Nec Hoc Nec Ilud

* (I made a small start on the queer news, but it's tiny compared to the prepped link. Very little after that point went up. The backlog is daunting and this coming week turns out to also be a monster scheduling wise, plus the election coverage about to hit. We are in the midst of all hands on deck cleaning for an inspection, for example. See below.).

* "As unrest grips Iran’s schools, the government is going after children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/iran-protests-children-hijab-amini/

* "Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-human-rights-lawyers-criticise-clerical-leaders-amid-unrest-2022-11-03/

* CW: Child Murder "Children among 10 feared dead in Iran crackdown, Amnesty says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/middleeast/iran-protest-crackdown-amnesty-international-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Iranians defy crackdown with fresh protests, as president dismisses US vow to ‘free Iran’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/06/iranians-defy-crackdown-with-fresh-protests-as-president-dismisses-us-vow-to-free-iran

* "US and Saudi Arabia concerned that Iran may be planning attack on energy infrastructure in Middle East:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/us-saudi-arabia-iran-energy-infrastructure-middle-east/index.html

* Well, fuck! "Israel election final results: Netanyahu, Jewish far right win power, fiasco for left:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-11-03/ty-article/israel-election-final-results-netanyahu-jewish-far-right-win-power-fiasco-for-left/00000184-3e80-daf1-abc4-7f9a53f40000

* Re: Netanyahu

I’ve stated some form of this over the years any number of times, but in the current climate, I should reiterate it.

My dislike of Netanyahu and his ultra-right positions is specific to Netanyahu because of his ultra-right positions, his corruption, his policies, etc.. His party and allies have policies I oppose, much in the way I oppose Trump and the Republicans, Rishi Sunak (and Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and every Tory PM back to the much hated Thatcher which was about when I started following UK Politics in real time), Viktor Orbán, Jair Bolsanaro, and a host of other horrible extreme right wing politicians the world over to numerous to list.

This does not and should not be taken for anger at the Israeli left or Jewish people the world over who did not vote for a right wing party in the recent Israeli election. There is a reason my coverage of Israeli politics mostly originates from left leaning Israeli news sources like Haaretz.

There is far too much violent antisemitism in the world right now, far to many politicians of every stripe happy to stoke antisemitism for personal power, far too many antisemitic movements and the like. In my country one of the two political parties with any power proudly embraces it.

This I am furious about and very much wish to fight against.

Please don’t take the recent election in Israel as an excuse to do or say something that harms real people who have nothing to do with it or were actively wanting a better outcome.

It is important to separate a dislike of a particular person for political reasons from a wider attack on a large group living in many countries famously holding a wide variety of beliefs and opinions.

I try very hard to do that in this space.

* A relief! "Denmark election result keeps Social Democrats at the helm:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/denmark-election-result-keeps-social-democrats-at-the-helm

* A massive relief!!! "Brazil election: Anti-LGBTQ+ tyrant Jair Bolsonaro beaten by leftist Lula:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/30/brazil-election-lula-beats-jair-bolsonaro-lgbtq/

* "Why Bolsonaro’s stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/jair-bolsonaro-lula-brazilian-election-amazon-putin-ukraine/

* *digits cruciform* "We Might Finally Be Free From the Madness of Bolsonaro:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/opinion/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro.html

* Let’s hope things go well for democracy. "Trucks, Protesters Block Brazil Highways After Bolsonaro Rout:" https://www.barrons.com/news/trucks-protesters-block-brazil-highways-after-bolsonaro-rout-01667224207

* "Steve Bannon says Bolsonaro can't concede as he rails against Biden and CIA:" https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-bolsonaro-brazil-election-lula-1755696

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro signals cooperation with transfer of power, but does not concede election defeat :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-protests-intl-latam/index.html

* "Bolsonaro backers call on Brazil military to intervene after Lula victory:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-backers-call-brazil-military-intervene-after-lula-victory-2022-11-02/

* "Rishi Sunak 'wants to gut trans rights from Equality Act':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/rishi-sunak-trans-equality-act/

* "New women's minister defends troubling voting record on women's rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/minister-for-women-maria-caulfield-abortion-clinic-vote/

* "Manston migrant centre like a zoo, says asylum seeker:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63481151

* "Dover petrol bomb attacker said he planned to ‘obliterate Muslim children’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/02/migrant-centre-attacker-planned-to-obliterate-muslim-children-in-final-tweet

* "Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/28/russia-fsb-moldova-manipulation/

* "Russia Expected to OK Stricter 'Gay Propaganda' Law This Fall:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/17/russia-expected-ok-stricter-gay-propaganda-law-fall

* "Bi OnlyFans Creator Sentenced to Prison Over Using the Site:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/bi-onlyfans-creator-sentenced-prison-over-using-site

* "How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea:" https://graphics.reuters.com/SOUTHKOREA-STAMPEDE/CHRONOLOGY/zjvqjqmmlpx/index.html

* "North Korea fired the highest number of short-range missiles in a day, says South Korea:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/asia/north-korea-missiles-wednesday-intl-hnk

* "North Korea ICBM may have failed in flight, officials say; residents in Japan told to shelter:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-south-koreas-military-2022-11-02/

* "How Spain looked on as dozens were crushed to death at its border:" https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/z8i55dsu8w/spain-morocco-border

* "Czechs rally against rising extremism and voice support for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-rally-against-rising-extremism-voice-support-ukraine-2022-10-30/

**********************************************************
***********************************************

* "'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/health/covid-variants-dominant-bq/index.html

******************************************************
**************************************************

* "For the first time, Iran acknowledges it sent drones to Russia:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134523148/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones

* "Russia's hope for Ukraine win revealed in battle for Bakhmut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-hope-for-ukraine-win-revealed-in-battle-for-bakhmut/2022/10/28/d81ceb7e-5692-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html

* "Ukraine's 58th Brigade in the Heart of the Bakhmut Mire:" https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-s-58th-brigade-in-the-heart-of-the-bakhmut-mire-/6815660.html

* "Kyiv reels as 'massive' wave of missile strikes hit Ukrainian cities; wheat prices rise as grain deal stalls:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/ukraines-forces-repel-brutal-russian-offensive-in-donetsk-wheat-prices-rise-after-grain-export-deal-stumbles.html

* "Ukraine’s War Is Leading to a Nervous Breakdown:"

( Embed: )

* "Lions Rescued From Ukraine Find New Home:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/17/lions-rescued-ukraine-find-new-home

************************

* "US Announces New Sanctions on Iran for Bounty on Rushdie:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-announces-new-sanctions-on-iran-for-bounty-on-rushdie-/6809948.html

* "Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: 'We can't take democracy for granted any longer':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/biden-speech-democracy-dc/index.html

* "Seeing danger in GOP election-deniers, Biden appeals to Americans to support democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/seeing-danger-in-gop-election-deniers-biden-appeals-to-americans-to-support-democracy-152373317527

* "Dowd: Biden realized there isn't a sane GOP holding election deniers accountable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-addressing-threats-to-democracy-particularly-from-maga-republicans-praised-as-midterms-push-152353861727

* "Rep. Raskin: ‘Joe Biden was trying to strike that tone as the leader of the whole country’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-on-attacks-and-threats-to-democracy-responded-to-by-rep-raskin-152356421932

* "Biden administration to provide over $13 billion in aid to help American families lower energy bills:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/biden-administration-to-provide-over-13-billion-in-aid-to-help-american-families-lower-energy-bills.html

* "More LGBTQ+ Spouses to Receive Survivors' Benefits, VA Announces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/more-lgbtq-spouses-receive-survivors-benefits-va-announces

* "Rachel Levine Elected to National Academy of Medicine:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/21/rachel-levine-elected-national-academy-medicine

* "Conservatives Spew Transphobia at Already Anti-Trans Federal Agency:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/18/conservatives-spew-transphobia-already-anti-trans-federal-agency

* "Elie Mystal: Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of affirmative action didn’t exist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-weighs-race-based-college-admissions-don-t-seem-supportive-of-campus-diversity-152115269631

* "Supreme Court to Hear LGBTQ+ Rights Case Before End of Year:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/10/19/supreme-court-hear-lgbtq-rights-case-end-year

* "White House Press Secretary Sits Down for an Exclusive Interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-sits-down-for-an-exclusive-interview-151959621696

* I have concerns. "Fed hikes interest rates again, up 0.75 percentage points:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/02/fed-rate-hike/

* "'Ripped off': Katie Porter on how price-gouging companies are driving inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ripped-off-katie-porter-on-how-price-gouging-companies-are-driving-inflation-152360005651

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

( Embed: )

* "What I Learned Watching a Co-Worker Get Forced Out:" https://index.medium.com/what-i-learned-watching-a-co-worker-get-forced-out-2418ca86411

* "Pennsylvania court orders election officials to not count ‘undated’ ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/pennsylvania-court-undated-ballots-00064549

* "Arizona, Michigan GOP ask voters to mail in ballots and use drop boxes as candidates and officials blast the practice:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/29/politics/kfile-arizona-michigan-gop-encourage-mail-ballots/index.html

* "Kristina Karamo seeks court order that could impact thousands of Detroit voters:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/28/kristina-karamo-lawsuit-detroit-votes/69598090007/

* "Lawyer in Karamo lawsuit targeting Detroit yells at judge, cites debunked film:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/03/hearing-karamo-lawsuit-targeting-detroit-voters/69616706007/

* "DeSantis Voter Fraud Unit Defends Arresting Former Felons:"

( Embed: )

* If people like this turn up at your door, close and lock it. Do not interact. "In the hunt for voter fraud, Republican door knockers are intimidating residents: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/republican-door-knockers-intimidate-voters-while-hunting-voter-fraud-say-2022-11-03/

* "Election Officials Say Efforts to Intimidate Voters Are Widening:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/voting-intimidation-democracy.html

* "Voter intimidation, election worker threats part of voting climate ahead of midterms:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/voter-intimidation-election-worker-threats-part-voting-climate/story?id=92505277

* "North Carolina reports possible voter intimidation, threats ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/north-carolina-reports-possible-voter-intimidation-threats-ahead-midterms-2022-11-04/

* "Stacey Abrams - Fighting for Voting Access in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/2hwoe3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-fighting-for-voting-access-in-georgia

* "Justice Department says 'vigilante ballot security efforts' in Arizona are likely illegal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/arizona-voter-intimidation-doj/index.html

* "Americans face voter intimidation at the polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/americans-face-voter-intimidation-at-the-polls-151960645695

* "Judge limits ballot drop box monitoring in Arizona after intimidation claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/arizona-ballot-clean-elections-liburdi/

* If Republicans actually cared about ending voter fraud they'd stop committing it instead of stealing people's right to vote. "Milwaukee Election Commission official Kimberly Zapata could face charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting military ballots:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/03/mayor-says-milwaukee-election-worker-fired-over-ballot-fraud/69616108007/

* "Obama says democracy ‘may not survive’ in Arizona if Republicans win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/03/obama-says-democracy-may-not-survive-if-arizona-republicans-win/

* "‘Let's not pretend’ that Republicans and Democrats share equal blame for election denial, DCCC chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/sean-maloney-democrats-republicans-elections-00064138

* "The Five Scariest Statewide Republican Candidates You Haven’t Heard of:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168373/five-scariest-republican-candidates-statewide-office

* "In 5 key battlegrounds, most GOP state legislative nominees are election deniers, report finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/in-5-key-battlegrounds-most-gop-nominees-are-election-deniers.html

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

"And this guy wants to be in charge of Arizona's elections."

* I am terrified. Literally every governor and secretary of state race we lose in this election is likely a state that will lose the right to free and fair elections, probably for a generation, possibly forever.

I am terrified because not enough Millennials and Gen z are early voting. We can't save democracy without you. We pretty much need all of you. If we don't save democracy there is zero chance of fixing any thing else in this country.

Yes, things are terrible and most democratic politicians haven't enough spine, but they are legitimately trying to fix things. Republicans are out right promising to crash the world economy if they win the house of representatives to force an end to the social safety net. They are openly promising that if they win in the states, they will fix it so republicans can never lose there again. They are promising a national abortion ban and a repeal of civil and human rights for queer folks. Kiss any attempt to stop the planet burning goodbye.

Fuckssake get out there and vote! This may be your last chance for it to count if Republicans win in your state. Vote because our lives depend on it!

* "GOP floats Medicare changes while ducking details:" https://www.axios.com/2022/11/03/gop-floats-medicare-reform

* "Yes, some Republican senators really are talking openly about Social Security cuts:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yes-some-republican-senators-are-talking-openly-about-social-security-cuts/ar-AA13K0K4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b2fd7a3baaf5485b89016d7bbdf50c32

* "GLAAD Ads Remind LGBTQ+ Voters What's at Stake in Midterm Election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/12/glaad-ads-remind-lgbtq-voters-whats-stake-midterm-election

* "Forward thinking, playing offense are opportunities for Democrats as midterms approach:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/forward-thinking-playing-offense-are-opportunities-for-democrats-as-midterms-approach-152243269571

* "Can Republicans fulfill their role in a multi-party democracy?:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/can-republicans-fulfill-their-role-in-a-multi-party-democracy-152370757778

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

( Embed: )

* "House GOP uses grade school trick to inflate pad report with 'filler and Fox News' :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-gop-uses-grade-school-trick-to-inflate-pad-report-with-filler-and-fox-news-152618053708

* "Chris Hayes: If Republicans win, Trump will be the ‘shadow Speaker of the House’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-if-republicans-win-trump-will-be-the-shadow-speaker-of-the-house-152597061618

* "Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms

* "3 Lies Republicans Are Using This Election| Robert Reich:"

( Embed: )

* "Pro-LGBTQ+ PAC Targets Pa. Republican Candidates Oz and Mastriano:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/27/pro-lgbtq-pac-targets-penn-republican-candidates-oz-and-mastriano

* "Column: A speech-impaired John Fetterman is better than a fast-talking Mehmet Oz:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-30/john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-aphasia-debate

* "Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-jan6-john-fetterman-donald-trump-1234620315/

* He doesn't even know where Pennsylvania IS! O.o "Pennsylvania by the sea: Mehmet Oz implies state has Atlantic coastline:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/01/mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-republican-candidate

* "Doug Mastriano ally Toni Shuppe has a plan to ‘stop the steal of 2022.’ It’s full of misinformation.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/toni-shuppe-doug-mastriano-election-steal-pennsylvania-20221030.html

* "Exclusive with Josh Shapiro: "Our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-with-josh-shapiro-our-fundamental-freedoms-are-on-the-ballot-151960645652

* "Mehmet Oz’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/01/oz-senate-doctor-research/

* "Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/oprah-winfrey-john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-pa-senate-race-20221103.html

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

* "How Democracy Is on the Line in 2022 & Beyond:"

( Embed: )

* CW: Rape "GOP candidate wants ‘community-level review’ on if rape victims can get abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-candidate-wants-community-level-review-on-if-rape-victims-can-get-abortions-152599109733

* "How Doug Mastriano ended up in a Holocaust film that troubles scholars:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/doug-mastriano-holocaust-film-agenda/

* "Endorsement: Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert:" https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/29/opinion-lauren-boebert-vote/

* "Lauren Boebert posts particularly vile Tweet and the backlash is brutal:" https://www.queerty.com/lauren-boebert-posts-particularly-vile-tweet-backlash-brutal-20221103

* "Indiana's Democratic Candidates Sign Contract to Protect Abortion Rights:" https://advocatechannel.com/indianas-democratic-candidates-sign-contract-to-protect-abortion-rights

* "Republican says party ‘will never lose another election’ in Wisconsin if he wins:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/02/wisconsin-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-michels

* "Editorial: Vote for Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes to defend our democracy. Here's why.:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/11/02/wisconsin-vote-for-mandela-barnes-and-tony-evers-to-defend-democracy/69588162007/

* "Ron DeSantis uses 'non-binary student' photo to push pathetic election campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/03/ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-non-binary-stock-photo/

* "Rep. Val Demings: Marco Rubio only likes to talk about crime when it is politically advantageous:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-u-s-senate-candidate-rep-val-demings-demolishes-marco-rubio-s-attempts-to-campaign-on-crime-152489541804

* "Midterms candidates Chris Jones in Arkansas, Charles Booker in Kentucky have impressive ground game:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/midterms-candidates-chris-jones-in-arkansas-charles-booker-in-kentucky-winning-voters-by-focusing-on-forgotten-152605765559

* "Charles Booker touts abortion rights in Kentucky Senate bid:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/charles-booker-touts-abortion-rights-kentucky-senate-bid-92607940

* "Leading election denier is on the verge of leading Nevada's election system:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/trump-aligned-jim-marchant-midterm-election-00064357

* "Nevada's MAGA secretary of state candidate appears to be blatantly ignoring campaign finance law:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/jim-marchant-nevada-secretary-state-maga-trump-citizens-united-campaign-finance/

* "This Bisexual Kansas Legislator Wants to Get Stuff Done:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/18/bisexual-kansas-legislator-wants-get-stuff-done

* "‘Emasculating Vance Is Actually Part of Tim’s Effectiveness’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/03/tim-ryan-senate-ohio-00064670

* "Tim Ryan on finding "gettable voters" in his quest for a Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/tim-ryan-on-finding-gettable-voters-in-his-quest-for-a-senate-seat-152240709776

* "Abortion Is on the Ballot. Will It Help the Dems?:"

( Embed: )

* "Chris Hayes: The stakes of the New York governor's race between Zeldin and Hochul:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-stakes-of-the-new-york-governor-s-race-between-zeldin-and-hochul-152107077663

* "Raphael Warnock - The Georgia Senator on His Midterm Race:" https://www.cc.com/video/8rlhtb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-raphael-warnock-the-georgia-senator-on-his-midterm-race

* "What makes Virginia’s most competitive congressional race so close?:" https://wtop.com/virginia/2022/11/what-makes-virginias-most-competitive-race-so-competitive/

* "Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters:" https://apnews.com/article/elaine-luria-2022-midterms-strategy-a36ffe96b8d1ec2654ed67cb93639a16

* "Democratic star Katie Porter fights against a conservative resurgence in O.C.:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-01/katie-porter-scott-baugh-california-congress-midterm-elections

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

( Embed: )

* "N.J. Democrat once thought safe now in a close congressional race at campaign’s final week:" https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/11/nj-democrat-once-thought-safe-now-in-a-competitive-congressional-race-at-campaigns-final-week.html

* "GOP Candidate Said Elites Drink Blood, Sell ‘Baby Body Parts’ After Abortion:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzkdp/kristina-karamo-qanon-blood-body-parts

* "GOP rejection of democracy leaves force and violence as remaining governing option:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-rejection-of-democracy-leaves-force-and-violence-as-remaining-governing-option-152124997513

* "Paul Pelosi's alleged attacker charged with attempted kidnapping:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/31/justice-department-charges-depape-following-paul-pelosi-assault-00064282

* "Fears of Political Violence Following Attack on Paul Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fears-of-political-violence-following-attack-on-paul-pelosi-151959621741

* "What we know about David DePape, the man accused in the Pelosi home invasion, attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/what-we-know-about-david-depape-the-man-accused-in-the-pelosi-home-invasion-attack.html

* An elderly man was beaten with a hammer in an act of political terrorism. They are LYING when they say they are Law and Order candidates. Cruelty is the point. "Arizona GOP nominee Kari Lake mocks attack on Paul Pelosi at campaign event:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960

* "Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching/

* "Fresh finger-pointing over Capitol Police's future after Pelosi home invasion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/fresh-finger-pointing-over-capitol-polices-future-after-pelosi-home-invasion-00065064

* "Swalwell: Pelosi suspect’s social media looks like that of Ted Cruz, MTG:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-pelosi-suspect-s-social-media-looks-like-that-of-ted-cruz-mtg-152105029931

* "The Facts About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, According to Prosecutors:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/pelosi-paul-nancy-attack-facts.html

* "Joy Reid: There’s a long history of gaslighting and toxic politics regarding Speaker Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/paul-pelosi-assault-spawning-far-right-conspiracies-about-attack-decried-as-deplorable-152113733729

* "‘This is not normal, moral, human behavior’: Psaki on GOP response to Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-not-normal-moral-human-behavior-psaki-on-gop-response-to-pelosi-attack-152228933737

* "Right-wing resists facts about extremist violence to preserve identity of victimhood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-resists-facts-about-extremist-violence-to-preserve-identity-of-victimhood-152128069582

* "Trump joins growing GOP effort to whitewash, lie about Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-joins-growing-gop-effort-to-whitewash-lie-about-pelosi-attack-152227909623

* "Elon Musk tweets anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-gay-lgbtq/

* "Hate speech increased on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover, study finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/hate-speech-increased-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-study/story?id=92445797

* "Twitter reportedly limits content moderation ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/twitter-reportedly-limits-content-moderation-ahead-of-midterm-elections-152243269649

* Do not trust twitter. "Elon Musk appears in over his head with purchase of Twitter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/elon-musk-appears-in-over-his-head-with-purchase-of-twitter-152617541762

* "Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires | Boing Boing:" https://boingboing.net/2022/11/03/musks-attempt-at-trolling-aoc-backfires.html

* "Elon Musk to the Rescue: Big Lie Fanatic Escapes Twitter Ban:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-election-denier-mark-finchem-credits-elon-musk-for-overturning-twitter-ban

* "What changes has Elon Musk made at Twitter and what might he do next?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/mass-sackings-monetisation-elon-musk-twitter-changing

* "Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and staffers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/swalwell-threat-plea/index.html

* "Adams County investigates white powder found on ballot as officials reassure voters the election is safe:" https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/adams-county-investigates-white-powder-found-on-ballot-as-officials-reassure-voters-the-election-is-safe

* "Barrack acquittal another blow to DOJ’s foreign influence crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/11/04/barrack-acquittal-another-blow-to-dojs-foreign-influence-crackdown-00065258

* "Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

* "Trump files a suit against New York attorney general, and against advice:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-files-a-suit-against-new-york-attorney-general-and-against-advice/

* "Judge rules in favor of assigning monitor to oversee Trump Organization:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/03/judge-rules-favor-assigning-monitor-oversee-trump-organization/

* "Key Trump insider given immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-trump-insider-given-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-investigation-152373829657

* "Litany of Trump legal entanglements grows ever longer as Trump Org criminal trial begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/litany-of-trump-legal-entanglements-grows-ever-longer-as-trump-org-criminal-trial-begins-152127557527

* "Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘key’ to post-election plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-key-to-post-election-plan-152356421588

* "Trump loyalist Kash Patel questioned before Mar-a-Lago grand jury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/03/kash-patel-grand-jury-trump/

* "Despite Eastman appeal, Jan. 6 committee accesses 8 disputed emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/eastman-appeals-jan6-committee-disputed-00064166

* "House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/trump-january-6-subpoena-deadline/index.html

* "Capitol Police officer disputes claims that Oath Keepers were seen protecting him during Jan. 6 attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/capitol-police-officer-disputes-claims-oath-keepers-protecting/story?id=92432188

* "Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/oath-keepers-olive-garden-january-6/index.html

* "New Report Sheds Light on Gun Violence in LGBTQ+ Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/11/new-report-sheds-light-gun-violence-lgbtq-lives

* "Chris Hayes: The myth of crime as a big-city, blue-state problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-myth-of-crime-as-a-big-city-blue-state-problem-152230981820

* "Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/22/polly-klaas-sisters-criminal-justice-mass-incarceration

* "Detectives in Breonna Taylor Killing Confess to Falsifying Warrant Evidence:" https://advocatechannel.com/detectives-in-breonna-taylor-killing-admit-to-falsifying-warrant-evidence-based-on-gut-feeling

* "Police Killed a Boy. His Friend Was Charged With Murder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

* "Video Shows Sheriffs Choking, Tasing Unarmed Transgender Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/24/video-shows-sheriffs-choking-tasing-unarmed-transgender-woman

* "Comedian Eric André Files Lawsuit Against Atlanta Airport Police:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/20/two-black-comedians-file-lawsuit-against-atlanta-airport-police

* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/i-spent-over-40-years-working-in-corrections-i-wasnt-ready-for-rikers

* "Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Burglary Charges in Vermont:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/17/ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-burglary-charges-vermont

* "Bi Actor Andy Dick Arrested on Felony Burglary Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/21/bi-actor-andy-dick-arrested-felony-burglary-charge

* "Sheriff's office says antisemitic messages in Jacksonville were not crimes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/florida-georgia-game-kanye-west/index.html

* "Pa. School District Allegedly Discriminated Against LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/09/penn-school-district-allegedly-discriminated-against-lgbtq-students

* "How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level:"

( Embed: )

How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level

When this was passed teachers called it things like “children Left behind” because we could see it was designed to starve neighborhood schools so Republicans could close them, forcing busing to other schools and shifting funding even further away from the schools that need it into charter schools that can bar students who are poor, or not white, or who have limited English, or who have special needs.

This is about de facto segregation. It’s about starving public schools of funds. it’s about excuses to deprive the students with the biggest needs of an education.

All “Back to Basics” school “reforms” are about defending music, art, social studies, and sciences, because Republicans hate anything that keeps children from dropping out and/or teaches critical thinking. Science and social studies teach things like applying logic to real world problems, evaluating evidence, and thinking for yourself. The last thing they want is accurate history or modern science taught to children.

All Republicans want is to create an ignorant easily manipulable permanent underclass that votes for them. Quality Public education in anathema to them.

Republicans keep saying, “you can’t just through money at the problem,” yet never once in the history of this country have we tried funding the schools for the poor at the level we fund schools for the well off. we know objectively that 15-18 students is the sweet spot for class size at all grades. why not for once try paying teachers a living wage and hire enough of them to give every class room the same student/teacher ratios private schools have. How about instead of pennies per student per day we actually buy enough equipment and supplies so that all students get to do hands on science instead of only students who already have all the advantages? How about paying for proper maintenance on schools so the heating works and the pipes don’t bang and the roof doesn’t leak? How about money for computers and library books? How about desks and chairs so every student in every class gets one as well as a locker that closes and locks?

Can’t we try that just once?

Teaching pays about as well as Burger King and teachers owe student loans and need to pay for continuing ed and certification re-upping. They need supplies for themselves and students and a professional wardrobe and money for transportation and to pay off massive student loans, plus food, housing, medical stuff, etc.. out of what amounts to minimum wage.

Nobody goes into teaching expecting to get rich; they do it because they want to teach. Punishing them because the schools are falling apart and the textbooks are as old as they are is counter-productive. Actually funding the schools properly would let them do their jobs.

But no one ever ask teachers when they do “school reform.” It is nearly always imposed by people who’ve never taught based on ignorance and a deep refusal to look at the research.

* CW: Rape, Human Trafficking "Smooth Like Butter: The Slippery Underbelly of the Kpop Industry:"

( Embed: )

* CW: Rape, Abuse, Pedophilia "MLM to Cult of Horrors, The Complete Saga: NXIVM:"

( Embed: )

************************************************

************************************************

* "LGBTQ+ World Cup fans told hand-holding fine – but don't kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/28/holding-hands-world-cup-no-public-affection-qatar-ambassador/

The World Cup should never have been held here. A whole lot of mostly guest workers literally died building that stadium, worked to death in the heat.

Their human rights record with LGBTQIA+ people is horrific and should be disqualifying.

* "Qatar journalist says LGBTQ+ people are ‘abnormal’ ahead of World Cup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/qatar-journalist-lgbtq-abnormal-world-cup/

* "Wales footballers won’t be silenced when it comes to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ atrocities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/wales-footballers-wont-be-banned-from-addressing-qatars-lgbtq-rights-record-officials-confirm/

* "Gay Qatari man won't let World Cup 'bury' LGBTQ+ atrocities 'in the shadows':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/05/qatar-gay-nas-mohamed-world-cup/

* "Gay men shot outside LGBTQ+ bar laid to rest as thousands take to streets:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/gay-men-shot-outside-slovakian-lgbtq-bar-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-protest/

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

( Embed: )

* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

************************************************************************************************************
************************************************************************************************************

* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

************************************************************************************************************
************************************************************************************************************

* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

( Embed: )

* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

( Embed: )

* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

( Embed: )

* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

( Embed: )

* "Bail Reform:"

( Embed: )

* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

( Embed: )

* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

( Embed: )

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

( Embed: )

* "DefunctTV: The History of the First Muppet Show, Sam and Friends:"

( Embed: )

* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

( Embed: )

* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

( Embed: )

* "Olive Garden Is The Perfect Place To Subvert Democracy:"

( Embed: )

* "This Is How Kari Lake's Comments Would Sound If They Were Actually Creatively Edited:"

( Embed: )

* "President Biden Midterms Address Cold Open - SNL:"

( Embed: )

* "Weekend Update: Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion - SNL:"

( Embed: )

* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

( Embed: )

* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

*****
* 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.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

( Links Underneath: )

*

*

* This is actually the Sunday morning posting, but it was finish loading the aggregate or post, not both, and as it was I stayed up way too late.

* "Libya's rival authorities announce ceasefire:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53863627

* "Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security/mali-president-resigns-after-detention-by-military-deepening-crisis-idUSKCN25E1AF

* "Thousands celebrate Mali coup in capital:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53868236

* "Rare Israeli ruling against practice of demolishing homes of Palestinians accused of violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rare-israeli-ruling-against-practice-of-demolishing-homes-of-palestinians-accused-of-violence/2020/08/19/e1996e5e-defb-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html

* Looks to me like he’s trying to distract Belorussians from the protests and the likely illegitimate election with a bogus foreign threat. "Nato rejects Belarusian talk of border threat:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53877953

* "Don’t Drink the Tea: Poison Is a Favored Weapon in Russia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/world/europe/navalny-poison-russia-kremlin.html

* "Comatose Russian dissident Navalny arrives at Berlin hospital:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/europe/alexey-navalny-germany-flight-intl-hnk/index.html
************************************************************************************************

* "Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick:" https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726

* "Still without a plan, Trump admin holding out for coronavirus 'miracle':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/still-with-no-plan-trump-admin-holds-out-for-covid-19-miracle-90457157711

* "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19:" https://www.propublica.org/article/meatpacking-companies-dismissed-years-of-warnings-but-now-say-nobody-could-have-prepared-for-covid-19#989716

* I meant to post this last week, but it got lost in the shuffle. "Sturgis rally visitors not allowed through Cheyenne River Reservation checkpoints:" https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/sturgis-rally-visitors-not-allowed-through-cheyenne-river-reservation-checkpoints/article_ff7ead8d-ad7d-5130-b3ec-52426c2fa20e.html

*********************************************************************************************************

* "In every aspect of his life, Donald Trump is a cheater:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-in-every-aspect-of-his-life-donald-trump-is-a-cheater-90454085909

* "Appeals court sets September 1 hearing on deadline for Trump's financial records subpoena:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/trump-motion-tax-records/index.html

* "Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud charges related to border wall crowdfunding campaign:" https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-charged-fraud-199c43c1-2e75-4535-8eb0-d96558c9f777.html

* "Bannon legal woes leave Trump scrambling for distance (again):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-legal-woes-leave-trump-scrambling-for-distance-again-90457669675

* "Kris Kobach claimed he spoke with 'enthusiastic' Trump three times about border wall project at center of fraud investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/kfile-kobach-wall-fraud/

* "Trump Jr. distances from Bannon group, says he attended 'single' event:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512937-trump-jr-distances-from-bannon-group-says-he-attended-single-event

* "Biden finally has his big moment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/dnc-convention-thursday-399585

* "Top Republican National Security Officials Say They Will Vote for Biden:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/republican-national-security-biden.html

* "Trump offers rebuttal to Democratic convention, where Biden criticized Trump as sowing division:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/21/trump-biden-live-updates/?hpid=hp_no-name_elex-luf-8am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo

* "Trump’s reelection effort has officially spent more than $1 billion, a record sum at this point in the campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/21/trumps-reelection-effort-has-officially-spent-more-than-1-billion-record-sum-this-point-campaign/

* "Log Cabin Again Licks Trump's Boots But Ignores His True LGBTQ+ Record:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/20/log-cabin-again-licks-trumps-boots-ignores-his-true-lgbtq-record

* "Parents of Matthew Shepherd, who was brutally murdered by homophobes, help formally nominate Joe Biden:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/19/joe-biden-nominated-democratic-national-convention-roll-call-matthew-shepherd/

* "Bernie Sanders - Uniting a Coalition of Voters Against Trump:"

( Embed: )

* This is a whole mess of worms and I'd been toying off and on with untangling them, but given how sick I've been with the antibiotic, I simply wasn’t up to the delicacy required. This is the piece on it that comes closest to my position. Within a hairsbreadth I'd say. "When It Comes to Alex Morse's Sex Scandal, No One Comes Off Well:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/8/20/when-it-comes-alex-morses-sex-scandal-no-one-comes-well

* Meanwhile on Autocracy Watch: 45's now threatening to illegally send large numbers of police to "monitor" aka scare people from the polls and presumably illegally bar them from voting on election day, because why else do this? The only trouble at the polls we've had in the half century I've been alive has been Republicans literally doing what Trump is threatening to do. Like there used to be a injunction that right wing judges overturned this century on the grounds that it was working to prevent the republicans from doing this and therefore it was no longer needed to stop them doing it. there is no left wing problem this solves; all it does is illegally prevent people of color from voting. Like yes, there is already generally an officer there on duty to oversee, but there is a difference between a person there overseeing and an army of them trying to stop people of colour from voting. "While Democrats urged fair elections, Trump was threatening to send law enforcement to the polls:" https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/08/as-democrats-urge-fair-elections-trump-threatens-to-send-law-enforcement-to-the-polls/

* "Trump Sows Doubt in U.S. Election With Polls Showing Biden Leading:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-21/trump-sows-doubt-in-u-s-election-with-polls-showing-biden-lead?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Trump Team Fails to Cite Mail-in Election Fraud Cases in Court:" https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/trump-election-fraud-pennsylvania-court/

* "Pennsylvania AG: Trump 'suing us to make it harder for people to vote':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-ag-trump-suing-us-to-make-it-harder-for-people-to-vote-90448965558

* Don't hold your breath for McConnell allowing debate and the Senate then passing a veto proof majority. "House approves bill to send $25 billion to Postal Service and halt changes:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/postal-service-house-vote-funding/index.html

* Still no explanation of how removing existing sorting machines, breaking them up, and throwing them out would make the mail more efficient instead of less. Also, he's going back to dismantling it after the election and there are reports he's still dismantling it now. ":" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/dejoy-postal-service-hearing-399659

* "Former top Postal Service official testifies Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

* "Dems say evidence shows DeJoy was picked to lead Postal Service after 'highly irregular' process:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/democrats-louis-dejoy-postal-service-399489

* "Viewers tell 'All In' how mail slowdown has hurt their lives and businesses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/viewers-tell-all-in-how-mail-slowdown-has-hurt-their-lives-and-businesses-90453061846

* It's part of trying to force them to go get infected at work. "White House formally declaring teachers essential workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/white-house-teachers-essential-workers/index.html

* "New York City Schools Face Strike As District Plans To Reopen Amid Pandemic:" https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904577530/new-york-city-schools-face-strike-as-district-plans-to-reopen-amid-pandem

* "Here's what we know about eight of the soldiers who have died this year at Fort Hood:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/25/us/fort-hood-soldier-deaths-trnd/index.html

* "'They rely on you being intimidated': Local elected officials in the US describe how police unions bully them:" https://www.citymetric.com/politics/they-rely-you-being-intimidated-local-elected-officials-us-describe-how-police-unions-bully

* "New York’s Most Virulent Opponent of Police Reform:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ed-mullins-sba-nypd-union.html#comments

* "When It Comes to Racism, We're Just Going in Circles:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/8/19/when-it-comes-racism-were-just-going-circles

* This is the republican mainstream is becoming, utterly unreachable by reason and evidence. "The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html

* CW: Rape. "Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to life in prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/us/golden-state-killer-sentencing/index.html

* "Veronica Chambers - "Finish the Fight!" & American Suffrage:"

( Embed: )

* "Katie Hill's Sexual Freedom Was Too Much for Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/21/katie-hills-sexual-freedom-was-too-much-congress

* CW: Self Harm "‘Tortuously long’ waiting lists for vital healthcare driving vulnerable trans kids to self-harm, charity warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/21/nhs-trans-gender-identity-clinics-waiting-lists-four-years-self-harm-gendered-intelligence/

* "Police urge witnesses to come forward after two men stage ‘vicious’ homophobic attack in London:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/22/police-urge-witnesses-to-come-forward-vicious-homophobic-robbery-attack-stamford-hill-london/

* "Pensioner admits hurling homophobic abuse at gay lawyer and his partner when he saw them holding hands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/22/pensioner-admits-hurling-homophobic-abuse-gay-lawyer-partner-holding-hands-glasgow-scotland/

* "Pride Banners Incite Furor in Utah Town and Are Effectively Banned:" https://www.advocate.com/pride/2020/8/21/pride-banners-incite-furor-utah-town-and-are-effectively-banned

* "Arizona has refused to pay for trans healthcare for almost 40 years. Two teens are trying to end the ban once and for all:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/21/medicaid-transgender-arizona-national-center-lesbian-court-case/

* "Was Newark Trans Woman's Death Really a Suicide?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/8/21/was-newark-trans-womans-death-really-suicide

* "When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/when-misdiagnosis-child-abuse/615337/

* "This Limpet May Be Evolving to Avoid Humans :" https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/this-limpet-may-be-evolving-to-avoid-humans/

* "Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/why-does-california-have-wildfires.html

* He is claiming that even though he just hallucinated the forest raking thing in 2018 and Finland doesn't do that, California doesn't deserve disaster funds because they sensibly didn't waste massive amounts time and money on a scheme that experts say doesn't make sense and which common sese says isn't physically possible. "Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state 'you gotta clean your floors':" https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/20/trump-blames-california-for-wildfires-tells-state-you-gotta-clean-your-floors-1311059

* "Researchers find dinosaurs' unique bone structure key to carrying huge weight:" https://www.smu.edu/News/2020/Research/Researchers-find-dinosaurs-unique-bone-structure-key-to-carrying-huge-weight

* "Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor's Attic Floorboards:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-rare-artifacts-discovered-underneath-attic-floorboards-tudor-manor-180975578/

* "All the servants of a rich Gilded Age household:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/all-the-servants-of-a-rich-gilded-age-household/

* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day One:"

( Embed: )

* "Dul-Sayin' - The 19th Amendment:"

( Embed: )

* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day Two:"

( Embed: )

* "Conservatives Try to Disqualify Kamala Harris's Blackness :"

( Embed: )

* "The Young Delegates Coalition on Supporting Joe Biden:"

( Embed: )

* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day Three:"

( Embed: )

* "Genetically Modified Mosquitos & Steve Bannon's Arrest:"

( Embed: )

* "Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies: How Governors Have Responded to the Pandemic Pt. 1:"

( Embed: )

* "Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies: How Governors Have Responded to the Pandemic Pt. 2:"

( Embed: )

* "From Hopeless to Hope-ish with Masha Gessen | Full Frontal on TBS:"

( Embed: )

* "Expect the Worst From This Election Season Pt. 1:"

( Embed: )

* "Expect the Worst From This Election Season Pt. 2 :"

( Embed: )

* "Broken News: There’s A Race Problem in Journalism:"

( Embed: )

* "Smash Mouth Kills It At Sturgis Biker Rally:"

( Embed: )

* "Fox News on 2020 DNC Speeches & Fox-Splaining Kamala Harris:"

( Embed: )

* "Quarantinewhile... A Selfie With The World's Most Dangerous Animal:"

( Embed: )

* "Uninformed Correspondent: Bootsie's Battle Against The Coronavirus:"

( Embed: )

* Friday: We now know what's wrong with my shoulder. my belief it is the AS colonizing another joint ad not a normal injury proved correct. In part. In the middle of the bad episode the last two months i stared getting what felt like tendinitis, I assumed in response to the whole trying to function with a fucked up shoulder. It looks like a tendon is sort of fucked now. Not normal injury fucked, so much as a year and a half of trying to cope with the weird ass bone and cartilage stuff happening in my shoulder causing slow secondary damage fucked.

This means neither of the likely treatments will work. (One for a normal injury; one for AS join damage).

She's trying to talk Medicare into some physio. We'll see. So this is basically my life now.

* Livia, who has never seen a real mirror because she doesn't go up on the bathroom sink, just had a fight with her reflection in the patio door. I've usually lowered the curtain by now. I don't think she's noticed her night reflection before. When I went over she meeped plaintively at me to let her out to kick mirror cat's butt. They are now having a staring content. That's literally the biggest cats she's seen since she was weened. That strange cat is on the patio where the human does weird things to plants! Clearly that is imperial territory.

In other cat news, yesterday she learned she can still just fit in the little bookshelf for a nap.

* The Historically accurate Sexism thread got resurrected again, and I added some comments to these two about how you got to pick who's in the story you write:

https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/627323593262514176/historically-authentic-sexism-in-fantasy-lets

This one also has why you can always have a racially diverse London at the bottom: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/627322048787693568/historically-authentic-sexism-in-fantasy-lets

* On a lesbian Irish folk tale: https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1297143608588619776

* "Personal Canons: The Books That Hate Us:" https://sarahgailey.substack.com/p/personal-canons-the-books-that-hate?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzgwMDYyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NjYzMDAsIl8iOiJFdnpyRSIsImlhdCI6MTU5Nzc5NDUwMCwiZXhwIjoxNTk3Nzk4MTAwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA0NDMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.73S-qaYFLwUxXwyrrGt-CndMIGTRhdpvd59iVCoWGeM

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

( Links Underneath: )

* I'm going to section off epidemic specific stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff. I'm putting secondary effects things in their usual slots.

************************************************************************************************

* "Coronavirus in Africa Tracker: How many covid-19 cases & where?:" https://africanarguments.org/2020/04/05/coronavirus-in-africa-tracker-how-many-cases-and-where-latest/

* "Mexico declares health emergency as coronavirus death toll rises:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/mexico-declares-health-emergency-as-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-idUSKBN21I05K

* "It Was Already Dangerous To Be Muslim in India. Then Came the Coronavirus:" https://time.com/5815264/coronavirus-india-islamophobia-coronajihad/

* "Lockdown: Nursing homes in Spain a vector for deadly coronavirus:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-lockdown-ins/lockdown-nursing-homes-in-spain-a-vector-for-deadly-coronavirus-idUSKBN2190N1

* "Spain's deaths soar but infection rate slows:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52117883

* "How Mexico Is Coping With A Coronavirus Outbreak Partially Imported From Vail, Colorado:" https://www.cpr.org/2020/04/01/how-mexico-is-coping-with-a-coronavirus-outbreak-partially-imported-from-vail-colorado/

* "Drive-through funerals in the epicenter of Spain's coronavirus pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/europe/spain-coronavirus-drive-thru-funerals-madrid-intl/index.html

* "Military flies Italian and French patients to Germany for treatment:" https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/28/military-flies-italian-french-patients-germany-treatment-12471328/

* "Spain, Italy Coronavirus Outbreak Slows as Japan Declares National Emergency:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2020-04-06/spain-italy-coronavirus-outbreak-slows-as-japan-declares-national-emergency

* "Chinese families should be sweeping graves now. But thousands still haven’t buried their dead.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-families-should-be-sweeping-graves-now-but-thousands-still-havent-buried-their-dead/2020/04/03/5a6daa50-7234-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html

"Using photos posted online, social media sleuths have estimated that Wuhan funeral homes have returned 3,500 urns a day since March 23. That would imply a death toll in Wuhan of about 42,000 — or 16 times the official number. Another widely shared calculation from Radio Free Asia, based on Wuhan’s 84 furnaces running nonstop and each cremation taking an hour, put the death toll at 46,800."

* "Iran Says U.S. Sanctions Are Taking Lives. U.S. Officials Disagree.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/middleeast/iran-virus-sanctions.html

* "Health expert: We must reduce activity as pandemic peaks:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-peaking-requires-reducing-movement-over-next-two-weeks-81661509662

* "Congressmen from WA, CA call for ramped-up coronavirus testing:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-testing-increases-needed-to-end-pandemic-reps-say-81660997712

* "Trump’s Breakdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/01/trump-breakdown-threaten-sink-presidency-158321

* "Sen. Tina Smith: Trump is treating pandemic like PR war:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-pandemic-responses-of-trump-critiqued-by-sen-smith-81660485806

* "Trump's coronavirus press briefings criticized by media expertsTrump's coronavirus press briefings criticized by media experts:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/coronavirus-responses-of-trump-cuomo-surgeon-general-compared-81663045581

* "Is press overly-praising Trump's pandemic response 'tone'?:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-treatment-by-the-press-during-pandemic-analyzed-81662533532

* "‘That's a nasty, snarky question’: Trump’s media assault rages on in midst of coronavirus crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/us-coronavirus-outbreak-donald-trump-media-latest

* "Journalists challenge Trump's 'revisionist history' regarding coronavirus response:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/media/donald-trump-coronavirus-response-reliable-sources/index.html

* "‘We could get wiped out’: American Indians have the highest rates of diseases that make covid-19 more lethal:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/04/04/native-american-coronavirus/

* "The particular peril of coronavirus for poor people - and then everyone else :" https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2020/03/07/the-particular-peril-of-coronavirus-for-poor-people-and-then-everyone-else

* "Rural areas fear spread of virus as more hospitals close:" https://apnews.com/2ff8980e3c6ad674dfd7cefce02105ee

* "Cruise ship docks in Florida with two dead and 12 testing positive for coronavirus:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/04/coral-princess-cruise-ship-docks-florida-coronavirus-pandemic

* "Hunt for medical supplies creates marketplace of desperation:" https://apnews.com/829280426e49dfdf7f2cb1be4b0cfe05

* "Pastor who thinks homosexuality is evil and Jesus will save him from coronavirus could face jail for holding church services:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/01/pastor-homosexuality-evil-jail-church-services/

**************************************************************************************

* "'Mom & Pop' shops worry they will be squeezed out of small business coronavirus aid:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-small-business/mom-pop-firms-worry-they-will-be-squeezed-out-of-small-business-coronavirus-aid-idUSKBN21L1EG

* "Black Businesses Left Behind in Covid-19 Relief:" https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/03/coronavirus-relief-racial-equity-black-business-covid-19/609055/

* "‘Essential’ Laundromats Under Strain as NYC’s Wash Culture Shifts:" https://thecity.nyc/2020/04/new-york-citys-laundromats-strain-in-coronavirus-crisis.html

* "Candidate jolts battleground congressional race with ad blasting China for coronavirus:" https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/02/texas-congressional-candidate-kathaleen-wall-blames-china-coronavirus/

* "How Social Distancing Could Lead to a Spike in White Nationalism:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-extremism-white-nationalism-southern-poverty-law-center-969079/

* "Neo-Nazis and homophobes are among the supporters of the ‘anti-trans’ group LGB Alliance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/03/lgb-alliance-neo-nazi-homophobia-spinster-death-head-charity-commission/

* "Nowhere to go: Some inmates freed because of coronavirus are 'scared to leave':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/politics/freed-inmates-challenges-coronavirus/index.html

* "Cuomo’s Bail Reform Reversal Risks Explosive Coronavirus Spread in Jails:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/cuomo-bail-reform.html

* "Catholics for Trump Coalition Loaded With Anti-LGBTQ Extremists:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/4/03/catholics-trump-coalition-loaded-anti-lgbtq-extremists

* The gift purifier and the tub have been helping a ton, but I had an Incident Sunday because I didn't wash my hair before bed and so lost most of my sleep. Monday I needed to stay up to order second quarter OTC benefit box, which got messy because they were out of things and rationing things, but my contingency plan held. Unfortunately, the space where I planned to close out the aggregate while waiting for the OTC people to open was the space in which we had sporadic outages. The good news was, I gnawed through a lot of news. The bad for my sleep news was I then needed to stay up to post all the links. They somehow did landscaping today despite the shelter in place (Is lawn mowing really vital), so I definitely need another lung treatment and bath before bed. I may be wreck tonight. idk.

* "Sunday Sweets Is All About April:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/4/5/sunday-sweets-is-all-about-april

* "After the hydra:" https://claudeb.dreamwidth.org/7670.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

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

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

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "After months of unrest, Hong Kong is holding a de facto referendum on protests:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/asia/hong-kong-protests-district-council-elections-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Justice Dept. watchdog finds political bias did not taint top officials running the FBI’s Russia probe but documents errors:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html

* "Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/ukraine-russia-interference.html

* "Trump Pushes Debunked Ukraine Theory In Long, Rambling Call To 'Fox & Friends':" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fox-and-friends_n_5dd7eaeae4b00149f71b3a6c?6at

* "US intel warns of Russian disinformation: NYT; some GOP heedless:" US intel warns of Russian disinformation: NYT; some GOP heedless

* "US intel briefed senators that Ukraine theory is Russian op:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/us-intel-briefed-senators-that-ukraine-theory-is-russian-op-nyt-73941573769

* "Hayes explains 3 ways the ‘America First’ president puts Americans last:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-explains-3-ways-the-america-first-president-puts-americans-last-73933893680

* "Chris Hayes: What Trump did to the Bidens is a betrayal of Americans:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-trump-did-to-the-bidens-is-a-betrayal-of-americans-73934917878

* "Corruption and the threat since the founding of America:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/corruption-and-the-threat-since-the-founding-of-america-73934917964

* "The Heroes Who Took on Trump's Lies and Brought Truth to Power:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/11/22/heroes-who-took-trumps-lies-and-brought-truth-power

* "The Impeachment Witnesses Not Heard:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/us/politics/impeachment-witnesses.html

* "Trump again lashes out at Yovanovitch:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/22/donald-trump-yovanovitch-072865

* "Trump's aides eye moving impeachment witnesses out of White House jobs:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/18/politics/donald-trump-never-trump-white-house-staff/index.html

* "With impeachment, America’s epistemic crisis has arrived:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/16/20964281/impeachment-hearings-trump-america-epistemic-crisis

* "A New App Helps Survivors of Domestic Violence Cover the Cost of Abuse:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/22/new-app-helps-survivors-domestic-violence-cover-cost-abuse

* "Woman denied survivor’s benefits after losing same-sex partner of 27 years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/22/woman-denied-survivors-benefits-partner-27-years/

* "New York man attacked with hammer and thrown onto subway tracks in anti-gay hate crime attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/22/new-york-man-attacked-hammer-thrown-subway-tracks-anti-gay-hate-crime-attack/

* "University won’t sack professor who claimed ‘promiscuous’ gay teachers abuse students:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/22/university-sack-professor-gay-teachers-abuse-students/

We had one of these in our department at my second college. He was an emeritus ex-department head and absolutely nothing could be done no matter how horrible he was to women grad students and queer students generally. He taught one class a term. It was a small department and everyone knew each other. The more experienced students would take the new majors aside and warn them.

I simply never signed up for his classes which were luckily not required. I had friends who took their buttons off their gear and went closeted in his room. I knew women who took his class and regretted it.

It is incredibly disheartening that this is where we are still at very nearly the end of the second decade of the 21st century.

* "S.C. Lawmaker Tries to Block Gender-Affirming Care for Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/11/22/sc-lawmaker-tries-block-gender-affirming-care-minors

* "Bisexual people who are fully out are having worse sex, and researchers think it’s due to bi-erasure:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/23/bisexual-people-fully-out-worse-sex-research-bi-erasure/

* "How statistics lost their power – and why we should fear what comes next:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy

* "Colombia adoptees find family decades after volcano tragedy:" https://apnews.com/6533119d8b674c3b9742d95cd78702c8

* "WHERE DO BABIES COME FROM DAMNIT?!?! w/ Adam Devine & Kieran Culkin:"

( Embed: )

* Today, people kept waking me up wanting me to answer questions. Add in how hard it was to get to sleep and the waking up twice coughing. When the forage alarm went off, I decided fuck this and went right back to sleep. It was so bad Tavy migrated to the foot of the bed because being a cat with serious balance issues trying to sleep on someone who is being startled awake over and over is horrible. I am less dizzy today, so that's something.

I checked on the cats after I ate at 3AMish. Three blerps on thedamned bed. I love clean sheets as much as the next person, but I'm pretty sure this is day five of me having to strip my bed and tis time there isn't nearly enough time to wash dry the pad before I sleep. %$*@!

* Cassandra Meets Odysseus: https://cmdr-zoom.dreamwidth.org/1049159.html

* "Ancient Literature as Onion headlines:" https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/75521920_10219789246178381_7210804220839067648_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_ohc=LUmx_cs5LbgAQmBM8xtzU6aYF4TmC_4gJZ7rocyl8rEO-WKwvyJyoWwsQ&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=cc52494d8a8a6a02fb8b454f8b14acca&oe=5E8B2924

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

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

* "After a Divisive Israeli Election, Calls for Unity:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-election-unity-netanyahu-gantz.html

* "Justin Trudeau Says He Is ‘Deeply Sorry’ After Brownface Photo Surfaces:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/world/canada/trudeau-brownface.html

* "Pence rebuffs Solomon Islands PM after nation cuts ties with Taiwan:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-diplomacy-pence-exclusive-idUSKBN1W22WK

* "The climate crisis behind Central American migration:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/climate-crisis-to-create-1-5-billion-migrants-by-2050-69619781800

* "Will U.S. troops send wrong message on Saudi Arabia-Yemen conflict?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-approves-troop-deployment-to-saudi-arabia-uae-69621317602

* "Biden turns questions on his son into critique of Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/biden-slams-trump-s-alleged-call-to-ukraine-president-69620805588

* "Will media harp on debunked Biden scandals like Clinton in 2016?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-tries-to-spin-whistleblower-story-against-biden-69621317699

* "What’s next in the whistleblower case?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/pompeo-suggests-investigating-biden-after-ukraine-question-69621829619

* "Trump's new national security adviser is the anti-Bolton in style only:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/trump-to-nominate-us-hostage-negotiator-robert-obrien-as-national-security-adviser-1501811

* Likely, people will die from food contamination. "Trump administration allows pork slaughterhouses to have fewer USDA line inspectors:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-allows-pork-slaughterhouses-have-fewer-usda-inspectors-n1055451

* "Trump Administration Looks to Supreme Court to Rein In Consumer Finance Agency:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-looks-to-supreme-court-to-rein-in-consumer-finance-agency-11568771467

* "Angelica Ross says Bernie Sanders made “huge misstep” in skipping LGBT forum:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/22/angelica-ross-bernie-sanders-lgbt-forum-trans-elizabeth-warren/

* "Pulse survivor delivers sobering account of Florida mass shooting to Congress while urging for gun reform:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/19/pulse-survivor-account-florida-mass-shooting-congress-urging-gun-reform/

* "White House Fires Homeland Security Dept.’s General Counsel:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/john-mitnick-homeland-security.html

* "Brazil prosecutor orders five indictments over gay councilwoman assassination:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/22/brazil-prosecutor-orders-five-indictments-over-gay-councilwoman-assassination/

* "Ben Carson Spews Hateful Anti-Trans Slurs at HUD Meeting:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/9/19/ben-carson-spews-hateful-anti-trans-slurs-hud-meeting

* "Stonewall founder opposes trans rights, may form breakaway group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/22/stonewall-trans-rights-simon-fanshawe-womens-sex-based-rights/

* "Patricia Arquette Pleads at Emmys: Stop Persecuting Trans People:" https://www.advocate.com/television/2019/9/22/patricia-arquette-pleads-emmys-stop-persecuting-trans-people

* "People are busting common and ridiculous myths around bisexuality for Bi Visibility Day:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/22/bi-visibility-day-bisexual-youtubers-dutchy-elle-mills-ridiculous-stereotypes/

* "Black trans women keep being murdered. So this New Yorker decided to do something about it:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/22/black-trans-woman-murdered-travel-fund-devin-lowe/

* "Explaining what's wrong with my hands:"

( Embed: )

* "I lost money when I got married:"

( Embed: )

* "The Truth About Memory Loss:"

( Embed: )

* "30 Lessons about life with a chronic illness.:"

( Embed: )

* "Don't Be A Jerk To People With Dietary Restrictions!:"

( Embed: )

* "Enlightened Monarchs: Crash Course European History #19:"

( Embed: )

* "What's Wrong With Reusable Straws?:"

( Embed: )

* "Queer Teens Like Katie Eder Will Save Us From the Climate Catastrophe:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2019/9/19/queer-teens-katie-eder-will-save-us-climate-catastrophe

* "Billy Porter makes history as first openly gay black man to win acting Emmy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/23/billy-porter-first-gay-black-man-emmy/

* "Essentially drunk hair rolling... // Ridiculously Easy Vintage Hair Tutoria:"

( Embed: )

* Want to See the Gothmas Phase 1 interior stuff? https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/187892906490/interior-gothmas-decorations-september-2019-pt-1 and https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/187893912707/gothmas-interior-phase-1-september-2019-pt2

* We have less than a week of prescription goosh left. High quality wet food that fits her veterinarian's specification in necessary to Livia staying healthy. Interested in helping with Livia's new Goosh?

I'm looking at Natural Balance Ultra Premium Turkey & Giblets Formula Canned Cat Food, since it's cheaper than prescription, but within specs: https://www.chewy.com/natural-balance-ultra-premium-turkey/dp/33214?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=f&utm_content=Natural%20Balance&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-uXqwqPK5AIVB9tkCh3a2wZmEAQYASABEgJuZvD_BwE

or Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion It's 47.00 with shipping looks like.

* "Talk About Your Trunk Space, Check THESE Sweets Out!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/9/22/talk-about-your-trunk-space-check-these-sweets-out

* TW: Abuse. "Captain Marvel Ventures Into Complex Trauma:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/captain-marvel-complex-trauma/

* "One-Millionth of a Hugo:" https://elf.dreamwidth.org/813864.html

* "What I'm Not Posting at File 770:" https://elf.dreamwidth.org/814355.html

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* I honestly don't understand how Republicans don't find this terrifying. "Russia propaganda turns up in US foreign policy query:"

( Embed: )

* "Gen. McCaffrey: Trump is 'betraying the people who voted for him':"

( Embed: )

* "For Trump, it's not bad news. It's fake news.:"

( Embed: )

* "Trump loses first legal round on travel ban, next steps announced:"

( Embed: )

* I keep thinking about Naomi Kritzer’s Libertarian Seastead Dystopia stories as I listen to him rant. Seriously, he thinks instead of proper clinical testing, we should just put new drugs on the market and see how many people die. "Trump FDA pick a 'seasteading' advocate, no medical background:"

( Embed: )

* "Trump’s EPA Pick Appears to Have Made a False Statement Under Oath in Senate Hearing; He Denies:" http://fusion.net/story/384755/pruitt-false-statement-under-oath-epa-hearing/

* "U.S. House passes bill requiring warrants to search old emails:" http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-congress-emails-idUSL1N1FS01E

* "D.C. police demand Facebook hand over data on Trump protesters:" http://mashable.com/2017/02/06/dc-police-subpoena-facebook-inauguration-protests/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#G3DkOLK3iaqD

* Not even close to work safe. Seriously. NWS. Uses slurs in a reclaiming, defiant way. "Pansy Division Smells Like Queer Spirit:"

( Embed: )

* TW: Rape. "The Importance of Acknowledging Male Victimhood:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/acknowledging-male-victimhood/

* My lungs are at the full blown infection needs antibiotic stage. I HAD a Doctor's appointment tomorrow, but we had snow. So much snow. Leaving the house is out of the question dangerous for me given the physical realities, so I'm just going to have to hang on until Wednesday a week. Which is not good, given the Dolphin Festival where I have commitments. *facepalm*

* Me watching Father Brown: Ah. First episode and we have a predatory bisexual rapist trope.
Several episodes later: Father Brown sure is on site for a lot of murders. Are we sure he's not a serial killer? How big is this town anyway.? I mean that is a lot of murders for a small community isn't it? Are we absolutely sure Father Brown isn't a serial killer? How about Lady Felicia? I mean, she finds a LOT of bodies.

* "Supernatural, Season 12, Episode 10: Lily Sunder has Some Regrets:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/02/supernatural-season-12-episode-10-lily.html

* "Penny Dreadful, Season 3, Episode 2: Predators Far and Near:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/05/penny-dreadful-season-3-episode-2.html

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* "The Political Process Isn’t Rigged — It Has Much Bigger Problems:" http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-political-process-isnt-rigged-it-has-much-bigger-problems/?ex_cid=538fb

* "The Abuse Of 'Feel-Good' Cop Videos - The Establishment:" http://www.theestablishment.co/2016/08/02/the-abuse-of-feel-good-cop-videos/

* "Prejudice at Pride:" http://empathizethis.com/stories/prejudice-pride/

* I was trying to explain this to various people recently, so I'm posting in case someone else was curious. Why everyone hates Jared Leto: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/148926863307/why-does-everyone-hate-jared-leto

* TW: Rape. More specific on the Rape allegations. I believe the women. "Another Cosby? A Reminder That Several Women Have Accused Jared Leto Of Sexual Assault:" http://contemptor.com/2015/07/28/another-cosby-a-reminder-that-several-women-have-accused-jared-leto-of-sexual-assault/

* Today I did get some hand mending done, but I didn't remake the bed or do up the BPAL sale I am hoping will pay for taxes. Gah.

* "Sunday Sweets For Harley Quinn:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2016/8/14/sunday-sweets-for-harley-quinn.html

* Louisiana is having a major flooding disaster. Want to help? http://thewightknight.tumblr.com/post/148963870683/the-lonely-one96-almalexiaslouisiana-is

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.comhttp://www.cnn.com/2016/07/28/asia/indonesia-drug-executions/