced over. I am worried about squirrel who keeps having to commute in this.

Some water leaked out of the bathroom ceiling from the indoor waterfall getting inside the walls. I can see damage to the plaster over my dryer. The bucket didn't catch anything Thursday. IDK. Anyway, I reported it as a slow leak when I discovered it, saying we're low priority. I'll do an addendum if there's still no more drips tomorrow.

I am trying to get up to three sets of all 14 physio exercises at 15 reps each to be the routine. I managed it two nights in a row. It is, as usual exhausting me and chewing me up generally. The imperative remains to get as much function back before surgery as possible, since that's the ceiling.

Three cleaner cancellations in a row, but this time, it's entirely reasonable. They even called for two of them to tell me. 1. Extreme cold and expectation of snow which didn't come until this week, but everyone thought it would. Forage delivery cancelled. People were not doing unnecessary travel. I didn't expect them. 2. Cleaner called out sick. She's a good worker and knows I'm a lung patient with high infection risk. I WANT people to cancel if they are sick both for their health and mine. 3. Snow and ice. No one is travelling unless they are essential workers. Squirrel is an essential worker in the health care sector. I did not expect a cleaner to the point that I called in and scheduled Tuesday about 15 minutes before the agency called to tell me no one is coming.

I should post the aggregate, but I would like to go to bed. Decisions, decisions.

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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.

* People have been asking for ways to help trans people in West Virginia, given the scary shit going on there. So far this organization is suggested. I'm keeping an eye out for more ways to help. If you have suggestions, please let me know. "Fairness West Virginia:" https://fairnesswv.org/donate/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "Tell your Representative to Support Rep Tlaib's Resolution for a New Streaming Royalty:" https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-representative-to-support-the-resolution-for-a-new-streaming-royalty/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* "Journalism groups and family reject Israeli accusation that Gazan reporters killed were ‘terrorists’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/journalism-groups-family-reject-israeli-accusation-gazan-reporters-kil-rcna133666

* "Gaza Journalist Wael Al Dahdouh to Pres. Biden: Listen to Both Sides, Not Just One:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/gaza-journalist-wael-al-dahdouh-to-pres-biden-listen-to-both-sides-not-just-one-201913925535

* "Shot in ‘cold blood’: Killing of Palestinian grandmother sparks outcry:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/13/shot-in-cold-blood-killing-of-elderly-palestinian-woman-sparks-outcry

* "Looming Starvation in Gaza Shows Resurgence of Civilian Sieges in Warfare:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/health/gaza-israel-hunger-starvation.html

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "Blinken urges Israel to engage with region on postwar plans that include path to Palestinian state:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-09-2024-017066376ac06026622ee0b83dc2b65e

* "US, allies attack Houthi targets in Yemen in response to missile barrages in the Red Sea:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/11/u-s-attacks-houthi-targets-in-yemen-in-response-to-missile-barrages-in-the-red-sea-00135203

* "American intel officials warn of risk of Hezbollah attacking U.S.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/american-intel-officials-hezbollah-u-s-attack-risk-00134874

* I have serious concerns. "U.S. and allies launch military strikes on Houthis in Yemen in 'major escalation':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/u-s-and-allies-launch-military-strikes-on-houthis-in-yemen-in-major-escalation-201807941709

* "South Africa accuses Israel of genocide against Palestinians at top international court:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/south-africa-accuses-israel-of-genocide-against-palestinians-at-top-international-court

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* "US Fails to Fully Account for Arms Sent to Ukraine, Watchdog Says:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-11/us-fails-to-fully-account-for-arms-sent-ukraine-watchdog-says?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "White House says U.S. Ukraine assistance has ‘ground to a halt’; UK announces increased drone funding:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/12/russia-ukraine-war-updates-for-jan-12-2024.html

* "Putin believes Ukraine will fall within just months without new US aid, says Senate Intelligence Chair:" https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-believes-ukraine-will-fall-months-without-us-aid-senate-2023-12

* "How the Russian Government Silences Wartime Dissent:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/29/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-censorship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk0.byu7.btH7bbrwVA_a&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share

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* "The ruling-party candidate strongly opposed by China wins Taiwan’s presidential election:" https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-election-cbf44565b771cddfb60c2a26d2014b0c

* "Macron appoints gay French PM’s ex-partner as foreign minister:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/12/france-emmanuel-macron-gabriel-attal-stephane-sejourne/

* "Inside The Russian Propaganda Mill Beaming Out Of A Florida Strip Mall:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-the-russian-propaganda-mill-beaming-out-of-a-florida-strip-mall

* " Ukrainian refugees fall victim to ‘sophisticated’ UK visa scams:" https://news.yahoo.com/media-ukrainian-refugees-fall-victim-133212717.html

* "Gay couple left ‘heartbroken’ after cruel Home Office decision:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/15/gay-couple-denied-partner-visa-uk/

* "Eight ways the UK government ‘eroded’ human rights in 2023, according to damning new report:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/13/uk-government-has-eroded-human-rights-damning-report-finds/

* "Biden administration rescinds, replaces Trump-era 'license to discriminate in health care' rule:" https://www.advocate.com/news/right-to-discriminate-rule-repealed

* "The White House Just Announced a $623 Million EV-Charging Bonanza:" https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-623-million-ev-charging-bonanza/

* "The Supreme Court Will Decide if States Can Force Hospitals to Let Women Die:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-states-emergency-abortion-1234945425/

* "A New Mexico Republican was removed from office just last year for the same reason that Trump was ordered off the 2024 Colorado ballot:" https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-colorado-14th-amendment-couy-griffin-new-mexico-2023-12

* "Johnson flails as Republicans demand consequences for conservative hijacking:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/11/congress/conservatives-push-johnson-00135080

* "Congressional leaders agree to deal to extend government funding deadlines:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/congressional-leaders-agree-to-deal-to-extend-government-funding-deadlines-201899077616

* "GOP fight over budget negotiations is 'the same old chaos' -House Minority Whip Katherine Clark:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/gop-fight-over-budget-negotiations-is-the-same-old-chaos-house-minority-whip-katherine-clark-201914949938

* Republicans did this cruel and terrible thing; Democrats want to undo it. "Congress saddled scam victims with taxes. A new bill would change that.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/10/scam-victims-taxes-raskin-bill/

* "A former White House scientist was scammed out of $655,000. Then came the IRS.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/14/cyber-crime-scams-irs-taxes/

* "Opinion: The GOP’s abandonment of Ukraine makes me ashamed to be an American:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/08/ukraine-gop-congress-aid/

* "Rep. Crockett: GOP’s Hunter Biden spectacle is about ‘pleasing Trump':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-crockett-gop-s-hunter-biden-spectacle-is-about-pleasing-trump-201720389886

* "Rep. Clarke on Mayorkas impeachment threat: 'This is all about political theater':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-clarke-on-mayorkas-impeachment-threat-this-is-all-about-political-theater-201898565810

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* The Republican War on Democracy continues. "Republicans threaten Carson, Douglas over voter rolls:" https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2023/dec/10/republican-national-committee-threatens-to-sue-carson-douglas-over-voter-rolls/

* "Wisconsin false electors admit their actions were used to ‘improperly overturn’ the 2020 presidential election:" https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/12/06/wisconsin-false-electors-admit-their-actions-were-used-to-improperly-overturn-the-2020-presidential-election/

* I don't understand why trying to overthrow the government isn't disqualifying for all public offices. "Wisconsin secretary of state calls for removal of fake Trump elector from elections commission:" https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/12/11/wisconsin-secretary-of-state-calls-for-removal-of-fake-trump-elector-from-elections-commission/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

* "Kellyanne Conway is selling the GOP a dream that's destined to backfire:" https://www.salon.com/2024/01/08/kellyanne-conway-is-selling-the-a-dream-thats-destined-to-backfire/

* Early voting has already started in a few places.

Iowa caucus is literally on Mon. as in 1/15/24.

New Hampshire votes 1/23/24.

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket. who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

Remember, it is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us win.

* "Malcolm Kenyatta on breaking barriers and making Pennsylvania Black queer history:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/malcolmn-kenyatta-auditor-general-interview

* "Trans candidate Arienne Childrey is running for Ohio House and against the state's drag ban sponsor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trans-ohio-candidate-legislature

* "‘Terror as a tactic’: Threat of MAGA mob looms over 2024 Republican primary:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-terror-as-a-tactic-threat-of-maga-mob-looms-over-2024-republican-primary-201873477564

* "Welcome to the Loser's Ball: The incentives explain why Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are trying to avoid catastrophic success.:" https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/welcome-to-the-losers-ball

* "Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/us/politics/trump-2025-nato.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek0.Crv9.kgti-D2IvVIJ

* "Inside Trump’s Plot to Corrupt the 2024 Election With ‘Garbage’ Data:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-election-plans-corrupt-voter-registration-eric-eagleai-1234920083/

* "Raskin demands Trump return $7.8M foreign governments paid his companies during presidency:" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4404911-raskin-trump-foreign-emoluments/?utm_source=hill_app&utm_medium=social&utm_content=share-link

* "‘We want it back’: Raskin demands Trump repay $7.8m from foreign governments:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-want-it-back-raskin-demands-trump-repay-7-8m-from-foreign-governments-201874501620

* "Evangelical leaders lose influence as followers find new savior in Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/evangelical-leaders-lose-influence-as-followers-find-new-savior-in-trump-201883717562

* "Trump mainstreams political violence with normalizing repetition:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-mainstreams-political-violence-with-normalizing-repetition-201885765596

* I don't understand how this is legal. "New Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs:" https://www.science.org/content/article/new-florida-law-blocks-chinese-students-from-academic-labs

* "Missouri Republicans pivot from attacking LGBTQ+ lives to focus on childcare and education issues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-gop-lgbtq-issues-backseat

* Republicans are winning their war against freedom and bodily autonomy. "10 States That Passed the Worst Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in 2023:" https://www.advocate.com/law/worst-anti-lgbtq-laws-2023#rebelltitem1

* We warned you this is where this is going. "West Virginia Republicans want to ban transgender people from public spaces, call them ‘obscene’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-obscene-cured-west-virginia

* "Ohio Republican implies opponents of her trans bathroom bill should be drowned:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-bathroom-bill-republican-drown

* "Moms for Liberty school board member resigns after Target shoplifting arrest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/12/moms-for-liberty-school-board-keri-blair-target-shoplifting-arrest/

* "Sen. Ron Johnson stunned when CNN asks him to back up his MAGA lies:" https://boingboing.net/2023/12/12/sen-ron-johnson-stunned-when-cnn-asks-him-to-back-up-his-maga-lies-video.html

* "Roger Stone Plotted Assassinating Democrats, Bombshell Report Says:" https://newrepublic.com/post/177935/roger-stone-audio-assasinate-democrats-swalwell-nadler




* "Why the judge in Trump's fraud trial may have a heavy penalty in mind:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-the-judge-in-trump-s-fraud-trial-may-have-a-heavy-penalty-in-mind-201806917704

* "Donald Trump defies judge, gives courtroom speech on tense final day of New York civil fraud trial:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-lawsuit-new-york-closing-arguments-b36abe2fd695d0172e71f8ef9c5ee7f3

* "Trump caps New York civil fraud trial with courtroom tantrum:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-caps-new-york-civil-fraud-trial-with-courtroom-tantrum-201809989639

* "Trump recorded pressuring Wayne County canvassers not to certify 2020 vote:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/21/donald-trump-recorded-pressuring-wayne-canvassers-not-to-certify-2020-vote-michigan/72004514007/

* "George Conway: Trump’s lawyer walked into ‘nasty’ trap at immunity hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-conway-trump-s-lawyer-walked-into-nasty-trap-at-immunity-hearing-201720901757

* "Hayes: We are already living with a version of Trump’s 'SEAL Team 6' argument:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-we-are-already-living-with-a-version-of-trump-s-seal-team-6-argument-201801285543

* "Sen. Schatz warns of 'new turn' for Trump with 'Seal Team 6' claim:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-schatz-warns-of-new-turn-for-trump-with-seal-team-6-claim-201801285783




* "Bomb Threat Made at Home of Judge in Trump’s Bank Fraud Trial:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arthur-engoron-bomb-threat-made-at-home-of-judge-in-trumps-bank-fraud-trial

* "Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. surged after Oct. 7 Hamas attack, advocacy group says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/antisemitic-incidents-us-jumped-360-oct-7-hamas-attack-advocacy-group-rcna133104

* "Maryland man sentenced for threats to America's largest LGBTQ+ rights group and several lawmakers:" https://www.advocate.com/maryland-man-sentenced-threats-hrc

* "Ohio prosecutors broke rules to win convictions and got away with it:" https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/1216111092/ohio-court-prosecutor-misconduct-due-process-rights?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

* I am too furious for words. "Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found buried behind Mississippi jail:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/families-in-disbelief-after-hundreds-of-bodies-found-buried-behind-mississippi-jail

* "Tennessee Republican wants to ban 'political' flags in schools after being triggered by LGBTQ+ Pride:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-flag-ban-schools

* "In Kentucky, LGBTQ Student Clubs Go Underground as SB 150 Goes Into Effect:" https://truthout.org/articles/in-kentucky-lgbtq-student-clubs-go-underground-as-sb-150-goes-into-effect/

* "Book ban lawsuit moves forward as Florida district removes over 1,000 titles:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/book-ban-lawsuit-moves-forward-florida-district-removes/story?id=106292183

* "Nearly 700 books have been removed from classroom libraries in one Florida county:" https://www.npr.org/2023/12/21/1221040451/nearly-700-books-have-been-removed-from-classroom-libraries-in-one-florida-count

* "The dictionary pulled from Florida school district due to Ron DeSantis book ban law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/dictionary-book-ban-florida-school-escambia-county/

* "You won't be finding these books at West Ada Schools:" https://www.kivitv.com/news/local-news/in-your-neighborhood/eagle/you-wont-be-finding-these-books-at-west-ada-schools

* "Colorado conservatives call for law enforcement action to ban books:" https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/colorado-conservatives-law-enforcement-action-ban-books/73-43e3164b-e750-40e1-bfc5-430b99a2942e

* "Dictionaries a casualty of right-wing book ban panic:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/dictionaries-a-casualty-of-right-wing-book-ban-panic-201887813607

* CW: Rape. "Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler’s rape investigation expands to video voyeurism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/christian-ziegler-rape-investigation-expands

* "‘The Eunuch Maker’ pleads guilty to role in live-stream castration cartel:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/eunuch-maker-pleads-guilty

* "Priest who ‘organised gay orgy’ where man overdosed on erectile dysfunction pills faces jail:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/12/priest-gay-orgy-erectile-dysfunction-pills-poland/

* "Gender-neutral toy aisles required under new law in California:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-neutral-toy-aisles-california

* "The New Lisa Littman Study on ROGD and Detransition is a Total Mess:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-new-lisa-littman-study-on-rogd-and-detransition-is-a-total-mess

* "Gender dysphoria diagnoses are steadily increasing. Here's what that means:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-dysphoria-diagnoses-increase

* "Seattle hospital sues Texas AG over demands for details on trans minors:" https://www.axios.com/2023/12/22/gender-seattle-children-hospital-texas-ken-paxton-lawsuit

* "Alabama can enforce law criminalizing gender-affirming care, court rules:" https://www.advocate.com/law/alabama-felony-trans-care-ban

* "Republican Officials Openly Insult Women Nearly Killed by Abortion Bans:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/republican-abortion-bans-pregnant-women-deaths.html

* "African Catholics tell Pope Francis they reject same-sex blessings:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/12/african-catholics-pope-francis-same-sex-blessings/

* "Police release photo of man after clubber targeted with homophobic abuse:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/12/sheffield-gay-club-homophobic-abuse-hate-crime/

* "Michigan transgender man Jean Butchart shot and killed in series of attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-man-shot-killed-michigan

* "Kentucky homophobe Kim Davis, who denied gay couples marriage licenses, must pay over $360,000:" https://www.advocate.com/law/kim-davis-attorney-fees-damages

* "USA Boxing issues strict rules on trans inclusion, but conservatives still complain:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/usa-boxing-transgender-inclusion-restrictions

* "Our country's dark history of persecuting people with HIV:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/us-history-hiv-criminalization

* "Book event disinvites queer author because his disability aid makes others “uncomfortable”:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/book-event-disinvites-queer-author-because-his-disability-aid-makes-others-uncomfortable/




* "United Airlines plane makes an emergency landing after a warning about a possible door issue:" https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-plane-door-light-airbus-1390b31462497889eba7c8bf79a54d1b




* "U.S. battery storage capacity expected to nearly double in 2024:" https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61202#

* "Renewables grew rapidly in 2023, but must grow faster still to meet climate change target, IEA says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-cop29-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels-2df7406c071ad0a828b428bb0cede955

* "Researchers find a massive number of plastic particles in bottled water:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223730333/bottled-water-plastic-microplastic-nanoplastic-study

* CW: CSA. "AI image-generators are being trained on explicit photos of children, a study shows:" https://apnews.com/article/generative-ai-illegal-images-child-abuse-3081a81fa79e2a39b67c11201cfd085f

* "Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real:" https://www.404media.co/facebook-is-being-overrun-with-stolen-ai-generated-images-that-people-think-are-real/

* "Elon Musk claims cis is a ‘heterophobic word’. He’s entirely incorrect:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/elon-musk-cisgender-slur/

* "Monumental ancient map re-emerges in new Rome museum:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/monumental-ancient-map-re-emerges-new-rome-museum-2024-01-11/

* "A missing person with no memory: How investigators solved the cold case of Seven Doe:" https://apnews.com/article/seven-doe-remains-missing-persons-reba-bailey-1d2edeacf3e6b6605ad4b509d4cc7be2

* "The Soloist: At fifty, Mikhail Baryshnikov reflects on how ballet saved him.:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/01/19/profile-mikhail-baryshnikov

* "Beloved Virginia Beach-area LGBTQ+ advocate killed by drunk driver, police say:" https://www.advocate.com/news/virginia-beloved-activist-killed-crash

* "The female marines Japan is training for war:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/japan-defence-women/

* "Snapping The Cable:" https://tedium.co/2024/01/06/cable-tv-2024-decline/

* "The Last Days of the Barcode:" https://archive.is/pXMkH#selection-570.0-570.1

* "Mongolians Are Circus Stars All Over the World, Except at Home:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/world/asia/mongolia-circus-acrobats-marinelli-bend.html

* Aidan drained, but didn't reboot. I am losing hope.

It is actually cold here and even snowed a little. O.o

The simpler of the shirts my Aunt bought me arrived and it is much nicer than I expected. The texture is lovely, like the hurts I used to get from International Male in the '90's. I bought it two sizes up on the grounds that I wanted lots of extra fabric for comfort post surgery and zero drama getting it on and off, since I have enough trouble with button down shirts without one arm immobilized. It is gloriously tentlike, and I am now wondering if I can can just drape it over the arm and sling and only stick the other arm through an arm hole. I have options!

I ordered the fancier shirt two sizes up on the same principal. I like too large. Too large is so much easier with my sensory and mobility issues. I am actually excited for it.

* Saturday was incredibly challenging for us. The cats and I were having a nice sleep in my bed when we were jarred awake by the skull splitting alarm. It's hard enough on the rest of us, but Livia is super sensitive by cat standards. She hid of course, and there is no chance of us ever evacuating her in a fast emergency as it would be a three person job. This worries me, but it's a problem without a solution.

I could barely walk and it's bad cold outside. It took ages for me to dress and hobble out to the bench by the curb. (I certainly wasn't going out there naked, and it's too cold for me not to need to bundle up. I learned a long time ago you always grab the keys and go bag just in case). I could tell from the fact that it was still going while I struggled to get the shoes on that it was real, but also the fire engines didn't have the siren on. There was no smoke smell, and it was the non-fire emergency light that flashes for the deaf, so I guessed water emergency. Except when it's a false alarm or test, it's always been a water emergency. They want us to walk through the corridors and gather in the parking lot in the way of the fire engines in emergencies. This has always struck me as madness, so I hobbled out the back door. The gimp to the curb took ages and was incredibly painful. I said fuck this to going all the way around to gather with the others and grabbed the bench.

From there I watched the denizens of the other buildings walk dogs, etc. and glance occasionally at my ringing building. I saw a lot of dog owners sensibly evacuate their dogs into their cars with blankets, which made sense. Seriously, the blizzard missed us, but I think this is the coldest it's ever been where I lived since I moved west in the early '90's. We are talking unsheltered people freezing to death weather. This kind of thing is extra dangerous here because we barely even get snow normally in our weird little micro-climate, so a lot of unhoused people from nearby areas migrate here for cold weather precisely because it's safer than the plains or the mountains because, while it gets chilly it generally doesn't freeze much. (We fucking need housing first in this town with full social support services, because there's no excuse for people being forced to sleep rough when the area is this well off). We are talking when I took Goth Millennial home later, my fingers went numb in fifteen minutes with the car heater on cold. It wasn't quite that bad with the sun out, but it was close. I watched firefighters go in and out. I saw squirrel chatting with the firefighters, but they didn't see me. I read for a bit. The bench was a really good idea. I couldn't have stood that long and the wheelchair would have taken ages to get out given how bad my shoulder and hip joints were functioning. We got the all clear and I hobbled back in.

I decided to try to sleep clothed just in case. Tavy and I were settled back in bed, when squirrel popped in to tell me it was yet another water emergency involving an indoor waterfall, this time involving building pipes rather than a bad water heater or maintenance error (Previous causes of indoor/outdoor waterfall. There was a really impressive one from a forth floor balcony once when the guys replacing the roof had an ooopsie). As I wrote this, he came out to tell me that my suspicion it was frozen pipes was correct. Get this, they hadn't insulated the main building pipes for the forth floor so they burst. Duh. There is a reason they won a massive lawsuit against the guy that built this place. Indoor waterfall through four floors of maintenance area and out the front door to freeze in the parking lot. O.o. I think there is water in the wall between my bathroom and the hall. There is water in the carpet approximately where my washer and dryer are. I can't see water, but I can smell wet plaster in there. I have Concerns.

One of the other buildings had the same thing happen last week. I hope they quick wrap the pipes in the third building.

Livia had just emerged from the secure hide for her reassurance pet and was about a minute in when the alarm went off again. Cats panicked. I figured it was the inevitable multiple retriggering sequence after a water emergency. They shut off all the building alarms for the duration after the second retrigger. I didn't see Livia again until about 8. (I have furnished her favorite hide with a multilevel sleep complex and toys in the lower level. She's fine in there. Sometimes she sleeps in there for fun.

Fucking Low Bid contractors.

Update: Apparently the upper floors had to lose their electrical for safety reasons overnight, and the elevator shaft filled up with water which needs pumping out. Remediation is going to be expensive and time consuming.

I am horrified all those people are dealing with this in the kind of weather we've been having because asshole low bid contractor decided to save a few bucks by not wrapping the pipes. I'm furious he was hired to build this place given his reputation for exactly this sort of thing.

* "Judge To Trump Lawyer: Control Your Client | Christie’s Hot Mic Moment | Belichick Exits:"

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* "Meanwhile… Gillian Anderson’s Vulva Dress | Wienermobile Seeks Driver | Giant Shakira Statue:"

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* "Ligeia to go (Poe in 2 minutes, English version):"

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* "RIP queer TV: Every LGBTQ+ show we’ve lost in recent memory:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/13/lgbtq-tv-shows-cancelled-2023-2024/

* "Trump Delivers His Closing Argument:"

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* "Die For You - The Weeknd ('70s James Bond Style Cover) starring Tatum Langley:"

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* "The Chain - Fleetwood Mac ('70s Jazz Cover) ft. Tawanda:"

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* "2024 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

* "The queen of a fairy tale kingdom, got cursed to give birth to a princess who’s going to live her life isolated in a tower the first 20 years of her life.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/185279756723/you-the-queen-of-a-fairy-tale-kingdom-got-cursed

* "Roleplay Is Not Dead Nor Doth It Sleep:" https://www.tumblr.com/steampunktoy/739352031505104896?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* Duplications may occur for the next while due to laptop issue.




* "Number of Gazans Detained in Israel Jumps by 150% in a Month; Witness: Soldiers Abuse Detainees in Military Facility:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-03/ty-article/.premium/number-of-gazans-detained-in-israel-jumps-150-witness-soldiers-abuse-detainees/0000018c-ca0b-d6c4-ab8d-ebbf60380000

* "Editorial | Israel Must Stop Abusing and Humiliating Palestinian Prisoners:" https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-03/ty-article-opinion/israel-must-stop-the-beating-and-humiliation-of-palestinian-prisoners/0000018c-cbf7-dc35-adee-cbf7961c0000

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "PALESTINIANS SUE BIDEN FOR FAILING TO PREVENT GENOCIDE IN GAZA:" https://theintercept.com/2023/11/13/gaza-lawsuit-biden-israel-genocide/




* "Did anything good happen in 2023?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/12/26/2023-positive-good-news-stories/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAzNzM5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA1MTIxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDM3Mzk2MDAsImp0aSI6IjU5NzMxNTE2LTI2ZTMtNDEzMy1hY2I1LTc1OWUwMWQyMDIxMSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9saWZlc3R5bGUvMjAyMy8xMi8yNi8yMDIzLXBvc2l0aXZlLWdvb2QtbmV3cy1zdG9yaWVzLyJ9.GYl7lLrKb-oJhv00PFdP9NwehUYHQKc1pg9jx6byYy0

* The rule protects LGBTQIA+ Foster children from being sent to live with queerphobes in order to protect them from abuse. "Biden foster care rule draws GOP opposition:" https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/4387908-biden-foster-care-rule-draws-gop-opposition/?utm_source=press.coop

* "The Pentagon's 2nd in command was not informed of defense secretary's hospitalization:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223333029/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-secrecy

* "Supreme Court takes up Colorado's decision to kick Trump off its primary ballot:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222859510/supreme-court-colorado-ballots

* People will die. "Supreme Court allows Idaho abortion ban to be enacted, first such ruling since Dobbs:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1216284896/supreme-court-allows-idaho-abortion-ban-to-be-enacted-first-such-ruling-since-do

* "Video Game Voice Actors Express Worry and Confusion After SAG-AFTRA Deal With AI Studio:" https://www.ign.com/articles/video-game-voice-actors-sag-aftra-ai-deal

* "Mailchimp cancels podcast after refusing to work with union producers:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled

* "Happy New Year: A Bunch of Minimum Wage Increases Just Took Effect:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/minimum-wage-increases-2024-states-nelp/

* "Broadband subsidy program that millions use will expire next year if Congress doesn’t act:" https://apnews.com/article/broadband-federal-subsidy-internet-access-congress-biden-f196179935b45632d45169698fd31672

* "Congressional leaders reach a deal to fund the government, avert a shutdown:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223378237/congressional-deal-shutdown

13 Republicans in the House are already furious about it and there are twoish weeks left to actually pass both House and Senate.

* "US Senate Republicans say stopgap needed to avert shutdown, potential problem for Johnson:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-republicans-say-stopgap-needed-avert-shutdown-potential-problem-2024-01-09/

* Republicans are such huge cowards that they've refused his request to testify publicly six times. "House GOP advances effort to hold Hunter Biden in contempt:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/10/congress/hunter-biden-contempt-resolution-advances-00134798

* "Hunter Biden makes a surprise appearance at his own contempt hearing:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1224021556/hunter-biden-surprise-contempt-appearance

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Wisconsin Supreme Court rules legislative maps unconstitutional, orders new boundaries for 2024 vote:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/22/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-legislative-maps-unconstitutional/72010456007/

* "Georgia court weighs voting machines at heart of Trump election fraud claims:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/georgia-court-voting-machines-trump-election-fraud-00134420

* "Attacked by conservatives, UW misinformation researcher gears up for 2024:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/attacked-by-conservatives-uw-misinformation-researcher-gears-up-for-2024/

* "WA GOP fights secretary of state’s effort to track election misinformation:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gop-fights-secretary-of-states-effort-to-track-election-misinformation/?utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all&utm_source=press.coop

* "RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-backs-out-birthday-fundraiser-gala-martin-sheen-mike-tyson-not-attending/

* "Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson rail against Biden to a crowd of seventh graders:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/dean-philips-marianne-williamson-debate-00134405

Forget they were running? So did almost everybody else.

* "Chris Christie ends his Republican presidential bid, criticizing his rivals on his way out:" https://apnews.com/article/christie-presidential-race-5e974cfa407d39af878f066a71af35ad

* "How Chris Christie dropping out changes the Republican primary race:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-chris-christie-dropping-out-changes-the-republican-primary-race-201734213748

* "Insults fly as Haley's rise makes her target at U.S. Republican debate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fourth-us-republican-debate-pits-haley-vs-desantis-no-2-spot-white-house-race-2023-12-06/

* "Republican debate again marked by anti-trans tropes, as DeSantis claims Disney is 'transing' kids:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/haley-desantis-transphobia-disney

* "2024 Republican candidates: Who’s running and how bad would they be for LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/2024-republican-candidates-lgbtq/

* "2024's also-rans find campaign trail is a rocky road:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/2024-s-also-rans-find-campaign-trail-is-a-rocky-road-201658437692

* "Bringing birther back, Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223940451/donald-trump-birther-nikki-haley-citizenship-president-14th-amendment

* "Donald Trump didn’t sign loyalty oath for Illinois ballot that pledges not to ‘advocate the overthrow of the government’:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/6/24027720/donald-trump-loyalty-oath-illinois-ballot-advocate-overthrow-government-pledge-mccarthy-red-scare

* "Biden slams Trump as ‘revealing twisted true colors’ after Trump says he hopes economy crashes in 2024:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/trump-seeks-georgia-dismissal-immunity-00134305

* "Trump suggests that, if re-elected, he would have Biden indicted:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-re-elected-biden-indicted-rcna132810

* "Former Trump Aide Recounts His Calls for Staffer to Be Executed:" https://truthout.org/articles/former-trump-aide-recounts-his-calls-for-staffer-to-be-executed/

* "‘Dictator’ Trump Plans to Deploy Massive Number of Troops on U.S. Soil:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dictator-trump-troops-border-1234929369/

* "U.S. GOP shows unique rejection of democracy with embrace of Trump: Maddow:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-gop-shows-unique-rejection-of-democracy-with-embrace-of-trump-maddow-201585221527

* "Trump's day-one dictatorship tops litany of contrasts targeted by Biden campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-day-one-dictatorship-tops-litany-of-contrasts-targeted-by-biden-campaign-201584197946

* "'The Republican Party is in terribly ill health': Schiff cites frailty of U.S. political system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-republican-party-is-in-terribly-ill-health-schiff-cites-frailty-of-u-s-political-system-201587781728




* "Judge says Donald Trump won’t give own closing argument at civil fraud trial after disputing rules:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-trial-closing-arguments-420997f889922423dbce8a0945f0c348

* "Judge preempts Trump ploy to turn New York trial into circus:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/judge-preempts-trump-ploy-to-turn-new-york-trial-into-circus-201734213956

* "Trump seeks dismissal of Georgia indictment, again claiming broad immunity:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/trump-seeks-georgia-dismissal-immunity-00134305

* "Filing alleges ‘improper’ relationship between Fulton DA, top Trump prosecutor:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-filing-alleges-improper-relationship-between-fulton-da-top-trump-prosecutor/A2N2OWCM7FFWJBQH2ORAK2BKMQ/

* "Trump’s immunity claim gets frosty reception at appeals court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/trumps-immunity-claim-gets-frosty-reception-at-appeals-court-00134512

* "New report cites Trump aides' testimony on damning new details about Trump on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-report-cites-trump-aides-testimony-on-damning-new-details-about-trump-on-jan-6-201658949634

* "Trump lawyer: Assassination of enemies covered under presidential immunity:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-lawyer-assassination-of-enemies-covered-under-presidential-immunity-201649221631

* "‘Ludicrous’: Hear the ‘strangest’ argument from Trump’s immunity hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ludicrous-hear-the-strangest-argument-from-trump-s-immunity-hearing-201650245821




* "Special Counsel Jack Smith among spate of officials targeted by holiday hoax 'swatting': NBC News:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/special-counsel-jack-smith-among-spate-of-officials-targeted-by-holiday-hoax-swatting-nbc-news-201587781628

* "Judge Targeted With Bomb Threat Hours Before Closing Arguments In Trump Fraud Trial :" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/judge-engoron-swatted-hours-before-trump-closing-arguments-1234944593/

* "Several state Capitols evacuated after bomb threats:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/state-capitol-buildings-evacuated-bomb-threats-rcna132096

* "Antisemitism has a long history in Los Angeles:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-05/patt-morrison-antisemitism-is-not-new-certainly-not-in-los-angeles

* "Opinion: Latest threats to synagogues in San Diego and across the U.S. reflect growing antisemitism:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2024-01-09/opinion-antisemitism-san-diego-synagogue-threats-israel-hamas

* "Homicides in U.S. set to drop by record numbers this year:" https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

* "Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-think-crime-rate-up-actually-down-rcna129585

* "He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/nyregion/wrongful-conviction-murder.html

* "Court blocks Ohio law requiring parental consent for TikTok, Instagram. What it means:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/government/2024/01/07/parents-can-soon-limit-kids-social-medwhat-to-know-about-new-ohio-law-limiting-kids-social-media-use/72140568007/

* "Lawmakers consider plan to restrict book banning:" https://www.salemnews.com/news/lawmakers-consider-plan-to-restrict-book-banning/article_7566961d-8f1a-536b-8941-255a160fe703.html

* "These kids want to go to school. The main obstacle? Paperwork:" https://apnews.com/article/school-enrollment-atlanta-paperwork-22f4b2e1fc15f73f370da9f2679c02f1

* CW: CSA, Human Trafficking. "A Quick Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Documents Unsealed on Jan. 3, 2024:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/04/jeffrey-epstein-unsealed-document-guide/

* "MAGA Hero Jason Whitlock slams women's right to vote:" https://boingboing.net/2023/12/19/maga-hero-denounces-womens-voting-rights.html

* "What is a ‘trad wife’? The conservative social media movement explained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/what-is-a-trad-wife-social-media-movement-explained/

* "No, trans women aren’t causing an HRT shortage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/trans-women-hormone-shortage-hrt/

* "Ohio House overrides Gov. DeWine's veto of gender-affirming care ban; Senate votes January 24:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-house-trans-veto-override

* "‘We are afraid’: Trans kids and medics urge South Carolina lawmakers to block trans healthcare ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/trans-kids-south-carolina-ban/

* If you live in Ohio, please comment to help save bodily Autonomy for transfolk: https://mha.ohio.gov/about-us/rules-and-regulations/rules/draft-rules/gender-transition-care

* "The increasing risk of criminal charges for women who experience a miscarriage:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-increasing-risk-of-criminal-charges-for-women-who-experience-a-miscarriage

* "Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules:" https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/02/texas-abortion-fifth-circuit/

* People are dying. "Did an Abortion Ban Cost a Young Texas Woman Her Life?:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/abortion-high-risk-pregnancy-yeni-glick

* "Greece drafting bill to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/greece-same-sex-marriage-bill/

* "‘I grew up in a homophobic cult and prayed to God to make me straight’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/homophobic-cult-growing-up-gay-tiktok/

* "World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe supports trans inclusion in local sport:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/world-athletics-association-sebastian-coe-defends-trans-participation-in-local-sport/

* "Millions Die of Malaria With Miracle Drugs at Hand:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/malaria-vaccine-funding.html

* "FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease:" https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-gene-therapies-treat-patients-sickle-cell-disease

* "Magnetic surgical robot makes international debut in Chile hospital:" https://www.reuters.com/science/magnetic-surgical-robot-makes-international-debut-chile-hospital-2023-12-06/

* "The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-maternal-cells-microchimerism/676996/




* "Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-warming-heating-earth-europe-copernicus-60eb12d11b7e5f694848673bb58512d3

* "Snow loss pinned to human-induced emissions:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03993-5

* "U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 as Coal Use Tumbled to New Lows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2023-climate.html

* "The United States is producing more oil than any country in history:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html




* "Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers:" https://apnews.com/article/chocolate-deforestation-cocoa-farming-nigeria-8813c4656635a4ae8b49c6fd7ced6d28

* "Ethical Questions Arise After AI “Completes” Keith Haring Painting:" https://hyperallergic.com/865291/ethical-questions-arise-after-ai-completes-keith-haring-painting/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D010924&utm_content=D010924+CID_60293e60ec7f70af8338050e1e6e4210&utm_source=hn&utm_term=Ethical+Questions+Arise+After+AI+Completes+Keith+Haring+Painting

* "OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/openai-says-its-impossible-to-create-useful-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material/

* "JUST SAY NO TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN YOUR CREATIVE PURSUITS, PLEASE, JFC, WTAF:" https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/01/10/just-say-no-to-artificial-intelligence-in-your-creative-pursuits-please-jfc-wtaf/

* "Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-boeing-dei-diversity-x-posts-pilots-rcna133351

* "How these parrots went from the tropical jungle to the concrete jungle:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/los-angeles-flocks-wild-parrots-how-they-get-there

* "Ancient Romans lost these gemstones—down a bathhouse drain:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/ancient-romans-lost-gemstones-bathhouse-drain

* "Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e5mb/mysterious-section-of-the-great-wall-of-china-isnt-what-we-thought-study-reveals

* "The American Soldier Whose Fear of Fighting in Vietnam Led Him to Defect to North Korea. He Stayed There for 40 Years:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-soldier-whose-fear-of-fighting-in-vietnam-led-him-to-defect-to-north-korea-he-stayed-there-for-40-years-180983530/

* "Happy Public Domain Day 2024!:" https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024/

* I'm doing my best with Klaus, migrating functions. It's way less efficient this way and a bunch of other things I normally do on Klaus need to keep on happening, so there are zero promises about me getting any number of things done when I normally do them. Some friends have clubbed together and are planning to send something I can do some of my messaging, etc. on, which mostly effects my private life. (Important for me and my close friends, but no one else).

The power still hasn't drained from Aidan, so we can't tell if reboot would help. A Millennial may look at it next week to see if anything can be done. I don't have a lot of hope. This is infuriating. Aidan is only a couple years old and was in great shape.

There is a good chance of me double posting accidentally for a bit, as I'm not sure which news items were just prepped or posted.

* "Christie Drops Out | Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals | Celebs Ruin RFK Jr.’s Birthday:"

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* "Stephen Colbert’s Cyborgasm: Chatbots Run Wendy’s Drive Thru | AI Dating Apps | Robotic Third Arm:"

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* "Texas Library Association’s Excuse for Dropping Chuck Tingle Appearance Doesn’t Add Up:" https://www.themarysue.com/texas-library-associations-excuse-for-dropping-chuck-tingle-appearance-doesnt-add-up/

* Chuck Tingle explains the ableism of the TLA in refusing accommodation. "My Masks:" https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739177829397331968/my-masks?source=share

* "Antigone to go (Sophocles in 11 minutes, English version):"

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* "‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/our-flag-means-death-canceled-max-1235866718/

* "A Quick Fix To Improve Your Historical Drama, Fast: The Thing About The Past Is People Still Liked Being Clean:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-quick-fix-to-improve-your-historical?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140517747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "That’s Ludacris!:"

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* "Prompt: After a lackluster 1st year as a Hero, you’re ready to go rogue. The problem is that the new guy in the team is definitely onto you.:" https://www.tumblr.com/caffeinewitchcraft/692435372447285248/that-nerdy-guy-knows-your-secret-you-scan-the

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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* 1/8/24: So where was most of the news for the first week of January? Basically a lot of stuff was happening out in the world while my body is still reading the beefed up daily physio routine as if it's an injury. Basically, I'd be just up to doing prep and then have to go rest. Or do more physio. Or my arm wouldn't be up to much. I have the links despite me thinking for about fifteen minutes I'd lost them in a computer problem at one point.

Trust me, I have been following the news. I'm going to try to at least get essentials from Gaza and some of the world election stuff out before I close out this aggregate edition. the Trump ball of worms is likely going to have to wait.

I will see how much I can wrangle before the Monday arm torture appointment.




* "Israel, Hezbollah trade fire across Lebanon border amid alarm over Gaza war spillover:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/heavy-fire-lebanon-targets-northern-israel-amid-concern-over-gaza-spillover-2024-01-06/

* "Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who headed West Bank operations, killed in Beirut blast:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/02/beirut-explosion-hamas-hezbollah-00133447

* "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war:" https://cpj.org/2024/01/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/

* "An Al Jazeera journalist is the fifth member of his family killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-journalist-killed-jazeera-86db4604dde19caa9c29366225a6648e

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

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* "South Africa’s genocide case against Israel sets up a high-stakes legal battle at the UN’s top court:" https://apnews.com/article/un-court-south-africa-israel-gaza-genocide-71be2ce7f09bfee05a7cae26689ee262

* "Explainer: What is the genocide case against Israel at top UN court?:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-is-genocide-case-against-israel-top-un-court-2024-01-08/

* "The peace activists divided by October 7:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/magazine/israelis-palestinians-peace-forum.html

* "Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide:" https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/11/statement23-10-11/

* "Red Sea Attacks Leave Shipping Companies With Difficult Choices:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/business/red-sea-shipping-houthi.html

* "Maersk warns of major disruption as it diverts ships away from Red Sea:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/maersk-diverts-vessels-away-red-sea-for-foreseeable-future-2024-01-05/

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* "Russian troops are shelling the city of Kharkiv with missiles.:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3810322-russians-attack-kharkiv-with-missiles-at-least-three-explosions-reported.html




* "Displaced, repatriated and crossing borders: Afghan people make grueling journeys to survive:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-war-poverty-refugees-displaced-pakistan-011714d17c5b8bd6cb8c5ddf65e9a5d2

* "Castaways recall month lost at sea between Africa and Europe:" https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/africa-europe-migration-senegal-spain-investigation/index.html

* I get angry about this every time. "Migrants, Roma evicted from squats ahead of Paris 2024 Olympics:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/migrants-roma-evicted-squats-ahead-paris-2024-olympics-2023-12-22/

* "2024 brings wave of elections with global democracy on the ballot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/03/2024-elections-us-eu-portugal-austria-bangladesh-india-south-africa-indonesia-mexico-taiwan/

* "Far-right parties eye gains in next year's EU parliament elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/far-right-parties-eye-gains-next-years-eu-parliament-elections-2023-12-03/

* "Far-right rise could make Europe ungovernable - EU liberals:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/far-right-rise-could-make-europe-ungovernable-eu-liberals-2024-01-09/

* "Pakistan's senate approves delaying elections, but decision not binding:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-senate-approves-delaying-elections-decision-not-binding-2024-01-05/

* "Pakistan internet disrupted as opposition launches election campaign:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240107-pakistan-internet-disrupted-as-opposition-launches-election-campaign

* "Pakistan human rights body says an upcoming election is unlikely to be free and fair:" https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-election-human-rights-commission-khan-3258e2131ac83e89c2c376b476caccec

* "Indonesia presidential frontrunner under fire as rivals attack defence plans:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-presidential-frontrunner-under-fire-rivals-attack-defence-plans-2024-01-08/

* "Indonesia's Presidential Hopefuls Face Off in Debate:" https://www.voanews.com/a/indonesia-s-presidential-hopefuls-face-off-in-debate-/7430544.html

* "Indonesia vote watchdog says president's son broke rules:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-election-watchdog-summons-presidents-son-over-alleged-violation-2024-01-03/

* "What you need to know about the Taiwan election:" https://www.reuters.com/podcasts/what-you-need-know-about-taiwan-election-2024-01-06/

* "Modi's popularity key to selling cut in food aid ahead of Indian elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/modis-popularity-key-selling-cut-food-aid-ahead-indian-elections-2022-12-29/

* "Brazil observes anniversary of the anti-democratic uprising in the capital:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/brazil-observes-anniversary-of-the-anti-democratic-uprising-in-the-capital

* "Argentina court suspends Milei's 'mega-decree' labor reforms:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-court-suspends-mileis-mega-decree-labor-reforms-2024-01-03/

* "EHRC to be investigated by UN group after bullying allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/08/ehrc-investigation-united-nations/

* Tactical Voting Tool. "UNITE AGAINST THE TORIES:" https://tacticalvote.co.uk/

* "Mexico’s weed ‘nuns’ want to take the plant back from the narcos:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-drugs-nuns/

* "Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/31/world/americas/cat-prison-chile.html

* "Finland Solved Homelessness: Here's How (Spoiler: It's More Than Housing First):"

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* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "‘I can finally vote by myself’: Disability advocate works to improve accessibility at the polls:" https://www.secondwavemedia.com/lakeshore/features/Disability%20advocate_works_to_improve_accessibility_at_polls.aspx

* Early voting has already staryed in some states. Primaries matter. If you live in an open primary state, like I do, remember you can vote strategically. Remember also to vote in all races. Primaries are how you get more progressive government on every level.

* "Fmr. Capitol Police Officer announces run for Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/fmr-capitol-police-officer-announces-run-for-congress-201470021945

* "‘Are you better off now?’: What America was really like 4 years ago under Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-are-you-better-off-now-what-america-was-really-like-4-years-ago-under-trump-201320517532

* CW: CSA, Human Trafficking. "Hayes: There’s only one anti-Epstein candidate—and it’s not Trump or RFK Jr.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-there-s-only-one-anti-epstein-candidate-and-it-s-not-trump-or-rfk-jr-201385029865

* "The Urgent Fight for Democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-urgent-fight-for-democracy-201493061603

* "‘Too lame to lead’: GOP candidates launch attack ads in final weeks before Iowa:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-too-lame-to-lead-gop-candidates-launch-attack-ads-in-final-weeks-before-iowa-201259589935

* "Colorado and Maine Kick Trump Off The Ballot:"

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* "Rep. Crockett: We know Trump got more than $7.8 million from foreign governments:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-crockett-we-know-trump-got-more-than-7-8-million-from-foreign-governments-201494597674




* "Rep. Dean: Democracy is a fragile thing, I didn't realize it until Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-dean-democracy-is-a-fragile-thing-i-didn-t-realize-it-until-jan-6-201470021849

* "Fmr. DC Police Officer reflects on third anniversary of Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/fmr-dc-police-officer-reflects-on-third-anniversary-of-jan-6-201471557856

* "Sixth Grader Killed and 5 Others Injured in Iowa School Shooting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/perry-iowa-school-shooting.html

* "Things to know about a school shooting in the small Iowa town of Perry:" https://apnews.com/article/perry-iowa-school-shooting-things-to-know-07b7d636e9ec1d3f1ca6be628aff6e8d

* "What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books:" https://www.tcpress.com/blog/young-people-read-disturbing-books/

* "LGBTQ Fiction Sales Are Up, but We Still Urgently Need Creative Ways To Fight Book Bans:" https://www.autostraddle.com/lgbtq-fiction-sales-are-up-but-we-still-urgently-need-creative-ways-to-fight-book-bans/

* "Threats to medication abortion access drive U.S. women to stockpile pills:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/threats-to-medication-abortion-access-drive-u-s-women-to-stockpile-pills

* "Is LGBTQ+ too inclusive??:"

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* "Asexuality Is Finally Breaking Free from Medical Stigma:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asexuality-is-finally-breaking-free-from-medical-stigma/

* "Uganda stabbing victim Steven Kabuye blames LGBTQ+ attacks on politicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/08/uganda-stabbing-victim-lgbtq-attack/

* "Police release images of man after couple attacked in London Underground hate crime:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/07/london-underground-bank-homophobic-attack/

* "Black trans woman Amber Minor remembered after devastating Christmas Eve shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/07/black-trans-woman-christmas-eve-shooting/

* "A new COVID variant is dominant in the US: Know these symptoms:" https://news.yahoo.com/covid-variant-spreading-fast-us-014701360.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

* "Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long Covid Risk:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccination-dramatically-lowers-long-covid-risk/

* "Respiratory virus activity is high and rising across the United States, CDC data shows:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/respiratory-virus-activity-high-rising-192815114.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=0_00

* "mRNA covid vaccines, citing debunked claim:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/

* "Philips Recalled Breathing Machines in 2021. Chemicals of “Concern” Found in Replacement Machines Raised New Alarm.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-recall-machines-chemicals-of-concern

* "The changing face of America’s favorite sport:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2023/football-participation-decline-politics-demographics/?itid=mr_1




* "Britain hit by flooding after heavy rain swells major rivers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-hit-by-flooding-after-heavy-rain-swells-major-rivers-2024-01-05/

* "Blizzard conditions bear down on central US, closing schools and highways:" https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-weather-09d8e810fc5d80a34ef8bf008bfec7a1

* "Severe Thunderstorms and Likely Tornadoes Cause Damage in Florida:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/us/tornado-storms-georgia-florida.html

* "How safety rules ‘written in blood’ saved lives in Tokyo plane crash :" https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/travel/tokyo-plane-crash-safety-rules-analysis-intl/index.html

* "FAA orders grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after Alaska Airlines incident:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223296736/boeing-737-max-9-planes-grounded




* "Inside India’s Gargantuan Mission to Clean the Ganges River:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/river-ganges-clean-up-india-modi

* "Drought-prone California OKs new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking water:" https://apnews.com/article/california-recycled-wastewater-drought-8b476dc83652af43c6aad52070b9d992

* "After a Decade of Planning, New York City Is Raising Its Shoreline:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/new-york-city-climate-plan-sea-level-rise

* "The nation’s capital, built on water, struggles to keep from drowning:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/dc-low-lying-city-flood-risks/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAzMTM0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA0NTE3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDMxMzQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjJhMDE5Y2E4LTc0OTctNDM4OC05ZTEwLWI5MmI4ZDU5NjY1NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50L2ludGVyYWN0aXZlLzIwMjMvZGMtbG93LWx5aW5nLWNpdHktZmxvb2Qtcmlza3MvIn0.ftwEQeIL-DQKqGE7C2Rpq12eEXSIop4bKI31feVa9ng&itid=gfta

* "From Austin to Anchorage, U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/02/1221366173/u-s-cities-drop-parking-space-minimums-development

* "Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/

* "Making Transparent Wood:"

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* "Don't Use AI Viking Face Apps:"

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* "What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home:" https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-energy-heating-homes/

* "Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking People Using 'Incognito Mode':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-settles-5-billion-privacy-lawsuit-over-tracking-people-using-incognito-mode_n_65903bade4b0cd3cf0e57701

* "'New York Times' sues ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Microsoft, for copyright infringement:" https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221821750/new-york-times-sues-chatgpt-openai-microsoft-for-copyright-infringement

* "The Reach and Accuracy of Information on Autism on TikTok:" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37544970/

* "Try not to let moose lick your car, Parks Canada warns, as more salt-seeking animals flock to highways:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dont-let-moose-lick-1.7074587

* "Spy Octopus Helps Friend Hide From Shark:"

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* "The checkered history of the poinsettia’s namesake and the flower’s origins get new attention:" https://apnews.com/article/poinsettia-joel-poinsett-noche-buena-mexico-a5f4abea985e0f44523b2963ff435b56

* "The Truth About Arsenic in the Victorian Era:"

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* "This 50-Year-Old Footage Shows What Life in New York Was Like in the 1970s:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/vintage-video-new-york-city-1970s

* "Apo Whang-Od And The Thousand-Year-Old Tradition Live On:" https://vogue.ph/lifestyle/apo-whang-od-and-the-thousand-year-old-tradition-live-on/

* "Singapore's clandestine cats can soon legally call the city-state home:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapores-clandestine-cats-can-soon-legally-call-city-state-home-2024-01-03/

* "Single mother comes home to find driveway stolen:" https://local12.com/news/nation-world/single-mother-driveway-stolen-contractor-scam-real-estate-construction-replacement-cost-police-theft-investigation-home-value-sell-moving-contract-gofund-me-fundraiser-orange-county-florida

* For the first time since I moved up here in 1998, none of the neighbors set off fireworks. The laws got a lot stricter a few years ago, but the reservation is not that far, so people tend to have them all over town. My suspicion is, the complex has really beefed up surveillance, which i hate, but boomers are in charge, so….

I am glad there were no explosions. It's rough on veterans and animals and people with certain sensory situations, etc.. It didn't effect me much personally until this batch of cats, who are extremely sensitive. (The previous clowder ranged from indifference to curious.). The Imperial couple always find the explosions terrifying, especially as they are often a few feet from their windows.

This year, I failed to notice the turning of the year until 1:09AM, as i was busy with something. I only really drink for weddings and funerals or the equivalent. I am too old and tired for drunken parties, and my local friends are small gathering people. When I had a partner, we favored the large municipal fireworks displays, or small parties, or beach gatherings over large drunken things, but were just as likely to have a quiet romantic evening at home as go out to see explosions.

The cats entirely slept through it. They were crashed out so hard, they missed me padding about around 2ish, sprinkling fresh nip in there very beat up scratch and nap boxes. I literally accidentally sprinkled some on the emperor and he didn't stir.

This was so much nicer than them being terrified and running for the hides and needing hours of reassurance.

I still oppose the surveillance, etc., but I admit, it is pleasing not to have to worrying about the cats.

* There was a cleaner Tuesday, which was a huge help. Friday rescheduled to later Friday. We'll see if they actually come. I had another rough week with pain and exhaustion, but I'm finally starting to see results from the new batch of physio.

* Friday cleaner did come and took down most of the Gothmas decorations, mopped floors, etc.. We still need to stow the Halloween trees, and some miscellaneous things, but everything is much nicer with the dishes done and away and the floors clean. I think scheduling two this week was the right thing. The cats were delighted to see the window bench mostly devoid of Goth tchotchkes.

One of my few remaining relatives sent me shirt money, so I ordered a plain purple and a fancier one that I likely will wear outside of the surgery context. This means I'm up to four shirts. My plan is to mostly not bother with shirts when I don't have to go out until my arm heals up some, so it should be all right. I'm still stressed about the whole logistics of recovery, because I'll be mostly helpless in a bunch of areas and I hate that.

Livia love selected a new Spot at some point in early December and has been living it up. She's also decided that New Millennial is Safe and is relaxed enough to let me rub the tummy in her room when the Millennial is on the sofa. It is a huge show of trust for her to be that relaxed when there are People in her Home. I am endlessly proud of her. Tavy spent a whole hour Thursday night asleep in the crook of my good arm, which he hasn't been calm enough to do for a while.

* Tuesday: I have not enjoyed anything my body has done in the last 24 hours.

* "I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_LW1PkmnY

* "Very Bad Publishers Part VIII:" https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/very-bad-publishers-part-ix?r=2hlocf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

* "Odyssey to go (Homer in 14 minutes, English version):"

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* "A Midsummer Nights Dream to go (Shakespeare in 12.5 minutes):"

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* "Trump’s Theory Of Magnetivity:"

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* "The five most important queer moments from the Golden Globes 2024:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/08/the-five-biggest-queer-moments-from-the-golden-globes-2024/

* References for various types of traditional dress: https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/738450685451010048?source=share

* A thing on how Americans tend to think of Calvinism as the default for Christianity in which we get into things like how very different Medieval Catholicism is.: https://www.tumblr.com/littlescratches/738868338146639872/a-good-way-to-get-a-vague-idea-with-how-it-used-to

* "A Letter from “Crawly” to Azirapil:" https://archiveofourown.org/works/19730593

* "My neoclassical New Year's Eve party dress: Ancient Roman, Regency, and historybounding lookbook!:"

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* "True Facts: The Rise of the Kitten Snake:"

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* "I assure you that I am a fully functional human with a backstory and everything.:" https://wilwheaton.net/2024/01/i-assure-you-that-i-am-a-fully-functional-human-with-a-backstory-and-everything/

* "Reverse Saltburn and The "Boy Kate Middleton" Genre:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/reverse-saltburn-and-the-boy-kate?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140285062&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "Sentenced to death in a magical court:" https://www.tumblr.com/dycefic/656084683226038272/writing-prompt-s-you-have-been-sentenced-to-death

* "An old and homely grandmother accidentally summons a demon.:" https://jumpingjacktrash.tumblr.com/post/160598655019/fireandshellamari-gilajames

* "A daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids’ parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/633183446892691456/writing-prompt-s-youre-a-daycare-worker

* "You were once the demon king.:" https://caffeinewitchcraft.tumblr.com/post/634539896857608192/writing-prompt-s-you-were-once-the-demon-king

* "Legolas and Gimli get married at least 5 times and here’s why:" https://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/696788010995417088/lenin-it-to-win-it-legolas-and-gimli-get-married

* Grandmother Beetroot: https://thestalkerbunny.tumblr.com/post/623514977716846592/times-are-troubling-and-hard-right-now-but-never

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food. They just need $75 more.: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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* Very little Thursday made it on here. Sorry.




* "Israel Knew Hamas’ Attack Plan a Year Before Oct. 7: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/israel-hamas-attack-knew-over-year-1234906803/

* "‘Designed to start a war’: Israel obtained Hamas battle plan more than year ago, NYT reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-designed-to-start-a-war-israel-obtained-hamas-battle-plan-more-than-year-ago-nyt-reports-199121989757

* "War resumes in Gaza after truce collapses:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-negotiators-try-get-israel-hamas-agree-extend-truce-again-2023-12-01/

* I keep warning about disinformation operations. "Is Hamas.com a Website for Hamas?
Forensic evidence indicated the website was created on an Israeli platform.:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hamas-website/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

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* "White House grapples with internal divisions on Israel-Gaza:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/26/biden-white-house-divisions-israel-gaza/

* "Let's talk about the Joint Chief's comment....:"

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* "Let's talk about Russia, the Baltics, and balance....:"

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* "Russian Women Protest Long Deployments for Soldiers in Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/world/europe/russia-ukraine-protests-women.html

* "Let's talk about Putin, persuade, promise, pay, and pitchforks....:"

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* "Why Vladimir Putin Is Embracing Germany’s Far Right:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-germany-far-right/675838/

* "Socialist nationalism is on the rise in Germany:" https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/socialist-nationalism-rise-germany-192936885.html?guccounter=1

* "Why an oil kingdom is hosting the COP28 climate summit and other questions answered:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/27/cop28-climate-summit-dubai/

* "UAE plotted to use COP28 to push for oil and gas deals, leaked notes show :" https://www.politico.eu/article/uae-cop28-climate-oil-gas-deal-leak-sultan-ahmed-al-jaber/

* "President Joe Biden plans to skip U.N. climate talks beginning this week in Dubai:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-cop28-biden-climate-change-fossil-fuels-ab76a0325549b8b15b453361b2ca43b8

* This is where I am on this, BTW. "Let's talk about Biden skipping COP28....:"

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* "Dublin knife attack: ‘The only thing I thought was to avoid more people from being injured’:" https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/11/27/brazilian-man-who-tried-to-help-people-at-dublin-knife-attack-scene-feared-for-life-as-riots-erupted/

* "Dublin riots: Varadkar vows to punish racists responsible as immigrants fear more attacks:" https://www.politico.eu/article/pm-leo-varadkar-ireland-will-punish-racists-responsible-dublin-riot/

* "New energy price hike could push more vulnerable people into poverty, experts warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/24/energy-cost-rise-ofgem-poverty/

* "Liz Truss aligns herself with worst people in US politics in battle against ‘woke agenda’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/29/liz-truss-donald-trump-george-santos/

* "Sir Elton John urges next election winner to eradicate AIDS by 2030:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/elton-john-election-eradicate-aids-2030/

* "Nigel Farage accused of using his Cameo account to spread homophobia and racism:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/nigel-farage-cameo-homophobia/

* "Let's talk about satellite cat and mouse....:"

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* "Biden visits Boebert’s district to reject Republican criticism of green policies:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-boebert-colorado-republicans-0edd0c6f25fe17edd92f8c80b0488f89

* Republicans still don't have any evidence supporting their inquiry and are too cowardly to televise the testimony. "House GOP denies Hunter Biden demand on impeachment inquiry testimony:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/28/congress/comer-shuts-down-hunter-biden-ask-00128851

* "Hunter Biden calls bluff of House Republicans in ‘absolutely humiliating' blow:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hunter-biden-calls-bluff-of-house-republicans-in-absolutely-humiliating-blow-199032389950

* As of when I checked about an hour before this went up, Santos was still in Congress. It may not be the case by the time you see it.

* "House GOP appears to have the votes to expel Santos:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/11/29/congress/expelling-santos-whip-count-00129052

* "George Santos Still Dismisses Calls to Resign: 'I'm Not Leaving':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-x-spaces

* Sigh. "Watch George Santos Complain He’s Being Bullied Out of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-bullied-expulsion

* "Mike Johnson Says He Spoke With George Santos About Ethics Scandal Over Thanksgiving :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-2666369828

* "The GOP hypocrisy of denouncing George Santos while coup plotters remain in Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-gop-hypocrisy-of-denouncing-george-santos-while-coup-plotters-remain-in-congress-199122501742

* "Let's talk about Santos going live....:"

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* "KOSA: A Nationwide Anti-Trans/LGBTQ+ Bill in All but Name:" https://juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-nationwide-anti-trans-lgbtq-bill-in-all-but-name-d6d9f8b8ec6c

KOSA is an anti-LGBTQIA+ censorship bill. It is essential you call THIS week. Tell them you are specifically against KOSA and especially against hotlining the bill.

* "Stop KOSA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1946879.html

* "Parents of Trans Youth Fear KOSA’s Trojan Horse:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/parents-fear-kosa-trojan-horse

* "The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse:" https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/

* "Stop Democrats from "hotlining" the anti-LGBTQ+ bill KOSA:" https://www.seattleindivisible.com/daily-actions/2023/11/13/stop-democrats-from-hotlining-the-anti-lgbtq-bill-kosa

For a detailed template and links, visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UcACaL89ashbGX51ICyGrqgCAGGv5iYcm7ze06i-TgQ/edit

From our friends at the Take Action Network: https://www.takeaction.network/xactions/34004

More on Hotlining from How Democracy Works Now Glossary: https://www.howdemocracyworksnow.com/glossary/hotline

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Arizona GOP county officials face charges after refusing to certify election on time:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1140642960/arizona-cochise-county-elections-charges

* "Republican refusal to certify local election results seen as dress rehearsal for 2024 chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-refusal-to-certify-local-election-results-seen-as-dress-rehearsal-for-2024-chaos-198862917930

* "Republican threat to Fani Willis runs into legal wall at state supreme court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-threat-to-fani-willis-runs-into-legal-wall-at-state-supreme-court-198864453514

* "Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo announces retirement after three decades in Congress:" https://smdp.com/2023/11/27/democratic-rep-anna-eshoo-announces-retirement-after-three-decades-in-congress/

* "Looking To 2024: What's Next In The Fight Over Trans Rights In America:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/looking-to-2024-whats-next-the-fight

* "The New Normal on Trans Rights is Unacceptable:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/transphobia-loses-for-republicans

* "Vivek Ramaswamy Turns Stigma Against Mental Illness On Trans Youth:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/vivek-ramaswamy-mental-illness-trans-youth

* "Nikki Haley lands endorsement from Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity PAC:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1215562976/nikki-haley-koch-brothers-iowa-new-hampshire-gop-primary

* "'Best shot:' Big money donors bet on Nikki Haley to take down Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-best-shot-big-money-donors-bet-on-nikki-haley-to-take-down-trump-199035461647

* "Kochs bet on Trump faceplant; back Haley to consolidate opposition:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/kochs-bet-on-trump-faceplant-back-haley-to-consolidate-opposition-198954053802

* "Coveted Latino voters get familiar ally in fight against disinformation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/coveted-latino-voters-get-familiar-ally-in-fight-against-disinformation-199131717786

* "Anti-Trump Republicans, This Is Your Fault, Too:"

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* "Trump’s gift to Florida Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/trump-obamacare-florida-democrats-00129031

* "Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, his lawyers hope to distance him from them:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-trump-jack-smith-doj-trial-1e3b917739a06a9d63227298f5547793

* "'Make them pay': Trump demands government punish MSNBC for critical coverage:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-make-them-pay-trump-demands-government-punish-msnbc-for-critical-coverage-199034949775

* "Trump spins economic fairy tale; counts on voters with short memories:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/covid-s-lingering-shadow-complicates-economy-and-economic-messaging-for-2024-199042629767

* "Let's talk about the least free states....:"

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* "Tenn. vaccine chief, fired after promoting COVID shots, gets $150K settlement:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/tenn-vaccine-chief-fired-after-promoting-covid-shots-gets-150k-settlement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

* "Florida Official Lay Dying for 24 Minutes Without Help: Report :" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-official-dies-desantis-office

* "House Speaker Mike Johnson ‘applauded’ idea of making gay sex illegal:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/23/house-speaker-mike-johnson-applauded-gay-sex-illegal/

* Never forget Republicans want us all dead. The two parties are not the same. "School board president Sonja Shaw linked to lobbyists who support state executions for gays:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/school-board-president-sonja-shaw-linked-to-lobbyists-who-support-state-executions-for-gays




* "Court filing reveals Rep. Scott Perry’s vast web of contacts in bid to reverse 2020 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/scott-perry-texts-unsealed-00129195

* "‘Damning’: New Pence notes point to GOP senator's role in Jan. 6 plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-damning-new-pence-notes-point-to-gop-senator-s-role-in-jan-6-plot-198941765724

* "Rep. Perry's central role in Trump's election scheme exposed by 'clerical error':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/rep-perry-s-central-role-in-trump-s-election-scheme-exposed-by-clerical-error-199131205615

* "Why Judges in the Trump Jan. 6 Trial Need a Rocket Docket:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/opinion/trump-judges-january-6-trial.html

* "What's the hold-up? How a civil case against Donald Trump is delaying his federal Jan 6 prosecution:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-s-the-hold-up-how-a-civil-case-against-donald-trump-is-delaying-his-federal-jan-6-prosecution-198951493933

* "Campaign notes sound in Trump's grasping criminal defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/campaign-notes-sound-in-trump-s-grasping-criminal-defense-199042629680




* "‘Tragically ironic’: Family of Palestinian shooting victim speaks out:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-tragically-ironic-family-of-palestinian-shooting-victim-speaks-out-198954053853

* "There Are Now Tests That Can Detect If Someone Took Abortion Pills:" https://jezebel.com/there-are-now-tests-that-can-detect-if-someone-took-abo-1850839647

* "Women harmed by Texas anti-abortion law take fight to state supreme court:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/women-harmed-by-texas-anti-abortion-law-take-fight-to-state-supreme-court-198954565630

* "Prosecutors Say Nonbinary Mexican Magistrate Died in Horrific Murder-Suicide:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nonbinary-mexican-magistrate-murder-suicide

* "Brianna Ghey trial: Alleged killer had note detailing plan to murder teen:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/28/brianna-ghey-note-court-trial/

* CW: Suicide. "Conservative Media Outlet 1819 News Under Fire for Outing Alabama Mayor Who Died:" https://www.advocate.com/news/1819-news-copeland-suicide-scrutiny

* "Hockey Is Cracking Down on Cancer Support and Native Heritage After Banning Pride:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/marc-andre-fleury-helmet-nhl

* "David Tennant says trans Tardis badge, and supporting queer people, is ‘what Doctor Who is all about’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/24/david-tennant-trans-tardis-badge-lgbtq-charity-thousands-reaction/




* "Police retrieve wreckage of fatal plane crash from Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-25/police-bring-up-wreckage-of-fatal-plane-crash-melbourne/103150296




* "Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/nyregion/offshore-wind-power-farm-ny.html

* "Sodium in Batteries: Shift May Herald Another Shakeup:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-26/sodium-in-ev-and-storage-batteries-may-herald-another-shakeup?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Old EV Batteries Get a Second Life Storing Solar Energy:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/11/old-ev-batteries-solar-power-grid-backup-b2u/

* "Elon Musk tells cautious Twitter advertisers to ‘go f**k yourselves’ in interview:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers/

* "Fake news-prone Musk embraces another debunked conspiracy theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/fake-news-prone-musk-embraces-another-debunked-conspiracy-theory-198955077888

* "Substack Has a Nazi Problem:" https://archive.ph/ZhKCt

* "Gay furry hackers infiltrate huge nuclear lab to demand cat-girl research:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/28/gay-furry-hackers-nuclear-lcat-girls/

* "Dating advice from medieval times?! Reacting to middle ages tips for romance on Valentine's day:"

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* "How Nazi Germany Persecuted Transgender People:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/nazi-germany-trans-people-persecution

* "The Pogues singer and ‘Fairytale of New York’ star Shane MacGowan dies aged 65:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/the-pogues-singer-fairytale-of-new-york-shane-macgowan-dies/

The Pogues where fundamental architecture in the way my mind works, a slice of my youth.

We played Pogues at the wake for my cherry blossom boy.

I have no words for how I feel as I write this. It was a messy messy time and he was an incredibly messy man with a complicated life.

It is a miracle he made it to the 21st century at all, let alone to nearly the end of 2023. I know that very well. I still feel like a piece of me was sliced off. I can't really explain it. i never met him. I never wanted to. His music was a wild thing, a powerful thing that cut to the bone.

* "How Shane MacGowan’s views on Fairytale of New York’s homophobic lyrics changed:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/fairytale-of-new-york-discourse-homophobic/

* "Shane MacGowan remembered by fans for ‘herrenvolk s***e’ tweet at Laurence Fox:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/01/shane-macgowan-tweet-laurence-fox-fairytale-of-new-york/

* "Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

* "Controversial former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dies age 100:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-dies-aged-100/

* On Kissinger death celebrations: https://www.tumblr.com/blankmuse/735506959488466944

* "Now feels like a good time to plug the organizations that the Kissinger Death Tontine accepted donations-as-submissions from!:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/735458103739465728?source=share

* I rescheduled Cleaning for Tuesday afternoon, but correctly did not get my hopes up. No reminder bot and no call from a cleaner the day before or morning of. I slept in my clothes and didn't even try to be awake for arrival time. No cleaner since the first Friday of November. No call to tell me no one was coming from Asshole agency. They did call three hours after the promised arrival time. I pointed out how long it had been since they'd sent an aid. They said they'd "reach out" for Friday. I trust them not at all, but last time when they skipped out on five in a row, a similar tactic scored a cleaner, so we'll see.

I know it's a free service for the disabled, but Goth Millennial is overwhelmed and I really need someone to do basic stuff. Sigh.

* Wednesday we did errands and I did a bunch of bureaucracy. Before I did errands, I spotted someone home at one of the two apartments the Hallway Harasser could be from, the one we were pretty wasn't his, but needed to eliminate for written complaint purposes. Millennials live there and weren't sure but added data points that mean it's extremely likely we have narrowed down to the correct apartment.

I have promised Goth Millennial I will walk with them when we have to go out in the hall.

I suspect no cleaner is coming as no confirmation call yesterday. Sigh. As of this writing that's four in a row skipped. The record is five.

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $200 worth in total. (Thank you donors!) I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost their job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. They can float bills a bit if they must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. Squirrel got hired. The job starts on the 5th. First paycheck is mid-December They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food. They are $75.00 short of goal: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "The seven queerest moments in Doctor Who history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/28/doctor-who-most-queer-moments/

* OFMD: Izzy Hands as First Mate and his dynamic with Ed: https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/735274051673702400?source=share

* "The Pogues - The Old Main Drag:"

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* "The Pogues The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn 1985 RTE:"

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* "Thousands Are Sailing - Pogues:"

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* "The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York :"

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* Yes, I know this is a cover. Still my favorite version. "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Pogues:"

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* Sometimes I lie in bed wondering what Black Sails James Flint and Our Flag Ed Teach would make of each other. Sometimes I wonder what their respective Israel Handses would make of each other.

I am pretty sure Black Sails Anne Bonny would look at OFMD Anne and ask, "Fuck are you wearing?"

Seriously though, I have all these amorphous thoughts about Black Sails and Our Flag and the way the stories Flint, Silver, and Ed Weave about themselves take over their lives and start killing them. About the way Flint and BS Jack Rackham and Silver and Ed talk about the Story and Persona. I just… *flailing hands* There's something there, right?

* OFMD: Ed and Stede run the Inn: https://www.tumblr.com/captainclickycat/735260942467792896/you-come-down-to-breakfast-at-the-wobbly-dining?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Large Adult Son:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/735354407436288000/midnight-pals-large-adult-son?source=share

* "Sunday Sweets: Easily Distracted:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-easily-distracted-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: 10 Cakes With Curtain Calls:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-10-cakes-with-curtain-calls-2023

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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.

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Now feels like a good time to plug the organizations that the Kissinger Death Tontine accepted donations-as-submissions from!:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/735458103739465728?source=share

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $230 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost their job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food. They just need $75 more.: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* Some of this is very likely out of date. I'm sorry. My arms mostly been in a sling since I dislocated it a couple weeks ago and Halloween really took everything out of me.

I lost a massive whole night's work, Saturday. It's impossible to recreate all of it at this point, which is heart breaking. Apparently trying to capitalize a 'W" and hitting the wrong button is enough to destroy Everything.

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* It's Raining Trolls and Disinformation

The Internet is blowing up with disinformation, much of it Antisemetic and/or Islamophobic. I beg of you, please check sources on things you see, particularly if the claims are extreme or too close to a stereotype, or an image that could be misattributed or AI. A whole lot of people are invested in making things somehow even worse than they already are. Check me. Check everything.

If you spot me posting or reblogging something that might be troll farm or AI propaganda on this or any other topic let me know.

* "Is Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system ironclad?:" https://apnews.com/article/iron-dome-missile-defense-israel-palestinians-rockets-hamas-f57508d0e53945d1071d4582fcdae8d2

* "Hamas operatives used phone lines installed in tunnels under Gaza to plan Israel attack over 2 years, sources familiar with intelligence say:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/intelligence-hamas-israel-attack-tunnels-phone-lines/index.html

* "Israel deepens military assault in the northern Gaza Strip:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-10-30-2023-d33ac65b49723b9715ebf47041ac5f66

* "The ‘Devil’s Playground’ of Urban Combat That Israel Is Preparing to Enter:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-invasion.html

* "Israel steps up air and ground attacks in Gaza and cuts off the territory’s communications:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-airstrikes-region-e41b5b12e8cdf9db62395314d9a782b6

* "Fearing airstrikes and crowded shelters, Palestinians in north Gaza defy Israeli evacuation orders:" https://apnews.com/article/northern-gaza-palestinians-israel-hamas-war-36109635f7bc90f403f0383d53a352e9

* "A Close Look at Some Key Evidence in the Gaza Hospital Blast:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-israel-hamas-video.html

* "IDF confirms strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-gaza-egypt-russia-airport/idf-confirms-strike-on-jabaliya-refugee-camp-in-gaza-104513270?id=104468652

* "Thirst and Hunger Grow in Besieged Gaza Amid Israeli Bombardment:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-food-water-siege.html

* "Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza’s hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-hamas-babies-crisis-9ec2e404e16a132821dac644af110ef6

* "Another wave of Israeli strikes hit Gaza refugee camp as crossing opens for foreigners and wounded :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/gaza-refugee-camp-israeli-strikes-00124706

* "Israel strikes ambulance near Gaza hospital, 15 reported killed:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/health-ministry-gaza-says-israel-targeted-convoy-ambulances-leaving-al-shifa-2023-11-03/

* "RSF initial report: Reuters journalist was killed in Lebanon in 'targeted' strike:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rsf-says-killing-reuters-journalist-lebanon-targeted-strike-2023-10-29/

* "Gaza looks like a wasteland from space in these before-and-after photos:" https://apnews.com/article/satellite-images-israeli-airstrike-destruction-gaza-4477db1cfc39f38ac6cfff55330a7635

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* I haven't read this yet, so can't vouch for it's contents. "Is the Two-State Solution Dead?:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/two-state-solution-dead-one-state-reality-yousef-munayyer/

* "Broken Lebanon cannot afford war between Hezbollah and Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/broken-lebanon-cannot-afford-war-hezbollah-knows-it-2023-10-26/

* "Lebanon’s Hezbollah weighs dueling appeals: ease attacks or escalate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/29/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-gaza-war/

* "Biden condemns retaliatory attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-west-bank-settlers-israel-hamas-war-0a2f38878720c962a20d9286315cde94

* "Israel resists US pressure to pause the war to allow more aid to Gaza, wants hostages back first:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israels-encirclement-gaza-city-tightens-top-us-diplomat-104597626

* "Biden and Netanyahu Look Headed for a Breakup on Unqualified U.S. Support for the Gaza War:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-and-netanyahu-look-headed-for-a-breakup-on-us-support-for-gaza-war

* I fear he failed. "Let's talk about US advisors heading over....:"

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* "Yemen hasn’t declared war on Israel, contrary to online claims. Houthi rebels have launched missiles:" https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-israel-hamas-war-yemen-houthis-363471853927

* "Secret U.S. Military Presence in Yemen Adds a Twist to Houthi Attack on Israel :" https://theintercept.com/2023/11/02/yemen-israel-us-troops/

* "Fact Check: Turkish ships from centenary parade shared as response to Israel-Hamas conflict:" https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/turkish-ships-centenary-parade-shared-response-israel-hamas-conflict-2023-11-01/

* "Turkey recalling ambassador; Erdogan: We’ve written Netanyahu off:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-says-netanyahu-no-longer-someone-turkey-can-talk-to-we-have-written-him-off/

* "What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas

* "Flight from Israel to Russia’s Dagestan diverts as pro-Palestinian mob storms terminal:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/flight-from-israel-to-russias-dagestan-diverts-as-pro-palestinian-mob-storms-terminal/

* "The Senate Condemns Student Groups as Backlash to Pro-Palestinian Speech Grows :" https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/palestine-israel-free-speech-retaliation-senate/

* "Israel-Hamas War Protest Leads to Tense Scene at Cooper Union Library:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/nyregion/cooper-union-protest-israel-hamas.html

* "Florida orders state universities to disband pro-Palestinian student group, saying it backs Hamas:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestine-desantis-florida-education-sjp-12b4d4f2bdd8618c12b8a29cc852be25

* "A lot of things are true. The refusal to grasp this is a non-trivial amount of the problem:" https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-things-are-true

* "Some Israeli Journalists Express Fear About Conveying Dissenting Views:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/business/media/israel-journalists-hamas-war.html

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

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* "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/us/politics/israel-gaza-global-arms-sales.html

* "Developing World Sees Double Standard in West’s Actions in Gaza and Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us/ukraine-gaza-global-south-hypocrisy.html

* "In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/health/gaza-ukraine-hospitals-doctors.html

* "At least 24 killed, including at least 12 police officers, in attacks in Mexico:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-attacks-mexico-guerrero-michoacan-24-killed/

* "Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-injured-teen-armita-geravand-dies-16c4f49e15dd774121e7498f34bd6622

* "Extremist attacks escalate in Niger after coup topples American ally :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/30/niger-coup-islamist-militant-extremism/

* "Labour MPs call for ‘kindness and common sense’ at heart of UK’s immigration policy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/23/labour-mps-kindnesscommon-uk-immigration/

* "Suella Braverman called out in House of Lords over ‘migrants pretend to be gay’ comments:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/suella-braverman-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-house-of-lords/

* "Just one per cent of UK voters say trans people will matter in 2024 general election:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/03/trans-culture-wars-politics-uk-research/

* "Saudi Arabia hosting 2034 World Cup leaves LGBTQ+ football fans horrified:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/saudi-arabia-world-cup-2034-lgbtq/

* "Let's talk about Ukraine and Russia's stocks going down....:"

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* "Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-shadow-war-russia/

* "Let's talk about rumor about Ukrainian aid....:"

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* "A Small Country Far From Ukraine Is Sending Hundreds to War, on Both Sides:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/world/asia/ukraine-russia-nepal.html

* "Friends From Childhood. Brothers in War.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/europe/ukraine-war-friends.html

* "Russia prison population plummets as convicts are sent to war:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/26/russia-prison-population-convicts-war/




* "US fighter jets strike Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on US troops:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-steps-up-middle-east-surveillance-threats-troops-grow-2023-10-24/

* "US to terminate economic ties with Uganda over ‘gross violations’ of human rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/uganda-us-joe-biden/

* "As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the US border to seek asylum:" https://apnews.com/article/chinese-emigration-us-mexico-border-darien-381c215ff30f0f2349c2ea118aa280c6

* "Jeff Wilson, Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for having gun in carry-on, gets charge dismissed:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-wilson-senator-washington-state-firearms-charge-dismissed-hong-kong/

* I'm not sure how feasible this is. "Biden administration revamps its student debt forgiveness plan:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-revamps-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-rcna122935

* "Biden plans to step up government oversight of AI with new 'pressure tests':" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/30/1209343819/ai-biden-oversight-executive-order

* Pete Buttigieg Extended Interview:"

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* "Ron DeSantis is taking his fight against drag all the way to the US Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/florida-ron-de-santis-drag-ban-legal-case-supreme-court/

* "New Clarence Thomas ethics questions about forgiveness on luxury RV loan:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208600160/new-clarence-thomas-ethics-questions-about-forgiveness-on-luxury-rv-loan

* "The case of Clarence Thomas’s motor home gets curiouser and curiouser:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/26/clarence-thomas-rv-motor-home-taxes/

* "Senate Democrats plan to subpoena Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo over Supreme Court justices’ travel:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-thomas-ethics-senate-democrats-subpoenas-ed0bc398a8a407ef5b4c64a2d56af5a1

* "'Something to hide': Dems to subpoena megadonors at center of Supreme Court scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-something-to-hide-dems-to-subpoena-megadonors-at-center-of-supreme-court-scandals-196822085619

* "UAW-Ford deal nets union big wins on wages, benefits, investments:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-leaders-push-ahead-with-ford-contract-gm-talks-drag-2023-10-29/

* "Ford strikers, laid off UAW members get extra money in strike settlement: Here’s how much:" https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2023/11/03/ford-strike-laid-off-uaw-extra-pay-deal/71426913007/

There is power in the union.

* "Starbucks threatened to deny abortion travel benefits for workers seeking to unionize, judge says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-abortion-travel-benefit-union-workers/

* "The Secret Memo That Ruined Democracy:"

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* "Dairy Workers on Wisconsin’s Small Farms Are Dying. Many of Those Deaths Are Never Investigated. :" https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farms-osha-safety-death-investigation-immigrant-workers

* "To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1207461308/homelessness-housing-losangeles-la-real-estate-unhoused

* "House Republicans aim to pay for Israel aid with cuts to IRS funds:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/31/1209670609/house-republicans-israel-funding-bill-irs

Cuts to the IRS dramatically decreases revenue to the government by letting rich tax cheats get away with not paying their share. Cutting revenues won't "pay for" anything.

This doesn't even get into why refusing to pay for aid to Ukraine is a terrible idea, which it is. There is nothing good about this bill.

* "US House Republicans' Israel-only aid bill opposed in Senate, by Biden:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-israel-only-aid-bill-faces-opposition-senate-2023-10-31/

* "Republicans' plan to fund Israel by cutting IRS spending would cost taxpayers billions and add to the national deficit:" https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-war-funding-irs-cuts-cost-taxpayers-worsen-deficit-cbo-2023-11

* "Hayes: GOP speaker 'laser-focused' on helping yacht owners cheat on taxes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-gop-speaker-laser-focused-on-helping-yacht-owners-cheat-on-taxes-196820037528

* "Republican disarray unabated by election of speaker; party mired in infighting, time-wasting stunts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republican-disarray-unabated-by-election-of-speaker-party-mired-in-infighting-time-wasting-stunts-197002309838

* "Let's talk about getting around Tuberville....:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren condemns Republican plan to take free school meals away from LGBTQ+ kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/02/elizabeth-warren-republicans-free-school-meals/

* "Mike Johnson and his extremism ascend to the speaker's chair:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/a-virtual-unknown-mike-johnson-and

* "How Mike Johnson’s main strength will become his biggest liability:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/how-mike-johnson-won-an-impossible-speakership-00123529

* "New House speaker played leading role in effort to overturn 2020 election :" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/new-house-speaker-played-leading-role-in-effort-to-overturn-2020-election/

* "Johnson brings pro-oil, climate-skeptical record to speakership :" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4275210-mike-johnson-speaker-gop-pro-oil-climate-skeptical-record/

* "Here’s where Speaker Mike Johnson stands on the issues:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-on-the-issues-00123627

* "Mike Johnson's 20-year paper trail is an opposition researcher's dream:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/mike-johnson-abortion-gay-marriage-transgender

* "Mike Johnson's Campaign Contributions From Company Tied to Russia:" https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

* "The Christian Nationalism of Speaker Mike Johnson:" https://time.com/6329207/speaker-mike-johnson-christian-nationalism/

* "Mike Johnson tries to back-pedal on anti-gay comments:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-anti-gay-comments/

* "Mike Johnson’s wife runs counselling service comparing homosexuality to incest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/mike-johnson-kelly-johnson-house-speaker/

* "Almost No One Knows Who Speaker Mike Johnson Is, But Many Disagree With His Views: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nobody-knows-speaker-mike-johnson

* "Mike Johnson once blamed homosexuality for the fall of the Roman Empire:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/02/mike-johnson-roman-empire-homosexuality/

* "George Santos 'easily' survives vote to expel him from Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-santos-easily-survives-vote-to-expel-him-from-congress-196908101673

* "Santos, 'emblem of the chaos that is the Republican-led House,' allowed to stay and lie another day:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/santos-emblem-of-the-chaos-that-is-the-republican-led-house-allowed-to-stay-and-lie-another-day-196916805514

* "Gay democrat Becca Balint moves to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene over ‘hate speech’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/democrat-becca-balint-censure-marjorie-taylor-greene/

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* Early voting is already happening in a lot of places. Squirrel and I voted Friday.

Voting early allows you more time to fight disenfranchisement if you live in a voter suppression state where you were removed from the voter rolls without warning. It is often a way to avoid massive voting day lines that Republicans hope will discourage you from voting.

Please vote early if that's an option for you. It is better and safer.

If you can't early vote, please, please, please vote.

And remember, vote the whole ticket. Things like sheriffs and school board make a massive difference in quality of life.

* "Let's talk about Georgia maps changing....:"

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* "How Lobbying is Ruining Democracy:"

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* "Will Abortion Dominate the 2024 Elections? Tuesday Will Offer Clues.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/us/politics/abortion-ohio-kentucky-virginia-election.html

* "Ohio Democrats Demand Voter Purge Reversal, Truthful Answers from Secretary LaRose:" https://ohiosenate.gov/members/william-p-demora/news/ohio-democrats-demand-voter-purge-reversal-truthful-answers-from-secretary-larose

* "With Abortion Rights on the Line, Ohio Lawmaker Says Those Purged Unlawfully Must Be Allowed to Vote :" https://www.commondreams.org/news/with-abortion-rights-on-the-line-ohio-lawmaker-says-those-purged-unlawfully-must-be-allowed-to-vote

* Ohioans, please, please vote! "Republicans resort to lies and deception ahead of vote on popular abortion rights amendment in Ohio:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-resort-to-lies-and-deception-ahead-of-vote-on-popular-abortion-rights-amendment-in-ohio-197091909969

* "Drag Ban Won't Go on Ohio City's Ballot, State Supreme Court Rules:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ohio-drag-ban-off-ballot

* "Sunshine State Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sunshine-state-senate-showdown-197107781664

* "Many Kentucky counties are consolidating polling sites, raising concerns about access:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/05/1210195486/kentucky-election-vote-centers-polling-places

* "Ky. governor’s race tests Democrat’s ability to survive in Trump country:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/kentucky-governors-race-andy-beshear-daniel-cameron/

* "Tuesday’s Election Will Determine if Virginia Becomes the Next Florida:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/virginia-elections-democrats-2/

* "Danica Roem Is Letting Her Record Speak for Itself as She Runs for Virginia Senate :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/danica-roem-virginia-senate-transgender

* Please, please, please vote! "Pennsylvania’s election will be headlined by races for statewide courts, including a high court seat:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-supreme-court-election-campaign-0c517ed69436d8271fec7b7f04ae025e

* "What’s at Stake in Pennsylvania’s State Supreme Court Race?:" https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/whats-at-stake-in-pennsylvanias-state-supreme-court-race/

* "The real threat Dean Phillips poses to Biden :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/28/dean-philips-joe-biden-threat-00124082

I follow a lot more politics than even I show here. When I saw he announced, I too was like: Who? So don't feel bad if you don't know who this is.

* Ya think? "Pence ends White House campaign after struggling to gain traction. ‘This is not my time,’ he says:" https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-2024-president-campaign-republican-trump-0ec44fc2a5b8683f34883e0ea72b2ab2

* "Courts consider possible disqualification of Trump for role in Jan. 6 insurrection:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/courts-consider-possible-disqualification-of-trump-for-role-in-jan-6-insurrection-197091909549

* "Lawyers argue whether the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause blocks Trump from the 2024 ballot:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-ballot-14th-amendment-colorado-f5d6c6174476ec414208323785df6e15

* "Donald Trump pledges to defund schools teaching critical race theory and ‘transgender insanity’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/donald-trump-defund-schools-tcritical-race-theory-transgender/

* "Team Trump looking for 'different type of lawyer' to serve a second term with more loyalty: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/team-trump-looking-for-different-type-of-lawyer-to-serve-a-second-term-with-more-loyalty-report-196916293562

* "Sarah Huckabee Sanders Clamps Down on Gender-Neutral Language in Official Arkansas Documents:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sarah-huckabee-sanders

* "Republican lawmakers join Gays Against Groomers march:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/wisconsin-republican-lawmakers-gays-against-groomers-march/

* "‘Craven’: Leaked staff handbook reveals GOP rep’s thirst for attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-craven-leaked-staff-handbook-reveals-gop-rep-s-thirst-for-attention-197084229751

* "Gay Jewish Lawmaker's Apartment Targeted With Anti-Semitic Graffiti:" https://www.advocate.com/news/joe-vogel-maryland-swastikas

* "Scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos pleads not guilty to latest charges:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208478307/george-santos-charges-theft

* "Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Author Sentenced on Fraud Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/dont-say-gay-author-sentenced

* "Donald Trump Ally and Gay Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Was FBI Informant:" https://www.advocate.com/news/peter-thiel-fbi-informant




* "Daughter Ivanka Trump must testify at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, New York judge rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/27/ivanka-trump-must-testify-trial-00123992

* "Trump takes the stand and is fined $10,000 for violating a gag order in fraud case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208444786/trump-new-york-fraud-case

* "Judge in Trump NY fraud trial extends gag order to lawyers, says office has received ‘hundreds’ of threats since trial started:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/03/judge-in-trump-ny-fraud-trial-extends-gag-order-to-lawyers-says-office-has-received-hundreds-of-threats-since-trial-started.html

* "Judge drops hammer on Trump: Gags entire legal team:" https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/judge-drops-hammer-on-trump-gags-entire-legal-team-197075525979

* "Judge reinstates gag order against Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/29/trump-gag-order-reinstated-00124147

* "Trump Gagged; Immediately Violates Gag Order:"

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* "'Maybe they haven't been paying attention': Court agrees to hear Trump objections to gag order:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-maybe-they-haven-t-been-paying-attention-court-agrees-to-hear-trump-objections-to-gag-order-197091909870




* "Why Conservatives Hate George Soros:"

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* "An increase in harassment against Jewish and Muslim Americans has been reported since Hamas attacks:" https://apnews.com/article/jewish-muslim-harassment-increase-f5a3e969f5a213625c224f8ac25538e1

* "Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik Threatens Anti-Defamation League Over Extremist Label :" https://www.advocate.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-adl-extremists

* "Man on ‘week-long anti-LGBTQ+ crime spree’ in Idaho tried to hit people with car:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/04/idaho-matthew-alan-lehigh-anti-lgbtq-crime-spree/

* "Arson Suspected After San Diego Queer Women's Bar Set on Fire:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbian-bars-fire-san-diego

* CW: Suicide. "Suspect in the Maine mass shooting has been found dead, police say:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1209015872/maine-lewiston-shooting-robert-card-river

* "Suspected Maine shooter had history of liking far-right, anti-trans content online:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/maine-shooter-robert-card-twitter-likes-right-wing-tucker-carlson/

* "Why Conservatives Hate Immigrants:"

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* "Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice?:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2023-10-20/killings-in-the-u-s-are-dropping-at-an-historic-rate-will-anyone-notice-essential-politics

* "How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/24/california-corcoran-prison-climate-change-flood

* "Watch Candace Owens Call Native Americans ‘High’ and ‘Cannibals’ While Denying Two-Spirit Existence:" https://www.advocate.com/news/candace-owens-native-americans-cannibals

* CW: Rape "Veteran gay Tory MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rape:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/tory-mp-crispin-blunt-arrested/

* "Indian school for wrestling helps girls chase better life and glory:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/india-women-wrestling/

* "Pockets" https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

* "Wales government to redefine women to include trans women in landmark gender laws:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/wales-government-redefinie-women-trans/

* "West Virginia teen appears in court in bid to overturn state trans sports ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/west-virginia-teen-trans-sports-ban/

* "Abortion restrictions in Russia spark outrage as the country takes a conservative turn:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-russia-women-rights-feminism-fc5eab75b5e3d028aeb1f70ec8a9a2b1

* "Nigeria: Mass LGBTQ+ arrests ‘based on assumptions, not investigation’, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/01/nigeria-lgbtq-arrests-assumptions-activists/

* "South Korea upholds military’s archaic anti-gay law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/south-korea-military-anti-gay-law/

* "LGBTQ+ Groups Denied Registration Even After Supreme Court Decision in Eswatini:" https://www.advocate.com/world/eswatini-officials-defy-supreme-court

* "Turkey’s Erdoğan claims LGBTQ+ people threaten the family:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/turkey-erdogan-lgbtq-people-family/

* "Johannesburg Pride marches for LGBTQ+ Ugandans in wake of Anti-Homosexuality Bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/johannesburg-pride-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Posie Parker tomato juice protester to face trial for New Zealand incident:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/posie-parker-tomato-juice-protester-to-face-trial-for-new-zealand-incident/

* "Sydney all-girls school bans same-sex couples from attending prom with their partners:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/sydney-catholic-girls-school-prom-same-sex-ban/

* "Glasgow woman pleads guilty after gay club assault:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/01/glasgow-woman-pleads-guilty-gay-club/

* "DUP councillor condemned for claiming ‘LGBTQIA alphabet soup mafia’ support Hamas:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/dup-councillor-colin-kennedy-claim-lgbtq-hamas/

* "Government’s trans school guidance promised by Christmas:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/gillian-keegan-trans-school-guidance-publication/

* "Trans conversion therapy survivor begs Rishi Sunak to push on with ban: ‘Some would call it torture’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/conversion-therapy-survivor-rishi-sunak-ban/

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard says trans rights and women’s rights ‘shouldn’t be fought against each other’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/suzy-eddie-izzard-trans-womens-rights/

* "The wildest claims LGB Alliance makes in its report against the word ‘queer’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/lgb-alliance-queer-lgbtq-report/

* "Anti-trans campaigner Marion Millar arrested and charged in connection with alleged fraud:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/marion-millar-fraud-charges-arrest/

* "‘Lesbian Nana’ police officer investigation after viral video of pepper spray incident:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/25/lesbian-nana-pepper-spray-clip/

* "Where have all the lesbian bars gone?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/where-have-all-the-lesbian-bars-gone/

* "Man arrested for murder of openly gay journalist Josh Kruger:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/man-arrested-murder-josh-kruger/

* "Man pleads guilty to obstructing justice in 2019 murder of trans woman:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/pebbles-ladime-dime-doe-trans-murder-guilty-south-carolina-us/

* "Bisexual New York Woman Assaulted When Mistaken for Trans:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/bi-woman-mistaken-trans-attacked

* "Michigan finally bans archaic ‘gay panic defence’ laws:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/24/michigan-gay-trans-panic-defence/

* "New York man pleads guilty for involvement in gay bar robbery scheme that left two dead:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/gay-bar-robbery-scheme/

* "Kansas honours trans ‘trailblazers’ after transphobic backlash to homecoming queen wins:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/kansas-honours-homecoming-queens-after-transphobic-backlash-trailblazers/

* "The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two decades:" https://apnews.com/article/infant-deaths-us-cdc-mortality-c808796da0415b6ecc0629938421e1b5

* "New Patch Inspired by Octopus Suckers Could Deliver Drugs Without Needles:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-patch-inspired-by-octopus-suckers-could-deliver-drugs-without-needles-180982986/

* "Diving Deep into the Mouth's Microbial Dark Matter:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/diving-deep-into-the-mouths-microbial-dark-matter

* "Mosquito-borne illnesses are picking up speed. Experts say Americans are unprepared:" https://www.salon.com/2023/10/21/mosquito-borne-illnesses-are-picking-up-speed-experts-say-americans-are-unprepared/

* "How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/health/hernia-surgery-component-separation.html




* "The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" :" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/

* "New study warns climate is warming even faster than some think:" https://www.axios.com/2023/11/02/climate-change-warming-james-hansen

* "Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-port-records-lowest-water-level-121-years-amid-drought-2023-10-16/

* "Hurricane Otis: How a tropical storm turned into a 'nightmare scenario' overnight:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hurricane-otis-rapid-intensification-climate-change-rcna122090

* "Credible missing persons list drops to 5 people unaccounted for from Lahaina fire:" https://mauinow.com/2023/10/27/credible-missing-persons-list-drops-to-5-people-unaccounted-for-from-lahaina-fire/

* "Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world:" https://apnews.com/article/oil-exploration-gasoline-environment-nigeria-1d4cc4791cbfc28e6ccf942075510a60




* "Let's talk about the Colorado River deal....:"

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* Golf courses should be illegal. "Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/world/abandoned-golf-courses-reclaimed-by-nature-c2e-spc-scn-intl

* "What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections:" https://theconversation.com/what-are-roundabouts-a-transportation-engineer-explains-the-safety-benefits-of-these-circular-intersections-215412

* "Here's What Ethical AI Really Means:"

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* "Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-wikipedia-twitter-x-encyclopedia-1234861220/

* "Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty in FTX crypto fraud case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-trial-verdict/

* "Fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fallen-crypto-king-sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-counts-196993605915

* "China’s youngest-ever astronauts blast off to space station:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/chinas-youngest-ever-astronauts-blast-off-to-space-station

* "US zoo saving endangered red wolf, one dental checkup at a time:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-zoo-saving-endangered-red-wolf-one-dental-checkup-time-2023-10-25/

* "Runaway zebras delighted the nation — and exposed their owner’s dark past:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/maryland-zebras-jerry-holly/

* "How Scientists Tracked the Movements of a 17,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-tracked-movements-17000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-180983064/

* "The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Men:" https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/01/the-ancient-greek-woman-who-dressed-as-a-man-to-seduce-men/

* "The London History Show: Anne Boleyn:"

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* "The Chevalier d'Eon: the Trans 18th Century Spy:"

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* "How To Convince People To Volunteer: Joining Up In WWI:"

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* "15 Years After Pres. Obama's Historic Election:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/15-years-after-pres-obama-s-historic-election-197108293787

* "The Fight Between Cataphiles and Underground Police in the Paris Catacombs:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-paris-catacombs

I will never see the catacombs in person but I am horrified. Destroying them would be a desecration.

* "Illegal Body Trade: Modern-Day Corpse Theft:"

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* "Something Wicked This Way Paddles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/witches-paddle-halloween.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Uw.qR51.sbD-6BoYNu4_&smid=url-share

* "A Professional Pumpkin Carver Spills His Guts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/style/halloween-professional-pumpkin-carver.html

* "New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nyc-alligator-sewer-statue-trnd/index.html

* Thursday a week ago dentist and hygienist were very astonished by my relaxed state during dentistry. I hadn't had time to warn them that sometimes I fall asleep before the dental dam went in ending my ability to explain. Luckily they didn't get scared as had happened before. I wasn't asleep, just meditating as is my usual practice when I'm not exhausted. Apparently even very chill patients don't normally relax at this level. I have no dental trauma or phobias. It's not that I enjoy dentistry, it's just I have no more emotion about it than I do around oil change. It's just maintenance.

No cleaner Friday, which is fine. So many people clocked out slightly late, they snatched 15 minutes here and 15 minutes there, so I am left with six visits at most to cover November and December instead of the surplus Math last summer suggested I should have. I am a bit grumpy as I generally let them off three to six minutes early.

Saturday, Goth Millennial exhausted the Tiny Terror with one of their Gothmas presents. Livia had her third oops in two weeks. I am pretty sure it's stress.

Sunday: Millennial pumpkin carving!

Monday I did a bunch of prep for the big day.

* Gothmas Phase 2 exterior decorations:
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/732745508530061312/halloween-2023?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/732746862485028864/the-millennials-did-some-pumpkin-carving-sunday?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/732748177031249920/halloween-2023?source=share

* I lost the first version of this in the crash. The Management chased all the families with kids out and most of the grad students, replacing them mostly with retirees. I hardly even got adults raiding my table this year, and one of them stole a bowl. Sigh. This is why I use cheap Dollar Store bowls. The Millennials got big candy gift bags this year.

I love the pumpkins the Millennials carved so much. I'm going to be so sad when I take them down in a day or two.

A cheerful Gen Z person turned up to Clean Saturday, and we got most of the outside display down. I really liked them. Goth millennial got the things too high to reach Saturday. We are mostly focused on the Tuesday inspection right now.

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Meanwhile… Taylor Swift is a Billionaire | Doordash Tips | Florida’s Fake Cops:"

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* "World’s Longest Zucchini | Trump Kids Take the Stand | George Santos Survives Expulsion Attempt:"

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* "Why is Ron DeSantis Wearing Lifts? | Donald Trump v. The People | Biden’s Chilling AI Warning:"

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* "Barbie is Halloween’s Top Costume | Speaker Johnson’s Wife Runs Anti-LGBTQ Counseling Company:"

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* "Why Are Conservatives So Media Illiterate?:"

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* "Doctor Who vs Women:"

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* "Exploring the Emotions: Black Trauma vs. Black Horror:"

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* "From Protagonist to Romantic Prop: Mina Murray's Transformation:"

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* "The Gay Horror Manga You Should Be Reading:"

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* "True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories:"

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* "The Trump Kids in America:"

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* "See the Cutest Costumed Pups from New York City's Halloween Dog Parade:" https://people.com/dogs-costumes-2023-nyc-halloween-dog-parade-photos-8374321

* "Father and son make Halloween accessible to kids with disabilities one custom costume at a time:" https://www.cnn.com/us/walkin-rollin-costumes-halloween-iyw/index.html

* "Quirky Vintage Japanese Playgrounds Photographed at Night:" https://mossandfog.com/quirky-vintage-japanese-playgrounds-photographed-at-night/

* "Proposed: Counter-Halloween:" https://www.thestopgap.net/proposed/

* Ankh-Morpork Pride: https://www.tumblr.com/jamyesterday/732666837755691008?source=share

* A friend of Bertie Wooster transitions: https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/732533098457268224?source=share

* "You work as the minor villain every new hero has to beat for their first battle.:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/718085841933795328?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Chip off the old Block:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/732631414044049408/midnight-pals-a-chip-off-the-old-block?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Imaginarium:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/732810170427752448/midnight-pals-imaginarium?source=share

* "Sunday Sweets: Drama Queens:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-drama-queens-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: It's Fall, Y'all!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-its-fall-yall-2023

* "Sunday Sweets Gets SPOOPY:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-gets-spoopy-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: 10 Halloween Cuties:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-10-halloween-cuties-2023

* "Love Inks: 11 Tattoo Sweets!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/love-inks-11-tattoo-sweets-2023

* "10 Enchanted Garden Cakes That Are Pure Magic:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/10-enchanted-garden-cakes-that-are-pure-magic-2023

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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.

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* Both Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have plead guilty in the Election Interference Racketeering case. I don't have time for proper coverage if I want to put this out today and it's a busy weekend for me RL.

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* "After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c

* "Biden expresses outrage over Gaza hospital attack, directs team to investigate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-expresses-outrage-over-gaza-hospital-attack-directs-team-investigate-2023-10-17/

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* "Israel-Hamas war updates: Israel and Egypt agree to let aid into Gaza:" https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine

* "Biden offers example of recent U.S. past in cautioning Israel on revenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-offers-example-of-recent-u-s-past-in-cautioning-israel-on-revenge-195941957697

* "Richard Madeley condemned for ‘racist’ question to MP Layla Moran about Hamas attack on Israel:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/richard-madeley-layla-moran-hamas-israel-palestine/

* "There’s no Jewish American consensus about the conflict in Israel and Gaza:" https://www.vox.com/23915948/jewish-american-israel-gaza-war-attacks-opposing-beliefs-progressive-movement

* "Muslim boy killed and woman wounded in Illinois hate crime motivated by Israel-Hamas war, police say:" https://apnews.com/article/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e

* "If anyone wants to donate to his family then here: :" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

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* "Saudi Arabia: Migrants workers who toiled in Amazon warehouses were deceived and exploited:" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/saudi-arabia-migrants-workers-who-toiled-in-amazon-warehouses-were-deceived-and-exploited/

* "Canadian Human Rights commissioner resigns over new school pronoun rule to out kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/canada-saskatchewan-heather-kuttai-education-pronouns-trans/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Tory MP Peter Bone facing suspension over bullying and sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/peter-bone-bullying-sexual-misconduct-suspension/

* "Anti-feminist, right-wing Manchester mayoral candidate makes trans ‘joke’ as part of campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/nick-buckley-manchester-anti-trans/




* "Ukraine uses secretly shipped U.S. missiles to launch surprise strike :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/ukraine-uses-secretly-shipped-u-s-missiles-to-launch-surprise-strike-00121932

* "600 days into the war, Russia’s assault on a key eastern Ukraine city appears to be weakening:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-donetsk-counteroffensive-ae6a7dd33a43ae91bd9660aa5ca2b9a0

* "Russia destroyed 300,000 tons of grain since July in port, ship attacks, Kyiv says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-destroyed-300000-tons-grain-since-july-port-ship-attacks-kyiv-2023-10-13/

* "Ukraine claims a major strike on Russian airfields and thanks US for providing long-range missiles:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-attacks-8b5fd038c7e496dcb8f015b759b74666




* "Supreme Court tells 5th Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206245991/supreme-court-ghost-guns

* Some of the speaker stuff may be out of date by the time you read it.

* "Jim Jordan lacks enough support on first House speaker round: Next vote scheduled for Wednesday:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "Republicans Say Jim Jordan’s Pressure Campaign for Speaker Has ‘Backfired’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-say-jim-jordans-pressure-campaign-for-speaker-has-backfired

* "What to know about Jim Jordan's role in Jan. 6 :" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jim-jordans-role-jan-6/story?id=104014959

* "House Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House, again:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "‘Roomba stuck in a corner’: GOP infighting escalates as Jordan loses second speaker vote:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-roomba-stuck-in-a-corner-gop-infighting-escalates-as-jordan-loses-second-speaker-vote-195931205855

* "Jordan bully tactics backfire, provoke threats and harassment of fellow Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/jordan-bully-tactics-backfire-provoke-threats-and-harassment-of-fellow-republicans-195939397781

* "Let's talk about the Speaker options for Republicans....:"

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* "Republicans struggle to ignore half the country in speaker fight; Democrats stand by:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-struggle-to-ignore-half-the-country-in-speaker-fight-democrats-stand-by-196031045907

* "Dem rep: 199 Republicans voted for 'Insurrection Caucus' leader for speaker:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dem-rep-199-republicans-voted-for-insurrection-caucus-leader-for-speaker-195933253628

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Kari Lake’s lawsuit over metro Phoenix’s electronic voting machines has been tossed out:" https://apnews.com/article/kari-lake-lawsuit-electronic-voting-machines-e8671f52c752946e1ec239df87a9d762

* "Arizona Republican Kari Lake launches 2024 Senate campaign:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204870164/arizona-republican-kari-lake-launches-2024-senate-campaign

* "Mike Pence heckled by man claiming they are both gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/mike-pence-heckled-gay/

* "Transgender Montana Legislator Zooey Zephyr Unsilenced and Unyielding at Equality Convention:" https://www.advocate.com/news/zooey-zephyr-equality-convention-interview

* "Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee-00121225

* "Campaign of Rep. George Santos refunds more money than it raises :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/santos-campaign-refunds/

* "The House GOP’s Crazy Week Gets Even Weirder With George Santos Tirade:" https://newrepublic.com/post/176239/house-gops-crazy-week-gets-even-weirder-george-santos-tirade

* "Embattled N.Y. Republican Congressman George Santos faces 10 new felony charges:" https://www.npr.org/ny-republican-congressman-george-santos-faces-new-felony-charges

* "'It wasn't me': George Santos says he won't take a plea deal:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/11/congress/santos-shaggy-defense-plea-deal-00120918

* "Republican lawmakers to introduce resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-york-house-republicans-introduce-resolution-expel-rep-george-santo-rcna119917




* "Trump tells judge he will appeal gag order in federal election interference case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-files-notice-appeal-judge-issues-partial-gag-order-rcna120924

* "Let's talk about Trump's DC gag order....:"

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* "A school shooting left a 7-year-old terrified to go back.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/townville-school-shooting-survivor-ava-olsen/

* "How a California tribe won their ancestral land back and saved endangered salmon:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty

* "Rappahannock Tribe’s buyback efforts are becoming a national model:" https://whro.org/news/local-news/39215-rappahannock-tribe-s-buyback-efforts-are-becoming-a-national-model

* About a thousand of the kidnapped children are still missing. "Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years:" https://apnews.com/article/separated-children-trump-biden-border-immigration-f9a73685d0ddbcda86e5b69997f5f7dd

* "An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder:" https://apnews.com/article/innocence-project-wrongful-conviction-oklahoma-fbb59bbfb46d44a375704f172b6fc786

* Gender Affirming Care is Healthcare. "Trans convicts must have access to gender-affirming care in Washington prisons, landmark ruling finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/19/washington-prisons-gender-affirming-care-trans-inmates/

* CW: Self Harm. "The “Miserable Spectacle” of Executing People With Serious Mental Illness:" https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/andre-thomas-execution-death-penalty-mental-illness.html

* "Video shows US professor ‘assaulted’ by Turning Point members over Drag Queen Story Hour links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/video-shows-us-professor-assaulted-by-turning-point-members-over-drag-queen-story-hour-links/

* "Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christianity back in schools:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christianity-evangelical-schools-anti-lgbtq-grapevine-podcast-rcna118114

* "Publisher denies ‘bigot button’ allegations after flagging queer books for school exclusion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/publisher-scholastic-bigot-button-queer-books/

* "Moms for Liberty accused of ‘taking over’ school board to ban LGBTQ+ and inclusive books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/moms-for-liberty-school-board-takeover/

* "Heavily persecuted, highly influential: China’s online feminist revolution:" https://restofworld.org

* "Some GOP-led states are chipping away at sex education in K-12 schools:" https://apnews.com/article/sex-education-us-laws-kentucky-florida-mississippi-bd6fffcb3a9a25babc32a143001f4ae1

* "India Supreme Court fails to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/india-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

* "India’s LGBTQ+ community ‘must demand’ equality, following crushing same-sex marriage blow:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/india-supreme-court-marriage-equality/

* "Man jailed in France for protesting drag queen story time event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/france-protest-drag-story-time-event-lgbtq/

* "Turkey: 90 per cent of LGBTQ+ people facing digital violence:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/13/turkey-lgbtq-digital-violence/

* "Japan: Family court rules it’s unconstitutional to require surgery for gender change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/japan-surgery-gender-change-unconstitutional/

* "This Indian state’s groundbreaking initiative is helping trans community get into higher education:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/15/india-trans-higher-education-kerala-literacy-mission/

* "Canada school trustee says ‘holy spirit’ made her post anti-LGBTQ+ meme:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/school-trustee-holy-spirit-anti-lgbtq-meme/

* "Angela Rayner slams ‘dangerous’ anti-LGBTQ+ Tory rhetoric: ‘We can’t go on like this’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/angela-rayner-pinknews-awards/

* "Phyll Opoku-Gyimah calls on UK government to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights across the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/03/phyll-opoku-gyimah-kaleidoscope-trust-lgbtq-rights-uk/

* "Protestors warn government has ‘run out of time’ to fulfil vow to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/government-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Same-sex couples hit with ‘gay tax’ in over 90 per cent of NHS England trusts:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/same-sex-couples-ivf-nhs-england-gay-tax/

* How to tell someone is a terrible person. "Jacob Rees-Mogg says ‘you can’t offend the dead’ in GB News LGBTQ+ hate-crime discussion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/jacob-rees-mogg-gb-news-hate-crime/

* "Brighton police hunt for gang of men who hurled stones at women in homophobic attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/brighton-police-homophobic-beach-attack/

* "LGBTQ+ groups protest gender critical conference hosting JK Rowling as a speaker:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/lgbtq-groups-protest-gender-critical-conference-hosting-jk-rowling-as-a-speaker/

* "Black trans choreographer Chyna Long shot and killed: ‘They took a piece of our joy’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/chyna-long-black-trans-woman-killed-milwaukee/

* "Three charged in alleged anti-LGBTQ+ hate-crime attack on 72-year-old man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/three-charged-in-alleged-anti-lgbtq-hate-crime-attack-on-72-year-old-man/

* "Trans woman wins fencing tournament, anti-trans campaigners are inevitably raging:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/trans-woman-wins-fencing-tournament/

* "Operation Warp Speed: The Untold Story of the COVID-19 Vaccine:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/operation-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccine

* "‘Flying syringes’ and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-06/la-me-rural-california-vector-control-conspiracy-theories-far-right







* "When It Comes to Urban Trees, More Isn’t Always Better:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-09/what-mapping-every-tree-in-new-york-city-reveals

* "How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices:" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-11/historic-redlining-bird-biodiversity

* "Decades Later, Closed Military Bases Remain a Toxic Menace:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/military-base-closure-cleanup.html

* "X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet:" https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

* "Division of labor in ants, wasps, bees — and us:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/evolution-of-division-of-labor

* "Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/female-frogs-fake-death-avoid-unwanted-attention-males/story?id=103859698

* "Black bears in the backyard: Why they’re everywhere, and what to do:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/10/10/black-bears-backyard-sightings/

* "Feast Your Eyes on the Most Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur of All Time:" https://mossandfog.com/feast-your-eyes-on-the-most-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-of-all-time/

* "When Lions Were King: Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection:" https://www.archaeology.org/issues/522-features/11637-lions-ancient-world

* "‘Egyptian blue’ found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum:" https://www.cnn.com/style/greek-parthenon-sculptures-painted-egyptian-blue-scn/index.html

* "Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears:" https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-have-an-audacious-plan-to-map-the-ancient-world-before-it-disappears/

* "1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/1700-year-old-sock-spins-yarn-about-ancient-egyptian-fashion-180970501/

* "Ninth Victim of Suspected Gay Serial Killer Herb Baumeister Identified:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herb-baumeister-ninth-victim

* Tuesday I stayed up all morning with frustrating phone bureaucracy. Wednesday I managed to sort out the bare minimum on the extreior decorations. Thursday, I was frankensteining around because my legs were bad. I know I have a bunch of C7 bulbs somewhere, but I put thhem away somewhere clever last January. I also need a C5, apparently. I saw some Wednesday, not knowing I owned anything needing a C-5. Sigh.

Friday late, my oldest continuous friend arrives for the birthday celebrations. everything is a mess, but I did get most of the boxes back in the closet, except for the light boxes I still need to search. I strung the house lights for halloweentown Wednesday, but all the figurines are randomly located as no one was up to making it pretty, which means I can't finish garlands and lights in time for party weekend. Ah well.

I did at least wrap presents for my birthday. For new readers: we do a halloween party for my birthday and we do secret pumpkins and take turns opening presents. I think birthday parties are more fun if everyone gets something to unwrap, and I am an Old, so this is how we do.

If I am scarce over the weekend, this is why.

* More Gothmas Decorations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731563061736062976?source=share

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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Regulations are written in blood.

* "Took my tiny child with me to the Halloween store.:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/731352627145818112/deadmomjokes-took-my-tiny-child-with-me-to-the?source=share

* A thing on Our Flag Means Death and what's going on with ed and stede: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731696319921602560/i-think-stedes-doing-a-lot-of-running-away-from?source=share

* OFMD: Izzy hand's Leg: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731697031851245568?source=share

* Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death Agree; Ned Low is a nasty, violent psychopath who needs to go.

* Cinderella after the Prince: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

* "Midnight Pals: The Dorsai:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731536960132448256/midnight-pals-the-dorsai?source=share

*****
* 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.

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "27 experts urge Biden not to allow Saudis to enrich uranium for Israel deal:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/27-experts-urge-biden-not-to-allow-saudis-to-enrich-uranium-for-israel-deal/

* "Hungarian president Katalin Novak uses UN General Assembly to go on ‘anti-family’ tirade:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/hungary-president-un-general-assembly-anti-family/

* "Turkey’s president Erdoğan doesn’t know what Pride colours are, makes UN complaint anyway:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/turkeys-president-erdogan-un-pride-colours/

* "Hundreds protest overhaul in New York as Netanyahu meets with world leaders:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-protest-overhaul-in-new-york-as-netanyahu-meets-with-world-leaders/

* "Netanyahu wraps up US visit as protesters shout ‘shame’ at departing convoy in NY:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-ends-us-visit-with-protesters-shouting-shame-at-departing-convoy/

* "Azerbaijan says it has retaken breakaway Armenian enclave after separatists surrender:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/asia/nagorno-karabakh-russia-ceasefire-intl/index.html

* "Iranian authorities arrest Mahsa Amini’s father on anniversary of her death:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/mahsa-amini-father-arrest-iran-protest-crackdown-00116401?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

* "Residents See Signs of Crackdown on Dissent After Libya Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/world/middleeast/libya-floods-derna-crackdown.html

* "Nearly 100 migrants rescued from a yacht off southwestern Greece:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rescue-operation-underway-off-southwestern-greece-90-migrants-103334178

* "Canada Post breaking law by gathering info from envelopes, parcels to build marketing list: privacy watchdog:" https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-post-breaking-law-by-gathering-info-from-envelopes-parcels-to-build-marketing-list-privacy-watchdog-1.6570397

* "Rishi Sunak slammed for ‘reckless political gimmick’ amid plans to roll back on Tory green policies:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/rishi-sunak-climate-change-plans-uk/

* "Daily Mail retracts Iceland boss claims of HIV needle attacks in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/daily-mail-iceland-boss-claims-retracted/

* "‘Racist, homophobic’ teen who defaced Windrush mural named:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/teen-dafaced-windrush-mural-named/

* "India tells citizens in Canada to exercise caution as relations worsen:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-opposition-congress-dismisses-canadas-suspicions-sikh-leaders-murder-2023-09-20/

* "Biden raised issue of Canadian Sikh's murder with Modi at G20, Financial Times reports:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-raised-issue-canadian-sikhs-murder-with-modi-g20-ft-2023-09-22/

* "Surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada led to allegations around Sikh killing, official says:" https://apnews.com/article/india-canada-visas-sikh-activist-killing-381e973e84f8d0c10b0bd53b03ccbdf2

* "Let's talk about Canada and India....:"

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* "'A really dark moment': Canadians react to Poilievre's comment on Trudeau's LGBTQ+ post:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/canadians-pierre-poilievre-justin-trudeau-lgbtq-post-020533727.html

* "A brief note about changes in rhetoric:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1937558.html

* "Let's talk about social media influence....:"

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* "The Elusive Figure Running Wagner’s Embattled Empire of Gold and Diamonds:" https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-africa-sytii-prigozhin-gold-12a45769

* "Let's talk about how news is created rather than reported and charts....:"

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* "Let's talk about Ukraine and when it will end....:"

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* "U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/

* "Ukraine finds new sources of aid to fight Russia as politics with Poland gets complicated:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ukraine-finds-new-sources-of-aid-to-fight-russia-as-politics-with-poland-gets-complicated-193428037981

* "Poland, with election looming, says it isn't sending new arms to Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-no-longer-arming-ukraine-says-pm-2023-09-21/

* "Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be painful. But its success is crucial to wider European security:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-crucial-european-security-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Fighting ‘through hell.’ To reclaim Bakhmut, a Ukrainian brigade must first survive the forest:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-bakhmut-684873be8aad1b1502ff8d67ea48afac

* "Ukraine breaches Russian defensive line on southern front:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/23/ukraine-breach-verbove-zaporizhzhia/

* "Transgender American Suspended by Ukrainian Military After Controversial Video:" https://www.advocate.com/world/trans-ukraine-spokeswoman-suspended




* "U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-china-tech-surveillance/

* "Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons:" https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-warheads-military-bomb-plutonium-6b86198def4516cebe496c9f5fbfbb75

* "U.S. will expand Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200719816/venezuelan-migrants-temporary-protected-status-us-border

* "Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200483937/biden-climate-corps-job-training

* "Biden launches Climate Corps; pairs new jobs with climate, infrastructure work:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-launches-climate-corps-pairs-new-jobs-with-climate-infrastructure-work-193428037800

* "First White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/first-white-house-office-of-gun-violence-prevention-193651781888

* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* "Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

* " Propublica: Clarence Thomas Participated in Koch Network Donor events:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/propublica-clarence-thomas-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events-193618501778

* "The Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady but hints at more action this year:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200327332/federal-reserve-inflation-economy-interest-rates

* "The Kids on the Night Shift:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/magazine/child-labor-dangerous-jobs.html

* "Florida Republican files bill to allow minors to work full-time and overnight:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/florida-bill-child-labour-overnight/

* "UAW strike day 9: Negotiations continue after strike expansion to other plants:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/23/uaw-strike-day-9-talks-continue-after-strike-expansion/70945125007/

* "Autoworkers share what it's like working under an expired contract:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/21/uaw-detroit-three-strike-expired-contract/70912395007/

* Short version: WGA still needs to vote on it as of this writing. The Union doesn't want anyone to go back to work until it's all finalized. SAG-AFTRA is still on strike. "Writers and Studios Reach Deal That Will End Strike:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/writers-guild-wga-strike-deal

* "US Strike Wave Could Soon Grow as Airline, Healthcare Workers Fight for Decent Contracts:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-strike-wave

* "Republicans find scapegoat for auto workers strike: Woke cars:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-find-scapegoat-for-auto-workers-strike-woke-cars-193515589707

* "Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly:"

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* "Why Can't Americans Afford Funerals?:" https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/729138701341507584?source=share

* "Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23880403/uber-eats-food-stamps-snap-ebt-fsa-flex-ai-assistant

* "Day care owners are fighting for survival as federal funding runs out this month:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/childcare-funding-american-rescue-covid-daycare-philadelphia-20230923.html

* "Senate leaders trumpeted a spending plan to flex on McCarthy. It's stuck too. :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/20/congress/senates-own-funding-stumble-00117094

* "House GOP erupts as McCarthy fails to move Pentagon bill :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/21/house-gop-conservatives-block-defense-bill-00117400

* "'These are not serious people': GOP pays the price for filling ranks with extremists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-these-are-not-serious-people-gop-pays-the-price-for-filling-ranks-with-extremists-193427525732

* "Let's talk about McCarthy's missed moment coming back around....:"

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* "Pro-Equality Lawmakers Demand Removal of Anti-LGBTQ+ Sections From Defense Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/defense-bill-anti-lgbtq

* "Republican infighting continues as shutdown looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-infighting-continues-as-shutdown-looms-193618501793

* "Let's talk about Humpty Dumpty, Republicans, and McCarthy....:"

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* "Let's talk about McCarthy, budgets, and bites....:"

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* "Let's talk about the potential shutdown and proposed CR....:"

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* "Kevin McCarthy: The Idiot of the House:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/kevin-mccarthy-idiot

* "Inside the Chaos in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/inside-the-chaos-in-the-gop-193653317640

* "'Disrupting this Country': Rep. Waters on GOP Chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/disrupting-this-country-rep-waters-on-gop-chaos-193652293814

* "Schumer takes on Tuberville’s blockade, teeing up votes on top military picks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/schumer-takes-on-tubervilles-blockade-teeing-up-votes-on-top-military-picks-00117143

* "Gen. C.Q. Brown confirmed as top military officer despite Tuberville's roadblock:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200705608/senate-tuberville-hold-military-promotions

* "Sen. Tuberville continues to block military nominations:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sen-tuberville-continues-to-block-military-nominations-193618501803

* "Democratic Lawmakers Reintroduce Landmark LGBTQ+ Military Equality Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-military-equality-bill-reintroduced

* "Pete Buttigieg Explains the Difference Between Climate Change and Seasons to Republican Lawmaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-explains-climate-change

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Democrats have been winning big in special elections:" https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-winning-big-special-elections/story?id=103315703

* "'Pro-democracy': Dems overperform in 24 of 30 special elections so far in 2023:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-democracy-dems-overperform-in-24-of-30-special-elections-so-far-in-2023-193416773961

This only holds if everyone keeps showing up to vote.

* "Democrats retain narrow control of Pennsylvania House after special election:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-special-election-pittsburgh-8895ca07c1436640045861aff6c9ad6c

* "Flipped seat sets the stage for even split in N.H. House:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/flipped-seat-sets-stage-even-split-nh-house/

* "Missouri Republican Vows to Burn 'Woke Pornographic Books' If Elected Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-book-burning-video

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican mayoral candidate once pleaded guilty to ‘promoting prostitution’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/anti-lgbtq-mayoral-candidate-promoting-prostitution/

* "35 Bisexual Politicians You Should Know:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bisexual-politicians-visibility-day

* "Does 14th Amendment Bar Trump From the Presidency?:"

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* "Trump blue collar act a tougher sell now with anti-labor record:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-blue-collar-act-a-tougher-sell-now-with-anti-labor-record-193335877717

* "Donald Trump Asked Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley, 'Are You Soft on Transgenders?':" https://www.advocate.com/military/donald-trump-mark-milley-transgender

* "‘This is horrifying': Top New Jersey Democrats call on Bob Menendez to resign after his second indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/new-jersey-democrats-menendez-indictment-00117693

* "Rupert Murdoch to Step Down from Fox and News Corp Boards in November:" https://www.advocate.com/business/rupert-murdoch-retiring-fox-news

* "Will Lachlan Murdoch Bring a New Era to Fox News or the Same Hell?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news




* "Giuliani’s former lawyers sue him for $1.36M in unpaid legal fees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-lawyer-trump-00116671

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Georgia DA lists Trump ally Lin Wood as state witness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-lists-trump-ally-lin-wood-as-state-witness-193419845977

* "Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-prison-conviction-trial-1234828231/




* "Nazis Are Returning to the Streets:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byyd/2024-election-neo-nazis-visible-on-streets

* "Police investigate after bomb threat shuts down drag storytime at Utah bookstore:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/bomb-threat-drag-storytime/

* "The Police Will Never Protect Us:"

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* "Victory for Students: LGBTQ+ Resource Center Reopens at Missouri University:" https://www.advocate.com/news/missouri-university-reopens-lgbtq-center

* "Virginia Beach Parents Sue to Force Schools to Adopt Glenn Youngkin's Anti-Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/law/youngkin-transgender-schools-sue-lawsuit

* "Students protest Virginia schools anti-trans policies: ‘We will be bullied and dead-named’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/student-protest-virginia-anti-trans-policies/

* "Americans Divided on Use of Chosen Names and Pronouns in Schools, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-divided-student-chosen-names

* "California governor signs raft of protections for LGBTQ+ youth:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/california-governor-lgbtq-gavin-newsom/

* "Texas Teacher Fired For Assigning Anne Frank Graphic Novel:" https://advocatechannel.com/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank

* "Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports:" https://apnews.com/article/books-bans-american-library-association-42b34a284a6363439de20bbb65bb43b4

* "Virginia Library Temporarily Avoids Closing Over LGBTQ+ Books Controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/samuels-library-front-royal-open

* CW: Rape. "Decades-Old Trove of DNA Evidence, Collected by a Maryland Doctor, Leads to a Serial Rape Arrest:" https://www.propublica.org/article/decades-old-trove-of-dna-evidence-leads-to-serial-rape-arrest-maryland

* CW: Rape. "Protecting a Predator: How Columbia University ignored women, undermined prosecutors, and allowed one of its OB/GYNs to abuse hundreds of patients.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-obgyn-robert-hadden-sexually-assaulted-patients.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Rudy Giuliani groped her before Jan. 6 Capitol riot:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/trump-aide-says-rudy-giuliani-groped-her-on-january-6.html

* "Somalia's first all-women newsroom spotlights female taboos:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/somalias-first-all-women-newsroom-spotlights-female-taboos-2023-09-20/

* "Natasha Devon: Trans panic risks taking sex education back to the days of Section 28:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/trans-sex-education-transphobia-section-28-natasha-devon/

* "They Live in the US, but These LGBTQ+ Couples Can’t Get Married. Here's Why:" https://www.advocate.com/news/navajo-nation-married-queer-couples

* "California governor vetoes bill on gender-affirmation in child custody cases:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/california-gender-affirming-bill-trans/

* "Transgender Youth Face Hurdles Getting Gender-Affirming Care Even When It's Legal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-youth-access-care-restricted

* "Texas church launches non-profit to help transgender minors access healthcare:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/texas-church-transgender-minors-healthcare/

* "He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-health-care-north-carolina-coverage-denied

* "Abortions resume in Wisconsin after 15 months of legal uncertainty:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200610927/abortions-resume-in-wisconsin-after-15-months-of-legal-uncertainty

* "‘I looked in the mirror and saw the man in me’: Trans elders on the ‘hope’ in ageing authentically:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/trans-elders-lgbtq-coming-out-ageing-joy/

* "How queer Iranians are fighting back against the country’s online LGBTQ+ crackdown:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/mahsa-amini-protests-iranian-diaspora-collective-onlin/

* "Anti-trans rallies met with huge counter-protests across Canada:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/canada-pro-anti-lgbt-protests/

NOTE: Canadian correspondants are saying they were way more protests not covered in the article including Calagary, were the oposite.

* "New study finds decline in UK trans acceptance: ‘A shift that benefits no one’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/uk-less-tolerant-of-trans-people-study/

* "Civil servants up in arms over ‘woke’ policies on trans inclusion and a calendar marking Pride Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/civil-servants-woke-complaint-letter-trans/

* "Updated EHRC guidance suggests misgendering trans pupils not discriminatory:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/ehrc-guidance-trans-misgendering-pupils-schools/

* "Kate Osborne blasts Suella Braverman’s ‘woke policing’ claims: ‘Legitimising hate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/kate-osborne-suella-braverman-woke-policing/

* "Pentagon Says It'll Review Cases of LGBTQ+ Vets Who Were Denied Honorable Discharges:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-veterans-pentagon-dadt-review

* "Let's talk about Missouri, change, and elections....:"

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* "Angelica Ross is ‘leaving Hollywood’ after American Horror Story transphobia row:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/angelica-ross-american-horror-story-emma-roberts-ryan-murphy-leaving-hollywood/

* "She has Medicare and Medicaid. So why should it take 18 months to get a wheelchair? :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200657834/she-has-medicare-and-medicaid-so-why-should-it-take-18-months-to-get-a-wheelchai

* "Federal government to relaunch free COVID test program:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-government-relaunch-free-covid-tests-program/story?id=103347741

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* "‘They’re obsessed’: Dr. Fauci on death threats, 'lab leak,' and vaccine safety:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-they-re-obsessed-dr-fauci-on-death-threats-lab-leak-and-vaccine-safety-193484357913

* "Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sewage-key-track-disease-covid-19-wastewater

* "Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home:" https://apnews.com/article/birthing-rural-hospitals-maternity-care-births-e67a91d927eb545459e83bc7b2b95a0d

* CW: Child Death "Cough syrup killed scores of children. Why no one has been held to account :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coughsyrup-india/

* "At Japan’s dementia cafes, forgotten orders are all part of the service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/19/japan-aging-elderly-dementia-care/




* "Phoenix hit 110 degrees on 54 days in 2023, setting another heat record:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/phoenix-hit-110-degrees-on-54-days-in-2023-setting-another-heat-record

* "Ravaged by floods and fires, Greece struggles on the front lines of our climate reality:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ravaged-floods-fires-greece-struggles-front-lines-climate-reality-rcna107985

* "In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1199471923/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountains-survivors-loss

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate




* "Wildfires are destroying decades of clean air efforts in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfires-are-destroying-decades-clean-air-efforts-us-rcna105140

* "Renewable energy is now cheap—what’s next?:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/renewable-energy-is-now-cheap-whats-next/

* "How to Cool Down a City:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=HSk3tYP63honaw6JVn60sCk2OyUJmggqmzSIK7lP_OWn6_9pFszirIXkmTLXDcXyRjn3rb5O5MgeQVi_FaD3W02hlA7Jjpbtw97pHNa5YV4GcIulAYY-fRPWhu9E9aMgO-1r0POf8CiuB54APIMbIIZYdAhOfHfPAcTiqgtY1jzeaWyOebK9mwNnx4VByANdE3qQEuqwyWdHf2NVemqZIQl9rh7bQY1vavuSlJJbcXoUmLZPj-Aa9HEGdRpQw6njaDeR0D2fL41PXsa0i626uNbLUHYiBchPr_dJQo-WtHDqeajLOdJA23VKtxYKQ1l9dNmgCUq_SroOLzSmYhKjjwcTlVTJS0KV-6LG&smid=url-share

* "This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

* "The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?:" https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/

* "The Physics of Crowds: Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.:" https://nautil.us/the-physics-of-crowds-388020/

* "Let's talk about Rand Paul and a billboard....:"

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* You know how I kept saying these were an obvious scam from the beginning? "Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

* "‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement:" https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-george-rr-martin-37f9073ab67ab25b7e6b2975b2a63bfe

* "Decoding racial bias in artificial intelligence:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/decoding-racial-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-193619013836

* "AI in schools puts LGBTQ+ students at risk, new study reveals:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/ai-schools-digital-surveillance-lgbtq-students/

* "xQc Is Stealing Content (and So Are Most Reaction Streamers):"

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* "Elon Musk accuses George Soros of wanting ‘destruction of western civilization’ a day before meeting Netanyahu over antisemitism on X:" https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-george-soros-antisemitism-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-twitter-x/

* "Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/urban-animals-wildlife-biodiversity-traits-pigeons-reptiles-amphibians

* "What Made a 17th-Century Midwife Good at Her Job?:" https://juliamartins.co.uk/what-made-a-17th-century-midwife-good-at-her-job

* "Dead Reckoning:" https://magazine.atavist.com/dead-reckoning-honda-point-navy-disaster-1923/

* "Welcome to the Little Cuba of the Sahara Desert:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cuba-influence-western-sahara

* Wednesday's plans fell through for a bunch of nobody's fault reasons, but at least the annual curtain cleaning got done, along with a bunch of necessary errands and the like. I was exhausted and ended up going to bed for a few hours before the Thursday dose. (It went up again. I'm fine, but it takes a lot out of me). I had planned to get my COVID boosters, but there is a local distribution delay. I am rescheduled for Saturday the 30th, which is far less convenient, but there was nothing to be done. It'll be my first Moderna shot; I've had Pfiser every time previous, but apparently the Pfiser delay is a lot longer if I don't want to cross the mountains and do like an hourish of driving in my ancient car to a crappy little town I've only been to once and don't know my way around.

Waiting is simpler and cheaper as I need to make this half tank last, so I will wait.

no one was letting me sleep Thursday. It was that thing where I was having trouble sleeping because of the pain being so extreme, and when I finally started to drift off, the phone would ring. Rinse and repeat. One of them let me sleep a whole hour, which was exciting. By the time we got to the 5-7th calls, I had reached a state of grimly amused. Then I woke up choking, which hasn't happened for a while and is likely to do with the Thursday shot and me running out of a side effect mitigation med I can't afford to replace until the 1st, by which time there will be no more shots until the new clinic opens.

I can't remember if I wrote about the two doctors getting a new office in the new clinic that opens in October, but they aren't scheduling yet. Let's hope the gap isn't so big I have to start over.

I did finally get a little REM sleep, but not much. Then I completely borked the bad shoulder trying to do physio. The arm didn't want to and it's bad enough I had to break out emergency meds and use the sling. Grr.

* "Star Trek Doesn't Understand Eugenics:"

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* "The White Gaze of Hairspray:"

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* "15 Hunky Black and White Folsom Street Fair Photos by Chantis :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/folsom-street-fair-2022-chantis

* "Halloween 🎃 Outdoor Decor | DIY Halloween Decorations for Outside | Front Yard Halloween Decorating:"

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* "If "Pride and Prejudice" was a podcast:"

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* Dracula: Lucy and Jonathan Parallels: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/729285707782389760/with-lucy-gone-now-and-van-helsing-saying-that?source=share

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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.

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "‘She could be my sister’: Iranian activists on why Mahsa Amini protests are an LGBTQ+ fight too:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/iran-lgbtq-mahsa-amini-protests-year/

* "Netanyahu's Supreme Court overhaul effort seen by protesters as threat to Israel's democracy:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-supreme-court-60-minutes-transcript/

* "Gender reform law: Scottish and UK governments battle in court over Section 35 block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gender-reform-law-scotland-uk-governments-court/

* "The Serial Killer Hiding in Plain Sight:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv54m/the-serial-killer-hiding-in-plain-sight




* "Biden urges UN: Stand united with Ukraine :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/biden-un-general-assembly-ukraine-00116739




* "Rallies held nationwide as Netanyahu heads to US; protesters denounce him at airport:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/rallies-held-nationwide-as-netanyahu-heads-to-us-protesters-to-await-him-at-airport/

* "Five Americans detained in Iran walk free, released in deal for frozen Iranian assets:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-prisoner-swap-sanctions-assets-4e1fa477f8e6af45fb764acd259c2f1a

* "It's complicated: Options limited when U.S. companies work contrary to U.S. interests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/it-s-complicated-options-limited-when-u-s-companies-work-contrary-to-u-s-interests-193255493552

* "'It's a huge dilemma': U.S. looks for leverage against Uganda's 'kill the gays' law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-a-huge-dilemma-u-s-looks-for-leverage-against-uganda-s-kill-the-gays-law-193256517570

* "Let's talk about Biden, recommendations, and information....:"

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* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* This makes so much sense. "Dark money: The backstory of Alabama’s redistricting defiance:" https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/16/dark-money-the-backstory-of-alabamas-redistricting-defiance/

* "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'whole truth' about Black history must be taught:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-truth-black-history-taught/story?id=103220003

* "U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at 16th Street Baptist Church:"

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* "Ford Revolutionized 5-Day Work Weeks, Now They Won't Give 4-Day a Shot:" https://advocatechannel.com/uaw-strike-henry-ford-five-day-work-week

* "UAW strike, Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200052537/uaw-strike-worker-job-plant-layoffs-day-4-gm-ford

* "UAW strike enters third day:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/uaw-strike-enters-third-day-193146437782

* "Let's talk about Biden, the UAW, and unions....:"

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* "Another doomed GOP spending plan collapses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/18/gop-spending-plan-government-shutdown-mccarthy-deal-00116508

* "House GOP in open warfare over doomed spending plan :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/house-gop-spending-plan-00116631

* "Somebody Left a Motion to Remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker in House Bathroom:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/somebody-left-a-motion-to-remove-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-in-house-bathroom

* "House Republicans to hold first impeachment hearing into President Biden next week:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200364227/impeachment-house-republicans-president-biden-hearing

* Ken Buck Op Ed. "My fellow Republicans: One disgraceful impeachment doesn’t deserve another:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/congressman-ken-buck-biden-impeachment/

* "‘Fictitious’ facts and ‘imagined’ history: GOP Rep. Ken Buck slams Biden impeachment effort:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/gop-rep-ken-buck-impeachment-biden-00116396

* "Watch George Santos Give Bizarre CNN Interview About Impeachment, Lies:" https://www.advocate.com/media/george-santos-cnn-interview

* "Let's talk about a tale of 3 impeachments....:"

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* "'Biggest political scandal right now': heat on Javanka money haul:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-biggest-political-scandal-right-now-heat-on-javanka-money-haul-193113157632

* "GOP Sen. John Kennedy Reads Queer Sex Excerpts at Cringe-Worthy Senate Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/john-kennedy-explicit-senate-hearing

* "Fetterman jeers Republicans 'losing their mind' over new Senate dress code:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fetterman-jeers-republicans-losing-their-mind-over-new-senate-dress-code-193242693970

* "‘Preposterous': Conspiracy theorists think John Fetterman uses a ‘body double’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-preposterous-conspiracy-theorists-think-john-fetterman-uses-a-body-double-193325637904

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* This is the end of free and fair elections and intended to end democracy. "North Carolina Republicans seek control over state and local election boards ahead of 2024:" https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-republicans-election-changes-voting-4f5184d25d63ac7a464dff9be0f93c52

* Republicans removed her for conducting a free and fair election which goes against their core fascist principals. "Wisconsin GOP votes to remove state’s elections chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/14/wisconsin-gop-remove-state-elections-chief-00115995

* "We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175311/america-polarized-traumatized-trump-violence

* "Americans Don’t Want Politicians Focusing on Transgender Issues, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-dont-focus-transgender-issues

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is motivating more trans and non-binary people to run for office:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/trans-non-binary-run-for-office-anti-lgbtq/

* "Olivia Hill of Nashville Council Is First Trans Person Elected in Tennessee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-nashville-first-transgender-official

* "Virginia Democratic Candidate Slams Republicans Sharing Her Sex Tapes: ‘It Won’t Intimidate Me’:" https://advocatechannel.com/susanna-gibson-virginia-democratic-candidate-sex-tapes

Want to help Susanna Gibson beat David Owen? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/sg-web?refcode=home-cta

* "Rep. Pelosi on why she's running for reelection in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-pelosi-on-why-she-s-running-for-reelection-in-2024-193146949773

* "Rep. Pelosi on the looming government shutdown:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-pelosi-on-the-looming-government-shutdown-193146437865

* CW: Child Abuse. "GOP candidate promising to protect children from LGBTQ+ people faced child cruelty charges:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gop-louisiana-john-raymond-child-cruelty/

* "Mike Pence Shifts to ‘Gender Ideology’ When Asked About Anti-Trans Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pence-gender-ideology-transgender-townhall

* "Ramaswamy says he’d deport children of undocumented immigrants, calls 14th Amendment ‘contested’:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4195861-ramaswamy-says-hed-deport-children-of-undocumented-immigrants-born-in-the-us-calling-14th-amendment-contested/

Children born here are citizens under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. He's saying the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is somehow not Constitutional and we need to mass deport American Citizens.

* "Ron DeSantis ditched by biggest donor after ‘pointless’ war with Disney:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/ron-desantis-disney-donor/

* "Petition filed to block Trump from Minnesota’s 2024 ballot under ‘insurrection clause’:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-amendment-insurrection-ban-ballot-lawsuit-559469071b5f104e74ca698bed6afb5d

* "Trump calls DeSantis abortion ban ‘a terrible mistake,’ sparking anger from some key Republicans:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-abortion-ban-republican-primary-5bdbba55f9c2f328d49b5fbe9727677e

* "Trump Warns That ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Will ‘Lead Us Into World War 2’ in Confused Speech:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-warns-cognitively-impaired-biden-172337832.html

"This wasn’t the only mistake Trump made during his speech. At another point, he appeared to imply that he is also beating President Obama in the 2024 election polls."

Every accusation is a confession.

* "Let's talk about Trump, Meet the Press, and accuracy....:"

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* "In Rosh Hashanah message, Trump says US Jews voted ‘to destroy America and Israel’:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rosh-hashanah-message-trump-says-us-jews-voted-to-destroy-america-and-israel/

* "Lauren Boebert caught fondling date’s crotch at family-friendly show:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/lauren-boebert-sexual-behaviour-theatre/

Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* "Gov. Kemp decides not to suspend state Senator named in election interference indictment:" https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/gov-kemp-decides-not-suspend-state-senator-named-election-interference-indictment/QXKUVNTW5NAILGAGSQQGMOU7B4/

* "Let's talk about Paxton being acquitted....:"

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* "Trump civil fraud trial in New York will last nearly three months, judge says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trumps-new-york-fraud-trial-will-last-nearly-3-months-judge-rcna104100

* "Let's talk about rhetoric and reality....:"

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* I don't like the ableism here, but most of the other coverage is worse in one way or another. "A Befuddled Trump Both Admits and Denies that He Was 'Waving Around' a Classified Document:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/14/2193353/-A-Befuddled-Trump-Both-Admits-and-Denies-that-He-Was-Waving-Around-a-Classified-Document

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Trump co-defendant Jeffrey Clark seeks to move Georgia election case to federal court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-co-defendant-jeffrey-clark-seeks-move-georgia-election-case-fede-rcna105555

* "Jack Smith seeks gag order on Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/jack-smith-seeks-gag-order-on-trump-00116366

* "Trump blasts special counsel Jack Smith for seeking gag order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/trump-blasts-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-seeking-gag-order-00116376

* "Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages/




* "Ray Epps, ex-Marine targeted by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged with a misdemeanor in riot:" https://apnews.com/article/ray-epps-capitol-riot-jan-6-fox-38748c79cd7b6916584a5db7ca87af7a

* "'Victim of Fox': Feds charge man at center of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-victim-of-fox-feds-charge-man-at-center-of-jan-6-conspiracy-theories-193327685617

* "Proud Boys are GOP's 'neo-fascist foot soldiers' — and have their full support: reporter:" https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-gop-2665058802/

* "‘Attack on military readiness’: Human rights groups sound new alarm on extremism:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/14/civil-rights-groups-alarm-over-white-supremacism-military-extremism/70848380007/

* "FBI investigating violent threats against officials in Fulton County, Georgia:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/fbi-investigating-violent-threats-against-officials-in-fulton-county-georgia-.html

* "Threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on Hunter Biden probe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/prosecutors-fbi-agents-hunter-biden-investigation-threatened-rcna104932

* "Maddow: What sets us apart as a country is fragile and worth fighting to protect:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-what-sets-us-apart-as-a-country-is-fragile-and-worth-fighting-to-protect-193247813919

* "This Transgender Harvard Law Instructor’s Front-Row Seat to Domestic Terrorism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/alejandra-caraballo-bomb-threats-emails

* "Maryland Man Admits Sending Terror Threats to LGBTQ+ Group, Allies:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/maryland-terror-threats-lgbtq-group

* "Federal judge again declares that DACA is illegal with issue likely to be decided by Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-daca-dreamers-51ba8c941993ffa26e1251aef84b0284

* "Infamous Neo-Nazi blog praises Mayor Adams’ claim that NYC is being ‘destroyed’ by migrant crisis:" https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/08/infamous-neo-nazi-blog-praises-mayor-adams-claim-that-nyc-is-being-destroyed-by-migrant-crisis/

* "Let's talk about Memphis, the feds, and Mr. Nichols....:"

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* They carelessly killed her, then mocked her in death. The Seattle PD are pretty fucking evil. "Seattle Police Union Leader Under Investigation for Joking Woman Killed by Patrol Car Had 'Limited Value':" https://people.com/seattle-police-officer-under-investigation-for-jokes-about-grad-student-killed-7969630

* "Let's talk about Seattle and low value....:"

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* " Most Cops Involved in High-Profile Killings Since 2014 Kept Their Police Licenses :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/16/police-decertification-license/

* "Milwaukee police to withhold victims’ gender when reporting on crimes to avoid misgendering:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/police-crime-victims-misgendering-milwaukee/

* "Transgender Jan. 6 Rioter Is Now in a Women's Prison. Did Far-Right Republicans Help?:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/trans-insurrectionist-appeals-transphobes

* "Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it:" https://apnews.com/article/illinois-criminal-justice-cash-bail-reform-b8aac667b7d3016e12ea64a70964bf55

* "Rolling Stone founder apologises for ‘inflammatory’ comments about Black and female musicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/jann-wenner-rolling-stone-black-female-artists-articulate-comments-reaction/

* "Texas Anti-Drag Law Blocked Again by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/tennessee-drag-ban-blocked-again

* "Hispanic Federation’s queer president condemns Don’t Say Gay laws: ‘All you’re doing is isolating children’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/hispanic-heritage-month-lgbtq-latinx-frankie-miranda/

* "Two California school districts ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/california-sunol-temecula-pride-flag-ban/

* "Yet another California school district introduces parental notification policy for trans students:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/california-parental-notification-policy-students/

* "How Teachers Are Being Silenced on LGBTQ+ Issues and More:" https://www.advocate.com/education/silencing-teachers-lgbtq

* "Alabama anti-porn group wants librarians to face jail for offering LGBTQ+ books to kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/alabama-jail-librarians-lgbtq-books-porn-group/

* CW: CSA, Child Abuse. "The Menedez Brothers Case and the Changing Perceptions of Child Abuse:"

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* CW: Rape "Met Police pays ‘substantial’ damages to women arrested at Sarah Everard vigil:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/metropolitan-police-sarah-everard-payout-patsy-stevenson-dania-al-obeid/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Lesbian former PA accuses ‘narcissist’ Russell Brand of ‘sickening’ behaviour amid rape and sexual assault allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/russell-brand-rape-sexual-assault-allegations-lesbian-pa/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Russell Brand promised to bring ‘naked’ female assistant to meet Jimmy Savile on BBC show:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/russell-brand-jimmy-savile-sexual-abuse/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones defend Russell Brand over sexual assault allegations:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tucker-carlson-alex-jones-defend-russell-brand-over-sexual-assault-allegations-193243717889

* "Lyft Now Lets Women and Nonbinary Riders Request Their Driver’s Gender:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lyft-women-nonbinary-driver-option

* CW: Rape. "Virginia's Glenn Youngkin Pardons Man Involved in Altercation Over Trans Restroom Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/youngkin-pardon-restroom-case

* CW: Child Abuse. "Fox News contributor Tyrus threatens to assault trans kids in swimming pools:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/tyrus-fox-news-trans-swimming/

* CW: Child Abuse. "Christian influencer’s arrest points to Religious Right’s history of 'oppression and cruelty':" https://www.alternet.org/christian-nationalism-2665081569/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

* "A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "The Right’s War on Divorce—and Its Costs:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/no-fault-divorce-texas-republican-gop-crowder/

* "Gay adult shop in Manchester attacked for a fifth time this year: ‘This cannot continue’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/13/gay-adult-shop-manchester-attacked/

* "Older Gay Men More Sexually Active Than Older Straight Men: Survey:" https://www.advocate.com/health/older-gay-men-sex-lives

* "She Posted About Making Shakshuka on a Lazy Saturday. Then She Got Death Threats:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/shakshuka-girl-matt-walsh-internet-x-drama-1234819913/

* "While LGBTQ+ Community Embraces Open Marriages, Straight Society Is Scandalized: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/society/lgbtq-support-open-marriages

* "‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html

* "Jersey to improve legal rights for same-sex parents: ‘Recognising families as equal’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/jersey-same-sex-parents-legal-rights-surrogacy/

* "Conservatives approve policies to limit transgender health care for minors, end race-based hiring:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-policy-convention-transgender-1.6961991

* Trans Adults are no longer entitled to bodily autonomy in Florida and are not considered competent to make their own health care decisions. "Judge Won't Block Florida's Restrictions on Care for Trans Adults:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-ban-florida

* "Alabama Families Continue to Appeal to Block Transgender Care Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-alabama-appeal

* "Missouri Trans Clinic forced to cease services following trans healthcare ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/missouri-trans-clinic-cease-services/

* "Hong Kong: Lesbian couple’s IVF legal victory a ‘giant step forward for rainbow families’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/hong-kong-lesbian-couple-ivf-victory-same-sex-parents/

* "Let's talk about Kentucky, the wheels of justice, and costs....:"

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* "Alabama's attorney general says the state can prosecute those who help women travel for abortions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/alabamas-attorney-general-state-prosecute-women-travel-abortions-102844622

* "As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html

* ""YOU'RE NOT OPPRESSED!" | Twitter, Pride Month, and Acephobia [Asexuality]:"

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* "Welcome to the 'Fluidity Renaissance':" https://www.advocate.com/voices/welcome-to-the-fluidity-renaissance

* "‘Nobody is safe in Chechnya’: Life of torture survivor accused of being gay at risk, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/chechnya-russia-torture-salman-mukaev-extradite-armenia/

* "A Proposed Law in This Country Would Require Citizens to Report LGBTQ+ People to Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill

* "Homophobia in Lebanon: Queer community ‘hopeless’ as ‘moral panic’ targets LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/13/lebanon-lgbtq-rights-crackdown/

* "In time of war, Russia turns up aggression on transgender citizens:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/10/russia-outlaws-transgender-citizens/

* "Belgrade queer community defiant at Serbia Pride, despite anti-LGBTQ+ leadership and religious groups:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/serbia-pride-belgrade-christian-orthodox-protest/

* "Cork’s ‘favourite’ LGBTQ+ bar removes Pride flags and cancels drag performances:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/cork-chambers-bar-lgbtq-ireland/

Correspondants in Ireland tell me there is now a boycott on, but I haven't seen the reporting yet.

* "Mausoleum for Trans Women Inaugurated in Mexico City:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-women-mausoleum-mexico

* "Hundreds protest Posie Parker event in Dublin: ‘Trans people aren’t going anywhere’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/hundreds-of-trans-folks-and-allies-protest-posie-parker/

* I hope he sues. "Posie Parker suggests trans ally David Tennant is a paedophile – and fans aren’t having it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/david-tennant-posie-parker/

* "Anti-trans activists rage at Pride flag boot sticker, only to discover it came from ‘gender critical’ store:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/posie-parker-gender-critical-anti-trans-sticker/

* "Protestors warn government has ‘run out of time’ to fulfil vow to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/government-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Liz Truss doesn’t want trans people to transition until they turn 18 – but she’s got it all wrong:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/trans-schools-guidance-age-social-transition-uk/

* "Labour MP warns against gender-critical activists wanting women to show passports in public toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/angela-eagle-passports-toilets/

* "Transgender Woman Wins $125,000 After Settling Discrimination Suit with American Samoa:" https://www.advocate.com/news/american-samoa-transgender-employee-lawsuit

* "Former Pastor jailed for eight years for murder of Black trans woman Kelly Stough:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/michigan-albert-weathers-kelly-stough-trans-murder/

* "Suspect Arrested in Vandalism at Two Orlando LGBTQ+ Centers:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/arrest-orlando-vandalism-lgbtq-centers

* "New York City Police Arrest 2 More Over Stonewall Pride Flag Vandalism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-arrests-2-vandalism-flags

* "Florida City Declares Itself LGBTQ+ Sanctuary:" https://www.advocate.com/dont-say-gay/sanctuary-city-florida-lgbtq

* "California Becomes First State to Declare Transgender History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/california-first-transgender-history-month

* "Are religious people OK? Pastor smashes Barbie Dream House with Bible taped to baseball bat:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/pastor-greg-locke-barbie-dream-house-bible-baseball-bat/

* "Stephen Miller Really Hates Gay Pop-Tarts:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/stephen-miller-hates-gay-poptarts

* CW: Suicide. "Alice Litman inquest to examine impact of gender clinic waiting lists on trans woman’s death:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/alice-litman-inquest-gender-clinic-waiting-times/

* "Australian state to hold inquest into deaths of trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/victoria-trans-non-binary-suicide-inquest/

* "COVID cases are rising again. Here’s a refresher on everything you forgot.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/sick-covid-refresher-tests-masking-isolation-medicine

* "Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccines-shots-cdc-5bc4db844557120bcc50dc0838c0e044

* "A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-flesh-eating-bacterium-is-creeping-north-as-oceans-warm/

* "A Story About Pain:" https://audacity.substack.com/p/a-story-about-pain

* "The Woman on the Line: Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/overdose-drugs-fentanyl-opioid-never-use-alone.html




* "East Libya Strongman Keeps Tight Control Over Aid After Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/world/middleeast/libya-flood-aid-khalifa-hifter.html

* "Libyan flood survivors weigh water shortages against landmine risk:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyan-flood-survivors-weigh-water-shortages-against-landmine-risk-2023-09-17/

* "Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199761659/libya-floods-derna-survivors-deaths

* "Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-photos-earthquake-920c39947f895cdfc3448e5431df7562

* "Morocco's earthquake crumbled much of this adobe village nestled in the mountain:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200132282/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountain-village

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate




* "Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-discovery-of-copper

* "LGBTQ+ indie game developers hit back at ‘worrying’ new Unity fees for installs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/unity-development-fees-indie-games/

* "Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, could charge all users for access:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/x-elon-musk-charge-all-users-18374233.php

* "‘The Trumpian Playbook’: Mehdi unpacks the GOP and Elon Musk’s war on truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-the-trumpian-playbook-mehdi-unpacks-the-gop-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-truth-192472133703

* "Eclipse Records Pin Dates of 12th and 13th Century Eruptions:" https://eos.org/articles/eclipse-records-pin-dates-of-12th-and-13th-century-eruptions

* "Triboulet the Butt-Slapping Jester: Investigating a Historical Meme:"

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* "The London History Show: The Great Fire:"

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* "The Pub Where They Hanged Pirates: The London History Show:"

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* "Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes:"

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* "How Queer Communities Created Secret Languages:"

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* "The Remarkable Versatility of Cloris Leachman: From The Last Picture Show to Young Frankenstein:"

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* Saturday I "won" a game of "What am I allergic to now?"

Spoiler: sandalwood. It was sandalwood. Sigh.

* Thursday was likely the last of the good fruit from the market garden down the street as I can't afford more. They were plums. The oval ones with the dark purple skin and the yellowish interior, perfectly rich of flavour and sweet. I already miss them. Sunday I ate one of the tomatoes that hadn't developed right from the garden and it was like the whole flavour of what would have been a full sized heirloom was compressed into something a tad larger than a cherry tomato. It was still warm from the sun. I dislike summer, but I do love the fresh fruit and veg it brings.

Last Wednesday we started Gothmas prep stuff. The Gothmas season stretches from when the first leaves start turning until some time first week of January. It has many phases. I didn't used to count prep as a phase, but it really is. Last Wednesday was basically Adult Arts and Crafts and cleaning air-conditioner vents. Sunday was things like break down and drain the living room air condition. admittedly a risk with this humidity, but we can't move forward without putting it away. We are hoping to start interior decorating Wednesday.

As always, the goal is to have everything up but the exterior by the end of the 27th. Let's hope i remember to start the curtains in the washing machine before I leave for Wednesday errands. (I really shouldn't be taking the curtains down myself, but I can't put them back up myself, so the timing needs to be a thing that happens when I'm dressed for the day, but with enough time for wash and dry while the Millennials are here.

I am so ready for Autumn, which should be much farther along, but the wind patterns have been radically fucked for half a decade thanks to climate crisis.

The cleaner tricked poor Livia Friday into thinking he was Goth Millennial. He was very quiet and making familiar doing things in the kitchen sounds, so without checking his identity she trundled out of her hide so she could watch birds from her padded podium by my bedroom window. About and hour and a quarter later, he loomed into her doorway. Panic! Goth Millennial was a doppelganger! a Tricksey shape Shifting stranger!

Saturday, she hid from Goth Millennial in case they performed the same shape shifting trick again. Fool me once….

Sunday she was on my bed with Tavy when I brought Goth Millennial in, and we were mid-chat, so she decided Goth Millennial was not a Decepticon because that meant she could keep enjoying the pet I was giving her and a nap in her Spot instead of repairing to her Fortress of Solitude for the evening. it was fine. no shape shifting shenanigans ensued.

* I'd have been harder on Tarantino, but otherwise, perfection. "The Campy Queer Sensibilities of Barbie:"

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* Dracula Thought: So here is the question: Knowing what we know now, is the maids begging to watch by Lucy earlier in her illness touching or sinister?

* "Midnight Pals: Playground of Death:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728732779485036544/midnight-pals-playground-of-death?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* I posted about a third of what I intended too. Apologies.

* I get angry every time a government does this. "How slums in Delhi were flattened before the G20 summit:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/G20-SUMMIT/SLUM/zdpxrxoaypx/

* "Has India Changed Its Name? A G20 Invite Raises Eyebrows.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/world/asia/india-bharat-g20-summit.html

* "China’s Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations:" https://apnews.com/article/china-india-g20-xi-jinping-1540c1850f60edebc067ad430b968c00

* "Let's talk about China, G20, and explanations....:"

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* "Guatemala's top elections court suspends ban on president-elect Arevalo's party:" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230903-guatemala-s-top-elections-court-suspends-ban-on-president-elect-arevalo-s-party

* "Guatemala prosecutor seeks to strip electoral authorities of immunity after election:" https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-election-bernardo-arevalo-22fe6c74f3b4a7cd689517f15db6a060

* Terfs are lying when they claim to be feminist. "How do the Taliban, who ‘know what a woman is’, treat women in Afghanistan?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/julia-hartley-brewer-taliban-tweet-trans/

* "Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1197019905/chile-search-disappeared-victims-pinochet-dictatorship

* "New scheme to help LGBTQ+ migrants bring ‘cultures and experiences’ to cities as they settle in Europe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/queers-beyond-borders-queer-migrants-europe/

* "Who are the LGBTQ+ allies in Labour’s new front bench?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/labour-keir-starmer-reshuffle-lgbtq-allies/

* "Romania Starts Sending Natural Gas To Moldova Through Pipeline:" https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-gas-supply-moldova-ukraine-war/32162977.html




* "Far-Right German Parliamentary Aide Tasked by Russia with Stopping Leopard Tanks to Ukraine:" https://theins.info/en/politics/264014

* "Musk says he refused Kyiv request for Starlink use in attack on Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/musk-says-he-refused-kyiv-request-use-starlink-attack-russia-2023-09-08/

* "Russia amplifies right-wing influence campaign to undermine support for Ukraine by exploiting Hawaii's tragedy:" https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence

* "Let's talk about Russia, a talking point, and the reality....:"

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* "What Were the Russians Doing in Chornobyl?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/russia-ukraine-chernobyl-disaster/675083/

* "Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-intercepts/

* "How They Tried to Kill Me:" https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/




* "Chinese Intel Officers Interfered in U.S. Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/china-facebook-instagram-propaganda-campaign-1234813762/

* "Let's talk about Fox, a story, and context....:"

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* "How President Biden came to grips with Trump-era radicalism:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-president-biden-came-to-grips-with-trump-era-radicalism-192331334000

* "Biden blocks oil drilling on 10M acres in Alaska, including leases Trump sold :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/biden-to-cancel-trumps-oil-drilling-leases-in-alaskan-nature-refuge-00114243

* "Kamala Harris tour to inspire ‘critical generation’ of young people in fight for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/kamala-harris-fight-for-our-freedoms-college-tour-lgbtq-rights/

* "Let's talk about Congress, confusion, and continuing resolutions....:"

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* "Let's talk about soft landings, recession, and Biden....:"

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* "This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/affordable-housing-montgomery-county.html

* "How the twin crises of climate change and poor public housing are harming people’s health:" https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/29/climate-change-public-housing-health-consequences/

* That's sure what it looked like, but it's helpful to have it substantiated. "New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749

* "Let's talk about Beshear, McConnell, Kentucky, and the constitutions....:"

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* Republicans are lying when they say they care about national security or our troops. "Republican Cowardice Is Creating a Mess for the U.S. Military:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/tommy-tuberville-military-department-of-defense-blockade.html

* "Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro accused Sen. Tommy Tuberville of helping the nation’s enemies.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/navy-secretary-tuberville-military-blockade-communists-00114115

* "Let's talk about Tuberville, poetry, and the military....:"

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* "Eight Things You Need to Know About the Navy’s Failed Multibillion-Dollar Littoral Combat Ship Program:" https://www.propublica.org/article/navy-littoral-combat-ship-takeaways

* Republicans continue to wage war on the Rule of Law in their pursuit of autocracy. "Jim Jordan and Wisconsin Republicans Know the Law—They Just Don’t Care:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175458/jim-jordan-wisconsin-republicans-conservatism-destruction

* "‘Offensive’: Georgia prosecutor excoriates Jordan for probe into Trump charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/fani-willis-jim-jordan-offensive-00114583

* "Georgia DA eviscerates GOP Congressman, suggests he buy book on RICO law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-eviscerates-gop-congressman-suggests-he-buy-book-on-rico-law-192496709613

* "Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Court tosses Alabama congressional map after GOP refuses to draw second Black district:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/court-throws-out-alabama-gop-congressional-map-for-violating-voting-rights-act-00113962

* "Court decides Alabama Republicans can’t be trusted to draw congressional maps:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/court-decides-alabama-republicans-can-t-be-trusted-to-draw-congressional-maps-192327749981

* "DeSantis Florida redistricting map is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197452442/desantis-florida-redistricting-map-gerrymandering-unconstitutional

* "Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley criticized a colleague for not recusing from a case involving a donor. Six years ago, she helped kill a measure requiring those recusals.:" https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/09/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-rebecca-bradley-criticized-a-colleague-for-not-recusing-from-a-case-involving-a-donor-six-years-ago-she-helped-kill-a-measure-requiring-those-recusals/

* Republicans insist that acknowledging facts is utterly disqualifying for Judges. "State Republicans Try to Remove Top Jurist for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/north-carolina-gop-anita-earls-ethics-case.html

* "Let's talk about Wisconsin and the GOP not getting the answer they wanted....:"

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* "‘Tennessee Three’ members blast GOP rules restricting speech in state House :" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4165033-tennessee-three-members-blast-gop-rules-restricting-speech-in-state-house/

* "Oregon Republicans barred from running for re-election after boycotting votes:" https://www.rawstory.com/oregon-gop-re-election/

* "Oregon Republican senators sue to run for reelection, saying walkout rule shouldn’t stop them:" https://apnews.com/article/oregon-republican-lawmaker-walkout-reelection-72dc264fc144539034ad2eb716eb208e

* "Backers blast approved ballot language for Ohio’s fall abortion amendment as misleading:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-access-ballot-issue-election-2023-a628e9b323b8544847ace0a0504c5733

* I beg people over and over to vote in all the down ballot races in every election. This is why. "The GOP school boards making California Dems red in the face :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/gop-school-boards-california-00112084

* "Historic Win: Gay Candidate Triumphs in Mississippi Primary :" https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/09/historic-win-gay-candidate-triumphs-in-mississippi-primary/

* "Author of MS Care Ban Lost His Primary Because He’s Not Racist Enough:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/author-of-ms-care-ban-lost-his-primary-because-hes-not-racist-enough

* "Tennessee political candidate responds to homophobic smear campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/06/tennessee-eric-patton-smear-campaign/

* "Let's talk about Blake vs Lake in Arizona....:"

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* "Gay club owner faces backlash over nearly $10,000 in Republican Party donations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/michael-purdum-gop-donations/

* "Oliver Anthony Slams Republicans Using His Song 'Rich Men North of Richmond':" https://advocatechannel.com/oliver-anthony-slams-republicans

* "Republican presidential Project 2025 plans to define trans people as ‘pornographic’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/conservative-think-tank-project-2025/

For fuckssake take this seriously. They are trying to make it illegal for us to exist in public. We are already subject to the death penalty in Florida for existing. They are planning to nationalize this.

They are coming for us first, but they will come for the whole queer community next. Respectability politics and throwing us under the bus won;t save you.

* "A lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from the primary in Colorado, citing Constitution’s insurrection clause:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-constitution-2024-election-primary-ballot-19ca3f17881e8818302cb1260e7c2aed

* "‘Pro-baby:’ Republicans trying to rebrand the anti-abortion movement:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-baby-republicans-trying-to-rebrand-the-anti-abortion-movement-192584261851

* "Environmental groups sue over Virginia's withdrawal from greenhouse gas pact:" https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative-virginia-youngkin/article_f19e339a-4053-11ee-be13-2f3505af27d5.html

* "DeSantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to board overseeing state employee conduct:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/desantis-appoints-moms-for-liberty-tina-descovich-florida-ethics-commission/70777620007/

Reminder: Mons for Liberty is a Neo-NAZI extremist hate group that openly admires Hitler and espouses his goals.

* "Impeachment trial begins for Texas Republican Ken Paxton:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/impeachment-trial-begins-for-texas-republican-ken-paxton-192327237660

* "Let's talk about why Republicans turned on Paxton....:"

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* "Trump White House official Navarro convicted of contempt after defying House Jan. 6 subpoena:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-navarro-contempt-congress-jan-6-a4ad58e1f590e5884fd347c86c121a8a

* "New York attorney general asks judge to fine Trump for ‘frivolous’ legal arguments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-sanctions-00114054

* "Witness in Trump documents case reached deal with prosecutors, ex-attorney says:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/witness-trump-documents-case-reached-deal-with-prosecutors-ex-attorney-says-2023-09-06/

* "Is Judge Cannon preparing to kneecap Trump's Florida documents case?:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-florida-documents-case

* "Lordy, more tapes! Trump lawyer's notes add details on lead-up to FBI search of Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-more-tapes-trump-lawyer-s-notes-add-details-on-lead-up-to-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago-192418885579

* "Prosecutors race against Trump media's campaign to corrupt jury pool:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prosecutors-race-against-trump-media-s-campaign-to-corrupt-jury-pool-192594501612

* "'His efforts fall short.': Judge stomps on Mark Meadows' bid to take Georgia trial federal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-his-efforts-fall-short-judge-stomps-on-mark-meadows-bid-to-take-georgia-trial-federal-192592453609

* "Fani Willis lays out criminal case against false electors :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/fani-willis-criminal-case-electors-trump-00114149

* "All defendants in Georgia racketeering case, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197697531/georgia-racketeering-case-defendants-arraignment-trump-giuliani-meadows

* "Citing lumbering Young Thug case, Trump co-defendant seeks separate trial:" https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/citing-lumbering-young-thug-case-trump-co-defendant-seeks-separate-trial/LKEU6XM4AZBFBLBZH33VOGX33E/

* "Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/trump-cases-defendants-flipping-00113910

* "Trump, co-defendants scatter on strategy as legal heat intensifies:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-co-defendants-scatter-on-strategy-as-legal-heat-intensifies-192332357685

* "Let's talk about Trump, Georgia, Willis and the most important takeaway....:"

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* "Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194471162/trump-indictment-fulton-county-grand-jurors-threats

* "Trump Georgia election trial juror names should be secret, DA tells judge:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/atlanta-da-wants-trump-georgia-election-trial-juror-names-to-be-secret.html

* "‘The corruption of Lindsey Graham:’ Why the senator risked indictment for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-corruption-of-lindsey-graham-why-the-senator-risked-indictment-for-trump-192586309563

* "Trump’s daily statements threaten to prejudice jury pool in D.C. elections case, prosecutors warn:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/trumps-daily-statements-threaten-to-prejudice-jury-pool-in-dc-elections-case-prosecutors-warn.html

* "'A new avenue of investigation': Jack Smith's grand jury that indicted Trump reconvenes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-a-new-avenue-of-investigation-jack-smith-s-grand-jury-that-indicted-trump-reconvenes-192505413868




* "Here are the longest Jan. 6 prison sentences handed down so far :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/enrique-tarrio-prison-sentencing-proud-boys-00114104

* "Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy:" https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb

* "‘Wrong’ and ‘excessive:’ DeSantis, Ramaswamy criticize Proud Boys sentences:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-wrong-and-excessive-desantis-ramaswamy-criticize-proud-boys-sentences-192498245678

* "A Christian Crowdfunding Site Has a White-Power Problem:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-crowdfunding-givesendgo-white-power-problem-1234809799/

* "Neo-Nazis Parade Around Florida Chanting "Jews Will Not Replace Us":" https://www.advocate.com/news/neo-nazis-gather-orlando-florida

* Reminder: Both Libs of Tik Tok and Leave Our Kids Alone are Neo-NAZI hate groups know for inciting violence in pursuit of anti-LGBTQIA+ exterminationist goals. "“Lynch them all!” Libs of TikTok incites death threats targeting Los Angeles Unified School District:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/lynch-them-all-libs-of-tiktok-incites-death-threats-targeting-los-angeles-unified-school-district

* "Sonja Shaw reshares threatening post against AG Rob Bonta: “you’re about to f- around and find out”:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/sonja-shaw-reshares-threatening-post-against-ag-rob-bonta-you-re-about-to-f-around-and-find-out

* "U.S. judge orders Texas to move Rio Grande barriers to embankment, siding with Biden:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-orders-texas-move-rio-grande-barriers-embankment-siding-with-biden-2023-09-06/

* "Busload of migrants, the 12th sent by Texas, arrives in Los Angeles:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-04/busload-of-migrants-12th-sent-by-texas-arrives-in-los-angeles

* "Thirteenth bus of migrants arrives at Union Station from Texas:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-09/bus-of-migrants-arrives-at-union-station-from-texas

* Police continue to murder people for sport. "New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/eddie-irizarry-philadelphia-police-shooting-mark-dial-family-lawyer-20230822.html

* "Video released in trooper's fatal shooting of Ricky Cobb II in Minneapolis:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ricky-cobb-ii-state-trooper-fatal-shooting-video-released-minneapolis/

* "White ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid:" https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5c

* "A Chicago Cop Is Accused of Lying Under Oath 44 Times. Now Prosecutors Are Dropping Cases That Relied on His Testimony.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases

* "Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/antioch-cops-morteza-amiri-eric-rombough-devon-wenger-1234812466/

* "Dallas cops laughed after disabled military vet was denied restroom, urinated on himself:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-safety/2023/08/16/dallas-cops-laughed-after-disabled-military-vet-denied-toilet-access-urinated-on-himself/

* "SPD illegally searched trunk after driver says he was stopped due to race, judge rules:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/spd-illegally-searched-trunk-after-driver-says-he-was-stopped-due-to-race-judge-rules/

* All this for exercising their first amendment rights. This is some bullshit. "61 Cop City Protesters in Atlanta Are Being Hit With RICO Charges. Dozens of activists have been indicted for opposing the construction of a massive police facility outside Atlanta.:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175382/cop-city-protesters-atlanta-rico-racketeering-charges

* "Kansas State Police Tell Court It’s Too Much To Ask For Troopers To Respect The Constitution:" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/31/kansas-state-police-tell-court-its-too-much-to-ask-for-troopers-to-respect-the-constitution/

* "New Proof That Police Use Civil Forfeiture To Take From Those Who Can’t Fight Back:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2021/10/25/new-proof-that-police-use-civil-forfeiture-to-take-from-those-who-cant-fight-back/?sh=25be27434e84

* "Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say:" https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-racist-abuse-police-culture-1feb54483e62bef53efe1a1a16be29f1

* "Woman forced to do her own detective work when an LAPD officer stole her debit card:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/woman-forced-to-do-her-own-detective-work-when-an-lapd-officer-stole-her-debit-card.html

* "Well-Funded Reactionary Police Unions Are Recalling Progressive DAs Who Hold Cops Accountable:" https://www.downwithtyranny.com/post/well-funded-reactionary-police-unions-are-recalling-progressive-das-who-hold-cops-accountable

* Sheriffs wage war on the rule of law. "IN THE SHERIFF WE TRUST:" https://azcir.org/cspoa/

* "Sheriffs Who Back the “Great Replacement” as the New “Big Lie”:" https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/sheriffs-who-back-the-great-replacement-as-the-new-big-lie/

* "NYPD will use drones to monitor private parties over Labor Day weekend:" https://www.engadget.com/nypd-will-use-drones-to-monitor-private-parties-over-labor-day-weekend-001909102.html?src=rss

* "Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with civilian teams — not police:" https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-911-police-alternative-civilian-responders-ca97971200c485e36aa456c04d217547

* "A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.:" https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-argues-fetus-doesn-t-right-life-new-18292079.php

* "Is This the End of Prison Phone Fees?:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/08/conneticut-prison-phone-fees-securus/

* "Texas drag ban: ‘I never dreamed I’d be in court fighting for the right to wear make-up and a wig’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/texas-drag-ban-lawsuit-injunction-brigitte-bandit-extragrams/

* "Iowa Mayor Blocks LGBTQ+ Group From Labor Day Parade, Citing ‘Safety’ Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/iowa-mayor-lgbtq-labor-day

* "At a College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/columnists/gender-studies-ron-desantis-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=iXRmJv42iabGRCWy2uY4F-FYZ_ntHEV7YRICgRsdHsE_zKNrMgPf5LpB7FfwlGLPb0YMg30o8rP7TFuwQ-WmWl2fXJrjHqDzOj4DD-E14MRQ5vxziXzg88itfuIu-zAm817zINVHywwnzkFdkBFJFfygyvnDZ1i1LtpbwGIu-fBFOpbBkUDZVOsHC0Y4T9EoxJ3hPgtiLZ0N4_6TZdkjQ9wdnUR6agNTlwr9nGwWoK566TPLYobR5EDRHOP5_Y5c2yvNoaw271NGv4YncIiCY3xn3x0ZOmSwWjZ2dMGAZ9Bu5Diw4CyfsfPEntum2EHJP3YhNfOShZNUt2t4D8h_rIxiLG6LaOUK4Bw55l5cZEhLM_Iso6hK&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

* "Houston ISD Takeover, The Musical:" https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-isd-takeover-the-musical/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-5f5fbe19c0-34916046&mc_cid=5f5fbe19c0

* "Queer History Lecture Prompts Vengeance From Alabama GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/history/queer-history-lecture-alabama-gop

* "Florida school principal on leave after holding a Powerpoint session to tell Black kids they must improve:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/26/florida-school-principal-on-leave-after-holding-a-powerpoint-session-to-tell-black-kids-they-must-improve.html

* "PragerU’s ‘Propaganda’ Videos Infiltrate Another State’s Classrooms:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pragerus-propaganda-videos-okd-for-oklahoma-classrooms-by-supt-ryan-walters

* "Conservative propaganda site targeting schools looks to expand state partnerships:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conservative-propaganda-site-targeting-schools-looks-to-expand-state-partnerships-192332357883

* "How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro

* "Follow the money: Fracking billionaires funding anti-renewable energy propaganda cartoons:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/follow-the-money-fracking-billionaires-funding-anti-renewable-energy-propaganda-cartoons-192512069824

* "Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda:" https://popular.info/p/pennsylvania-school-district-requires

* "Florida school board votes not to recognise LGBTQ+ History Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/07/florida-school-board-lgbtq-history-month/

* "School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

* "California passes anti-book ban bill for schools: ‘The true freedom state’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/california-book-bans-lgbtq-race-inclusive-schools/

* "Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books:" https://apnews.com/article/library-book-ban-association-withdraw-7f5743a9e464433a745697f9111d7f6b

* ""Detransitioner Wave" Fails To Materialize, Trans Regret Rates Remain Low:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/detransitioner-wave-fails-to-materialize?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

* "Why aren’t we all being offered an autumn Covid booster? We can’t let cost prevent us keeping Britain healthy:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/autumn-covid-booster-britain-uk-vaccine-long-covid-economy

I hate linking to the Guardian because they hate people like me, but the Tories making Eugenics against disabled people their official public health policy isn't well covered anywhere not blatantly transphobic, so I'm doing it.

* "COVID Booster Is Coming, but Here’s Why You May Not Get It:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-booster-is-coming-but-cdc-hasnt-decided-who-is-eligible

* I always ask them to do my left as a matter of course. I now feel lucky. "Which arm gets the Covid-19 booster may make a difference, study shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/health/covid-vaccine-arm-wellness/index.html

* "How Black autistic women and girls are excluded from conversations on resources and research:" https://19thnews.org/2023/06/black-women-and-girls-autism-data/

* "Is It Real or Imagined? Here’s How Your Brain Tells the Difference:" https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-real-or-imagined-heres-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference/

* This doesn't surprise me even a little, given my Uncle's experiences. "Largest study of brains of athletes younger than 30 finds early signs of CTE even in amateur players :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/health/cte-younger-athletes/index.html




* "Where dangerous heat is surging:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/extreme-heat-wet-bulb-globe-temperature/

* "This Brutal Summer in 10 Alarming Maps and Graphs:" https://www.wired.com/story/this-brutal-summer-in-10-alarming-maps-and-graphs/

* "Climate-linked ills threaten humanity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/pakistan-extreme-heat-health-impacts-death/

* "Maui’s Wildfire Recovery Is Haunted by the Specter of Colonialism:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175209/maui-wildfire-recovery-haunted-colonialism

* "‘Everything was gone in minutes’: How queer people on Maui came together after devastating wildfires:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/lgbtq-support-impact-maui-wildfires-hawaii/

* "Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 and damages historic Marrakech:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/africa/morocco-6-8-magnitude-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html

* "In a Place Shattered by War and Earthquakes, People Feel Forgotten:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/world/middleeast/syria-earthquake-rebuilding.html

* "The Burning Man disaster is ‘a teachable moment’ about climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/09/05/burning-man-exodus-flooding-climate-change/




* "A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement:" https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/asphalt-pavement-climate-cities/

* "The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/03/kiwifarms-website-offline/

* "More than 11,000 years in jail for crypto firm founder :" https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/08/more-than-11000-years-in-jail-for-crypto-firm-founder

* "Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

* "With Elon Musk, Free Speech Comes at a Price:" https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-free-speech-price-man-sentenced-death-1824155

* "Elon Musk Blames Anti-Defamation League for Destroying Website He Ruined Himself:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-twitter-advertisting-revenue-antisemitism-1234818503/

* "Elon Musk Agrees to Libs of TikTok Request for X ‘Data Dump’ on Anti-Defamation League:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-defends-chaya-raichik

* "X/Twitter executives had a very bad day defending Musk's platform:" https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-linda-yaccarino-interview-illegal-content

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Elon Musk’s X sues California over law meant to tackle hate speech on social media:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/elon-musk-x-sue-california-law-hate-speech-social-media/

* "Enough! Advertisers and Governments Must Dump Elon Musk.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/enough-advertisers-and-governments-must-dump-elon-musk?ref=home?ref=home

* "The truth about Elon Musk and anti-Semitism :" https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-elon-musk-and-anti

* Free speech doesn't mean free of consequences."Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is Part Of The Free Speech You Pretend To Support :" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/05/hey-elon-the-adl-convincing-advertisers-to-run-away-from-your-site-is-part-of-the-free-speech-you-pretend-to-support/

* "Civil rights groups attacked by Elon Musk are mounting a counteroffensive:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/civil-rights-groups-attacked-elon-musk-are-mounting-counteroffensive-rcna103579

* "Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome:" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

* I remember a similar campaign with vaccinated sandwiches decades ago. This is so much cleverer. "The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-massive-campaign-to-air-drop-tiny-rabies-vaccines-to-raccoons/

* "Viking Age Tools and the Mighty Mästermyr Tool Chest:"

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* "Who was the 1920s Moulin Rouge Drag Queen that inspired Man Ray and Cocteau?:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/02/15/who-was-the-1920s-moulin-rouge-drag-queen-that-inspired-man-ray-and-cocteau/

* "SOME LIKE IT HOT: Secrets, Scandals, and Marilyn's Mystique:"

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* "Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there:" https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-native-american-land-back-b09c0dc8dd6289a1545684e04599f94f

* "Smash Mouth's Former Lead Singer Steve Harwell Dead at 56:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/smash-mouth-steve-harwell-dead

* "See the wild, customized creations of Indonesia’s ‘rebel riders’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/see-wild-creations-indonesia-vespa-rebel-riders

* "‘Back to school’ means anytime from late July to after Labor Day, depending on where in the U.S. you live:" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/back-to-school-dates-u-s/

* "Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg:" https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

* Wednesday was errands. Thursday, they upped my dose. After I got my flu vaccine. Between the two I'm a bit low grade ick, but it is so worth it. This year's flu is extra nasty. I'll take a few days of low grade meh over a month of illness and the risk of the hospital any day.

You might want to get yours soon.

Pharmacy is strict on the RSV age limit and isn't doing medical wavers. Given my immune system, I have hopes of the doctor giving me one despite being too young.

I hope to get the new COVID formulation next week.

Friday was the dentist. No cleaner, but it was a nobody's fault thing. She called Thursday morning while I was getting my jabs and I didn't check until it was to late to call back. she tried the call box out front, which doesn't work 98% of the time. When it does work, it may or may not ring and if it does all we get is static. She was gone when I checked. I was too tired and discouraged to cope with reschedule.

Did I mention today's random draw dentist looked and low key sounded like Colin Robinson? Because he did.

* "Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun:"

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* "Midnight Pals: The Fourth Estate:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727555012038885377/midnight-pals-the-fourth-estate?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Publisher Assassins:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727637341777297408/midnight-pals-publisher-assassins?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: FUCK THIS HOUSE:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727733292100681728/brian-asman-submitted-for-the-approval-of-the?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Tapeworms:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728004145119903744/midnight-pals-tapeworms?source=share

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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.

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* The last few editions, I've been tinkering with how to sort and group items. The changes are fairly minor and I hope won't cause too much confusion. Let me know if it does.

This should have gone out Monday A, but I was tired.

* "Costs divide rich, poor countries ahead of WHO pandemic treaty talks:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-treaty/

* "Guatemalan justice ‘being used politically’ against president-elect: OAS:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/1/guatemalan-justice-being-used-politically-against-president-elect-oas

* "Met Police deny targeting ‘woke’ issues after Mark Rowley interview in The Telegraph:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/met-police-woke-causes-mark-rowley/

* "The Culture War Funded by Russian Roubles:" https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/09/the-culture-war-funded-by-russian-roubles/

* "10-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Thrown Off Bridge in Germany for Not Speaking Russian:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-ukrainian-boy-thrown-off-bridge-in-germany-for-not-speaking-russian




* "In wartime Ukraine, going back to school means preparing for air raids and huddling in shelters:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/ukraine-war-back-to-school-intl/index.html




* "Canada issues advisory to warn LGBTQ+ people travelling to the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/canada-travel-advisory-travel-us/

* "Let's talk about Canada, the US, and red states....:"

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* "US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here’s what that would mean:" https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-federal-regulation-reclassifying-health-b0b5fc3d34a83d2c95db1665f8149d42

* "Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su: How Bidenomics is fueling union power:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/acting-labor-secretary-julie-su-how-bidenomics-is-fueling-union-power-192115269748

* CW: Rape "Hollywood's Toxic Underbelly with Maureen Ryan:"

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* "VFX Workers At Walt Disney Pictures Seek Unionization With IATSE:" https://deadline.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-at-walt-disney-pictures-seek-unionization-with-iatse-1235529565/amp/

* "Labor Strife Grows Ahead of Labor Day:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/labor-strife-grows-ahead-of-labor-day-192194117574

* "SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies:" https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-seeks-video-game-strike-approval-1235711251/

* "Some Republicans seek retribution for Trump prosecutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/some-republicans-seek-retribution-for-trump-prosecutions-192157253787

* "‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator Marsha Blackburn admits:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/kids-online-safety-act-target-trans-lgbtq-content/

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Wisconsin’s new liberal Supreme Court justice hasn’t heard a case but Republicans may impeach:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeach-redistricting-0215233d279092e7236c992957bbe935

* "Let's talk about impeachment in Wisconsin....:"

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* "Republicans threaten to impeach Wisconsin justice before she has ruled on any case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-threaten-to-impeach-wisconsin-justice-before-she-has-ruled-on-any-case-192114757804

* "Gay Republican Richard Grenell Urges Texas GOP to Lift Ban on Log Cabin:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/richard-grenell-texas-log-cabin

* "Mississippi Poised to Elect First Gay Legislator Ever:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-first-out-legislator

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Vivek Ramaswamy Sued By Former Employees Claiming His Company Pressured Them Into Violating Securities Laws:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/08/18/vivek-ramaswamy-sued-by-former-employees-claiming-his-company-pressured-them-into-violating-securities-laws/?sh=c561a832dbd2

* "Vivek Ramaswamy enriched himself while costing small investors their life savings:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/vivek-ramaswamy-enriched-himself-while-costing-small-investors-their-life-savings-must-watch-5-min-video.html

* "Vivek Ramaswamy's "cold, cultural civil war":" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-ramaswamy-rise-explained

* "Pro-DeSantis Super PAC All but Gives Up on Nevada and Super Tuesday States:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-desantis-super-pac-never-back-down-ends-voter-canvassing-in-nevada-california

* "Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell

* It's a matter of standing not on the rights or wrongs of the case. "Federal judge dismisses Florida lawsuit seeking to have Trump declared ineligible for presidency:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/09/01/federal-judge-dismisses-florida-lawsuit-seeking-to-have-trump-declared-ineligible-for-presidency/

* "The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

* "DeSantis tells Biden: Keep your IRA money :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/desantis-refuses-biden-climate-ira-money-00113397

* "Let's talk about Paxton, perks, and impeachment in Texas....:"

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* "Let's talk about Paxton's polling predicament prior to proceedings....:"

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* "Prosecutors seek hard time for Joe Harding, but also acknowledge mitigating factors:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/632415-prosecutors-seek-hard-time-for-joe-harding-but-also-acknowledge-mitigating-factors/

* "Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America:" https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html




* "Judge rejects Navarro’s ‘executive privilege’ claim for defying Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/navarro-trump-privilege-ruling-00113486

* "Let's talk about Navarro and signs....:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/judge-rules-giuliani-is-liable-for-defaming-georgia-election-workers-orders-sanctions-00113462

* "New York AG seeks immediate verdict in fraud lawsuit against Trump:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-york-ag-seeks-immediate-verdict-in-fraud-lawsuit-against-donald-trump

* "When Elon Musk Fought Jack Smith's Search Warrant for Donald Trump:"

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* "Trump pleads ‘not guilty’ in Georgia racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/trump-georgia-not-guilty-plea-00113612




* "US judge to sentence two more Proud Boys for Jan. 6 attack at Capitol:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-sentence-two-more-proud-boys-jan-6-attack-capitol-2023-09-01/

* "Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get some of longest sentences in Jan. 6 Capitol attack:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-5c8bf8a8e5dc6381e7387e31e554cee6

* "Proud Boy who said he was ‘changed man’ shouted ‘Trump won’ after judge left:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/proud-boy-who-said-he-was-changed-man-shouted-trump-won-after-judge-left-192111173772

* "Holocaust denier Capitol rioter and Enrique Tarrio ally joins Leave Our Kids Alone:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/holocaust-denier-capitol-rioter-and-enrique-tarrio-ally-joins-leave-our-kids-alone

* "Leave Our Kids Alone calls LGBTQ+ community a “gay Jew mafia”:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-calls-lgbtq-community-a-gay-jew-mafia

* "Leave Our Kids Alone promotes Nazi-style book burnings:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-promotes-nazi-style-book-burnings

* "Shampoo king wants to become a war lord with a "quite sizable compound":" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/24/shampoo-king-wants-to-become-a-warlord-with-a-quite-sizable-compound.html

* "Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-violence/

* "Neo-Nazi leader establishes training site in Maine:" https://wgme.com/news/local/neo-nazi-leader-establishes-training-site-in-maine-former-us-marine-christopher-pohlhaus-springfield-white-supremacists-camp-moores-road-bluttstamm-blood-tribe-physical-fitness-drills-weapons-training

* "Dozens of Miles City residents mailed CD containing 'neo-Nazi' propaganda:" https://www.ktvq.com/neighborhood-news/miles-city-custer-county/dozens-of-miles-city-residents-mailed-cd-containing-neo-nazi-propaganda

* "Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar responds to anti-Semitic flyers found in Macon:" https://www.41nbc.com/rabbi-elizabeth-bahar-responds-to-anti-semitic-flyers-found-in-macon/

* "LGBTQ-friendly restaurant defiant after Nazi graffiti and arson attacks: ‘We’re not going anywhere’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/la-restaurant-sorry-not-sorry-swastika-vandalism-attacks/

* "Tulsa School District Bombarded With Bomb Threats After Right-Wing Influencer Post:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tusla-school-district-bomb-threats-libs-tiktok-1234814986/

* "Democrats push for investigation of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s firebrand schools superintendent:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-schools-impeachment-investigation-democrats-rcna102407

* "Library That Kicked Out Moms for Liberty Group Suffers Third Bomb Threat:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/davis-library-bomb-threats

* "Bomb threats made to north suburban, Lake County public libraries :" https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wilmette/ct-wlm-bomb-threats-tl-0824-20230818-gbeszyadcjc57hzcgoxd4klgm4-story.html

* "Oklahoma School District Inundated With Bomb Threats After Libs of TikTok Tweet:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/libs-tiktok-oklahoma-bomb-threats

* "New Jersey Families Evacuated From Drag Queen Story Hour Event Amid Bomb Threat:" https://www.advocate.com/news/princeton-drag-queen-bomb-threat

* "In the last decade, an estimated 40 million Americans lived within 1 mile of a mass shooting:" https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/08/us/americans-living-near-mass-shootings-statistics-dg/

* "Man pleads guilty to hate crime charge after pledge to ‘slaughter’ LGBTQ+ people in US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/adam-michael-nettina-hate-crime-guilty-maryland/

* "Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings:" https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-bd2bf9591f40903a923dbd8a46d8fb97

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings:" https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-washington-king-51edd341db7fe2374cb69970840ef76f

* "Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy uses racist Jacksonville shooting to talk about trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/vivek-ramaswamy-trans-jacksonville-shooting/

* "Two people killed Thursday morning in Peoria on heels of mass shooting:" https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/crime/2023/08/31/two-people-shot-in-peoria-il-after-mass-shooting-injured-six/70727834007/

* "Neo-Nazi group NSC-131 holds anti-immigration protest outside Woburn hotel:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/28/metro/neo-nazi-group-nsc-131-holds-anti-immigration-protest-outside-woburn-hotel/

* "3 of 5 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death want separate trials:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/3-5-former-memphis-officers-charged-tyre-nichols-102373137

* "How a small-town feud in Kansas sent a shock through American journalism:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/26/marion-county-newspaper-police-raid-what-really-happened/

* "A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country:" https://apnews.com/article/constitutional-sheriffs-5568cd0b6b27680a28de8a098ed14210

* "When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcj

* "Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square:" https://apnews.com/article/savannah-square-renamed-calhoun-slavery-susie-taylor-8acd983fc1175f077c7162400890dc57

* "Texas anti-porn bill violates First Amendment free speech laws, judge rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/texas-anti-porn-bill-hb-1181-injunction/

* "Florida LGBTQ+ ‘safe places’ program under threat from Republican lawmakers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/florida-safe-places-program-republican-lawmakers/

* "The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175296/gops-drag-bans-arent-meant-good-laws-theyre-meant-cause-chaos

* "Texas drag performances ban has been blocked by a federal judge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/texas-drag-performances-ban-blocked/

* "Tennessee DA Threatens Pride With Unconstitutional Anti-Drag Law, Gets Sued:" https://www.advocate.com/drag/tennessee-drag-law-enforcement

* "Officials fail to shut down local Pride under Tennessee’s anti-drag law: ‘You can’t touch our Pride’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/tennessee-drag-ban-blount-county-pride/

* "Don’t Say Gay, or He, or She, or They Florida schools under DeSantis are in a panic over pronouns.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/dont-say-gay-or-he-or-she-or-they-in-florida-schools.html

* "A Queer Teacher in Edgewood Picked a Fight He Couldn’t Win:" https://www.texasobserver.org/a-queer-teacher-in-edgewood-picked-a-fight-he-couldnt-win/

* "School district cancels Batman book talks after author says the word ‘gay’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/batman-book-talk-cancelled-gay/

* CW: Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse "Proud Boy Adam Kiefer of Leave Our Kids Alone was convicted of willful cruelty to a child:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/proud-boy-adam-kiefer-of-leave-our-kids-alone-was-convicted-of-willful-cruelty-to-a-child

* CW: Child Abuse. "Maryland Parents Charged With Murder Over Death of Transgender Teenager:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-teen-death-neglect

* CW: Abuse "Why Would You Do THIS?! | r/InsaneParents:"

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* "Boston marriage licences no longer require gender identification:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/boston-marriage-licences-gender/

* Every time, I beg, please can we stop with these things? "Gender reveal party goes horribly wrong after stunt plane crashes, killing pilot:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/gender-reveal-party-plane-crash-mexico/

* "Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/01/texas-cities-abortion-trafficking/

* "Gender-Affirming Surgeries Have Risen, Likely Due to Better Insurance: Study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-affirming-surgeries-rise

* Republicans are using the same group of fake experts to steal our human and civil rights. https://genderanalysis.net/2023/08/florida-ahcas-anti-trans-expert-g-kevin-donovan-stated-in-deposition-that-hes-never-been-a-member-of-the-american-college-of-pediatricians-hate-group-the-groups-financial-records-indica/

* "Texas Is Now the Most Populous State With a Trans Health Care Ban: Here’s the Full List:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-gender-affirming-care-ban

* "Alabama Trans Health Care Ruling Is a Worrying Omen for a Future SCOTUS Decision:" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/22/trans-health-care-alabama-supreme-court/

* "Challengers to Alabama's felony ban on trans care for minors will seek full appeals court review:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-trans-care-ban-en-banc-review-planned

* "Texas court passes ‘cruel ban’ on gender-affirming care for minors:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/texas-court-law-gender-affirming-care/

* "Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is officially in effect:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/missouri-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors/

* "Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-arguments-and-anti-trans-laws

* "Andrew Bailey is Proud of Misleading the Public and Terrorizing Trans Kids:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/andrew-bailey-is-proud-of-misleading-the-public-and-terrorizing-trans-kids

* "Transgender patients sue the hospital that provided their records to Tennessee’s attorney general:" https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-transgender-patient-records-vanderbilt-f188c6c0c9714575554867b4541141dd

* "Gay doctor flees Louisiana due to anti-LGBTQ+ laws: ‘I don’t have a choice’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/gay-doctor-louisiana-anti-lgbtq-laws-jake-kleinmahon/

* "Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims:" https://archive.ph/J2EyW

* "First Man Faces Death Penalty for 'Aggravated Homosexuality' in Uganda:" https://www.advocate.com/news/uganda-aggravated-homosexuality-death-penalty

* "Dozens Arrested for Attending Gay Wedding in Nigeria:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nigeria-gay-wedding-arrests

* "Trans women arrested and ‘forced to confess’ in India:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/india-trans-women-arrested/

* "Russian government unveils online form for users to report LGBT content:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/09/01/russian-government-unveils-online-form-for-users-to-report-lgbt-content

* "LGBTQ+ safety under threat in Sydney after hateful attack on Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/sydney-pride-event-lgbtq-attack/

* "Activists take over Sydney’s Oxford Street to protest anti-LGBTQ+ attacks and demand queer-safe spaces:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/lgbtq-sydney-protest-queer-safe-spaces/

* "Australia’s first female PM calls for ‘love and respect’ when asked tired ‘what is a woman’ question:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/australia-julia-gillard-trans-question/

* "Man arrested over alleged harassment after anti-LGBTQ+ Cork library protests:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/cork-city-library-arrest-protest-harassment/

* "New Zealand mayor calls out groomer sign at Pride event as ‘bigotry masquerading as concern’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/new-zealand-groomer-graffiti/

* "Canadian parents rally against new anti-LGBTQ+ education policy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/saskatchewan-education-policy-lgbtq-students/

* "Grant Shapps: What is the new defence secretary’s record on LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/grant-shapps-defence-secretary-lgbtq/

* "Suella Braverman orders review to stop police ‘fraternising’ with LGBTQ+ people at Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/suella-braverman-police/

* "Anti-trans activists target queer theatre company with ‘nasty’ abuse over new LGBTQ+ play:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/london-play-anti-trans-activists-jock-night/

* "Sarah Jane Baker found not guilty of inciting violence over ‘punch TERFs’ Trans+ Pride speech:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/sarah-jane-baker-not-guilty-punch-terfs/

* "Kansas judge rules trans people’s birth certificates don’t have to be altered:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/kansas-trans-birth-certificates/

* "Nebraska governor signs anti-trans bill defining men and women by reproductive organs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/nebraska-anti-trans-bill-sex-at-birth/

* "Florida and Texas universities excluded from list of LGBTQ+ friendly schools:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/florida-texas-universities-lgbtq-friendly-list/

* "Alaska board of education votes to limit trans girls’ participation in sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/alaska-trans-girls-sports/

* "Brigham Young University Adds Explicit Ban on 'Same-Sex Romantic Behavior' to Honor Code:" https://www.advocate.com/education/byu-anti-lgbtq-honor-code

* "Transgender Sorority Sister Wins in University of Wyoming Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/wyoming-sorority-trans-lawsuit-dismissed

* "Hate Crime Charges in Stonewall Monument Flag Desecration:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-monument-vandalism-arrest

* "Homophobia Rears Its Head at Chili Cook-Off at California County Fair:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/chili-cook-off-homophobia-california

* "Inside the New York Times’ trans coverage: ‘I wonder if people at the top fully believe in trans people’s humanity’:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/new-york-times-trans-18214925.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vYXJ0aWNsZS9uZXcteW9yay10aW1lcy10cmFucy0xODIxNDkyNS5waHA=&time=MTY5MzUxMDg0MjM4MQ==&rid=OGU4ZGRlMjAtYjIwMy00ZmU3LThmNDgtOWJhZGVkYjRlNjc1&sharecount=Mg==

* "Jamie Reed’s Allegations Are Not Even Partially Confirmed:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/jamie-reeds-allegations-are-not-even-partially-confirmed

* "Indeed offers trans employees $10,000 to help relocate to safer states:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/indeed-trans-employees-relocation-scheme/

* "WI: 3 Sets of Parents Attempt to Drive Trans Child Off a Sports Team:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/wi-3-sets-of-parents-attempt-to-drive-trans-child-off-hs-sports-team

* "Trans chess master found ‘home’ in the game and ‘a place for interacting despite our differences’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/trans-chess-player-morgen-mills-home-community-fide/

* "Why are so many disabled people gay?:"

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* "What to Know About the New Covid Variants:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-variant.html

"The variant was identified in China in February 2023 and was first detected in the United States in April. It is a descendant of the Omicron variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one notable mutation that helps it to evade antibodies developed by the immune system in response to earlier variants and vaccines. That advantage may be why EG.5 has become the dominant strain worldwide, and it could be one reason Covid cases have been rising again.

That mutation “may mean that more people are susceptible because the virus can escape a little bit more of that immunity,” Dr. Pekosz said."

"Data released this week on X (formerly Twitter) by scientists in China showed that BA.2.86 is so different from previous versions of the virus that it easily escapes antibodies produced in response to earlier infections — even more than EG.5 does. The data (which have not yet been published or peer-reviewed) suggest that the updated vaccine will be less effective against it, too."

Wear your mask.

* "In a Decaying Queens Fortress, It’s One Man Versus 47 Kinds of Mosquito:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/nyregion/nyc-mosquitoes-west-nile.html

* "Giant worms go wandering in man’s innards, cause dangerous traffic jam:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/giant-worms-go-wandering-in-mans-innards-cause-dangerous-traffic-jam/

* I feel this in my marrow. "When I Was 6, a Doctor Botched a Routine Surgery. Here’s How It Changed My Life.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/hernia-surgery-kids-complication-rate.html




* "Why Protestors Blockaded Burning Man:" https://advocatechannel.com/burning-man-protest-blockade

* "Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees stranded in Nevada desert:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-black-rock-city/index.html

* "Mishmash of how US heat deaths are counted complicates efforts to keep people safe as Earth warms:" https://apnews.com/article/counting-extreme-heat-deaths-7125ad9a5289625bd9ca312945996399

* "How wildfires are threatening the Mediterranean way of life:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/02/greece-fires-2023-rhodes/

* "Greece sends 100 extra firefighters to a massive northeastern wildfire as it burns for a 13th day:" https://apnews.com/article/greece-wildfires-massive-blaze-europe-77c0e818372ab86f11f2196f07237c54




* "A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/10/chicago-heat-wave-1995/

* "127-year-old water main gives way under NYC’s Times Square, flooding streets, subways:" https://apnews.com/article/water-main-break-times-square-a896d33258b86d4a77050b542413785b

* "America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

* "The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet:" https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/

* "Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/judge-tears-apart-republican-lawsuit-alleging-bias-in-gmail-spam-filter/

* "Instagram Is Blocking LGBTQIA+ Accounts:" https://www.advocate.com/business/instagram-shadowbanning-lgbtq-content

* "Elon Musk: A smart businessman or an ‘impetuous narcissist’?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/elon-musk-x-corp-twitter-bruce-daisley/

* "The Crane who Fell in Love with a Human:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/07/23/feature/the-crane-who-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

* "We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve:" https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/we-did-not-evolve-to-be-selfish-and-humans-are-increasingly-aware-we-can-choose-how-our-cultures-can-evolve/

* "Göbekli Tepe: The Place That Rewrote History:"

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* "Karahan Tepe: The Mysteries of The Oldest Known Settlement:"

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* "Did Vikings Really Prefer Axes to Swords? A Brief Look at Some Blades:"

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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* "The largest mass sedition trial in American history churns on. One final twist calls into question whether the Justice Department will see the case to the end.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-7-rinse-repeat-n1300745

* "In the wake of the sedition trial’s collapse, Justice Department prosecutor John Rogge travels overseas and uncovers a bombshell.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-8-ultra-vires-n1300884

* "Bill Richardson, former N.M. governor who worked to free Americans held abroad, dies:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197430962/bill-richardson-former-new-mexico-governor-and-diplomat-dies-at-75

* Sometimes when other Olds are complaining about young people and their phones, I think about the Student Union at my first college in the days just before email happened to ordinary people.

It was a very small school and the student union was basically a very large basement, with an eatery, a mail room, and a bunch of seating areas. The mail room was central and four times a day they delivered mail. You might ask, "How was there enough mail to deliver four times a day, when the post office delivers once a day?" Most of it was junk. You got the real mail once a day and the rest was fliers and things for activities, messages from Profs or other students, that sort of think. Most of it went right into the conveniently placed recycling bins.

I admit, like everyone else, I'd turn up for the big distribution of outside mail as you had to catch package delivery when the window was open, and given the poor taste and nutritional value of the crap in the cafeteria, something edible from home was a Big Deal.

Four times a day though, the students would gather if they weren't in class in the seating areas closest to the mail boxes. Some benighted souls would hover, hover, right in front of their boxes, listening excitedly for the squeak of the sort cart and the rustle of the student workers on the other side, eyes fixed on the tiny box window.

These people knew perfectly well that the other three deliveries were 80-90% junk mail. They sat or stood, desperate as baby birds waiting for the worm anyway.

People haven't changed, they are just waiting for a ping instead of a squeak and rustle.

Human nature is human nature. I think a lot of people from before email and texts are forgetting that they too have run to the mailbox when they saw the USPS truck or mail person put stuff in, or dove for the letters lot hoping for something good, or hovered by a campus mail slot knowing odds were it was all or mostly trash. I try not to forget that, even though I stopped hovering after a week or so, even though if I check my email more than once a day it's a lot, even though I don't text. Who the fuck are we too judge? We've all done the analog version even if we aren't currently doing the digital and I feel like a lot of people who were email users but not frequent texters are pretending we all didn't refresh email like 8 times a day in the '90's.

* Saturday we wore ourselves out with necessary errands. I needed algae wafers for the plecoes and some special girl food to tide Livia over. They had her shreds but not her kibbles there. (As I bought the last two bags of kibbles at the local last month, she likely has about a month of kibbles left, but with today I think the bird flu may have fucked the cat food supply and for Livia, the choice is a small number of turkey dominant limited ingredient foods or going back on the even more expensive prescription stuff. There are three more places I could try left, but gas is low and two of them are further out and one is super expensive.

All this is made worse by Livia having what is likely a psychiatric crisis, but could be early signs that her renal system may be failing again. Let us hope it's psychiatric, because that won't kill her and I think she's doing a little better tonight. There have been a lot of visitors and schedule disruptions, plus me being sick. That's a lot of stress for a cat who super extra is bad at change and gets stressed easily. Her urine remains normal, but her high anxiety behaviors aren't that different from the behaviors the time she almost died when she was a little over a year old, so I worry. She was eating almost normally tonight, so I'm still in the likely stress camp. *fingers crossed*

Anyway, OTC was right next to the way too hot pet supply store. I somehow miscalculated the tax again and also forgot surgical masks, of which I have nearly run out. @$&#!

The good cheap ethical grocery is right there, so I used the motor cart because most of me wasn't working well at this point. Inevitably, I forgot some things, but there were tiny oranges on sale and I have partially restocked some essentials.

My nails are doing almost okay for the first time in ages, so Goth Millennial painted them a subtly sparkly purple for me, just in time for social stuff with some of the Millennials.

I'm still not really caught up from all the spring car repairs. I am already seeing way more things I can't not buy like gas, litter, and probably kibbles and we are moving into the super expensive part of the year (September-January), where I have a bunch of extra things I can't not do like the oil/radiator thing my car now needs every six months, tabs, housing tax, Gothmas season). I had such high hopes when the COLA went up in January, but between the car and the extra electrical costs... yeah.

I'm not drowning. Not yet. It's been two straight years of everything breaking. I could sure use a year of nothing breaking. This was the first summer since the start of the pandemic I didn't need surgery in the summer. Let's hope the car and apartment follow suit.

* Me watching remastered Frankenstein 1931: Elizabeth, why are you trying to marry a gay man with no interest in you even if he did propose when you have offers from men actually attracted to you?

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

Me: It's his preference for playing with men's bodies!

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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.

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Austria’s Sebastian Kurz charged with making false statements:" https://www.politico.eu/article/sebastian-kurz-charged-on-suspicion-of-making-false-statements/

* "Secret Messages Document Moscow Contacts with Staffer of Far-Right AfD:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-secret-messages-document-moscow-contacts-with-staffer-of-far-right-afd-a-0040e526-39d7-4f22-8bc1-6772bc2d840a

* "A top Russian general linked to the head of a rebellious mercenary group is reportedly dismissed:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-general-surovikin-dismissed-ukraine-wagner-036326ed0279a0c85600ef435e59a076

* "Russian mercenary chief and mutineer Prigozhin killed in jet crash, state media say:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-23/jet-crash-in-russia-kills-10-wagner-chief-prigozhin-passenger-list

* "'Revenge served cold' suspected in plane crash death of Putin warlord:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-revenge-served-cold-suspected-in-plane-crash-death-of-putin-warlord-191489605556

* "The new educational programme in Russia:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1932940.html




* "Ukraine forces raise national flag in Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-forces-raise-national-flag-robotyne-zaporizhzhia-region-2023-08-23/

* "Turbulent Waters: How the Black Sea Became a Hot Spot in the War:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/world/europe/black-sea-russia-ukraine.html

* "Let's talk about Russia and who they don't want to face....:"

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* "Fox blames Biden for failing to stop Tropical Storm Hilary at the border: "they let it right in":" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/fox-blames-biden-for-failing-to-stop-tropical-storm-hilary-at-the-border-they-let-it-right-in.html

Remember when Republicans used to claim Obama had a time machine and super powers on the regular? Now they are claiming Biden controls the Weather.

* "Let's talk about government shutdowns, continuing resolutions, and more....:"

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* Republicans continue to wage their war on the American Economy that started with Reagan. "House Freedom Caucus rolls out demands to avoid shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/house-freedom-caucus-potential-shutdown-00112068

* "More than 31K Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons in July:" https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2023-08-09/more-than-31k-arkansans-lost-medicaid-coverage-for-procedural-reasons-in-july

* "More than 82,000 Arkansans lose Medicaid coverage in July purge:" https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/aug/09/more-than-82000-arkansans-lose-medicaid-coverage/

* It's not just Arkansas. Check your Medicaid.

* "The Charitable-Industrial Complex:" https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/opinion/the-charitable-industrial-complex.html

* "UPS workers overwhelmingly approve a 5-year contract, ending a standoff between the company and the Teamsters union:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ups-workers-overwhelmingly-approve-5-year-contract-ending-102462116

* "House Republicans launch investigation into Fulton County DA after Trump indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/house-republicans-launch-investigation-into-fulton-county-da-00112769

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Federal Judge Strikes Down Portions of Texas Voter Suppression Law S.B. 1:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-strikes-down-portions-of-texas-voter-suppression-law-s-b-1/

* If Republicans succeed this is the end of rule of law and an independent judiciary. "Trump’s Georgia allies search for ways to punish Fani Willis:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/trumps-georgia-allies-search-for-ways-to-punish-fani-willis/LYUKIOKBJJBMBAXFD3JCWO2ZTQ/

* "Drag queen makes historic run for office to bring ‘voice to the voiceless’ in Florida politics:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/florida-drag-queen-politics-michael-travis-erika-rose/

* "Racist COVID Claims Spread by RFK, Jr., and Other Demagogues Are Deadly:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/

* "Hayes: How the ‘hermetically-sealed’ MAGA world views Trump vs. Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-the-hermetically-sealed-maga-world-views-trump-vs-biden-191383621713

* "Let's talk about negative turnout for Biden and Trump....:"

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* "Vivek Ramaswamy: LGBTQ+ People Created 'Tyranny of the Minority':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-lgbtq-people-tyranny

* How is this legal? "ND governor paying people to donate to his presidential campaign:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4089441-nd-governor-paying-people-to-donate-to-his-presidential-campaign/

* "The Ron DeSantis Slump:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-ron-desantis-slump

* "DeSantis eager to disclaim his elitist roots to curry favor with MAGA populists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-eager-to-disclaim-his-elitist-roots-to-curry-favor-with-maga-populists-191484485546

* "The dog that didn't bark: Trump's calls for massive protests go unanswered:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-dog-that-didn-t-bark-trump-s-calls-for-massive-protests-go-unanswered-191308869503

* "Let's talk about Trump, Tucker, and skipping the debates....:"

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* "Michigan's Perry Johnson excluded from GOP presidential debate; claims 'corrupt' process:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/08/22/perry-johnson-michigan-gop-presidential-debate-candidate/70640396007/

* "Perry Johnson Also Plans to Sue RNC for Missing Presidential Debate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/perry-johnson-also-plans-to-sue-rnc-for-missing-presidential-debate

* "'Mad, mad world': Republicans make a mockery of primary debate before it even starts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-mad-mad-world-republicans-make-a-mockery-of-primary-debate-before-it-even-starts-191389765967

* "The GOP Debate Participants: A Look at Their Anti-LGBTQ+ Records:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-debate-homophobia-transphobia

* "The spiciest moments of the first GOP debate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/first-republican-debate-highlights-00112617

* "Republican presidential candidates attack LGBTQ+ ‘indoctrination’ in schools during TV debate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/republican-2024-candidates-ron-desantis-nikki-haley-donald-trump/

* "The GOP Debate: A Dumpster Fire, With or Without Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gop-debate-dumpster-fire

* "New Arkansas law now allows children under 16 years old to work:" https://www.kait8.com/2023/08/01/new-arkansas-law-now-allows-children-under-16-years-old-work/

* "MTG Baselessly Claims Georgia Prosecutor Is ‘Guilty of’ RICO Crimes, Not Trump:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mtg-georgia-prosecutor-guilty-rico-not-trump-1234809319/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to defend Proud Boys leader in social media post :" https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4159874-marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-proud-boys-leader-in-social-media-post-as-doj-seeks-33-year-sentence/?utm_source=press.coop

* "George Santos Aide Accused of Impersonating Kevin McCarthy Staffer Now Charged:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-aide-charged

* "Let's talk about Santos, fundraising, and another indictment....:"

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* "Trump attorneys guided false electors in Georgia, GOP chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-indictment-false-electors-00112229

* "Meet the 34-year-old judge who will oversee Trump prosecution in Georgia:" https://www.ajc.com/news/meet-the-34-year-old-judge-who-will-oversee-trump-prosecution/BSRME6N2DJFYDGZ3OGBOJUFUKA/

* "Trump ex-chief Mark Meadows asks judge to protect him from arrest as he seeks to move Georgia case to federal court:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/22/trump-ex-aide-meadows-asks-judge-to-protect-him-from-arrest-in-ga-case.html

* "Indicted Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro demands speedy trial in Georgia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/indicted-trump-lawyer-kenneth-chesebro-demands-speedy-trial-in-georgia-191470661865

* "Judge schedules Trump codefendant Ken Chesebro for October trial in racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/24/fulton-county-prosecutors-ask-judge-to-set-oct-23-trial-on-trump-racketeering-charges-00112816

* "Giuliani turns himself in on Georgia 2020 election charges after bond is set at $150,000:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-203b1e69cbff227a0bf8cc59a6bb645f

* "Federal judge rejects bids to halt Georgia prosecution of Trump aides over 2020 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/georgia-trump-racketeering-case-state-court-00112480

* "Long on bills, short on time: Trump co-defendants may consider their options:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/long-on-bills-short-on-time-trump-co-defendants-may-consider-their-options-191393349787

* "Judge approves $200,000 bond for Trump in Georgia election case:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-203b1e69cbff227a0bf8cc59a6bb645f

* "Behold the First Ever Presidential Mugshot:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mugshot-released-georgia-election-meddling-arrest-1234812072/

* "Sen. Warnock (D-GA): We know who Trump is, but who are we?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sen-warnock-d-ga-we-know-who-trump-is-but-who-are-we-191309381982

* This is understandable and some of the most in depth stuff I've seen on the indictments. "It's RICO in Georgia:"

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* "Inside One ‘Egregious’ Mistake From Trump’s Florida Judge Aileen Cannon:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-one-egregious-mistake-from-trumps-florida-judge-aileen-cannon

* "Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/trump-witness-reversal-testimony-jack-smith-00112355

* "Key Mar-a-Lago witness flips after dumping Trump-aligned lawyer, court filings reveal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-mar-a-lago-witness-flips-after-dumping-trump-aligned-lawyer-court-filings-reveal-191393349836

* "Bondsman Scott Hall released from Fulton Jail:" https://www.ajc.com/news/bondsman-scott-hall-released-from-fulton-jail/5U2LUVKRR5AZDPGVUNFQFUVYCU/

* "Justice Department objects to Trump’s proposed April 2026 date for DC trial:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-special-counsel-trial-justice-department-jan-6-d2648e51ddf2cdcebf74a197e4c547d7

* "How Trump (Allegedly) Tried to Steal the Election:"

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* "Secret Service Agents Were in Contact With Far-Right Oath Keepers:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175151/secret-service-agents-contact-far-right-oath-keepers

* "'Naive' Secret Service had blind spot for Oath Keepers ahead of Jan. 6: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-naive-secret-service-had-blind-spot-for-oath-keepers-ahead-of-jan-6-report-191481925893

* "Investigation underway after unknown white powdery substance found at Nevada FBI office:" https://katv.com/news/nation-world/investigation-underway-after-unknown-white-powdery-substance-found-at-nevada-fbi-office-reno-explicit-sign-cup-of-white-powder-federal-investigation-possible-hoax

* "‘Active’ hate groups made up of neo-Nazis growing in the US, experts warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/24/active-hate-groups-neo-nazis-us/

* "Bomb threats and ‘swatting’ campaign hits dozens of synagogues:" https://forward.com/news/557648/bomb-threats-and-swatting-campaign-hits-dozens-of-synagogues/?amp=1

* "Judge halts "religious-liberty training" order as Southwest argues it's unconstitutional:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-order-30-day-stay

* "Misconduct Complaint Filed Against Texas Judge in Hate Group Training Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/southwest-airlines-judge-complaint

* "Kyle Rittenhouse’s new foundation is run by a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist and a gun extremist who appeared on a white nationalist program:" https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/kyle-rittenhouses-new-foundation-run-pizzagate-conspiracy-theorist-and-gun

* "One dead in Nudieland shooting at ‘safe space’ for queer punk community in Minneapolis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/nudieland-shooting-death/

* "Minneapolis Mass Shooting Leaves Transgender Community Fearful of Further Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nudieland-minneapolis-trans-shooting

* "Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1190767610/ice-detention-immigration-government-inspectors-barbaric-negligent-conditions

* "DOJ sues Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott over Rio Grande barrier:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/24/doj-sues-texas-and-gov-greg-abbott-over-rio-grande-barrier-00107896

* "Lansing police detained a Black child who was in the 'wrong place, wrong time,' department says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-police-detained-a-black-child-who-was-in-the-wrong-place-wrong-time-department-says-4/

* "Trans man assaulted by police officer in car park to sue LA County for $10,000:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/emmett-brock-los-angeles-police-legal-action/

* "Lawsuit could be filed in death of Joan Meyer, who died day after police raid on KS paper:" https://news.yahoo.com/lawsuit-could-filed-death-joan-185938180.html

* "Authorities charge 10 current and former California police officers in corruption case:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case

* "Let's talk about the FBI, California, and 9 cops....:"

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* "Greenpoint mystery solved: serial litterer was NYPD sergeant:" https://gothamist.com/news/greenpoint-mystery-solved-serial-litterer-was-nypd-sergeant

* "The War on Cities:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/the-war-on-cities

* "Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/headway/prison-life-sentence-release.html

* "Did a Journalist Violate Hacking Law to Leak Fox News Clips? The Government Thinks He Did.:" https://zetter.substack.com/p/did-a-journalist-violate-hacking

* "The Black Panther Party is Back and They’ve Got Hormones:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-black-panther-party-is-back-theyve-got-hormones

* "Oklahoma’s high court will consider a reparations case from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre survivors:" https://apnews.com/article/tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-lawsuit-2731bcc20ef66decf564eb4918460327

* "Texas Sued Over 'Unconstitutional' Drag Ban by ACLU:" https://www.advocate.com/law/aclu-sues-texas-drag-ban

* "Smithsonian Cancels Literature Festival Leaving Trans AAPI Community Disheartened:" https://www.advocate.com/news/aapi-transgender-smithsonian-festival-cancellation

* "Right-Wing Takeover of New College in Florida Seeks to Benefit More Men:" https://www.advocate.com/education/chris-rufo-new-college-florida

* "Moms for Liberty Wants to Make American Kids Oblivious to Sex Ed: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/education/sex-education-moms-for-liberty

* "North Carolina Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto of 3 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-lgbtq-bills-north-carolina

* "Students banned from using nicknames under new anti-trans Orange County schools guidance:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/08/orange-county-florida-trans-schools/

* "California School District Will Make Staff Out Trans Students to Their Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/education/murrieta-valley-outing-transgender-students

* "“Racism pure and simple”: Arkansas rejects credit for AP Black History — but Europe history is fine:" https://www.salon.com/2023/08/16/pure-and-simple-arkansas-rejects-credit-for-ap-black-history--but-europe-history-is-fine_partner/

* It is not allowed to teach about the Little Rock Nine in Little Rock. Little Rock high schools say they will defy the law. "Historic "Little Rock Nine" school pushes back on Arkansas law limiting race studies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/historic-little-rock-nine-school-pushes-back-on-arkansas-law-limiting-race-studies-191307845936

* "PragerU co-host once condemned Martin Luther King Jr. and branded himself a white nationalist:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/prageru-co-host-once-condemned-martin-luther-king-jr-and-branded-himself-a-white-nationalist

* "ACLU Calls for Federal Probe of Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions in Texas Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/law/texas-schools-anti-lgbtq

* "Heartstopper, The Color Purple and hundreds more books set for Iowa school ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/heartstopper-the-colour-purple-book-ban-iowa/

* "Trump-supporting town could force local library to close over a book about trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/dayton-washington-library-lgbtq-books/

* CW: Sexual Assault "Sexual Assaults in the LGBTQ+ Community — A Survivor Finds His Voice and Speaks Out:" https://www.advocate.com/news/david-daniels-sexual-assault-schultz

* CW: Sexual Harassment. Christians insist their religion requires them to Sexually Harass queer people and the Us Government agrees that the Christian requirement to be cruel to people they hate is more important than the right of queer people to be safe. "Baylor University Gets Exemption From LGBTQ-Related Sexual Harassment Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/baylor-university-sexual-harrassment-lgbtq

* CW: Domestic Violence murder. "Florida Man's Husband Identified as Suspect in His Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-man-husband-homicide-suspect

* CW: Elder Abuse. "Elderly gay man burned by cigarette and left bruised by staff in care home abuse:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/lgbtq-oap-care-home-abuse-report/

* "Mississippi School District Implements Transphobic Dress Code:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-school-district-dress-code

* "Campaigners call out ‘deep-seated stigma’ as period products are tested with blood for first time ever:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/period-products-blood-test-first-time/

* "US appeals court backs abortion pill restrictions; Supreme Court appeal planned:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rules-restrict-abortion-pill-use-2023-08-16/

* "Nebraskans Ask State Supreme Court to Overturn Abortion, Trans Care Restrictions:" https://www.advocate.com/law/nebraska-abortion-transgender-lawsuit-appeal

* They are lying when they say they are "Pro-Life." "Texas Fights for the Right to Deny Women Life-Saving Abortion Care:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/texas-abortion-bounty-law-ruling-1234802301/

* "How the Cook Islands fought off the shackles of colonialism and freed its LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/cook-islands-lgbtq/

* "Attacker jailed after threatening man he thought was gay with AK-47 and bayonet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/jersey-bar-ak-47-bayonet-homophobic-incident/

* "Cis men are driving Britain’s anti-trans hostility – the data proves it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/uk-trans-men-women-data/

* "LGBTQ+ people far more likely to face poverty in retirement, data finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/retirement-financial-hardship-lgbtq/

* "Government pushes ahead with Equality Act review, posting new job to ‘consider’ making changes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/government-equality-act-review-job/

* "Rishi Sunak slammed in postcard campaign for taking holiday instead of passing conversion therapy ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/rishi-sunak-stonewall-postcards-california-holiday/

* Gender-neutral Toilets are important for both some people with disabilities and trans people. This strikes to the heart of both groups being able to exist in public. "Government crackdown on gender-neutral toilets goes against findings of its own study:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/government-gender-neutral-toilets-plan/

* "Kemi Badenoch told to stop ‘obsessing over toilets’ by Labour’s Anneliese Dodds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/kemi-badenoch-anneliese-dodds-gender-neutral-toilet/

* "Rosie Duffield: What has the Labour MP said about trans people and trans rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/18/rosie-duffield-labour-mp-trans-views/

* "Clapham stabbing victim speaks out after horrific homophobic Two Brewers knife attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/clapham-stabbing-two-brewers-victim/

* "Police release CCTV image of man following homophobic Two Brewers knife attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/london-two-brewers-homophobic-attack-cctv-image/

* "Met Police accused of failing third queer man attacked outside Two Brewers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/clapham-stabbing-two-brewers-met-police/

* "How queer people are hiding their identity in public as anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment grows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/two-brewers-stabbing-queer-lgbtq-safety/

* "Eight in 10 LGBTQ+ Americans fear for safety as bigotry sweeps nation, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/17/americans-us-human-rights-campaign/

* "Military Veterans Sue to Reclassify Sexuality-Based Discharge Records:" https://www.advocate.com/law/military-veterans-lawsuit-reclassify-discharge

* "Laws banning gender-affirming treatments can block trans youth from receiving other care:" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/072723_trans_care_laws/laws-banning-gender-affirming-treatments-can-block-trans-youth-from-receiving-other-care/

* "After Mississippi banned his hormone shots, an 8-hour journey:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/mississippi-youth-transgender-care-ban-aftermath/

* "Trans student was denied use of girls’ restroom at Platte County High, subject to verbal harassment:" https://www.kctv5.com/2023/08/03/lawsuit-trans-student-was-denied-use-girls-restroom-platte-county-high-subject-verbal-harassment/

* "New Hampshire Outlaws 'LGBTQ+ Panic' Defense in Homicide Cases:" https://www.advocate.com/law/new-hampshire-gay-panic-ban

* "Idaho's Anti-Trans Sports Law Still Blocked After Appeals Court Ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-sports-ban-blocked

* "Idaho Bathroom Law Targeting Transgender Students Blocked by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/judge-blocks-idaho-bathroom-law

* "U.S. Appeals Court Dismisses Suit Against Trans-Supportive School Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/law/anti-trans-lawsuit-dismissed-montgomery

* "Vanderbilt Medical Center Under Federal Scrutiny After Trans Patient Records Release:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vanderbilt-hhs-investigation-transgender-records

* "Diocese Issues Policy Regarding Sexuality and Sexual Identity in Schools:" https://worcesterdiocese.org/news/diocese-issues-policy-regarding-sexuality-and-sexual-identity-in-schools?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D#menu

* "Students must use names, pronouns assigned at birth under new Worcester Catholic schools policy:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/17/metro/trans-students-must-use-names-pronouns-assigned-birth-under-new-worcester-catholic-schools-policy/?utm_source=WBUR+Editorial+Newsletters&utm_campaign=1fdc1f8ca2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_08_18_11_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d0781a0a0c-1fdc1f8ca2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

* This is a different state. "Denver Archdiocese Sues to Deny LGBTQ+ Families Access to Preschool:" https://www.advocate.com/law/archdiocese-of-denver-lgbtq-discrimination

* "‘Remarkable’ woman shot dead after dispute over LGBTQ+ Pride flag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/california-shop-owner-shot-lgbtq-pride-flag/

* "Suspect Identified in Killing of California Woman Shot for Displaying Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/travis-ikeguchi-lauri-carleton-flag

* "Suspect in killing over Pride flag had long history of anti-LGBTQ posts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/suspect-in-killing-over-pride-flag-had-long-history-of-anti-lgbtq-posts-191387205747

* "Man Who Pulled Gun At Historic Gay Bar Gets 5 Years Behind Bars:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/19-bar-man-gun-sentenced

* "Lawyer for Alleged O’Shae Sibley Killer Claims Client is a “Good Christian Boy”:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-alleged-killer-christian

* "Anti-trans couple told they can’t foster children because of their views on LGBTQ+ kids. They’re suing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/10/catholi-couple-trans-fostering/

They are suing for the right to abuse foster children, as the rights of children not to be abused are less important than their right as Christians to abuse other people's children.

* "Florida LGBTQ+ Rights Groups Launch Parenting With Pride Program:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-families-parenting-with-pride

* CW: Suicide "Leave Our Kids Alone supporters tell LGBTQ+ youth to hang themselves:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/6/2185669/-Leave-Our-Kids-Alone-supporters-tell-LGBTQ-youth-to-hang-themselves

How to spot a hate group.

* "Federalist Author Calls for a New Satanic Panic:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/federalist-author-calls-for-a-new-satanic-panic

* "Gay GB News pundit clashes with colleague over bigoted rant comparing being gay to paedophilia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/gb-news-albie-amankona-bushra-shaikh-homophobia/

* "Hozier slams right-wing pundits for using LGBTQ+ folks as ‘scapegoats when things get difficult’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/19/hozier-lgbtq-trans-scapegoats-fear-mongering/

* "English Chess Federation ‘will not exclude trans women’ despite international ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/20/english-chess-federation-fide-trans-women-policy/

* "Target Sued Over Inclusion of LGBTQ-Friendly Merchandise:" https://www.advocate.com/law/target-sued-lgbtq-products

* "Stephen Miller-Backed Group Targets Kellog Over ‘Woke’ LGBTQ+ Inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/business/stephen-miller-group-kellog

* "Harry’s razors backlash is ‘latest attempt to harass trans people out of public life’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/harrys-razor-trans-boycott/

* "Museum of Pop Culture REMOVES JK Rowling (& Why It Matters):"

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* "A Pill After Sex Could Help Slow STIs Among Gay Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/stis-gay-sex-doxyprep

* "COVID Hospitalizations Now Up Nearly 22%:" https://themessenger.com/health/covid-hospitalizations-now-up-nearly-22

* "What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-narcissism-science-confronts-a-widely-misunderstood-phenomenon/




* "Queer environmental activists warn of LGBTQ+ people ‘suffering first’ from catastrophic climate change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/24/climate-change-queer-activists-lgbtq-environmental-crisis/

* "Wishing you had more shade? Florida’s heat takes uneven toll.:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2023/08/22/floridas-heat-takes-toll-health-shade-provides-relief-not-all/

* "Extreme heat has killed 103 people in 2 Arizona counties so far in 2023:" https://www.azfamily.com/2023/08/08/extreme-heat-has-killed-147-people-5-counties-coroners-report-real-number-is-likely-much-higher/

* "Arizona Republicans Don’t Want to Hear About the Deadly Heat Wave:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/09/phoenix-heat-wave-republicans-00110325

* "Park officials still looking for stranded visitors in remote Death Valley areas:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/400-people-stranded-in-death-valley-after-hilary-18307664.php

* "Devastation in Death Valley as photos show flood damage; park to reopen in stages over weeks ahead :" https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/devastation-in-death-valley-as-photos-show-flood-damage-park-to-reopen-in-stages-over-weeks-ahead/

* "Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars:" https://apnews.com/article/hilary-tropical-storm-flooding-california-mexico-f89aeddeb62d55c935699ac81ca85f1d

* "Magnitude 5.1 earthquake strikes Ojai area, rattling nerves as Hilary pounds Southland:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/5-0-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-ojai-area

* "Photos: See the aftermath of flooding, mudslides from Tropical Storm Hilary:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/08/20/1194964251/photos-see-flooding-mudslides-tropical-storm-hilary-brings-to-southern-calif

* "Scorched Europe battles deadly fires, Turkey shuts shipping lane:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/scorched-europe-battles-deadly-fires-turkey-shuts-shipping-lane-2023-08-23/

* "How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-climate-change-drives-heatwaves-wildfires-europe-2023-08-17/

* "Greece wildfires fanned by strong winds, killing one:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/firefighters-greece-battle-blazes-fanned-by-gale-force-winds-2023-08-21/

* "City empties as thousands flee wildfire burning near capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-northwest-territories-7b8c327876d86a483c8e25df7bc2c566

* "Amid Canadian wildfires, experts warn state of emergency could continue into fall:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/amid-canadian-wildfires-experts-warn-state-of-emergency-could-continue-into-fall/

* "Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/climate/canada-wildfires-climate-change.html

* "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Facebook for blocking Canada wildfire news:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-facebook-news-blocking-734a5bc05796e38a011c6c9a473efea8

* "Lookout Fire in Lane County expands closures to include Blue Pool, Sahalie Falls and other popular recreation areas:" https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/lane-county-lookout-wildfire-closures/283-56604abb-8d12-49e2-832e-fa0efb6a8dec

* "Lookout Fire evacuation areas updated, visibility improves for aerial operations:" https://www.kezi.com/news/lookout-fire-evacuation-areas-updated-visibility-improves-for-aerial-operations/article_a621b392-41e8-11ee-8d4d-77150ec08332.html

* "Hawaii wildfires: More than 1,000 people reported missing in Maui weeks after blaze:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/hawaii-wildfires-more-than-1000-people-reported-missing-in-maui.html

* "In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged a barricade survived:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-timeline-maui-lahaina-road-block-c8522222f6de587bd14b2da0020c40e9

* "Address on the Maui Wildfire Disaster:" https://governor.hawaii.gov/main/address-on-the-maui-wildfire-disaster-friday-august-18-2023/

* "‘The Devastation Is Overwhelming’: Biden Tours Wildfire Damage on Maui:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/politics/biden-maui-hawaii-wildfires.html

* "Immigrant workers’ lives, livelihoods and documents in limbo after the Hawaii fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-lahaina-foreign-workers-mexico-fires-ab24400f8e1c89ed099dbd3cd45fb890

* "Online posts spread misinformation about FEMA aid following Maui wildfires:" https://apnews.com/article/maui-wildfires-hawaii-fema-misinformation-8562e2e81e03626acc5be30700d73120

* "Let's talk about Hawaii, sirens, and changes....:"

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* "Lahaina used to be a wetland:" https://heated.world/p/lahaina-used-to-be-wetland

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and $700 payments....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* "4 tornadoes hit New England, cause damage in Massachusetts, Rhode Island:" https://www.wcvb.com/article/4-tornadoes-hit-new-england-on-aug-18-2023-cleanup-continues/44858073




* "Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area:" https://www.thestar.com/news/world/americas/ecuadorians-reject-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-in-historic-decision/article_43ec3d1c-6d3b-5f83-b2bf-8933184bfd2b.html

* "Elon Musk is threatening to remove the ‘block’ button on X – here’s why it matters for queer users:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/21/elon-musk-block-x-twitter/

* "Far too many of Musk's followers and Twitter's users appear fake; advertisers may never return:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/18/far-too-many-of-musk-and-twitters-followers-appear-fake-advertisers-may-never-return.html

* "The Big List of Elon Musk’s Hyperbole, Evasions, and Outright Lies:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk-twitter-zuckerberg-lies-1234808808/

* "Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India':" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-counts-down-crucial-moon-landing-2023-08-23/

* "Ibis use 'stress and wash' technique to eat poisonous cane toads:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-23/ibis-find-way-to-eat-toxic-cane-toads/101683596

* "Miracle Plant Used in Ancient Greece Rediscovered After 2,000 Years:" https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/13/plant-ancient-greece-rediscovered/

* "History Summarized: Malta – An Empire In Miniature:"

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* "Met Museum Acquires Rare 19th-Century Portrait of Enslaved Child :" https://hyperallergic.com/839231/met-museum-acquires-rare-19th-century-portrait-of-enslaved-child/

* "The Surprising Contents of an American POW’s Journal:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-surprising-contents-of-an-american-pows-journal/?preview_id=303822

* "He was killed in the Holocaust. His family just got back his book of scripture.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/08/08/holocaust-auschwitz-dov-forman-bela/

* "Vivid Kodachrome Photos Show the Bygone Manhattan of the Early 1940s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/manhattan-in-kodachrome-photos/

* "The struggle for land rights in Hawai’i.:" https://thenib.com/owning-an-island/

* "They wanted a Bollywood ending, not an arranged marriage. Their escape came at a cost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1188366128/india-arranged-marriage-love-commandos

* "Seaside screen brings magic of movies to Gaza years after cinemas closed:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/seaside-screen-brings-magic-movies-gaza-years-after-cinemas-closed-2023-08-16/

* "Meghan Buell, Founder of Indiana Trans Organization, Dead at 58:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/trans-activist-meghan-buell

* "Director William Friedkin's Controversial Gay Film Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/film/william-friedkin-cruising-boys-band

* "Darcie Silver: British trans comedian dies in Thailand, aged 35:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/22/darcie-silver-trans-comedian-death-thailand/

* "Holocaust Monument for LGBTQ+ Victims Vandalized in Berlin:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/german-police-berlin-holocaust-memorial

* I am still struggling with the Asshole agency. I was awakened Sunday morning by a cleaner checking in on her way to my place. Fuckssake! I do not understand why it's so hard to grasp only send cleaners every Friday morning unless I say other wise. They tried to send a morning and afternoon cleaner last Tuesday. Every day i have the same conversation about me only wanting weekly care Friday mornings. Every day they cancel the next day's cleaner, but not the day after. I only get so many hours a year and we are saving the extras for Autumn when millennials are busy with Gothmas season and the like.

I did not cancel the morning cleaner Sunday, because she'd already been booked and if I cancel that's money she loses. It was hours of sleep I needed, but oh well. Asshole agency. I did have about two hours of work for her, but I've no idea what happens if the telephone operator lady didn't sort it and a surprise cleaner comes Monday, as the stuff that's left is either complicated or not in the cleaner's remit. She said she'd switched me from daily back to weekly. *Fingers crossed*

This cleaner was very quiet. Tavy liked her. She was so quiet, Livia thought she'd gone and wandered into my bathroom to use her personal litter box and there she was: cleaning! Livia: The horror! The horror! Quiet was good. it meant I could do some tumblr programming with only occasional interruption for directions.

Winds from the tropical storm in Mexico and California are sending air currents along the coast that bring us smoke from the fires between us and there. Air quality was bad all weekend as a result. Instead of swimming we gathered in my place and goth Millennial made their excellent lasagna.

* I would like to thank my donor for the gift of excellent litter. Things are so much less dramatic here as a result.

The Asshole Agency has not surprised me with a cleaner I did not ask for two days in a row. Yay!

* I had my shoulder situation investigated again Tuesday. It was painful, of course, and my shoulders are still recovering. The new doctor had not grasped how extreme the situation is. We will be doing another round of specialists as a result. I have just started a new med. I am not sanguine it will be to the point and I worry it will fuck me up, but having eliminated the best option, we are down to two less ideal classes. I thought the other option too high risk for extreme side effects, so here we are.

* I explain my process and give some likely inadequate advice on tumblr to someone who asks "How do you keep up with all these articles and websites?:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/726275476259241984/how-do-you-keep-up-with-all-these-articles-and?source=share

* "No Second Season for A League of Their Own:" https://www.advocate.com/television/a-league-of-their-own-canceled

A better take would have been: it won't happen now because Amazon Prime didn't care about its audience and the greedy rich people in charge hate paying writers, Actors, etc. fair compensation for their work.

* "True Facts: Fish That Suck:"

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* "First day as a second century warlord:" https://www.tumblr.com/jonquility/706918292384776192?source=share

* "Alexander the Great Explaining Proskynesis To The Boys:" https://www.thestopgap.net/alexander-the-great-explaining-proskynesis-to-the-boys/

* "Midnight Pals: Mexican Gothic:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726203038247878656/midnight-pals-mexican-gothic?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Florence Balcombe:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/726470108741025792/midnight-pals-florence-balcombe?source=share

*****
* 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 the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* "Collection of links to trans & gnc related content that's free to read/ watch.:" https://translibrary.carrd.co/

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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