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* I still have a stupidly large amount of prepped links, but I've been scaffolding this all evening so I'm cutting it here before it runs another day.

* "Hezbollah brings Iranian fuel into Lebanon to ease shortages:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58583008

* "Missing bolts, poor welding contributed to Mexico City metro collapse, auditor finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/missing-bolts-among-issues-that-sparked-mexico-city-metro-collapse-auditor-finds-2021-09-07/

* "Justin Trudeau's early election gamble backfires in Canada but he clings onto power:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/americas/canada-election-results-trudeau-o-toole-intl/index.html

* I had a ton of good coverage of the Canadian election, but events overtook me, so I pulled the links.

* "Rivals allege mass fraud as Russian pro-Putin party wins big majority:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pro-putin-party-heads-russian-election-win-after-navalny-clampdown-2021-09-19/

* "Communists, observers report violations in Russian election:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/communists-observers-report-violations-duma-election-80094316

* Google and Apple took strong action to side with Putin against Democracy."Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/google-apple-remove-navalny-app-stores-russian-elections-begin-2021-09-17/

* "Apple, Google, cowed by Putin, remove Russian protest voting app as election begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/apple-google-cowed-by-putin-remove-russian-protest-voting-app-as-election-begins-121227845901

* "Top Russian Diplomat’s Secret Life With Millionaire Mistress Exposed:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-russian-diplomat-sergey-lavrovs-secret-life-with-millionaire-mistress-exposed

* "Boris Johnson’s reshuffled cabinet has a sorry record on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/16/boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-lgbt-rights/

* "Liz Truss promoted to foreign secretary and remains equalities minister:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/liz-truss-foreign-secretary-equalities/

* "Both North and South Korea fire ballistic missiles as tensions rise on peninsula:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/asia/north-korea-missiles-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Russia election: Opposition crushed ahead of managed polls:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58504603

* "Haiti faces fresh instability as PM comes under scrutiny:" https://apnews.com/article/port-au-prince-haiti-f57d0c530cd01452f357d020b8926324

* "Haiti prosecutor seeks to charge PM in killing, is replaced:" https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-port-au-prince-haiti-assassinations-1b48e0e75c14ee83b5530b2f8a9618c4

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* "COVID-19 virus is evolving to get better at becoming airborne:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210916173428.htm

* "Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine works in kids ages 5 to 11:" https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-202cb6e44b90270ec4d1f19690ed94c5

* "Indian study finds big drop in COVID antibodies within four months of vaccination:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-study-finds-big-drop-covid-antibodies-within-four-months-vaccination-2021-09-14/

Preliminary study, not peer reviewed, and for Covaxin and Covishield/AstraZeneca . Also, it may not reflect lesser effectiveness. Basically, not nearly enough is known and it’s far to early to panic.

* "Ischgl: Austria sued over Tyrol ski resort's Covid-19 outbreak:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54256463

* "Biden doubles US global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-joe-biden-pandemics-business-united-nations-e7c09c1f896d83c0ed80513082787bd3

* "The U.S. is falling to the lowest vaccination rates of the world’s wealthiest democracies.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/asia/us-vaccination-rate-low.html

* "After Months Of Bans, Fully Vaccinated Travelers Will Be Allowed To Fly To The U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/20/1038912216/white-house-says-vaccinated-foreign-nationals-will-be-allowed-to-fly-to-the-u-s

* "1 in every 500 US residents have died of Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html

* "COVID-19 cases climbing, wiping out months of progress:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-texas-coronavirus-pandemic-kentucky-9e89fcef6ef184baa4703a47d2aefab6

* "'Soul-crushing': US COVID-19 deaths are topping 1,900 a day:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-missouri-c4d03a53de4036158fabb0125c4f7b02

* "US panel backs COVID-19 boosters only for seniors, high-risk:" https://apnews.com/article/fda-panel-rejects-widespread-pfizer-booster-shots-1cd1cf6a5c5c02b63f8a7324807a59f1

* "What to know about the FDA's decision on Pfizer booster shots:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-to-know-about-the-fda-s-decision-on-pfizer-booster-shots-121227333684

* "More than 675,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the US, surpassing country's 1918 flu pandemic death toll:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-09-20-21/h_9235b1080a7bd0bbee1fb393d8055b2b

* "F.D.A. Authorizes Pfizer Booster Shots for Older and At-Risk Americans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/politics/pfizer-boosters-fda-authorize.html

* "GOP governors decry Covid mandates despite requiring other vaccines in own states:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-governors-decry-covid-mandates-despite-requiring-other-vaccines-in-own-states-120796741724

* "Are Biden's Vaccine Mandates Legal?:"

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* "Florida COVID update: 10,723 cases added, state nears 50,000 total deaths:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254263558.html

* "Florida Governor Celebrates Ban on School Mask Mandates as More Kids Die From COVID:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/florida-governor-celebrates-ban-on-school-mask-mandates-as-more-kids-die-from-covid

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis threatens to fine state counties and cities over vaccine mandates:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/ron-desantis-vaccine-mandate-fine-florida/index.html

* "DeSantis ‘anti-vaccine mandate’ event turned anti-vaccine real quick:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-ron-desantis-anti-vaccine-mandate-event-turned-anti-vaccine-real-quick-120796741608

* "Nearly 2 million people in Texas are overdue for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/14/coronavirus-texas-vaccine-second-dose/

* "“Do I or don't I?” Some Texas hospitals grapple with new mandatory vaccine rule:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/10/coronavirus-texas-vaccine-mandate-hospitals/

* "Tennessee ranks worst in nation for COVID-19 spread:" https://www.wbir.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/tennessee-worst-in-nation-for-covid-spread/51-4061c4f5-0eda-43f2-b200-dc346181a20d

* "About 56.5% of COVID-19 cases occurring in Metro Nashville middle and high schools:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2021/09/13/covid-19-school-tennessee-half-nashville-cases-middle-high-schools/8318871002/

* "I was supposed to have life-saving surgery. Tennessee’s covid-19 surge cost me a hospital bed.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/14/tennessee-covid-19-surge-hospital-beds-surgery/

* "Stillbirths may be increasing in Middle Tennessee due to COVID pandemic:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/stillbirths-may-be-increasing-in-middle-tennessee-due-to-covid-pandemic/

* "Mississippi health officials plea for vaccination after 'significant' number of COVID-19 fatalities in pregnant women:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-health-officials-plea-vaccination-significant-number-covid/story?id=79931539

* "Mississippi governor calls Biden vaccine mandate 'tyranny':" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-health-coronavirus-pandemic-mississippi-tate-reeves-546dfb92122b16daa903622c59e92032

* "‘Substantial’ daily death rate cited for Alabama’s COVID-19 hospitalization decline:" https://www.wsfa.com/2021/09/14/substantial-daily-death-rate-cited-alabamas-covid-19-hospitalization-decline/

* I am so angry about this. "A Man Died After Being Turned Away From 43 ICUs At Capacity Due To COVID, Family Says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/13/1036593269/coronavirus-alabama-43-icus-at-capacity-ray-demonia

* "Man dies in out-of-state hospital after multi-state Cardiac ICU search:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/man-dies-in-out-of-state-hospital-after-multi-state-cardiac-icu-search-120811077880

* "‘You’re not getting this damn vaccine’: Alabama teen’s struggle for COVID shot mirrors struggles nationwide:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/09/youre-not-getting-this-damn-vaccine-alabama-teens-struggle-for-covid-shot-mirrors-struggles-nationwide.html

* "CDC reports 70 additional COVID-19 deaths in Oklahoma:" https://kfor.com/news/local/cdc-reports-70-additional-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma/

* "South Carolina adds nearly 15,000 new COVID-19 cases, 158 deaths over three days:" https://www.thestate.com/news/coronavirus/article254199853.html

* "COVID updates: SC Children's hospitals report 20 children needing critical care:" https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2021/09/13/covid-sc-mask-vaccine-mandate-hospitals-cases-updates-clemson-dashboard/8272184002/

* "All-time high Covid hospitalizations in Idaho:" https://komonews.com/news/local/all-time-high-covid-hospitalizations-in-idaho

* "‘Their Crisis’ Is ‘Our Problem’: Washington Grapples With Idaho Covid Cases:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/us/coronavirus-hospitals-washington-idaho.html

* "Likelihood of survival becomes key for rationed hospital care in Covid-crushed Idaho:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/likelihood-of-survival-becomes-key-for-rationed-hospital-care-in-covid-crushed-idaho-121079877877

* "Washington governor asks feds for medical staffing help:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-gov-jay-inslee-asks-feds-for-medical-staffing-help-with-covid-response/

* "Alaska’s largest hospital implements ‘crisis standards of care’ as U.S. marks grim milestone:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/15/covid-delta-variant-live-updates/

* "COVID-19 surge forces health care rationing in parts of West:" https://www.startribune.com/covid-19-surge-forces-health-care-rationing-in-parts-of-west/600097740/?refresh=true

* "Doctors face hard choices at packed hospital; patients wait in their cars for treatment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctors-face-hard-choices-at-packed-hospital-patients-wait-in-their-cars-for-treatment-120988229508

* "Alaska plans to help hospitals with COVID-19 crisis care:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-alaska-public-health-coronavirus-pandemic-35b7d277449e702c42f1d5f591053788

* "The Big Lie, Updated:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1805180.html

* "They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/health/covid-antibody-regeneron.html

* "Chris Hayes on the madness of opposing Covid vaccine to ‘own the libs’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-madness-of-opposing-covid-vaccine-to-own-the-libs-121557061525

* "Anti-gay radio host who shamefully mocked AIDS victims dies with COVID-19:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/bob-enyart-aids-covid/

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* "UN climate talks: Faint progress on money, none on pollution:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-general-assembly-climate-united-kingdom-united-nations-business-40ac1b94dc489832415aa41adc9671cf

* "Afghan women hit back at Taliban with #DoNotTouchMyClothes campaign:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58550335

* "A Million Afghan Children Could Die in ‘Most Perilous Hour,’ U.N. Warns:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/world/asia/afghanistan-united-nations-crisis.html

* "The Other Afghan Women:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

* "Afghanistan girls soccer team given asylum in Portugal:" https://apnews.com/article/soccer-immigration-sports-portugal-professional-soccer-b2097da4ac6ba491b31fffc2431091d3

* "Pentagon Reverses Itself And Now Says A Deadly Kabul Drone Strike Was An Error:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038381206/drone-attack-afghanistan-civilians-pentagon

* "‘All of them have names:’ Hayes on 10 civilians killed in Kabul drone strike:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-all-of-them-have-names-hayes-on-10-civilians-killed-in-kabul-drone-strike-121212997890

* "Trump aides aim to build GOP opposition to Afghan refugees:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-afghanistan-immigration-taliban-ac6dbd381ff5e6e64f921e1e64f53444

* Looks like they sorted it out, but I'm leaving in the links in case you wanted to know WTF.

* "France To Send Its Ambassador Back To The U.S. Following A Macron-Biden Call:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039735697/france-ambassador-submarine-macron-biden-call

* "Australia nuclear submarine deal: Aukus defence pact with US and UK means $90bn contract with France will be scrapped:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/16/australia-nuclear-submarine-deal-contract-france-scrapped-defence-pact-us-uk

* "Furious Over Sub Deal, France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S. and Australia:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/17/us/political-news

* Australia has this big ongoing trade deal with France involving submarines with France with a lot of money and jobs tied up in it. UK and US negotiated a secret deal with Australia for Australia to get nuclear reactor for submarines. Not weapons. Just the sort of the subs that don't have to refuel. They announced it this weak without even a heads up to France, which is just a dick maneuver however you feel about submarines conventional or nuclear, if you see what I mean.

France is our oldest and most loyal ally. Honestly I am confused as why the fuck we didn't include France in negotiations that effected them. Like, I have complicated thoughts about the agreement with Australia and UK, but given the trade deals between Australia and France, basic courtesy would suggest they should be dealt in. If we are negotiating something that effects them, we should include them. D'uh.

* "Russian hackers target Iowa grain co-op in $5.9 million ransomware attack:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/21/new-cooperative-hack-ransomware/

* "'Release the hounds': Ransomware attacks prompt calls for aggressive U.S. cyber response:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-release-the-hounds-ransomware-attacks-prompt-calls-for-aggressive-u-s-cyber-response-121666629508

* "Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/index.html

* "On concerns of Trump instability, Gen. Milley built shadow authority; soothed China: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/on-concerns-of-trump-instability-gen-milley-built-shadow-authority-soothed-china-book-120902725768

* "Schumer calls on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student debt for all:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/21/schumer-calls-on-biden-to-cancel-50000-in-student-debt-for-all-.html

* "Biden Announces Out Nominees for Futures Commission, Commerce:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/13/biden-announces-out-nominees-futures-commission-commerce

* "U.S. government aid helped reduce poverty in 2020, Census data shows:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-median-income-dropped-2020-poverty-rose-census-data-shows-2021-09-14/

* "Biden invokes Defense Production Act for second time to address fire hose shortage:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/biden-invokes-defense-production-act-052545045.html

* "Out West, Biden points to wildfires to push for big rebuild:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-fires-california-idaho-wildfires-6f50ae5a9f9e0922530f7594b427b07a

* "Manchin suggests he may support a $1T-$1.5T spending agenda:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/manchin-senate-spending-agenda-511482

* "House Democrats plan 26.5 percent corporate rate as part of multitrillion tax hike:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/12/corporate-tax-rate-511570

* "Hayes looks at reconciliation bill through lens of ‘The Price is Right’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-looks-at-reconciliation-bill-through-lens-of-the-price-is-right-121067077980

* "Bernie Sanders justifies $3.5T budget: 'How much is too much' to save planet?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-sanders-justifies-3-5t-budget-how-much-is-too-much-to-save-planet-121070149937

* "What Congress will ask oil execs when they testify on climate disinformation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-congress-will-ask-oil-execs-when-they-testify-on-climate-disinformation-121215557834

* "Dems rope debt to government funding, lassoing GOP into clash:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/democrats-government-shutdown-debt-limit-513008

* "Three Democrats say they’ll oppose party’s drug-price plan, creating roadblock for larger package:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/14/democrats-oppose-drug-price-plan/

* "How Kathleen Rice Is Threatening the Biden Agenda:" https://prospect.org/politics/how-kathleen-rice-is-threatening-the-biden-agenda/

* "House sends shutdown patch, debt fix to Senate demise:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/democrats-funding-shutdown-debt-limit-513407

* "Jeffries calls out GOP hypocrisy on debt ceiling—and calls McConnell’s bluff :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jeffries-calls-out-gop-hypocrisy-on-debt-ceiling-and-calls-mcconnell-s-bluff-121561157669

* "'Try us': Jayapal makes clear House Progressives not bluffing on infrastructure bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-try-us-jayapal-makes-clear-house-progressives-not-bluffing-on-infrastructure-bills-121664581925

* "One-on-One with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the American Rescue Plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-deputy-secretary-of-the-treasury-on-the-state-of-the-american-rescue-plan-121296453630

* "‘Failure is not an option’: Hayes on why Dems must unify on Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-failure-is-not-an-option-hayes-on-why-dems-must-unify-on-biden-agenda-121749061673

* "Post Trump, U.S. Democrats offer bill to rein in presidential powers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/post-trump-us-democrats-offer-bill-rein-presidential-powers-2021-09-21/

* "No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1-dont-pay-40-of-the-taxes.html

* "Dems bet their political chips on party-line immigration reform:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/13/immigration-reform-democrats-political-chips-511253

* "Democrats blocked from including immigration reform in party-line spending bill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/19/democrats-immigration-reform-spending-bill-512898

* "Democrats propose a compromise bill on voting rights.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/us/politics/voting-rights-bill-democrats.html

* "Stacey Abrams on voting rights bill: ‘I am excited and very supportive’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-backs-voting-rights-bill-i-am-excited-and-very-supportive-120887365810

* "Sen. Padilla: Democrats need ‘gumption’ to change rules if needed to pass voting bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-democrats-released-new-voting-bill-after-reaching-compromise-with-manchin-120891461899

* "Democrats introduce new legislation to protect voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrats-introduce-new-legislation-to-protect-voting-rights-121296965587

* "'A major victory for our country': Sen. Klobuchar breaks down 'Freedom to Vote Act':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-klobuchar-breaks-down-new-freedom-to-vote-act-as-major-victory-for-our-country-121298501562

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* "ALEC pushed voter suppression bills:" https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/03/kindgergarten-court/#alec-lied

* "Arizona Senate asks Cyber Ninjas to make 2020 election audit records available:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/arizona-senate-asks-cyber-ninjas-204100563.html

* "Wisconsin GOP leaders pressured to sign election subpoenas:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/wisconsin-gop-leaders-pressured-to-sign-election-subpoenas/article_56924ee2-305f-5064-af75-27f55886f178.html

* "Following Arizona's shambolic example, Wisconsin GOP starts bumbling election spectacle :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/following-arizona-s-shambolic-example-wisconsin-gop-starts-bumbling-election-spectacle-120906821532

* "Republicans become less tethered to reality; Democrats engrossed in policy wrangling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-become-less-tethered-to-reality-democrats-engrossed-in-policy-wrangling-121078341738

* "Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers approve wide-ranging subpoenas for personal information of 2020 voters:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/15/pennsylvania-gop-election-probe-subpoena-trump/

* "State Republicans seek voters' personal info as GOP vote count stunts threaten security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/state-republicans-seek-voters-personal-info-as-gop-vote-count-stunts-threaten-security-121078853943

* "Lawsuits Claiming 2020 Ballots Were Manipulated Come to WA:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2021-09-21/lawsuits-claiming-2020-ballots-were-manipulated-come-to-wa

* "The Bye Line: Republicans can’t remain silent on the danger Trump poses to the party and the republic:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-republicans-can-t-remain-silent-on-the-danger-trump-poses-to-the-party-and-the-republic-121293381979

* "Backers of Trump's false fraud claims seek to control next elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/backers-trumps-false-fraud-claims-seek-control-next-us-elections-2021-09-22/

* "Threats against members of Congress are skyrocketing. It's changing the job:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-20/threats-members-of-congress

* "Republican war on elections makes casualties of civilian stewards of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-war-on-elections-makes-casualties-of-civilian-stewards-of-democracy-121226821899

* "California Gov. Newsom Crushes Republican-Led Recall Effort:" https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/national-international/2021-09-15/california-gov-newsom-crushes-republican-led-recall-effort

* "Democrats could change 'weaponized' California recall system:" https://apnews.com/article/california-recall-politics-elections-california-coronavirus-pandemic-c9963319bfd8754dc77687049ba6e0e0

* "‘Greatest self-own’: GOP strategist rips Elder’s pre-election fraud claims:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-strategist-ron-nehring-rips-larry-elder-s-pre-election-fraud-claims-121068101920

* "Caitlyn Jenner and Her Recall 'Platform': What a Waste:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/14/caitlyn-jenner-and-her-recall-platform-what-waste

* "Caitlyn Jenner Releases Incredulous Statement After Crushing Defeat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/15/caitlyn-jenner-releases-incredulous-statement-after-crushing-defeat

* "Progressive hopeful Morgan Harper's bid for Ohio Senate Seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/progressive-hopeful-morgan-harper-s-bid-for-ohio-senate-seat-121295429931

Want to contribute to Morgan Harper's campaign? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads_ms_mh_gs_202109_dd_launch?source=ads_ms_MH_20210903-DD-GS-Launch-National_mhkywrds-Natl-1865U-MF_a003-MH-ad3-gstxt-txt&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqKuKBhCxARIsACf4XuGuQ_qm_8NW3mAhIySgB61jwTijPejfpvU6Gkt_JHp3b5YG4E75aWAaAhwTEALw_wcB

* "Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez hit with ethics complaint over iconic Met Gala appearance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/alexandra-ocasio-cortez-aoc-met-gala-complaint/

* CW: Child Abuse. He claimed God told him to emotional and physically abuse the child and therefore it was okay. "Republican convicted for kicking child in the crotch during homophobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/mark-samsel-homophobic-rant/

* "Ohio House Republican, Calling Trump ‘a Cancer,’ Bows Out of 2022:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/politics/anthony-gonzalez-ohio-trump.html

* "GOP rep announces retirement after threats of violence, Trump celebrates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-announces-retirement-after-threats-of-violence-trump-celebrates-121208901539

* "Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election

* "Longtime GOP operatives charged with funneling Russian national’s money to Trump, RNC:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/gop-operatives-charged-funneling-russian-money-trump-rnc-513219

* "Trump repeatedly endorses elections officials who reject 2020 election results:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-repeatedly-endorses-elections-officials-who-reject-2020-election-results-120814661740

* "Trump Sues NYT and Niece—Who Calls Him ‘F*cking Loser’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-sues-new-york-times-and-his-niece-mary-trump-over-tax-story

* "Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/politics/trump-dominion-voting.html

* "Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/

* "Pence sought way to hand election to Trump; Dan Quayle advice saved U.S. democracy: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-sought-way-to-hand-election-to-trump-dan-quayle-advice-saved-u-s-democracy-book-120904261608

* "Trump's insurrection may be over, but the danger to democracy is ongoing:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/trump-s-insurrection-may-be-over-but-the-danger-to-democracy-is-ongoing-121295941739

* "Rep. Swalwell: When cameras are off Republicans know their statements are ‘batty’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pence-praises-journalist-posing-as-insurrectionist-for-embracing-big-lie-on-camera-120799301725

* The whole thing looks Suspect. "Durham is said to be seeking indictment of lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/john-durham-michael-sussmann-hillary-clinton/2021/09/16/ed8ba0e6-1696-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html

* "Indicted Trump Org. ex-CFO Weisselberg expects more indictments:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/allen-weisselberg-trump-org-hearing-cy-vance-case/index.html

* "Court transcript suggests search warrants used in broadening Trump Org tax scheme case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-transcript-suggests-search-warrants-used-in-broadening-trump-org-tax-scheme-case-121568837968

* "Schiff: Jan. 6 investigation going 'straight to subpoenas' in some cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/21/jan-6-investigation-subpoenas-513425

* "The Seditionist’s Cookbook:" https://www.thebulwark.com/the-seditionists-cookbook/

* "Amid high security, small pro-Trump crowd rallies at U.S. Capitol:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-high-alert-pro-trump-demonstrators-converge-rally-2021-09-18/

* "Pro-Insurrectionist rally flopped, but warns of deeper rot in GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/pro-insurrectionist-rally-flopped-but-warns-of-deeper-rot-in-gop-121295429779

* "Capitol Police arrest man with bayonet and machete in truck near DNC headquarters:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/13/politics/bayonet-machete-arrest-capitol-police/index.html

* "DHS to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti as migrants overwhelm US southern border:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/politics/biden-haiti-deportations/index.html

* I am furious at Biden over this. "White House Faces Bipartisan Backlash on Haitian Migrants:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-09-21/mayorkas-chief-says-images-from-border-horrified-him

* "Homeland Security chief Mayorkas says images from border 'horrified' him:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-21/homeland-security-chief-mayorkas-says-images-from-border-horrified-him

* "Officials: Many Haitian migrants are being released in US:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article254401744.html

* "Haitian deportees start over in country they don’t recognize:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-caribbean-port-au-prince-haiti-d37a08bda5d779bf6ddb8f0ae34e1451

* "Angry scenes at Haiti airport add to Biden pressure over expulsions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-says-4000-haitian-migrants-moved-border-four-more-flights-come-mayorkas-2021-09-21/

* "DHS vows to have findings within 'days' in investigation of Border Patrol's treatment of Haitian migrants:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/22/photos-border-patrol-using-horse-reins-whips-prompts-dhs-probe/5812845001/

* "Texas Gov. Abbott sends miles of cars along border to deter migrants:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/22/texas-greg-abbott-del-rio-border-wall/

* "Ex-cops accused of violating Floyd's rights plead not guilty:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cops-accused-violating-floyds-rights-arraigned-80003361

* They are screaming that the vaccine mandate will make officers quit the Seattle PD.

Me: good. The ones who quit are likely the bad ones any way. They just demonstrated they are against serving and protecting and happy to kill and maim people for no reason at all by giving them COVID. Yes, there will be shortages. Why don't we shift all that extra pay over to social services and start doing mental health diversion and non-violent responses to mental health crises. just saying. It's away to get around the union and still do police reform

Newscaster continues to act like It'll be the end of everything and there will be violent anarchy in the streets if all the worst cops decide to self downsize.

Me: I don't really see a down side here. If the officer shortage is that acute pull them off harassing poor people for petty shit and just make their job solving actual crimes that hurt people like murder, sexual and physical assault, kidnapping, and burglary. You know the things police do in civilized societies that don't pay absorbent salaries for thugs in blue to terrorize their citizens. You see crisis, newscaster lady; I see a opportunity for real police reform.

* "The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-warrants-reverse-search-warrants-police-google

* "‘I Helped Destroy People’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/magazine/fbi-terrorism-terry-albury.html

* CW: Pedophilia. "US lawyers ask British courts to tell Prince Andrew of suit:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-lawyers-ask-british-courts-to-tell-prince-andrew-of-suit/2021/09/15/09499b86-1637-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html

* CW: Rape. "Federal judge denies Trump's request to stop E. Jean Carroll lawsuit from moving forward:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit/

* CW: Pedophilia. "Biles: FBI turned ‘blind eye’ to reports of gymnasts’ abuse:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article254259768.html

* "Biden administration files motion to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-files-motion-block-texas-abortion-ban-2021-09-15/

* "Satanic Temple set to challenge Texas abortion law on freedom of religion grounds:" https://wgntv.com/news/satanic-temple-set-to-challenge-texas-abortion-law-on-freedom-of-religion-grounds/

* "Anonymous hacks Texas Republican Party website in retaliation for state's abortion ban:" https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/09/13/anonymous-hacks-texas-republican-party-website-in-retaliation-for-states-abortion-ban

* "The Texas Abortion Decision Is Bad For Everyone:"

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* "Women suffer hardship under Texas abortion ban; Judge unhurried by DOJ emergency filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/women-suffer-hardship-under-texas-abortion-ban-judge-unhurried-by-doj-emergency-filing-120986181595

* "The rank hypocrisy of Justice Barrett claiming Supreme Court isn't partisan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-rank-hypocrisy-of-justice-amy-coney-barrett-claiming-supreme-court-isn-t-partisan-120796741920

* "Texas doctor who violated state’s abortion ban is sued, launching test of constitutionality:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-doctor-sued/2021/09/20/f5ab5c56-1a1c-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html

* "Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/18/texas-abortion-provider-alan-braid/

* "'Rank vigilantism' of first application of Texas abortion ban invites court challenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-rank-vigilantism-of-first-application-of-texas-abortion-ban-invites-court-challenge-121667653513

* It's a different one. "Texas governor signs bill tightening restrictions on abortion-inducing drugs:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/texas-abbott-abortion-inducing-drugs-law/index.html

* "Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/20/supreme-court-abortion-case-513012

* "U.S. Soccer says it has offered identical contract proposals to men's, women's players:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/us-soccer-says-it-has-offered-identical-contract-proposals-mens-womens-players-2021-09-15/

* CW: Eating Disorders. "Lawmakers Push Facebook To Abandon Instagram For Kids, Citing Mental Health Concerns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037222495/lawmakers-push-facebook-to-abandon-instagram-for-kids-citing-mental-health-conce

* CW: Eating Disorders. "Food, Beauty, Mind | Philosophy Tube:"

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* "The Gender Criticals:"

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* And yet, Marriage wasn't a sacrament for most of the history of the catholic church. They only created in response to Protestants doing it. Sacraments have and thus can change. The Pope is lying about not having the power. he just doesn't want to. "Pope Francis emphatically shuts down hope for same-sex marriage in Catholic Church:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/17/pope-francis-catholic-church-same-sex-marriage/

* "How LGBTQ+ Life Has Changed in One of the World's Mega Nations:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/13/how-lgbtq-life-has-changed-one-worlds-mega-nations

* "Mayor Attacked, Beaten in Gay Cruising Area, Left Tied to Tree:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/15/mayor-attacked-beaten-gay-cruising-area-left-tied-tree

* "Trans doctor cruelly struck off for wearing a bikini to the beach:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/trans-doctor-turkey-larin-kayatas/

* "Chinese Volleyball Star Comes Out as Country Steps Up LGBTQ+ Censoring:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/9/14/chinese-volleyball-star-comes-out-country-steps-lgbtq-censoring

* "Four arrested over murder of queer journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/15/lyra-mckee-murder-arrest/

* "Black Trans Woman Disaya Monaee Fatally Shot in Chicago Suburb:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/14/black-trans-woman-disaya-monaee-fatally-shot-chicago-suburb

* "Corrections Officer Dressed as a Woman, Pistol-Whipped and Robbed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/13/corrections-officer-dressed-woman-pistol-whipped-and-robbed

* "Alphonso David Says HRC Treated Him Differently Because of Race:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/13/alphonso-david-says-hrc-treated-him-differently-because-race

* "Trevor Project: Make Sports More Welcoming to LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/9/15/trevor-project-make-sports-more-welcoming-lgbtq-youth

* "Tory cuts jeopardising global fight against HIV and AIDS, report warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/hiv-aids-tory-cuts-official-development-assistance/

* "A Crisis of Minds: The Fascinating Tale of "Healing" People... By Destroying Their Brains:"

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* "That Time Some Psychiatrists Pretended to be Mentally Ill to Prove Psychiatrists Don't Know Anything:"

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* "Britain begins world's largest trial of blood test for 50 types of cancer:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/britain-begins-worlds-largest-trial-blood-test-50-types-cancer-2021-09-12/

* "Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/simple-mathematical-law-predicts-movement-in-cities-around-the-world/#

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The World is basically on Fire/Melting. I'm putting stuff to do with it here.

* "The Kids Are Not Alright:" https://gizmodo.com/the-kids-are-not-alright-1847671079?utm_source=gizmodo_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-09-15

* "A wildfire in Spain is uprooting villages, razing forests — and raising concerns about climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/13/spain-wildfires-military-deployment/

* "Nicholas, now a tropical depression, still douses Gulf Coast:" https://apnews.com/article/tropical-storm-nicholas-35477d4e990ac7c6de4c7c55e33c00fd

* "California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide Emissions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/climate/wildfire-emissions-climate-change.html

* "Wildfires rage in Sequoia National park and forest, sending flames into grove of giant trees:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-13/fires-rage-in-sequoia-national-park-forcing-closures-as-crews-make-progress-on-dixie-caldor-fires

* "In California, Even Fire-Resistant Trees Need to Be Protected From Flames:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/us/california-fire-trees-general-sherman.html

* "How one foil-wrapped home survived the Caldor Fire as everything around it burned:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/How-one-foil-wrapped-home-survived-the-Caldor-16444302.php

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* "5.9-magnitude earthquake strikes Australia; shaking felt in Melbourne:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/5-8-earthquake-strikes-australia-shaking-felt-melbourne-n1279796

* "Volcano erupts on Spain's La Palma island, spewing lava and forcing thousands to evacuate:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/la-palma-volcano-eruption-spain-cumbre-vieja-island-evacuation/

* "A Massive Subterranean ‘Tree’ Is Moving Magma to Earth’s Surface:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-massive-subterranean-tree-is-moving-magma-to-earths-surface-20210915/

* "Life at 50C: How to cool a megacity:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-58557995

* "Life at 50C: The toxic flares fuelling climate change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58549010

* "How India's air pollution is being turned into floor tiles:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210909-the-young-inventor-purifying-indias-dirty-air

* "Idled Thai taxis go green with mini-gardens on car roofs:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-business-thailand-gardening-94e6376a9b0ed616ba3b203f8c503a46

* "Frederick Douglass: Crash Course Black American History #17:"

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* "Did the Victorians Think Ankles Were Too Scandalous?:"

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* My apologies. A bunch of obits are in the queue below where I cut off. Next time.

* "Sam Bee’s Not-Solved Mysteriez: UFOs:"

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* "Charity Dean Predicted the Pandemic. Here's What She Thinks Is Next.:"

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* "What Texas’s New Abortion Ban Means For Reproductive Rights Across the Country:"

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

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* "What Republicans Get Wrong About Vaccine Mandates:"

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* "Getting Vaccinated Doesn’t Take (Your) Balls:"

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* "What American Citizens Can Do To Help Afghanistan:"

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* "Food Waste and Climate Change: How Your Leftovers Can Save the World:"

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* "Bewitched: It was Gay All Along?:"

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* Over the weekend, Livia caught a third mouse. She patrols every night. She always finds them 1-3 nights after the food delivery. Still, I'm starting to worry about mice in the walls....

* Wednesday Tavy started things out by feigning a desire for an arm cuddle, but it was all a ruse to bite by emergency pendant to summon the paramedics. Sigh.

Wednesday wears all of us out what with forage, and all the things needing doing generally. It's turning out that having the second Millennial in for two hours is a massive help. Changing the bed with two able bodied people? So much faster. (It's a very heavy mattress and it really needs two people to get it correct on the head board end, between the lifting and pulling from opposite sides.) The tanks have been a major issue, since I stopped being able to handle the big tanks when my shoulder joint started to go. Head Millennial struggles with one step in the process. It turns out nearby Millenial can do everything but a different step, so they can just trade off tanks vs. Kitchen tasks. Nearby Millenial is cheerful and a hard worker too. I really think this will work out really well.

* Friday, the Autumn winds came in earnest, bring Autumn rain. Finally. The cats were unsettled of course. The wind this time of year really moves the familiar landscape outside their windows and there are strange irregular sounds. It usually takes a week or so for them to really get used to Autumn. The mild at this point chill and all the unsettling stuff sent them to my bed for cuddles and hanging around peacefully in a group. The air purifier's white noise blocks our the wind sounds. They have to stand on their hind legs to see out the window, and of course, I was in there sleeping and later reading the latest In Cryptid. It is quiet. it is safe. Everything in there is familiar. Their personal human is available and mostly still, ideal for cat purposes.

* Saturday we went on a perishable run followed by the usual putting things away and dishes. It being properly the rainy season now, it was time to take out the living room portable air system and replace it with phase 1 Gothmas stuff. Which is a process.

I had concerns about where the unit would be stored and had come up with something we could try, but head Millennial was like, I bet I could fit it in the hall closet. Me: O.o

Understand that this closet has been close packed since I moved in. Oh, I get outerwear and TV tables out of it on the regular. The painting stuff is on a high shelf and I periodically get it down for touch ups. We traditionally keep the wheel chair in the front for those occasions when I need it. One of the cat carriers is in there for vet emergencies, plus the back up emergency cane, one of the card tables... You get the idea. This is not a big closet. Everything in there is in there for a good reason, and dealing with it is a real pain in the ass.

The Millennial had reorganized it at some point during one of his organizing sprees, but it being summer, I was only opening the left panel to get or put back TV tables, usually on game night. In a hurry. Without really looking. I let him try to fit the monster in there on the grounds that it would be a dramatically better place than what was now plan B (My idea).

Gentle readers, he did it! I am blown away. He even made enough extra space for the big plastic fan Squirrel gave me when he upgraded at some point during the summer heat emergency. Head Millennial is an organizational God.

We also started the moving things around in the living room, cleaning and making space part of Gothmas Phase 1, pulled the boxes for phase one out of my bedroom closet and stacked them in the living room, and put up the Halloween trees, though didn't decorate them. It looks so much more cheerful with them there.

After the Millennial clocked out, we ate dinner and watched the Surreal Estate two part season ender and watched assorted cats explore the area by the window. Livia sensibly hides during Gothmas related commotion and emerges later to discover the humans have yet again illogically rearranged her living space. Sigh. Tavy got the special treat of getting to sit next to his favorite Millennial on the sofa and nap by his head for nearly two hours, having exhausted himself 'helping' with the Forbidden Closet reorganization and with the excited running around in celebration of a Gothmas Box Moving Day, one of his favorite Autumn activities.

Tomorrow? We decorate the Cat Asylum Interior!

In other news, I would like to thank the benefactor who made sure that we had not only enough money for car repair, but car insurance auto withdraw. Whoever you are, you are my hero.

*The Gothmas season stretches from the beginning of the Autumn rainy season in September to the first week of January. It is a disability friendly Gothy way to celebrate Autumn.

Phase 1: Halloween Tree, Halloweentown, and assorted interior decorations go up. In September as soon as the weather turns.

Phase 2: We add exterior Halloween decorations. It runs from close to October 1st as we can get to around November 3rd.

Phase 3: We take down all the exterior decorations except uncarved gourds (arranged as a ‘Harvest Display’) and the lights, which I keep off except in emergencies when I need extra lights to do something outside in the garden to avoid pushing the HOA over the line into fining us. This saves a fuck of a lot of spoons on taking lights down and putting them back up. I stick my Birthday presents and Samhein presents under the larger black hallowed tree.

Phase 4: We gild the lily. Basically we layer all the Solstice stuff on top of the Gothmas stuff already up, which again saves a fuck ton of spoons and since I’m not christian is an excuse to keep all the gothy decoration stuff up because glitter trees full of geeky and goth ornaments are cheerful things for the dark of the year.

Breakdown: Generally, we start taking things down on the 2nd or 3rd of January. sometimes it takes a few days, but it’s all set up to do in stages. I store things in boxes by phase with Phase one boxes on top to be easy to grab next year and phase 4 on the bottom. Organization like this is everything if you are a disabled person who takes Gothmas this seriously.

The nice thing about it is I can get all my Gothy stuff past the HOA and everything is done in stages and with a helper which is way more manageable than the try to do it all at once, take it down, put a whole other set of stuff back up a month later process my parents went through every autumn.

The day I decided to do Gothmas this way changed everything and most years results in three and a half months out of every year of genuine gothy pleasure every night.

* Normally I decorate with a different Millenial. It's still extremely time consuming and this with both of us having a good idea of what it's meant to look like and a well established routine and division of labor. Head Millenial saw the display briefly once or twice at best before the Pandemic. I also had six strings blow fuses during light testing and bulb replacement, which meant I couldn't be nearly as helpful as I'd meant to be. Thus it was not all that surprising we only got a half to a third of the there, which is fine. Training a new person on Gothmas is a whole epic in itself.

This is now a next weekend problem.

This wore me out, which meant I went to bed instead of loading a ridiculous number of prepped links that had accrued over the last week and pushing the thing out.

Monday, I was up all day dealing with car stuff, adulting, and obligations. They spotted a new potential problem I'll need to keep an eye on this autumn to see if it is anything. (They felt exploratory surgury on the car to be far more expensive than it's worthy without more data. We'll see.)

Livia is very disappointed my the lack of live mice in the Cat Asylum this weekend. Tavy would like to lodge a complaint about the frequency of the medicine finger in the last month. Both cats approve of the open living room window and the deliberately clear space among the goth tchotchkes for sitting and staring purposes.

* Tuesday, the pain won.

Wednesday, we went foraging, and then the Millenials got to work on a list I had divided into "Must Do," "Should Do," and "Stretch Goals." I was not expecting them to get to stretch goals. They efficiently divided tasks, and had at it. Nearby Millenial is really getting the hang of things, BTW. They worked beautifully together. They finished 15 miniutes early, so I gave them some smaller tasks I'd wanted doing. Wednesdays really wear out head Millenial, and there are several things like bed change, trash, and recycling that are just worlds easier with two able bodied people. I'm just incredibly happy with how the whole thing is working out for all four of us.

* Immortality: https://jonquility.tumblr.com/post/661189122717892608/have-you-heard-the-tale-of-the-queen-of-thieves

* I am actually angry that I liked that first episode of AHS: Red Tide. The went down hill fast and the lastest episode made me actually angry. A friend asked: What Di they do?

Me: What didn't they do. Gaslighting. Suicide. A particular kind of betrayal I don't enjoy even in fiction. Lots and lots of endless petty Ryan Murphy bullshit interpersonal stuff. I really shitty and condescending attitude towards people who try to make art but aren't genius that is structural to the plot....

I'm in the school of thought that people making art is good for the people making art even if they never get really good and that everyone pretty much sucks when they start anyway and I just... I'm furious. Like my friends, I also feel like the writers at AHS are maybe the last people who should go after people for imperfect art.

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.4: And the Children Shall Lead. (CW: Suicide)

The main three beam down in response to a distress signal to find nearly everyone dead. They take zero precautions against pathogens or alien parasites despite a number of previous times they answered distress calls only to get infected by a deadly pathogen or taken over by aliens. seriously, have these people learned nothing at all in three years? A dying friend of Kirk doesn't recognize him. It looks like it's all self inflicted. They get a damaged recording of a man yelling about an "enemy within."

All the colony children are alive though, and playing rather than traumatized. Shatner's WTF face may be some of the most believable acting of his whole career. Nimoy still wins though of the three of them, despite DeForest Kelly's excellent entry. McCoy thinks it's a trauma response and wants to get them up to the ship instead of letting the others interrogate them, so he beams up with the children without any quarantine procedures in place. Spock suspects induced suicide caused by a biological or chemical agent, yet they are not wearing NBC suits or even the most basic PPE. Just saying. yes, it won't help with dis corporate aliens and the like, but they don't know what caused it yet. Anyway, maybe the children are behaving oddly through fear of punishment or promise of reward. I wonder if this episode influenced Children of the Corn?

Spock finds a weird reading in a nearby cave. Nothing humanoid is in there (except themselves, presumably). Kirk gets anxiety. Spock feels nothing. Kirk gets weird and paranoid rapidly, in some of the worst acting of Shatner's career. It passes so they beam up with no anti-infection protocols despite kirk possibly being infected.

Nurse Chapel gives the kids ice cream using primitive replicators as a special treat. No one is wearing PPE. One child, Stevey, is singled out by the narrative. McCoy says there is nothing physically wrong with them. McCoy wants to go to a star base to spread the possible infection and let a real child psychologist deal with them. Kirk insists on interrogating them against the doctors orders.

Kirk tries to relate to the children and asks leading questions. Nurse Chapel: Parents like children. Little Girl: That's what you think. Kirk presses. They start chanting "Bizzy! Bizzy!" and the girl pretends to be a bee stinging Kirk. The leader of the children asks for more ice cream. Kirk's refusal is proof "They all say it." When questioned the leader says his father was upset the day he died. "They were always upset." Was this episode influenced by the Twilight Zone's "It's a Good Life?" The planet was for adults, who loved it down there, always "Bizzy." a clue, methinks! Kirk sensibly puts a guard on the children.

The children do a ritual to summon "The Angel." An alien appears, telling them they did very well in infiltrating the Enterprise. The adults will want to take them to a Star base, but they should get them to take them to Marcus 12, with millions on it. Maybe a million friends to join them. The rest (adults, I assume) will be enemies. They will defeat the enemies, no one will tell them what to do, and the alien will rule the universe. The children are ordered to take over the Enterprise.

They clean up the tricoder recording. The adults had anxiety, of which the children are free. They kept poking around in the cave, despite growing anxiety. The last survivor of a dead race took refuge in there long ago.

The children want to go to Markus XII. Kirk says no. The leader stays on the bridge to psychically influence the navigators. The girl turns up with her security guard. The Leader is making them think they are circling the planet still when they are actually flying to Markus XII. Uhura notices and gets zapped too. Scotty notices down in engineering, but they already zapped the other Engineers. They fight, but Scotty wins.

On the tapes, the expedition head says they were making him do things like call Starfleet for transportation. he tried to warn them when he realized what he'd done, but "The Enemy within!" The dispatch was never sent. It happened fast. They realize that whatever it was misled 'the innocent' IE: The children. The destroyed race were marauders that kept attacking their neighbors until they were eventually destroyed by their combined victims. Kirk thinks the evil has returned. McCoy objects to damaging the children. Kirk is like the ship comes first.

Kirk goes to switch planetary investigation crews, but the planet isn't there, so the guys they send down are beamed into space and they can't bring up the ones they left down there. Why are there no safety protocols for this?

The children summon the alien on the bridge surrounded by tranced out adults. Kirk is not best pleased. The alien says they've been discovered, but it's too late for the adults to stop them. If the adults give them trouble the children should release the beast of fear in the adults. Kirk battles the leader for control of Sulu and Uhura. The child makes Uhura see herself old, which... fuck you writers. Let's make the woman vane. Sulu thinks if he changes course they will be destroyed. Spock refuses to obey the order to send a report to StarFleet. he fails to obey, despite all that mental discipline training and I think that makes no sense. Logically, Spock should be resistant rather than Kirk, but Spock does break the control. The security guards can't understand Kirk. Spock takes Kirk off the bridge, just as Kirk succumbs to his fear of losing control.

Spock mind melds him and fixes it in the elevator. Scotty's been zapped and threatens to kill Kirk if he touches the instruments. The engineers attack, but Spock and Kirk escape. Spock wants to do something about the children, "Without followers evil can not spread." The ship and the crew are in danger. "The evil is spreading fast." Kirk agrees that if they can't excise the evil the children will need to be killed. Chekhov turns up with security to arrest them. The Leader gets Chekhov to threaten to kill them. Conflicting loyalties are invoked. A fight ensues. The leader runs when his people lose.

Kirk returns to the bridge, where the leader is in the captain's seat. A very childish argument ensues. Kirk points out their leader is afraid to be seen. If he's not afraid he should show himself. Spock plays the recording of the Alien summoning chant. The Alien appears. Kirk and Spock argue with him. he thinks Kirk and Spock's gentleness makes them weak. They show the children pictures of the children playing with their late parents. They smile. Then there is the image of their dead parents and the smiles fade. So very manipulative. The Alien tries to justify murdering their parents to the crying children. Kirk points out to the children that without them the alien is nothing. he turns "ugly," because of course star Trek needs to hammer in the idea that the beautiful are good and anyone who isn't is bad. Fuck you, Roddenberry.

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* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

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* "Families struggle to meet Kashmiris lodged in Indian jail:" https://www.apnews.com/81823b11dadf4a43b4ccca543e41d36b

* "Abortion decriminalised in NSW after marathon debate:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/abortion-decriminalisation-bill-passes-nsw-upper-house

* "The Dark Secret Of Lake Malawi: Trading Sex For Fish:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/06/28/736296041/the-dark-secret-of-lake-malawi-trading-sex-for-fish

* "The Growing Threat to Journalism Around the World:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/press-freedom-arthur-sulzberger.html

* "Trump warns of stock market crash if Dems impeach him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/26/trump-impeachment-stock-market-crash-002199

* 45 is calling for the execution of the whistleblower for acting patriotically in warning the country that 45 is breaking the law by pressuring a foreign country to illegally interfere with our election. Which threats constitute illegal obstruction of justice/witness intimidation.

* "Whistleblower's safety a concern as Trump makes veiled threats:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-s-safety-a-concern-as-trump-makes-veiled-threats-70043205595

* "Seven days: Inside Trump’s frenetic response to the whistleblower complaint and the battle over impeachment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/seven-days-inside-trumps-frenetic-response-to-the-whistleblower-complaint-and-the-battle-over-impeachment/2019/09/25/14ba426a-dfaa-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

* "Trump’s other Ukraine problem: New concern about his business:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/26/trumps-other-ukraine-problem-new-concern-about-his-business/

* "Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/former-ukraine-prosecutor-says-hunter-biden-did-not-violate-anything/2019/09/26/48801f66-e068-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html

* "Kurt Volker, Trump’s part-time Ukraine envoy, played role in Giuliani outreach:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/kurt-volker-trump-s-part-time-ukraine-envoy-played-role-n1058871

* "Trump ‘wants to root out the rats’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-wants-to-root-out-the-rats-70031941868

* The Unclassified Text of the Whistleblower complaint. https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf

* "Whistle-Blower Is Said to Allege Concerns About White House Handling of Ukraine Call:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-whistleblower.html

* "'This is unprecedented': Intel chief defends withholding whistleblower complaint:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/26/joseph-maguire-testimony-trump-whistleblower-1514165

* "White House Knew of Whistle-Blower’s Allegations Soon After Trump’s Call With Ukraine Leader:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html

* "Whistleblower tentatively agrees to testify, attorney say:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/whistleblower-agrees-to-testify/index.html

* "IG points out counterintelligence risk of Trump's Ukraine scandal:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ig-points-out-counterintelligence-risk-of-trump-s-ukraine-scandal-70041669896

* "Whistleblower report exposes location of secret White House stash:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-report-exposes-location-of-secret-white-house-stash-70041669996

* "Uniqueness of whistleblower complaint tests reporting system:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uniqueness-of-whistleblower-complaint-tests-reporting-system-70043205647

* "Revelation of W.H. use of secret server raises oversight quandary:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/revelation-of-w-h-use-of-secret-server-raises-oversight-quandary-70042181942

* "Majority of House supports impeachment inquiry:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/25/majority-of-house-supports-impeachment-inquiry-1512897

* "Anatomy of a cover-up: How White House officials intervened:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anatomy-of-a-cover-up-how-white-house-officials-intervened-70031941572

* "Trump's White House knew he did something wrong and tried to cover it up:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-s-white-house-knew-he-did-something-wrong-and-tried-to-cover-it-up-70033477835

* "EPA tells California it is ‘failing to meet its obligations’ to protect the environment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/epa-tells-california-it-is-failing-to-meet-its-obligations-to-stem-water-pollution/2019/09/26/b3ffca1e-dfac-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

* "Immigrant Population Growth in the U.S. Slows to a Trickle:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/census-immigration.html

* "Activists call for ICE to release all LGBT migrants because they can’t provide proper healthcare:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/ice-release-lgbt-migrants-activists-complaint-trans-hiv-healthcare-mental-health-deaths/

* "Trump Slashes Refugee Cap to 18,000, Curtailing U.S. Role as Haven:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/trump-refugees.html

* "Human Rights Campaign Must Do More for People of Color, Leader Says:" https://www.advocate.com/race/2019/9/26/human-rights-campaign-must-do-more-people-color-leader-says

* TW: Rape. "3 Million Women Say Their First Sexual Encounter Was Rape — But That Number Is Most Likely Higher:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/rape-first-time-sex-885874/

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Trace Lysette: What the Media Got Wrong About the Tambor Accusations:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/9/26/trace-lysette-what-media-got-wrong-about-tambor-accusations

* "With Abortion Restrictions On The Rise, Some Women Induce Their Own:" https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/759761114/with-abortion-restrictions-on-the-rise-some-women-induce-their-own

* "Luxembourg’s gay prime minister makes impassioned plea against hate speech in historic UN address:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/25/xavier-bettel-luxembourg-gay-prime-minister-united-nations-hate-speech/

* "Patient tells nurse he can’t have a suppository because he’s ‘not gay’. Ok, then…:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/patient-tells-nurse-he-cant-have-a-suppository-because-hes-not-gay-ok-then/

* "Houses in Britain targeted with vile, homophobic and hateful leaflets just days before Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/homophobic-hateful-leaflets-hate-crime-worcester-worcestershire-pride/

* "Vicar’s new church is already being accused of extremism and homophobia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/26/church-england-vicar-gafcon-extremism-homophobia-christian-anglican-cornwall/

* "Jameela Jamil - "The Good Place" & Tackling Toxic Diet Culture - Extended Interview:"

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* "Disabled workers chase 'dream jobs' in tight U.S. labor market:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-labor-day-disabilities/disabled-workers-chase-dream-jobs-in-tight-u-s-labor-market-idUSKCN1VK12I

* Breaking Bad, but with Insulin: https://www.metafilter.com/183133/Breaking-Good

* "The case for raising kids in the city:" https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/9/20746436/raising-kids-in-the-city

* "A judge just blocked South Dakota's "riot-boosting" law, but anti-protest measures keep spreading:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/a-judge-just-blocked-south-dakotas-riot-boosting-law-but-anti-protest-measures-keep-spreading/

* "25 Facts That Prove You're Picturing History Wrong:" https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1446-25-facts-that-prove-youre-picturing-history-wrong/

* "Spain’s Attempt to Atone for a 500-Year-Old Sin:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/09/spain-offers-citizenship-sephardic-jews/598258/

* "The Fantastic, Absolutely Tremendous Road to Impeachment - Whistleblower Complaint Revelations:"

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* "Trump Can't Even Get Impeached Right:"

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* "Meanwhile... Navy Confirms Existence Of UFOs:"

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* "That Time Christie's Auction House Made Millions of Dollars by Winning a a Game of Rock, Paper Scissors:" http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/09/that-time-christies-auction-house-made-millions-of-dollars-by-winning-a-a-game-of-rock-paper-scissors/

* Good Omens: A Discourse on Tartan: https://cliopadra.tumblr.com/post/187978873397/a-discourse-on-tartan

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* 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

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* "Storm Nate kills 22 in Central America:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41520672

* "New Orleans, Gulf Coast brace for Nate:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/06/us/tropical-storm-nate-forecast/index.html

* "Some 50 witnesses for Cardinal Pell sex abuse hearing:" https://guardian.ng/news/some-50-witnesses-for-cardinal-pell-sex-abuse-hearing/

* "U.S. deaths in Niger highlight Africa military mission creep:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-africa-security/u-s-deaths-in-niger-highlight-africa-military-mission-creep-idUSKBN1CB2J1

* Terrifying. "Trump talks of ‘calm before the storm’ after military meeting:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/trump-calm-before-the-storm-243519

* "Jeff Sessions Just Issued New Guidance On Protecting “Religious Liberty”:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/jeff-sessions-just-issued-a-guidance-memo-on-protecting?utm_term=.loDLkLOYY#.rtPzbzAgg

* "Congressman suggests Charlottesville rally was 'created by the left':" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/05/congressman-suggests-soros-funded-charlottesville-nazis/737670001/

* "Arizona voter sues congressman after he blocks her on Facebook:" http://www.12news.com/news/politics/arizona-voter-sues-congressman-after-he-blocks-her-on-facebook/472565797

* "Puerto Rico’s Tragedy Was Years in the Making:" http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/01/puerto-ricos-tragedy-was-years-in-the-making-215662

* "Here’s the thing about body-shaming: you can’t do it on an individual basis.:" http://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/166138584380/discouroborose-heres-the-thing-about

* "Secrets of the South:" http://www.lennyletter.com/life/a1014/united-order-of-tents/

* "ACLU files lawsuit against Trump administration over roll back of birth control mandate:" http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/354266-aclu-promises-lawsuit-against-trump-elimination-of-birth-control-mandate

* "An Absent EPA Climate Report, And A Tale Of Two Flooded Superfund Sites:" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/29/553696314/an-absent-epa-climate-report-and-a-tale-of-two-flooded-superfund-sites?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170929

* "Puerto Rico’s Tragedy Was Years in the Making:" http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/01/puerto-ricos-tragedy-was-years-in-the-making-215662

* "Climate change—lessons from the Vikings:" https://phys.org/news/2017-09-climate-changelessons-vikings.html

* "Lost Rubens portrait of James I's 'lover' is rediscovered in Glasgow:" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/24/lost-rubens-portrait-james-i-lover-rediscovered-glasgow

* "At Duke University, A Bizarre Tour Through American History And Palates:" http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/21/547308048/at-duke-university-a-bizarre-tour-through-american-history-and-palates?sc=ipad&f=1008

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* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with

* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight

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* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

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* "Theresa May to shut down the internet as we know it:" http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html

* "B.C. school panned for having white people in headdresses tell indigenous stories:" http://globalnews.ca/news/3413893/fort-nelson-school-indigenous-performance/?utm_source=GlobalBC&utm_medium=Facebook

* "Trump interest in Russia sanctions alarmed outgoing State staff:"

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* "California set to leave Trump behind on climate policy:"

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* The Science of Weight Master Post: http://satyrday.tumblr.com/post/160259214276/thats-it-im-pissed

* "How bad science misled chronic fatigue syndrome patients:" https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-pace-trial/

* ""Wonder Woman" Breaks the Invisible Ceiling:"

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* "Covfefe, Kushner & An Idiot Abroad:"

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* "Gianforte Body-Slammed the Vote:"

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* "Who Will Be Trump’s John Dean?:"

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* The Story of Granny Annette and Grandson Demon Todd got even better: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161336319737/paddlewaddle-venallie-purrfecktlysinful

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

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

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

Want to fight Climate Change? "Ready to Mobilize? Start Here!:" http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/start_here

* Distressed by the anti-gay genocide in Chechnya and the anti-gay laws in Russia? Donate here: https://lgbtnet.org/en

* The Rainbow Road and other ways to help Gay Refugees: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/160470723507/the-rainbow-railroad-is-helping-gay-men-escape

* This is a Real Life friend of mine. They do very much need the money and a number of people and beasts depend on him and his husband. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive of me. If you can kick in, it is a kindness.: https://www.youcaring.com/tod-788345

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

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

* Fidel Castro has died.

* "Wisconsin election recount spurs rumors of hacking:"

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* "Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots "An Entirely New Political Movement":" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-bannon-trump-tower-interview-trumps-strategist-plots-new-political-movement-948747?utm_source=twitter

* "It wasn’t just “fake news” presenting a fake Hillary Clinton: She was held to impossible standards:" http://www.salon.com/2016/11/26/it-wasnt-just-fake-news-presenting-a-fake-hillary-clinton-she-was-held-to-impossible-standards_partner/

* A project to publicize innocent people who were sentenced to the death penalty. "Last Words:"

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* "6 Native American girls explain the tragic story behind Thanksgiving:" https://mic.com/articles/160287/6-native-american-girls-explain-the-tragic-story-behind-thanksgiving?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=movement&utm_campaign=social#.WMpNuazXt

* A Ballot Initiative intended to abolish slavery in Colorado failed.

* "Danielle Brooks' Emotional Keynote At R29's Every Beautiful Body Symposium:" http://www.refinery29.com/2016/10/127848/danielle-brooks-lane-bryant-plus-size-model-confidence-quotes?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=h3&utm_campaign=watch_embed&utm_campaign=watch_end&utm_campaign=end&utm_campaign=repost=2

* "Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry:" https://www.splcenter.org/20150126/speak-responding-everyday-bigotry

* This terrifies me. "The GOP’s Anti-LGBT, Anti-Women ‘Religious Freedom’ Law on Steroids:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/16/the-gop-s-anti-lgbt-anti-women-religious-freedom-law-on-steroids.html

* "The newly discovered tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh:" http://etc.ancient.eu/exhibitions/giglamesh-enkidu-humbaba-cedar-forest-newest-discovered-tablet-v-epic/

* "Why Caravaggio was as shocking as his paintings:" http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161010-why-caravaggio-was-a-shocking-as-his-paintings?ocid=fbcul

* "Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen: Read by Christopher Eccleston | Remembering World War 1:"

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* Fuck 2016. Fuck it so hard. "Ron Glass, Emmy-Nominated Actor Known for ‘Barney Miller’ and ‘Firefly,’ Dies at 71:" http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/ron-glass-dead-barney-miller-firefly-dies-1201927179/

* "The Lion King Cast Apologizes To Mike Pence:"

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* "Trump vs. 'Hamilton' Inspires A Hip Hop Musical Spin-Off:"

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* "The Trump Train Is Already Off The Rails:"

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* TW: Pet Death. I am currently needing 10-14 hours of sleep a day, plus extra time to get all my limbs properly working, which really cuts into my ability to accomplish things. ( Fish News: )

* Sometimes I like to imagine Henry VI of England, Charles VI of France, Charles II of Spain, and Louis XVI of France living in a large rambling cottage in the country somewhere with someone to look after the cooking. They would each have their own room and space for their interests. Henry could herd a small flock of sheep and Louis could make keys. Every one would be careful not to touch Charles VI, and the cook could make soft foods for Charles II. Everyone would be kind to each other and none of them would be asked to deal with things like war and politics and they would be so much happier than they were in life.

Henry VI in particular just breaks my heart every damned time.

* I really wanted this movie to be good, but the fundamental disrespect of the religion and cultural traditions is a deal breaker for me, so I won't be seeing it. "Moana Review:" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CFsYotjdqPAAGHC5pE4U-tErzufwDSHCzy1lonRj_QE/edit

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* Suicide Crisis numbers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/153016816845/non-us-crisis-line-list

* Victim of a Hate Crime? Report to the police first, but also report here to help the SPLC track incidents: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate

* Trans Relief Project: http://transrelief.com/

* General Charities list to help groups being targeted in Trump's America: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/153111297079/charities-that-may-need-some-love-in-the-upcoming

* Where to donate to help Immigrants: http://colinfirth.tumblr.com/post/152963467726/carecen-la-center-for-community-change

* Ways to protest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

* More ways to protest "So here’s the deal:" http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/153516131819/so-heres-the-deal

* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources

* "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

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

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

* "Transgender: You're Part of the Story | Nicole Maines | TEDxSMCC :"

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* "Meet My Child: Parents of Transgender Kids Speak Out - Trans United Fund :"

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* "The man defying Obama on transgender rights:"

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* New Ableist TERF attack on Trans Men with Autism: http://seawallglen.tumblr.com/post/144428365844/now-i-cant-go-back-to-sleep

* "Two Arrests Made In Keyonna Blakeney Case:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/05/two-arrests-made-in-keyonna-blakeney.html

* "Pastor Anne Graham: God let 9/11 happen because of transgender people in bathrooms:" http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/05/13/pastor-anne-graham-god-let-911-happen-because-of-transgender-people-in-bathrooms/?utm_source=PNFB&utm_medium=SocialFB&utm_content=FBN&utm_campaign=PNFacebook

* "3 reasons conservative Christians will lose the transgender debate:" http://religionnews.com/2016/05/14/3-reasons-conservative-christians-will-lose-the-transgender-debate/

* "North Carolina Police Say They Can't Enforce Transgender Bathroom Law:" http://www.npr.org/2016/05/10/477529266/north-carolina-police-struggle-to-enforce-transgender-bathroom-law

* "Geraldine Roman Celebrates Her Historic Win!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/05/geraldine-roman-celebrates-her-historic.html

* TW: Transphobic Language, Assault "Trans Woman Attacked on NYC Train for Riding While Trans:" http://mic.com/articles/142537/trans-woman-attacked-on-nyc-train-for-riding-while-trans?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.UsYGzvAmk

* "AG Loretta Lynch Drops The Legal Hammer On NC:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/05/ag-loretta-lynch-drops-legal-hammer-on.html

* "Our Trans Kids At Times Are Leading Us Trans Elders:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/05/our-trans-kids-at-times-are-leading-us.html

* "Luxury Cruise to Conquer Northwest Passage:" http://www.wsj.com/articles/luxury-cruise-to-conquer-northwest-passage-1462872605?mod=trending_now_5

* "World’s largest chimpanzee research facility to release its chimps:" http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/world-s-largest-chimpanzee-research-facility-release-its-chimps?rss=1

* "Donald Trump's PR Problems-The Daily Show with Trevor Noah :"

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* "Anthony Anderson - "Black-ish" and the Preeminent Voice of African American Families:"

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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Women Speak Out Against Donald Trump:"

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* "National Landmark Status for the Stonewall Inn:"

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* So I come out to do lungs before a scheduled scene to discovered Tavy had smashed a glass jar and was playing with the contents and that the long twenty had a slow leak. Luckily I had a back up twenty for this sort of emergency. The cory I knew was alive earlier this evening looks fine. I have male and female guppies and platys. I likely lost a generation of fry in the emergency and I'm not sure if the whiptail made it. Things look to be okay otherwise after the tank emergency. I wish i had money to restart the corys breeding program. I do not. I didn't even raise fish food this month, nor have I rescued the meds currently in hock. sigh.

* Tavy is doing fine, BTW. his favorite toys are the long tailed mouse he came with, the green braided rope, and the knitted octopus on a string thing. he’s been sleeping part of the night with me most of the week and has learned soft paws and the teeth equivalent, though it hasn’t generalized to squirrel yet. I’ve started on conflict zone training and come when call training, but I’m not sure either will stick.

* New Tavy pics here: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/144494677417/tavy-is-doing-fine-btw-his-favorite-toys-are

* Bonus Little Miss: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/144498215447/bonus-little-miss

* "Woke Man Wears Girlfriend's Clothes To Tear Down Body-Shaming:" http://www.refinery29.com/2016/05/110760/facebook-post-body-shaming-size-shaming?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=direct

* "The SNL Church Lady Humorously LambasTED My Canadian Senator:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-snl-church-lady-humorously.html

* "Ant-Man: Oh Look, This is Also an MCU Movie!:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/ant-man/

* Someone figured out that a thing Tony Stark does in the Civil War movie doesn't make character sense based on his in movie motivations. Civil war Spoilers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/144500515587/big-wired-thefingerfuckingfemalefury

* "Here Are All The Ways You Can Help Fort McMurray:" http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/04/fort-mcmurray-how-to-help_n_9843774.html?ncid=tweetlnkcahpmg00000002

* Want to help Equador in the wake of their Earthquake? http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/americas/ecuador/ecuador-red-cross-responds-to-deadly-earthquake-72129/

* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help

* "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: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* 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.com

* "Weight Gains:" http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/weight-gains/

* "Seriously? Cops Justified In Shooting a 12 Year Old?:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/12/seriously-cops-justified-in-shooting-12.html

* These claims that police make that in a literal one second they can roll up, assess if someone is threat, order him to drop the toy he is holding, decide he is not complying and shoot him (John Crawford III), or that two literal seconds is long enough to do all that and demand three times the child drop the toy (Tamir Rice), is some obvious bullshit. It is likely even worse than it looks.

See, I was a teacher. In teaching, we have a thing called "wait time." It takes people a non-zero amount of time to process a question or request. There is no such thing as instant compliance, even if the person you are talking about is a native speaker, has no learning disability, no hearing issues, and is completely neurotypical, cooperative, and knows the answer/how to do the thing you asked them to do. A reasonable wait time between question/command, and a student's response is way longer than a person who isn't trained expects. With a native English speaking neurotypical child, you count to 5 slowly in your head. It's extra important when dealing with children in that 6th-9th grade range, as people under stress have a harder time processing than people who are not under stress, and every child that age is under massive stress, which is why they are always forgetting things. It's double to triple that wait time if the child is a non-native speaker or has a disability that makes language processing hard. So how is it that police are considered justified in using deadly force in one second, when the person they are screaming at hasn't had time to figure out someone is saying something, let alone turn around, figure out what is being said, and comply with the order to drop the toy? We give children longer than that if we are asking them if they have their homework done, and nobodies is if they answer no there.

I taught kids Tamir Rice's age, and I can't get that out of my head, that he could have been one of my little guys. I'm the last person to romanticize middle schoolers. They can be serious jerks sometimes. I never met one, no matter how obnoxious, that deserved to be shot. When my kids had been abused, I was angry at the adults that let it happen, and _more_ protective, not less. This claim some in Cleveland making that having been the victim of violence before means he _deserved_ to be shot makes me a kind of angry that is beyond words. No, he _deserved_ to be protected. He definitely deserved more than two damned seconds.

* "We See You: Why Catching Cops On Film Makes A Difference:" http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/12/10/3601100/cop-watching/

* "Visiting Rikers, the Paupers Pinch:" http://arnade.tumblr.com/post/33008696089/visiting-rikers-the-paupers-pinch

* "The secret to the Uber economy is wealth inequality:" http://qz.com/312537/the-secret-to-the-uber-economy-is-wealth-inequality/

* "How Monsanto owns and manipulates the world's food supply:" http://boingboing.net/2009/12/13/how-monsanto-owns-an.html

* "DOJ Will Interpret 1964 Civil Rights Act As Protecting Trans Government Employees:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/12/doj-will-interpret-1964-civil-rights.html

* "The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour:" http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7094

* "Role Models-Damned Glad To Have Them:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/12/role-models-damned-glad-to-have-them.html

* Attn: MrBumblepants. That cool story about that girl standing up to Salvation Army I was telling you about.: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/105519400132/goldstarprivilege

* "Fairytale of New York: the story behind the Pogues' classic Christmas anthem:" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/06/fairytale-new-york-pogues-christmas-anthem?CMP=share_btn_tw

* Hector has enough food to carry us to January. Thank you, Donors. He’s doing way better than he was. He’s still trying to solve the dread problem that occurred when he was sick for two months and had given up on life. He’s eating well, though picky about it, which is also a good sign. I think he may have another year in him after all.

Pics taken as I was writing this here: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/105593032592/hector-has-enough-food-to-carry-us-to-january

* I keep thinking that the Librarians would be so much better if the people who wrote Leverage were writing it.

* This is a NWS Victorian crossdressed porn photo, which I suspect might be relevant to some interests here: http://antique-erotic.tumblr.com/post/105013655245/antique-erotic-this-day-gets-infinitely-better

* Katharine Kerr needs our help.: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/604572.html

* Our Financial Situation continues Scary: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws

* "Rare Incan 'Calculators' Found in Peru:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/rare-incan-calculators-found-in-peru-140627.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

* "Deadly Victorian fashions or "Don't lick the arsenic dress:"" http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/deadly-victorian-fashions/

* "Hundred-year Mafia murder 'solved':" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27971542

* "The Soapbox: Black Nerds, Escapism, & Why We Need More Diverse Books:" http://www.thefrisky.com/2014-07-04/the-soapbox-black-nerds-escapism-why-we-need-more-diverse-books/

* "Effortless Beauty: I Know You Didn't Really Eat That Pizza:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2014/07/effortless-beauty-i-know-you-didnt.html

* "Stopping James Crow III:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/07/stopping-james-crow-iii.html

* "Shut Up Fool Awards-Fourth Of July 2014 Edition:" http://www.transgriot.blogspot.com/2014/07/shut-up-fool-awards-fourth-of-july-2014.html

* How did I not know Douglas Addams wrote for Doctor Who?

* I wish I could see this. "This Beautiful Mourning Attire Is Coming To Met's Costume Institute:" http://gothamist.com/2014/07/01/this_beautiful_mourning_attire_is_c.php

* "Josh Charles shares ‘Dead Poets Society’ memories, 25 years :" http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/07/03/dead-poets-society-josh-charles/

Along with "Another Country," "Dead Poet's Society" is one of two films I have ever seen that really speaks to my experience of high School. It's hard to watch still. It was extra unnerving for me when it first came out, as the boy I was dating, and in fact watched the film in the theater with, looked eerily like Neil. His parents were a special class of horrible, seeing him not as a human being with needs and wants of his own, but their favorite pawn in a complex psycho-sexual game they played with each other. He went to a different prep school we used to run against. It was way to close and very dagger to the heart at the time. (This is the same boy who took me to see his psychiatrist to 1. prove I was not a particularly elaborate fantasy/symptom of a psychotic break and 2. So that I could validate his descriptions of his treatment at home.)

Anyway, it was an incredibly hard film to watch, but the thing that bothers me still is that I knew damned well that schools like mine loved teachers like Keating. No really. They were rare, but oh so cherished. I could list my Keatings here if I wanted. The thing about prep school is that there is massive pressure to conform, but there is this countervailing force to turn the exceptional into future leaders. Conformity was for the middle of the personality Bell Curve. At the ends were the rock stars and the monsters. The system reinforces the monsters into something out of "American Psycho;" you need Keatings to turn the eccentrics into leaders and writers and Great Men/Women.

* "The Famous Artworks That Inspired 15 Films:" http://flavorwire.com/464926/the-famous-artworks-that-inspired-15-films

* 88 people were injured, several of them seriously, when the ceiling of a crowded theater collapsed in London. (Injury figures were fluctuating, so this may not be the final figure).

* "Kentucky Doctor Reason For Closing -- Because Of Bush Initiative, NOT Obamacare. The Real Story:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/11/1262030/-Kentucky-Doctor-Reason-For-Closing-Because-Of-Bush-Initiative-NOT-Obamacare-The-Real-Story?detail=email#

* "Republican answers for a young urban Latino:" http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/republican-answers-for-young-urban.html

* "Republicans, food stamps, and the permanent underclass:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/15/1260282/-Republicans-food-stamps-and-the-permanent-underclass?detail=hide

* "Perfect enforcement: On the ground in the red light camera wars:" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/perfect-enforcement-on-the-ground-in-the-red-light-camera-wars/

* On a teacher trying to silence a First Nations child who wanted to talk about Residential Schools. "Ruby's Story:" http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/03/16/rubys-story/

* "Joanne Cassar Honored In Malta:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/12/joanne-cassar-honored-in-malta.html

* "Rev. Al, Where You At On The Islan Nettles Case And Trans Rights In General?:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/12/rev-al-where-you-at-on-islan-nettles.html

* "Tavares Spencer Sentenced In Tampa:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/12/tavares-spencer-sentenced-in-tampa.html

* "Michael McBride Pleads Guilty In Wallace:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/12/michael-mcbride-pleads-guilty-in.html

* "Hiding From Transphobic Bigotry Won't Make It Go Away:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/12/hiding-from-transphobic-bigotry-wont.html

* "Love The Body You're In:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/12/love-body-youre-in.html

* "When Cowboys Wore Pink:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/12/16/when-cowboys-wore-pink/

* The Real Hunger Games:

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* Rockwell was Right: Somebody is Watching Edition:

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* Today I was up too early to let the guy in to fix the sink. I'd given up on sleeping three hours earlier anyway, but I'd rather have been in my warm bed with cats. Once I got the guy on track, I went to pick up meds, change books at the library, and raid the dying super market for more discount cleaning products for the new apartment. The handy man was still out looking for a sink art when I got back to put things away. I went home and painted a book shelf and dealt with various things needing doing here.

It is full dark before 4PM, which is always a little disorienting.

I am back to feverish and a rattling cough in my chest. I really don't want this to be another 6 months crud like last year, but I'm not sanguine at this point.

* "Best of 2013: Our Favorite Middle Grade Titles:" http://slatebreakers.com/2013/12/16/best-of-2013-our-favorite-middle-grade-titles/

* A really good discussion on Marriage Equality, Social Justice, and Intersectionality starts here: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/46419672#51310119

* A discussion on the Marriage Equality cases up before SCOTUS starts here: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#51308700

* GLAAD says they are going to start fighting against the violence and discrimination directed at trans folks instead of ignoring it as they have done up until now.

* Actual trans people of colour on the Melissa Harris-Perry show talking about a bunch of issues including the systematic way trans women of colour get left out of media depictions and activism even though they need the most protection and inclusion, Intersectionality, and the Right to Pee:

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* I'd like to repeat that in Arizona, they want to lock trans folk up for 6 months for the crime of using a public restroom. Cis folk, please take some time to imagine what it's like to risk six months in prison if you need to pee and can't find a unisex bathroom nearby.

* "TLC's Masen Davis Discusses Unjust Arizona Transphobic Bill: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/03/tlcs-masen-davis-discusses-unjust.html

* Chris Hayes held a massive discussion with most of the NYC mayor candidates about issues like "Stop and frisk" and a wide range of economic questions. I think it's way more productive than an official debate being more free form. Obviously, it was focused on the issues for NYC particularly, but a lot of this stuff is pertinent to the rest of the country. They are planning to export random stops for young men of colour to other parts of the country and issues like minimum wage, housing costs, and wealth inequality are pertinent every where. It's huge, so I'm just tossing you a link to the start: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49263362#51308350

* "Larry Craig: Legal Fees for Solicitation Defense Related to "Official Senate Duties":" http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/03/larry-craig-legal-fees-official.html

* "Pre-Viking tunic found by glacier as warming aids archaeology:" http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/300599/scitech/science/pre-viking-tunic-found-by-glacier-as-warming-aids-archaeology

* "21 Things to Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People:" http://lovelivegrow.com/2012/10/21-things-to-stop-saying-unless-you-hate-fat-people/

* I have now spent twice my food allowance on food this month. It went on things like juice, fresh fruit, and foods that are filling but take five minutes or less of prep time. I have simply spent too much time sick to cook properly. I've got medical bills on hold waiting for the IRA to transfer. It feels like defeat.

Today when I checked the garden, I noticed the strawberry starts seem to have taken properly. I've ever had strawberry plants before, so I am fascinated to see how they grow; if they grow.

The beasties have been in full on mope since Friday. With Mache this is punctuated by intense clingiest, because even a Queen needs reassurance and love when she's stressed. Hector is going with the full brat, pulling out all his stress behaviors at once. LM is extremely depressed. She periodically does a panicked search for her brother while meeping desperately. There is o way to tell them he's coming back tomorrow. We are dispensing extra pettins for everyone, and tonight there was goosh. Poor wee Beasties.

* "Sunday Sweets: Around the World in 80 Days:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2013/3/24/sunday-sweets-around-the-world-in-80-days.html