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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

I had to cut this one off really, really early. I keep getting bigged down in trying to catch up on things I got behind on during the week from hell.

Similarly, I really didn't have time or energy for world news.




* "Microsoft workers say they’ve been fired after 50th anniversary protest over Israel contract:" https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-protest-employees-fired-israel-gaza-50th-anniversary-c5b3715fa1800450b8d0f639b492495e

******

* "Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations, killing more than 30:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-sumy-b034da8f4d83d08e5ea24c6033dbe3cf




* "Jalisco cartel lures recruits with fake jobs through social platforms and kills those who resist:" https://apnews.com/article/mexico-jalisco-cartel-el-mencho-drugs-sinaloa-99f755b7173f101d74e6a1eac333cd38




* "US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1115256/us-office-that-counters-foreign-disinformation-is-being-eliminated-say-officials/

* "Activists stack coffins in front of State Department to protest PEPFAR cuts (in photos):" https://www.advocate.com/news/coffins-protest-pepfar-cuts#rebelltitem1

* "Trade Will Move On Without the United States:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/trump-tariffs-hegemony-decline/682323/

* "WTO slashes 2025 trade growth forecast, warns of deeper slump:" https://archive.ph/PqmZ6

* Meanwhile, JD Vance goes the extra mile to try to make the world worse: "JD Vance wants the UK to repeal its LGBTQ+ hate speech laws to secure a trade deal:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/us-uk-trade-deal-lgbtq

* "Tariffs to trigger sharp US economic slowdown; chance of recession jumps to 45%: Reuters Poll:" https://archive.ph/vv7pY

* "Fed Chair Powell sounds alarm on tariffs, sending stocks lower:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/fed-chair-powell-sounds-alarm-tariffs-sending-stocks/story?id=120863770

Meanwhile Trump wants to get rid of the fed Chairman for the crime of knowing what he's doing and saying true things.

* "Trump hammers Federal Reserve chief Powell: ‘Termination cannot come fast enough!’:" https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-says-fed-reserve-chief-powells-termination-cant-come-fast-enough/

* "Bessent privately urges caution as Trump attacks Powell:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/17/trump-powell-fired-fed-00295552

* "California is first state to sue Trump on tariffs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/california-is-first-state-to-sue-trump-on-tariffs-00292637

* "'Every day, every single customer': Tariffs hit close to home inside Asian grocers:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5352901/tariffs-trump-asian-grocery-stores

* "Tariff-ying Times with Pete Buttigieg:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tariff-ying-times-with-pete-buttigieg/id1583132133?i=1000702978762

* "Anxious Trading Partners Promise to Buy American to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs:" https://archive.ph/Pbsga

* "The Constitutional Crisis Is Here: Trump’s administration is only pretending to comply with the Supreme Court on the matter of a Maryland man it deported erroneously.:" https://archive.ph/7MuVP

I'm pretty sure it was when they violated a court order to illegally mass deport innocent people without any due process in the first place, but either way, here we are.

* "‘Hair on fire’: Walz says he’s ‘convinced’ Trump will ignore courts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-hair-on-fire-walz-says-he-s-convinced-trump-will-ignore-courts-237504069634

* "Boasberg finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt over deportation flights:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/trump-deportation-el-salvador-federal-judge-00293076

* "'Criminal contempt' looms over Trump's showdown with courts over deportation fiat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-criminal-contempt-looms-over-trump-s-showdown-with-courts-over-deportation-fiat-237682245946

* "‘It’s all made up!’: Hayes breaks down ‘sheer lawlessness’ of Trump deportation case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-s-all-made-up-hayes-breaks-down-sheer-lawlessness-of-trump-deportation-case-237646917654

* "Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/g-s1-61385/supreme-court-block-deportations

* This is one of the people they were trying to send to forever prison: "Lawyer Warns Trump Is Moving to Deport Teen to El Salvador for Photo of Water Pistol:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-deport-teenager-water-pistol-1235320693/

Republicans want to remind you that having a friend who owns a water pistol is such absolute proof of gang membership that anyone who knows anyone who has one deserves to be sent abroad to forever prison without any due process or proof of any wrong doing. Yes, that applies to children.

* "Judge blocks administration from deporting noncitizens to 3rd countries without due process:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-blocks-administration-deporting-noncitizens-3rd-countries-due/story?id=120951918

* "Court denies White House appeal of 'shocking' Abrego Garcia deportation case:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/g-s1-61118/appeals-court-deportation-abrego-garcia

* "'Shocking': Reagan judge issues ‘stark warning’ in scathing ruling against Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-shocking-reagan-judge-issues-stark-warning-in-scathing-ruling-against-trump-237787205992

* "'They can't hide the ball': Judge cracks the whip on Trump lawyers in deportation case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-can-t-hide-the-ball-judge-cracks-the-whip-on-trump-lawyers-in-deportation-case-237519429580

* The reason they claim they broke the law to deport him in the first place is bullshit. "Another disgraced cop linked to Trump’s authoritarian deportations to El Salvador exposed: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/second-disgraced-cop-trump-deporations

* "Trump Admin’s New Defense For Accidentally Sending Abrego Garcia To Salvadoran Torture Camp: We Meant To Do That :" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/15/trump-admins-new-defense-for-accidentally-sending-abrego-garcia-to-salvadoran-torture-camp-we-meant-to-do-that/

* "‘Chilling’: Hayes on why the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia matters to us all:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-chilling-hayes-on-why-the-fate-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-matters-to-us-all-237505093763

* "Trump Ordered to Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia:"

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* "This Court Just Put The Trump Regime In Its Place | News You Missed:"

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* "Kilmar Abrego Garcia meets with Maryland senator in El Salvador, weeks after mistaken deportation:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-sen-van-hollen-meets-with-mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-in-el-salvador/

* "'I felt afraid': Lawyer who traveled with Van Hollen to El Salvador details trip:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-i-felt-afraid-lawyer-who-traveled-with-van-hollen-to-el-salvador-details-trip-237892677658

* "Protesters gather outside El Salvador’s consulate in St. Paul:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/17/protesters-gather-el-salvador-consulate-st-paul

* "Trump's Deportations to El Salvador Are the Latest Stop on a Long Road:"

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* "Foreign students in US mount court challenges as Trump ends their legal status:" https://archive.ph/kKuMN

* "Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order:" https://archive.ph/c8O1X

Reminder: The Trump Administration is refusing to tell people their visas, permanent residence cards, etc., have been secretly illegally revoked so that people can't contest it, and then sending secret police to kidnap them.

* "There’s a Reason the Trump Administration Is Fighting to Keep Detained International Students in Louisiana:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/donald-trump-immigration-mahmoud-khalil-rumeysa-ozturk-louisiana.html

* "The controversial and obscure law being used against immigrant student protestors:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5360605/mahmoud-khalil-gaza-protests-columbia-university-immigrant

* "A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by ICE in Vermont:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-palestine-protest-trump-deportation-columbia-fca7e73fe2cbd616c1eacf3bdececdbe

* We are now also illegally detaining American Citizens now for the crime of being brown against judges orders: "U.S.-born American citizen under ICE hold in Florida after driving from Georgia:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-born-citizen-detained-ice-immigration-florida-rcna201800

* Another American Citizen they are trying to illegally Deport: "American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-email-immigration-leave-country-rcna201698

* "Judge orders detained Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk to be transferred back to Vermont :" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-rcna201954

* "Video shows ICE agent smash window to detain man in Massachusetts. Attorney says they have wrong person.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/video-ice-agent-smash-car-window-new-bedford-massachusetts/

It was the wrong man, but they took him anyway.

* "Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported

* "BYU doctorate student’s visa reinstated after unexpected revocation:" https://kslnewsradio.com/breaking-news/visa-byu-student/2204681/

* "Campus activists, misidentified students, a jaywalker. Is this the deportation list the Trump administration is using?:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/metro/zionist-group-deportation-lists/

* More terrifying shit. "Feds say agents went to LA schools to do welfare check on migrant children:" https://apnews.com/article/schools-immigration-federal-agents-los-angeles-fe4d1d3ba3f6a7afe6b749cd6a7f2fcb

* "Rep. Becca Balint unloads on Trump administration for false claims against detained students:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-becca-balint-unloads-on-trump-administration-for-false-claims-against-detained-students-237925445924

* "Trump Admin Tells Afghan Refugees Who Fled Taliban to Self-Deport—Report:" https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-tells-afghan-refugees-who-fled-taliban-self-deportreport-2061049

* "‘War on tourism’: Trump set to cost U.S. billions as foreign tourists stay clear:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-war-on-tourism-trump-set-to-cost-u-s-billions-as-foreign-tourists-stay-clear-237648453688

* " From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-deportations-deployed-resources-tent-company?

* "“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights:" https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem?

* "UO students rally after visa revocations, urge stronger protections for international peers:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/04/12/university-of-oregon-rally-international-students/

* If you live in Vermont, now is a great time to let your voice be heard. "Vermont Senate leaders urge Gov. Phil Scott to terminate state agreement with federal immigration officials:" https://vtdigger.org/2025/04/15/vermont-senate-leaders-urge-gov-phil-scott-to-terminate-state-agreement-with-federal-immigration-officials/

* "Trump Has a New Target for His Mass Deportations: U.S. Citizens:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193669/donald-trump-target-mass-deportations-us-citizens

* "Trump exposed in 'hot mic' moment planning further abuse of power:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-exposed-in-hot-mic-moment-planning-further-abuse-of-power-237422661695

* "Trump's immigration agenda is not popular:" https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-immigration-agenda-isnt-popular




* "Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington and elsewhere across the country:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-protests-hands-off-revolutionary-war-anniversary-34218e384bef12bdf3a75a40959f4ede

* "Protesters rally outside White House amid nationwide anti-Trump demonstrations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/protesters-rally-white-house-nationwide-anti-trump-demonstrations-rcna201993

* I can't show all the protests, but I can show you some to remind people they are ongoing.

* CW: Rape. "Justice Department wants to step in for Trump in E. Jean Carroll appeal:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-case-justice-department/

* "Trump Family’s Crypto Venture Nets $25 Million Investment From Firm Suspected of Fraud:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/trump-family-crypto-dwf-1235318209/

* "Busted: Report paints vivid picture of Trump corruption:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/busted-report-paints-vivid-picture-of-trump-corruption-237899333688

* "Nearly 90% of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cut as Trump’s government downsizing continues:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-doge-cfpb-elon-musk-456b747c367fccbcf3b74d2893cd1a35

* "Judge orders halt to mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-orders-halt-mass-firings-consumer-financial-protection/story?id=120951391

* "Judge orders Trump administration to tell fired workers they were not let go for poor performance:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-probationary-workers-e469a427e50f205bb79803a1405dcc3c

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

* I think we found the Government Waste. "US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission:" https://www.wired.com/story/department-of-labor-doge-usds-payment/

* Here's more of it: "DOGE Playas, their DOGE Enforcer Pals And the Security Detail You Need to Be a True DOGE-Banger:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-playas-their-doge-enforcer-pals-and-the-security-detail-you-need-to-be-a-true-doge-banger

* So they likely have been giving Russian Hackers and who knows who else sensitive data. "5 takeaways about NPR's reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355895/doge-musk-nlrb-takeaways-security

* "DOGE assigns staffers to work at agency where it allegedly removed sensitive data:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366851/doge-nlrb-whistleblower-musk-data

* "Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting Audited:" https://www.wired.com/story/gao-audit-elon-musk-doge-government-agencies/

* "Elon Musk’s xAI criticized over unauthorized gas turbines at Memphis facility:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-xai-criticized-over-182837823.html

* I can't begin to post all the protests, but I like to ink some now and then so people see they are still going.

* "‘Tesla Takedown’: Protesters gather outside new London Tesla dealership:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/tesla-takedown-protesters-gather-outside-new-london-tesla-dealership/

* "Tesla Protesters' Poster Says "Send Musk To Mars", He Responds:" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-responds-to-tesla-protesters-send-musk-to-mars-demand-8166994

* "Anti-Trump protests this weekend turn focus to community action:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/nx-s1-5369483/anti-trump-protests-50501-tesla-takedown

* "Targeting Tesla: Scenes from anti-Musk protests:" https://archive.ph/SJDEl

* "Simulated Musk, Zuckerberg voices are speaking from hacked crosswalk buttons:" https://www.theverge.com/news/647830/crosswalk-hack-musk-zuckerberg-voices-california

* "Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead:" https://archive.ph/e4zUd

* "The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X:" https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/

* "How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5352470/doge-musk-social-security-voting

* "Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say:" https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-trump-4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab

* "20,000 IRS employees interested in deferred resignation offer as tax deadline looms:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/irs-resignation-treasury-tax-deadline-trump.html

* "DOGE Cuts Update Today: IRS Doesn't 'Have Time' for Tax Cases Amid Layoffs:" https://www.newsweek.com/doge-cuts-update-irs-layoffs-2059957

Remember, the staffing cuts at the IRS are intended to make things harder for ordinary taxpayers and also to prevent any chance of rich tax cheats being audited, which will drive up the debt, which will the justify yet more cuts to social services.

* "DOGE’s IRS cuts will cost the average American a fortune :" https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5248491-irs-doge-taxpayer-impacts/

* "Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts:" https://archive.ph/PPYPV

* "RFK Jr. vowed to upend American health care. It’s happening faster than expected.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/rfk-revamp-health-hhs-00280101

* Food Safety has already been deteriorating because of Trump's attacks on food safety last time. It's about to get so much deadlier. "US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts:" https://archive.ph/df2sT

* "With tractor parade, Maine farmers protest USDA cuts that could leave many in debt:" https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/16/with-tractor-parade-maine-farmers-protest-usda-cuts-that-could-leave-many-in-debt/

* "CDC cruise inspectors laid off as ship arrives in Florida with norovirus outbreak:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2025/04/14/norovirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-cdc-layoffs-florida/

* "Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US:" https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-vaccines-funding-cuts-5785985d6b74024b0502f6a2fc1576e2

* "Kennedy draws from misinformation playbook by touting an inhaled steroid to treat measles:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kennedy-draws-misinformation-playbook-touting-inhaled-steroid-treat-me-rcna200085

* "Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-measles-outbreak-rfk-jr-ben-edwards-2dd7c79d47c64ad2e6d4a4ac3c87ec1f

He was highly contagious. Children are dying and he spreads it as much as he can.

* They are cooking the books, which is terrifying. "Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.:" https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/ex-official-says-he-was-forced-out-of-fda-after-trying-to-protect-vaccine-safety-data-from-rfk-jr/

* "Top NIH scientist speaks out, says research was ‘censored’ under RFK Jr:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/top-nih-scientist-speaks-out-says-research-was-censored-under-rfk-jr-237788229924

* "Autism rate rises in new CDC report that contradicts RFK Jr. on cause:" https://archive.ph/LVthz

* "Trump and Kennedy Spouting Dangerous Autism Misinformation:" https://autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/trump-and-kennedy-spouting-dangerous-autism-misinformation/

* "RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.:" https://archive.ph/YPwuR

* "Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.’s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/staffers-walk-out-of-rfk-jrs-slur-ridden-speech-about-deep-state/

* "Actress Holly Robinson Peete denounces RFK Jr.'s harmful claims about autism:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/actress-holly-robinson-peete-denounces-rfk-jr-s-harmful-claims-about-autism-237928005844

* "'Just a big slogan and propaganda': Kennedy, Oz and Braun met with swift criticism:" https://www.thestatehousefile.com/politics/just-a-big-slogan-and-propaganda-kennedy-oz-and-braun-met-with-swift-criticism/article_d1953c5c-d5c4-431e-a5ec-48ff240775c1.html

* "Federal government to remove gender dysphoria from protected disabilities list:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-dysphoria-removed-protected-disabilities

* "Doctors warn of ‘terrifying’ effects as Trump creates snitch line to report gender-affirming care patients:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-trans-kid-reporting-portal

You know the drill, folks. Try to do credible, but completely false leads they will have to waste their time tracking down. You need things that LLMs/A.I. can't easily weed out.

* "Maine Gov. Janet Mills hits back after Trump sues state for transgender sports policies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-sues-maine-transgender-sports

* "Federal judge blocks Trump admin's gender-restrictive passport policy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-blocks-passport-gender-restrictions

* "Military families sue Trump administration to keep their school system diverse:" https://www.advocate.com/news/military-familes-sue-pentagon-schools

* "Federal appeals court upholds block on Trump's trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-block-upheld

* "People protest proposed cuts to VA staffing:" https://www.wkow.com/news/people-protest-proposed-cuts-to-va-staffing-healthcare/article_2ae24486-789e-4b31-9e10-aabab48f0bfb.html

* "H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcmaster-trump-accidental-call/

The Administration keeps calling the wrong people by accident.

* "Signal War Plans v.s. Hillary's Emails:"

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* "Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-showerheads-appliances-led-lights-regulation-energy-department-chaos?

* "National Weather Service buyouts will leave gaps as storm season ramps up:" https://archive.ph/SwTG8

* "With fewer weather balloons due to government staffing cuts, forecasts may be less accurate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/weather-balloons-stop-trump-cuts-forecasts-less-accurate-rcna198055

Republicans are doing everything in their power to prevent forewarning of disasters a hamstringing disaster response. Remember, all this is necessary to justify more tax cuts for billionaires.

* "AmeriCorps members who respond to disasters and help nonprofits are let go in DOGE cuts:" https://apnews.com/article/americorps-volunteers-fema-doge-05b1d1cd53e0b5b9f64c17eaba7adf95

* "Schools lined up for help getting cleaner school buses. Then came the EPA freeze:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-electric-school-buses-districts-funding-biden-19fe231d30fc8ff606cae9f6987074c8

* "Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lost-in-the-sauce-stories-trump-probably-hoped-you-wouldn-t-notice-while-he-flooded-the-zone-237900357720

* "DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum’s Legal Status:" https://archive.ph/IBTYR

* "‘A death blow’: Filmmakers, archivists reel as DOGE suddenly cuts their funding:" https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge-neh-funding-cuts-sf/

* "DOGE cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities hit Carnegie Museums, Phipps and more:" https://www.wesa.fm/arts-culture/2025-04-17/doge-neh-pittsburgh-carnegie-phipps

* "Washington's libraries face 'deep and dramatic' funding cuts as Trump abruptly terminates federal grants:" https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-libraries-deep-dramatic-cuts-trump-terminates-federal-grants

* "Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5368248/president-trump-head-start

Head start is one of the most valuable and effective education programs that exist. It's a long term investment in children that pays off, not "waste."

* "What to Know About Head Start, the Early Childhood Education Program the Trump Administration Is Proposing to Eliminate:" https://time.com/7278480/head-start-history-effectiveness-trump-hhs-budget-funding-elimination-reactions/

* "Trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride just got Trump to reverse himself in victory for Delaware:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-trump-reversal-victory

* "Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal Enforcement:" https://archive.ph/cWdzs

* "Noem threatens Harvard’s ability to enroll international students:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/17/trump-administration-punish-harvard-00295445

* "House GOP probes Harvard over federal funding:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/17/house-gop-probes-harvard-over-federal-funding-00296742

* "Harvard University Announces It Won’t Surrender to Trump:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193977/harvard-university-wont-surrender-trump

* Harvard is doing the right thing instead of caving like Columbia. Other Universities are signing up to resist.

* "MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration:" https://statenews.com/article/2025/04/msu-faculty-join-call-for-big-ten-mutual-defense-compact-against-trump-administration

* "These Faculty Senates Are Trying to Band Together to Stand Up to Trump:" https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-faculty-senates-are-trying-to-band-together-to-stand-up-to-trump

* "'Don't fight alone': Universities band together to defend against Trump attacks:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-don-t-fight-alone-universities-band-together-to-defend-against-trump-attacks-237521477619

* "Judge temporarily blocks Trump from retaliating against firm that sued Fox News for election lies:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firm-susman-godfrey-eada6cc436533ea3b483568c8287600e

* "Trump Enforcer Shaking Down Law Firms for Billions is Unmasked:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-personal-lawyer-boris-epshteyn-is-the-one-shaking-down-big-law-firms/

* "White House shakes up press pool in apparent nod to court ruling:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/white-house-changes-press-pool-00292526

* "Bill Maher Had Dinner With Donald Trump, Because of Course He Did:"

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* "From Roe to woes, the days SCOTUS hit 'undo' on half a century of progress:" https://www.advocate.com/scotus-ruling

* Republicans are hoping the 14th Amendment to the constitution will be declared unconstitutional. "Supreme Court to hear arguments on Trump’s bid to start implementing his plan to end birthright citizenship:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/17/supreme-court-end-birthright-citizenship-trump-00296984

* "Mahmoud v. Taylor: Everything to know about the Supreme Court case to ban LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mahmoud-v-taylor-lgbtq-books

* "ACLU and LGBTQ+ groups defend Maryland schools' LGBTQ+ curriculum in Supreme Court filing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/school-opt-out-challenged

* I do not want to go back to how it was in my youth. "What to know about the Supreme Court case that could take away your access to PrEP and other care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-prep-case-explained

* "The Cruelty of Medicaid Work Requirements:" https://time.com/7260543/medicaid-work-requirements-disability-essay/

* "White House to send Congress a formal request to nix $9.3B for PBS, NPR, State Department:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/14/white-house-to-send-congress-a-formal-request-to-nix-9-3b-for-pbs-state-department-00289543

Now is the time to hammer your Congress Critters phonelines about why we need NPR and PBS.

* "Lisa Murkowski Says 'We Are All Afraid' Of Retaliation By Donald Trump:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lisa-murkowski-donald-trump_n_6800fb8ae4b027910a15d38f

* "Trump’s pick to lead the IRS raked in donations to pay off campaign debt after he was announced:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/billy-long-irs-campaign-donations-00293051

* "Trump pick to head IRS raises red flags with sketchy ties, disappearing debt:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-pick-to-head-irs-raises-red-flags-with-sketchy-ties-disappearing-debt-237903941510

* "Minimum Wage Increase for 20 Million Proposed Under New Bill:" https://www.newsweek.com/minimum-wage-increase-20-million-americans-proposed-new-bill-2059403?_bhlid=c646c53e777103df2a00a722dd2405c8418f77fd

* "What the SAVE Act could mean for millions of voters, according to a Brennan Center expert:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5361192/house-elections-save-act-voting-rights

* "Trump and Republicans Are Leading an Open Assault on Free Elections:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-republicans-elections-voting-rights-attack-1235316895/

* "In Rural America, the SAVE Act Is a Direct Attack on the Freedom To Vote | Opinion:" https://www.newsweek.com/rural-america-save-act-direct-attack-freedom-vote-opinion-2061138

* "Dem Senators Introduce Logging Bill That Would Hand Over Keys to National Forests to Trump Administration:" https://oregonwild.org/fix-our-forests-senate-antienvironment-bill/

* "The Problems with the Fix Our Forests Act, which Aims to Totally F**k Our Forests:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1LUE2J-ujYs

* I can't remotely post all the rally/town hall stuff, I am sorry.

* "Thousands gather for 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour led by Sanders, AOC in Folsom:" https://www.kcra.com/article/bernie-sanders-aoc-fighting-oligarchy-folsom/64488745

* "‘We got ‘em scared!’: AOC and Bernie draw massive crowds in red states:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-got-em-scared-aoc-and-bernie-draw-massive-crowds-in-red-states-237658181542

* "Rep. Dean explains why an anti-Trump town hall moved her to tears:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-dean-explains-why-an-anti-trump-town-hall-moved-her-to-tears-237926469511




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

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

Please add more below if you have them.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas AG Ken Paxton announces U.S. Senate bid:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ken-paxton-runs-senate

* " Georgia governor signs religious liberty law, worrying LGBTQ+ advocates who say it'll allow discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/georgia-religious-freedom-act-signed

* "Alabama House passes 'Don't Say Gay,' drag ban, and Ten Commandments bills all at once:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/alabama-gay-drag-ten-commandments

* "'Andy, that's not true:' Texas Republican mocked after admitting he doesn't know what intersex is:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-republican-doesnt-know-intersex

* "Even in liberal Massachusetts, Republicans are attacking trans athletes:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/massachusetts-transgender-sports-ban-advances

* "Out gay Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs law repealing marriage equality ban:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/colorado-marriage-equality-ban-repealed

* "Budget gets bipartisan support in the Senate: Bill unexpectedly repeals caseload limitations for child protection agency:" https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/15/budget-gets-bipartisan-support-in-the-senate/

* Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey Interview: https://www.advocate.com/politics/pittsburgh-mayor-ed-gainey-interview

* "Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357885/newsmax-dominion-defamation-2020-election

* "U.K. trans groups respond to high court ruling that trans women aren’t considered women under equalities law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/uk-court-definition-woman-cisgender

* "U.S. activists call U.K. anti-trans ruling 'a serious blow' to human rights:" https://www.advocate.com/news/american-activists-british-antitrans-ruling

* "When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead:" https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-therapists-life-coaches-regulation

* "Americans With Food Allergies Are Getting a Bad Deal:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/06/food-allergy-read-fda-warning-label/678731/

* CW: Suicide "A Disaster of the U.S. Military’s Own Making:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/magazine/suicide-military-austin-valley.html




* "Why isn’t extreme heat considered a disaster in the U.S.?:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/18/nx-s1-5003785/extreme-heat-disaster-fema-climate?




* "Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4942415/disposable-plastic-pollution-waste-single-use-recycling-climate-change-fossil-fuels

* "The world is drowning in plastic.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

* "Traffic engineers build roads that invite crashes because they rely on outdated research and faulty data:" https://theconversation.com/traffic-engineers-build-roads-that-invite-crashes-because-they-rely-on-outdated-research-and-faulty-data-223710

* "The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico:" https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valleys-fanciest-stolen-bikes-trafficked-mastermind-jalisco-mexico/

* "Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing:" https://www.wired.com/story/banks-are-finally-realizing-what-climate-change-will-do-to-housing/

* "Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong:" https://www.wired.com/story/potatoes-are-the-perfect-vegetable-but-youre-eating-them-wrong/

* "Inside the Slimy, Smelly, Secretive World of Glass-Eel Fishing:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/inside-the-slimy-smelly-secretive-world-of-glass-eel-fishing

* "These oldest inhabited termite mounds have been active for 34,000 years:" https://apnews.com/article/oldest-termite-mounds-africa-climate-eb9b49dbbbb770c739398cef894a99a8

* "Videos Show That Leeches Can Jump in Pursuit of Blood:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/science/jumping-leeches.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E0.hCBE.hbEw5KUNR8vp&utm_source=DamnInteresting

* "The Koala Paradox: Can Australia find a way to protect its most beloved animal?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/07/australia-koala-crisis-protection/678493/

* "Study shows elephants might call each other by name:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/study-shows-elephants-might-call-each-other-by-name-2024-06-10/

* "More Than a Century Ago, Flamingos Disappeared From Florida. Now, They’re Coming Home:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-than-a-century-ago-flamingos-disappeared-from-florida-now-theyre-coming-home-180984492/

* "Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives:" https://theconversation.com/records-of-pompeiis-survivors-have-been-found-and-archaeologists-are-starting-to-understand-how-they-rebuilt-their-lives-230641

* "The Curious Melodic Case of The Regina Music Box :" https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-curious-melodic-case-of-the-regina-music-box/

* "Letters Reveal the Life of a 20-Something in 18th-Century London:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/letters-life-18th-century-london

* "There’s a Better Way to Teach the California Gold Rush:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/theres-a-better-way-to-teach-the-california-gold-rush-180984544/

* "No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression

* "Bubble Girl: The kidnapping that once riveted the nation:" https://theamericanscholar.org/bubble-girl-1/

* "Worse Than Signalgate:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/world-war-i-accidental-leak/682393/

* "What is "Haute Couture"? And why is it French?:"

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* "The Scandalous History of the Tuxedo:"

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* "How the Fridge Changed Flavor:" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-the-fridge-changed-flavor

* "The Best Actress Oscar Race of 1950:"

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* I want to thank everyone who contributed to the Squirrel Fundraiser. They think they will be all right now.

* One of the things we got out of last week's marathon bureaucracy is Goth Millennial is getting paid to be my aid again. We also carved out eight hours a month for New Millennial. They started getting paid for their work Wednesday.

Let us hope I get to keep my home care aid hours. We should find out soon.

I took them both on Wednesday errands, which was delightful. I used the motorized cart and spent as much time as possible while waiting things in the car with my seat reclined, reading. When we got back I was exhausted, but we also needed to do a full sofa change for the second day in a row because the emperor is being above and beyond destructive just now.

Them: I haven't seen you this exhausted after errands in months.
Me: I kept having to use all the spoons last week. There is a price for that.

This is a reminder for those of you who are not disabled or are recently disabled that this is what pushing through DOES when you are disabled. Yes, the Millennials got their job stuff sorted out and I'm re-certified as still disabled (Every five years I need to prove to various agencies that my spine hasn't spontaneously regenerated to a pristine state, nor my joints, nor my lungs.) and I've shored up my SSI stuff best I can, and we got the cleaning done in time for both inspections, etc., etc. But I'm pretty much going to be fucked physically for a couple of weeks and I got way behind on EVERYTHING last week because there wasn't anything left most days so I kept going to bed hungry and very early and didn't do the stuff I can normally manage.

I am going to be paying and paying and paying.

Tavy did get a nice cuddle nap on me, then go sit on Goth Millennial for a while for pettins until the humans needed to rearrange themselves for dinner.

* Something has gone dramatically wrong with my bank account. I suspect paypal allowed a secret autowithdraw again at exactly the wrong time, which I will need to track down, as a bill I'd scheduled to pay with more than enough money in the account rather suddenly caused an overdraft. (I checked it wasn't Amazon prime randomly reactivating again, but it's a pain in the ass finding the right tab on paypal. I will do that next.) I had some cash I'd socked away at the beginning of the month in case I needed it for inspection cleaning. I put it back in in time to patch the hole, but when Insuarnce auto-withdraws hit, I am fucked. I think $70.00 would cover those plus fees.

Want to help? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* "HP-like LGBT Books (not written by a TERF):" https://www.tumblr.com/profiterole-reads/666484154723090432/hp-like-lgbt-books-not-written-by-a-terf

* "How Tim Burton Butchered Sweeney Todd:"

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* "Hunger Hurts: Cannibals and Why We're Obsessed with Them:"

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* Interview with Chuck Tingle: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3FycrHnScQ9KViVrcbdx4W?go=1&sp_cid=59b2ae97b301ef8280618aec96e6c4e8&nd=1&dlsi=5c5fb47f80f44c34

* "How Do Religions Use Art?: Crash Course Art History #8:"

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* "Why autism portrayal is one-dimensional—and how to change it | Chloé Hayden | TEDxSydney Youth:"

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* "Shop 'til You Drop: Horror's Condemnation of Overconsumption:"

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* "Illustrious Iliad:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M9qW-z39hrk

* "The White Potus - SNL:"

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* "Medication Ad - SNL:"

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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




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

I can be against it whoever is doing it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Texting War Plans = Illegal:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So many people, particularly children will die.

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

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

Stay Noisy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was.

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

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

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

Stand up NOW while you still can.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another bullshit illegal deportation attempt based on Government lies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to Catch 22.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

You realize that without this, there will be hardly any protein, right?

Reminder: We have so much extra money that we have wasted 18.2 million dollars on Trump's golf outing as of last week. Why is that a better use of taxpayer money then helping farmers and feeding people?

* "School Lunches Should Be Free:"

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* "Protests Break Out Across US Over Plans To Change Postal Service:" https://www.newsweek.com/protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

* "US Postmaster General DeJoy steps down:" https://archive.ph/AGasQ

* Republicans decided we should no longer "waste money" on weather balloons used to track hurricanes in Tornado alley amoung other things. "National Weather Service Suspends Critical Service Again Amid DOGE Cuts:" https://www.newsweek.com/national-weather-service-suspends-critical-service-again-amid-doge-cuts-2048313

* "Fired National Park Service Staff Will Be Reinstated, but Long-Term Threats Loom:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032025/todays-climate-fired-national-parks-workers-reinstated/

* "Protesters descend on Yosemite, Channel Islands and 91 other national parks:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/protests-national-parks-budget-20234508.php

* "Mount Rainier rally part of nationwide push to protect parks, federal workers:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/national/mount-rainier-rally-nationwide-push-to-protect-parks-federal-workers-washington/281-9fd675cc-5907-4965-82f2-dda739c1bca2

* "Protesters gathered outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park amid federal cuts:" https://www.wate.com/news/smoky-mountains/protesters-gathered-outside-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-amid-federal-cuts/

* "As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18032025/trump-administration-attacks-national-monuments-protests/

* "Kristi Noem to Trump’s Cabinet: I’m ‘Going to Eliminate’ FEMA:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-to-trumps-cabinet-im-going-to-eliminate-fema/

* "Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristi-noem-fema-donald-trump-rcna198190

* "“This man is not our boss” — EPA workers rally against DOGE cuts:" https://www.theverge.com/news/635710/doge-musk-trump-environmental-protection-agency-epa

* "EPA employees rally in Denver against President Trump’s job and funding cuts:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/03/26/epa-employees-rally-in-denver-against-president-trumps-job-and-funding-cuts/

* Yet they are purging all these extremely competent people at the top based entirely on skin colour or gender to make room for mediocre or worse white men."Hegseth Brings in Emotional Support Brother as Pentagon Aide:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-brings-in-emotional-support-brother-as-pentagon-aide/

* "Protestors outside Neal Dunn’s info session believe that Veterans Association cuts are unjust:" https://www.wjhg.com/2025/03/23/protestors-outside-neal-dunns-info-session-believe-that-verterans-association-cuts-are-unjust/

* "Veterans becoming face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/veterans-becoming-face-of-trumps-government-cuts-and-democrats-resistance

* "Another judge blocks the Pentagon from implementing Trump's transgender military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-military-ban-injunction

* "BREAKING: Judge reinstates nationwide stop to Trump’s trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-injunction-reinstated

* "​Internet drags Pete Hegseth after he mocked judge who blocked Trump's trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-dragged-mocking-judge#rebelltitem5

* "Congress members denounce VA's end to gender-affirming care, demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/congress-members-condemn-va

* "Opinion | The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/19/dei-pentagon-hegseth-trump-00236799

* "DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dod-pages-dei-holocaust/

* "Trump administration scrubs 'Golden Girls' star's Marine Corps contributions in latest DEI purge:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-bea-arthur-golden-girls-dei

* "These are the US military's diversity photos Trump doesn't want you to see:" https://www.aol.com/us-militarys-diversity-photos-trump-093001345.html

* Nearly all our Domestic Terrorists are Republican, so.... "Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/dArH6#selection-558.0-558.1

* Mine's up in threeish years. "Trump’s Gender Order Won’t Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed:" https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/trump-gender-sex-order-passports

* "Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-vs-maine-explained

* "DO THIS: Oppose Trump administration move to ban trans health care coverage in the ACA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2030901.html

Direct Link to Comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

* NYU Obeyed in advance. "‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

* I may have missed this, so I'm posting it. "CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.:" https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

* "U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-plans-10000-hhs-job-cuts.html

* I know I keep saying this, but so many people are going to die because of RFKJr's policies.

* "US pulls back $12 billion in funding to state health departments:" https://archive.ph/oLqwH

* "$160M in WA health funding axed by Trump administration:" https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/27/160m-in-wa-health-funding-axed-by-trump-administration-cuts/

* "CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pulling-back-11b-covid-funding-sent-health-departments-us-rcna198006

* NOTE: not all the grants. "NIH restores some long COVID grants:" https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-restores-long-COVID-grants/103/web/2025/03

* RFK Jr.'s disinformation campaign is doing a massive amount of damage. "Growing measles outbreak in Texas pushes U.S. cases above 520:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-us-cases-rcna198557

Not vaccinating children who can be safely vaccinated is child abuse, in my opinion.

* "The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations:" https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

* Because RFK Jr. lied about vitamin A, people are now damaging their children's livers rather than give the safe vaccines. "West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak:" https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

* "Why I left my job leading public health messaging for the CDC: Public health policy must be guided by facts and not fantasy.:" https://archive.ph/rx1KR

* "The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies':" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5344010/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr

* "RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/health/office-infectious-diseases-hiv-closing

* "The War on Poppers Started Long Before RFK Jr. Took Over HHS :" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/popper-drug-crackdown-rfk-lgbtq-1235299650/

* "POPPERS 101 and HIV/AIDS Dropped by CDC:"

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* And now for some bonus RFK Jr. body shaming and assholery: "RFK Jr. Tells Governor to His Face He Needs to Lose 30 Pounds:" https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-west-virginia-governor-patrick-morrisey-weight-2052287

* EBT/SNAP is not HHS, but the Agriculture Department/USDA. "RFK Jr.'s food stamp plan fuels tension with USDA:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-usda-tension-00252045

* "Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism:" https://archive.ph/4nc3I

There is no link. It's been proved over and over.

We are not only wasting time and money on this we could be spending vaccinating kids in the middle of a measles epidemic, but we aren't hiring a scientist to run it, but a propagandist.

* "Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-a1ed0ad37917055a1565da5325bd4fd8

* "Radio Free Europe says Trump administration rescinded its grant termination order:" https://archive.ph/ccFBJ

* "Trump signs order to ‘remove improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums and zoo:" https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-27-2025

* "Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa

* "Trump directs JD Vance to go after ‘woke zoos’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-directs-jd-vance-to-go-after-woke-zoos-235744325555

* "Donald Trump's Spiritual Advisor Faces Christian Backlash:" https://www.newsweek.com/paula-white-cain-christians-donald-trump-2050102

* "Trump has big dreams for the Kennedy Center but doesn't seem to know what it does:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-kennedy-center-audience-rcna197179

* "Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-portrait-colorado-polis-00244561

* "Some underreported news and the return of Your Moment of Zen:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2031467.html




* "Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/trump-supreme-court-teacher-training-00251211

* "Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass firings of probationary workers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-supreme-court-fired-probationary-workers-00244890

* "Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-bf404db1d4ece56203c8748b2544dc02

* "Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”: The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/

Once again Christians are claiming corporations are people have religious convictions and that their right to deny bodily autonomy for religious reasons are more important than mere human type people's right to bodily autonomy.

* "Is America a Kleptocracy?:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/25/america-kleptocracy-trump-musk-corruption/

* "Whipsawed by Trump’s tariffs, the US public is getting a lot more nervous about the economy:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-consumer-confidence-tariffs-inflation-849d658cbab7992590a5a3bb3449aa52

* "Everything Owned by Nestlé:" https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everything-Owned-by-Nestle

* "US likely to reach debt limit X-date in August or September, Congress’ scorekeeper predicts :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/26/congress/us-likely-to-reach-debt-limit-x-date-in-august-or-september-congress-scorekeeper-predicts-00250525

* Scary Shit. "US House Speaker Johnson says Congress can 'eliminate' district courts:" https://archive.ph/FUgTk

* "Elon Musk’s Space Business Partner Is Poised to Take Over NASA:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-jared-isaacman-nasa-spacex-business-partner-1235301236/

* "Who Is Frank Bisignano? Democrats Grill Trump’s Social Security Pick At Confirmation Amid DOGE Cuts To Service.:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/25/who-is-frank-bisignano-democrats-grill-trumps-social-security-pick-at-confirmation-amid-doge-cuts-to-service/

* "Fallout coming for House GOP over Trump's rug pull on Stefanik:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-trump-un-ambassador

* "Trump yanks Elise Stefanik’s Cabinet nomination, citing ‘very tight’ GOP majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-yanks-elise-stefanik-s-cabinet-nomination-citing-very-tight-gop-majority-235623493907

* "Jasmine Crockett mocks sports bans: 'Find the little trans child that is ruining your life':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-transgender-sports-bans

* "Why anger has shifted from Trump's overreach to the Democrats' disunity and apathy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-overreach-democrats-disunity-opinion

* As always, these are representative samples. There are way more out there.

Pressure both sides. Ask hard questions. Complain. Embarrass them. Keep pushing because we deserve better.

Stay Noisy.

* "Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center:" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/03/21/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-denver-civic-center-trump/

* "Fourth Protest outside Rep. Pete Stauber’s office Demanding answers:" https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/03/20/fourth-protest-outside-rep-pete-staubers-office-demanding-answers/

* "Republican Senator Faces Angry Protesters, Questions in Red State:" https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-faces-protestors-questions-red-state-2048906

* "Nevada voters pack town hall to voice concerns about Trump policies:" https://knpr.org/politics/2025-03-21/nevada-voters-pack-town-hall-to-voice-concerns-about-trump-policies

* "‘Do your job’: Voters voice frustration after Nancy Mace declines town hall invite:" https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/do-your-job-voters-voice-frustration-after-nancy-mace-declines-town-hall-invite/

* "Protestors gather outside Rep. Buddy Carters’ office:" https://www.wsav.com/news/protestors-gather-outside-rep-buddy-carters-office/

* "Andy Barr knew Lexington town hall was locally organized. He still lied about attendees | Opinion:" https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article302754904.html

* "Democrat Confronted by Angry Protesters at Town Hall:" https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-confronted-angry-protesters-town-hall-2048388




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

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

Please add more below if you have them.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




* "Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-democratic-party-donald-trump-election-094e907bd9af0d55a3ac76bb5e22d17c

* Voting has started for the April 1 special Election. Republicans have a wafer thin majority in the House of Representatives. "Democrats raise millions for Florida special elections in Trump territory:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-raise-millions-florida-special-elections-trump-territory-rcna197311

* "Josh Weil shocks by raising more than $10M for CD 6 Special Election:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/727090-josh-weil-shocks-by-raising-more-than-10m-for-cd-6-special-election/

* "Ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Elon Musk PAC offers cash for pledge: The group backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel is offering $100 to people who sign a petition against 'activist judges':" https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-elon-musk-cash-for-pledge

This was wildly illegal last time Musk did it, but he wasn't arrested and laws no longer apply to republicans, so here we are.

* "Wisconsin attorney general sues Elon Musk to block $1 million payment offers:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-d75807980ac311b87606fb4ec58cc466

* "Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-musk-million-dollar-checks-43fa79215e16c333a1079a86cb9aab08

* "Special election to fill former Sen. Justin Eichorn’s seat set for April 29:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/25/special-election-to-fill-former-sen-justin-eichorns-seat-set-for-april-29

* "Have LGBTQ+ rights in Florida reached a turning point? Advocates have hope:" https://www.advocate.com/florida-lgbtq-hope

* "Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vetoes anti-DEI bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kentucky-beshear-vetoes-anti-dei-bill

* "NJ Democrats for governor want to amend the constitution for abortion. Legal experts call it ‘unnecessary’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/nj-democrats-for-governor-want-to-amend-the-constitution-for-abortion-legal-experts-call-it-unnecessary-00244111

* "How Republican State Lawmakers Are Trying to Have It Both Ways on Lifesaving Abortions:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/abortion-exceptions-republicans-kentucky-texas-fetal-personhood.html

* "After reported deaths, Texas lawmakers file bills to clear confusion over medical exceptions to state's near abortion ban:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/deaths-texas-lawmakers-file-bills-clear-confusion-medical-exceptions-near-abortion-ban/

* "How Texas Republicans plan to keep cracking down on abortion:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/texas-abortion-fight-pills-travel-fund/

* "Transgender Texans refuse to be erased as Republicans try to make their existence illegal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-transgender-community-under-attack

* "Texas Bill Would Require Photo ID to Buy Sex Toys Online, Calling Them 'Obscene Devices':" https://people.com/texas-bill-will-require-id-to-purchase-a-sex-toy-online-11703746

* "Florida bill to allow teens to work overnight hours on school days moves forward:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-senate-panel-advances-bill-to-further-roll-back-child-labor-restrictions/

* "Top Florida lawmaker has ‘personal concerns’ about a push to loosen child-labor laws:" https://archive.ph/hP1Wk

They want children to work all night on school nights to make up for all the people being deported.

Florida, please protest!

* "West Virginia lawmakers vote to overturn local protections for LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/wv-gop-vote-overturn-lgbtq-protections

* "Utah becomes the first state to ban Pride and other flags on public schools and government buildings:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-bans-pride-flags-public-buildings

* We are headed to an even scarier place. "GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-in-10-states-introduce-bills-to-treat-abortion-as-homicide/ar-AA1BPSFB

* "Youngkin vetoes bills that would have raised minimum wage, given paid sick leave to all and more:" https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/youngkin-vetoes-minimum-wage-paid-sick-leave-bills/

* "Mayor Michelle Wu - Making Boston A Home For Everyone | The Daily Show:"

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* "Demonstrators rally at site of Patrick Henry’s ‘Liberty or Death’ speech:" https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/demonstrators-rally-at-site-of-patrick-henrys-liberty-or-death-speech/

* "Parents call out school board member for anti-LGBTQ+ posts:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-school-board-member-homophobia

* "3 killed, 15 injured in shootout at 'unsanctioned car show' in New Mexico park:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-killed-14-injured-new-mexico-mass-shooting-rcna197615

* " Texas officials demand answers after video shows Austin police slamming transgender woman to ground :" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-manhandled-austin-police

* "Minneapolis to pay $600,000 to settle with woman who says Derek Chauvin knelt on her neck:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-pay-600000-settle-woman-says-derek-chauvin-knelt-neck-rcna190312

* "'Ridiculous': George Floyd's girlfriend reacts to far-right effort to pardon Derek Chauvin:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/ridiculous-george-floyd-s-girlfriend-reacts-to-far-right-effort-to-pardon-derek-chauvin-235151429763

* "I’m an Incarcerated Nurse — Women’s Health in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/prison-health-incarcerated-nurse-trump-healthcare-america-1235299298/

* "The Succession Battle For A Prison Empire:" https://archive.ph/rkzWe#selection-736.0-736.1

* "'Nazis are not welcome in Austin' | UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference:" https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/natal-conference-ut-austin-campus-protest/269-26e25360-d2f7-4558-82e5-d2b7a6ef6e00

* "Texas A&M's drag ban blocked by federal court as judge cites free 'speech rights':" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-drag-ban-blocked

* "Federal judge again blocks Iowa book ban; expected to rule on 'don't say gay' restrictions soon:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-blocks-iowa-book-ban

* CW: Rape. "Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia: East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.:" https://archive.ph/avdTi

* Every Republican against us accusation is a confession. CW: CSA "Minnesota anti-trans state senator, who touted Trump derangement syndrome, arrested for soliciting a minor:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Rebecca Marodi murder: Wife accused of fatally stabbing fire captain detained in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/rebecca-marodi-stabbing-wife-detained

* "Texas’ first abortion arrests stem from monthlong attorney general investigation:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/

* "Notes from a gender clinician:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-clinician-affirming-care

* "Hungarians protest Pride ban; Budapest mayor promises LGBTQ+ support:" https://www.advocate.com/news/hungarians-protest-pride-ban

* "Missing gay Arizona yoga instructor, Marcus Freiberger, found dead after blind date:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/missing-gay-yoga-arizona-dead#toggle-gdpr

* "Gay men's chorus member killed in suspected Texas road rage attack — family and police seek help:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/road-rage-gay-killing-texas

* "Mississippi restaurant gets lambasted for straight-couples-only offer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-restaurant-lambasted-for-homophobia

* Gender Policing and Transphobia harm everyone. "Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/walmart-fires-mistaken-trans-woman

* "Texas is poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic, public health experts say:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/texas-measles-vaccine-new-mexico-oklahoma-us/

* "2 more cases of measles confirmed in Maryland:" https://wtop.com/health-fitness/2025/03/2-more-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-maryland/

* "New Mexico measles cases continue to rise in SE corner:" https://sourcenm.com/briefs/new-mexico-measles-cases-continue-to-rise-in-se-corner/

* "An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/als-outbreak-montchavin-mystery/682096/

* How to fight your insurance company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

* "Video: UW-led research links wildfire smoke exposure with increased dementia risk:" https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/11/25/video-uw-led-research-links-wildfire-smoke-exposure-with-increased-dementia-risk/




* "Over 25 million remain under red flag warnings with heightened risk of wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfire-warnings-continue-parts-country-strong-winds-persist/story?id=120030148

* "Most Texas wildfires are contained Saturday despite elevated threats, forest service says:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/03/22/most-texas-wildfires-are-contained-saturday-despite-elevated-threats-forest-service-says/

* "Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wildfires-force-mandatory-evacuation-order-western-north-carolina-120068816

* "Firefighters battle four uncontained wildfires, evacuations in effect:" https://www.wyff4.com/article/polk-county-wnc-wildfires-high-fire-danger/64243054

* "Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-north-south-carolina-evacuations-af970ce0551007bfa0a5940aed58d68a

* "Aid rushes into Myanmar after earthquake kills over 1,600, ravages cities:" https://archive.ph/jsXsV

* "Myanmar junta accused of air strike even after quake:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250330-myanmar-junta-accused-of-air-strike-even-after-quake




* "'Magnets for human connection': Why Japanese ‘micro-forests' are transforming our cities:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/17/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

* "Debunking Garden Watering Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JAeCFM8H9E

* "Scientists were in Antarctica when a giant iceberg broke free. Here’s what they found in its shadow:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/23/scientists-were-in-antarctica-when-a-giant-iceberg-broke-free-heres-what-they-found-in-its

* "This Fly Larva’s Butt Looks Like a Termite’s Head—and Termites Are Falling for It:" https://gizmodo.com/this-fly-larvas-butt-looks-like-a-termites-head-and-termites-are-falling-for-it-2000563456

* "This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-apex-predator-was-king-of-the-ancient-egyptian-forest-then-mysteriously-went-extinct/

* "The Only Black Police Precinct in U.S. History: How Miami Was Policed During Segregation:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-police-precinct-history-miami

* "New photo from Pulse shooting shows exit blocked by refrigerator, which may have cost lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-photo-pulse-exit-blocked

* "Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise:" https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/identity-poetry-activism-video/this-is-the-way-we-rise-american-masters/

* "Scientist’s ‘disturbing’ behavior, death threats at Antarctic base prompts probe:" https://interestingengineering.com/culture/scientist-disturbing-behavior-antarctic-probe-begins

* "TSA stops man with live turtle in his pants:" https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/tsa-stops-man-with-live-turtle-in-his-pants/video_29a3b6d1-67d9-5dfc-a44e-765beb8ebc5d.html

* "Passenger Allegedly Swallowed Rosary Beads and Attacked Crew Members During Mid-Flight Meltdown:" https://people.com/plane-passenger-allegedly-swallowed-rosary-beads-and-attacked-crew-members-11695552

* Thursday a week ago, I had thought I was likely going to crash again 2AMish as I woke up exhausted, headachy, with all my joints screaming at me, but it got better about 2-3, so I soldiered on and got the aggregate out. Friday, I was well enough to do almost bare minimum physio, which I'm counting as a win.

My hopes of being super productive Friday night failed, alas, but for good reasons. The cats were doing Peaceable Kingdom in my bed, so I read most of Tidal Creatures while administering pettins on demand and cuddle naps for cats. I also had a bunch of small things needing doing I'd been in too much pain to handle around the Cat Asylum, which I spaced out in classic chronic pain fashion in between rests. Also I fell down a medieval history rabbit hole for about an hour. <.< >.>

Tonight was I was also migrating another function across to Killian laptop, and inevitably diving in and out of settings as I found things needing tweaking. This is why it generally takes several weeks to get a lap top going right, and this time having to use waterfox classic instead of standard waterfox meant I had to rethink job distributions, since a bunch of extensions don't work on classic. Limited utility means I need to switch some functions for other browsers. It's mostly sorted now, though I may need more tweaks.

Part of why Thursday worked out so well for me is I'm getting better at the new work flow pattern, so certain things can move a little faster.

So progress, basically, even though it feels like running on sand.

* Thursday this week, I had to stay up for painful x-rays and doctor prodding, as well as to have blood taken. The x-rays were incredibky painful as my hip joint are terrible right now and it's a lot of standing in fixed positions. My shoulder joint healed correctly. I have been released in the wild to do more at home physio. I am to focus particularly on inward motion, which means I will need to get creative. Sigh.

* So about a week and a half ago, a friend sent me NasalCrom to see if it could make a dent in my chronic sinus infection/sinusitis situation. It's really impressive, as it turns out. My sinuses have been slowly draining, which is not pleasant, but neither was several years of sinus headaches and the constant need to manually drain them 1-3 times a day depending on how much worse my allergies to Outside are making things. This, at least is progress towards an actual solution.

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* New Tavy pics: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/778947425672019968/the-emperor-has-found-a-new-perch-from-which-to?source=share

* "DOGE Protestors Turn Their Focus on Tesla & Delayed NASA Astronauts Make It Home | The Daily Show:"

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* "GOP Pumps Tesla As Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover | Kristi Noem Taunts Canada | Taking Greenland:"

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* "Signalgate: Trump Tries To Dodge Explosive National Security Scandal | All Of Them Should Be Fired:"

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* "Hegseth's Sloppy Security Breach | Mike Waltz: Goldberg's Number Got "Sucked In" To My Phone:"

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* "Blame Mike Waltz | Trump Team's Sloppy Digital Footprints | The Fertilization President:"

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* "How Many Dildos Is Too Many? Texas Offers An Answer:"

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* "Consumer Watch: Delete Your DNA | Toys For Kidults | Tax Prep For Kids:"

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* "Survive the Apocalypse in Luxury at this Doomsday Prepper Ranch | The Daily Show:"

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* "‘Why I’m Misogynistic’ | Are The Straights OK?:"

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* "the idea of odysseus as, like, a military propagandist/PR officer is really fun for me in a fucked up way, given that he Did Not Want To Go To War In The First Place.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/779357773890732032/to-me-this-also-fits-with-him-taking-neoptolemus

* "Tumultuous 1066:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XdqjwPHWps

* "Worrisome War Wolves:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1o5nXucddGQ

* "Perilous Pazzis:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G0MaPqF_Cqs

* "Woeful WWI:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRR2rKDo1IM

* "White House Easter Egg Roll Sponsors:"

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* "Resurrecting The Wooly Mammoth:"

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* "Styling the Whole World:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XDxRiYF-v8s

* "Take a look at the winning images from this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards:" https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/19/take-a-look-at-the-winning-images-from-this-years-british-wildlife-photography-awards

* "Sunday Sweets Springs In:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-springs-in-2025

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* How to fight your insurace company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

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* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share




* "Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid stepped up ceasefire push:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strikes-kill-dozens-gaza-us-pushes-ceasefire-2025-01-08/

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* "Why is my life considered more important than a Ukrainian life?:" https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-why-is-my-life-considered-more-important-than-a-ukrainian-life/




* "Trudeau stepping down as Canada’s PM after rapid decline in public approval:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trudeau-stepping-down-as-canadas-pm-after-rapid-decline-in-public-approval

* "The UN says more than 5,600 people were killed in Haiti last year as gangs rampage:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/5600-people-killed-haiti-year-gangs-rampage-117418238

* "Key takeaways from Haiti’s multinational mission: progress, setbacks, and future challenges:" https://haitiantimes.com/2025/01/08/key-takeaways-from-haiti-multinational-mission/

* "U.K. leader Starmer slams 'lies and misinformation' after attacks from Elon Musk:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/g-s1-41296/starmer-attacks-elon-musk

* "Narendra Modi’s Populist Facade Is Cracking:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/modi-nationalism-demagoguery-limitations/681094/?

* "Biden signs bill boosting Social Security payments for millions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/higher-social-security-payments-coming-millions-people-bill-117343285

Meanwhile, republicans are promising deep cuts to social security to pay for tax cuts for a handful of billionaires who already pay nothing even close to their share.

* "Biden bans new offshore drilling along most of the U.S. coastline:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biden-bans-new-offshore-drilling-us-coastline-atlantic-pacific-trump-rcna186338

* "Trump promises to undo Biden lame-duck drilling ban:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/06/congress/donald-trump-drilling-ban-00196667

Biden should have done this four years ago, but doing it at all adds to things Trump has to remember to undo. Anything that slows Trump even a little is still something, given how lazy he is and the long list of things he has planned.

* "Fed officials are worried about the inflation impacts from Trump’s policies, minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/fed-minutes-january-2025.html

* "Watch Kamala Harris keep her cool on a day of contrasts at U.S. Senate with warm moments and not-so-warm ones:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kamala-harris-swearing-in-senators

* "Speaker Mike Johnson quietly enacts ‘cruel’ anti-transgender bathroom ban in U.S. House of Representatives:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-house-transgender-bathrooms

Asshole soaked up the good press for not doing it, then did it quietly, hoping no one would notice.

* "Republican Sen. Tuberville wants to ban trans girls from school sports...again:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gop-tuberville-transgender-sports

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.


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

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

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

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

To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* This is some bullshit. The Republican War on free and fair elections continues. They have no proof of fraudulent voting, but they are blocking it anyway because they want to illegally stack the court. "GOP-controlled N.C. Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/north-carolina-supreme-court-blocks-certification-democrat-winner-clos-rcna186662

* "Oregon swears in first LGBTQ+ treasurer, Dr. Elizabeth Steiner:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/oregon-lgbtq-treasurer

* "Idaho Republicans file resolution to repeal marriage equality:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/idaho-republicans-marriage-equality-challenge

* "George Santos wins sentencing delay in fraud case, but less than he asked for:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-wins-sentencing-delay

* "Judge finds Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court in defamation case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rudy-giuliani-resume-testimony-contempt-hearing-defamation-case-rcna186216

* "Why I'm quitting the Washington Post:" https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

* "Winning coalitions aren't always governing coalitions:" https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/

NOTE: I am moving the Trump section up the page soon, but I'm waiting until the hand over on the 20th.




* Consequences. "Honduras Threatens US Military Bases Over Trump's Mass Deportations:" https://www.newsweek.com/honduras-threatens-shut-down-us-military-bases-mass-deportations-2009110

* "Trump's anti-immigrant agenda ensures confrontation from day one as opponents prepare:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-anti-immigrant-agenda-ensures-confrontation-from-day-one-as-opponents-prepare-228633669599

* "Trump says he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. Can he do that?:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-gulf-of-mexico-bc438f4feca1234475a1adef99344da7

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene champions bill on 'Gulf of America' name change:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-champions-bill-on-gulf-of-america-name-change-228830277766

* "Trump Says America Could Use Military to Seize Other Nations:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-america-military-seize-greenland-panama-1235227860/

* "'Obviously ridiculous': Trump veers into bizarre fixation on adding neighboring countries as states:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-obviously-ridiculous-trump-veers-into-bizarre-fixation-on-adding-neighboring-countries-as-states-228743237795

* "'It ain't gonna happen': Himes blasts Trump's empire ambitions as distraction ploy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-it-ain-t-gonna-happen-himes-blasts-trump-s-empire-ambitions-as-distraction-ploy-228747845533

* "Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardon Promise Would Put Police-Assaulters Back On The Streets:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pardons-police-assaulters-jan-6_n_676d685de4b05de1fe06963c

* "After taunting Panama, Trump taps ambassador for the country:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/25/trump-cabrera-panama-ambassador-00196034

* In case you don't know the history and need a Trump panama lie debunking. "Yes, US Used to Own the Panama Canal. Here's the History:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/08/trump-panama-canal-history/

* I don't directly link the Washington Post lightly, but I thought some people might want to read the full text instead of a summary. "Joe Biden: What Americans should remember about Jan. 6:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/05/president-biden-jan-6-democracy/

* "Biden calls on Americans not to forget Jan 6 attack:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-calls-americans-not-forget-jan-6-attack-2025-01-06/

* "Four years later: The unapologetic nature of Trump's political renaissance is an ongoing menace:" https://www.slowboring.com/p/four-years-later

* "As Trump rewrites history, victims of the Jan. 6 riot say they feel 'betrayed':" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/05/nx-s1-5200594/jan-6-attack-capitol-riot-victims-violence

* "Trump’s Propaganda Victory: The Rewriting Of Jan. 6:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jan-6-lost-cause_n_67786658e4b03c84a28dacd5

* "He Got Away With It: Donald Trump instigated a violent attack on the Capitol. In two weeks, he’ll be sworn in as president at the very same building:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-got-away-with-instigating-jan-6-capitol-attack-1235226493/

* "Maddow: January 6 becomes marker of Trump's degradation of wall between violence and politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-january-6-becomes-marker-of-trump-s-degradation-of-wall-between-violence-and-politics-228631621688

* "Our National Day of Shame: Four years later, the shock of that day is replaced by the shock of how that day has become accepted.:" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-national-day-of-shame

* "The Looming Danger of Trump’s January 6 Pardons:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/trump-pardons-january6-insurrection-congress-security/

* "Statement of Cardinal Robert McElroy on the announcement of his appointment as archbishop of Washington:" https://www.cathstan.org/local/statement-of-cardinal-robert-mcelroy-on-the-announcement-of-his-appointment-as-archbishop-of-washington

* "New D.C. Catholic archbishop is pro-LGBTQ+ and anti-Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pro-lgbtq-dc-archbishop

* "Donald Trump’s endless assault on our nation is exhausting. But complacency is not an option.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/donald-trumps-endless-assault-on-our-nation-is-exhausting-but-complacency-is-not-an-option/

* "Donald Trump’s “Shock and Awe” Campaign:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trumps-shock-and-awe-campaign

* "Trump invites House Republicans to Mar-a-Lago ahead of inauguration:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-invites-house-republicans-mar-lago-rcna186296

* "Trump mulls economic emergency declaration to back universal tariff plans, CNN reports:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/trump-mulls-national-economic-emergency-declaration-allow-new-tariff-program-cnn-2025-01-08/

* "A Complete Guide to Trump's Cabinet Appointees:" https://www.snopes.com/articles/468475/trump-cabinet-appointees/

* "Donald Trump nominates lesbian Fox News host Tammy Bruce, who said Democrats fund creating 'mutants':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/donald-trump-nominates-tammy-bruce

* The suspicions are true. "Trump's Team Was Fed Questions by Fox News Insider Before Town Hall: Book:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-iowa-town-hall-fox-news-2012072

* "Watchdog group accuses RFK Jr. of voter fraud:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/rfk-voter-ny-accusations-00196984

* "Watchdog finds signs politics drove Trump DOJ’s probes of pandemic nursing home deaths:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/07/watchdog-finds-signs-politics-drove-trump-doj-probes-pandemic-nursing-home-deaths-002055

* It isn't her jurisdiction. If we still had rule of law she wouldn't have a say. "Cannon temporarily blocks release of Jack Smith report:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/07/aileen-cannon-blocks-jack-smith-report-release-00196863

* If they don't release it before Trump takes power it will likely disappear, hence the urgency. "Justice Department wants to release only part of its report on Trump cases:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/g-s1-41562/jack-smith-trump-appeal

* "Trump moves to cancel hush money sentencing on Friday:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/06/trump-moves-to-cancel-hush-money-sentencing-on-friday-00196589

* "Alito, Trump spoke a day before Supreme Court filing in hush-money case:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/g-s1-41551/trump-supreme-court-hush-money-case-sentencing

* "Trump frantic to slow wheels of justice until he is safe in the White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-frantic-to-slow-wheels-of-justice-until-he-is-safe-in-the-white-house-228746309609




* "New Orleans gay bars feel impact of Bourbon Street terror attack:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/new-orleans-terror-attack

* "McDonald's ends some DEI practices, cites SCOTUS ruling and 'other companies' (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/mcdonalds-ends-dei-practices

* "More companies than ever have this DEI practice, despite anti-LGBTQ+ push:" https://www.advocate.com/news/companies-with-dei-hrc-cei

* CW: Child Abuse. "Former Virginia nurse charged with felony child abuse amid probe into NICU babies suffering 'unexplained fractures':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-virginia-nurse-charged-felony-child-abuse-amid/story?id=117425169

* "TERFs, Trans Mascs, and Two Steve Feminism:" https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/terfs-trans-mascs-and-two-steve-feminism/

* "Only 0.1 percent of youth receive gender-affirming meds: study:" https://www.advocate.com/health/gender-affirming-care-youth-rare

* "Hayes: The trans population is far smaller than the right would have you believe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-the-trans-population-is-far-smaller-than-the-right-would-have-you-believe-228830277832

* "Russian man fined for joking that he started international LGBTQ+ movement:" https://www.advocate.com/news/russian-fined-lgbtq-propaganda

* "Defense Dept. reaches settlement with vets discharged under 'don't ask, don't tell' and earlier ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/discharged-troops-settlement-dadt

* "Eight California sheriff's deputies sacked for covering up a fellow officer's attack on trans man:" https://www.advocate.com/news/police-beating-trans-man-coverup

* "New Orleans activists fundraise to replace stolen plaque remembering an arson that killed 32 queer people:" https://www.advocate.com/news/upstairs-lounge-fire-plaque-fundraiser

Fundraiser here: https://www.eservicepayments.com/cgi-bin/Vanco_ver3.vps?appver3=tYgT1GfNxRUldiimjHMvOQ43yt9fYqgnnIoZwKBOirW1q4qJDDuf89STNCYkcYRM2evTpo0mld6BrVzd2nG0p0DFqXx82BKqCdJwvoK-S_8=&ver=3

* "Breaking down barriers in mental health equity:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-youth-mental-health




* "Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control in and around Los Angeles and homes are destroyed:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-southern-california-santa-ana-winds-b565a3bd043d6444820f1571b2307bf1

* "'So little water': California firefighters struggle as hoses run dry:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-so-little-water-california-firefighters-struggle-as-hoses-run-dry-228842565698

* "Photos capture how wildfires ravaged through Southern California:" https://apnews.com/article/california-pacific-palisades-wildfires-los-angeles-4b67b7f29d0d6eb7321a52ef60c17d60

* "It’s not really the right time for nasty California fires. What are the factors that changed that?:" https://apnews.com/article/fire-devastation-climate-change-santa-ana-winds-a46e2bb6785b1e325f6076fb22c8fcc5




* "Meet the gay man helping FEMA fight misinformation during natural disasters:" https://www.advocate.com/people/fema-justin-knighten-gay-communication

* "How the Arrival of an Endangered Bird Indicates What’s Possible for the L.A. River:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-the-arrival-of-an-endangered-bird-indicates-whats-possible-for-the-la-river-180985390/

* "Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks:" https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/

* "The danger of Meta’s big fact-checking changes:" https://www.vox.com/politics/393863/meta-mark-zuckerberg-fact-checking-trump

* "What LGBTQ+ people should know about Meta’s new rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-policies-lgbtq-attacks

* "Hayes: Zuckerberg and tech execs cozying up to Trump is chilling—but 'very clarifying':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-zuckerberg-and-tech-execs-cozying-up-to-trump-is-chilling-but-very-clarifying-228723781895

* "Meta blocked teens from seeing LGBTQ+ content on Instagram: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/instagram-blocked-teens-lgbtq

* "The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-teems-with-networks-of-interconnected-bacteria-20250106/

* "Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/inside-the-hands-on-lab-of-an-experimental-archaeologist/

* "When Picasso Was Arrested for Stealing the “Mona Lisa”:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/when-picasso-was-arrested-for-stealing-the-mona-lisa?

* "Women’s Work: Fighting to Serve — Black Nurses in World War II:" https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/12/womens-work-fighting-to-serve-black-nurses-in-world-war-ii/

* Good news! "Jean-Marie Le Pen, French fiery far-right leader, dies at 96:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251155/jean-marie-le-pen-france-obit

* "Sheldon 'Turner' Freeman, gay D.C. librarian and activist, dead at 64:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-librarian-turner-freeman-obituary

* "How Do Igloos Keep People Warm?:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/how-igloos-stay-warm

* "Cry about it: The tradition of town criers is slowly dwindling in Canada. But those who are left vow to cry to their last breath.:" https://archive.ph/9PCB6#selection-2685.0-2685.115

* I'm really struggling with the physio right now. My body insists it is injured from the eye thing, which is still giving me headaches when I read, etc., plus the weather is the kind of variable that really messes with my AS. I suspect Tavy wanting to sit on my shoulder for hours at a time is not helping.

Monday, Goth Millennial came with me to the eye doctor and the trip back was slow and dramatic because the fog was occasionally a real pea souper. The regular eye doctor is across town from where I live and we stuck to surface streets because the fog was so bad.

While it's nice they give us this big frame allowance rather than make us pick from six government frames as they used to, there is no world in which I'd use the whole frame allowance and if they'd let me use the extra for things like (required) bifocals and (required) ultra lights I absolutely need the glasses would be free instead of a major expense I struggle to cover. On the upside, a benefactor set an end of year gift that should cover them and the car tax this month, plus the stupid HOA fee they charged me because they fucked up payments in December. This is good as not being behind in Housing Tax season is essential and that comes next.

You may notice I posted very little on Monday if you were on Tumblr even by my Monday and Tuesday standards. That's because the headache was so bad I just gave up and went to bed early. I ended up staying there 15-16 hours and still being kind of crap Thursday evening.

On the upside I found the missing library books. It turns out I'd put them in a bag to go back and the one cleaner visit between June and November resulted in them getting moved on top of the cardboard boxes where I keep medium term document storage. (I don't want to move things to long term for a year because periodically a bureaucracy thing will require something and it's better to have it close to hand. Occasionally I need long term storage things, but it's rare. I actually need to clear out long term storage paperwork, but I can't physically do it by myself, so some boxes end up staying longer than seven years. Sigh. Boxes all get dates so I know when things are safe to get rid of).

Anyway, no wonder we couldn't find the missing books despite a couple months of searching. We were looking in logical places, like my car or my bedroom. If you combine camouflage with non-intuitive placement the things might as well have been invisible. I only worked it out because I did the math on when they had to have been lost and realized the could have been moved that one particular week while outgoing instead of incoming or in a reading location. I'd checked them off in my head when I bagged them and put them where I'd grab them on the way out the door, then assumed they were on the way back as i hadn't had time to read them what with everything that had been going on.

Sigh. I didn't make it out when the library was still open, but I did turn them in at the night drop so there's eighty dollars I don't owe after all.

I am so tired and everything hurts so, so much.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

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

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

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

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

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

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

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

More Links Underneath: )
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* Drowning in links and rl beaurocracy and medical stuff. I am waaay behind, Sorry.

* Please tell the White House to send everything they can to Ukraine now while there is still time: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share




* "Gaza: Possible atrocity crimes unfold, new UN report warns:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1156716

* "Israel Defence Minister Katz: In Lebanon there will be no ceasefire, will continue to hit Hezbollah with full force:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-defence-minister-katz-lebanon-there-will-be-no-ceasefire-will-continue-2024-11-12/

* "Ireland and Unifil reject Israel’s request to remove peacekeepers from Lebanese border outpost:" https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/10/04/irish-peacekeepers-lebanon-latest-israel-invasion/

* "Netanyahu’s office confirms Israel was behind devastating pager attacks on Hezbollah:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-office-confirms-israel-was-behind-devastating-pager-attacks-on-hezbollah/

******

* "Netanyahu appoints settler activist as Israel's ambassador to US:" https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahu-appoints-settler-activist-israel-ambassador-us




* "‘Dishonourable’: Māori leaders furious with early introduction of Treaty Principles Bill:" https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/dishonourable-maori-leaders-furious-with-early-introduction-of-treaty-principles-bill/1ottznycj

* "Congress set to extend government shutdown deadline into Trump’s term:" https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/nov/11/congress-set-to-extend-government-shutdown-deadlin/

* This is a big power grab. "Trump is demanding an important change to the Senate confirmation process:" https://www.vox.com/politics/384356/trump-recess-appointments-explained-senate-confirmation-thune-scott-cornyn-cabinet

* "Maddow: Trump already consolidating power despite almost guaranteed obedience from GOP in Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-trump-already-consolidating-power-despite-almost-guaranteed-obedience-from-gop-in-congress-224187973627

* "US Senate Republicans pick insider John Thune as their next leader:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-republicans-pick-new-leader-amid-pressure-trump-allies-2024-11-13/

* This is terrifying. "House Fast-Tracks Bill That Would Give Trump Power to Target Nonprofits:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/house-bill-trump-power-target-nonprofits-1235161151/

* "House Democrat to introduce resolution reiterating Trump can serve only two terms as president:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-democrat-introduce-resolution-reiterating-trump-can-only-serve-t-rcna179987

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene lays out her anti-trans plan now that the GOP will control everything:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-lays-out-her-anti-trans-plan-now-that-the-gop-will-control-everything/

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

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

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

* "Biden wants Americans to "bring down the temperature" — but MAGA will not let that happen:" https://www.salon.com/2024/11/12/biden-wants-americans-to-bring-down-the-temperature--but-maga-will-not-let-that-happen/

* "An Overlooked — and Increasingly Important — Clue to How People Vote:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548

* "A tale of two jets: The old media grapples with its new limits:" https://www.semafor.com/article/11/10/2024/a-tale-of-two-jets-the-old-media-grapples-with-its-new-limits

* "When Trump wins, so does the media:" https://www.slowboring.com/p/when-trump-wins-so-does-the-media-7b2

* "X marks the spybot:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2015825.html

* "The Crypto World's Victory Lap Begins:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-11-08/crypto-world-takes-victory-lap-after-big-us-election-bet-pays-off

* "These 7 House seats are still undecided, with 2024 results outstanding a week after Election Day:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-results-2024-seats-undecided/

* "LGBTQ+ candidates lose races for Florida legislature:" https://www.advocate.com/election/florida-lgbtq-candidates-lose

* "Meet the Democrat who beat MAGA Republican Kari Lake to replace bi lawmaker Kyrsten Sinema in the U.S. Senate:" https://www.advocate.com/election/ruben-gallego-defeats-kari-lake

* "Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins reelection to U.S. House in New York’s 14th Congressional District:" https://apnews.com/article/race-call-ocasio-cortez-wins-new-york-u-s-house-district-35cb24bf92b34001b35214abd337b479

* "Thousands of previously unreported votes change some apparent winners in Michigan:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024/11/thousands-of-previously-unreported-votes-change-some-apparent-winners-in-michigan.html

* "Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr wins reelection, will return to House floor after sanction:" https://www.advocate.com/election/montana-zooey-zephyr-reelection-sanction

* "Emily Randall makes history as first LGBTQ+ Latina in Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/election/emily-randall-latina-lesbian-congress

* "Julie Johnson just made history as the first LGBTQ+ person ever elected to Congress from the South:" https://www.advocate.com/election/lesbian-julie-johnson-elected-congress

* "Kentucky elects its first-ever LGBTQ+ woman state senator:" https://www.advocate.com/election/kentucky-lgbtq-senator-keturah-hurron

* "Josh Stein beats 'Black Nazi' Mark Robinson for North Carolina governor:" https://www.advocate.com/election/mark-robinson-loses-josh-stein-north-carolina-governor

* "7 things to know about Michigan’s extra 26,662 votes that had been unreported:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2024/11/7-things-to-know-about-michigans-extra-26662-votes-that-had-been-unreported.html

* "Democrat Andy Kim wins open New Jersey Senate seat, defeating Republican Curtis Bashaw:" https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-new-jersey-senate-kim-bashaw-42b8fe654b8cf03c7f50d030ab3374db

* "Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear: Democrats don't have to abandon LGBTQ+ people to win:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/beshear-democrats-keep-supporting-lgbtq

* "What will happen to Tim Walz after Donald Trump's presidential election win?:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/what-will-happen-to-tim-walz-after-donald-trump-presidential-win/

* "Joe, Mika, and their ilk are endangering the lives of transgender human beings:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/morning-joe-transphobia-trump-election

* "Democrats play the blame game, scapegoat minority groups after Trump's win:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/democrats-play-the-blame-game-scapegoat-minority-groups-after-trump-s-win-224040005653

* "Is Bernie Sanders right that Democrats have 'abandoned' the working class?:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/is-bernie-sanders-right-that-democrats-have-abandoned-the-working-class-224085573655

* "'People feel extremely betrayed': Dearborn Mayor explains the role Gaza played in Kamala Harris loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-people-feel-extremely-betrayed-dearborn-mayor-explains-the-role-gaza-played-in-kamala-harris-loss-224086085855

* "Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer:" https://newrepublic.com/article/188238/trump-won-voter-perception-2024

* I keep thinking about the person on tumblr who went after me hard and at length because I expressed concern about us being too close in the swing states because I was clearly an ignorant rube who knew nothing about polling or politics. *side eye* I wonder how they are feeling now, whoever they were.

* "‘Woke Teen’ Dean Withers Debated 20 Trump Voters at Once. Now He Has a Message for Liberals:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/woke-teen-dean-witherslinkedindebated-20-trump-voters-at-once-now-he-has-a-message-for-liberals/ar-AA1u1bS8

* "America's political discordance: The Trump voters who want progressivism:" https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/americas-political-discordance-the-want-progressivism/

* "Texas law targets transgender people with $500 fines, $10k civil suits for using the bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/tx-city-transgender-bathroom-fines

This is a way to force trans people out of public life. If you can't safety use a bathroom, you can't go to school, or hold a job, or go to a restaurant, or go shopping for longer than a couple of hours.

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

**** I'm tossing most Trump and Trump transition stuff into the bracketed section below for now ****




* "Iran ordered an operative to assassinate Trump before the election, federal prosecutors say:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/08/donald-trump-iran-assassination-plot-00188498

* Taliban and Russia congratulate Trump: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-11-2024

* If I were in charge of intelligence for any of our allies, I wouldn't share a damned thing with us anymore. "Trump, Who Was Charged with Mishandling Secrets, Will Get Classified Briefings Again:" https://time.com/7174648/donald-trump-classified-documents/

* "There’s already a snag in Trump’s transition with the Biden administration:" https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-transition-planning-ethics-agreements-biden-rcna179452

* "Americans Didn’t Vote for What Donald Trump Is About to Give Them:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-americans-vote-plutocrats-taxes-1235161296/

* "'Radioactive': Why Trump’s win isn’t a ‘mandate’ for the unpopular MAGA agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-trump-s-win-isn-t-a-mandate-for-the-unpopular-maga-agenda-224284229820

* "What America Voted For:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2014339.html

* "Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head a new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-says-elon-musk-will-lead-department-government-efficiency-vivek-rcna179899

* "Elon Musk says Trump will crash the economy, and he thinks that’s good.:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/10/30/elon-musk-says-trump-will-crash-the-economy-he-thinks-thats-good/

* "Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major U.S. cities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/incoming-trump-admin-eyeing-new-immigrant-detention-centers-major-us-c-rcna179843

* "Trump picks a pair of experienced advisers motivated to carry out his immigration crackdown:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-deportation-homan-miller-trump-border-abb1a75497d11c978c369cb20016eecb

* "Ramaswamy backs Trump’s mass deportations as ‘pragmatic’ approach:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/10/ramaswamy-trump-mass-deportation-pragmatic-00188621

* "Private Prison Companies Call Trump’s Deportation Plans ‘Unprecedented Opportunity’:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-deportation-plans-private-prisons-opportunity_n_672d3faae4b01e5999fc97c0

* "tariffs, mass deportation – the pieces fit together:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2015626.html

* "President-elect Trump nominates Marco Rubio for secretary of state:" https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/nx-s1-5187110/donald-trump-marco-rubio-secretary-of-state

* "Trump Asks Rep. Mike Waltz, China Hawk, To Be His National Security Adviser:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-national-security-adviser_n_6732a44ee4b07ebab7421b59

* "Stephen Miller set to play major role in next Trump administration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/11/stephen-miller-trump-administration-role-00188813

* "Who is Stephen Miller, the anti-LGBTQ+ white supremacist Trump picked to be a deputy WH chief of staff?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house

* "Who is Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's pick for White House chief of staff?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/susie-wiles-trump-chief-staff

* Regulations are written in blood. Deregulation of clean air, water, etc. standards will kill. "Trump picks former Rep. Lee Zeldin to be his EPA administrator:" https://www.npr.org/2024/11/11/nx-s1-5187039/trump-lee-zeldin-epa-environment

* "Pete Hegseth Was Removed from Biden's Inauguration, Labeled 'Extremist':" https://www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth-was-removed-bidens-inauguration-labelled-extremist-1984882

* "Flashback: Hegseth leads Republican push to privatize veterans' health care:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/flashback-hegseth-leads-republican-push-to-privatize-veterans-health-care-224380997664

* "Trump nominates hardliner Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel:" https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-nominates-hardliner-mike-huckabee-ambassador-israel

* "Donald Trump names former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence:" https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5189603/trump-tulsi-gabbard-director-of-national-intelligence

* "Trump picks anti-LGBTQ+ former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-nominated-intelligence-director

* "Trump cabinet picks point to continuation of first term's scandals and disgrace:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-cabinet-picks-point-to-continuation-of-first-term-s-scandals-and-disgrace-224187461835

* "'Sycophant Olympics': Trump prioritizes pliancy over competence in assembling new Cabinet:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-sycophant-olympics-trump-prioritizes-pliancy-over-competence-in-assembling-new-cabinet-224302661538

* "Trump names longtime election attorney Bill McGinley as his White House counsel:" https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/nx-s1-5188650/trump-bill-mcginley-white-house-counsel

* "Trump picks House ally Elise Stefanik for UN ambassador:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/11/elise-stefanik-un-ambassador-trump-00188681

* "Trump picks John Ratcliffe for CIA director. Here’s what to know:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-picks-john-ratcliffe-for-cia-director-heres-what-to-know

* "Trump picks real estate tycoon Steven Witkoff for Mideast envoy:" https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-picks-real-estate-tycoon-steven-witkoff-mideast-envoy-2024-11-12/

* CW: Sex Trafficking "Matt Gaetz once faced a sex trafficking investigation by the Justice Department he could now lead:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-attorney-general-matt-gaetz-justice-department-9d51501fb6ad5c04b5b4113d3a6a584b

* "Gaetz resigns from Congress — possibly skirting long-awaited Ethics report:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/matt-gaetz-resigns-congress-00189488

* "Trump shocks with ‘unanimously loathed’ Matt Gaetz as attorney general pick:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-shocks-with-unanimously-loathed-matt-gaetz-as-attorney-general-pick-224409157728

* "Gaetz pick is like Trump’s ‘fraternity hazing ritual’ for Senate GOP, says Hayes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gaetz-pick-is-like-trump-s-fraternity-hazing-ritual-for-senate-gop-says-hayes-224514117645

* "RFK Jr. Suggests Replacing Hundreds of Federal Health Employees:" https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-replace-hundreds-federal-health-workers-nih-1984114

The plan is to fire anyone who believes in facts and science, so that they can kill lots of people with quack conspiracy theory based policy.

* Remember how he killed all those kids in Samoa? He is going to use his power to kill even more people.
"Trump Taps RFK Jr. As Secretary Of Health And Human Services: Here Are All The Conspiracies He’s Promoted:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/14/rfk-jr-launches-independent-2024-run-here-are-all-the-conspiracies-he-promotes-from-vaccines-to-mass-shootings/

* "With pick of RFK Jr., Trump threatens not just public health but federal credibility on health:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/with-pick-of-rfk-jr-trump-threatens-not-just-public-health-but-federal-credibility-on-health-224540741528

* "Trump promised to get revenge. Here are his targets.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/06/trump-retribution-enemy-list-00187725?cid=apn

* "Many in government are worried about Trump’s return. At DOJ, they’re terrified.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/10/trump-return-justice-department-00188623

* "'Grim and glum': Trump malice toward federal institutions felt most acutely at DOJ:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-grim-and-glum-trump-malice-toward-federal-institutions-felt-most-acutely-at-doj-224292421817

* "Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge:" https://newrepublic.com/post/188338/trump-executive-order-military-board-purge

* "Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows' appeal in Georgia election interference case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-mark-meadows-appeal-georgia-election-interferenc-rcna178727

* "Trump’s lawyers ask judge to throw out his hush money case in light of his election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/12/trump-lawyers-ask-judge-dismiss-hush-money-case-00188992

* "Special counsel Jack Smith and his team to resign before Trump takes office:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/special-counsel-jack-smith-team-resign-trump-takes-office-rcna179928




* "Somerville drag story hour is latest to be targeted by the far right, and organizers say they’re getting bolder:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/somerville-drag-story-hour-is-latest-to-be-targeted-by-the-far-right-and-organizers-say-they-re-getting-bolder/ar-AA1tgIvt

* This is perfect. "The Onion buys InfoWars in bankruptcy auction:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/onion-buys-infowars-bankruptcy-auction/story?id=115858794

* "Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’:" https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

* "'Bonus karmic justice': The Onion purchases Infowars assets with help from Sandy Hook families:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-bonus-karmic-justice-the-onion-purchases-infowars-assets-with-help-from-sandy-hook-families-224529477676

* "Thousands were adopted to the US but not made citizens. Decades later, they risk being deported:" https://apnews.com/article/adoption-citizenship-congress-immigration-a1ec84a94f2442e3dc4b7a31cad27d21#:~:text=Decades%20later%2C%20they%20risk%20being%20deported,-The%20outfit%20Leah&text=The%20United%20States%20has%20brought,%2C%20and%20hasn't%20fixed.

* "‘Fat Leonard,’ Navy scandal mastermind, sentenced to 15 years:" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/11/05/fat-leonard-navy-scandal-mastermind-sentenced-to-15-years/

* "Over a quarter of college applicants are rejecting schools over their states' politics: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/college-applicants-reject-state-politics

* "U.S. public schools lost $3.2 billion fighting conservative culture wars: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/public-schools-billions-lost-culture-wars

* "You don’t need to be her: why the "clean girl" aesthetic is problematic:"

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* CW: Sex Trafficking "Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries and partner arrested on sex trafficking charges:" https://www.advocate.com/news/abercrombie-fitch-ceo-mike-jeffries-arrested-sex-trafficking

* "Why are British teenage girls so unhappy? Here’s the answer:" https://www.thetimes.com/article/f38e2a2b-dcf3-498c-80ff-7ab94383d270

* Radfems and "Benevolent" Sexism: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/767208507760115712?source=share

* "The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School: Jaisalmer, India:" https://citta.org/gyaancenter/

* "What is the 4B movement? And why is it rising after Donald Trump's 2024 election win?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/4b-movement-feminism-protest-2024-election-results-explainer

* "Transgender youth satisfied with gender-affirming care 6-10 years later, according to a new study:" https://www.advocate.com/health/trans-youth-satisfied-years-later

* "Federal judge refuses to toss anti-transgender athlete lawsuit in Connecticut:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-refuses-to-toss-anti-trans-athlete-lawsuit-connecticut

* "Judge rules the military must cover gender-affirming surgery for members' dependents:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-military-dependents-surgery-coverage

* "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues second doctor over gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ken-paxton-sues-transition-care

* "Searches for Birth Control, Abortion Pills Are Spiking. Here’s What You Need to Know.:" https://www.jezebel.com/searches-for-birth-control-abortion-pills-are-spiking-heres-what-you-need-to-know

* "Ohio's six-week abortion ban permanently struck down as judge upholds referendum:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ohio-six-week-abortion-ban-overturned

* "Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics:" https://www.404media.co/inside-the-u-s-government-bought-tool-that-can-track-phones-at-abortion-clinics/

* "A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital:" https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

* "Historic Vatican gathering punts on LGBTQ+ issues:" https://www.advocate.com/news/vatican-catholic-lgbtq-synod

* "Police raid multiple bars, detaining over 50 people in Russian anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown:" https://www.advocate.com/50-lgbtq-people-detained-russia

* "Parental Rights Over Transgender Youth: Furthering a Pressing and Substantial Objective?:" https://albertalawreview.com/index.php/ALR/article/view/2797

* "Poland’s dark history with far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ government should be a warning to Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/election/poland-model-trump-government

* "With a Trump victory, America now has a permission structure to vilify the LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-win-america-vilify-lgbtq

* "In this new age of Trump, who's hiding hate behind their smile?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trans-in-trump-s-america

* "This was always going to be a generational fight for transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/generational-fight-transgender-people

* "7 steps for transgender people preparing for federal crackdowns under Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-people-crackdowns-under-trump

* CW: Child Abuse, Lynching "Man accused of placing a noose on the neck of 14-year-old boy who revealed he’s gay:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/man-arrested-noose-gay-youth

* "12 Maryland college students arrested in alleged Grindr hate crime video attack:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/salisbury-students-arrested-grindr-attack

* "Two Texas trans women were kidnapped and assaulted. Their accused attacker faces six felonies:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-women-kidnapped-texas-indictment

* "Two gay men, a DJ and a model, were assaulted in D.C. on the same night. Police need info (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/crime/gay-men-assaulted-dc-model-dj

* This wouldn't have happened a decade ago at that school. "Washington transgender high school student assaulted in possible hate crime that was caught on video:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/washington-transgender-student-assaulted

* "Transgender woman sues Hooters for discrimination, says workers denied her a job and harassed her:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-hooters-discrimination-lawsuit

* "Lawsuit claims Culver's fast-food chain retaliated against trans manager and workers who reported transphobia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/culvers-lawsuit-transphobia

* "Texas anti-marriage equality judge refuses to drop suit against state commission:" https://www.advocate.com/texas-anti-marriage-equality-judge-refuses-to-drop-suit-against-state-commission

* "Years after DADT's end, class action lawsuit seek to restore benefits for thousands of discharged military:" https://www.advocate.com/news/dadt-discharges-class-action-lawsuit

* "Intersex youth have worse mental health, and 'harmful' nonconsensual surgeries may play a part (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/health/intersex-youth-suicide-surgeries-report

* "Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again:" https://www.sciencealert.com/study-of-500000-medical-records-links-viruses-with-alzheimers-again-and-again

* "Is the hybrid COVID variant XEC in the US? What to know about the new strain that's more contagious:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/09/21/covid-xec-variant/75303152007/

* "Egypt declared malaria-free after century of work to defeat disease:" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/21/2024/egypt-declared-malaria-free-after-century-of-work-to-defeat-disease

* "Her Job Was Talking on the Radio. Then Suddenly, Words Wouldn’t Come.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/nyregion/alison-stewart-brain-surgery.html?






* "Black holes that form in 'reverse Big Bang replays' could account for dark energy:" https://www.space.com/dark-energy-black-hole-connection

* "Scientists Uncover Auditory ‘Sixth Sense’ in Geckos:" https://www.audiology.org/scientists-uncover-auditory-sixth-sense-in-geckos/

* "43 monkeys escape from a South Carolina medical lab. Police say there is no serious danger:" https://apnews.com/article/monkeys-escape-alpha-genesis-south-carolina-66a78279a7abe57c5f8fd0953359368a

* "Giant rats could soon help sniff out illegally smuggled goods:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/giant-rats-sniff-smuggled-goods

* "Visigoth to Goth : How alt fashion history grew through gothic literature, music, and style:"

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* "The Misunderstood History of Alchemy:"

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* "What Did Cromwell Do to Deserve This?:"

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* "Why Is The Colour Purple Gay?:"

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* "After the 2024 election, we can be inspired by these historical LGBTQ+ movements against oppression:" https://www.advocate.com/news/historical-resistance-inspires-post-election

* "Tony Todd, ‘Candyman’ and ‘Final Destination’ Star, Dies at 69:" https://variety.com/2024/film/obituaries-people-news/tony-todd-dead-candyman-final-destination-kurn-star-trek-1236205445/

* "Tony Todd Made One of Deep Space Nine‘s Greatest Episodes Shine :" https://gizmodo.com/tony-todd-star-trek-deep-space-nine-the-visitor-jake-sisko-2000523217

* Chuck Tingle on the Tony Todd and night of the Living Dead: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/766991265335230464?source=share

* Photos of my cats: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/766726651259256832/the-emperor-and-empress?source=share

* The Millennials worked fingers to the bone the last two weeks getting the apartment ready for the inspection. They are superheroes.

* Summary of why we are fundraising:  On Monday September 16th, HOA announced an emergency meeting that members weren't allowed to vote or participate in.  That Thursday they rammed through a special assessment for $4416 and change due in 90 days.  This is on top of the $141 and change they raised us starting every month in August.  I am currently spending nearly everything on housing and bills.

The rate hike was legal as it was voted through properly: Reasonable notice. People allowed to vote. The second very likely was not, but that likely won't make a difference, as it would require a class action lawsuit by 51% of the people in the complex to stop it.

To give you an idea of the scale of the catastrophe, the entire special assessment is just under 5 months' entire income for me. Squirrel originally thought they could save a month's wages, but due to COVID and the extra high bill, they can only kick in about $1000. They think.

Update 10/27/24:

Squirrel got hit with another extra large bill that wiped them out. I need to revise again. I'm sorry. I will leave their $400 pledge from them for now, but I may need to revise again.

I want to thank all the generous benefactors who have helped.

4416 needed.

Squirrel's pledge: 400.00

Me: 2654.00

Total Raised 3054.00

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* "Trump’s Reelection: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "Jon Stewart On What Went Wrong For Democrats | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump Adds Noem, Rubio, Stefanik to Cabinet, With Elon on Watch | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump Acts Cordial With Biden While Gaetz, Gabbard, and Hegseth Score Nominations | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump Nominates RFK Jr. and Matt Gaetz In Latest Shock Moves | The Daily Show:"

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* "Dulcé Sloan Makes a Time Capsule of American Art & Culture Before Trump Bans It All | The Daily Show:"

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* "Wild Fires | Wicked Web Links | Meet Susie Wiles | Monkey Update:"

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* "Trump Taps Rubio, Noem For Cabinet | Rudy's Tough Times | How To Move To Canada | A Round Of Sausage:"

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* "The Heathcliff Question:"

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* "How Interview with the Vampire Got Racebending (Mostly) Right:"

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* "Night of the Demons (1988):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/night-of-the-demons-1988/id1449041559?i=1000674118257

* "Escape The News On Carnival's New Cruise:"

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* "Sunday Sweets: Jen Gets Girly:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-jen-gets-girly-2024

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

* How to order free COVID Tests: https://special.usps.com/testkits

* Trans support organization: https://www.pointofpride.org/

* Florida Abortion Funds: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/766419765318270976?source=share

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

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

* Doctors without borders, Bangladesh: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/bangladesh

* Doctors without Borders, Sudan: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/sudan-crisis-response

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

* "The Haberdasheress Operating Costs:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-haberdasheress-operating-costs?attribution_id=sl:5d760bcc-6861-4258-a13f-b1c1b30ccf2c&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_ft&utm_content=amp8_c&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

* This is a friend of a friend. The situation is pretty terrible. Meghan 19 Road to Recovery: https://www.gofundme.com/f/meghan-19-blinded-by-attack

* Embroidery/historical costume Kickstarter for a very cool person trying to start a business.: https://staranise.dreamwidth.org/685972.html

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




* "Israel: ‘Investigate what?’:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/04/26/israel-investigate-what-00154651#:~:text=Israel's%20military%20says%20the%20Biden,they%20already%20looked%20into%20it.

* "NBC News investigation reveals Israel strikes on Gaza areas it said were safe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinians-killed-israeli-strikes-safe-zones-exclusive-nbc-report-rcna148008

* "Rep. Katie Porter says the State Dept. is sitting on memos of human rights violations by Israel:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-katie-porter-says-the-state-dept-is-sitting-on-memos-of-human-rights-violations-by-israel-209864261812

* Food aid to Gaza for Ramadan: https://support.anera.org/a/ramadan-2024

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

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

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

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* "Israel fears ICC will issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and other top officials:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-fears-icc-issue-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-gaza-war-hamas-rcna149739

* Ya think? "Exclusive: Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/some-us-officials-say-internal-memo-israel-may-be-violating-international-law-2024-04-27/

* "US implicates 5 Israeli units in rights violations before Gaza war, no restrictions on assistance:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-found-five-israeli-military-units-committed-gross-human-rights-violations-2024-04-29/

* "U.S. pushes for Gaza cease-fire, seeing narrow window for a deal before Israel launches Rafah assault:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-cease-fire-hostage-deal-antony-blinken-saudi-rcna149747

* "Protests over Israel-Hamas war continue at college campuses across the U.S. as graduation dates approach:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-campus-protests-gaza-israel/

* "Police arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University:"

* "'Tragic': Columbia community laments involvement of police in campus protests:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-tragic-columbia-community-laments-involvement-of-police-in-campus-protests-210016837600

* "Violence erupts at UCLA as protests over Israel's war in Gaza escalate across the U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248433624/protests-campus-ucla-universities-israel-gaza-palestinians

* "Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-01/four-student-journalists-attacked-by-counterprotesters-at-ucla

* "Op-ed: Faculty stands with pro-Palestine protesters, demands full amnesty for all arrested:" https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/op-ed-faculty-stands-with-pro-palestine-protesters-demands-full-amnesty-for-all-arrested

* "79 arrested amid second crackdown on UT-Austin campus:" https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/30/ut-austin-protest-arrests/

* "Tensions Rise at U.N.C. Chapel Hill After Dozens of Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Are Detained:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/nyregion/unc-chapel-hill-protests.html

* "College Crackdown Shines Spotlight on Violent Cops — Yet Again:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/gaza-protests-colleges-violent-cops-1235012276/

* It's almost as if negotiation were more effective than force at solving conflict, but tell that to Columbia's Admin. "At Brown University, protesters and administrators reach deal to end encampment:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248403491/at-brown-university-protesters-and-administrators-reach-deal-to-end-encampment

* "Protests at Wesleyan University can continue under one condition:" https://www.wfsb.com/2024/05/01/peaceful-protest-continues-wesleyan-university/

* "Biden says he supports the right to protest but denounces 'chaos' and hate speech:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/02/1248669695/biden-remarks-white-house-live

* "Republican Senators Demand Biden Use National Guard to Suppress Columbia Protests:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-cotton-josh-hawley-biden-national-guard-columbia-1235008553/

* "Opinion: The student-led protests aren’t perfect. That doesn’t mean they’re not right.:" https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2024/04/27/opinion-student-led-protests-arent/

* "Kent State Victim’s Sister Condemns Militarized Response To Pro-Palestinian College Protests:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kent-state-sister-militarized-police-college-protests-israel-gaza_n_662aa18de4b09d8df9d5e1b0

* "Toxic U.S. political themes distort view of campus Gaza protests:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/toxic-u-s-political-themes-distort-view-of-campus-gaza-protests-210099781912

* "Chris Hayes: Why campus protests are 'the easier debate':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-why-campus-protests-are-the-easier-debate-210090565985

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* "Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine, U.S. says as it sanctions Chinese companies over war:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-chemical-weapons-ban-ukraine-sanctions-china-rcna150342




* "'Europe could die': Macron urges stronger defenses, economic reforms:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/macron-aims-cement-french-influence-eu-lift-party-fortunes-with-landmark-speech-2024-04-25/

* "Once a fringe Indian ideology, Hindu nationalism is now mainstream, thanks to Modi’s decade in power:" https://apnews.com/article/india-election-narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-rss-79c30c8ae750a9c037d86b9e2c1b640c

* "To the Sound of Gunshots, Haiti Installs a New Ruling Council:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world/americas/haiti-council-gangs-henry.html

* "Meet the members of a transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for beleaguered Haiti:" https://apnews.com/article/haiti-transitional-council-members-cfc792b231cd245fa704e4bcc86beb81

* "UK minister claims Rwanda is safe for gay migrants – these queer organisations disagree:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/24/rwanda-lgbt-mirgrants-bill/

* "UK's Labour claim big early win over PM Sunak's Conservatives:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/labour-claim-early-win-uk-vote-closely-watched-results-trickle-2024-05-03/

* "Rishi Sunak’s future hangs in the balance as Tories suffer worst local election losses in 30 years:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/03/local-elections-2024-labour-rishi-sunak-conservatives/

* "Boris Johnson turned away from voting due to his own ID law amid catastrophic Conservative results:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/03/boris-johnson-rejected-from-voting/

* "Humza Yousaf quits as Scotland’s First Minister in tearful address: ‘I will not trade in my values’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/29/humza-yousaf-resigns/

* "Who will replace Humza Yousaf as First Minister and what does it mean for LGBTQ+ rights in Scotland?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/29/kate-forbes-humza-yousaf-scotland-snp-lgbtq/

* "Canada Agrees 200 Islands Belong to the Indigenous Haida Nation:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/canada-agrees-200-islands-belong-to-the-indigenous-haida-nation/

* "Ahead of Paris Olympics, police oversee evictions, leading to charges of 'social cleansing':" https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/04/17/2024-olympics-social-cleansing-paris/73353671007/

* "New Biden administration Title IX rule protects transgender and nonbinary students’ bathroom and pronoun use at school:" https://www.advocate.com/news/title-ix-rule-transgender-students

* "How did the Biden administration just make health care fairer for LGBTQ+ people?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-healthcare-biden-restores-protections

* "Biden Just Saved the 40-Hour Work Week:" https://newrepublic.com/article/180966/biden-overtime-rule-middle-class

* "U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246655366/ftc-bans-noncompete-agreements-lina-khan

* "Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet providers:" https://apnews.com/article/net-neutrality-fcc-broadband-regulation-cc8421bc4f11a3e0f6ffc22c358fbfd0

* "Coal and new gas power plants will have to meet climate pollution targets:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1236609039/epa-power-plant-climate

* "Biden forgives more than $6 billion in loans for 317,000 Art Institutes students:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248473475/art-institutes-student-loan-forgiveness-debt-relief

* "Biden administration poised to weaken weed restrictions, a seismic shift from decades of harsh policies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/30/biden-weed-restriction-policies-00133123

* "US Supreme Court split over Idaho's strict abortion ban in medical emergencies:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-weighs-idahos-strict-abortion-ban-medical-emergencies-2024-04-24/

* "I’m an E.R. doc. Idaho’s argument to SCOTUS reveals an ignorance of what I do.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-idaho-abortion-ban-rcna148890

* "Idaho abortion case in front of SCOTUS is 'quite shocking':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-idaho-abortion-case-in-front-of-scotus-is-quite-shocking-209833541974

* "The Trumpification of the Supreme Court:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-presidential-inmunity-supreme-court/678193/

* "This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/trump-immunity-supreme-court.html

* "Trump’s 'Absolute' Immunity Case & Campus Protests Mark Inflection Point For U.S. Constitution:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-absolute-immunity-case-campus-protests-mark-inflection-point-for-u-s-constitution-209834053671

* "Jack Smith’s odds of putting Trump on trial this year are sinking:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/trump-supreme-court-immunity-arguments-00154324

* "Supreme Court rejects Peter Navarro's latest bid for release from prison during appeal:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-peter-navarro-rejects-prison-release-appeal/

* "Fed holds interest rates steady at highest level since 2001:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/fed-expected-hold-interests-rates-steady-highest-level/story?id=109781151

* "We Are In A Housing Trap. Can We Escape?:"

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* "How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-marjorie-taylor-greene-raises-money-by-attacking-other-republicans

* "Majorie Taylor Greene is planning a vote next week to oust Speaker Johnson:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248433401/marjorie-taylor-greene-motion-to-vacate-house-speaker-mike-johnson

* "House passes antisemitism bill over complaints from First Amendment advocates:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/01/antisemitism-awarness-act-campus-protests/

* "Johnson launches House-wide probes into campus antisemitism:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/30/mike-johnson-campus-antisemitism-00155253

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

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

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

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

* Well, fuck. "Court tosses map that created second Black House district in Louisiana:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/30/louisiana-court-black-house-district-00155351

* "Number of Trump Allies Facing Election Interference Charges Keeps Growing:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/trump-election-interference-charges.html

* "Meadows, Giuliani, 11 'fake electors' from 2020 are among those indicted in Arizona:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1236998675/arizona-fake-elector-charges

* "Arizona defendant Christina Bobb plays key role on RNC election integrity team:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/26/christina-bobb-arizona-charges-rnc-election-integrity/

* "Democrats retain upstate New York congressional seat in special election:" https://apnews.com/article/special-election-congress-new-york-kennedy-dickson-e7b6956b577c63109491ccf805f0bc81

* "Meet the transgender minister representing LGBTQ+ rights in Georgia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-transgender-methodist-minister

* "Gay Pennsylvania Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta wins Democratic primary for auditor general:" https://www.advocate.com/news/malcolm-kenyatta-wins-democratic-primary

* "Assisted living home lawsuit, citations add to controversy over Hovde’s nursing home remarks:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/04/24/assisted-living-home-lawsuit-citations-add-to-controversy-over-hovdes-nursing-home-remarks/

Want to help Tammy Baldwin beat this guy? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/tammy-baldwin-4

* "Where is Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood?:" https://michiganadvance.com/2024/01/30/where-is-mr-rogers-neighborhood/

* "This G.O.P. Senate Candidate Says He Grew Up on a Family Farm. Not Exactly.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/politics/dave-mccormick-farm-pennsylvania.html

* "David McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-mccormick-residency-mansion-connecticut-oz-e84500b848f0be7efb9f9b3c495dd066

He's the son of a wealthy college president and currently resides in Connecticut, but claims to have grown up a poor farmer. He's running in Pennsylvania, because that worked so well for Dr. Oz.

* "Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/tim-sheehy-montana-senate-gunshot-wound-national-park/

He claims he didn't shoot himself by accident being a dumbass, but rather that he had a super secret war wound no one knew about. *sideeye*

* "GOP Star Recruit Brags About ‘Rural’ Upbringing. He Grew Up 15 Minutes From the City.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-star-recruit-tim-sheehy-brags-about-rural-upbringing-that-wasnt

* "Kari Lake says 'unfortunately' Arizona isn't enforcing 1864 abortion ban, flipping again:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kari-lake-says-unfortunately-arizona-isnt-enforcing-1864-abortion-ban-rcna148948

* "Republicans assemble oddly insulting set of 2024 candidates with Senate control on the line:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-assemble-oddly-insulting-set-of-2024-candidates-with-senate-control-on-the-line-209943621924

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

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

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

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

Indiana: 5/7/24 (Governer, Senate, House Primaries as well! Important!!!)

Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia: 5/14/24 (Senate and House Primaries as well! Important!!!)

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

Idaho (Democrat): 5/23/24

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


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

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

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

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

* "Democrats who investigated Trump say they expect to face arrest, retaliation if he wins presidency:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-investigated-trump-expect-arrest-retaliation-if-trump-wins/

* "Opinion: We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/24/trump-tyranny-christian-nationalist-democracy/

* "Trump does not rule out building detention camps for mass deportations:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-does-not-rule-out-building-detention-camps-mass-deportations-2024-04-30/

* "Trump says he’ll use National Guard to deport migrants, doubling down on anti-immigration rhetoric:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-trump-deport-migrants-national-guard-bdbbc8e78c66adb66047e331ced6c2d3

* "Trump Refuses to Commit to Accepting 2024 Election Results:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-refuses-commit-accepting-2024-election-results-1235013997/

* "Trump says 'it depends' if there will be violence if he loses 2024 election to Biden:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-asked-violence-loses-november-election-biden-depends/story?id=109787140

* "The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/04/1218672628/the-trump-campaign-embraces-jan-6-rioters-with-money-and-pardon-promises

* "Donald Trump says states should decide on prosecuting women for abortions, has no comment on abortion pill:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-ban-trump-criminalize-mifepristone-election-7f43c7e9ab192ebe874a1f0b1b7ba60b

* "An oral history of how exactly Trump killed Roe v. Wade:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/an-oral-history-of-how-exactly-trump-killed-roe-v-wade-210089029864

* "Trump paints vivid picture of extremist plans for second term in new interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-paints-vivid-picture-of-extremist-plans-for-second-term-in-new-interview-210018885583

* "Imperial presidency: Trump lays out plan to enlist military in deporting millions:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/imperial-presidency-trump-lays-out-plan-to-enlist-military-in-deporting-millions-210100805862

* "Donald Trump says liberals wanted him to overturn Roe v. Wade: ‘Everybody wanted this to be done!’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/03/donald-trump-roe-v-wade/

* "Undeterred by past Big Lie failures, Trump primes followers for poll confrontations:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/undeterred-by-past-big-lie-failures-trump-primes-followers-for-poll-confrontations-210180677642

* "Chaos and division erupt at Washington Republican convention in Spokane:" https://www.opb.org/article/2024/04/20/chaos-erupts-at-washington-gop-convention-in-spokane/#:~:text=On%20Friday%2C%20the%20Washington%20State,to%20the%20party's%20own%20candidates.

* "The WA GOP put it in writing that they’re not into democracy:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-wa-gop-put-it-in-writing-that-theyre-not-into-democracy/

* "Just when you think the Arizona Republican Party couldn't get any crazier ...:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/04/28/this-just-in-from-the-arizona-republican-party-we-be-crazy/73489433007/

* "Republican Party bears Big Lie's deep scars as Trump dances to avoid accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-party-bears-big-lie-s-deep-scars-as-trump-dances-to-avoid-accountability-209946181819

* "Inslee signed the 'strippers' bill of rights' into law. Here's what will change in Washington:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/inslee-signs-stripper-bill-of-rights-into-law-strip-clubs/281-666642a0-0352-4741-9b07-a010f172b407

* "Arizona lawmakers vote to undo near-total abortion ban from 1864, with Gov. Hobbs expected to sign:" https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-1864-ban-repeal-24578e546b69ca087e01034bcaf4aa01

* "Mississippi Republicans fail to pass trans bathroom ban and law defining sex:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-anti-lgbtq-bills-fail

* "Iowa governor signs bill that allows for arrest of some migrants:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-governor-kim-reynolds-signs-bill-migrants-arrests/

* "Tennessee passes anti-trans bill to ‘intimidate families of transgender youth’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/27/tennessee-anti-trans-bill/

* "Maine signs trans and abortion sanctuary bill into law, despite violent threats:" https://www.advocate.com/news/maine-trans-abortion-sanctuary-bill

* "Here's how Ron DeSantis is still tormenting LGBTQ+ kids after failed presidential campaign:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-lgbtq-youth

* "Ted Cruz could be liable for taxes on payments from his iHeartMedia podcast, experts say :" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ted-cruz-iheart-podcast-taxes-19416633.php

* "Parent arrested as Ryan Walters called 'bully and bigot' at Oklahoma meeting:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-meeting-arrest

* CW: Animal death. "Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Kristi Noem brags about killing dog and goat in her new book:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kristi-noem-book-killing-dog

* "Log Cabin Republicans chapter wishes for death of Joe Biden using 'kombucha girl' meme:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/log-cabin-republicans-biden-death




* "Federal judge rejects Donald Trump's bid for new E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, upholds $83M judgment:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-judge-rejects-donald-trumps-bid-new-jean/story?id=109634929

* "Donald Trump ordered to pay $9,000 for violating gag order in criminal hush money trial:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/30/1244294199/trump-gag-order-hush-money-trial

* "Emails Reveal Top Trump Accountant Had Secret Campaign Role:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/emails-reveal-top-trump-accountant-allen-weisselberg-had-secret-campaign-role

* "Trump trial casts light on dirty side of celebrity tabloids:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-trial-casts-light-on-dirty-side-of-celebrity-tabloids-210179141774




* "Terrorist threat stops Nashville disc golf tournament with transgender player:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nashville-disc-golf-natalie-ryan

* "Alleged Minneapolis mass shooters charged after killing one at LGBTQ+ punk rock show:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minneapolis-mass-shooting-punk-show-charges

* "‘Faces of Gun Violence’ exhibit unveiled at inaugural survivors’ summit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/atf-faces-of-gun-violence

* "Tennessee parents beg judge not to release school shooter’s journals publicly:" https://www.advocate.com/news/covenant-school-shooter-journals

* "NYPD officers involved in fatal shooting of gay Black man Kawaski Trawick won't be disciplined:" https://www.advocate.com/news/outrage-kawaski-trawick-no-accountability

* "Cop City's Ivory Tower: Georgia State University is Ground Zero for Militarized Policing:" https://atlpresscollective.com/2024/02/13/cop-citys-ivory-tower-georgia-state-university-is-ground-zero-for-militarized-policing/?amp=1

* "Atlanta, Egypt, and Israel police forces share ‘crowd control’ weapons and military-industrial techniques:" https://www.mainlinezine.com/atlanta-egypt-israel-police-share-crowd-control-weapons/

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

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

* "College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets at one of the nation’s largest jails:" https://apnews.com/article/jail-book-club-nun-activist-death-penalty-6307844935bdea8de812cd67f445745f

* "Catholic college accused of bias by nonbinary former DEI director for refusing to use their pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/education/providence-college-discrimination-dei-complaint

* "After a Pennsylvania school board canceled a gay actor's talk, the community fought back:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pennsylvania-maulik-pancholy-speech

* CW: Rape "What’s Next for Harvey Weinstein After His New York Rape Conviction Was Overturned?:" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/harvey-weinstein-new-york-rape-conviction-overturned-1235010866/

* CW: Child Abuse. "I Was 6 When My Father Decided We'd Sail Around The World. I Would Be Trapped On That Boat For Nearly A Decade.:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wavewalker-memoir-raised-sailboat-sea_n_6536be56e4b0c85561022b16

* "Transgender health care must be paid for by state insurance, says an appeals court:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/29/1247896150/transgender-health-insurance-west-virginia-north-carolina-appeals-court

* "More people regret having children than having gender-affirming care, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/01/transition-regret-detransitioners/

* "Florida's 6-week abortion ban is now in effect, curbing access across the South:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1247990353/florida-6-week-abortion-ban-south

* "Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom:" https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion-supreme-court-roe-9ce6c87c8fc653c840654de1ae5f7a1c

* "Iraq’s criminalisation of same-sex relationships and LGBTQ+ people an ‘attack on human rights’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/29/iraq-human-rights/

* "Drag Race Brazil host shares horrific conversion therapy experience: ‘They applied electric shocks’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/02/grag-queen-conversion-therapy-drag-race-brazil/

* "Debate over gender-neutral language divides Germany:" https://www.politico.eu/article/debate-over-gender-inclusive-neutral-language-divides-germany/

* "Fury as Tories propose that trans women be banned from female NHS wards – and Keir Starmer agrees:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/01/tories-keir-starmer-nhs-trans-ban/

* "NHS reportedly set to remove inclusive language from documents in Tory ‘gender ideology’ crackdown:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/29/nhs-constitution-victoria-atkins/

* "Man jailed for ‘vicious homophobic attack’ on two men waiting for bus after Black Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/03/brixton-homophobic-attack/

* "Trans activist Charlie Craggs threatened with ‘beating’ minutes after giving an educational talk:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/02/charlie-craggs-speech-today/

* "Drag Queen Storytime founder defiant in face of threat to ‘cut him up and throw him into the river’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/02/drag-queen-story-hour-liverpool/

* "United Methodist Church ends 40-year ban on LGBTQ+ clergy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/united-methodist-church-lgbtq-clergy

* "Over 90% of trans youth live in states pushing anti-trans legislation: report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-youth-state-laws

* CW: Suicide. "Anti-LGBTQ+ laws lead to 'public health crisis' with higher suicide rates among queer youth:" https://www.advocate.com/news/anti-lgbtq-laws-suicide-youth

* "Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Assessment Map: May 2024 Update:" https://www.advocate.com/anti-trans-legislation-risk-map

* "Arkansas sued over new restrictions on driver's license gender markers:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-drivers-license-gender

* "Community mourns Las Vegas trans woman stabbed ‘in broad daylight’: ‘She was something special’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/03/sasha-williams-death/

* "Trans woman Andrea Doria Dos Passos beaten to death in Miami Beach; arrest made:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-woman-killed-miami-beach

* "Serial killer of gay men in New Orleans released after 46 years in prison:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/louisiana-killer-gay-men-paroled

* "Teen girls who protested against trans athlete plan to sue after being ‘barred from future events’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/02/trans-athlete-school-board-lawsuit-becky-pepper-jackson/

* "A visual history of lesbian activism from around the world: 58 images of dyke marches:" https://www.advocate.com/lesbian/lesbian-activismfrom-around-the-world

* "‘Only 15 people in the world have my condition’: Disability activist uses TikTok to raise awareness:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/28/dylan-lombard/

* "Human infections from rat urine on the rise in New York City:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/human-infections-rat-urine-rise-new-york-city/story?id=109339745

* "Wildfire smoke contributes to thousands of deaths each year in the U.S.:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245068810/wildfire-smoke-contributes-to-thousands-of-deaths-each-year-in-the-u-s







* "Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing:" https://apnews.com/article/gulf-spill-lawsuits-bp-health-chemical-exposure-f3845a3cb9da869d2689452a7dec0c9c?

* "Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/data-centers-internet-power-source-coal/

* "You Can Still Die From World War I Dangers in France’s Red Zones:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/red-zones-in-france

* "The cloud under the sea:" https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

* "Suburbs Are Failing Us (for now...):"

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* "How the UN is Holding Back the Sahara Desert:"

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* "Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again:" https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/recoding-voyager-1-nasas-interstellar-explorer-is-finally-making-sense-again/

* "A strange fungus could transform emerging cicadas into ‘saltshakers of death,’ scientists say:" https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/world/cicada-fungus-zombie-scn/index.html

* "Most people are disgusted by these animals. These New Yorkers are filling their homes with them.:" https://www.vox.com/climate/24112595/new-york-city-wildlife-rehabilitators-pigeons-opossums-squirrels

* "Ancient Fashion: The Oldest Pieces of Clothing and Accessories Ever Found:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/oldest-clothing-accessories-in-history/

* "The Former Slave Who Became a Cowboy, a Rancher, and a Texas Legend:" https://archive.is/2evqk#selection-2236.0-2236.1

* "This Chinese American Aviatrix Overcame Racism to Fly for the U.S. During World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-chinese-american-aviatrix-overcame-racism-to-fly-for-the-us-during-world-war-ii-180984196/

* "Did London Have Segregation?: The London History Show:"

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* "How the FBI Destroyed the Careers of 41 Women in TV and Radio:" https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-the-fbi-destroyed-the-careers-of-progressive-women/

* "New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne Jr. Dies at 65, Just 3 Weeks After Heart Attack:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-jersey-rep-donald-payne-jr-dies-at-65-just-3-weeks-after-heart-attack

* "Conjoined twins Lori Schappell and trans man George Schappell dead at 62:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/conjoined-twins-trans-man-schappell

* 4/28/24: A massive bureaucracy packet arrived Wednesday afternoon. Sigh. It is exhausting and on top of everything handwriting with my dominant hand is difficult and unpleasant. There is nothing for it. i need the packet finished and out so I can focus on the other bureaucracy that arrived Tuesday. and Physio. And Everything else. It's time sensitive anyway.

Thursday I was still recovering from physio and I had to stay up for the cleaner. (Two times in a row! Things are clean!). Friday I spent a couple hours doing phone bureaucracy, mostly on hold. It'd be faster if Social security voice bot believed in my weird foreign name. Sigh.

Saturday was the Great Sorting. Sunday should be Actual Paperwork. I need Squirrel to print a thing out for me too which is always a drama and requires carrying the printer around.

And then there's the waiting for Things to Arrive in the Mail and the field trip to turn things in which involves highway driving, which I can hopefully manage at that point. *fingers crossed*

My arm still emphatically does not want to go up. I have devised an extra low impact stretch for myself where I rest it on the desk podium where Klaus laptop used to set before the Emperor executed Aidan lap top. It seems small and stupid, but is clearly a lot less dangerous than the official upward arm stretch. I do it in small batches when reading longer things on the internet. I wish I could do it Instead of, but I know better.

Goth Millennial has been very busy in the garden, which is needful. They are moving soon and have decided that they won't need metal outdoor shelving they had been using indoors at their place. They are therefore constructing more plant shelving on the patio. Livia is pretty sure it is actually the zombie hoard coming to get her. The garden is going pretty well despite the weird chill that has persisted most of April despite the weird late March heat wave. Climate change is do weird shit to our weather patterns.

* 5/3/24:
Monday was fire inspection. This involves about an hour of teeth rattling sirens at random interval and a Stranger in Boots invading the cat asylum. As a result, the cats have been incredibly stressed out all week, though things were finally settling down as of Thursday.

Squirrel has been having an ongoing medical issue that got acute enough that on Tuesday they agreed to fit him in extremely early Wednesday morning. I was able to cancel my medical transport for arm torture, and took him. While he was in there I cashed a bunch of the May OTC at the pharmacy and took my bureaucracy packet in to the office where it goes. The timing was excellent. I was a few blocks away when they released squirrel and there was just time enough to take him to his referral for more testing and then drop him home before my appointment. (Everyone's being reasonable about the situation including his employer. I feel a lot better knowing they are checking properly to rule out more serious things.)

Arm torture is arm torture. The new PT is really nice and a delight. We are at the lots and lots of stupid little exercise phase still. (The exercises are correct and there is already noticeable improvement, but they are also emotionally unsatisfying. It is hard to explain. This is probably an ex-athlete psychology problem. In any case, I am being good and not pushing dangerously hard. I dropped stuff my body was not up to Monday evening like I'm supposed to. I am doing everything I reasonably can, which is all of it most days. I am working the program). He added two extra ones to help my arm with the doesn't want to go up issue.

* CW: Animal Death "Kristi Noem, Puppy Killer | Did Trump Fart In Court? | Why Pecker Wouldn’t Pay Stormy Daniels:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Chris Hayes Extended Interview:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Presidential Primaries are ongoing:

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

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

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

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

Hawaii: (Democrats): 3/6/24

American Samoa (Republicans): 3/8/24

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

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

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

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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







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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I should have started looking last August or October.

I am likely fucked because I waited too long.

Sigh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So they have their four vials of blood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Trump Victory Party Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "The Republican Hip-Hop Task Force:"

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* "Call The Joe Biden Phone Sex Line:"

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* "Mitch McConnell Steps Down:"

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Number of Gazans Detained in Israel Jumps by 150% in a Month; Witness: Soldiers Abuse Detainees in Military Facility:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-03/ty-article/.premium/number-of-gazans-detained-in-israel-jumps-150-witness-soldiers-abuse-detainees/0000018c-ca0b-d6c4-ab8d-ebbf60380000

* "Editorial | Israel Must Stop Abusing and Humiliating Palestinian Prisoners:" https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-01-03/ty-article-opinion/israel-must-stop-the-beating-and-humiliation-of-palestinian-prisoners/0000018c-cbf7-dc35-adee-cbf7961c0000

* "Gaza Is Starving:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544
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* "PALESTINIANS SUE BIDEN FOR FAILING TO PREVENT GENOCIDE IN GAZA:" https://theintercept.com/2023/11/13/gaza-lawsuit-biden-israel-genocide/




* "Did anything good happen in 2023?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/12/26/2023-positive-good-news-stories/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAzNzM5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA1MTIxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDM3Mzk2MDAsImp0aSI6IjU5NzMxNTE2LTI2ZTMtNDEzMy1hY2I1LTc1OWUwMWQyMDIxMSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9saWZlc3R5bGUvMjAyMy8xMi8yNi8yMDIzLXBvc2l0aXZlLWdvb2QtbmV3cy1zdG9yaWVzLyJ9.GYl7lLrKb-oJhv00PFdP9NwehUYHQKc1pg9jx6byYy0

* The rule protects LGBTQIA+ Foster children from being sent to live with queerphobes in order to protect them from abuse. "Biden foster care rule draws GOP opposition:" https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/4387908-biden-foster-care-rule-draws-gop-opposition/?utm_source=press.coop

* "The Pentagon's 2nd in command was not informed of defense secretary's hospitalization:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/06/1223333029/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-secrecy

* "Supreme Court takes up Colorado's decision to kick Trump off its primary ballot:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222859510/supreme-court-colorado-ballots

* People will die. "Supreme Court allows Idaho abortion ban to be enacted, first such ruling since Dobbs:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1216284896/supreme-court-allows-idaho-abortion-ban-to-be-enacted-first-such-ruling-since-do

* "Video Game Voice Actors Express Worry and Confusion After SAG-AFTRA Deal With AI Studio:" https://www.ign.com/articles/video-game-voice-actors-sag-aftra-ai-deal

* "Mailchimp cancels podcast after refusing to work with union producers:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled

* "Happy New Year: A Bunch of Minimum Wage Increases Just Took Effect:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/minimum-wage-increases-2024-states-nelp/

* "Broadband subsidy program that millions use will expire next year if Congress doesn’t act:" https://apnews.com/article/broadband-federal-subsidy-internet-access-congress-biden-f196179935b45632d45169698fd31672

* "Congressional leaders reach a deal to fund the government, avert a shutdown:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223378237/congressional-deal-shutdown

13 Republicans in the House are already furious about it and there are twoish weeks left to actually pass both House and Senate.

* "US Senate Republicans say stopgap needed to avert shutdown, potential problem for Johnson:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-republicans-say-stopgap-needed-avert-shutdown-potential-problem-2024-01-09/

* Republicans are such huge cowards that they've refused his request to testify publicly six times. "House GOP advances effort to hold Hunter Biden in contempt:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/10/congress/hunter-biden-contempt-resolution-advances-00134798

* "Hunter Biden makes a surprise appearance at his own contempt hearing:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1224021556/hunter-biden-surprise-contempt-appearance

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

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

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

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

* "Wisconsin Supreme Court rules legislative maps unconstitutional, orders new boundaries for 2024 vote:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/22/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-legislative-maps-unconstitutional/72010456007/

* "Georgia court weighs voting machines at heart of Trump election fraud claims:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/georgia-court-voting-machines-trump-election-fraud-00134420

* "Attacked by conservatives, UW misinformation researcher gears up for 2024:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/attacked-by-conservatives-uw-misinformation-researcher-gears-up-for-2024/

* "WA GOP fights secretary of state’s effort to track election misinformation:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gop-fights-secretary-of-states-effort-to-track-election-misinformation/?utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all&utm_source=press.coop

* "RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-backs-out-birthday-fundraiser-gala-martin-sheen-mike-tyson-not-attending/

* "Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson rail against Biden to a crowd of seventh graders:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/dean-philips-marianne-williamson-debate-00134405

Forget they were running? So did almost everybody else.

* "Chris Christie ends his Republican presidential bid, criticizing his rivals on his way out:" https://apnews.com/article/christie-presidential-race-5e974cfa407d39af878f066a71af35ad

* "How Chris Christie dropping out changes the Republican primary race:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-chris-christie-dropping-out-changes-the-republican-primary-race-201734213748

* "Insults fly as Haley's rise makes her target at U.S. Republican debate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fourth-us-republican-debate-pits-haley-vs-desantis-no-2-spot-white-house-race-2023-12-06/

* "Republican debate again marked by anti-trans tropes, as DeSantis claims Disney is 'transing' kids:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/haley-desantis-transphobia-disney

* "2024 Republican candidates: Who’s running and how bad would they be for LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/2024-republican-candidates-lgbtq/

* "2024's also-rans find campaign trail is a rocky road:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/2024-s-also-rans-find-campaign-trail-is-a-rocky-road-201658437692

* "Bringing birther back, Donald Trump questions Nikki Haley's right to be president:" https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223940451/donald-trump-birther-nikki-haley-citizenship-president-14th-amendment

* "Donald Trump didn’t sign loyalty oath for Illinois ballot that pledges not to ‘advocate the overthrow of the government’:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/6/24027720/donald-trump-loyalty-oath-illinois-ballot-advocate-overthrow-government-pledge-mccarthy-red-scare

* "Biden slams Trump as ‘revealing twisted true colors’ after Trump says he hopes economy crashes in 2024:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/trump-seeks-georgia-dismissal-immunity-00134305

* "Trump suggests that, if re-elected, he would have Biden indicted:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-suggests-re-elected-biden-indicted-rcna132810

* "Former Trump Aide Recounts His Calls for Staffer to Be Executed:" https://truthout.org/articles/former-trump-aide-recounts-his-calls-for-staffer-to-be-executed/

* "‘Dictator’ Trump Plans to Deploy Massive Number of Troops on U.S. Soil:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dictator-trump-troops-border-1234929369/

* "U.S. GOP shows unique rejection of democracy with embrace of Trump: Maddow:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-gop-shows-unique-rejection-of-democracy-with-embrace-of-trump-maddow-201585221527

* "Trump's day-one dictatorship tops litany of contrasts targeted by Biden campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-day-one-dictatorship-tops-litany-of-contrasts-targeted-by-biden-campaign-201584197946

* "'The Republican Party is in terribly ill health': Schiff cites frailty of U.S. political system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-republican-party-is-in-terribly-ill-health-schiff-cites-frailty-of-u-s-political-system-201587781728




* "Judge says Donald Trump won’t give own closing argument at civil fraud trial after disputing rules:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-trial-closing-arguments-420997f889922423dbce8a0945f0c348

* "Judge preempts Trump ploy to turn New York trial into circus:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/judge-preempts-trump-ploy-to-turn-new-york-trial-into-circus-201734213956

* "Trump seeks dismissal of Georgia indictment, again claiming broad immunity:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/08/trump-seeks-georgia-dismissal-immunity-00134305

* "Filing alleges ‘improper’ relationship between Fulton DA, top Trump prosecutor:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/breaking-filing-alleges-improper-relationship-between-fulton-da-top-trump-prosecutor/A2N2OWCM7FFWJBQH2ORAK2BKMQ/

* "Trump’s immunity claim gets frosty reception at appeals court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/09/trumps-immunity-claim-gets-frosty-reception-at-appeals-court-00134512

* "New report cites Trump aides' testimony on damning new details about Trump on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-report-cites-trump-aides-testimony-on-damning-new-details-about-trump-on-jan-6-201658949634

* "Trump lawyer: Assassination of enemies covered under presidential immunity:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-lawyer-assassination-of-enemies-covered-under-presidential-immunity-201649221631

* "‘Ludicrous’: Hear the ‘strangest’ argument from Trump’s immunity hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ludicrous-hear-the-strangest-argument-from-trump-s-immunity-hearing-201650245821




* "Special Counsel Jack Smith among spate of officials targeted by holiday hoax 'swatting': NBC News:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/special-counsel-jack-smith-among-spate-of-officials-targeted-by-holiday-hoax-swatting-nbc-news-201587781628

* "Judge Targeted With Bomb Threat Hours Before Closing Arguments In Trump Fraud Trial :" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/judge-engoron-swatted-hours-before-trump-closing-arguments-1234944593/

* "Several state Capitols evacuated after bomb threats:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/state-capitol-buildings-evacuated-bomb-threats-rcna132096

* "Antisemitism has a long history in Los Angeles:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-05/patt-morrison-antisemitism-is-not-new-certainly-not-in-los-angeles

* "Opinion: Latest threats to synagogues in San Diego and across the U.S. reflect growing antisemitism:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2024-01-09/opinion-antisemitism-san-diego-synagogue-threats-israel-hamas

* "Homicides in U.S. set to drop by record numbers this year:" https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop

* "Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They're wrong.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-think-crime-rate-up-actually-down-rcna129585

* "He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/nyregion/wrongful-conviction-murder.html

* "Court blocks Ohio law requiring parental consent for TikTok, Instagram. What it means:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/government/2024/01/07/parents-can-soon-limit-kids-social-medwhat-to-know-about-new-ohio-law-limiting-kids-social-media-use/72140568007/

* "Lawmakers consider plan to restrict book banning:" https://www.salemnews.com/news/lawmakers-consider-plan-to-restrict-book-banning/article_7566961d-8f1a-536b-8941-255a160fe703.html

* "These kids want to go to school. The main obstacle? Paperwork:" https://apnews.com/article/school-enrollment-atlanta-paperwork-22f4b2e1fc15f73f370da9f2679c02f1

* CW: CSA, Human Trafficking. "A Quick Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Documents Unsealed on Jan. 3, 2024:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/04/jeffrey-epstein-unsealed-document-guide/

* "MAGA Hero Jason Whitlock slams women's right to vote:" https://boingboing.net/2023/12/19/maga-hero-denounces-womens-voting-rights.html

* "What is a ‘trad wife’? The conservative social media movement explained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/what-is-a-trad-wife-social-media-movement-explained/

* "No, trans women aren’t causing an HRT shortage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/trans-women-hormone-shortage-hrt/

* "Ohio House overrides Gov. DeWine's veto of gender-affirming care ban; Senate votes January 24:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-house-trans-veto-override

* "‘We are afraid’: Trans kids and medics urge South Carolina lawmakers to block trans healthcare ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/trans-kids-south-carolina-ban/

* If you live in Ohio, please comment to help save bodily Autonomy for transfolk: https://mha.ohio.gov/about-us/rules-and-regulations/rules/draft-rules/gender-transition-care

* "The increasing risk of criminal charges for women who experience a miscarriage:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-increasing-risk-of-criminal-charges-for-women-who-experience-a-miscarriage

* "Emergency rooms not required to perform life-saving abortions, federal appeals court rules:" https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/02/texas-abortion-fifth-circuit/

* People are dying. "Did an Abortion Ban Cost a Young Texas Woman Her Life?:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/abortion-high-risk-pregnancy-yeni-glick

* "Greece drafting bill to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/greece-same-sex-marriage-bill/

* "‘I grew up in a homophobic cult and prayed to God to make me straight’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/homophobic-cult-growing-up-gay-tiktok/

* "World Athletics boss Sebastian Coe supports trans inclusion in local sport:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/01/11/world-athletics-association-sebastian-coe-defends-trans-participation-in-local-sport/

* "Millions Die of Malaria With Miracle Drugs at Hand:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/malaria-vaccine-funding.html

* "FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease:" https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-gene-therapies-treat-patients-sickle-cell-disease

* "Magnetic surgical robot makes international debut in Chile hospital:" https://www.reuters.com/science/magnetic-surgical-robot-makes-international-debut-chile-hospital-2023-12-06/

* "The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-maternal-cells-microchimerism/676996/




* "Earth shattered global heat record in ’23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-warming-heating-earth-europe-copernicus-60eb12d11b7e5f694848673bb58512d3

* "Snow loss pinned to human-induced emissions:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03993-5

* "U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 as Coal Use Tumbled to New Lows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2023-climate.html

* "The United States is producing more oil than any country in history:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/business/us-production-oil-reserves-crude/index.html




* "Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers:" https://apnews.com/article/chocolate-deforestation-cocoa-farming-nigeria-8813c4656635a4ae8b49c6fd7ced6d28

* "Ethical Questions Arise After AI “Completes” Keith Haring Painting:" https://hyperallergic.com/865291/ethical-questions-arise-after-ai-completes-keith-haring-painting/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=D010924&utm_content=D010924+CID_60293e60ec7f70af8338050e1e6e4210&utm_source=hn&utm_term=Ethical+Questions+Arise+After+AI+Completes+Keith+Haring+Painting

* "OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material:" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/openai-says-its-impossible-to-create-useful-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material/

* "JUST SAY NO TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN YOUR CREATIVE PURSUITS, PLEASE, JFC, WTAF:" https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/01/10/just-say-no-to-artificial-intelligence-in-your-creative-pursuits-please-jfc-wtaf/

* "Elon Musk criticized by civil rights groups over claim that diversity efforts make flying less safe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/elon-musk-boeing-dei-diversity-x-posts-pilots-rcna133351

* "How these parrots went from the tropical jungle to the concrete jungle:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/los-angeles-flocks-wild-parrots-how-they-get-there

* "Ancient Romans lost these gemstones—down a bathhouse drain:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/ancient-romans-lost-gemstones-bathhouse-drain

* "Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e5mb/mysterious-section-of-the-great-wall-of-china-isnt-what-we-thought-study-reveals

* "The American Soldier Whose Fear of Fighting in Vietnam Led Him to Defect to North Korea. He Stayed There for 40 Years:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-american-soldier-whose-fear-of-fighting-in-vietnam-led-him-to-defect-to-north-korea-he-stayed-there-for-40-years-180983530/

* "Happy Public Domain Day 2024!:" https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/public-domain-day-2024/

* I'm doing my best with Klaus, migrating functions. It's way less efficient this way and a bunch of other things I normally do on Klaus need to keep on happening, so there are zero promises about me getting any number of things done when I normally do them. Some friends have clubbed together and are planning to send something I can do some of my messaging, etc. on, which mostly effects my private life. (Important for me and my close friends, but no one else).

The power still hasn't drained from Aidan, so we can't tell if reboot would help. A Millennial may look at it next week to see if anything can be done. I don't have a lot of hope. This is infuriating. Aidan is only a couple years old and was in great shape.

There is a good chance of me double posting accidentally for a bit, as I'm not sure which news items were just prepped or posted.

* "Christie Drops Out | Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals | Celebs Ruin RFK Jr.’s Birthday:"

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* "Stephen Colbert’s Cyborgasm: Chatbots Run Wendy’s Drive Thru | AI Dating Apps | Robotic Third Arm:"

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* "Texas Library Association’s Excuse for Dropping Chuck Tingle Appearance Doesn’t Add Up:" https://www.themarysue.com/texas-library-associations-excuse-for-dropping-chuck-tingle-appearance-doesnt-add-up/

* Chuck Tingle explains the ableism of the TLA in refusing accommodation. "My Masks:" https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739177829397331968/my-masks?source=share

* "Antigone to go (Sophocles in 11 minutes, English version):"

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* "‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max:" https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/our-flag-means-death-canceled-max-1235866718/

* "A Quick Fix To Improve Your Historical Drama, Fast: The Thing About The Past Is People Still Liked Being Clean:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-quick-fix-to-improve-your-historical?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=140517747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&utm_medium=email

* "That’s Ludacris!:"

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* "Prompt: After a lackluster 1st year as a Hero, you’re ready to go rogue. The problem is that the new guy in the team is definitely onto you.:" https://www.tumblr.com/caffeinewitchcraft/692435372447285248/that-nerdy-guy-knows-your-secret-you-scan-the

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help the Lenape Nation get recognition from Pennsylvania: https://www.lenape-nation.org/

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

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

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

* CW: Animal Death. Fundraiser to cover costs of final treatment. "Dine's expenses for Olivier's last week:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/dines-expenses-for-oliviers-last-week

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* Both Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have plead guilty in the Election Interference Racketeering case. I don't have time for proper coverage if I want to put this out today and it's a busy weekend for me RL.

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* "After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c

* "Biden expresses outrage over Gaza hospital attack, directs team to investigate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-expresses-outrage-over-gaza-hospital-attack-directs-team-investigate-2023-10-17/

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* "Israel-Hamas war updates: Israel and Egypt agree to let aid into Gaza:" https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine

* "Biden offers example of recent U.S. past in cautioning Israel on revenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-offers-example-of-recent-u-s-past-in-cautioning-israel-on-revenge-195941957697

* "Richard Madeley condemned for ‘racist’ question to MP Layla Moran about Hamas attack on Israel:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/richard-madeley-layla-moran-hamas-israel-palestine/

* "There’s no Jewish American consensus about the conflict in Israel and Gaza:" https://www.vox.com/23915948/jewish-american-israel-gaza-war-attacks-opposing-beliefs-progressive-movement

* "Muslim boy killed and woman wounded in Illinois hate crime motivated by Israel-Hamas war, police say:" https://apnews.com/article/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e

* "If anyone wants to donate to his family then here: :" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

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* "Saudi Arabia: Migrants workers who toiled in Amazon warehouses were deceived and exploited:" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/saudi-arabia-migrants-workers-who-toiled-in-amazon-warehouses-were-deceived-and-exploited/

* "Canadian Human Rights commissioner resigns over new school pronoun rule to out kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/canada-saskatchewan-heather-kuttai-education-pronouns-trans/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Tory MP Peter Bone facing suspension over bullying and sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/peter-bone-bullying-sexual-misconduct-suspension/

* "Anti-feminist, right-wing Manchester mayoral candidate makes trans ‘joke’ as part of campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/nick-buckley-manchester-anti-trans/




* "Ukraine uses secretly shipped U.S. missiles to launch surprise strike :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/ukraine-uses-secretly-shipped-u-s-missiles-to-launch-surprise-strike-00121932

* "600 days into the war, Russia’s assault on a key eastern Ukraine city appears to be weakening:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-donetsk-counteroffensive-ae6a7dd33a43ae91bd9660aa5ca2b9a0

* "Russia destroyed 300,000 tons of grain since July in port, ship attacks, Kyiv says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-destroyed-300000-tons-grain-since-july-port-ship-attacks-kyiv-2023-10-13/

* "Ukraine claims a major strike on Russian airfields and thanks US for providing long-range missiles:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-attacks-8b5fd038c7e496dcb8f015b759b74666




* "Supreme Court tells 5th Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206245991/supreme-court-ghost-guns

* Some of the speaker stuff may be out of date by the time you read it.

* "Jim Jordan lacks enough support on first House speaker round: Next vote scheduled for Wednesday:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "Republicans Say Jim Jordan’s Pressure Campaign for Speaker Has ‘Backfired’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-say-jim-jordans-pressure-campaign-for-speaker-has-backfired

* "What to know about Jim Jordan's role in Jan. 6 :" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jim-jordans-role-jan-6/story?id=104014959

* "House Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House, again:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "‘Roomba stuck in a corner’: GOP infighting escalates as Jordan loses second speaker vote:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-roomba-stuck-in-a-corner-gop-infighting-escalates-as-jordan-loses-second-speaker-vote-195931205855

* "Jordan bully tactics backfire, provoke threats and harassment of fellow Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/jordan-bully-tactics-backfire-provoke-threats-and-harassment-of-fellow-republicans-195939397781

* "Let's talk about the Speaker options for Republicans....:"

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* "Republicans struggle to ignore half the country in speaker fight; Democrats stand by:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-struggle-to-ignore-half-the-country-in-speaker-fight-democrats-stand-by-196031045907

* "Dem rep: 199 Republicans voted for 'Insurrection Caucus' leader for speaker:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dem-rep-199-republicans-voted-for-insurrection-caucus-leader-for-speaker-195933253628

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

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

* "Kari Lake’s lawsuit over metro Phoenix’s electronic voting machines has been tossed out:" https://apnews.com/article/kari-lake-lawsuit-electronic-voting-machines-e8671f52c752946e1ec239df87a9d762

* "Arizona Republican Kari Lake launches 2024 Senate campaign:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204870164/arizona-republican-kari-lake-launches-2024-senate-campaign

* "Mike Pence heckled by man claiming they are both gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/mike-pence-heckled-gay/

* "Transgender Montana Legislator Zooey Zephyr Unsilenced and Unyielding at Equality Convention:" https://www.advocate.com/news/zooey-zephyr-equality-convention-interview

* "Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee-00121225

* "Campaign of Rep. George Santos refunds more money than it raises :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/santos-campaign-refunds/

* "The House GOP’s Crazy Week Gets Even Weirder With George Santos Tirade:" https://newrepublic.com/post/176239/house-gops-crazy-week-gets-even-weirder-george-santos-tirade

* "Embattled N.Y. Republican Congressman George Santos faces 10 new felony charges:" https://www.npr.org/ny-republican-congressman-george-santos-faces-new-felony-charges

* "'It wasn't me': George Santos says he won't take a plea deal:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/11/congress/santos-shaggy-defense-plea-deal-00120918

* "Republican lawmakers to introduce resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-york-house-republicans-introduce-resolution-expel-rep-george-santo-rcna119917




* "Trump tells judge he will appeal gag order in federal election interference case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-files-notice-appeal-judge-issues-partial-gag-order-rcna120924

* "Let's talk about Trump's DC gag order....:"

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* "A school shooting left a 7-year-old terrified to go back.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/townville-school-shooting-survivor-ava-olsen/

* "How a California tribe won their ancestral land back and saved endangered salmon:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty

* "Rappahannock Tribe’s buyback efforts are becoming a national model:" https://whro.org/news/local-news/39215-rappahannock-tribe-s-buyback-efforts-are-becoming-a-national-model

* About a thousand of the kidnapped children are still missing. "Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years:" https://apnews.com/article/separated-children-trump-biden-border-immigration-f9a73685d0ddbcda86e5b69997f5f7dd

* "An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder:" https://apnews.com/article/innocence-project-wrongful-conviction-oklahoma-fbb59bbfb46d44a375704f172b6fc786

* Gender Affirming Care is Healthcare. "Trans convicts must have access to gender-affirming care in Washington prisons, landmark ruling finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/19/washington-prisons-gender-affirming-care-trans-inmates/

* CW: Self Harm. "The “Miserable Spectacle” of Executing People With Serious Mental Illness:" https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/andre-thomas-execution-death-penalty-mental-illness.html

* "Video shows US professor ‘assaulted’ by Turning Point members over Drag Queen Story Hour links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/video-shows-us-professor-assaulted-by-turning-point-members-over-drag-queen-story-hour-links/

* "Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christianity back in schools:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christianity-evangelical-schools-anti-lgbtq-grapevine-podcast-rcna118114

* "Publisher denies ‘bigot button’ allegations after flagging queer books for school exclusion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/publisher-scholastic-bigot-button-queer-books/

* "Moms for Liberty accused of ‘taking over’ school board to ban LGBTQ+ and inclusive books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/moms-for-liberty-school-board-takeover/

* "Heavily persecuted, highly influential: China’s online feminist revolution:" https://restofworld.org

* "Some GOP-led states are chipping away at sex education in K-12 schools:" https://apnews.com/article/sex-education-us-laws-kentucky-florida-mississippi-bd6fffcb3a9a25babc32a143001f4ae1

* "India Supreme Court fails to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/india-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

* "India’s LGBTQ+ community ‘must demand’ equality, following crushing same-sex marriage blow:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/india-supreme-court-marriage-equality/

* "Man jailed in France for protesting drag queen story time event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/france-protest-drag-story-time-event-lgbtq/

* "Turkey: 90 per cent of LGBTQ+ people facing digital violence:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/13/turkey-lgbtq-digital-violence/

* "Japan: Family court rules it’s unconstitutional to require surgery for gender change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/japan-surgery-gender-change-unconstitutional/

* "This Indian state’s groundbreaking initiative is helping trans community get into higher education:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/15/india-trans-higher-education-kerala-literacy-mission/

* "Canada school trustee says ‘holy spirit’ made her post anti-LGBTQ+ meme:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/school-trustee-holy-spirit-anti-lgbtq-meme/

* "Angela Rayner slams ‘dangerous’ anti-LGBTQ+ Tory rhetoric: ‘We can’t go on like this’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/angela-rayner-pinknews-awards/

* "Phyll Opoku-Gyimah calls on UK government to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights across the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/03/phyll-opoku-gyimah-kaleidoscope-trust-lgbtq-rights-uk/

* "Protestors warn government has ‘run out of time’ to fulfil vow to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/government-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Same-sex couples hit with ‘gay tax’ in over 90 per cent of NHS England trusts:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/same-sex-couples-ivf-nhs-england-gay-tax/

* How to tell someone is a terrible person. "Jacob Rees-Mogg says ‘you can’t offend the dead’ in GB News LGBTQ+ hate-crime discussion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/jacob-rees-mogg-gb-news-hate-crime/

* "Brighton police hunt for gang of men who hurled stones at women in homophobic attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/brighton-police-homophobic-beach-attack/

* "LGBTQ+ groups protest gender critical conference hosting JK Rowling as a speaker:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/lgbtq-groups-protest-gender-critical-conference-hosting-jk-rowling-as-a-speaker/

* "Black trans choreographer Chyna Long shot and killed: ‘They took a piece of our joy’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/chyna-long-black-trans-woman-killed-milwaukee/

* "Three charged in alleged anti-LGBTQ+ hate-crime attack on 72-year-old man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/three-charged-in-alleged-anti-lgbtq-hate-crime-attack-on-72-year-old-man/

* "Trans woman wins fencing tournament, anti-trans campaigners are inevitably raging:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/trans-woman-wins-fencing-tournament/

* "Operation Warp Speed: The Untold Story of the COVID-19 Vaccine:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/operation-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccine

* "‘Flying syringes’ and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-06/la-me-rural-california-vector-control-conspiracy-theories-far-right







* "When It Comes to Urban Trees, More Isn’t Always Better:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-09/what-mapping-every-tree-in-new-york-city-reveals

* "How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices:" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-11/historic-redlining-bird-biodiversity

* "Decades Later, Closed Military Bases Remain a Toxic Menace:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/military-base-closure-cleanup.html

* "X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet:" https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

* "Division of labor in ants, wasps, bees — and us:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/evolution-of-division-of-labor

* "Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/female-frogs-fake-death-avoid-unwanted-attention-males/story?id=103859698

* "Black bears in the backyard: Why they’re everywhere, and what to do:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/10/10/black-bears-backyard-sightings/

* "Feast Your Eyes on the Most Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur of All Time:" https://mossandfog.com/feast-your-eyes-on-the-most-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-of-all-time/

* "When Lions Were King: Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection:" https://www.archaeology.org/issues/522-features/11637-lions-ancient-world

* "‘Egyptian blue’ found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum:" https://www.cnn.com/style/greek-parthenon-sculptures-painted-egyptian-blue-scn/index.html

* "Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears:" https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-have-an-audacious-plan-to-map-the-ancient-world-before-it-disappears/

* "1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/1700-year-old-sock-spins-yarn-about-ancient-egyptian-fashion-180970501/

* "Ninth Victim of Suspected Gay Serial Killer Herb Baumeister Identified:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herb-baumeister-ninth-victim

* Tuesday I stayed up all morning with frustrating phone bureaucracy. Wednesday I managed to sort out the bare minimum on the extreior decorations. Thursday, I was frankensteining around because my legs were bad. I know I have a bunch of C7 bulbs somewhere, but I put thhem away somewhere clever last January. I also need a C5, apparently. I saw some Wednesday, not knowing I owned anything needing a C-5. Sigh.

Friday late, my oldest continuous friend arrives for the birthday celebrations. everything is a mess, but I did get most of the boxes back in the closet, except for the light boxes I still need to search. I strung the house lights for halloweentown Wednesday, but all the figurines are randomly located as no one was up to making it pretty, which means I can't finish garlands and lights in time for party weekend. Ah well.

I did at least wrap presents for my birthday. For new readers: we do a halloween party for my birthday and we do secret pumpkins and take turns opening presents. I think birthday parties are more fun if everyone gets something to unwrap, and I am an Old, so this is how we do.

If I am scarce over the weekend, this is why.

* More Gothmas Decorations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731563061736062976?source=share

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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Regulations are written in blood.

* "Took my tiny child with me to the Halloween store.:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/731352627145818112/deadmomjokes-took-my-tiny-child-with-me-to-the?source=share

* A thing on Our Flag Means Death and what's going on with ed and stede: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731696319921602560/i-think-stedes-doing-a-lot-of-running-away-from?source=share

* OFMD: Izzy hand's Leg: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731697031851245568?source=share

* Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death Agree; Ned Low is a nasty, violent psychopath who needs to go.

* Cinderella after the Prince: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

* "Midnight Pals: The Dorsai:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731536960132448256/midnight-pals-the-dorsai?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "27 experts urge Biden not to allow Saudis to enrich uranium for Israel deal:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/27-experts-urge-biden-not-to-allow-saudis-to-enrich-uranium-for-israel-deal/

* "Hungarian president Katalin Novak uses UN General Assembly to go on ‘anti-family’ tirade:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/hungary-president-un-general-assembly-anti-family/

* "Turkey’s president Erdoğan doesn’t know what Pride colours are, makes UN complaint anyway:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/turkeys-president-erdogan-un-pride-colours/

* "Hundreds protest overhaul in New York as Netanyahu meets with world leaders:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-protest-overhaul-in-new-york-as-netanyahu-meets-with-world-leaders/

* "Netanyahu wraps up US visit as protesters shout ‘shame’ at departing convoy in NY:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-ends-us-visit-with-protesters-shouting-shame-at-departing-convoy/

* "Azerbaijan says it has retaken breakaway Armenian enclave after separatists surrender:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/asia/nagorno-karabakh-russia-ceasefire-intl/index.html

* "Iranian authorities arrest Mahsa Amini’s father on anniversary of her death:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/mahsa-amini-father-arrest-iran-protest-crackdown-00116401?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

* "Residents See Signs of Crackdown on Dissent After Libya Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/world/middleeast/libya-floods-derna-crackdown.html

* "Nearly 100 migrants rescued from a yacht off southwestern Greece:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rescue-operation-underway-off-southwestern-greece-90-migrants-103334178

* "Canada Post breaking law by gathering info from envelopes, parcels to build marketing list: privacy watchdog:" https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-post-breaking-law-by-gathering-info-from-envelopes-parcels-to-build-marketing-list-privacy-watchdog-1.6570397

* "Rishi Sunak slammed for ‘reckless political gimmick’ amid plans to roll back on Tory green policies:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/rishi-sunak-climate-change-plans-uk/

* "Daily Mail retracts Iceland boss claims of HIV needle attacks in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/daily-mail-iceland-boss-claims-retracted/

* "‘Racist, homophobic’ teen who defaced Windrush mural named:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/teen-dafaced-windrush-mural-named/

* "India tells citizens in Canada to exercise caution as relations worsen:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-opposition-congress-dismisses-canadas-suspicions-sikh-leaders-murder-2023-09-20/

* "Biden raised issue of Canadian Sikh's murder with Modi at G20, Financial Times reports:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-raised-issue-canadian-sikhs-murder-with-modi-g20-ft-2023-09-22/

* "Surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada led to allegations around Sikh killing, official says:" https://apnews.com/article/india-canada-visas-sikh-activist-killing-381e973e84f8d0c10b0bd53b03ccbdf2

* "Let's talk about Canada and India....:"

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* "'A really dark moment': Canadians react to Poilievre's comment on Trudeau's LGBTQ+ post:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/canadians-pierre-poilievre-justin-trudeau-lgbtq-post-020533727.html

* "A brief note about changes in rhetoric:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1937558.html

* "Let's talk about social media influence....:"

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* "The Elusive Figure Running Wagner’s Embattled Empire of Gold and Diamonds:" https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-africa-sytii-prigozhin-gold-12a45769

* "Let's talk about how news is created rather than reported and charts....:"

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* "Let's talk about Ukraine and when it will end....:"

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* "U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/

* "Ukraine finds new sources of aid to fight Russia as politics with Poland gets complicated:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ukraine-finds-new-sources-of-aid-to-fight-russia-as-politics-with-poland-gets-complicated-193428037981

* "Poland, with election looming, says it isn't sending new arms to Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-no-longer-arming-ukraine-says-pm-2023-09-21/

* "Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be painful. But its success is crucial to wider European security:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-crucial-european-security-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Fighting ‘through hell.’ To reclaim Bakhmut, a Ukrainian brigade must first survive the forest:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-bakhmut-684873be8aad1b1502ff8d67ea48afac

* "Ukraine breaches Russian defensive line on southern front:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/23/ukraine-breach-verbove-zaporizhzhia/

* "Transgender American Suspended by Ukrainian Military After Controversial Video:" https://www.advocate.com/world/trans-ukraine-spokeswoman-suspended




* "U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-china-tech-surveillance/

* "Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons:" https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-warheads-military-bomb-plutonium-6b86198def4516cebe496c9f5fbfbb75

* "U.S. will expand Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200719816/venezuelan-migrants-temporary-protected-status-us-border

* "Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200483937/biden-climate-corps-job-training

* "Biden launches Climate Corps; pairs new jobs with climate, infrastructure work:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-launches-climate-corps-pairs-new-jobs-with-climate-infrastructure-work-193428037800

* "First White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/first-white-house-office-of-gun-violence-prevention-193651781888

* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* "Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

* " Propublica: Clarence Thomas Participated in Koch Network Donor events:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/propublica-clarence-thomas-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events-193618501778

* "The Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady but hints at more action this year:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200327332/federal-reserve-inflation-economy-interest-rates

* "The Kids on the Night Shift:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/magazine/child-labor-dangerous-jobs.html

* "Florida Republican files bill to allow minors to work full-time and overnight:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/florida-bill-child-labour-overnight/

* "UAW strike day 9: Negotiations continue after strike expansion to other plants:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/23/uaw-strike-day-9-talks-continue-after-strike-expansion/70945125007/

* "Autoworkers share what it's like working under an expired contract:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/21/uaw-detroit-three-strike-expired-contract/70912395007/

* Short version: WGA still needs to vote on it as of this writing. The Union doesn't want anyone to go back to work until it's all finalized. SAG-AFTRA is still on strike. "Writers and Studios Reach Deal That Will End Strike:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/writers-guild-wga-strike-deal

* "US Strike Wave Could Soon Grow as Airline, Healthcare Workers Fight for Decent Contracts:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-strike-wave

* "Republicans find scapegoat for auto workers strike: Woke cars:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-find-scapegoat-for-auto-workers-strike-woke-cars-193515589707

* "Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly:"

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* "Why Can't Americans Afford Funerals?:" https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/729138701341507584?source=share

* "Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23880403/uber-eats-food-stamps-snap-ebt-fsa-flex-ai-assistant

* "Day care owners are fighting for survival as federal funding runs out this month:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/childcare-funding-american-rescue-covid-daycare-philadelphia-20230923.html

* "Senate leaders trumpeted a spending plan to flex on McCarthy. It's stuck too. :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/20/congress/senates-own-funding-stumble-00117094

* "House GOP erupts as McCarthy fails to move Pentagon bill :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/21/house-gop-conservatives-block-defense-bill-00117400

* "'These are not serious people': GOP pays the price for filling ranks with extremists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-these-are-not-serious-people-gop-pays-the-price-for-filling-ranks-with-extremists-193427525732

* "Let's talk about McCarthy's missed moment coming back around....:"

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* "Pro-Equality Lawmakers Demand Removal of Anti-LGBTQ+ Sections From Defense Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/defense-bill-anti-lgbtq

* "Republican infighting continues as shutdown looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-infighting-continues-as-shutdown-looms-193618501793

* "Let's talk about Humpty Dumpty, Republicans, and McCarthy....:"

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* "Let's talk about McCarthy, budgets, and bites....:"

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* "Let's talk about the potential shutdown and proposed CR....:"

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* "Kevin McCarthy: The Idiot of the House:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/kevin-mccarthy-idiot

* "Inside the Chaos in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/inside-the-chaos-in-the-gop-193653317640

* "'Disrupting this Country': Rep. Waters on GOP Chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/disrupting-this-country-rep-waters-on-gop-chaos-193652293814

* "Schumer takes on Tuberville’s blockade, teeing up votes on top military picks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/schumer-takes-on-tubervilles-blockade-teeing-up-votes-on-top-military-picks-00117143

* "Gen. C.Q. Brown confirmed as top military officer despite Tuberville's roadblock:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200705608/senate-tuberville-hold-military-promotions

* "Sen. Tuberville continues to block military nominations:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sen-tuberville-continues-to-block-military-nominations-193618501803

* "Democratic Lawmakers Reintroduce Landmark LGBTQ+ Military Equality Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-military-equality-bill-reintroduced

* "Pete Buttigieg Explains the Difference Between Climate Change and Seasons to Republican Lawmaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-explains-climate-change

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

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

* "Democrats have been winning big in special elections:" https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-winning-big-special-elections/story?id=103315703

* "'Pro-democracy': Dems overperform in 24 of 30 special elections so far in 2023:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-democracy-dems-overperform-in-24-of-30-special-elections-so-far-in-2023-193416773961

This only holds if everyone keeps showing up to vote.

* "Democrats retain narrow control of Pennsylvania House after special election:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-special-election-pittsburgh-8895ca07c1436640045861aff6c9ad6c

* "Flipped seat sets the stage for even split in N.H. House:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/flipped-seat-sets-stage-even-split-nh-house/

* "Missouri Republican Vows to Burn 'Woke Pornographic Books' If Elected Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-book-burning-video

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican mayoral candidate once pleaded guilty to ‘promoting prostitution’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/anti-lgbtq-mayoral-candidate-promoting-prostitution/

* "35 Bisexual Politicians You Should Know:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bisexual-politicians-visibility-day

* "Does 14th Amendment Bar Trump From the Presidency?:"

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* "Trump blue collar act a tougher sell now with anti-labor record:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-blue-collar-act-a-tougher-sell-now-with-anti-labor-record-193335877717

* "Donald Trump Asked Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley, 'Are You Soft on Transgenders?':" https://www.advocate.com/military/donald-trump-mark-milley-transgender

* "‘This is horrifying': Top New Jersey Democrats call on Bob Menendez to resign after his second indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/new-jersey-democrats-menendez-indictment-00117693

* "Rupert Murdoch to Step Down from Fox and News Corp Boards in November:" https://www.advocate.com/business/rupert-murdoch-retiring-fox-news

* "Will Lachlan Murdoch Bring a New Era to Fox News or the Same Hell?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news




* "Giuliani’s former lawyers sue him for $1.36M in unpaid legal fees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-lawyer-trump-00116671

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Georgia DA lists Trump ally Lin Wood as state witness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-lists-trump-ally-lin-wood-as-state-witness-193419845977

* "Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-prison-conviction-trial-1234828231/




* "Nazis Are Returning to the Streets:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byyd/2024-election-neo-nazis-visible-on-streets

* "Police investigate after bomb threat shuts down drag storytime at Utah bookstore:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/bomb-threat-drag-storytime/

* "The Police Will Never Protect Us:"

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* "Victory for Students: LGBTQ+ Resource Center Reopens at Missouri University:" https://www.advocate.com/news/missouri-university-reopens-lgbtq-center

* "Virginia Beach Parents Sue to Force Schools to Adopt Glenn Youngkin's Anti-Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/law/youngkin-transgender-schools-sue-lawsuit

* "Students protest Virginia schools anti-trans policies: ‘We will be bullied and dead-named’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/student-protest-virginia-anti-trans-policies/

* "Americans Divided on Use of Chosen Names and Pronouns in Schools, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-divided-student-chosen-names

* "California governor signs raft of protections for LGBTQ+ youth:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/california-governor-lgbtq-gavin-newsom/

* "Texas Teacher Fired For Assigning Anne Frank Graphic Novel:" https://advocatechannel.com/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank

* "Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports:" https://apnews.com/article/books-bans-american-library-association-42b34a284a6363439de20bbb65bb43b4

* "Virginia Library Temporarily Avoids Closing Over LGBTQ+ Books Controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/samuels-library-front-royal-open

* CW: Rape. "Decades-Old Trove of DNA Evidence, Collected by a Maryland Doctor, Leads to a Serial Rape Arrest:" https://www.propublica.org/article/decades-old-trove-of-dna-evidence-leads-to-serial-rape-arrest-maryland

* CW: Rape. "Protecting a Predator: How Columbia University ignored women, undermined prosecutors, and allowed one of its OB/GYNs to abuse hundreds of patients.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-obgyn-robert-hadden-sexually-assaulted-patients.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Rudy Giuliani groped her before Jan. 6 Capitol riot:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/trump-aide-says-rudy-giuliani-groped-her-on-january-6.html

* "Somalia's first all-women newsroom spotlights female taboos:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/somalias-first-all-women-newsroom-spotlights-female-taboos-2023-09-20/

* "Natasha Devon: Trans panic risks taking sex education back to the days of Section 28:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/trans-sex-education-transphobia-section-28-natasha-devon/

* "They Live in the US, but These LGBTQ+ Couples Can’t Get Married. Here's Why:" https://www.advocate.com/news/navajo-nation-married-queer-couples

* "California governor vetoes bill on gender-affirmation in child custody cases:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/california-gender-affirming-bill-trans/

* "Transgender Youth Face Hurdles Getting Gender-Affirming Care Even When It's Legal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-youth-access-care-restricted

* "Texas church launches non-profit to help transgender minors access healthcare:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/texas-church-transgender-minors-healthcare/

* "He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-health-care-north-carolina-coverage-denied

* "Abortions resume in Wisconsin after 15 months of legal uncertainty:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200610927/abortions-resume-in-wisconsin-after-15-months-of-legal-uncertainty

* "‘I looked in the mirror and saw the man in me’: Trans elders on the ‘hope’ in ageing authentically:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/trans-elders-lgbtq-coming-out-ageing-joy/

* "How queer Iranians are fighting back against the country’s online LGBTQ+ crackdown:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/mahsa-amini-protests-iranian-diaspora-collective-onlin/

* "Anti-trans rallies met with huge counter-protests across Canada:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/canada-pro-anti-lgbt-protests/

NOTE: Canadian correspondants are saying they were way more protests not covered in the article including Calagary, were the oposite.

* "New study finds decline in UK trans acceptance: ‘A shift that benefits no one’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/uk-less-tolerant-of-trans-people-study/

* "Civil servants up in arms over ‘woke’ policies on trans inclusion and a calendar marking Pride Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/civil-servants-woke-complaint-letter-trans/

* "Updated EHRC guidance suggests misgendering trans pupils not discriminatory:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/ehrc-guidance-trans-misgendering-pupils-schools/

* "Kate Osborne blasts Suella Braverman’s ‘woke policing’ claims: ‘Legitimising hate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/kate-osborne-suella-braverman-woke-policing/

* "Pentagon Says It'll Review Cases of LGBTQ+ Vets Who Were Denied Honorable Discharges:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-veterans-pentagon-dadt-review

* "Let's talk about Missouri, change, and elections....:"

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* "Angelica Ross is ‘leaving Hollywood’ after American Horror Story transphobia row:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/angelica-ross-american-horror-story-emma-roberts-ryan-murphy-leaving-hollywood/

* "She has Medicare and Medicaid. So why should it take 18 months to get a wheelchair? :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200657834/she-has-medicare-and-medicaid-so-why-should-it-take-18-months-to-get-a-wheelchai

* "Federal government to relaunch free COVID test program:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-government-relaunch-free-covid-tests-program/story?id=103347741

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* "‘They’re obsessed’: Dr. Fauci on death threats, 'lab leak,' and vaccine safety:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-they-re-obsessed-dr-fauci-on-death-threats-lab-leak-and-vaccine-safety-193484357913

* "Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sewage-key-track-disease-covid-19-wastewater

* "Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home:" https://apnews.com/article/birthing-rural-hospitals-maternity-care-births-e67a91d927eb545459e83bc7b2b95a0d

* CW: Child Death "Cough syrup killed scores of children. Why no one has been held to account :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coughsyrup-india/

* "At Japan’s dementia cafes, forgotten orders are all part of the service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/19/japan-aging-elderly-dementia-care/




* "Phoenix hit 110 degrees on 54 days in 2023, setting another heat record:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/phoenix-hit-110-degrees-on-54-days-in-2023-setting-another-heat-record

* "Ravaged by floods and fires, Greece struggles on the front lines of our climate reality:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ravaged-floods-fires-greece-struggles-front-lines-climate-reality-rcna107985

* "In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1199471923/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountains-survivors-loss

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate




* "Wildfires are destroying decades of clean air efforts in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfires-are-destroying-decades-clean-air-efforts-us-rcna105140

* "Renewable energy is now cheap—what’s next?:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/renewable-energy-is-now-cheap-whats-next/

* "How to Cool Down a City:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=HSk3tYP63honaw6JVn60sCk2OyUJmggqmzSIK7lP_OWn6_9pFszirIXkmTLXDcXyRjn3rb5O5MgeQVi_FaD3W02hlA7Jjpbtw97pHNa5YV4GcIulAYY-fRPWhu9E9aMgO-1r0POf8CiuB54APIMbIIZYdAhOfHfPAcTiqgtY1jzeaWyOebK9mwNnx4VByANdE3qQEuqwyWdHf2NVemqZIQl9rh7bQY1vavuSlJJbcXoUmLZPj-Aa9HEGdRpQw6njaDeR0D2fL41PXsa0i626uNbLUHYiBchPr_dJQo-WtHDqeajLOdJA23VKtxYKQ1l9dNmgCUq_SroOLzSmYhKjjwcTlVTJS0KV-6LG&smid=url-share

* "This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

* "The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?:" https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/

* "The Physics of Crowds: Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.:" https://nautil.us/the-physics-of-crowds-388020/

* "Let's talk about Rand Paul and a billboard....:"

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* You know how I kept saying these were an obvious scam from the beginning? "Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

* "‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement:" https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-george-rr-martin-37f9073ab67ab25b7e6b2975b2a63bfe

* "Decoding racial bias in artificial intelligence:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/decoding-racial-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-193619013836

* "AI in schools puts LGBTQ+ students at risk, new study reveals:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/ai-schools-digital-surveillance-lgbtq-students/

* "xQc Is Stealing Content (and So Are Most Reaction Streamers):"

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* "Elon Musk accuses George Soros of wanting ‘destruction of western civilization’ a day before meeting Netanyahu over antisemitism on X:" https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-george-soros-antisemitism-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-twitter-x/

* "Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/urban-animals-wildlife-biodiversity-traits-pigeons-reptiles-amphibians

* "What Made a 17th-Century Midwife Good at Her Job?:" https://juliamartins.co.uk/what-made-a-17th-century-midwife-good-at-her-job

* "Dead Reckoning:" https://magazine.atavist.com/dead-reckoning-honda-point-navy-disaster-1923/

* "Welcome to the Little Cuba of the Sahara Desert:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cuba-influence-western-sahara

* Wednesday's plans fell through for a bunch of nobody's fault reasons, but at least the annual curtain cleaning got done, along with a bunch of necessary errands and the like. I was exhausted and ended up going to bed for a few hours before the Thursday dose. (It went up again. I'm fine, but it takes a lot out of me). I had planned to get my COVID boosters, but there is a local distribution delay. I am rescheduled for Saturday the 30th, which is far less convenient, but there was nothing to be done. It'll be my first Moderna shot; I've had Pfiser every time previous, but apparently the Pfiser delay is a lot longer if I don't want to cross the mountains and do like an hourish of driving in my ancient car to a crappy little town I've only been to once and don't know my way around.

Waiting is simpler and cheaper as I need to make this half tank last, so I will wait.

no one was letting me sleep Thursday. It was that thing where I was having trouble sleeping because of the pain being so extreme, and when I finally started to drift off, the phone would ring. Rinse and repeat. One of them let me sleep a whole hour, which was exciting. By the time we got to the 5-7th calls, I had reached a state of grimly amused. Then I woke up choking, which hasn't happened for a while and is likely to do with the Thursday shot and me running out of a side effect mitigation med I can't afford to replace until the 1st, by which time there will be no more shots until the new clinic opens.

I can't remember if I wrote about the two doctors getting a new office in the new clinic that opens in October, but they aren't scheduling yet. Let's hope the gap isn't so big I have to start over.

I did finally get a little REM sleep, but not much. Then I completely borked the bad shoulder trying to do physio. The arm didn't want to and it's bad enough I had to break out emergency meds and use the sling. Grr.

* "Star Trek Doesn't Understand Eugenics:"

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* "The White Gaze of Hairspray:"

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* "15 Hunky Black and White Folsom Street Fair Photos by Chantis :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/folsom-street-fair-2022-chantis

* "Halloween 🎃 Outdoor Decor | DIY Halloween Decorations for Outside | Front Yard Halloween Decorating:"

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* "If "Pride and Prejudice" was a podcast:"

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* Dracula: Lucy and Jonathan Parallels: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/729285707782389760/with-lucy-gone-now-and-van-helsing-saying-that?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "‘She could be my sister’: Iranian activists on why Mahsa Amini protests are an LGBTQ+ fight too:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/iran-lgbtq-mahsa-amini-protests-year/

* "Netanyahu's Supreme Court overhaul effort seen by protesters as threat to Israel's democracy:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-supreme-court-60-minutes-transcript/

* "Gender reform law: Scottish and UK governments battle in court over Section 35 block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gender-reform-law-scotland-uk-governments-court/

* "The Serial Killer Hiding in Plain Sight:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv54m/the-serial-killer-hiding-in-plain-sight




* "Biden urges UN: Stand united with Ukraine :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/biden-un-general-assembly-ukraine-00116739




* "Rallies held nationwide as Netanyahu heads to US; protesters denounce him at airport:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/rallies-held-nationwide-as-netanyahu-heads-to-us-protesters-to-await-him-at-airport/

* "Five Americans detained in Iran walk free, released in deal for frozen Iranian assets:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-prisoner-swap-sanctions-assets-4e1fa477f8e6af45fb764acd259c2f1a

* "It's complicated: Options limited when U.S. companies work contrary to U.S. interests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/it-s-complicated-options-limited-when-u-s-companies-work-contrary-to-u-s-interests-193255493552

* "'It's a huge dilemma': U.S. looks for leverage against Uganda's 'kill the gays' law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-a-huge-dilemma-u-s-looks-for-leverage-against-uganda-s-kill-the-gays-law-193256517570

* "Let's talk about Biden, recommendations, and information....:"

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* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* This makes so much sense. "Dark money: The backstory of Alabama’s redistricting defiance:" https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/16/dark-money-the-backstory-of-alabamas-redistricting-defiance/

* "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'whole truth' about Black history must be taught:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-truth-black-history-taught/story?id=103220003

* "U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at 16th Street Baptist Church:"

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* "Ford Revolutionized 5-Day Work Weeks, Now They Won't Give 4-Day a Shot:" https://advocatechannel.com/uaw-strike-henry-ford-five-day-work-week

* "UAW strike, Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200052537/uaw-strike-worker-job-plant-layoffs-day-4-gm-ford

* "UAW strike enters third day:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/uaw-strike-enters-third-day-193146437782

* "Let's talk about Biden, the UAW, and unions....:"

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* "Another doomed GOP spending plan collapses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/18/gop-spending-plan-government-shutdown-mccarthy-deal-00116508

* "House GOP in open warfare over doomed spending plan :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/house-gop-spending-plan-00116631

* "Somebody Left a Motion to Remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker in House Bathroom:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/somebody-left-a-motion-to-remove-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-in-house-bathroom

* "House Republicans to hold first impeachment hearing into President Biden next week:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200364227/impeachment-house-republicans-president-biden-hearing

* Ken Buck Op Ed. "My fellow Republicans: One disgraceful impeachment doesn’t deserve another:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/congressman-ken-buck-biden-impeachment/

* "‘Fictitious’ facts and ‘imagined’ history: GOP Rep. Ken Buck slams Biden impeachment effort:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/gop-rep-ken-buck-impeachment-biden-00116396

* "Watch George Santos Give Bizarre CNN Interview About Impeachment, Lies:" https://www.advocate.com/media/george-santos-cnn-interview

* "Let's talk about a tale of 3 impeachments....:"

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* "'Biggest political scandal right now': heat on Javanka money haul:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-biggest-political-scandal-right-now-heat-on-javanka-money-haul-193113157632

* "GOP Sen. John Kennedy Reads Queer Sex Excerpts at Cringe-Worthy Senate Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/john-kennedy-explicit-senate-hearing

* "Fetterman jeers Republicans 'losing their mind' over new Senate dress code:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fetterman-jeers-republicans-losing-their-mind-over-new-senate-dress-code-193242693970

* "‘Preposterous': Conspiracy theorists think John Fetterman uses a ‘body double’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-preposterous-conspiracy-theorists-think-john-fetterman-uses-a-body-double-193325637904

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

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

* This is the end of free and fair elections and intended to end democracy. "North Carolina Republicans seek control over state and local election boards ahead of 2024:" https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-republicans-election-changes-voting-4f5184d25d63ac7a464dff9be0f93c52

* Republicans removed her for conducting a free and fair election which goes against their core fascist principals. "Wisconsin GOP votes to remove state’s elections chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/14/wisconsin-gop-remove-state-elections-chief-00115995

* "We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175311/america-polarized-traumatized-trump-violence

* "Americans Don’t Want Politicians Focusing on Transgender Issues, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-dont-focus-transgender-issues

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is motivating more trans and non-binary people to run for office:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/trans-non-binary-run-for-office-anti-lgbtq/

* "Olivia Hill of Nashville Council Is First Trans Person Elected in Tennessee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-nashville-first-transgender-official

* "Virginia Democratic Candidate Slams Republicans Sharing Her Sex Tapes: ‘It Won’t Intimidate Me’:" https://advocatechannel.com/susanna-gibson-virginia-democratic-candidate-sex-tapes

Want to help Susanna Gibson beat David Owen? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/sg-web?refcode=home-cta

* "Rep. Pelosi on why she's running for reelection in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-pelosi-on-why-she-s-running-for-reelection-in-2024-193146949773

* "Rep. Pelosi on the looming government shutdown:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-pelosi-on-the-looming-government-shutdown-193146437865

* CW: Child Abuse. "GOP candidate promising to protect children from LGBTQ+ people faced child cruelty charges:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gop-louisiana-john-raymond-child-cruelty/

* "Mike Pence Shifts to ‘Gender Ideology’ When Asked About Anti-Trans Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pence-gender-ideology-transgender-townhall

* "Ramaswamy says he’d deport children of undocumented immigrants, calls 14th Amendment ‘contested’:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4195861-ramaswamy-says-hed-deport-children-of-undocumented-immigrants-born-in-the-us-calling-14th-amendment-contested/

Children born here are citizens under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. He's saying the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is somehow not Constitutional and we need to mass deport American Citizens.

* "Ron DeSantis ditched by biggest donor after ‘pointless’ war with Disney:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/ron-desantis-disney-donor/

* "Petition filed to block Trump from Minnesota’s 2024 ballot under ‘insurrection clause’:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-amendment-insurrection-ban-ballot-lawsuit-559469071b5f104e74ca698bed6afb5d

* "Trump calls DeSantis abortion ban ‘a terrible mistake,’ sparking anger from some key Republicans:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-abortion-ban-republican-primary-5bdbba55f9c2f328d49b5fbe9727677e

* "Trump Warns That ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Will ‘Lead Us Into World War 2’ in Confused Speech:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-warns-cognitively-impaired-biden-172337832.html

"This wasn’t the only mistake Trump made during his speech. At another point, he appeared to imply that he is also beating President Obama in the 2024 election polls."

Every accusation is a confession.

* "Let's talk about Trump, Meet the Press, and accuracy....:"

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* "In Rosh Hashanah message, Trump says US Jews voted ‘to destroy America and Israel’:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rosh-hashanah-message-trump-says-us-jews-voted-to-destroy-america-and-israel/

* "Lauren Boebert caught fondling date’s crotch at family-friendly show:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/lauren-boebert-sexual-behaviour-theatre/

Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* "Gov. Kemp decides not to suspend state Senator named in election interference indictment:" https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/gov-kemp-decides-not-suspend-state-senator-named-election-interference-indictment/QXKUVNTW5NAILGAGSQQGMOU7B4/

* "Let's talk about Paxton being acquitted....:"

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* "Trump civil fraud trial in New York will last nearly three months, judge says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trumps-new-york-fraud-trial-will-last-nearly-3-months-judge-rcna104100

* "Let's talk about rhetoric and reality....:"

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* I don't like the ableism here, but most of the other coverage is worse in one way or another. "A Befuddled Trump Both Admits and Denies that He Was 'Waving Around' a Classified Document:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/14/2193353/-A-Befuddled-Trump-Both-Admits-and-Denies-that-He-Was-Waving-Around-a-Classified-Document

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Trump co-defendant Jeffrey Clark seeks to move Georgia election case to federal court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-co-defendant-jeffrey-clark-seeks-move-georgia-election-case-fede-rcna105555

* "Jack Smith seeks gag order on Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/jack-smith-seeks-gag-order-on-trump-00116366

* "Trump blasts special counsel Jack Smith for seeking gag order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/trump-blasts-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-seeking-gag-order-00116376

* "Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages/




* "Ray Epps, ex-Marine targeted by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged with a misdemeanor in riot:" https://apnews.com/article/ray-epps-capitol-riot-jan-6-fox-38748c79cd7b6916584a5db7ca87af7a

* "'Victim of Fox': Feds charge man at center of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-victim-of-fox-feds-charge-man-at-center-of-jan-6-conspiracy-theories-193327685617

* "Proud Boys are GOP's 'neo-fascist foot soldiers' — and have their full support: reporter:" https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-gop-2665058802/

* "‘Attack on military readiness’: Human rights groups sound new alarm on extremism:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/14/civil-rights-groups-alarm-over-white-supremacism-military-extremism/70848380007/

* "FBI investigating violent threats against officials in Fulton County, Georgia:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/fbi-investigating-violent-threats-against-officials-in-fulton-county-georgia-.html

* "Threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on Hunter Biden probe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/prosecutors-fbi-agents-hunter-biden-investigation-threatened-rcna104932

* "Maddow: What sets us apart as a country is fragile and worth fighting to protect:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-what-sets-us-apart-as-a-country-is-fragile-and-worth-fighting-to-protect-193247813919

* "This Transgender Harvard Law Instructor’s Front-Row Seat to Domestic Terrorism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/alejandra-caraballo-bomb-threats-emails

* "Maryland Man Admits Sending Terror Threats to LGBTQ+ Group, Allies:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/maryland-terror-threats-lgbtq-group

* "Federal judge again declares that DACA is illegal with issue likely to be decided by Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-daca-dreamers-51ba8c941993ffa26e1251aef84b0284

* "Infamous Neo-Nazi blog praises Mayor Adams’ claim that NYC is being ‘destroyed’ by migrant crisis:" https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/08/infamous-neo-nazi-blog-praises-mayor-adams-claim-that-nyc-is-being-destroyed-by-migrant-crisis/

* "Let's talk about Memphis, the feds, and Mr. Nichols....:"

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* They carelessly killed her, then mocked her in death. The Seattle PD are pretty fucking evil. "Seattle Police Union Leader Under Investigation for Joking Woman Killed by Patrol Car Had 'Limited Value':" https://people.com/seattle-police-officer-under-investigation-for-jokes-about-grad-student-killed-7969630

* "Let's talk about Seattle and low value....:"

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* " Most Cops Involved in High-Profile Killings Since 2014 Kept Their Police Licenses :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/16/police-decertification-license/

* "Milwaukee police to withhold victims’ gender when reporting on crimes to avoid misgendering:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/police-crime-victims-misgendering-milwaukee/

* "Transgender Jan. 6 Rioter Is Now in a Women's Prison. Did Far-Right Republicans Help?:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/trans-insurrectionist-appeals-transphobes

* "Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it:" https://apnews.com/article/illinois-criminal-justice-cash-bail-reform-b8aac667b7d3016e12ea64a70964bf55

* "Rolling Stone founder apologises for ‘inflammatory’ comments about Black and female musicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/jann-wenner-rolling-stone-black-female-artists-articulate-comments-reaction/

* "Texas Anti-Drag Law Blocked Again by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/tennessee-drag-ban-blocked-again

* "Hispanic Federation’s queer president condemns Don’t Say Gay laws: ‘All you’re doing is isolating children’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/hispanic-heritage-month-lgbtq-latinx-frankie-miranda/

* "Two California school districts ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/california-sunol-temecula-pride-flag-ban/

* "Yet another California school district introduces parental notification policy for trans students:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/california-parental-notification-policy-students/

* "How Teachers Are Being Silenced on LGBTQ+ Issues and More:" https://www.advocate.com/education/silencing-teachers-lgbtq

* "Alabama anti-porn group wants librarians to face jail for offering LGBTQ+ books to kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/alabama-jail-librarians-lgbtq-books-porn-group/

* CW: CSA, Child Abuse. "The Menedez Brothers Case and the Changing Perceptions of Child Abuse:"

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* CW: Rape "Met Police pays ‘substantial’ damages to women arrested at Sarah Everard vigil:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/metropolitan-police-sarah-everard-payout-patsy-stevenson-dania-al-obeid/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Lesbian former PA accuses ‘narcissist’ Russell Brand of ‘sickening’ behaviour amid rape and sexual assault allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/russell-brand-rape-sexual-assault-allegations-lesbian-pa/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Russell Brand promised to bring ‘naked’ female assistant to meet Jimmy Savile on BBC show:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/russell-brand-jimmy-savile-sexual-abuse/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones defend Russell Brand over sexual assault allegations:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tucker-carlson-alex-jones-defend-russell-brand-over-sexual-assault-allegations-193243717889

* "Lyft Now Lets Women and Nonbinary Riders Request Their Driver’s Gender:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lyft-women-nonbinary-driver-option

* CW: Rape. "Virginia's Glenn Youngkin Pardons Man Involved in Altercation Over Trans Restroom Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/youngkin-pardon-restroom-case

* CW: Child Abuse. "Fox News contributor Tyrus threatens to assault trans kids in swimming pools:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/tyrus-fox-news-trans-swimming/

* CW: Child Abuse. "Christian influencer’s arrest points to Religious Right’s history of 'oppression and cruelty':" https://www.alternet.org/christian-nationalism-2665081569/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

* "A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "The Right’s War on Divorce—and Its Costs:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/no-fault-divorce-texas-republican-gop-crowder/

* "Gay adult shop in Manchester attacked for a fifth time this year: ‘This cannot continue’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/13/gay-adult-shop-manchester-attacked/

* "Older Gay Men More Sexually Active Than Older Straight Men: Survey:" https://www.advocate.com/health/older-gay-men-sex-lives

* "She Posted About Making Shakshuka on a Lazy Saturday. Then She Got Death Threats:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/shakshuka-girl-matt-walsh-internet-x-drama-1234819913/

* "While LGBTQ+ Community Embraces Open Marriages, Straight Society Is Scandalized: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/society/lgbtq-support-open-marriages

* "‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html

* "Jersey to improve legal rights for same-sex parents: ‘Recognising families as equal’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/jersey-same-sex-parents-legal-rights-surrogacy/

* "Conservatives approve policies to limit transgender health care for minors, end race-based hiring:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-policy-convention-transgender-1.6961991

* Trans Adults are no longer entitled to bodily autonomy in Florida and are not considered competent to make their own health care decisions. "Judge Won't Block Florida's Restrictions on Care for Trans Adults:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-ban-florida

* "Alabama Families Continue to Appeal to Block Transgender Care Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-alabama-appeal

* "Missouri Trans Clinic forced to cease services following trans healthcare ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/missouri-trans-clinic-cease-services/

* "Hong Kong: Lesbian couple’s IVF legal victory a ‘giant step forward for rainbow families’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/hong-kong-lesbian-couple-ivf-victory-same-sex-parents/

* "Let's talk about Kentucky, the wheels of justice, and costs....:"

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* "Alabama's attorney general says the state can prosecute those who help women travel for abortions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/alabamas-attorney-general-state-prosecute-women-travel-abortions-102844622

* "As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html

* ""YOU'RE NOT OPPRESSED!" | Twitter, Pride Month, and Acephobia [Asexuality]:"

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* "Welcome to the 'Fluidity Renaissance':" https://www.advocate.com/voices/welcome-to-the-fluidity-renaissance

* "‘Nobody is safe in Chechnya’: Life of torture survivor accused of being gay at risk, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/chechnya-russia-torture-salman-mukaev-extradite-armenia/

* "A Proposed Law in This Country Would Require Citizens to Report LGBTQ+ People to Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill

* "Homophobia in Lebanon: Queer community ‘hopeless’ as ‘moral panic’ targets LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/13/lebanon-lgbtq-rights-crackdown/

* "In time of war, Russia turns up aggression on transgender citizens:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/10/russia-outlaws-transgender-citizens/

* "Belgrade queer community defiant at Serbia Pride, despite anti-LGBTQ+ leadership and religious groups:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/serbia-pride-belgrade-christian-orthodox-protest/

* "Cork’s ‘favourite’ LGBTQ+ bar removes Pride flags and cancels drag performances:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/cork-chambers-bar-lgbtq-ireland/

Correspondants in Ireland tell me there is now a boycott on, but I haven't seen the reporting yet.

* "Mausoleum for Trans Women Inaugurated in Mexico City:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-women-mausoleum-mexico

* "Hundreds protest Posie Parker event in Dublin: ‘Trans people aren’t going anywhere’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/hundreds-of-trans-folks-and-allies-protest-posie-parker/

* I hope he sues. "Posie Parker suggests trans ally David Tennant is a paedophile – and fans aren’t having it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/david-tennant-posie-parker/

* "Anti-trans activists rage at Pride flag boot sticker, only to discover it came from ‘gender critical’ store:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/posie-parker-gender-critical-anti-trans-sticker/

* "Protestors warn government has ‘run out of time’ to fulfil vow to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/government-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Liz Truss doesn’t want trans people to transition until they turn 18 – but she’s got it all wrong:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/trans-schools-guidance-age-social-transition-uk/

* "Labour MP warns against gender-critical activists wanting women to show passports in public toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/angela-eagle-passports-toilets/

* "Transgender Woman Wins $125,000 After Settling Discrimination Suit with American Samoa:" https://www.advocate.com/news/american-samoa-transgender-employee-lawsuit

* "Former Pastor jailed for eight years for murder of Black trans woman Kelly Stough:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/michigan-albert-weathers-kelly-stough-trans-murder/

* "Suspect Arrested in Vandalism at Two Orlando LGBTQ+ Centers:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/arrest-orlando-vandalism-lgbtq-centers

* "New York City Police Arrest 2 More Over Stonewall Pride Flag Vandalism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-arrests-2-vandalism-flags

* "Florida City Declares Itself LGBTQ+ Sanctuary:" https://www.advocate.com/dont-say-gay/sanctuary-city-florida-lgbtq

* "California Becomes First State to Declare Transgender History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/california-first-transgender-history-month

* "Are religious people OK? Pastor smashes Barbie Dream House with Bible taped to baseball bat:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/pastor-greg-locke-barbie-dream-house-bible-baseball-bat/

* "Stephen Miller Really Hates Gay Pop-Tarts:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/stephen-miller-hates-gay-poptarts

* CW: Suicide. "Alice Litman inquest to examine impact of gender clinic waiting lists on trans woman’s death:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/alice-litman-inquest-gender-clinic-waiting-times/

* "Australian state to hold inquest into deaths of trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/victoria-trans-non-binary-suicide-inquest/

* "COVID cases are rising again. Here’s a refresher on everything you forgot.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/sick-covid-refresher-tests-masking-isolation-medicine

* "Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccines-shots-cdc-5bc4db844557120bcc50dc0838c0e044

* "A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-flesh-eating-bacterium-is-creeping-north-as-oceans-warm/

* "A Story About Pain:" https://audacity.substack.com/p/a-story-about-pain

* "The Woman on the Line: Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/overdose-drugs-fentanyl-opioid-never-use-alone.html




* "East Libya Strongman Keeps Tight Control Over Aid After Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/world/middleeast/libya-flood-aid-khalifa-hifter.html

* "Libyan flood survivors weigh water shortages against landmine risk:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyan-flood-survivors-weigh-water-shortages-against-landmine-risk-2023-09-17/

* "Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199761659/libya-floods-derna-survivors-deaths

* "Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-photos-earthquake-920c39947f895cdfc3448e5431df7562

* "Morocco's earthquake crumbled much of this adobe village nestled in the mountain:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200132282/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountain-village

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate




* "Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-discovery-of-copper

* "LGBTQ+ indie game developers hit back at ‘worrying’ new Unity fees for installs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/unity-development-fees-indie-games/

* "Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, could charge all users for access:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/x-elon-musk-charge-all-users-18374233.php

* "‘The Trumpian Playbook’: Mehdi unpacks the GOP and Elon Musk’s war on truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-the-trumpian-playbook-mehdi-unpacks-the-gop-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-truth-192472133703

* "Eclipse Records Pin Dates of 12th and 13th Century Eruptions:" https://eos.org/articles/eclipse-records-pin-dates-of-12th-and-13th-century-eruptions

* "Triboulet the Butt-Slapping Jester: Investigating a Historical Meme:"

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* "The London History Show: The Great Fire:"

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* "The Pub Where They Hanged Pirates: The London History Show:"

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* "Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes:"

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* "How Queer Communities Created Secret Languages:"

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* "The Remarkable Versatility of Cloris Leachman: From The Last Picture Show to Young Frankenstein:"

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* Saturday I "won" a game of "What am I allergic to now?"

Spoiler: sandalwood. It was sandalwood. Sigh.

* Thursday was likely the last of the good fruit from the market garden down the street as I can't afford more. They were plums. The oval ones with the dark purple skin and the yellowish interior, perfectly rich of flavour and sweet. I already miss them. Sunday I ate one of the tomatoes that hadn't developed right from the garden and it was like the whole flavour of what would have been a full sized heirloom was compressed into something a tad larger than a cherry tomato. It was still warm from the sun. I dislike summer, but I do love the fresh fruit and veg it brings.

Last Wednesday we started Gothmas prep stuff. The Gothmas season stretches from when the first leaves start turning until some time first week of January. It has many phases. I didn't used to count prep as a phase, but it really is. Last Wednesday was basically Adult Arts and Crafts and cleaning air-conditioner vents. Sunday was things like break down and drain the living room air condition. admittedly a risk with this humidity, but we can't move forward without putting it away. We are hoping to start interior decorating Wednesday.

As always, the goal is to have everything up but the exterior by the end of the 27th. Let's hope i remember to start the curtains in the washing machine before I leave for Wednesday errands. (I really shouldn't be taking the curtains down myself, but I can't put them back up myself, so the timing needs to be a thing that happens when I'm dressed for the day, but with enough time for wash and dry while the Millennials are here.

I am so ready for Autumn, which should be much farther along, but the wind patterns have been radically fucked for half a decade thanks to climate crisis.

The cleaner tricked poor Livia Friday into thinking he was Goth Millennial. He was very quiet and making familiar doing things in the kitchen sounds, so without checking his identity she trundled out of her hide so she could watch birds from her padded podium by my bedroom window. About and hour and a quarter later, he loomed into her doorway. Panic! Goth Millennial was a doppelganger! a Tricksey shape Shifting stranger!

Saturday, she hid from Goth Millennial in case they performed the same shape shifting trick again. Fool me once….

Sunday she was on my bed with Tavy when I brought Goth Millennial in, and we were mid-chat, so she decided Goth Millennial was not a Decepticon because that meant she could keep enjoying the pet I was giving her and a nap in her Spot instead of repairing to her Fortress of Solitude for the evening. it was fine. no shape shifting shenanigans ensued.

* I'd have been harder on Tarantino, but otherwise, perfection. "The Campy Queer Sensibilities of Barbie:"

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* Dracula Thought: So here is the question: Knowing what we know now, is the maids begging to watch by Lucy earlier in her illness touching or sinister?

* "Midnight Pals: Playground of Death:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728732779485036544/midnight-pals-playground-of-death?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* The last few editions, I've been tinkering with how to sort and group items. The changes are fairly minor and I hope won't cause too much confusion. Let me know if it does.

This should have gone out Monday A, but I was tired.

* "Costs divide rich, poor countries ahead of WHO pandemic treaty talks:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-pandemic-bats-treaty/

* "Guatemalan justice ‘being used politically’ against president-elect: OAS:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/1/guatemalan-justice-being-used-politically-against-president-elect-oas

* "Met Police deny targeting ‘woke’ issues after Mark Rowley interview in The Telegraph:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/met-police-woke-causes-mark-rowley/

* "The Culture War Funded by Russian Roubles:" https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/09/the-culture-war-funded-by-russian-roubles/

* "10-Year-Old Ukrainian Boy Thrown Off Bridge in Germany for Not Speaking Russian:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-ukrainian-boy-thrown-off-bridge-in-germany-for-not-speaking-russian




* "In wartime Ukraine, going back to school means preparing for air raids and huddling in shelters:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/ukraine-war-back-to-school-intl/index.html




* "Canada issues advisory to warn LGBTQ+ people travelling to the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/canada-travel-advisory-travel-us/

* "Let's talk about Canada, the US, and red states....:"

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* "US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here’s what that would mean:" https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-federal-regulation-reclassifying-health-b0b5fc3d34a83d2c95db1665f8149d42

* "Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su: How Bidenomics is fueling union power:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/acting-labor-secretary-julie-su-how-bidenomics-is-fueling-union-power-192115269748

* CW: Rape "Hollywood's Toxic Underbelly with Maureen Ryan:"

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* "VFX Workers At Walt Disney Pictures Seek Unionization With IATSE:" https://deadline.com/2023/08/vfx-workers-at-walt-disney-pictures-seek-unionization-with-iatse-1235529565/amp/

* "Labor Strife Grows Ahead of Labor Day:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/labor-strife-grows-ahead-of-labor-day-192194117574

* "SAG-AFTRA Seeks Approval for Second Strike Against Video Game Companies:" https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-seeks-video-game-strike-approval-1235711251/

* "Some Republicans seek retribution for Trump prosecutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/some-republicans-seek-retribution-for-trump-prosecutions-192157253787

* "‘Kids Online Safety Act’ will deliberately target trans content, senator Marsha Blackburn admits:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/kids-online-safety-act-target-trans-lgbtq-content/

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

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

* "Wisconsin’s new liberal Supreme Court justice hasn’t heard a case but Republicans may impeach:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-impeach-redistricting-0215233d279092e7236c992957bbe935

* "Let's talk about impeachment in Wisconsin....:"

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* "Republicans threaten to impeach Wisconsin justice before she has ruled on any case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-threaten-to-impeach-wisconsin-justice-before-she-has-ruled-on-any-case-192114757804

* "Gay Republican Richard Grenell Urges Texas GOP to Lift Ban on Log Cabin:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/richard-grenell-texas-log-cabin

* "Mississippi Poised to Elect First Gay Legislator Ever:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-first-out-legislator

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Vivek Ramaswamy Sued By Former Employees Claiming His Company Pressured Them Into Violating Securities Laws:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/08/18/vivek-ramaswamy-sued-by-former-employees-claiming-his-company-pressured-them-into-violating-securities-laws/?sh=c561a832dbd2

* "Vivek Ramaswamy enriched himself while costing small investors their life savings:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/vivek-ramaswamy-enriched-himself-while-costing-small-investors-their-life-savings-must-watch-5-min-video.html

* "Vivek Ramaswamy's "cold, cultural civil war":" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-ramaswamy-rise-explained

* "Pro-DeSantis Super PAC All but Gives Up on Nevada and Super Tuesday States:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-desantis-super-pac-never-back-down-ends-voter-canvassing-in-nevada-california

* "Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From a 15-Year-Old:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell

* It's a matter of standing not on the rights or wrongs of the case. "Federal judge dismisses Florida lawsuit seeking to have Trump declared ineligible for presidency:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/09/01/federal-judge-dismisses-florida-lawsuit-seeking-to-have-trump-declared-ineligible-for-presidency/

* "The Christian home-schooler who made ‘parental rights’ a GOP rallying cry:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/29/michael-farris-homeschoolers-parents-rights-ziklag/

* "DeSantis tells Biden: Keep your IRA money :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/desantis-refuses-biden-climate-ira-money-00113397

* "Let's talk about Paxton, perks, and impeachment in Texas....:"

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* "Let's talk about Paxton's polling predicament prior to proceedings....:"

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* "Prosecutors seek hard time for Joe Harding, but also acknowledge mitigating factors:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/632415-prosecutors-seek-hard-time-for-joe-harding-but-also-acknowledge-mitigating-factors/

* "Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America:" https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/media-2020-election-trump-authoritarianism-20230827.html




* "Judge rejects Navarro’s ‘executive privilege’ claim for defying Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/navarro-trump-privilege-ruling-00113486

* "Let's talk about Navarro and signs....:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming Georgia election workers, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/judge-rules-giuliani-is-liable-for-defaming-georgia-election-workers-orders-sanctions-00113462

* "New York AG seeks immediate verdict in fraud lawsuit against Trump:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-york-ag-seeks-immediate-verdict-in-fraud-lawsuit-against-donald-trump

* "When Elon Musk Fought Jack Smith's Search Warrant for Donald Trump:"

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* "Trump pleads ‘not guilty’ in Georgia racketeering case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/trump-georgia-not-guilty-plea-00113612




* "US judge to sentence two more Proud Boys for Jan. 6 attack at Capitol:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-sentence-two-more-proud-boys-jan-6-attack-capitol-2023-09-01/

* "Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get some of longest sentences in Jan. 6 Capitol attack:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-proud-boys-sentencing-seditious-conspiracy-5c8bf8a8e5dc6381e7387e31e554cee6

* "Proud Boy who said he was ‘changed man’ shouted ‘Trump won’ after judge left:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/proud-boy-who-said-he-was-changed-man-shouted-trump-won-after-judge-left-192111173772

* "Holocaust denier Capitol rioter and Enrique Tarrio ally joins Leave Our Kids Alone:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/holocaust-denier-capitol-rioter-and-enrique-tarrio-ally-joins-leave-our-kids-alone

* "Leave Our Kids Alone calls LGBTQ+ community a “gay Jew mafia”:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-calls-lgbtq-community-a-gay-jew-mafia

* "Leave Our Kids Alone promotes Nazi-style book burnings:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/leave-our-kids-alone-promotes-nazi-style-book-burnings

* "Shampoo king wants to become a war lord with a "quite sizable compound":" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/24/shampoo-king-wants-to-become-a-warlord-with-a-quite-sizable-compound.html

* "Political violence in polarized U.S. at its worst since 1970s :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-violence/

* "Neo-Nazi leader establishes training site in Maine:" https://wgme.com/news/local/neo-nazi-leader-establishes-training-site-in-maine-former-us-marine-christopher-pohlhaus-springfield-white-supremacists-camp-moores-road-bluttstamm-blood-tribe-physical-fitness-drills-weapons-training

* "Dozens of Miles City residents mailed CD containing 'neo-Nazi' propaganda:" https://www.ktvq.com/neighborhood-news/miles-city-custer-county/dozens-of-miles-city-residents-mailed-cd-containing-neo-nazi-propaganda

* "Rabbi Elizabeth Bahar responds to anti-Semitic flyers found in Macon:" https://www.41nbc.com/rabbi-elizabeth-bahar-responds-to-anti-semitic-flyers-found-in-macon/

* "LGBTQ-friendly restaurant defiant after Nazi graffiti and arson attacks: ‘We’re not going anywhere’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/la-restaurant-sorry-not-sorry-swastika-vandalism-attacks/

* "Tulsa School District Bombarded With Bomb Threats After Right-Wing Influencer Post:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tusla-school-district-bomb-threats-libs-tiktok-1234814986/

* "Democrats push for investigation of Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s firebrand schools superintendent:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ryan-walters-oklahoma-schools-impeachment-investigation-democrats-rcna102407

* "Library That Kicked Out Moms for Liberty Group Suffers Third Bomb Threat:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/davis-library-bomb-threats

* "Bomb threats made to north suburban, Lake County public libraries :" https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/wilmette/ct-wlm-bomb-threats-tl-0824-20230818-gbeszyadcjc57hzcgoxd4klgm4-story.html

* "Oklahoma School District Inundated With Bomb Threats After Libs of TikTok Tweet:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/libs-tiktok-oklahoma-bomb-threats

* "New Jersey Families Evacuated From Drag Queen Story Hour Event Amid Bomb Threat:" https://www.advocate.com/news/princeton-drag-queen-bomb-threat

* "In the last decade, an estimated 40 million Americans lived within 1 mile of a mass shooting:" https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/08/us/americans-living-near-mass-shootings-statistics-dg/

* "Man pleads guilty to hate crime charge after pledge to ‘slaughter’ LGBTQ+ people in US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/adam-michael-nettina-hate-crime-guilty-maryland/

* "Jacksonville shootings: What we know about the racist killings:" https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-bd2bf9591f40903a923dbd8a46d8fb97

* "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings:" https://apnews.com/article/deadly-shooting-florida-store-race-washington-king-51edd341db7fe2374cb69970840ef76f

* "Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy uses racist Jacksonville shooting to talk about trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/vivek-ramaswamy-trans-jacksonville-shooting/

* "Two people killed Thursday morning in Peoria on heels of mass shooting:" https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/crime/2023/08/31/two-people-shot-in-peoria-il-after-mass-shooting-injured-six/70727834007/

* "Neo-Nazi group NSC-131 holds anti-immigration protest outside Woburn hotel:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/28/metro/neo-nazi-group-nsc-131-holds-anti-immigration-protest-outside-woburn-hotel/

* "3 of 5 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death want separate trials:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/3-5-former-memphis-officers-charged-tyre-nichols-102373137

* "How a small-town feud in Kansas sent a shock through American journalism:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/26/marion-county-newspaper-police-raid-what-really-happened/

* "A right-wing sheriffs group that challenges federal law is gaining acceptance around the country:" https://apnews.com/article/constitutional-sheriffs-5568cd0b6b27680a28de8a098ed14210

* "When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcj

* "Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square:" https://apnews.com/article/savannah-square-renamed-calhoun-slavery-susie-taylor-8acd983fc1175f077c7162400890dc57

* "Texas anti-porn bill violates First Amendment free speech laws, judge rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/texas-anti-porn-bill-hb-1181-injunction/

* "Florida LGBTQ+ ‘safe places’ program under threat from Republican lawmakers:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/florida-safe-places-program-republican-lawmakers/

* "The GOP’s Drag Bans Aren’t Meant to Be Good Laws. They’re Meant to Cause Chaos.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175296/gops-drag-bans-arent-meant-good-laws-theyre-meant-cause-chaos

* "Texas drag performances ban has been blocked by a federal judge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/texas-drag-performances-ban-blocked/

* "Tennessee DA Threatens Pride With Unconstitutional Anti-Drag Law, Gets Sued:" https://www.advocate.com/drag/tennessee-drag-law-enforcement

* "Officials fail to shut down local Pride under Tennessee’s anti-drag law: ‘You can’t touch our Pride’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/tennessee-drag-ban-blount-county-pride/

* "Don’t Say Gay, or He, or She, or They Florida schools under DeSantis are in a panic over pronouns.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/dont-say-gay-or-he-or-she-or-they-in-florida-schools.html

* "A Queer Teacher in Edgewood Picked a Fight He Couldn’t Win:" https://www.texasobserver.org/a-queer-teacher-in-edgewood-picked-a-fight-he-couldnt-win/

* "School district cancels Batman book talks after author says the word ‘gay’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/batman-book-talk-cancelled-gay/

* CW: Child Abuse, Domestic Abuse "Proud Boy Adam Kiefer of Leave Our Kids Alone was convicted of willful cruelty to a child:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/proud-boy-adam-kiefer-of-leave-our-kids-alone-was-convicted-of-willful-cruelty-to-a-child

* CW: Child Abuse. "Maryland Parents Charged With Murder Over Death of Transgender Teenager:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/transgender-teen-death-neglect

* CW: Abuse "Why Would You Do THIS?! | r/InsaneParents:"

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* "Boston marriage licences no longer require gender identification:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/boston-marriage-licences-gender/

* Every time, I beg, please can we stop with these things? "Gender reveal party goes horribly wrong after stunt plane crashes, killing pilot:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/gender-reveal-party-plane-crash-mexico/

* "Texas highways are the next anti-abortion target. One town is resisting.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/01/texas-cities-abortion-trafficking/

* "Gender-Affirming Surgeries Have Risen, Likely Due to Better Insurance: Study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-affirming-surgeries-rise

* Republicans are using the same group of fake experts to steal our human and civil rights. https://genderanalysis.net/2023/08/florida-ahcas-anti-trans-expert-g-kevin-donovan-stated-in-deposition-that-hes-never-been-a-member-of-the-american-college-of-pediatricians-hate-group-the-groups-financial-records-indica/

* "Texas Is Now the Most Populous State With a Trans Health Care Ban: Here’s the Full List:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-gender-affirming-care-ban

* "Alabama Trans Health Care Ruling Is a Worrying Omen for a Future SCOTUS Decision:" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/22/trans-health-care-alabama-supreme-court/

* "Challengers to Alabama's felony ban on trans care for minors will seek full appeals court review:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-trans-care-ban-en-banc-review-planned

* "Texas court passes ‘cruel ban’ on gender-affirming care for minors:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/texas-court-law-gender-affirming-care/

* "Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is officially in effect:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/missouri-ban-gender-affirming-care-minors/

* "Confronting a pair of dangerous arguments as trans people remain under attack:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-arguments-and-anti-trans-laws

* "Andrew Bailey is Proud of Misleading the Public and Terrorizing Trans Kids:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/andrew-bailey-is-proud-of-misleading-the-public-and-terrorizing-trans-kids

* "Transgender patients sue the hospital that provided their records to Tennessee’s attorney general:" https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-transgender-patient-records-vanderbilt-f188c6c0c9714575554867b4541141dd

* "Gay doctor flees Louisiana due to anti-LGBTQ+ laws: ‘I don’t have a choice’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/gay-doctor-louisiana-anti-lgbtq-laws-jake-kleinmahon/

* "Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims:" https://archive.ph/J2EyW

* "First Man Faces Death Penalty for 'Aggravated Homosexuality' in Uganda:" https://www.advocate.com/news/uganda-aggravated-homosexuality-death-penalty

* "Dozens Arrested for Attending Gay Wedding in Nigeria:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nigeria-gay-wedding-arrests

* "Trans women arrested and ‘forced to confess’ in India:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/29/india-trans-women-arrested/

* "Russian government unveils online form for users to report LGBT content:" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/09/01/russian-government-unveils-online-form-for-users-to-report-lgbt-content

* "LGBTQ+ safety under threat in Sydney after hateful attack on Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/sydney-pride-event-lgbtq-attack/

* "Activists take over Sydney’s Oxford Street to protest anti-LGBTQ+ attacks and demand queer-safe spaces:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/lgbtq-sydney-protest-queer-safe-spaces/

* "Australia’s first female PM calls for ‘love and respect’ when asked tired ‘what is a woman’ question:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/australia-julia-gillard-trans-question/

* "Man arrested over alleged harassment after anti-LGBTQ+ Cork library protests:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/cork-city-library-arrest-protest-harassment/

* "New Zealand mayor calls out groomer sign at Pride event as ‘bigotry masquerading as concern’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/new-zealand-groomer-graffiti/

* "Canadian parents rally against new anti-LGBTQ+ education policy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/28/saskatchewan-education-policy-lgbtq-students/

* "Grant Shapps: What is the new defence secretary’s record on LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/grant-shapps-defence-secretary-lgbtq/

* "Suella Braverman orders review to stop police ‘fraternising’ with LGBTQ+ people at Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/suella-braverman-police/

* "Anti-trans activists target queer theatre company with ‘nasty’ abuse over new LGBTQ+ play:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/london-play-anti-trans-activists-jock-night/

* "Sarah Jane Baker found not guilty of inciting violence over ‘punch TERFs’ Trans+ Pride speech:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/sarah-jane-baker-not-guilty-punch-terfs/

* "Kansas judge rules trans people’s birth certificates don’t have to be altered:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/kansas-trans-birth-certificates/

* "Nebraska governor signs anti-trans bill defining men and women by reproductive organs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/nebraska-anti-trans-bill-sex-at-birth/

* "Florida and Texas universities excluded from list of LGBTQ+ friendly schools:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/florida-texas-universities-lgbtq-friendly-list/

* "Alaska board of education votes to limit trans girls’ participation in sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/01/alaska-trans-girls-sports/

* "Brigham Young University Adds Explicit Ban on 'Same-Sex Romantic Behavior' to Honor Code:" https://www.advocate.com/education/byu-anti-lgbtq-honor-code

* "Transgender Sorority Sister Wins in University of Wyoming Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/wyoming-sorority-trans-lawsuit-dismissed

* "Hate Crime Charges in Stonewall Monument Flag Desecration:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-monument-vandalism-arrest

* "Homophobia Rears Its Head at Chili Cook-Off at California County Fair:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/chili-cook-off-homophobia-california

* "Inside the New York Times’ trans coverage: ‘I wonder if people at the top fully believe in trans people’s humanity’:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/new-york-times-trans-18214925.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL29waW5pb24vYXJ0aWNsZS9uZXcteW9yay10aW1lcy10cmFucy0xODIxNDkyNS5waHA=&time=MTY5MzUxMDg0MjM4MQ==&rid=OGU4ZGRlMjAtYjIwMy00ZmU3LThmNDgtOWJhZGVkYjRlNjc1&sharecount=Mg==

* "Jamie Reed’s Allegations Are Not Even Partially Confirmed:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/jamie-reeds-allegations-are-not-even-partially-confirmed

* "Indeed offers trans employees $10,000 to help relocate to safer states:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/30/indeed-trans-employees-relocation-scheme/

* "WI: 3 Sets of Parents Attempt to Drive Trans Child Off a Sports Team:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/wi-3-sets-of-parents-attempt-to-drive-trans-child-off-hs-sports-team

* "Trans chess master found ‘home’ in the game and ‘a place for interacting despite our differences’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/31/trans-chess-player-morgen-mills-home-community-fide/

* "Why are so many disabled people gay?:"

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* "What to Know About the New Covid Variants:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-variant.html

"The variant was identified in China in February 2023 and was first detected in the United States in April. It is a descendant of the Omicron variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one notable mutation that helps it to evade antibodies developed by the immune system in response to earlier variants and vaccines. That advantage may be why EG.5 has become the dominant strain worldwide, and it could be one reason Covid cases have been rising again.

That mutation “may mean that more people are susceptible because the virus can escape a little bit more of that immunity,” Dr. Pekosz said."

"Data released this week on X (formerly Twitter) by scientists in China showed that BA.2.86 is so different from previous versions of the virus that it easily escapes antibodies produced in response to earlier infections — even more than EG.5 does. The data (which have not yet been published or peer-reviewed) suggest that the updated vaccine will be less effective against it, too."

Wear your mask.

* "In a Decaying Queens Fortress, It’s One Man Versus 47 Kinds of Mosquito:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/nyregion/nyc-mosquitoes-west-nile.html

* "Giant worms go wandering in man’s innards, cause dangerous traffic jam:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/giant-worms-go-wandering-in-mans-innards-cause-dangerous-traffic-jam/

* I feel this in my marrow. "When I Was 6, a Doctor Botched a Routine Surgery. Here’s How It Changed My Life.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/hernia-surgery-kids-complication-rate.html




* "Why Protestors Blockaded Burning Man:" https://advocatechannel.com/burning-man-protest-blockade

* "Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees stranded in Nevada desert:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/us/burning-man-storms-shelter-black-rock-city/index.html

* "Mishmash of how US heat deaths are counted complicates efforts to keep people safe as Earth warms:" https://apnews.com/article/counting-extreme-heat-deaths-7125ad9a5289625bd9ca312945996399

* "How wildfires are threatening the Mediterranean way of life:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/02/greece-fires-2023-rhodes/

* "Greece sends 100 extra firefighters to a massive northeastern wildfire as it burns for a 13th day:" https://apnews.com/article/greece-wildfires-massive-blaze-europe-77c0e818372ab86f11f2196f07237c54




* "A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/10/chicago-heat-wave-1995/

* "127-year-old water main gives way under NYC’s Times Square, flooding streets, subways:" https://apnews.com/article/water-main-break-times-square-a896d33258b86d4a77050b542413785b

* "America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

* "The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet:" https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet/

* "Judge tears apart Republican lawsuit alleging bias in Gmail spam filter:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/judge-tears-apart-republican-lawsuit-alleging-bias-in-gmail-spam-filter/

* "Instagram Is Blocking LGBTQIA+ Accounts:" https://www.advocate.com/business/instagram-shadowbanning-lgbtq-content

* "Elon Musk: A smart businessman or an ‘impetuous narcissist’?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/02/elon-musk-x-corp-twitter-bruce-daisley/

* "The Crane who Fell in Love with a Human:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2018/07/23/feature/the-crane-who-fell-in-love-with-a-human/

* "We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve:" https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/we-did-not-evolve-to-be-selfish-and-humans-are-increasingly-aware-we-can-choose-how-our-cultures-can-evolve/

* "Göbekli Tepe: The Place That Rewrote History:"

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* "Karahan Tepe: The Mysteries of The Oldest Known Settlement:"

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* "Did Vikings Really Prefer Axes to Swords? A Brief Look at Some Blades:"

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* "History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv:"

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* "The largest mass sedition trial in American history churns on. One final twist calls into question whether the Justice Department will see the case to the end.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-7-rinse-repeat-n1300745

* "In the wake of the sedition trial’s collapse, Justice Department prosecutor John Rogge travels overseas and uncovers a bombshell.:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/episode-8-ultra-vires-n1300884

* "Bill Richardson, former N.M. governor who worked to free Americans held abroad, dies:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197430962/bill-richardson-former-new-mexico-governor-and-diplomat-dies-at-75

* Sometimes when other Olds are complaining about young people and their phones, I think about the Student Union at my first college in the days just before email happened to ordinary people.

It was a very small school and the student union was basically a very large basement, with an eatery, a mail room, and a bunch of seating areas. The mail room was central and four times a day they delivered mail. You might ask, "How was there enough mail to deliver four times a day, when the post office delivers once a day?" Most of it was junk. You got the real mail once a day and the rest was fliers and things for activities, messages from Profs or other students, that sort of think. Most of it went right into the conveniently placed recycling bins.

I admit, like everyone else, I'd turn up for the big distribution of outside mail as you had to catch package delivery when the window was open, and given the poor taste and nutritional value of the crap in the cafeteria, something edible from home was a Big Deal.

Four times a day though, the students would gather if they weren't in class in the seating areas closest to the mail boxes. Some benighted souls would hover, hover, right in front of their boxes, listening excitedly for the squeak of the sort cart and the rustle of the student workers on the other side, eyes fixed on the tiny box window.

These people knew perfectly well that the other three deliveries were 80-90% junk mail. They sat or stood, desperate as baby birds waiting for the worm anyway.

People haven't changed, they are just waiting for a ping instead of a squeak and rustle.

Human nature is human nature. I think a lot of people from before email and texts are forgetting that they too have run to the mailbox when they saw the USPS truck or mail person put stuff in, or dove for the letters lot hoping for something good, or hovered by a campus mail slot knowing odds were it was all or mostly trash. I try not to forget that, even though I stopped hovering after a week or so, even though if I check my email more than once a day it's a lot, even though I don't text. Who the fuck are we too judge? We've all done the analog version even if we aren't currently doing the digital and I feel like a lot of people who were email users but not frequent texters are pretending we all didn't refresh email like 8 times a day in the '90's.

* Saturday we wore ourselves out with necessary errands. I needed algae wafers for the plecoes and some special girl food to tide Livia over. They had her shreds but not her kibbles there. (As I bought the last two bags of kibbles at the local last month, she likely has about a month of kibbles left, but with today I think the bird flu may have fucked the cat food supply and for Livia, the choice is a small number of turkey dominant limited ingredient foods or going back on the even more expensive prescription stuff. There are three more places I could try left, but gas is low and two of them are further out and one is super expensive.

All this is made worse by Livia having what is likely a psychiatric crisis, but could be early signs that her renal system may be failing again. Let us hope it's psychiatric, because that won't kill her and I think she's doing a little better tonight. There have been a lot of visitors and schedule disruptions, plus me being sick. That's a lot of stress for a cat who super extra is bad at change and gets stressed easily. Her urine remains normal, but her high anxiety behaviors aren't that different from the behaviors the time she almost died when she was a little over a year old, so I worry. She was eating almost normally tonight, so I'm still in the likely stress camp. *fingers crossed*

Anyway, OTC was right next to the way too hot pet supply store. I somehow miscalculated the tax again and also forgot surgical masks, of which I have nearly run out. @$&#!

The good cheap ethical grocery is right there, so I used the motor cart because most of me wasn't working well at this point. Inevitably, I forgot some things, but there were tiny oranges on sale and I have partially restocked some essentials.

My nails are doing almost okay for the first time in ages, so Goth Millennial painted them a subtly sparkly purple for me, just in time for social stuff with some of the Millennials.

I'm still not really caught up from all the spring car repairs. I am already seeing way more things I can't not buy like gas, litter, and probably kibbles and we are moving into the super expensive part of the year (September-January), where I have a bunch of extra things I can't not do like the oil/radiator thing my car now needs every six months, tabs, housing tax, Gothmas season). I had such high hopes when the COLA went up in January, but between the car and the extra electrical costs... yeah.

I'm not drowning. Not yet. It's been two straight years of everything breaking. I could sure use a year of nothing breaking. This was the first summer since the start of the pandemic I didn't need surgery in the summer. Let's hope the car and apartment follow suit.

* Me watching remastered Frankenstein 1931: Elizabeth, why are you trying to marry a gay man with no interest in you even if he did propose when you have offers from men actually attracted to you?

Much Later, Elizabeth: Something is coming between us!

Me: It's his preference for playing with men's bodies!

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Israel Police Impose Restrictions on Protests Near Lawmakers' Homes:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-01/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-impose-restrictions-on-protests-near-lawmakers-homes/00000189-b1bd-d2ad-afb9-bfbdf4820000

* "Police Officers Threaten to Sue Israelis Over Posts Citing Violence Against Protesters:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-03/ty-article/.premium/police-officers-threaten-to-sue-israelis-over-posts-citing-violence-against-protesters/00000189-bb85-d20c-addf-fb87a6e10000

* "Netanyahu's Judicial Coup | Israelis Rally for 31st Week Amid Knesset Hiatus and Record Police Violence:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-08-05/ty-article-live/israelis-rally-for-31st-week-amid-knesset-hiatus-and-record-police-violence/00000189-c5d6-d821-afdd-dff6eb440000

* "International pressure mounts on coup leaders in Niger while hundreds rally in support of junta:" https://apnews.com/article/coup-niger-extremists-sahel-c4ff0bc653c8b73366705b19b8c74c3e

* "Opinion: President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/mohamed-bazoum-coup-niger-democracy/

* "'Waiting To Be Arrested At Night' is the story of a Uyghur poet's escape:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1192374018/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-is-the-story-of-a-uyghur-poets-escape

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard announces bid to become Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/suzy-eddie-izzard-labour-mp-brighton-pavilion/

* "Rise and Fall of a Russian Ultranationalist:" https://www.voanews.com/a/rise-and-fall-of-a-russian-ultranationalist-/7202060.html




* "How the Ukrainian Counteroffensive Can Still Succeed:" https://time.com/6300772/ukraine-counteroffensive-can-still-succeed/

* "66 engravings dedicated to Holodomor recovered from under rubble in Sumy Oblast:" https://news.yahoo.com/66-engravings-dedicated-holodomor-recovered-131754687.html




* "Ron DeSantis Invites Kamala Harris to Discuss Slavery Standards with Homophobe Who Wrote Them:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/slavery-florida-curriculum-william-allen

* "Lesbian and STI Expert Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo to Succeed Fauci at NIAID:" https://www.advocate.com/health/jeanne-marrazzo-niaid-fauci

* "Let's talk about Huntsville, Colorado, and Space Command....:"

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* "Senate OK's Defense Bill Without Anti-LGBTQ+ Provisions, Setting Up Fight With House:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senate-ndaa-approval

* "Rep. Bonamici: LGBTQ+ Seniors and Youth Most Imperiled by GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/bonamici-lgbtq-seniors-youth-gop

* "Voters Actually Oppose Anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Abortion Amendments to Defense Bill: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/opposition-anti-lgbtq-amendments

* "The perpetual infantilisation of millennial women:"

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* "Justine Bateman on the Destruction of the Film Business:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hollywood-ceos-greed-will-burn-the-movie-biz-down

* "Adam Conover Explains the SAG-AFTRA & WGA Strikes, Writing Residuals & Why He's not Scared of AI:"

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* "Cutting Down Trees To Hurt Protesters? (TREE LAW!):"

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* "At striking actors' hangout bar, tiny residual checks no longer a joke:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/striking-actors-hangout-bar-tiny-residual-checks-no-longer-joke-2023-08-02/

* "Disney Discontinues Physical Media Releases for an Entire Continent:" https://collider.com/disney-physical-media-release-discontinue-australia/

* "Tell Powell’s Books: Workers Deserve a Fair Contract with a Living Wage:" https://www.change.org/p/tell-powell-s-books-workers-deserve-a-fair-contract-with-a-living-wage

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Blasted for Call for Decorum After Displaying Sexual Photos:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/marjorie-taylor-greene-decorum-photos

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

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

* "Um, where are our voting machines? The bonkers details of the new MI election indictments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/um-where-are-our-voting-machines-the-bonkers-details-of-the-new-mi-election-indictments-189868101865

* "Election deniers Dinesh D’Souza, Kari Lake highlight Michigan GOP fall conference:" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2023/07/election-deniers-dinesh-dsouza-kari-lake-highlight-michigan-gop-fall-conference.html

* "‘Everything has fallen off a cliff': Battleground state GOPs nosedive in Trump era:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/broke-state-gop-parties-across-the-country-00109387

* "Colorado GOP paid no staff in April while fundraising lags under new Chairman Dave Williams :" https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/24/colorado-republicans-dave-williams/

* "Minnesota’s Republican Party Is Totally Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/minnesotas-republican-party-is-totally-broke

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now! "The Critical Election Republicans Are Hoping You Won’t Notice:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/opinion/ohio-abortion-referendum.html

* "Mike Pence says he wants to ban trans people from the US military, again:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/mike-pence-says-he-wants-to-ban-trans-people-from-the-us-military-again/

* "Mike Pence trans military ban proposal ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’, says non-binary veteran:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/trans-military-ban-mike-pence-non-binary-lgbtq-dont-ask-dont-tell/

* "The DeSantis Campaign Made That Homophobic Video After All:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/desantis-campaign-homophobic-video-producers

* "George Santos Shocked at Ron DeSantis’s Homophobia, Says He Was Misled:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis

* "Kari Lake wants to do WHAT in response to Trump's indictment?:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2023/08/04/kari-lake-calls-trump-challengers-drop-out/70530227007/

* "Hayes: Mitch McConnell blew it with Trump impeachment acquittal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-mitch-mcconnell-blew-it-with-trump-impeachment-acquittal-190048837888

* "‘Look where we are now:’ Congresswoman rips Senate Republicans who acquitted Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-look-where-we-are-now-congresswoman-rips-senate-republicans-who-acquitted-trump-190049349995

* "Trump's mask slips further with choice of Alabama political event:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-mask-slips-further-with-choice-of-alabama-political-event-190060613647

* "“You Would Only Need a Week”: How the Next Republican President Could Ban Abortion Nationwide:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/04/mifepristone-comstock-abortion-medication-pill-texas-court-ban/

* "'Double talk': How the GOP is making white supremacy 'respectable' :" https://www.rawstory.com/white-supremacy-2662273994/

* "Republican Politician Urges Americans to Revisit Hitler and Stalin at Moms for Liberty Event:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/moms-for-liberty-read-hitler

* "In a California First, Lesbian Toni Atkins Signs Bills Into Law as Acting Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/toni-atkins-acting-governor-california

* "Lori Lightfoot on Defending the LGBTQ+ Community Against Republican Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lori-lightfoot-calls-on-allies

* "GOP Lawmaker Calls Teenage Senate Pages 'Little Sh*ts':" https://www.advocate.com/news/republican-lawmaker-curses-senate-pages

* "Mississippi Republican Called ‘Groomer’ Defends Pink Tutu Outfit:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-lawmaker-pink-tutu-groomer

* "Minnesota Senator Blames Pride for Mankind’s Impending Fiery Apocalypse:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/minnesota-senator-pride-apocalypse

* "George Santos Tried to Get Rich Through Political Connections: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-business-schemes

* "Ex-Ohio GOP chair, lobbyist Matt Borges shows remorse, gets 5 years for role in $60M bribery scheme:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-borges-sentencing-firstenergy-55ed095d2e6e83e820d9de514c85e96b

* "Ohio GOP Lawmaker Accused of Assaulting LGBTQ+ Protester Will Not Face Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/protests




* "Subdued crowd gathers outside Washington courthouse where Trump was arraigned :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/03/trump-indictment-courthouse-arraignment-00109643

* "What to know about the Pennsylvania fake electors mentioned in Trump’s third indictment:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-indictment-pennsylvania-fake-electors-20230802.html

* "The Man With No Pants Is the Star of Donald Trump’s Latest Indictment :" https://theintercept.com/2023/08/02/trump-indictment-justice-department-jeffrey-clark/

* "‘Banality of evil’: Trump conspirator's path from 'unremarkable' to coup plotter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-banality-of-evil-trump-conspirator-s-path-from-unremarkable-to-coup-plotter-190050885595

* "‘They got him’: Chris Hayes says this Trump arrest is ‘biggest of all time’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-got-him-chris-hayes-says-this-trump-arrest-is-biggest-of-all-time-189957701949

* "'Extremely volatile situation': Trump could put himself in jail before a prosecutor does:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-extremely-volatile-situation-trump-could-put-himself-in-jail-before-a-prosecutor-does-190058565682

* "Trump's Bonkers Superseding Indictment: They Tried to Delete the Video!:"

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* "Trump’s new judge is a tough Jan. 6 sentencer — and has a history with him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/trump-judge-tanya-chutkan-00109342




* "St. Louis Cardinals mega-fan charged with joining Capitol riot in red face paint and Trump hat:" https://apnews.com/article/cardinals-fan-arrested-fbi-capitol-riot-trump-rally-runner-5a9dbaf3fce8750c38c1de40482884d2

* "Why can’t the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/12/why-cant-right-wing-bubble-give-up-ray-epps/

* "MyPillow is auctioning equipment after a sales slump. Mike Lindell blames "cancel culture.":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lindell-mypillow-auction-equipment-cancel-culture/

* "A School Bus Crosses U.S., Linking Families of Mass Shooting Victims:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/mass-shooting-bus-tour-oliver.html

* "Police Say Dogs Help Solve Crimes. Little Evidence Supports That.:" https://undark.org/2023/07/24/police-say-dogs-help-solve-crimes-little-evidence-supports-that/

* "California Could Soon Reform Solitary Confinement—Unless Gavin Newsom Intervenes:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/07/california-could-soon-reform-solitary-confinement-unless-gavin-newsom-intervenes/

* "My Neighbors in Solitary:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/prison-experiences-female-inmate-solitary-confinment-texas.html

* "Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children :" https://theintercept.com/2023/04/16/georgia-army-national-guard-location-tracking-high-school/

* "Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-diversity-settlement-kathleen-mcelroy-9408f1196417e4cc554ffc74a19956e2

* "Faculty worry about Texas A&M’s future after controversies over higher ed politicization:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/27/texas-tamu-faculty-disappointment/

* "Montana's Drag Ban Blocked, Just in Time for Helena Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/law/montana-drag-ban-blocked

* "Ron DeSantis scraps all diversity and inclusion programmes from Disney World in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ron-desantis-disney-world-florida/

* "DeSantis Faces Criticism For Black History Standards, Makes It Worse:" https://advocatechannel.com/desantis-black-history-standards-response

* "After clash over teaching on gender, psychology class may be available to Florida students:" https://apnews.com/article/college-board-psychology-florida-8735b41aff3086f35785efb0e7682cd1

* "Why a psychology curriculum can't ignore the people Republicans don't like:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-a-psychology-curriculum-can-t-ignore-the-people-republicans-don-t-like-190056517821

* "Let's talk about my last day teaching in Virginia....:"

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* "Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-judge-blocks-librarian-criminalization

* "Chesterfield man charged with accessory to child kidnapping donated to anti-child trafficking movie:" https://www.kmov.com/2023/08/04/chesterfield-man-charged-with-accessory-child-kidnapping-donated-anti-child-trafficking-movie-newsweek-report-claims/

* "A Growing Share Of Americans Think States Shouldn't Be Able To Put Any Limits On Abortion:" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-increasingly-against-abortion-limits/

* "America’s Pediatricians Reiterate Support for Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/pediatricians-support-gender-affirming-care

* "Iran official in charge of ‘promoting Islamic values’ suspended over alleged gay sex video:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/iran-official-reza-tsaghati-gay-sex-video/

* "Malaysian official brands LGBTQ+ people ‘perverted’ after eight protestors detained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/malaysian-official-brands-lgbtq-people-perverted-after-eight-protestors-detained/

* "Labour shift on trans rights is misguided attempt to win back red wall, says MP: ‘It’s patronising’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/labour-red-wall-conservative-lgbtq-trans/

* Fuckssake! "Court of Appeal dismisses legal challenge to years of NHS waits faced by trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/good-law-project-court-of-appeal-dismissed-trans-waiting-times/

* "Quakers pledge to stand by trans Brits: ‘A gold-standard for other faiths to follow’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/quakers-trans-pledge-britain/

* "What new journalism guidelines on reporting sex and gender means for UK’s right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/02/ipso-guidelines-trans-news-stories-misgendering/

* "Judge throws out attempt to repeal trans anti-bullying policy in Ohio:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/04/ohio-bullying-trans/

* "17-Year-Old Suspect Arrested in Killing of O'Shae Sibley, Voguing Gay Man:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/oshae-sibley-suspect-arrested

* "O'Shae Sibley and LGBTQ Rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/o-shae-sibley-and-lgbtq-rights-190073925806

* "Fatigue Can Shatter a Person:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/




* "Gay British couple fleeing Greece wildfires with son ‘gobsmacked’ after being refused shelter:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/03/greece-wildfires/




* "Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?:" https://apnews.com/article/solar-panels-irrigation-canals-climate-solution-c57cac43b71a0edf76e62c4adc0f3ff7

* "Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter threatens to sue anti-hate group over criticism of hate speech on the site:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/elon-musk-twitter-sues-anti-hate-group/

* "Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best. Will Reddit get quality replacements? "Not a snowball's chance in hell.":" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/reddit-calls-for-a-few-new-mods-after-axing-polarizing-some-of-its-best/

* "See Stunning Images of Female Birds, Often Overlooked by Wildlife Photographers:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/see-stunning-images-of-female-birds-often-overlooked-by-wildlife-photographers-180982575/

* "Photos: London’s Urban Foxes:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/07/photos-london-urban-foxes/674870/

* "The Killer Whales of Eden and the ‘Law of the Tongue’:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/killer-whales-work-with-humans

* " X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery :" https://theconversation.com/x-marks-the-unknown-in-algebra-but-xs-origins-are-a-math-mystery-210440

* "‘Hello America, this is Addis Ababa.’:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-6-hello-america-addis-ababa-rcna95868

* "Is nature a gigantic cat? An electrifying letter from Nikola Tesla :" https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/is-nature-a-gigantic-cat-0bf

* "Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/28/fordlandia-brazil/

* "Carmen Xtravaganza, Paris Is Burning Star and Ballroom Icon, Dies at 62:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/carmen-xtravaganza-dead-62

* "12 bodies found under former Paiute Indian boarding school:" https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/12-bodies-found-under-former-paiute-indian-boarding-school/

* Far to late, but given how unlikely even a small measurr of justice is, I am celebrating anyway. "Henrietta Lacks' Family Reach a Settlement Over Her Stolen 'Immortal' Cell Line:" https://www.sciencealert.com/henrietta-lacks-family-reach-a-settlement-over-her-stolen-immortal-cell-line

* "How the ‘groundbreaking’ Henrietta Lacks settlement could change research:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02479-8

* "Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer — and harder:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/appalachian-trail-length-route-changes/?itid=mr_2

* "South Pole Signage:" https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage

* "Kidnapped at Birth:" https://nymag.com/news/features/carlina-white-2011-10/

* On Public Schools: https://www.tumblr.com/whovianuncle/724883379034734592?source=share

* "Meet Gay Bob, the Out and Proud Anatomically Correct Disco-Era Doll:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-bob-out-ken-barbie

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Niger coup widely condemned, countries urge return to order:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/niger-president-says-democracy-will-be-saved-following-coup-2023-07-27/

* "Can Israel's Supreme Court Disqualify the First Law of Netanyahu's Judicial Coup?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-24/ty-article/.premium/can-the-high-court-block-the-new-law-that-limits-its-actions-against-israeli-government/00000189-88a1-d5eb-abcb-f9e725150000

* "Netanyahu Government's Vindictive Anti-democratic Campaign Becomes Law:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2023-07-24/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-governments-vindictive-anti-democratic-campaign-becomes-law/00000189-8821-d964-a789-9a2500390000

* "Protests rock Israel as it passes curbs on some Supreme Court powers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-discharged-hospital-reuters-witness-says-2023-07-24/

* "‘Blood Everywhere’: As Israel’s Protests Ramp Up, the Police Crack Down:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-20/ty-article-magazine/.premium/blood-everywhere-as-israels-protests-ramp-up-the-police-crack-down/00000189-6eb8-d7ac-ab8b-ffbaa0c20000

* "Huge Protest March Reaches Jerusalem After 5-Day Trek From Tel Aviv:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/world/middleeast/jerusalem-protest-march-israel.html

* "Spanish election's nail-biting finish makes hung parliament likely:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spain-heads-close-run-polls-marked-by-spectre-far-right-2023-07-23/

* "Government urged not to house LGBTQ+ refugees on ‘barbaric’ migrant barge:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/bibby-stockholm-lgbtq-migrants/

* "British Prime Minister Sunak narrowly avoids wipeout in local polls:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pm-sunaks-conservatives-win-boris-johnsons-former-parliamentary-seat-2023-07-21/

* "Susan Hall: Tory London mayor candidate is ‘hard-right’ Trump fan who wants trans women out of sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/susan-hall-tory-london-mayor-candidate-trump-gender-critical/

* "What the UK’s incoming flexible working laws mean for you:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/what-the-uks-incoming-flexible-working-laws-mean-for-you/




* "Russia attacks Danube grain export route vital for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-attack-odesa-destroys-grains-depot-injures-four-ukraine-military-2023-07-24/

* "Sea drones and the counteroffensive in Crimea:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/CRIMEA/gdvzwrmrlpw/




* "Judge knocks down Biden’s asylum policy as illegal border crossings dip:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/biden-asylum-policy-immigration-00108074

* "Pressured by Joe Biden, AI companies agree to guardrails on new tools:" https://indianexpress.com/article/world/joe-biden-ai-companies-agree-to-guardrails-on-new-tools-8854274/

I'll believe it when I see dramatic improvement. I suspect they are just trying to duck the creation of strict federal regulation, but I'd love to be wrong.

* "Biden will designate a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189664409/emmett-till-national-monuments-biden

* "Don't let the black and white photos fool you, the historic fight for civil rights is still happening:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/don-t-let-the-black-and-white-photos-fool-you-the-historic-fight-for-civil-rights-is-still-happening-189280837843

* Regulations are written in blood."After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung:" https://apnews.com/article/black-lung-silica-dust-coal-mining-west-virginia-be722098fcf2a20b16bd73ca12c06c7e

* "Judge says she's not ready to accept Hunter Biden's plea deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190211798/hunter-biden-plea-tax-charges

* "White House shuts down possibility of Hunter Biden pardon:" https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-shuts-down-possibility-hunter-biden-pardon

* "Psaki on Hunter Biden probe: Biden values DOJ independence. I saw it firsthand.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/psaki-on-hunter-biden-probe-biden-values-doj-independence-i-saw-it-firsthand-189359173742

* "Trump vow to weaponize DOJ against Bidens trips up case against Hunter: Analysis:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-vow-to-weaponize-doj-against-bidens-trips-up-case-against-hunter-189369925589

* "Supreme Court clears path for Mountain Valley Pipeline construction to resume:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/supreme-court-clears-path-for-mountain-valley-construction-to-resume-00108076

* "This Is How Conservatives Manufactured an LGBTQ+ Rights Supreme Court Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/303-creative-lgbtq-rights-scotus

* "McConnell’s Dream of a Segregated U.S. Is Being Realized:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/supreme-court-anti-lgbtq

* "SCOTUS Lets Trans Woman's Discrimination Suit in Virginia Go Forward:" https://www.advocate.com/law/supreme-court-transgender-woman-discrimination

* "US economic growth accelerated in 2nd quarter, exceeding expectations and quieting recession fears:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/us-economy-expected-grown-slowed-dispelling-recession-fears/story?id=101664985

* "The Fed's hot pause summer gets an ice bath: Interest rates rise again:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190093285/fed-federal-reserve-interest-rates-borrowing-inflation

* "One year old, US climate law is already turbocharging clean energy technology:" https://apnews.com/article/inflation-reduction-act-renewable-energy-policy-economy-d5b0a7f15659930c6c15f0d180b193e8

* "Jaime Colindres lived at the American Hotel in the 1990s and again for about five years in the 2010s.
LA Promised to Preserve Low-Cost Housing. These Tenants’ Homes Were Turned Into Hotel Rooms Anyway.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-people-uprooted-by-american-hotel-los-angeles

* "Hotel workers kick off third wave of strikes in Hollywood, Pasadena:" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-07-20/hotel-workers-third-wave-strikes-hollywood-pasadena

* "For fast food workers, organizing poses extra challenges:" https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/traffic-filipino-protests/fast-food-strike

* "French Film Guilds Pledge ‘Full Solidarity’ With SAG-AFTRA and WGA Strikes; SFA Leader Hopes to Host Event by End of Summer:" https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-film-guilds-pledge-full-145927765.html

* They are determined despite not being able to to find a scrap of credible evidence. "McCarthy: GOP’s Biden probes ‘rising to the level of impeachment inquiry’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/kevin-mccarthy-impeachment-inquiry-biden-00107955

* "Inside Kevin McCarthy’s secret promise to expunge Trump’s record:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/20/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-impeachment-expunge-promise-00107236

* "‘These people look pathetic’: Pelosi slams McCarthy on expunging Trump impeachments :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/23/pelosi-slams-mccarthy-expunge-trump-impeachments-00107727

* "House Democrats Introduce Gender-Neutral Laws Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrats-push-gender-neutral-laws

* "LGBTQ+ Democrats push for America to stop funding Uganda over anti-homosexuality law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/lgbtq-democrats-uganda-funding-robert-garcia/

* "Democrats Introduce Bill to Make PrEP Available to More Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/law/prep-drug-protection-bill

* "US senator JD Vance moves to ban all gender-affirming care for trans minors across the nation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/gender-affirming-care-ban-jd-vance/

* "House Republicans Schedule ‘Mean-Spirited’ Hearing on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/house-republicans-bigoted-care-hearing

* "National Anti-Trans Bans Loom: Will Democrats Surrender Trans Rights?:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/national-anti-trans-bans-loom-will

Now is an excellent time to tell your Democratic Congress Critters trans Healthcare is important

* "Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content :" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/24/heritage-foundation-says-that-of-course-gop-will-use-kosa-to-censor-lgbtq-content/

Some Democrats are siding with their effort to let the most conservative state censor us all for being queer on the Internet.

Please, please, please don't sleep on this.

* "Another action item, this one’s worse: KOSA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1929643.html

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

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

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

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

* "Democrats say new Alabama congressional map shorts Black voters:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/alabama-lawmakers-clash-over-black-voters-redistricting-deadline-looms-2023-07-21/

* Republicans are strongly opposed to the rule of law. "Alabama Republicans refuse to draw a second Black congressional district in defiance of Supreme Court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715

* "Why Alabama Republicans may be plotting something bigger with defiance of Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-alabama-republicans-may-be-plotting-something-bigger-with-defiance-of-supreme-court-189197893875

* "Rudy Giuliani concedes he made false statements against 2 Georgia election workers:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190173929/rudy-giuliani-georgia-election-workers

* "'You can't lie in the court of law': Trump's Big Lie hits brick wall in court:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-you-can-t-lie-in-the-court-of-law-trump-s-big-lie-hits-brick-wall-in-court-189364293995

* "‘I have been indicted,’ says suspect in Michigan vote machine tampering probe:" https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/i-have-been-indicted-says-suspect-michigan-vote-machine-tampering-probe

* "A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve:" https://capitalbnews.org/newbern-alabama-black-mayor/

* "‘Manchin is dreaming:’ What the third-party push gets wrong about America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-manchin-is-dreaming-what-the-third-party-push-gets-wrong-about-america-189361733734

* RFK Jr. is the worst. Please do not vote for him. "RFK Jr. Clashes With Sean Hannity, Says U.S. ‘Pushed’ Ukraine War:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-clashes-with-sean-hannity-during-fox-news-town-hall-says-us-pushed-ukraine-war

* "DeSantis lets go of more than a third of campaign staff as reset continues:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/desantis-lets-go-of-more-than-1-3-of-campaign-staff-as-reset-continues-00108046

* Well that's on brand. "Canceled Documentary Details DeSantis’ Time at Gitmo, Including Allegedly Overseeing Forced Feedings:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-guantanamo-force-feedings-canceled-documentary-1234793826/

* Republicans aren't even pretending they aren't NAZIs anymore. "Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174555/desantis-staffer-reportedly-shares-video-desantis-giant-nazi-symbol

* "DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/

* "Dictator-wannabe Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping as a "perfect" leader who rules "with an iron fist":" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/dictator-wannabe-donald-trump-praises-xi-jinping-as-a-perfect-leader-who-rules-with-an-iron-fist-video.html

* "People Aren’t Facing Up to the Horrors a New Trump Term Would Bring:" https://newrepublic.com/article/174535/people-arent-facing-horrors-new-trump-term-bring

* "The Potential Danger of a Trump Second Term:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-potential-danger-of-a-trump-second-term-189092933676

* "Let's talk about Trump's angry new rhetoric....:"

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* "Rep. Paul Gosar promotes another antisemitic site that praises Hitler and denies the Holocaust:" https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/rep-paul-gosar-promotes-another-antisemitic-site-praises-hitler-and-denies

* "McConnell episode alarms Senate GOP:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/26/mcconnell-abruptly-leaves-press-conference-after-feeling-light-headed-00108318

* "Texas A.G.'s PAC makes 'amazing' donation to Lt. Gov. presiding over his impeachment trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ahead-of-texas-ag-s-impeachment-trial-his-pac-donates-millions-to-lt-gov-running-trial-189198917594




* CW: Sexual Abuse "Trump loses bid for new trial in E. Jean Carroll case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/trump-loses-bid-new-trial-carroll-00107025

* "Timeline: Manhattan DA's Stormy Daniels hush money case against Donald Trump:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-manhattan-district-attorney-case-donald-trump/story?id=98389444

* "Rep. Schiff on Trump's Potential Third Indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/psaki-to-gop-candidates-defending-trump-what-is-your-endgame-189186629934

* "Trump grand jury hears testimony from aide who was with him on Jan. 6:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-grand-jury-hear-testimony-aide-was-jan-6-rcna94998

* "Let's talk about Trump's legal team being surprised....:"

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* "Trump court schedule puts rule of law on the ballot; Alabama GOP already rejecting courts:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-court-schedule-puts-rule-of-law-on-the-ballot-alabama-gop-already-rejecting-courts-189196869576

* "Feds sought surveillance video from State Farm Arena in Trump probe:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/exclusive-feds-sought-surveillance-video-from-state-farm-arena/TWLKTY4KGFB25DUPSPZXUEDFL4/

* "Trump Tried to Delete Mar-a-Lago Security Footage to Thwart Investigators:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-carlos-de-oliveira-mar-a-lago-classified-docs-1234796376/

* "Why Jack Smith waited until now to charge Trump for secret Iran document flaunted on tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-jack-smith-waited-until-now-to-charge-trump-for-secret-iran-document-flaunted-on-tape-189453893613

* "Prosecutors looking at meeting at which Trump expressed confidence in voting security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prosecutors-looking-at-meeting-at-which-trump-expressed-confidence-in-voting-security-189277765722

* "I served on the Jan. 6 committee. Jack Smith is vindicating our work.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-indictment-looming-jan-6-committee-zoe-lofgren-rcna96471




* "Six months. 28 mass killings in the US. That’s the worst yet, and all but one case involved guns:" https://apnews.com/article/mass-killings-record-gun-violence-0174103c37756fe4d247fd15cd3bc009

* "Derailing the defund: How SPD manipulated the media narrative around the 2020 protests:" https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2023/07/19/derailing-defund-how-spd-manipulated-media-narrative-around-2020-protests

* "Seattle police kept mock tombstone for Black man, Trump flag in break room, video shows:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattle-police-kept-mock-tombstone-for-black-man-trump-flag-in-break-room-video-shows/

* "Video Confirms that Officer Was Going 74 MPH, Did Not Have Siren Running When He Struck Pedestrian:" https://publicola.com/2023/07/20/video-confirms-that-officer-was-going-74-mph-was-not-running-siren-when-he-killed-pedestrian/

* "New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters:" https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-george-floyd-nyc-protester-settlement/

* "New York to pay $13 million to protesters arrested during George Floyd protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-pay-13-million-protesters-arrested-during-george-floyd-protests-2023-07-20/

* "A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job.:" https://archive.ph/jTv5E#selection-1661.0-1675.272

"A single state trooper logged 1,350 fraudulent traffic tickets into a Connecticut database meant to detect racial profiling. The finding is key to a damning new audit of the Connecticut State Police, which reveals pervasive trooper malfeasance, including at least 26,000 false tickets logged over seven years, that masked racial bias in the force’s policing. Now, the CSP refuses to discuss the audit — or even reveal if the most-prolific ticket faker still has a badge."

* "Why Do White Supremacist Groups Often Include Latinos? :" https://advocatechannel.com/white-supremacist-groups-latinos

* Don't forget to vote in school board elections, because they will remember. "Chaos at the School Board:" https://www.propublica.org/series/chaos-at-the-school-board

* "Florida Board of Education OK's Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies, Sanitized View of Slavery:" https://www.advocate.com/education/florida-schools-anti-lgbtq

"Among the new standards OK’d for teaching about slavery and racism is one that requires “instruction for middle school students to include ‘how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,’” CNN reports. The NAACP issued a press release calling this “a sanitized and dishonest telling of the history of slavery in America.”

A policy on racially motivated massacres, which occurred in Florida towns and elsewhere in the 20th century, mandates inclusion of “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans,” even though most of the violence was committed by whites against Blacks."

* "Florida tries to defend its revisionist history on slavery:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/21/2182564/-Florida-tries-to-defend-its-revisionist-history-on-slavery

* "Infamous right-wing online group's programming approved for Florida students:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/right-wing-online-group-s-programming-approved-for-florida-students-189279813581

* "Maxwell Frost rips new Florida curriculum as bid to ‘erase Black history’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxwell-frost-rips-new-florida-curriculum-as-bid-to-erase-black-history-189270597974

* "School district approves materials mentioning Harvey Milk after governor threatens $1.5 million fine:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/california-school-district-materials-harvey-milk-approve-fine/

* "VA: Youngkin’s Anti-Trans School Rules Prohibit Uncommon Nicknames:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/va-youngkins-anti-trans-school-rules-prohibit-uncommon-nicknames

* "They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html

* CW: Child Sexual Abuse. "Why Do Neo-Nazis Keep Getting Arrested For Child Sexual Abuse Material?:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akvbw/why-do-neo-nazis-keep-getting-arrested-for-child-porn




* "Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/infant-deaths-surge-in-texas-after-abortion-ban/

"The new grim statistics are only expected to worsen. Abortion bans and restrictions are known to increase infant deaths, maternal deaths, and maternal suffering. And the US already has the worst maternal and infant mortality rates of any other high-income country in the world."




* "Gender-Affirming Care Bans Often Modeled by Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gender-affirming-care-bans-bills

* CW: Suicide. "80% of Transgender Americans Have Considered Suicide:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-alarming-suicide-rate

* "Breaking Down Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria:"

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* "Lesbian mums in Italy ‘living in fear’ as government strips names from birth certificates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/lesbian-mums-italy-birth-certificates-giorgia-meloni/

* "Yandex CEO Charged Under Russia’s Anti-LGBTQ+ “Propaganda” Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/business/yandex-ceo-russia-propaganda-lgbtq

* "Matty Healy’s gay kiss stunt is white saviourism that could harm LGBTQ+ Malaysians, says singer" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/matt-healy-malaysia-lgbtq-rufus-sivaroshan/

* "Peru court offers same-sex marriage hope for LGBTQ+ couples:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/peru-same-sex-marriage-court/

* "Teen Pleads Guilty to Brutal Attack on Lesbian Couple:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbian-couple-attacked-dublin

* "Suella Braverman suggests ‘trans ideology’ book as summer reading:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/suella-braverman-helen-joyce-summer-reading/

* "Labour ‘placating gender critics’ with latest U-turn – and trans members have had enough:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/labour-trans-anneliese-dodds-keir-starmer-gender/

* "Keir Starmer repeats anti-trans dogwhistle, claiming a woman is an ‘adult female’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/keir-starmer-labour-trans-adult-female/

* "Brianna Ghey suspect pleads not guilty to murder of trans girl:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/brianna-ghey-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-of-trans-girl/

* "Gay man hits back at ‘disgusting’ decorator who refused work due to Christian beliefs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/bristol-gay-man-discrimination-painter/

* "The Right Is Using the Anti-Abortion Supreme Court Ruling to Attack Trans Care. Will It Work?:" https://www.advocate.com/law/dobbs-gender-affirming-care-transgender

* "In the war over transgender rights, Florida is ground zero. One woman’s battle to survive:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-20/transgender-laws-florida

* "Arlington Public Schools Say "No," Refuse To Comply With Anti-Trans State Policy:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/arlington-public-schools-say-no-refuse

* "Mum of 11-year-old at centre of trans bathroom ban case speaks out: ‘She’s just a person’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/wisconsin-trans-girl-mother-bathroom-ban-school-policy/

* "Judge blocks ‘hateful’ Arizona ban on trans girls playing sports:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/22/arizona-trans-girls-sports-ban-temporary-injunction/

* "What States Have the Most Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes? :" https://www.advocate.com/hate-crimes/hate-crime-lgbtq-states

* "Pro-LGBTQ+ church set on fire following video of visit by right-wing YouTuber:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/pro-lgbtq-church-firebombed/

* "Chris Rufo Claims Trans Acceptance Threatens Reality Itself:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/chris-rufo-claims-trans-acceptance-threatens-reality-itself

* "'Refugees in the USA': Transgender care bans cause families to pull up stakes:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/07/20/refugees-in-the-usa-transgender-care-bans-cause-families-to-pull-up-stakes

* "How Women’s World Cup players are defying FIFA’s Pride rainbow ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/womens-world-cup-lgbtq-pride-onelove-armband/

* "2023 Treatment Guide: Is it Time to Change Your HIV Regimen?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment-guide/10-reasons-to-change-your-hiv-regimen

* "How Living with HIV is Criminalized:"

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* "Growing up gay with cerebral palsy: ‘Too gay for the disabled people and too disabled for the gays’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/emmett-de-monterey-cerebral-palsy-gay/

* "We are failing young people by not trusting them to be the experts about their own lives:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/young-people-experts-disability/

* "Colorado’s new right-to-repair law ensures tractor and wheelchair owners get the parts they need:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/colorados-new-right-to-repair-law-ensures-tractor-and-wheelchair-owners-get-the-parts-they-need/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb251bHkuZHJlYW13aWR0aC5vcmcv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAp5W8XviPTARKL9KycaPqUgz-13Q0sIePzadxd_ULg8Y6Rbc1jutI4xxn8YVgOiIxogdxuRzqzdIOzRoZH5kityHg9tP7rLF8AbbYZtTbdJXMUYX9dmqjcitsttnkEVFFhf6y_8-B_p05FpQu0CYmLMpu7vth4pEBuii5SCvje2

* "How can businesses support disabled employees?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/how-can-businesses-support-disabled-employees/

* "Why our voices change as we get older:" https://theconversation.com/why-our-voices-change-as-we-get-older-208640

* "Reinventing the E.R. for America’s Mental-Health Crisis:" https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/reinventing-the-er-for-americas-mental-health-crisis

* I support harm reduction. "Harm Reduction: Young People in Appalachia and the South Are Addressing the Overdose Crisis:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/harm-reduction-young-people-overdoses




* "Climate Disasters Daily? Welcome to the ‘New Normal.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/climate/climate-change-extreme-weather.html

* "Climate change role in July heatwaves 'overwhelming', scientists say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/climate-change-role-july-heatwaves-overwhelming-scientists-say-2023-07-25/

* "Gulf Stream shutoff could happen this century, scientists warn:" https://www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-gulf-stream-atlantic-ocean-global-warming-nature-ditlevsen-copenhagen/

* "What People With Disabilities Know About Surviving Climate Disasters:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-06-22/in-climate-disasters-people-with-disabilities-are-getting-left-behind

* "Let's talk about 80 million at 105 degrees....:"

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* "Maricopa County Medical Examiner at 106% capacity, bringing in coolers:" https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/maricopa-county-medical-examiner-at-106-capacity-bringing-in-coolers

* I mildly burned my feet on black top Tuesday a week ago in about a minute, and it's not nearly that hot here.

Be careful folks, and keep children and animals off pavement."Toddler receives second-degree burns to feet from hot playground in Castle Rock: "It's dangerous":" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/toddler-receives-second-degree-burns-feet-hot-playground-castle-rock-dangerous/

* "Monsoon floods threaten India's Taj Mahal, but officials say the iconic building will be safe:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsoon-floods-threaten-indias-taj-mahal-but-officials-say-the-iconic-building-will-be-safe/

* "Nova Scotia floods cause 'unimaginable' damage; four people missing:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/atlantic-canada-province-says-dam-could-breach-tell-residents-get-out-2023-07-22/

* "‘Concrete Coffins’: Surviving Extreme Heat Behind Bars:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/22/texas-heat-prison-louisiana

* "Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues:" https://www.kut.org/health/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues




* "Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of some drugs hospitals need:" https://apnews.com/article/pfizer-factory-tornado-drugs-north-carolina-3ce4b4ee0be984f751e0173091a3cdd7

* "How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches:"

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* "Elon Sues The Lawyers That Forced Him to Buy Twitter:"

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* "X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter:" https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-x-rebrand-elon-musk/

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand to ‘X’ is a total disaster. Here’s what’s happened so far:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/26/elon-musks-twitter-x-rebrand-disaster/

* "‘Mom, these bad men have me’: She believes scammers cloned her daughter’s voice in a fake kidnapping :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/ai-scam-calls-kidnapping-cec/index.html

* "Legends Summarized: The Epic of Gilgamesh:"

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* "Eating The Heart Of A King:"

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* CW: Child Abuse "The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School:" https://www.wired.com/story/marsha-small-red-cloud-boarding-school/

* "Clinging to the Enigma of Rock Hudson:" https://www.advocate.com/television/rock-hudson-documentary

* "Susan Love, Outspoken Lesbian Doctor and Breast Cancer Expert, Dies at 75:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/susan-love-dead-breast-cancer

* "Steven Pieters, Longtime HIV Activist Interviewed by Tammy Faye Bakker, Dies at 71:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/steven-pieters-obituary

* "Sue Johanson, Who Gave Witty Sex Advice, Dead at 92:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/sex-adviser-sue-johanson-dies

* "Cheri Pies, pioneering author of lesbian parent handbook, dies of cancer, aged 73:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/cheri-pies-lesbian-parent-handbook-dies-cancer/

* "Appreciation: Sinéad O’Connor was right all along:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-27/sinead-oconnor-dies-snl-catholic-church-protest

* "All the ways queer icon Sinéad O’Connor proved she was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/sinead-oconnor-lgbtq-ally-irish-singer-dead/

* "Sinéad O’Connor risked it all to give voice to the powerless and call out the Catholic Church:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/sinead-o-connor-death-catholic-church-snl/

* Our movement must be intersectional. We must all have each other's backs. Leave no one's rights behind. "50+ Years Since Stonewall, 20 Years After Lawrence, We Still Fight Criminalization:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-criminal-justice-system

* "I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!):" https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

* Why people didn't come out in High School (Hate Speech, Bullying, Hate Crime, Child Abuse): https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/723812206710489088/i-figured-out-who-i-was-over-the-course-of-the?source=share

* "The Outsiders | Toxic Masculinity vs. Vulnerability:"

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* "The History of Gay Hollywood:"

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* "The Black Reclamation of the Body Snatchers:"

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* "RENT and the Mainstreaming of Queer Suffering:"

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* "Chuck Tingle Goes Mainstream...ish:" https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/92146-chuck-tingle-goes-mainstream-ish.html

* "“Horror Is Not a Celebration of Death, It Is a Celebration of Life”: Chuck Tingle Talks Camp Damascus:" https://www.tor.com/2023/07/11/horror-is-not-a-celebration-of-death-it-is-a-celebration-of-life-chuck-tingle-talks-camp-damascus/

* "Camp Damascus is a Hopeful Story of Queer Struggle and Survival:" https://gizmodo.com/camp-damascus-chuck-tingle-review-book-horror-queer-1850668427

* "The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995:"

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* "Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U:"

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* "Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched on Your Grave:"

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* Sunday was a trip to the Lake with Millennials. No rich children stole my crutch this time. We had a really good swim, but the current was above average strong and at some point I was like, "Oh shit! There's the swim boouy! We are in the middle of the boat lanes. We swam back. It was fine. They put in an outdoor shower this year, which is a huge help. After we showered we ate finger foods and chatted.

I stopped by the bathrooms on the way to my car and OMG! It was one of those things where there was a perfectly logical explanation from the perspective of the three of us already in the bathroom, but like opening a door into chaos for the other two people involved.

This bathroom is tiny. Three stalls on your left. Across from that a big metal communal urinal. The sink and mirror give an excellent view of the door and also a small bench they jammed in against the door wall. It's almost 6:30PM on a crowded hot weekend. it's a couple hours before sunset, so the park is less crowded than when we arrived 4ish, but people are still arriving and the bathroom is Trashed. The little beach strip is more mud then sand and people have been tracking water and black mud/sand in there for about ten hours and there is tp paper mache all over the ground and the toilets desperately need cleaning.

So I step out of the stall, just as a person is heading to the nasty ass urinal trench thing. Another guy is climbing up on the bench to change, because he understandably doesn't want to be barefoot on that floor and then put on shoes to drive home. Bench guy is soon full on pooh bear over my right shoulder as i wash my hands, which takes a while because the water keeps auto shutting off, so I have to stop and restart every few seconds. Perfectly framed over my left shoulder is the door, which swings open.

It's two gentlemen, one of whom beelines for the urinal. The other freezes in horror and starts yelling, "Wrong bathroom! Wrong bathroom!" I have very long hair. I am wearing a mask because I'm in a small, poorly ventilated place. I have on a black tee and my trunks look like goth shorts. My sandals are of an ubiquitous style worn my any gender in my region in good weather. I'm very androgynous. I think it was my hair causing the initial panic, but his head turned to follow his friend's trajectory to the 2-3 person piss trench and he saw bench guy crouched pantsless behind me like a downhill skier doing the streak, as if he was possibly about to pounce on my back, and his cries of wrong bathroom got a lot more shrill. In my head I'm picturing the Guy in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas who walks in on hippies liking a guy's jacket. His oblivious friend is doing his business, the other guy is about to leave. I turn and head towards the poor panicky guy and am like: It's the right bathroom. I have long hair.

We have accidentally traumatized a guy who was clearly not ready for the PNW weird.

A couple millennials came back for dinner. Once we arrived, I realized just how fucked I was. I'd swum too long and my arms were DONE. Luckily, I'd dropped off New Millennial to get their car and a take 'n bake, so I could just lung and rest up. They ended up staying very late talking. I closed down the apartment for the night and went to bed.

I could have gotten up nineish, but I decided to read Camp Damascus in between pettins and supplemental sleep all day, which turned out to be a good call. I have this thing where I promise the Millennials that if they are ever stranded at one of the further bits of town they can call me and if I physically can, I will come get them. Bus service is even shittier out there and there's a severe lack of shelters to wait in. It was pouring down at a rate that was threatening to flood low lying areas. A Millennial was trapped at the back of beyond with a long drenching slog to the bus. Of course I went, but it turned into a a much longer trip than intended for reasons that were no one's fault. I got them home and reasonably dry though, and I'm not sorry.

It did eat and extra chunk of evening though, and I'm really chewed up from swimming. I am very glad I got the aggregate out Friday, because I'm not up to much posting this evening.

We plan to do lake swimming on Sundays all August, which will effect posting schedule.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Secrecy in Dracula: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/724040479037161472/your-meta-made-me-think-that-secrecy-sealing?source=share

* "A princess died in the Snow:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/723388026724745216?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Little Longfellow War:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/723927370035265536/midnight-pals-little-longfellow-war?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Long Longfellow War:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/724022759803535360/midnight-pals-long-longfellow-war?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Escape Antics:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/724113850793869312/midnight-pals-escape-antics?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* I probably lost some things in the crash, but I'm too tired to work it out.

* "Turkey gives green light to Swedish NATO membership bid:" https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-sweden-locked-talks-break-impasse-over-nato-membership-2023-07-10/

* "Putin's war on Ukraine backfires as NATO set to expand again:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-war-on-ukraine-backfires-as-nato-set-to-expand-again-187430981956

* "NATO skirts final call on Ukraine membership, leaving unity-testing fight for later :" https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-skirts-final-call-on-ukraine-membership-leaving-unity-testing-fight-for-later/

* "Biden deems idea of Ukraine NATO membership as ‘premature’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/biden-deems-ukraine-nato-membership-premature-00105321

* "Israel May Have Committed War Crimes in Jenin Operation, UN Palestinian Rights Official Says:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-06/ty-article/.premium/israel-may-have-committed-war-crimes-in-jenin-raid-un-palestinian-rights-official-says/00000189-2a7b-dcb5-a5df-6f7f370a0000

* "New migrant tragedy at sea changes little as EU leaders forge ahead with tougher borders plans:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-eu-summit-libya-turkey-borders-refugees-eab33d5169ae1c147e0dc5b2dc1f8266




* Russia has been using them on Ukrainian civilians for some time. "U.S. approves cluster bombs despite humanitarian concerns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/u-s-approves-cluster-bombs-in-latest-ukraine-weapons-transfer-00105234

* I am really alarmed. "One Ukrainian soldier had six extensively drug-resistant bacterial infections:" https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/07/ukraine-war-spurs-horrifying-rise-in-extensively-drug-resistant-bacteria/

* "A Boy’s Life on the Front Lines:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/26/magazine/ukraine-war-childhood.html

* "Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-prisons-civilians-torture-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72

* "The Children Russia Kidnapped:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/russia-kidnapping-abducting-ukrainian-children/674535/




* "U.S. drone strike kills Islamic State leader in Syria, Defense Department says :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/drone-strike-islamic-state-leader-syria-00105334

* "Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/clarence-thomas-horatio-alger-association.html

* "NYT: Clarence Thomas gave elite group 'unusual' access to Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-clarence-thomas-gave-elite-group-unusual-access-to-supreme-court-187414085847

* "Civil rights dominoes set to fall as conservative activists get Supreme Court's message:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/civil-rights-dominoes-set-to-fall-as-conservative-activists-get-supreme-court-s-message-188522053560

* "White House slams John Cornyn for infrastructure vote amid ‘Bidenomics’ push:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/cornyn-biden-broadband-funding-18175221.php

* "Biden laughs at Tuberville hailing Alabama broadband funds he voted against, reviving feud with senator:" https://www.al.com/politics/2023/07/biden-laughs-at-tuberville-hailing-alabama-broadband-funds-he-voted-against-reviving-feud-with-senator.html

* "US Rep. Nancy Mace endorses Charleston bus project. But she voted against its funding.:" https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/us-rep-nancy-mace-endorses-charleston-bus-project-but-she-voted-against-its-funding/article_687b1c16-15cb-11ee-b76d-277e7ee0749f.html

* "Buttigieg calls out opponents of infrastructure bill now trying to take credit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/buttigieg-calls-out-opponents-of-infrastructure-bill-now-trying-to-take-credit-187643973878

* "Read SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher’s fiery speech announcing actors’ strike:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-13/fran-drescher-speech-actors-strike-sag-aftra-strike-press-conference

* "'Complete disrespect': Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, rages at media execs over impasse:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-complete-disrespect-fran-drescher-sag-aftra-president-rages-at-media-execs-over-impasse-188373061828

* Why the Actor's strike is important: https://www.tumblr.com/thirddoctor/722802911553437696?source=share

* "GOP’s Bombshell Anti-Biden Witness Has a Wee Credibility Problem Why does this keep happening?:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/gal-luft-gop-biden-witness-charged-china-justice-department-comer.html

* "'Failure': Raskin on missing GOP ‘informant’ turning out to be fugitive:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-failure-raskin-on-missing-gop-informant-turning-out-to-be-fugitive-187630661543

* "McCarthy claims indictment of GOP 'informant' only makes Biden case 'stronger':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mccarthy-claims-indictment-of-gop-informant-only-makes-biden-case-stronger-188365381745

* "As GOP works the law enforcement refs for Trump, important policing issues go fallow:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-gop-works-the-law-enforcement-refs-for-trump-important-policing-issues-go-fallow-188084293657

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

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

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

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

* Ohioans please vote! Early Voting has already started! "Ohio Republicans piling on in seeking closed primaries on top of Issue 1 affront:" https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2023/07/ohio-republicans-piling-on-in-seeking-closed-primaries-on-top-of-issue-1-affront-editorial.html

* "Ohio Issue 1 isn’t about any one issue — It’s about every issue and the power Ohio voters have:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/11/ohio-issue-1-isnt-about-any-one-issue-its-about-every-issue-and-the-power-ohio-voters-have/

* "‘Desperate’: Ohio Republicans pull ‘brazen stunt’ to undermine abortion rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-desperate-ohio-republicans-pull-brazen-stunt-to-undermine-abortion-rights-188514373750

* "WA transgender youth bill targeted in national culture war:" https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/05/wa-transgender-youth-bill-targeted-national-culture-war

* "Editorial: Ballot measure isn’t about parental rights:" https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/editorial-ballot-measure-isnt-about-parental-rights/

* "No, Washington Did Not Just Pass a Law Allowing the State to Kidnap and Transgenderify Children:" https://www.thestranger.com/news/2023/04/19/78955501/no-washington-did-not-just-pass-a-law-allowing-the-state-to-kidnap-and-transgenderify-children

* "Conspiratorial election denial bad for business pillow guy learns; GOP does damage control:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conspiratorial-election-denial-bad-for-business-pillow-guy-learns-gop-does-damage-control-188084805617

* "Abortion complicates 2024 outlook as Republicans gear up for Iowa and primary season:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/abortion-complicates-2024-outlook-as-republicans-gear-up-for-iowa-and-primary-season-187636805929

* "GOP candidates court anti-abortion crowd; count on mass amnesia for general election:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gop-candidates-court-anti-abortion-crowd-count-on-mass-amnesia-for-general-election-188084805859

* "We Investigated the Deepest, Darkest Corners of the Internet to Understand Ron DeSantis’ Bizarre New Video:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/08/ron-desantis-memes-lgbtq-ad-00105238

* He's targeting trans men specifically. "Why Ron DeSantis is emailing his supporters about men getting pregnant:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/30/desantis-campaign-cash-gop-voters-00104323"

* "The Sequel Will Be Worse. Trump’s former Justice Department officials fear a second term.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/trumps-ex-justice-department-officials-fear-a-second-term.html

* "‘Retaliation’: Why Trump’s former DOJ officials fear a second term:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-retaliation-why-trump-s-former-doj-officials-fear-a-second-term-187412037687

* "A Small Town’s Fourth of July: Flags, a 5K and Trump’s Attacks on American Institutions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/trump-pickens-independence-day.html

* "These are the 5 state driver's licenses no longer valid in Florida under new immigration law:" https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/these-are-the-5-state-drivers-licenses-no-longer-valid-in-florida-under-new-immigration-law/3066073/

* "Misfire’: Floridians already feeling economic effect of DeSantis immigration law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-misfire-floridians-already-feeling-economic-effect-of-desantis-immigration-law-187412038002

* Who was it who said a gaffe is saying what you really believe by accident? "Tommy Tuberville reverses his claim that white nationalists are unfairly labeled racist:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tommy-tuberville-triples-claim-white-nationalists-unfairly-labeled/story?id=101095697

* "‘Embarrassing’: Ex-Alabama Senator rips Tuberville's white nationalist remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-embarrassing-ex-alabama-senator-rips-tuberville-s-white-nationalist-remarks-188078661661

* "Ex-GOP Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for role in $60M bribery scheme; appeal expected:" https://apnews.com/article/bribery-investigation-ohio-speaker-householder-sentenced-7ff5163a7d1fdbbfe6570ed34c7a7f67




* "Disciplinary panel calls for Rudy Giuliani’s disbarment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/07/disciplinary-panel-calls-for-rudy-giulianis-disbarment-00105220

* "Attorney ethics case against Trump ally Clark moves forward in DC:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/attorney-ethics-case-against-trump-ally-clark-moves-forward-dc-2023-07-07/

* "DOJ won’t defend Trump in Carroll rape defamation case anymore:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/doj-trump-in-carroll-rape-defamation-case.html

* "A grand jury sworn in Tuesday could decide whether Trump is charged over Georgia’s 2020 election:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-grand-jury-0cfd32492da81697879b8c8ac00f8c83

* "Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/11/trump-classified-documents-trial-date-2024-00105565

* "New targets suggest new indictments likely in Trump cases: new reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-targets-suggest-new-indictments-likely-in-trump-cases-new-reports-188521029990




* "Let's talk about a judge's quotes at a hearing...:"

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* The republican mainstream and literal Neo-NAZIs Venn Diagram is a circle. "College Republicans Convention to Host White Nationalist Nick Fuentes:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174204/college-republicans-united-convention-antisemite-nick-fuentes

* "US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills:" https://apnews.com/article/new-citizenship-test-naturalization-immigrants-immigration-c074aa1c92b226b4960485fb26d0f4fa

* "Immigration policies don’t deter migrants from coming to the US – Title 42 and the border rules replacing it only make the process longer and more difficult :" https://theconversation.com/immigration-policies-dont-deter-migrants-from-coming-to-the-us-title-42-and-the-border-rules-replacing-it-only-make-the-process-longer-and-more-difficult-200776

* "Domestic terrorism charges in Georgia are prompting concern over political repression:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184782128/cop-city-atlanta-domestic-terrorism

* "A Police K-9 Took This Man’s Eye:"

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* This decision is shameful. "Oklahoma judge dismisses Tulsa race massacre reparations case filed by last known survivors:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/08/us/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations-case/index.html

* "Judge dismisses Tulsa reparations case as California reparations task force unveils final report:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/judge-dismisses-tulsa-reparations-case-as-california-reparations-task-force-unveils-final-report-187273285822

* "'This isn't over': Demand for national reparations intensifies after dismissal of Tulsa lawsuit:" https://news.yahoo.com/this-isnt-over-demand-for-national-reparations-intensifies-after-dismissal-of-tulsa-lawsuit-201152753.html

* "With race-based admissions no longer an option, states may imitate Texas Top 10% Plan:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/29/texas-college-top-ten-percent-plan-supreme-court/

* The Republican War on Capitalism, Child Safety, and Free Expression continues. Note they are saying that a simple display of a rainbow constitutes pedophilia as part of their campaign to trivialize CSA. "7 Republican AGs write to Target, say Pride month campaigns could violate their state’s child protection laws:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/08/business/target-attorneys-general-pride-month/index.html

* "Inside Moms for Liberty’s summit: Big money and even bigger conspiracy theories:" https://www.mediamatters.org/moms-liberty/inside-moms-libertys-summit-big-money-and-even-bigger-conspiracy-theories?fbclid=IwAR1HHHab7Z60Hq7HA_-C_OsGM-8TR2FOU-Lzv0pJwXpAE5n8akFBisXzUZw

* This means libraries can't let children read e-books to get around government censorship. "HOOPLA, OVERDRIVE/LIBBY NOW BANNED FOR THOSE UNDER 18 IN MISSISSIPPI:" https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

* CW: CSA. "BBC suspends presenter alleged to have paid teen for sexually explicit photos:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/bbc-explict-photos-teen-presenter-suspended/

* CW: CSA "BBC presenter: Second young person comes forward with allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/bbc-presenter-second-young-person/

* CW: CSA "Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter suspended over sexual images claim:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/bbc-presenter-huw-edwards/

* CW: Abuse "Fans Built Her an Internet Empire. Now They’re Tearing It Down:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/colleen-ballinger-miranda-sings-youtube-fans-allegations-1234774947/




* "'Stop killing us': Polish women protest against strict anti-abortion law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/stop-killing-us-polish-women-protest-against-strict-anti-abortion-law-2023-06-14/

* "It’s Almost Impossible to Get an Abortion in Poland. These Women Crossed the Border to Germany for Help:" https://time.com/poland-abortion-laws-protest/

* "Poland sees peril for women of extreme, ill-considered abortion bans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/poland-sees-peril-for-women-of-extreme-ill-considered-abortion-bans-187296837924

* The Republican War on Freedom continues. "Most abortions now banned in Iowa after Gov. Kim Reynolds signs 'fetal heartbeat' law:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/14/iowa-abortion-ban-six-weeks-gov-kim-reynolds-signs-law-republicans-special-session-fetal-heartbeat/70398800007/

* For your own safety, I beg you not to give Meta's Facebook or Threads any of your data. "Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-to-abortion-charges-based-on-facebook-data/




* I admit, I wept when I realized some of the women were older than me. So few are still here, but there they are living their best lives. "Kristen Lovell, co-director of 'The Stroll,' knows sex work is real work:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186278193/kristen-lovell-co-director-of-the-stroll-knows-sex-work-is-real-work

* "Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace expertly breaks down why so-called ‘trans ideology’ doesn’t exist:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/hollyoaks-actress-annie-wallace-sally-st-claire-trans-ideology/

* "Polish judge backs ‘homosexuals molest children’ claim in ‘shameful’ ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/poland-pride-van-lgbt/

* "Trans woman found ‘brutally murdered’ in her own home in Greece:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/trans-woman-murdered-greece-anna-ivankova/

* "EuroPride slams Georgian government ‘incompetence’ after Tbilisi Pride attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/europride-georgia-tbilisi-pride-attack/

* "US ambassador to host Pride party in defiance of Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ PM:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/david-pressman-hungary-us-viktor-orban-budapest-pride/

* "Nepal makes history as first South Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/09/nepal-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court-ruling/

* "Latvia swears in EU’s first openly gay president:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/latvia-edgars-rinkevics-president-gay/

* "‘Straight pride’ photo lands Canadian politician Danielle Smith in hot water:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/straight-pride-photo-lands-canadian-politician-danielle-smith-in-hot-water/

* "Draft civil service gender policy would ban most trans employees from bathrooms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/civil-servants-trans-guidelines-gender-critical/

* "Government’s job to decide the definition of sex in Equality Act, says EHRC boss:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/ehrc-sex-definition-women-and-equalities-committee-trans/

* "MPs blast government for ‘unacceptable stress’ caused to LGBTQ+ community by conversion-therapy ban delay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/conversion-therapy-ban-conservative-government-lgbtq/

* "Appeal against spiralling trans healthcare wait times argues NHS ‘breached legal duty’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/court-of-appeal-good-law-project-nhs/

* "Oxfam, Samaritans and 100 other charities sign pledge to support trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/oxfam-samaritans-charities-sign-trans-rights-pledge/

* Vanderbilt University agrees with Republicans that HIPAA doesn't apply to trans people as we have no legal or human rights so turned over unredacted medical records not only without a fight, but without telling them thus outing and endangering their patients. Medical ethics? What medical ethics? "Tennessee A.G. uses private medical records in Republican campaign against trans people:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tennessee-a-g-uses-private-medical-records-in-republican-campaign-against-trans-people-187444805726

* "US hair salon refuses to serve some trans customers after Supreme Court ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/12/hair-salon-refuses-trans-non-binary/

* "Thousands of congregations disaffiliate from national church over LGBTQ+ issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/united-methodist-church-split-lgbtq/

* "Olympian Caster Semenya wins appeal at European Court of Human Rights over testosterone rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/11/caster-semenya-wins-appeal/

* "World cycling body bans trans women from female categories: ‘Impossible to rule out advantage’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/15/uci-cycling-trans-women-sports-ban/

* "The unspoken struggles of being a high masking Autistic:"

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* "The One-Shot Drug That Keeps on Dosing:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-one-shot-drug-that-keeps-on-dosing/

* "Maternal deaths in the US more than doubled over two decades. Black mothers died at the highest rate:" https://apnews.com/article/black-maternal-mortality-american-indian-hispanic-deaths-64da18fec80f8f1790aee2e9986a757e

* "Noise could take years off your life:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/09/health/noise-exposure-health-impacts.html?unlocked_article_code=VgkBNGRcsfA0ZGckA2c6C4_95DcpKhkw4NGIrwKX-8ptavShrG8nAVm2KYEtuEkcIfTq5KSxVQ8SY4pDMWDO3U2PRJW8ZgIxhMJXVUu1h-9Qz4UVcwLw01vCRBUvnD80w7hC0baJCGFht_zJz4PbfW3ErJ2PNSd-u-3Mug1C3_45_ryX7kOTGxpQ-1qc3GjUIF4r-1rpHSiHHXv3EaKPUtEJd82-nPycZ-jouwVlp5pnliNRTR5z77PB_-fCtzQVBH_5D-JLOrifP__okHrdkFaD8TnnPLWfAyNFJwItEoBYI2H-ccP7E10kPoS6smyQ91AinKUYyWRCIyOPZ3HefifY1p3r1yAsbYb8wzLB8dLnrgHwlWE&smid=url-share

* "They Followed Doctors’ Orders. Then Their Children Were Taken Away.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/magazine/pregnant-women-medication-suboxonbabies.html/




* "It’s even hot in Antarctica, where it’s winter:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23792828/antarctica-heat-wave-sea-ice-level-record-el-nino

* "Record-breaking heat scorches communities around the world:" https://apnews.com/article/heat-climate-change-global-warming-hot-recordbreaking-heat-b87a7cd3bb8f70692d433cb06877975b

* "Coast-to-coast heat dome sends temperatures soaring, threatens all-time records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/13/heatwave-california-arizona-florida-texas-records/

* "Florida ocean temperatures at ‘downright shocking’ levels:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/florida-ocean-temperature-heat-records/

* "How Hot Is the Sea Off Florida Right Now? Think 90s Fahrenheit.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/climate/florida-ocean-temperatures-reefs.html

* "90 degree sea temperatures among 'most worrying signs’ of climate crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/90-degree-sea-temperatures-among-most-worrying-signs-of-climate-crisis-188366917660

* "Record-breaking North Atlantic Ocean temperatures contribute to extreme marine heatwaves:" https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-north-atlantic-ocean-temperatures-contribute-extreme-marine-heatwaves

* "El Niño is back: Surging temperatures bring extreme weather and threaten lives:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/07/el-nino-is-back-heres-what-it-means-for-extreme-weather

* "A meteorologist got threats for his climate coverage. His new job is about solutions:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184461263/iowa-meteorologist-harassment-climate-change-quits

* "Canadian Wildfires Burn a Record 25 Million Acres With No End in Sight:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-15/canadian-wildfires-burn-a-record-25-million-acres-with-no-end-in-sight

* "Canada sees its farthest-north 100-degree temperature as wildfires rage:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/10/canada-record-heat-wildfires-climate/

* "Campfire ban in place for most of B.C., state of emergency for Stikine announced as wildfire numbers spike:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-july-10-2023-1.6902150

* "Canadian wildfire dangers should prompt more proactive mitigation from government:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/canadian-wildfire-dangers-prompt-proactive-mitigation-government-experts/story?id=100478859

* "B.C. wildfire fighter, 19, died after being hit by falling tree while responding to blaze: RCMP:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/devyn-gale-bc-wildfire-fighter-dead-1.6907184

* "In fight against Canada fires, dancing South Africa crews are a familiar and uplifting sight:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-south-africa-firefighters-smoke-ea13e9377f4696a80f30c17f7ea959dc

* "For some remote Canadian wildfires, best and fastest option is sending in the smokejumpers:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-smoke-firefighters-smokejumpers-climate-ed33e70c86756119f631538becc9da29

* "The year of wildfire smoke: Why the U.S. faces a brutal season:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/year-wildfire-smoke-us-faces-brutal-season-rcna92453

* "Minnesota and Wisconsin issue air quality alerts amid a new round of Canada smoke:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187943437/minnesota-wisconsin-midwest-air-quality-alert-smoke

* "Fast-moving fires force evacuations, char thousands of acres in Riverside County as heat wave continues:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-14/fires-force-evacuations-char-hundreds-of-acres-in-riverside-county

* "Wildfire in southwest Oregon puts up huge smoke column, burning near Agness:" https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2023/07/15/large-wildfire-reported-near-oak-flat-in-southwest-oregon-agness/70417528007/

* "India's monsoon rains flood Yamuna river in Delhi, forcing thousands to evacuate and grinding life to a halt:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-monsoon-2023-delhi-flood-yamuna-river-record-water-level-deaths-evacuations/

* "Torrential rain, floods kill 22 across northern India:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/torrential-rain-floods-kill-22-across-northern-india-2023-07-10/

* "Flash floods hit Spain after heavy rainfall; cars swept away, people trapped:" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/flash-floods-hit-spain-after-heavy-rainfall-cars-swept-away-people-trapped-watch-101688868123707.html

* "Rare flash flood warning issued for New York as a woman dies trying to evacuate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rare-flash-flood-warning-issued-new-york-woman-dies-trying-evacuate-rcna93346

* "Vermont faces a rare high risk for flooding. Here’s why these days are so deadly and devastating:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/weather/vermont-flooding-high-risk-new-york/index.html

* "Five key factors that spurred the historic floods in Vermont, New York:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/11/vermont-flooding-cause/

* "Landslides and floods kill at least 22 as South Korea battered by torrential rains:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-korea-weather-landslides-torrential-rain-flooding-north-korea-rcna94415

* "In pricey Palos Verdes, the ocean view is great — until your house slides into a canyon:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-13/rolling-hills-estates-landslide-cause-palos-verdes-peninsula

* "Northern Mexico bakes as residents try to beat scorching heat:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/northern-mexico-bakes-residents-try-beat-scorching-heat-2023-07-14/

* "What 120 Degrees Looks Like in One of Mexico’s Hottest Cities:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/world/americas/hermosillo-mexico-heat.html

* "One-third of Americans under heat alerts as blistering weather spreads from Southwest to California:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3398221.html#cutid1

* "The Southwest Bakes With More Heat on the Way:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/us/heat-southwest-arizona.html

* "New measures are being taken to reduce heat-related deaths in Phoenix:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/10/1186827280/new-measures-are-being-taken-to-reduce-heat-related-deaths-in-phoenix

* "Emergency room visits surge, Texans die amid dangerous heat wave:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-heat-wave-deaths-illness/

* "As summer heats up, impacts of drought begin to appear in northwest Montana:" https://montanafreepress.org/2023/07/10/flathead-lake-at-precarious-level-as-drought-comes-to-northwest-montana/

* "Nearly 62,000 people died from record-breaking heat in Europe last summer. It’s a lesson for the US, too:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/world/deadly-europe-heatwave-2022-climate/index.html

* "How the Western drought has increased carbon emissions:" https://grist.org/energy/western-drought-hydropower-emissions-study/

* "Maryland asks some residents to conserve water amid drought conditions:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/environment/bs-md-water-conservation-drought-mde-20230710-fgd73j6vsve73j2frjizqg5ucy-story.html

* "Drought and extreme heat burn through farmers' margin for error — and it's only July:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/drought-extreme-heat-burn-farmers-margin-error-only-july-rcna93862

* "Coachella Valley Rescue Mission Provides Homeless Resources in Extreme Heat:" https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2023/07/12/coachella-valley-rescue-mission-provides-homeless-resources-in-extreme-heat/

* "In Phoenix, Heat Becomes a Brutal Test of Endurance:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/phoenix-heat-wave.html

* "Why is this city in the Keys the hottest spot in Florida? Weather service has answers:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather-news/article277277108.html

* "‘Bud Light of insurance’: Florida official blames insurer crisis on wokeness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-bud-light-of-insurance-florida-official-blames-insurer-crisis-on-wokeness-188076101690




* "Scottsdale bans natural grass in front yards of new houses to conserve water amid Arizona’s drought :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/us/scottsdale-arizona-grass-ban-new-houses/index.html

* "A Building Made From Cannabis? Yes, Seriously - With Hempcrete:" https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/building-made-cannabis-yes-seriously-hempcrete/324521/

* "Drive-thrus are creating problems for cities and towns:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/business/drive-thru-fast-food-chick-fil-a-urban-planning/index.html

* "The ACTUAL Danger of A.I. with Gary Marcus:"

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* "Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/meta-wont-say-what-happened-to-taxpayer-data-it-may-have-illegally-collected/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Meta’s vision for Threads is more mega-mall than public square:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/threads-shopping-mall-not-a-public-square/

* I stand by my avoidance of Facebook, Threads, and ChatGPT. "Hackers are increasingly using ChatGPT lures to spread malware on Facebook:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/malware-chatgpt-lures-facebook/

* "Facebook's Threads is so depressing:" https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

* "Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend:" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

* "Elon Musk wants ‘d**k measuring contest’ with Mark Zuckerberg:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/elon-musk-wants-dk-measuring-contest-with-mark-zuckerberg/

* "Elon Musk and the dominance space:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/10/elon-musk-twitter-threads/

* "Twitter’s death spiral and what it means for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/13/twitter-death-lgbtq/

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?”:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

* "Twitter Blue Accounts Are Spreading Misinformation About The War In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2023/07/10/twitter-blue-accounts-are-spreading-misinformation-about-the-war-in-ukraine/?sh=77065a6f320f

* "Apple Is Taking On Apples in a Truly Weird Trademark Battle:" https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/

* "Pinanga Subterranea: New Species of Rare Palm Discovered to Flower Underground:" https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/44551/20230627/pinanga-subterranea-new-species-rare-palm-discovered-flower-underground.htm

* "Summer is here. Where are the Fireflies?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/firefly-summer-extinction/

* "Flowers pollinated by honeybees make lower-quality seeds:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flowers-pollinate-honeybees-low-seeds

* "After being swallowed alive, water beetle stages 'backdoor' escape from frog's gut:" https://www.livescience.com/beetle-escape-frog-butt.html

* "Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show:" https://apnews.com/article/dolphin-mothers-baby-talk-calves-cc0c189aa1b8e1298155b1ea78c1002a

* "What Did Viking Town Houses Look Like? And Where Did They Poop?:"

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* "Reflections In The Shadow of Tahoma: Nettie J. Asberry:" https://www.tacomaartslive.org/terms/583-in-the-shadow-of-tahoma-nettie-j-asberry

* "A hundred years on from the 'cult of the clitoris' libel trial, let's remember that fake news is nothing new:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/oscar-wilde-maud-allan-cult-of-the-clitoris-black-book-first-world-war-a8369811.html

* "A fire destroyed millions of veterans’ records. 50 years later, families are still seeking answers:" https://apnews.com/article/military-records-fire-veterans-2f8337c58bc87c10179a2cf6ee54136a

* "My Aunties | Father Figures:"

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* "A Short History of Naughty Literature and Zane:"

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* "Steven Pieters: One of the longest-living HIV survivors in US dies after cancer battle:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/10/steven-pieters-hiv-activist-dies/

* "Fast fashion retailer Shein accused of racketeering and copyright infringement in lawsuit:" https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/shein-rico-charge-racketeering-lawsuit-b2375825.html

* "5-person refugee team competes at European Games in Poland:" https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/50021/5person-refugee-team-competes-at-european-games-in-poland

* Very early Sunday morning I discovered that I no longer need four pillows on top of the two elderly wheelchair cushions on my beat up second hand office chair. I can now manage with just the two wheelchair cushions thanks to my new meds. This may seem like a small thing, but it means I get my options back for leg and hip positioning at my desk.

(I can't sit easily long term in a chair without propping my legs if I intend to use the legs for things like walking later. It's also uncomfortable to let them dangle. you know how starting ballet at a very young age changes the shape of your hip joints? Now add serious arthritic degeneration and what the current rheum thinks is hyper-mobility, but not the really obvious everyone notices it kind. Apparently they are in the process of changing diagnostic criteria based on more recent science. Apparently most ballet dancers and gymnasts would qualify under the newer guidelines, which makes sense to me.)

My shoulder is still completely fucked from the trying to clean up after the Uncleaner, but I am really noticing the difference in so many ways. Yay, new meds. I've mostly acclimated to the side effects so far. still no hallucinations and last night's test with combining with the emergency tramadol did not induce temporary psychosis, which is a really good sign. (For new readers a whole bunch of meds can induce hallucinations and paranoia in my family, including opiods, anti-psychotics, and SSRIs. At high doses we are talking full psychotic break, a thing I've seen now deceased older family members experience in the hospital. if someone is having an obvious psychotic break, they tend to administer anti-psychotics, which have a multiplying effect with the pain killers and thus make things way worse, so they administer more anti-psychotics instead of cutting the opiods and the anti-psychotics out.... you can see the obvious problem. I have only just started hallucinating with stronger opiods, but can still tolerate milder ones. They are still a little unpleasant for me at low doses. I don't use them too often because some time pain killers are necessary and due to allergies my only other options are Tylenol and my arthritis pill, which I can't take more often than every twelve hours for safety reasons. It's a whole thing. New med is a class none of us have taken before, so I'm a guinea pig). I am wary of going up to the standard for adult humans dose, however, as I am getting the weird intense dreams side effect, which for me can be a warning that a drug is about to turn ugly on me. Don't worry, everybody around me knows what's going on with my meds situation.

I other news, Tavy wants to hang out with his favorite Millennials and enjoyed watching the Friday cleaner, but still is only letting me and Squirrel touch him. he did want to be super close to goth Millennial Saturday and was interested in play, though tired easily in the heat. He also get upset when it was time for Goth Millennial to go home. It's looking like he's recovering from the Uncleaner traumatizing him. he still wants reassurance after sleep, but yesterday he didn't wake me in a panic after a bad nightmare and have trouble being soothed. I am still furious about the whole thing, but the cats are being more normal.

Goth Millennial put in the air conditioner/air filtration in the main area before they left, which is making a huge difference.

* Sunday: Tavy let Goth Millennial pet him. he’s still too distressed to sit on the sofa with Goth Millennial for TV time and pettins, but he did curl up behind us. The cats are still sleepy, I'm hoping from the heat and not the Ajax, but Tavy was himself enough to play what is a normal amount for him in summer.

Goth Millennial got some good gardening in and is starting to sort out things cleaners put away in odd locations. The air filtering in the main room is being a huge help. I worry about all the smoke injuring my cats and the Millennials. I know it's really been fucking me up, but ever running the machine for a few hours perks us all up. My room is filtered as always when I sleep, of course.

I blew through all the EBT and OTC in the first week of July and am way over budget on food already. Sigh. I gaze sadly at melons and cucumbers I can't eat safely and pass on.

* The new meds side effect wave hit hard and dangerous Thursday, but I'm not sure it didn't start a lot earlier.

Okay, so I had a vicious headache last Friday night for about three hours, which didn't particularly shock me, as my body just does stuff like that. Same Saturday. Normal. Sunday. Monday. I made a note to mention it to the doctor Tuesday morning, but forgot. I noticed Tuesday's headache at the same time was absolutely crushing for three hours, then shut off like a faucett as if it had never been. Which is creepy and wrong. So I'm now weighing if the new meds improvement is worth creepy three hour debilitating headache every day, and if I should call it in the next day.

So Wednesday I wake up to one of my body is very, very bad days. which is a thing that happens sometimes, especially if my body's been to far which between the uncleaner and the extreme heat and this being the worse time of year for my allergies and assorted RL commitments including the doctor is not weird. Plus I'm... I forget how many days in on struggling to type on Klaus Laptop because its hard to lift my arm the extra nine and a half inches, and I'm mostly having to drink with a straw because i go half my wake cycle not being ably to lift a full glass of water that high and I'm dropping things because my arms are fucked. which happens. All of it really stresses out my body though, you follow?

So sometimes the alarm goes off because I have to go somewhere and my body nopes out of it, or tries to. So I'm exhausted. I have the shakes. I end up way late to pick up Goth Millennial because it's just that hard to move. So I drive Goth Millennial around and wait in the car while they do errands. Goth Millennial goes outside to putter in the garden. I lung, then take a nap, all with Tavy glued to my chest, because it's sometimes better after a nap. Resets everything to a more acceptable level of crappy.

I make it all the way up to minimally functional by the time the other Millennials arrive for dinner. One of them had brought pre-marinated and cooked tofu. Me: I think we should make rice for it. With coconut milk and saffron and Turmeric. New Millennial: Oooo! That sounds delicious! Me: It's possible I'm edging up towards Indonesian happy rice except I don't have any lemon grass. But I do have Bay leaves.... So it ends up with New Millennial Making Rice and the two of us keep consulting on spices until I have to lie down again. The results we excellent.

Tavy is still clearly traumatized from the Uncleaner. He loves techie Millennial. Techie Millennial was the first visitor he let pet and play with him. He hid from the Millennials when they arrived after nap time. He did eventually come out and watch them for a bit and even rubbed against Techies legs, but ran if it even looked like someone might tough her. I'm still so angry about the Uncleaner traumatizing him like this.

Really, I just wanted to go to bed after they left, but I needed to stay up for the morning allergy treatment. My body was really not movi ng well, but I dragged myself there and back, which nearly did me in. I did manage to prep for bed and climb in, which really fucking hurt, at which point the first wave of hallucinations and fast heartbeat and arrhythmia hit. So that was fun. Me: Guess that's it for new Meds. They were amazing while they lasted.

They must have been really busy at the doctor because they didn't get back to me until afternoon. I left a message for my doctor's nurse, conveying that I was having severe side effects and needed to know if I should go to the ER. No one ever got back to me. The heart stuff got really bad for four or five hours, always with visual hallucinations. I thought about calling for help, but my right arm wasn't working and my left wasn't great either, and it's usually eight hours minimum to get seen at the ER and they yell at you if you bring in chest pains that turn out not to be a heart attack, and the pain only happened when I moved so it was likely just torso muscles screaming about my arms.

But the supper high irregular heart beat for hours can't be good. I wrote this waiting for receptionist call back Friday morning. I was 36 minutes in on the wait as I typed this sentence. I really think they should check my heart, but if they are this busy... Yeah. I'm assuming if it was really dangerous, they'd return my call from yesterday instead of continuing to ignore my message.

* It took about an hour and a quarter total, but we will find out if i had a heart attack or not on Tuesday. They I had to chase down the asshole agency as they had not called to tell me the cleaner wasn't coming, so it's now rescheduled for Tuesday. Then I waited on hold to try to schedule the mobility assessment, only to discover the number they gave was for central processing. They were going to transfer me when call waiting beeped, so i made them give me the direct line number and extension. (It was meds. Pharmacy was delivering meds and they only wait five minutes so that was the correct call on my part.) The making appointment direct line was faster by far, but I had no clue which wheelchair vender I was interested in. O.o apparently they have the vender in on assessment days, so that effects scheduling. I let her pick. She was like: We like this one better, but we have to offer both.

Forage delivery still hadn't arrived. It was now really hot and polleny outside. This is relevant. I can't leave food out there very long or it will spoil. Inside, I have air conditioning and extra filtering. I can breath inside, but not outside. I was exhausted and frustrated and really pissed off about the medical stuff. My chest was still tight. There is a band of intense pain keeping me from lifting my arms properly. I manage to drag the laundry basket to me room anyway, but I'm not remotely up to the pain involved in folding it. Livia wants her love. I climb into bed for Livia loves. My experience is, getting ready to sleep summons Forage Delivery somehow. Livia is done with her love. I've been in bed over an hour waiting. Tavy insists I should sleep with claws to my nipple, because health stiff makes him anxious.

The phone rings. We have the conversation where we double check which porch to put it on. I lie there a bit, working up to the pain of levering myself out of bed. I lumber out there. No food boxes. so I'm thinking did he think left instead of right? So I'm out in the mid day sun with my crutch and bare feet, struggling to breath because I can't breath in the heat on a good day and this isn't close. I have no idea how I will get the food boxes to my apartment. My best guess is crawl on the pavement pushing them ahead of me because there is zero chance of my arms even lifting them. It's not on the patios of any building facing the gazebo. Me: did they drive past and hit the wrong side of my building? So I hobble around the other side in baking heat and it's not on the logical patios. I have to then hobble all the way back to my patio, exhausted. I simply can't be out any longer or I will collapse. This is why I have forage delivery, so I don't have to seriously endanger myself getting the food. Which i am now doing and failing at miserably.

I try last call return. No one answers. Fuck! I restart the computer and look up forage delivery dispatch. I get a live human without a long wait on hold for the first time in two days. This is possibly a miracle. I am still struggling to breath when I explain and ask if they could at least give me a hint as to where the food is because I can't be out in the sun searching anymore. She puts me on hold and reaches them. She puts me on hold and reaches them. she says they will come back.

So I go lie down in my room where the air is best and wait. He’s like: I’m right here. The food is here. I go look. No man. No food. I used my stop a kid from across the playground below to see if we could get a Polo for my Marco. No dice. I had cleverly left the phone off the hook when I went to look on the grounds that the food was definitely not on my patio previously.

It turns out that they’d put it in the middle of the other side of the building, expecting me somehow to drag it all that way over carpeted halls. O.o I didn’t think to look there because we’d discussed patio locations in such a super specific way moments before he’d put it at the main entrance instead of a patio. He was nice enough to bring it around and drop it right inside my door.

I have recently learned Millennials generally don’t know the word “gazebo” and are afraid to ask or look it up because of the cleaners. I am now wondering if patio may also be too bougie to be familiar, but lots of apartments around here come with small patios if they are ground floor, even the shitty apartments I can generally afford, just like tiny balconies are super common on upper floors in this region. Surely jungle of plants and blue chair were hints though? IDK. We’ve lost a lot of delivery people in the decade we live here too. Something about the complex confuses people.

Forage delivery guy looked like a thirtyish Mr. Clean and really was very kind, just confused.

Goth Millennial was sweet enough to come in on their day off to work and extra two hours looking after me, and then we finished the back third of a movie we’d been re-watching together. I’m not great, but improving. I also have a new unexplored theory about what is wrong with my arms from the article about statins I linked in this space. I guess I’ll run it by the doctor when I see them.

* "Completely Neutral, Race-Blind College Admissions Questions:" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/completely-neutral-race-blind-college-admissions-questions

* "You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.:" https://bixbythemartian.tumblr.com/post/183910148322/you-drop-a-small-piece-of-food-on-the-floor-and

* "Midnight Pals: Body Horror:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/722118655202181120/midnight-pals-body-horror?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* "Russian mercenaries exploit a war-torn African nation as they lead Putin’s fight in Ukraine:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/wagner-ukraine-russia-central-african-republic-gold-mine-putin-rcna86392




* "500 days of the Ukraine war – and scapegoating:" https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-500-days-of-the-ukraine-war-and-scapegoating/




* "US judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-us-officials-communicating-with-social-media-companies-newspaper-2023-07-04/

* "Trump-appointed judge rules against Biden admin in Facebook censorship case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-appointed-judge-rules-against-biden-admin-in-facebook-censorship-case-186910277802

* It's a high traffic area, and I have my suspicions, but we'll likely never know. "White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/05/white-house-cocaine-culprit-unlikely-to-be-found-law-enforcement-official-00104742

* "The fascinating and storied history of drugs and other substances found at the White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/the-fascinating-and-storied-history-of-drugs-and-other-substances-found-at-the-white-house-187093573756

* Thus opening the flood gates for all white juries sentencing black men to death. "Supreme Court backtracked on Black death row inmates’ racial bias claims, liberal justices say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-backtracked-black-death-row-inmates-racial-bias-claims-l-rcna87808

* "Pride Month ends as it began, with LGBTQ+ lives viewed as an imposition:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/supreme-court-gay-rights/

* "Christian bakers’ same-sex wedding cake case to return to the Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/christian-wedding-cake-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court/

* "U.S. job openings dip to 9.8 million but remain high, showing resilience in labor market:" https://apnews.com/article/job-openings-unemployment-economy-recession-f6811dfae03fcb14249a8937425a2838

* "The ‘Great Resignation’ Is Over. Can Workers’ Power Endure?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/business/economy/jobs-great-resignation.html

* "Average long-term US mortgage rate climbs to 6.81% this week to highest level since November:" https://apnews.com/article/mortgage-interest-rates-housing-loans-real-estate-94dd344bf67ded00f56e078a0fdec667

* I have real concerns about over-correction. "Fed sees more rate hikes ahead, but at a slower pace, meeting minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/05/fed-minutes-july-2023-.html

* "How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood:" https://archive.ph/2023.07.03-160323/https://www.gq.com/story/david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-ceo-tcm-max

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene booted from House Freedom Caucus :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-out-of-freedom-caucus-member-says-00104997

* "Greene's attempt to play both sides of GOP split blows up in her face:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/greene-s-attempt-to-play-both-sides-of-gop-split-blows-up-in-her-face-187093061863

* "Republicans Want to Mandate a Single Style of Architecture in Washington:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/07/trump-conservative-federal-building-architecture-00104985

* "Republican opposition to LGBTQ rights erupts in backlash to Pride Month:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/30/republicans-pride-month-lgbtq/

Throughout June, many Republicans including presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis have sharply criticized Pride celebrations, and some have resurfaced fights over same-sex marriage

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

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

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

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

* "Mondaire Jones, One of the First Black Gay Men in Congress, Seeks to Win Back Seat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mondaire-jones-congress-candidacy

* "Trans candidate looks to make history as GOP is mired in anti-woke freak-out:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trans-candidate-looks-to-make-history-as-gop-is-mired-in-anti-woke-freak-out-187233349700

* "Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester discusses her historic Senate run:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-lisa-blunt-rochester-discusses-her-historic-senate-run-187245125982

* "Ex-Twitter leader Jack Dorsey endorses RFK Jr. for president:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4034584-ex-twitter-leader-jack-dorsey-endorses-rfk-jr-for-president/

* "Ron DeSantis bragged about sending help to Iowa — 10 hours after being told it wasn't needed:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-bragged-sending-help-iowa-10-hours-told-wasnt-needed-rcna92955

* "Ron DeSantis boosts a video that all but calls for eliminating trans people:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ron-desantis-ad-video-trans-lgbtq-rcna92392

They want us all dead. Here. Abroad. They want all of us dead and their aren't going to be exceptions for the L and the G. We're just most vulnerable because so many people made it clear they won't fight for us.

* "DeSantis Posts Deranged Ad Attacking Trump and Pride Month With ‘American Psycho’ Clips:" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/desantis-posts-deranged-ad-attacking-trump-and-pride-month-with-american-psycho-clips/

* "‘Peaky Blinders’ Denounces Homophobic Ron DeSantis Campaign Video: Cillian Murphy Footage Was ‘Obtained Without Permission’ :" https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/peaky-blinders-ron-desantis-campaign-video-1235662106/

* "Ron DeSantis defends video going after Trump on LGBTQ issues: ‘Totally fair game’:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-defends-video-going-trump-lgbtq-issues-totally-fair-game-rcna92791

* "Ron DeSantis’ pastor says gay people should be “put to death”:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/ron-desantis-pastor-says-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death/

* "Hayes: DeSantis flop is due to 'weird, alienating, hard-right campaign':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-desantis-flop-is-due-to-weird-alienating-hard-right-campaign-186905669584

* "Koch Network Raises Over $70 Million for Push to Sink Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/koch-network-trump-2024.html

* "Trump once said a president under felony indictment would grind the government to a halt and create a constitutional crisis:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/kfile-trump-president-indictment-halt-government/index.html

* "‘Remarkable’: GOP voters not convinced by Pence's Jan. 6 defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-remarkable-gop-voters-not-convinced-by-pence-s-jan-6-defense-187075141817

* "Why Everyone Hates the Hunter Biden Plea Deal:"

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* "Republicans Target Minority Scholarships After Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-affirmative-action-minority-scholarships-republicans-1234783254/

* So very clever. "How Wisconsin’s governor bested the GOP and secured education funding for 400 years:" https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/7/6/23786064/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-education-funding

* "Wisconsin governor uses clever maneuver to fund schools for four centuries:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wisconsin-governor-uses-clever-maneuver-to-fund-schools-for-four-centuries-187078725716

* "Pa. House OKs a $45.5 billion spending plan, as Gov. Josh Shapiro plans to veto his own school voucher proposal:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/pa-budget-school-vouchers-house-democrats-20230705.html

* "Josh Hawley Quotes White Nationalist Magazine to Celebrate Fourth of July:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174104/josh-hawley-posts-fake-quote-white-nationalist-magazine-fourth-july

* "Why Josh Hawley’s fake historical quote matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/josh-hawleys-fake-historical-quote-matters-rcna92604




* "What a Former Republican Calls “The Conspiracy to End America”:" https://terikanefield.com/what-a-former-republican-calls-the-conspiracy-to-end-america/

* "More Mar-a-Lago search warrant information released in Trump classified docs case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-release-mar-lago-search-warrant-information-trump-classif-rcna92676

* "Justice Department had video of boxes being moved at Mar-a-Lago before FBI search, unredacted document shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/politics/mar-a-lago-unredacted-search-warrant-affidavit/

* "How Long Will Trump Go To Jail?:"

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* "Walt Nauta, Trump aide indicted in classified documents case, pleads not guilty:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walt-nauta-pleads-not-guilty-trump-classified-documents-case/

* "Who is Walt Nauta?:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-walt-nauta

* "“Ominous sign”: Legal experts say Jack Smith "closing in" after piercing Trump’s “inner circle”:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/03/ominous-sign-legal-experts-say-jack-smith-closing-in-after-piercing-trumps-inner-circle/

* "Will be investigated!: Feds probe meeting that spawned Trump's 'will be wild!' tweet:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/will-be-investigated-feds-probe-meeting-that-spawned-trump-s-will-be-wild-tweet-187235909644




* "New book looks at the cycles of racial progress and white backlash:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/new-book-looks-at-the-cycles-of-racial-progress-and-white-backlash-187245126001

* "Jan. 6 defendant arrested near Obama's home had guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-defendant-arrested-obamas-home-guns-400-rounds-ammunition-van-rcna92094

* "Gun Violence Widely Viewed as a Major – and Growing – National Problem:" https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/28/gun-violence-widely-viewed-as-a-major-and-growing-national-problem/

* "At least 17 mass shootings mark Fourth of July holiday weekend, data shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-9-people-child-teen-hurt-dc-shooting-fourth-july-celebrations-rcna92602

* "The wave of mass shootings over the Fourth of July highlights the challenges police face:" https://apnews.com/article/july-fourth-mass-shootings-block-party-e666444a2689210c0535289a2140385b

* "'An absolute crisis': Maryland governor calls on pro-gun states to help curb gun violence:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-an-absolute-crisis-maryland-governor-calls-on-pro-gun-states-to-help-curb-gun-violence-186935877880

* "3 dead, 8 injured after overnight shooting in Fort Worth:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/11-people-shot-overnight-in-fort-worth/

* "Philadelphia mass shooting suspect left behind a will, had been acting agitated: DA:" https://6abc.com/philadelphia-mass-shooter-identity-suspect-kimbrady-carriker-shooting-july-2023/13463565/

* "The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvpqj/philadelphia-shooting-suspect-far-right-transgender-false-claims

* "9 people, including 2 kids, are shot and wounded in the nation’s capital as violence mars July 4:" https://apnews.com/article/dc-shooting-nine-injured-july-fourth-holiday-b080938aa92551fb9a59991bd057a0dd

* "14-year-old boy dead, 6 wounded in mass shooting at July Fourth block party in Maryland:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salisbury-maryland-shooting-teen-dead-6-wounded-july-fourth/

* "Man killed, 2 women shot in apparent July 4 party in Brockton:" https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/3-shot-one-fatally-in-brockton-overnight/3082611/

* "Shooting leaves 3 dead, 6 wounded at July Fourth celebration in Shreveport, Louisiana:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shreveport-july-fourth-mass-shooting/

* "5 wounded overnight in Mattapan shooting; 3 in custody, officials say:" https://www.wcvb.com/article/5-wounded-mattapan-shooting-boston/44439465

* "Prosecutions of ‘Cop City’ protesters take an ominous turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/cop-city-atlanta-georgia-dekalb-chris-carr-rcna91231

* "What the Fight Over Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Reveals About Policing of Protests :" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/06/24/atlanta-cop-city-protest-police

* "He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/fentanyl-murder-charge.html

* "Texas Sets New Hate Crimes Record, DPS Data Show:" https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-sets-new-hate-crimes-record-dps-data-show/

* "National organization pulls conference out of Florida because of DeSantis' attacks on DEI:" https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/state/2023/07/07/black-engineers-move-conference-from-florida-amid-desantis-dei-attacks/70391967007/

* "Fascist Moms for Liberty Convention in Philadelphia Leads to the Arrests of 6 Protesters:" https://jezebel.com/fascist-moms-for-liberty-convention-in-philadelphia-lea-1850601715

* "Moms for Liberty's media training session was a warning to the press:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/moms-for-liberty-conference-philadelphia-rcna92430

* "Moms for Liberty activist wants LGBTQ students separated into special classes:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/moms-liberty-activist-wants-lgbtq-students-separated-special-classes/

The openly fascist pro-censorship group is now pushing for the segregation of queer students in particularly ablest ways. That echo the sort of anti-trans laws the fascist Republicans are pushing.

I am using fascism as an accurate description, not a slur here.

* "How the ideology of Moms for Liberty is transforming my school district:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-loves-moms-for-liberty-and-pennsylvania-lgbtq-rcna91919

* "GOP censorship spreads as more education bans take hold:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/july-1-book-bans-florida-rcna92420

* "Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184561373/hamburger-marys-orlando-anti-drag-law-blocked-florida

* "GOP censorship spreads as more education bans take hold:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/july-1-book-bans-florida-rcna92420

* "Oklahoma Bill Would Allow Removal of ANY Books That Contain Sex From Libraries, Right Down To Your Regency Faves:" https://www.themarysue.com/oklahoma-bill-would-allow-removal-of-any-books-that-contain-sex-from-libraries/

* "Viola Ford Fletcher, oldest living Tulsa Race Massacre victim, publishes memoir:" https://apnews.com/article/viola-fletcher-book-memoir-tulsa-race-massacre-0042fdce69750104e9dd6aef69f63de0

* "Oklahoma Superintendent Brazenly Claims Tulsa Race Massacre Was Not About Race:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174168/oklahoma-superintendent-brazenly-claims-tulsa-race-massacre-not-race

* "School administrator struggles to apply GOP anti-woke absurdity to factual history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/school-administrator-struggles-to-apply-gop-anti-woke-absurdity-to-factual-history-187234374002

* "Florida school district considers ban on Billie Jean King biography after one parent complained:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/billie-jean-king-childrens-book-florida-school-ban/

* "Words Are Messy | A History:"

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* CW: Sexual Misconduct. "Tory MP Chris Pincher faces suspension after damning report on ‘egregious sexual misconduct’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/chris-pincher-parliament-boris-johnson/

* CW: Rape. "The Weight of Water: Women Mariners Abused at Sea Are Finally Breaking Their Silence:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/the-weight-of-water-women-mariners-abused-at-sea-are-finally-breaking-their-silence/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Kevin Spacey accused of coming out as a gay to ‘disguise’ behaviour, as trial continues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/kevin-spacey-trial-coming-out-disguise/

* "Yes, They Are Coming for Your Birth Control:" https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44290204/birth-control-laws-abortion-2023/




* "This Zombie Law Could Threaten Abortion Access Nationwide: The GOP’s 2024 candidates don’t want to talk about it, but anti-abortion activists see it as a way to further restrict women's reproductive rights:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/comstock-act-threaten-abortion-access-1234781080/

* "Wisconsin judge: Lawsuit to repeal abortion ban can continue:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-wisconsin-ban-challenge-lawsuit-866eed85d2918113bfe644459e62171a

* Ohioans, don't sleep on this!!! "Ohio abortion rights groups submit signatures for ballot measure:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ohio-abortion-rights-groups-submit-signatures-ballot-measure-rcna92627

* "Ohio voters scramble to protect abortion rights as GOP legislature invents new obstacles:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ohio-voters-scramble-to-protect-abortion-rights-as-gop-legislature-invents-new-obstacles-186931781831

* "Iowa Republicans release information on proposed abortion bill:" https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-republicans-propose-new-bill-on-abortion/44478342

* "Mother charged in Northeast Nebraska illegal abortion case pleads guilty:" https://www.ktiv.com/2023/07/07/mother-charged-northeast-nebraska-illegal-abortion-case-pleads-guilty/

* "Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/30/texas-abortion-johns-hopkins-study/




* "Average age of gender dysphoria diagnosis falls from 31 to 26, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/29/gender-dysphoria-diagnosis-trans-research/

* "Vast majority of trans people have experienced negativity at work in past 12 months:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/trans-gender-non-conforming-work-inclusion/

* "Why are so many young people lgbtq+?:"

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* CW: CSA. "Anne Heche: When Community Doesn't Show Up:"

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* "Iraq bill calling for homosexuality ban submitted to parliament:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/iraq-homosexuality-bill-ban/

* "Man destroys tribute to 18-year-old trans girl during candlelit vigil after death in Serbia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/belgrade-monument-dedicated-trans-teen/

* "Nepal ordered to recognise same-sex marriage by Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/nepal-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

* "Greece PM vows to legalise same-sex marriage: ‘Society is much more ready’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/greece-same-sex-marriage-kyriakos-mitsotakis/

* "Singapore hosts first LGBTQ+ rally since decriminalisation of gay sex: ‘Everyone should stand in the sun’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/26/singapore-lgbtq-rally-gay-sex-decriminalised/

* "Hundreds march in solidarity with Cork library staff after vile abuse over LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/cork-library-staff-march-lgbtq-books-abuse/

* "Rwandans explain what life is like for queer community: ‘Why would the UK send LGBTQ+ people here?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/rwanda-lgbtq-gay-suella-braverman/

* "Record number of Brits support same-sex marriage, 10 years after historic vote:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/same-sex-marriage-support-record-yougov-uk/

* "UK government holding Wales back on LGBTQ+ rights, says Plaid Cymru politician:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/wales-sioned-williams-pinknews-summer-reception/

* "Young trans people invited to parliament to discuss ‘growing transphobia of Rishi Sunak’s government’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/young-trans-people-parliament-nadia-whittome/

* "Suella Braverman condemned for latest anti-trans attack in House of Commons:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/suella-braverman-house-of-commons-transphobia/

* "Tory MP Liam Fox’s anti-trans newsletter sparks constituent fury: ‘Why does he need to vilify us?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/liam-fox-north-somerset-anti-trans-newsletter/

* "Rosie Duffield constituents and ‘older feminists’ urge MP to stop attacking trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/rosie-duffield-canterbury-constituents-trans/

* "Labour MP tables bill allowing Church of England to perform same-sex marriages:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/church-of-england-same-sex-marriage-bill/

* "Author ‘beyond angry’ as London children’s museum removes trans and queer books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/rowan-ellis-young-va-lgbtq-trans/

* "Police investigate hate crime after cyclist abuses two men on a picnic date in Birmingham:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/birmingham-hate-crime-gay-men-picnic-date/

* "Anti-trans campaigners are reporting a trans mum to the NSPCC because she breastfed her baby:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/trans-mother-breastfeeding-nspcc/

* "Huge list of feminists, MPs and activists sign open letter in support of trans mum, cruelly attacked for breastfeeding baby:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/mika-minio-paluello-letter-solidarity-trans-mother-abuse/

* "‘Furious’ parents protest against LGBTQ-inclusive education outside Manchester school:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/manchester-school-lgbtq-protest-sex-education/

* "LGB Alliance retains charity status on technicality, but that doesn’t mean it won:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/lgb-alliance-charity-status-ruling-anti-trans-history/

* "SNP’s John Nicolson questions ‘disturbing’ decision on LGB Alliance charity status:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/john-nicolson-lgb-alliance-charity-status/

* "Pride in London: Protesters target government, polluters and dictators:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/02/pride-in-london-protesters-just-stop-oil-uganda-heartstopper/

* "London Trans+ Pride wants trans people to know they are valid ‘as all hell’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/trans-pride-london-2023-valid-as-hell/

* "Thousands march for trans freedom and equality at London’s Trans+ Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/london-trans-pride-2023-march/

* "Munroe Bergdorf slams Tories for ‘inducing a moral panic’ over trans rights at London Trans+ Pride:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/munroe-bergdorf-london-trans-pride-tory-government-moral-panic/

* "The most joyful, hilarious and powerful placards at Trans+ Pride in London:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/trans-pride-in-london-best-placards-signs/

* "Anti-trans youths shoot BB gun at group celebrating Bristol Trans Pride picnic:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/bristol-trans-pride-south-west-bb-guns/

* "Navajo Nation lawmaker introduces bill to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/navajo-nation-same-sex-marriage/

* "North Carolina governor vetoes ‘triple threat’ of three anti-LGBTQ+ bills targeting young people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/north-carolina-governor-vetoes-three-anti-lgbtq-bills/

* "Louisiana governor vetoes state ban on trans healthcare passed on ‘propaganda and misinformation’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/04/louisiana-governor-john-bel-edwards-trans-healthcare-ban/

* "'Gay Panic' Defense Ban Back on Track in New Hampshire:" https://www.advocate.com/law/new-hampshire-gay-panic-defense

* "Tell Me There Isn’t a Witch Hunt in Tennessee:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/03/opinion/tennessee-trans-lgbtq-health-records-vanderbilt.html?unlocked_article_code=Q_yV7BcVoYQNU1_OaxWNny0Z1zqJoEoJ5gxSQ3rkeL8OL_ND9zFNoiwu_Sksrd7ce5VSZZafLIglDXzjxg0acq0tbBMKAOY4eLCDRvRbAypZMSVzWWr9mTsS0dvF-GisUDQlYIALMtaOmLiOQhzejmaBlmkK1qRaA9tFdiMGXFd3xwymCmQMDUBWa_cAh4n0nG8lce7QyB4KmVtx7kYUGv6JU80HMBVQ_GiAASIilmo8IH9YDpcuvp159opgSlzt2bauUjbiS6BFnUBGwrfuZ8CC2hAv1yZZW1OSKljSjyWjeLgWZHfcrTb-6MVhkwLj4o9A43vaJSevbQINZh0Scf8wUhfpRmn9r8OUbnKPzPVz8PL2MvpjIM8q&smid=url-share

* "LGBTQ+ resources removed from state website after right-wing media pressure: ‘Craven and politically motivated’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/08/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-lgbtq-youth-services-remove-website/

* "New TN law requires the gender on your state ID match the gender on your birth certificate:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/new-tn-law-requires-the-gender-on-your-state-id-match-the-gender-on-your-birth-certificate

* "Kansas to force trans people to reverse gender markers on birth certificates and driving licences:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/28/kansas-trans-law-birth-certificates-driving-licenses/

* "‘Fundamental right’: Judges rule against health care bans for trans youth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-fundamental-right-judges-rule-against-health-care-bans-for-trans-youth-1872103096436

* "Trans teenager found dead after going on a date in North Carolina:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/07/trans-teenager-north-carolina-death/

* "Salt Like City police investigating series of LGBTQ+ flag burnings in homophobic attacks:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/salt-like-city-pride-flags-burned/

* CW: Child Abuse, Suicide, All the Things. "He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak.:" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trans-son-of-anti-trans-influencer-tania-joy-gibson-speaks-out_n_649d7449e4b028e6472f1700

* "Right-wingers launch attack on clothes store over Instagram post with a bearded TikToker in a dress:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/05/son-de-flor-instagram-attacks/

* "Dylan Mulvaney Says Bud Light Hung Her Out to Dry in Textbook Case of Rainbow Capitalism:" https://jezebel.com/dylan-mulvaney-says-bud-light-hung-her-out-to-dry-in-te-1850595839

* "Two more malaria cases confirmed in Sarasota County:" https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/07/06/two-more-malaria-cases-confirmed-sarasota-county/

* "Florida suffers consequences of DeSantis political games with public health:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/florida-suffers-consequences-of-desantis-political-games-with-public-health-187095621577

* Never forget that Antivaxxers have killed children with their lies before in Samoa 80ish miles to the west recently. "Measles outbreak in American Samoa declared public health emergency:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/measles-outbreak-american-samoa-declared-public-health-emergency/story?id=98826831

* "New Clues to an Old Mystery: Recent Gains in Endometriosis:" https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/993862#:~:text=A%20class%20of%20chemicals%20known%20as%20endocrine%20disruptors,of%20harmful%20to%20beneficial%20bacteria%20in%20their%20gu

* "America’s Most Popular Drug Has a Puzzling Side Effect. We Finally Know Why.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/06/the-gene-that-explains-statins-most-puzzling-side-effect/674542/

* "What is perseveration?:" https://www.understood.org/en/articles/perseveration-adhd-and-learning-differences

* "People with dementia are still able to learn new things, study finds:" https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/people-with-dementia-can-learn-new-things/

* CW: Suicide. "An Elite School, a Boy’s Suicide and a Question of Blame:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/nyregion/saint-anns-suicide.html?unlocked_article_code=JkLx66fpxRpJvaDGTnGy9a9EChYYB6H-SUsDI73l3NrUj2RkUyqgKEvlNcRX8se9XGMuYeBZx_nJhW-1vQyAyaiM7_LsvzwzNjBGJqtQ2fl3xdBB8Z5AnV-dofUhB8LjE9VLZcY1VmKHhT5Frw7lgvmRX9bwC0NA-hT0wIaAc3rfMH3Wu5vKlXwBJqtWW85mcEbF0YvjZC_-LfiyXDoLIRq9Ue4xPYCdtGJglpki7hcwivlq8ARaJYB-KD37lp5exQ4GfF0AdxAkSQ8ZSfa0kKIQAp-XyEYSJK9K-oNJq1fFQeLRG-4qI7Wur9R86ogOjvZUfBJKNf_RKvD9aQ&smid=url-share

* "Inside the Secretive World of Penile Enlargement :" https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants

* "WHO's cancer research agency to say aspartame sweetener a possible carcinogen:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

* "Queer Cambridge professor on why a lack of diversity is ‘unhealthy for science’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/29/cambridge-professor-queer-diversity-stem/




* "Earth just set a heat record. It won't be its last.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earth-record-heat-climate-change-prehistory

“This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.”

* "Earth reaches hottest day ever recorded 3 days in a row:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/4th-july-breaks-record-highest-temperature-measured/story?id=100702850

* "World records its hottest days ever this week:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/world-records-its-hottest-days-ever-this-week-186912325902

* Before you say no duh, remember that we need studies like this to quantify things for planning, government policy, and court cases, and also to help convince people who's minds aren't already made up "Extreme heat 'disproportionately' impacts people with disabilities, report says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/extreme-heat-disproportionately-impacts-people-with-disabilities-report-2023-06-26/

I know I struggle to breath in heat like this, and hypoxia kills, especially when cars are involved.

Please remember many medications and medical conditions can make you extra susebtable to heat or direct sunlight. I was reminded that SSRIs are a super common one. Please be extra careful out there if this applies to you.

* "Mexico acknowledges 112 heat-related deaths so far this year, almost triple the figures in 2022:" https://www.news4jax.com/health/2023/06/29/mexico-acknowledges-112-heat-related-deaths-so-far-this-year-almost-triple-the-figures-in-2022/

* "A 65-year-old man is found dead in Death Valley National Park after apparent extreme heat death:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/us/death-valley-national-park-heat-death-california/index.html

* "‘Literally off the charts’: Canada’s fire season sets records — and is far from over :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/06/canada-fire-season-00104959

* "Wildfire in WA near Columbia River Gorge grows slowly, still at 5% containment :" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wildfire-in-wa-near-columbia-river-gorge-grows-slowly-still-at-5-containment/




* "Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-louisiana-turns-discarded-oyster-shells-into-restored-coastline

* "What Media Leaves Below Decks:" https://popula.com/2023/06/27/what-media-leaves-below-decks/

* CW: Harassment. "More than 50 percent of Americans report facing online harassment, hate: survey :" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4071697-more-than-50-percent-of-americans-report-facing-online-harassment/

* "What does Twitter 'rate limit exceeded' mean for users?:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/

* "Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/twitter-outage-elon-musk-user-restrictions/674609/

* "Twitter's threat to the 2024 election is coming from inside the house:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/elon-musk-empowers-twitter-misinformation

* "Elon Musk’s Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta Over Threads, Alleging Meta Hired ‘Dozens’ of Twitter Employees to Launch Copycat App; Meta Disputes Claim:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-twitter-legal-threat-meta-instagram-threads-1235663115/

* "Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads:" https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/far-right-figures-including-nazi-supporters-anti-gay-extremists-and-white-supremacists-are

* "Quitting Twitter? Here Are Six Alternatives, From Threads to Bluesky and Spill:" https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-alternatives-bluesky-spill-instagram-threads-1235660707/

* "Spill Is a New Black-Owned Twitter Alternative. Here’s What to Know About the App:" https://time.com/6292622/spill-app-twitter-alternative/

* "Rats sense the wind with antennae-like whiskers above their eyes:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rats-wind-antennae-whiskers-eyes

* "The horrors of Pompeii:" https://aeon.co/essays/what-pompeiis-ruins-say-about-its-enslaved-prostituted-women

* "What's the Deal with 18th Century Wigs? (and why Bridgerton really messed this up):"

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* "Celebrating the life and loves of Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s most famous bisexual and a global icon:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/06/frida-kahlo-birthday-bisexual-artist/

* "‘The meanest, dirtiest, low-down stuff’: Republican complaints about election integrity that actually hide a more nefarious goal are not unknown in U.S. history.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-3-meanest-dirtiest-low-stuff-rcna91078

* "A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times:" https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/

* "Ballroom History: The 1960s, Paris is Burning, and Today:"

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* "Spain's Falleras Bring Historic Opulence to Life:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/falleras-tradition-parade-costume-spain-culture

* "What Even Is "Good" Queer TV?:"

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* "Preacher calls for ‘holy judgement’ on Barbie movie for being ‘full of transgender and homosexuality’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/03/barbie-lgbtq-kent-christmas-holy-judgement/

* "How Kids actually Played:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Er-8fEbozNg

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share
* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* "Sudan ceasefire starts precariously as continued fighting reported:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/air-strikes-hit-khartoum-seven-day-ceasefire-approaches-2023-05-22/

* "UN: Sudan conflict displaces over 1.3 million, including some 320K to neighboring countries:" https://apnews.com/article/sudan-conflict-military-paramilitary-displaced-un-787b00cb9203335dc834369aabb3b202

* "As more women forgo the hijab, Iran’s government pushes back:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-headscarf-hijab-protests-unrest-7cfce99b8841d6df5e8ad95ec8032b28

* "Anti-overhaul protests enter 20th week as compromise talks remain stalled:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-overhaul-protests-set-to-enter-20th-week-as-compromise-talks-remain-stalled/

* "Thousands in Jerusalem rally against budget, deals for ultra-Orthodox:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-in-jerusalem-rally-against-budget-deals-for-ultra-orthodox/

* "The State Of Israel:"

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* "France pension protest held on outskirts of Cannes Film Festival:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/france-pension-protest-held-outskirts-cannes-film-festival-99492995

* "Pakistan’s Imran Khan wins bail in multiple cases from anti-terrorist court:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistans-imran-khan-wins-bail-multiple-cases-anti-terrorist-court-bloomberg-2023-05-23/

* "Key aide of Pakistan's Imran Khan resigns amidst standoff with army:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-considering-banning-imran-khans-party-defence-minister-2023-05-24/

* "The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai

* "Russian lawyer claims Putin is building settlements for conservatives looking to leave the US for 'ideological reasons':" https://www.rawstory.com/russian-lawyer-claims-putin-is-building-settlements-for-conservatives-looking-to-leave-the-us-for-ideological-reasons/

* "Life inside the South African gangs risking everything for copper:" https://www.ft.com/content/19973223-cda7-43c0-8ba5-ddd329fc9ff9?accessToken=zwAF-3NAn_Ggkc8ZlzIjzadDwNOLpd3TKfyf-Q.MEYCIQCdkXLApDF5LercBIVa5DHnMQA8t4Geek0BR_d5HLnjDwIhAItJ6AnaORpQmAUQHBHBj5RC3N5S6FP6_4oPCR5xKUNZ&sharetype=gift&token=ddc1c232-edc3-45e8-ac8a-fc676f0559dc

* "Jamaica’s break from British monarchy must bring about queer liberation, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/20/jamaica-republic-lgbtq-rights-kings-coronation/

* Looks like the opening salvo for political purges of schools and university and censorship to me. "Tory MP Miriam Cates thinks ‘cultural Marxism’ is ‘destroying children’s souls’. No, seriously:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/17/miriam-cates-cultural-marxism-national-conservatism-conference/

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* "The Counteroffensive:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/counteroffensive-ukraine-zelensky-crimea/673781/

* "Ukraine restores power to Russia-occupied nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-switched-standby-russia-installed-official-2023-05-22/

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* How?!? "Conservative group Moms for Liberty claims Joe Biden is trying to turn kids trans and gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/moms-for-liberty-trans-gay-kids-joe-biden/

* "Joe Biden said “there are at least three” genders & shut down a conservative activist:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/01/joe-biden-said-least-three-genders-shut-conservative-activist/

* The Republicans continue to win their war against the environment and Humanity. "Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/25/supreme-court-dramatically-shrinks-clean-water-acts-reach-00098781

* "Harlan Crow refuses to cooperate with Dem senators’ Supreme Court probe :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/harlan-crow-supreme-court-probe-00098401

* The Republican war on the Economy continues. Want to know how much Republicans hate America? This much apparently. "White House details ‘severe damage’ to the economy if debt ceiling crisis occurs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-details-severe-damage-economy-debt-ceiling-default-occurs-rcna82743

* "Hayes: What the Republican debt ceiling threat is really about:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-the-republican-debt-ceiling-threat-is-really-about-175793221559

* "Saddled with Trump, unpopular policies, GOP toys with tanking economy under Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/saddled-with-trump-unpopular-policies-gop-toys-with-tanking-economy-under-biden-175833157654

* "Hayes: ‘Deranged’ GOP debt plan would put these items on the chopping block:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-deranged-gop-debt-plan-would-put-these-items-on-the-chopping-block-176619589699

* Republicans don't want any further life saving vaccine research. When Republicans say the are pro-life, it looks like they mean pro-deadly virus life and on human type people. "White House Pushes to Save Key Covid Programs in Debt Ceiling Talks:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/us/politics/biden-debt-ceiling-covid.html

* "House Dems take pessimistic tone on debt as McCarthy pushes to ‘finish up’ talks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/debt-limit-talks-wednesday-kevin-mccarthy-00098564

* "Rich People’s Gain is Worth Less Than Poor People’s Pain:" https://doctorow.medium.com/rich-peoples-gain-is-worth-less-than-poor-people-s-pain-6c3631292841

* "From stakeouts to warrants: How federal investigators found more than 100 children cleaning slaughterhouses:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-investigation-into-slaughterhouse-cleaning-company-that-hired-children-60-minutes-transcript-2023-05-07/

* "'They Just Need a Safe Place to Be:' How Public Transit Became the Last Safety Net In America:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wvq5/they-just-need-a-safe-place-to-be-how-public-transit-became-the-last-safety-net-in-america

* "Low-income tenants lack options as old mobile home parks are razed:" https://apnews.com/article/mobile-home-evictions-housing-homelessness-796097305c4ef90d7d98e1fee1489284

* "Silo creator Graham Yost on why struggling writers needed to go on strike:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/graham-yost-silo-writers-strike/

* "Why Writers Are On Strike:"

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* This is a little round about, but please bear with me.

Musings on B5, TV Production, and the writer's strike: )

All the actors were amazed that they always got to go home at five. Shooting stopped on time! This hardly ever happens! They could make dinner plans even on a Friday and get proper sleep instead of Friday shooting running into Saturday to make up missed shots. Which I suspect means that all the tech side folk js too got to have personal lives and sleep. O.o For five years! Steady employment with a reliable schedule in TV! I bet it saved money too, to not have to pay over time, to not have all that standing around when they could be setting up the next shot which wastes everyone's time and money. People were happier and they weren't run as nearly ragged and they made five seasons of antifascist and anti-colonialist science fiction with characters and dialog that will live in my heart and mind until I die.

All because they let the showrunner show run and write with a staff of writers who could stay on the project long term. Stuff that got seeded in season one paid off in later seasons. The writers all knew the lore and backstories and the relationships and where things were going.

You can't make TV like that without writers. You can't make TV like that with minirooms and gig employees.

I know I keep harping on how important that the WGA wins and wins big on Tumblr. (I do things on it on the aggregate as well, but I don't trust a lot of the journalism because it tends to be slanted for the greedy ass corporations, so way less turns up there). This is why I care so much. Because tech crew got to drive home safe after a reasonable work day instead of falling asleep at the wheel and crashing. Because it was a huge benefit to the actors who got a chance to really practice their craft and still go home at night. Because the directors could focus on making the best show possible every week without mountains of extra hassle. Because things like B5 and Black sails and stranger Things and Umbrella Academy and pretty much every show I've loved intensely as an adult absolutely require a reasonably stable writer's room with writers paid well enough to live while they do it.

If WGA wins, everybody wins. The tiny sliver of profits it takes to make all this happen is negligible.

I hope SAG and DGA strike too. I hope they all stand together and stop the Capitalist horror that grinds up writers and tech folk like they were components and not utterly essential.

The WGA are not greedy; they are fighting for their livelihoods and their art and it infuriates me that people can't wait a little longer for all the ways it will make the world better if the Studios blink first.

* "Jewish Democrats call on McCarthy to censure Gosar over staffer’s reported beliefs:" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4010382-jewish-democrats-call-on-mccarthy-to-censure-gosar-over-staffers-reported-beliefs/

* "George Santos Just Hired the Only Man He Can Trust:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/george-santos-just-hired-the-only-man-he-can-trust/

* "George Santos Is In Trouble:"

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* "FBI ‘Called Bluff’ on Jim Jordan Hearing, Says Ex-Asst. Director:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-called-bluff-on-jim-jordan-hearing-ex-asst-director-for-counterintelligence-frank-figliuzzi-says

* "Jordan’s FBI “whistleblower” may have lied under oath about funding from Trump ally: report:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/23/jordans-fbi-whistleblower-may-have-lied-under-oath-about-funding-from-ally-report/

* Again? ""Nothing is off the table": Jim Jordan says he'll give a "hard look" at launching new Hillary probe:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/22/nothing-is-off-the-table-jim-jordan-says-hell-give-a-hard-look-at-launching-new-hillary-probe/

* "House passes measure to block Biden's student debt relief program:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-measure-block-bidens-student-debt-relief-program-rcna85974

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

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

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

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

* "Harris County must remove its elections chief under new legislation headed to Gov. Greg Abbott:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/23/texas-legislature-harris-county-elections/

This is the end of Democracy. They have given themselves the power to overturn any election not in their favor in the most populous county in the state because it's majority minority. If votes don't count, then all the people living there have been permanently disenfranchised, since there is no mechanism to undo this outside of a court system republicans have also fixed.

This is the fascist agenda at work.

* "Ohio Republicans try to change state rules to keep abortion off ballots:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ohio-republicans-try-to-change-state-rules-to-keep-abortion-off-ballots-176197701972

* "Let's talk about how there are no red states....:"

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* The Republican war on children continues. "Kentucky Republican Candidate: ‘Will Not Have Transgenders in School’ if Elected:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kentucky-kelly-craft-transgenders

* "2024 Republican candidates: Who’s running and how bad would they be for LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/2024-republican-candidates-lgbtq/

* "Republican Nikki Haley rants about trans women and Dylan Mulvaney on 2024 campaign trail:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/nikki-haley-2024-election-dylan-mulvaney/

* "9 Ways Vivek Ramaswamy Can Beat Donald Trump, According to Andrew Yang:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/17/vivek-ramaswamy-how-you-win-00097211

* "Twitter glitches plague Ron DeSantis’ much-hyped presidential announcement with Elon Musk:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/twitter-glitches-plague-desantis-presidential-announcement.html

* "First day of DeSantis campaign not likely as threatening to Trump as he hoped:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/first-day-of-desantis-campaign-not-likely-as-threatening-to-trump-as-he-hoped-176656965515

* "‘Blood in the water for DeSantis’: Trump world embraces Tim Scott’s candidacy :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/22/trump-tim-scott-2024-00098292

* "DeSantis needs a new Republican lane. Elon Musk might be paving it. :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/desantis-musk-thiel-sacks-tech-00098555

* " DeSantis sees a path to the White House — 280 characters at a time:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/ron-desantis-to-launch-his-presidential-campaign-on-twitter-with-elon-musk-00098412

* "Scarred DeSantis staffers form a support group:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/552308-former-desantis-staffers-form-support-group/

* "DeSantis' cringeworthy strain for 'likeability' is contradicted by hostile policies:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-cringeworthy-strain-for-likeability-is-contradicted-by-hostile-policies-176248901845

* "Ron DeSantis’ presidential bid: Sad attempt to ‘export extremist, anti-LGBTQ+ agenda to the nation’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/ron-desantis-presidential-campaign-bid-florida-lgbtq-activists/

* "DeSantis faith in Musk for campaign launch results in humiliation; Trump gleeful:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-faith-in-musk-for-campaign-launch-results-in-humiliation-trump-gleeful-176650821634

* "Asked about pardoning Trump as president, DeSantis says he would be 'aggressive':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/asked-pardoning-trump-president-desantis-aggressive/story?id=99609762

* "DeSantis attempts to redefine Trump to make room for himself on GOP's right wing:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-attempts-to-redefine-trump-to-make-room-for-himself-on-gop-s-right-wing-177058885852

* "Republican senator says gender-neutral bathrooms will lead to violence from ‘dads like me’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/illinois-neil-anderson-gender-neutral-toilets/

* "Texas House committee issues 20 articles of impeachment against Attorney General Ken Paxton:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/25/ken-paxton-impeachment-investigation/

* "House panel investigating AG Ken Paxton’s office; Paxton calls on Speaker Dade Phelan to resign:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/23/dade-phelan-ken-paxton-resign-intoxication/

* "‘Literal dumpster fire’: Infighting erupts among Texas Republican leaders:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-literal-dumpster-fire-infighting-erupts-among-texas-republican-leaders-177032773957

* "Florida State Guard could triple in size, gain military police-like arm:" https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/04/25/florida-state-guard-could-triple-in-size-gain-military-police-like-arm/

* "Unlicensed religious chaplains may counsel students in Texas’ public schools after lawmakers OK proposal:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/24/texas-legislature-chaplains-schools/

Republicans rammed it through because replacing licensed, trained counselors who've had background checks with untrained, unlicensed proselytizers is an emergency somehow, unlike mass shootings.

"Earlier this month, House Democrats also offered amendments to bar proselytizing or attempts to convert students from one religion to another; to require chaplains to receive consent from the parents of school children; and to make schools provide chaplains from any faith or denomination requested by students. All of those amendments failed."

"Worse, opponents say, the bill could deepen the state’s youth mental health crisis by providing students with unproven, lightly supervised and nonscientific counseling that treats common childhood problems, such as anxiety, as “sins” or issues that can merely be prayed away."

* "Texas Senate passes revamped school funding bill in last-minute bid to implement voucher program:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/22/texas-senate-school-voucher/

* "As legislative session ends, Texas ignores gun violence crisis for culture war issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-legislative-session-ends-texas-ignores-gun-violence-crisis-for-culture-war-issues-176245829951

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* "E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict remarks to defamation case, seeks at least $10M:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-trial-carroll-536e9f38e84f42d53b0216293b848e08

* "Carroll moves to teach Trump lesson he failed to learn from loss in court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/carroll-moves-to-teach-trump-lesson-he-failed-to-learn-from-loss-in-court-175833157524

* "Donald Trump criminal trial is set for March 2024; judge informs Trump what he can’t say about hush money case:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/23/politics/donald-trump-protective-order-hearing/

* "Prosecutors Sought Records on Trump’s Foreign Business Deals Since 2017:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/us/politics/trump-records-foreign-deals.html

* "DOJ's reported interest in Trump foreign business deals reframes scope of Mar-a-Lago probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-s-reported-interest-in-trump-foreign-business-deals-reframes-scope-of-mar-a-lago-probe-175837765937

* "“Shocked at the stupidity”: Prosecutors obtain lawyer notes that blow up Trump’s Mar-a-Lago defense:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/22/shocked-at-the-stupidity-prosecutors-obtain-lawyer-notes-that-blow-up-trumps-mar-a-lago-defense/

* "Trump employees moved boxes at Mar-a-Lago a day before visit from feds:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mar-a-lago-boxes-moved-trump-employees/

* "New reporting on documents moved at Mar-a-Lago suggests shape of case against Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-reporting-on-documents-moved-at-mar-a-lago-suggests-shape-of-case-against-trump-177068101886

* "Trump attorneys ask to meet with Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland on investigation:" https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/trump-attorneys-ask-to-meet-with-atty-gen-merrick-garland-on-investigation/

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* "Officers describe chaos, fear on Jan. 6 as judge weighs prison time for Oath Keepers’ Rhodes:" https://apnews.com/article/oath-keepers-sentencing-jan-6-stewart-rhodes-a33d6432875bd97fda41a60b4bb967f9

* "Oath Keepers to receive first seditious conspiracy sentences over Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/oath-keepers-to-receive-first-seditious-conspiracy-sentences-over-jan-6-176611397965

* "Man with Nazi flag who crashed U-Haul near White House praised Hitler:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/driver-white-house-crash-kill-biden-seize-power-nazis-rcna85905

* "Let's talk about what happened in DC....:"

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* "Pittsburgh confronts antisemitism as Tree of Life shooting trial nears :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/20/tree-of-life-shooting-trial-pittsburgh/

* "The U.S. Left Them Behind. They Crossed a Jungle to Get Here Anyway.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/world/americas/darien-gap-afghan-migration.html

* "Florida judge blocks quick migrant release policy, raising concerns about overcrowding:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-judge-blocks-quick-migrant-release-policy-overcrowding-concerns-title-42-expiring/

* CW: Child Abuse, Child Death. "Child who died in Border Patrol custody ‘begged’ for medical help, her mother says:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/child-who-died-in-border-patrol-custody-begged-for-medical-help-her-mother-says

* CW: Child Abuse, Child Death. "Honduran teen dies in US immigration custody: ‘He wanted to live the American Dream’:" https://www.wbtv.com/2023/05/14/honduran-teen-dies-us-immigration-custody-he-wanted-live-american-dream/

* "Fox News runs with fake story about migrants displacing homeless veterans:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-runs-with-fake-story-about-migrants-displacing-homeless-veterans-175800901614

* "FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/19/fbi-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protesters-00097924

* "Every state offers victim compensation. For the Longs and other Black families, it often isn't fair:" https://apnews.com/article/crime-victims-compensation-racial-bias-58908169e0ee05d4389c57f975eae49b

* "Investigation continues in death of Rasheem Carter:" https://magnoliatribune.com/2023/05/24/investigation-continues-in-death-of-rasheem-carter/

* "Civil rights groups warn tourists about traveling to Florida:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177455149/civil-rights-groups-warn-tourists-about-traveling-to-florida

* "Hamburger Mary’s sues Ron DeSantis over Florida drag ban: ‘When does it stop?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/ron-desantis-hamburger-marys-florida/

* "Florida school limits access to Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem after parental complaint :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/florida-school-inaugural-poem-ban-00098492

* This contains the full text of the banned poem if you scroll down: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html

* "Florida school bans Amanda Gorman poem over one parent’s CRT fears:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-school-bans-amanda-gorman-poem-over-one-parent-s-crt-fears-176202309953

* "Florida Mom Behind Amanda Gorman Book Ban Has Proud Boy Links:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-mom-behind-amanda-gorman-book-ban-has-proud-boy-links

* "Amanda Gorman’s Books Sky Rocket in Sales Despite Florida Book Ban :" https://variety.com/2023/politics/news/amanda-gorman-poem-banned-florida-1235623558/

* "PEN America v. Escambia County School District:" https://pen.org/pen-america-v-escambia-county/

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* Planned Parenthood is being sued for a massive amount of money because they followed a court order. "Trump’s worst judge will hear a $1.8 billion attack on Planned Parenthood:" https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/24/23725897/abortion-planned-parenthood-matthew-kacsmaryk-supreme-court-medical-progress-medicaid

* "Judge from abortion pill case to hear $1.8B suit against Planned Parenthood:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-from-abortion-pill-case-to-hear-1-8b-suit-against-planned-parenthood-177037381937

* "South Carolina 6-week abortion ban signed into law, providers file lawsuit:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/south-carolina-6-week-abortion-ban-heads-governors/story?id=99565825

* "How South Carolina Ended Up With an All-Male Supreme Court :" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-south-carolina-ended-up-with-all-male-supreme-court

* "More women sue Texas saying the state's anti-abortion laws harmed them:" https://www.wesa.fm/2023-05-22/more-women-sue-texas-saying-the-states-anti-abortion-laws-harmed-them

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* "Romania breaching LGBTQ+ couples’ human rights, European court rules:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/romania-same-sex-couples-echr/

* "South Korea: Human rights boss makes crude, homophobic ‘anal rupture’ claim in draft ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/lgbtq-south-korea-human-rights-commissioner-homophobic-remark/

* Bet his mom is proud of him for being such a big strong man that he can beat up elderly ladies dementia for pleasure. "Woman with dementia, 86, beat up by thug and put in wheelie bin because he thought she was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/woman-86-beaten-wheelie-bin-trans/

* "Tory MP Nick Fletcher wants pronouns taken out of all schools: ‘We’re confusing people’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/tory-mp-nick-fletcher-pronouns-schools-joshua-sutcliffe/

* "EHRC chair Kishwer Falkner under investigation ‘over bullying, transphobia and harassment claims’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/ehrc-chair-kishwer-falkner-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grassroots trans group uncovering EHRC ‘attacks’ and the UK’s well-connected anti-trans movement:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/trans-safety-network-ehrc-un-abuse-hate/

* "Christian teacher banned after misgendering student on This Morning and posting Islamophobic videos:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/joshua-sutcliffe-teacher-banned-misgendering-this-morning/

* "Florida Agencies Manipulated Research To Ban Trans Care And Coverage:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-agencies-manipulated-research?fbclid=IwAR0aJIga-j58jQkP7N9kBOIGXPcpjf878Or2h_fgeaI9E5vIDHJ0mxHoHxk

* "Florida parents sue to block enforcement of state’s gender-affirming care restrictions :" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4010677-florida-parents-sue-to-block-enforcement-of-states-gender-affirming-care-restrictions/

* "How it's going as a trans person in Florida:" https://www.tumblr.com/bibliomancer7/718065561652871168?source=share

* "The next target of the right’s campaign against woke companies: Fox News?:" https://www.vox.com/2023/5/22/23732777/fox-news-trans-bud-light-employee-handbook

* "Target to pull some LGBTQ items after ‘threats’ to employees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/target-lgbtq-clothing-backlash-00098529

* "Target Pride artist responds after stores pull collection: ‘They haven’t contacted me once’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/target-pride-collection-erik/

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* "Ending Guardianship: How State Governments Take Away Our Right to Make Choices and How We Can Stop It:" https://autisticadvocacy.org/actioncenter/issues/choices/guardianship/#how-guardianship-works

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* "Extreme weather has killed 2 million people over past half century, U.N. says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/extreme-weather-killed-2-million-people-half-century-un-says-rcna85537

* "One in Three People Will Live in Dangerously Hot Areas by 2080:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-22/one-in-three-people-will-live-in-dangerously-hot-areas-by-2080?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj&leadSource=uverify%20wall

* "How global warming and a wet winter may impact the U.S. wildfire season:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfire-season-2023-predictions-climate-change-snow-rcna85129

* "Flood watch issued for parts of B.C. already dealing with wildfires:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/flood-watch-heavy-rain-peace-fort-nelson-1.6851171

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* "Colorado River states announce breakthrough water sharing deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/22/1177511800/colorado-river-states-announce-breakthrough-water-sharing-deal

* "On this day in 1892:" https://mississippitoday.org/2023/05/21/on-this-day-in-1892-ida-b-wells-column-exposes-lynchings/

* "'Queen of rock 'n' roll' Tina Turner dies at 83:" https://www.reuters.com/world/singer-tina-turner-dies-aged-83-2023-05-24/

* "Tina Turner was a fearless LGBTQ+ ally – long before it was popular to be one:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/tina-turner-lgbtq-ally-legacy/

* "The Breaking of “Narrative Promises” Through the Lens of Supernatural, Marvel, & More:" https://www.themarysue.com/the-breaking-of-narrative-promises-through-the-lens-of-supernatural-marvel-more/

* "Hurt - Nine Inch Nails (Bardcore | Medieval Style Cover) Hildegard von Blingin':"

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* "Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It:"

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* "Sam Smith, Kim Petras - Unholy:"

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* Spoke to the Allergist today. They are plateauing me for the summer and are guaranteeing me treatment until September. This is good, as my lungs haven't been doing this well in Spring for years. I think it's peeling the trees and weeds away. Grasses remain a major problem. As I'm on Medicare, she's advocating for my transfer to a clinic by the hospital that will take it if they aren't full and my chances are good given the extreme severity of the grass allergy and my general improvement in other areas. They are full to bulging with patients already, especially with the influx from the closing clinic, but digits cruciform, yes?

This does not diminish my horror and distress for all the Medicaid patients and the people who are about to lose their jobs, but I for real was dreading the slow slide into allergy based ER visits that is near future if we stop treatment.

So I'm on maintenance for the Summer while we wait it all out.

* Thanks to a kind donation, the bills wil be up to date by early next week. Thank you all again for your help.

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Some Interesting Poison Ivy Thoughts: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/718353871863414784/im-glad-i-could-share-i-originally-got-into?source=share

* "Chess tournament put on hold briefly as White's bishops are having a schism:" https://www.tumblr.com/knowlesian/718061108513177600?source=share

* "The Story is Wrong:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/717870485894037504/charminglyantiquated-a-short-comic-about-the?source=share

* "We don’t appreciate the fact that Bruce Wayne is a Kardasian level celebrity enough:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/717956049256300544/we-dont-appreciate-the-fact-that-bruce-wayne-is-a?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Hungry Trees:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/718136484989894656/midnight-pals-hungry-trees?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Faust Love:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/718228107372445696/midnight-pals-faust-love?source=share

* "The Significance of Lucy’s Letters to Mina:" https://www.tumblr.com/fridge-full-of-feels/718337149559259137/i-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-significance-of?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* A resistance website for organizing and publicizing anti-censorship pro-education etc. rallies/protests/walkouts. "Walkout2learn:" https://www.walkout2learn.org/

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

* A very old friend and all around stand up guy wrote this. "Safest Family on the Block: 101 Tips, Tricks, Habits, and Hacks to Protect Your Family at Home, at School, and in the World:" https://www.amazon.com/Safest-Family-Block-Tricks-Protect-ebook/dp/B0C4JZ1QRX

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* "Sudan conflict could prompt 800,000 people to flee, UN says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-conflict-shows-no-sign-easing-sudanese-brace-more-violence-2023-05-01/

* "Sudan's warring generals extend theoretical truce but keep fighting:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudan-conflict-drives-100000-over-border-amid-crumbling-ceasefires-2023-05-02/

* "May Day: World’s workers rally, France sees pension anger:" https://apnews.com/article/may-day-celebrations-labor-conditions-wages-046a06a418c3d180eaf39ff9c9e97d18

* "May Day protest erupts in Paris as France seethes about a hike in the retirement age:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/europe/france-pension-protests-explainer-intl/index.html

* "18th weekend of rallies as protesters demand overhaul negotiations not drag on:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/18th-weekend-of-rallies-as-protesters-demand-overhaul-negotiations-not-drag-on/

* "Eamon Ryan: Free public transport would 'increase level of unnecessary trips':" https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41086711.html

"However, Ms Smith said that this perspective “fundamentally misunderstands the purpose and aim of free public transport”.

“It will take people from cars, but often the main initial change in terms of percentages can be these so-called ‘unnecessary’ journeys; but this is actually another of Fare Free public transport’s great benefits,” she said.""

* "UK government told to give LGBTQ+ Ugandans safe asylum as anti-gay bill looms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/uk-uganda-asylum-anti-gay-bill-lgbtq/

* "The Caribbean is shaking off the monarchy – and 'imported' Christian homophobia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/lgbtq-caribbean-colonialism-coronation/

* "Why LGBTQ+ Uganda won't be celebrating King Charles' coronation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/king-charles-coronation-uganda-lgbtq/

* "British colonialism still hurting LGBTQ+ Indians: 'King Charles should speak out':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/india-british-colonisation-lgbtq/

* "The Crown Apparently Costs Canada Over $58 Million Each Year & Here’s How It Breaks Down:" https://www.narcity.com/the-crown-costs-canadians-over-58-million-each-year-heres-how-it-breaks-down

* "King's coronation: Time for royals to face up to Britain's anti-LGBTQ+ colonial legacy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/king-charles-coronation-britain-colonisation/

* They have no bread? Let them eat cake. "King Charles’ coronation to flaunt the royal bounty despite cost-of-living crisis:" https://globalnews.ca/news/9668553/king-charles-coronation-expensive-cost-of-living-crisis/

* "Council snubs food banks…then spends £50k on coronation:" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/coronation-38m-costs-local-councils-barking-bromley-ealing/

* "Head of anti-monarchy group arrested for peaceful coronation protest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/king-charles-coronation-anti-monarch-protest-arrest/

* "Peter Tatchell blasts police for ‘outrageous’ coronation arrests: 'They broke their promise':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/king-charles-coronation-protests-peter-tatchell-metropolitan-police/

* "How Princess Diana fans are spending coronation day:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/princess-diana-coronation/

* "Massive Penis Is Mowed Into Lawn At King Charles Coronation Party Venue:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/penis-lawn-royal-crescent-king-charles-coronation_n_6454cd39e4b007e3d7d7f837

* "UK local elections: Conservatives battered as Labour surges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/uk-local-elections-conservatives-labour-id/bd80f828-eb1b-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html

* "Tory ‘war on woke’ fails as early local election results suggest huge defeats:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/local-elections-conservatives-labour-lib-dems-lgbtq-trans/

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* "'Waves of volunteers' lend resourcefulness to Ukraine military:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-waves-of-volunteers-lend-resourcefulness-to-ukraine-military-172634181640

* "Ukraine's LGBTQ+ Soldiers Are Fighting For More Than Their Homes:" https://advocatechannel.com/ukraine-lgbtq-soldiers-fighting-for-more-than-their-homes

* "How the war in Ukraine has forever changed the children in one kindergarten class:" https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1161970852/ukraine-russia-war-kindergarten-students-schools

* The Russian Genocide on Ukrainians continues. "The Russian Woman Accused of 'Stealing' Ukrainian Children:"

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* "Will Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Ever Go to Trial?:"

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* This is so dangerous. "Supreme Court to decide important case on government power:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-chevron-government-regulations-9acb83915166d3bc7439dd4ae74af8a9

* "Clarence Thomas’ Friend Acknowledges That Billionaire Harlan Crow Paid Tuition for the Child Thomas Was Raising “as a Son”:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-tuition-martin-school

* "Chief Justice John Roberts’ Wife Made Over $10 Million As Legal Consultant, Report Says:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/04/28/chief-justice-john-roberts-wife-made-over-10-million-as-legal-consultant-report-says/?sh=4e2edb351e9a

* "Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

* "Whistleblower: Wife of Chief Justice Roberts made $10.3 million from top law firms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/whistleblower-wife-of-chief-justice-roberts-made-10-3-million-from-top-law-firms-172159557726

* "‘Serious Omissions’ In Senate Probe Clearing Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault, Report Says:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/04/28/serious-omissions-in-senate-probe-clearing-brett-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assault-report-says/?sh=7a41a1ae7c80

* "The brazen explanation for concealing the Ginni Thomas payment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/clarence-thomas-ginni-leonard-leo/

* "Report: Judicial activist paid Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-judicial-activist-paid-clarence-thomas-s-wife-urged-no-mention-of-ginni-172833861650

* "New reports broaden picture of questionable gifts, income to Clarence and Ginni Thomas:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/new-reports-broaden-picture-of-questionable-gifts-income-to-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-172849221785

* "'This is really a five alarm fire': Supreme Court in crisis after spate of scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-this-is-really-a-five-alarm-fire-supreme-court-in-crisis-after-spate-of-scandals-172855877975

* "Supreme Court ethics crisis prompts calls for new accountability measures:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/supreme-court-ethics-crisis-prompts-calls-for-new-accountability-measures-173113925583

* "Republicans were not always indifferent to Supreme Court ethics scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-were-not-always-indifferent-to-supreme-court-ethics-scandals-173114437730

* "‘Captured court’: Hayes on Leonard Leo's two-fold plan to form this Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-captured-court-hayes-on-leonard-leo-s-two-fold-plan-to-form-this-supreme-court-173061701800

* "Astonishing Corruption at The Supreme Court?:"

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* More banks will fail. More people will lose their jobs and it won't address the problem of price gouging. "Fed is set to raise rates yet again. After that, then what?:" https://apnews.com/article/interest-rates-inflation-prices-recession-federal-reserve-bb8f86329961acd30ccabb1136bbb9e3

* "Job openings fell more than expected in March to lowest level in nearly two years:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/jolts-march-2023-.html

* "Regulators seize First Republic Bank, sell assets to JPMorgan:" https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/california-financial-regulator-takes-possession-first-republic-bank-2023-05-01/

* "Biden seeks debt ceiling talks, as U.S. faces possible June 1 default:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/01/congress-debt-limit-deadline-biden-mccarthy/

* "House Democrats maneuver to force a debt-ceiling vote as default looms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/02/house-democrats-discharge-petition-debt-ceiling/

* "As debt ceiling deadline looms, House Dems explore new option:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/as-debt-ceiling-deadline-looms-house-dems-explore-new-option-173185605545

* "Deputy Treasury Sec. Adeyemo "Default would be catastrophic for the United States":" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/deputy-treasury-sec-adeyemo-default-would-be-catastrophic-for-the-united-states-173297221786

* "McCarthy's Dangerous Debt Ceiling Game:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/mccarthy-s-dangerous-debt-ceiling-game-173297733846

* ""Hunger cliff" looms as 32 states are set to cut food-stamp benefits:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/

* "520,000 Washington households will be impacted as extra SNAP benefits expire:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-state-snap-benefits-shrink/281-2f3804be-684f-4ccf-bb34-e57d935bace6

* "Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern

* "Investigation finds 10-year-old children working unpaid at Louisville McDonald's:" https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/investigation-finds-10-year-old-children-working-unpaid-at-louisville-mcdonalds/article_65180cb8-e95d-11ed-beab-ef0317b2e48b.html

* "Open Letter to Walt Disney Animation Studios/Disney Leadership:" https://iatse.net/online-action/disney-production/

* It is in everyone's best interests for the writer's to win this one. "‘It’s just pure chaos’: Top Hollywood showrunners explain the writers' strike:" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-05-02/television-showrunners-writers-strike

* "What the writers strike is all about:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-the-writers-strike-is-all-about-172397125771

* "A perspective on the WGA strike from gig work transcription: Don’t trust any business dipshit who says their workers are ‘lightly editing’ AI output.:" https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/716425344509526016/a-perspective-on-the-wga-strike-from-gig-work

* "Wizards Of The Coast Raids YouTuber’s House To Take Back Magic: The Gathering Cards:" https://kotaku.com/mtg-aftermath-leaks-pinkertons-wotc-magic-the-gathering-1850368923

* "GOP senators call on Supreme Court to 'update' ethics oversight:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/02/senate-dems-excoriate-supreme-court-ethics-as-chief-justice-snubs-hearing-00094851

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

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

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

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

* This is the end of democracy in Texas. "Texas Senate passes bill to allow secretary of state to overturn Harris County elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/texas-senate-passes-bill-allowing-secretary-state-overturn-elections-h-rcna82631

* "A Texas Republican says banning college polling places is about safety. Students don’t buy it.:" https://www.kut.org/education/2023-03-01/a-texas-republican-says-banning-college-polling-places-is-about-safety-students-dont-buy-it

* The Republican War on Freedom and Democracy continues. "Ohio lawmakers debate increasing voting threshold to 60% to pass statewide ballot initiatives:" https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/ohio-lawmakers-debate-increasing-voting-threshold-to-60-to-pass-statewide-ballot-initiatives/512-9927e692-6fad-42f3-96e9-531791d59eb5

* "Holder: NC Supreme Court acting not on principle nor precedent—but on personnel:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/eric-holder-on-the-blatant-republican-power-grabs-across-several-statehouses-172603461799

* This is the end of the rule of law in Georgia as they can now fire anyone investigating or prosecuting Republicans. "Georgia enacts law letting panel punish, oust prosecutors:" https://apnews.com/article/brian-kemp-georgia-prosecutor-district-attorney-remove-7987cd538ab3ccdc713ae4d2b2aec32b

* "How Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys state police to enforce political agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/desantis-fdle-police-immigration-migrant-flights/

* CW: Suicide "Montana GOP Lawmaker Suggested She'd Prefer Her Daughter Die By Suicide Than Transition:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/montana-seekins-crowe-daughter-suicide

* "Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues over her removal from House floor:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/1173079450/montana-rep-zooey-zephyr-sues-over-her-removal-from-house-floor

* "Hundreds rally for Zooey Zephyr after 'hateful' silencing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/zooey-zephyr-montana-rally-ban/

* "Brave trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr has best response to being intimidated:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/zooey-zephyr-intimidation-montana-state-house/

* "Montana Trans Rep. Zooey Zephyr Target of SWATting Attempt Hours After Girlfriend Was:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/zooey-zephyr

* "Controversial text reveals nature of Tucker Carlson's white supremacy on Fox:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/controversial-text-reveals-nature-of-tucker-carlson-s-white-supremacy-on-fox-172635717832

* "Newly revealed text confirms Tucker Carlson is also privately racist:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/newly-revealed-text-confirms-tucker-carlson-is-also-privately-racist-172595781998

* "Fear Of Right-Wing Outrage Makes Us All Worse Off:" https://www.readtpa.com/p/fear-of-right-wing-outrage-makes

* "WA Gov. Jay Inslee won’t seek reelection:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gov-jay-inslee-wont-seek-reelection-for-fourth-term/

* Do not sleep on Primaries. "Republican voters return to the polls for the first time since their 2022 disappointment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/06/republican-voters-kentucky-governor-election-00095657

* "Hate crimes set to spike during 2024 presidential race, worrying new study shows:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/hate-crimes-presidential-election-2024-warning/

* "Trump town hall: How the media covers a seditious presidential candidate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-town-hall-how-the-media-covers-a-seditious-presidential-candidate-172599877722

* Who else remembers when both thin skin and torture were disqualifying? "Ron DeSantis Explodes When Asked About His Role in Guantánamo Torture:" https://newrepublic.com/post/172290/ron-desantis-explodes-asked-role-guantanamo-torture

* "DeSantis Declines to Say If He Supports 'Mainstream Human Rights' When Reporter Asks 'Yes or No?':" https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/05/watch-desantis-declines-to-say-if-he-supports-mainstream-human-rights-when-reporter-asks-yes-or-no/

* Remember how Trump was terrified of debating Biden more than once? Apparently he's too scared for primary debates against other Republicans. At least according to people "familiar with his thinking." are we still convinced he thinks? Because I'm not.

* "For Trump, GOP primary debates a question of risk versus reward:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/for-trump-gop-primary-debates-a-question-of-risk-versus-reward-172630597803

* "Nancy Pelosi Has a Lot to Say About Drag, San Francisco, and the GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-drag-sanfrancisco-gop

* "Republican senator attacks Mormon university professor for having a trans child:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/mike-lee-byu-professor-trans-child-mormon/

* Want to bet the plan is to start executing trans people for existing in public? "DeSantis expands Florida death penalty law, defying U.S. Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/01/desantis-death-penalty-child-rapists/

* This is a long read, but an important one. "The first arrests from DeSantis’s election police take extensive toll:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/30/desantis-election-police-arrests-florida/

* "Florida board picked by Ron DeSantis countersues Disney as queer people suffer:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/florida-board-countersues-disney-ron-desantis-feud/

* "DeSantis signs bill allowing Florida board to cancel Disney deals:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/desantis-signs-bill-allowing-florida-board-cancel-disney-deals-2023-05-05/

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* "Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against New York Times:" https://www.axios.com/2023/05/03/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit-dismissed

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll concludes testimony as judge denies Trump’s mistrial request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/trump-rape-trial-carroll-concludes-testimony-00094775

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll returns to witness stand as judge denies Trump mistrial bid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/e-jean-carroll-returns-to-witness-stand-as-judge-denies-trump-mistrial-bid-172158533905

* CW: Rape. "E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump rest their cases in civil rape trial, but Trump could still testify:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump/index.html

* "Trump lawyers will not offer witnesses at E. Jean Carroll rape defamation trial:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/03/trump-no-witnesses-e-jean-carroll-rape-trial.html

* CW: Rape. "Friend testifies E. Jean Carroll called minutes after alleged Trump assault:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/friend-testifies-e-jean-carroll-called-minutes-after-alleged-trump-assault-172369989583

* CW: Rape. "How Trump's pattern of behavior strengthens E. Jean Carroll's case against him:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-trump-s-pattern-of-behavior-strengthens-e-jean-carroll-s-case-against-him-172399173764

* CW: Rape. "Opinion | E. Jean Carroll Must Be Going Through Hell:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/opinion/carroll-trump-trial.html

* CW: Rape. "Video of Trump confusing E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples shown during lawsuit trial:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-of-trump-confusing-e-jean-carroll-ex-wife-marla-maples-lawsuit-trial/

* CW: Rape. "Trump unleashes unhinged tirade attacking his rape accuser:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-e-jean-carroll-rape-trial-response-rcna82923

* CW: Rape. "Trump defends Access Hollywood tape: Stars have 'historically' grabbed women:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-defends-access-hollywood-tape-stars-have-historically-grabbed-women-173063237972

* "Eight false Trump electors have accepted immunity deals, lawyer says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/05/trump-false-electors-immunity-00095664

* "At least 8 Georgia fake electors get immunity deals; transcript mentions 'the indictment':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/at-least-8-georgia-fake-electors-get-immunity-deals-transcript-mentions-the-indictment-173087814001

* "Justice Dept. Intensifying Efforts to Determine if Trump Hid Documents:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/trump-documents-subpoenas-justice-department.html

* "Special counsel probing Trump Organization's handling of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/maralago-footage-trump-special-counsel-calamari/

* "DOJ has cooperating witness in Trump documents case; issues 'wave of new subpoenas':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/doj-has-cooperating-witness-in-trump-documents-case-issues-wave-of-new-subpoenas-nyt-172848709592

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* "Media missed how Proud Boys worked with FBI to bring down left-wing operations: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-fbi-2659974980/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Proud Boys Leader and Associates Convicted of Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/proud-boys-guilty-seditious-conspiracy

* "Florida man charged with throwing explosive at Capitol riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/florida-man-charged-explosion-capitol-riot/index.html

* "Ilhan Omar speaks out after learning suspected mosque arsonist also targeted her:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ilhan-omar-speaks-out-after-learning-suspected-mosque-arsonist-also-targeted-her-172376133751

* "The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413

* "Map of gun deaths shows cities have lower rates than rural counties in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/map-gun-death-rates-lower-cities-than-rural-counties-rcna81462

* "The Texas man accused of killing 5 neighbors is in custody, authorities say:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173593060/texas-shooting-neighbors-in-custody-cleveland

* "Cleveland victims deserve more than Abbott's 'illegal immigrant' label:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/abbott-cleveland-mass-shooting-immigration-18000219.php

* "Ayman on Gov. Abbott’s ‘indifference’ towards gun violence—and victims of color:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ayman-on-gov-abbott-s-indifference-towards-gun-violence-and-victims-of-color-172157509792

* CW: Domestic Violence. Yet another extremely violence domestic abuser allowed to run around accumulating guns until he kills people. "Man believed to be suspect in Texas mass shooting apprehended after manhunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/man-believed-to-be-suspect-in-texas-mass-shooting-apprehended-after-manhunt-172371013853

* "Greg Abbott demonized the victims of the Texas shooting. It says a lot about why the GOP loves guns:" https://www.salon.com/2023/05/02/greg-abbott-demonized-the-victims-of-the-texas-illegal/

* CW: Domestic Violence "Suspect in massacre of 5 neighbors allegedly beat his wife in 2022:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-massacre-5-neighbors-texas-allegedly-beat-wife-2022-prosecutor-rcna82550

* "Texas mall massacre gunman identified as witnesses describe horror of the shooting spree that killed 8 people:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/07/us/allen-texas-mall-shooting-sunday/index.html

* ""America deserves better." Fred Guttenberg reacts to the outlet mall shooting in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-america-deserves-better-fred-guttenberg-reacts-to-the-outlet-mall-shooting-in-texas-173297221704

* "Suspect in custody in shooting at Atlanta medical facility that left 1 dead, 4 injured:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-large-active-shooter-situation-atlanta-leaves-multiple-injured-rcna82692

* "'Unacceptable': Top Dem rips Biden plan to send 1,500 more troops to southern border:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/02/1500-more-troops-southern-border-00094850

* "Extended video shows Daniel Penny appearing to ignore a person who warned 'you're going to kill him' while he had Jordan Neely in a chokehold:" https://www.insider.com/video-bystander-says-daniel-penny-going-to-kill-jordan-neely-2023-5

* "First Amendment Auditors: Knights or Nuisance:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hHPcgFchA

* "This Man’s Conviction Was Overturned After Two Years in Prison. But the City Said He Didn’t Deserve a Dime.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-wrongful-conviction-lawsuit-law-department

* "Short on Staff, Prisons Enlist Teachers and Case Managers as Guards:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/us/politics/prison-guards-teachers-staff.html

* "John Legend talks new documentary 'Home/Free':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/exclusive-john-legend-talks-new-documentary-home-free-173185093910

* "Missouri Senate begins debate on special prosecutor, state takeover of St. Louis police:" https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-senate-begins-debate-on-special-prosecutor-state-takeover-of-st-louis-police/article_9b760750-e904-11ed-93ad-af34a74d1810.html

* "Embattled St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner will resign June 1:" https://missouriindependent.com/2023/05/04/embattled-st-louis-prosecutor-kim-gardner-will-resign-june-1/

* "Transphobic, Anti-Semitic Flyers Found in Atlanta Neighborhood:" https://www.advocate.com/news/atlanta-transphobic-antisemitic-flyers

* "Feds: Man tried to firebomb Ohio church to stop drag show:" https://www.wsaz.com/2023/04/25/feds-man-tried-firebomb-ohio-church-stop-drag-show/

* "Nazis protest at Land-Grant drag brunch: Here's what you need to know now:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2023/05/01/heres-what-we-know-about-the-nazis-protesting-a-columbus-drag-brunch/70169948007/

* "Montana Sends Drag Ban and LGBTQ+ Erasure Bill to Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/montana-drag-show-ban-erasure

* "Video: Testimony on Ohio trans bill accuses Muslim, Jewish opponents of being possessed:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/26/video-demons-ohio-pastor-stuart-long-trans-bill-beth-liston-jesus-jews-muslims-transgender-columbus/70156732007/

Republicans Christo-fascism has reached it’s logical conclusion. This is where the Republican mainstream is now. This is an existential to all of us who aren’t Christo-fascists.

We hang together or we hang separately.

* "Anti-trans neo-Nazis in Ohio find common cause with state Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-trans-neo-nazis-in-ohio-find-common-cause-with-state-republicans-172184645799

* "LGBTQ+ book bans are 'actively harming children', authors warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/21/lgbtq-books-ban-fox-fisher-owl/

* "Illinois passes bill to end book bans: 'A triumph for our democracy':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/illinois-book-ban/

* "High School Theater Suffers Under the Culture War:" https://advocatechannel.com/high-school-theater-suffers-under-culture-war

* CW: Sexual Assault. "New Report Details Anti-LGBTQ+ Harassment Onboard California's Elite Training Ship:" https://www.advocate.com/news/csu-maritime-academy-anti-lgbtq

* "Creationist Theme Park Pal Charged with Child Sex Abuse—Again:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/friend-of-dinosaur-adventure-land-preacher-kent-hovind-charged-with-child-sex-abuseagain?ref=home

* "Why Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth in One City Engage in Survival Sex:" https://www.advocate.com/news/homeless-lgbtq-youth-hartford

* "A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/world/asia/korea-us-comfort-women-sexual-slavery.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "Worryingly high number of queer men facing abuse and violence in relationships:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/17/gay-bisexual-men-domestic-violence-study/

* "Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kbkv/pornhub-blocks-utah-age-verification

* "The Next Front in the GOP's War on Women: No-Fault Divorce:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephen-crowder-divorce-1234727777/

* "Kentucky Schools Can’t Teach Kids About Puberty Anymore:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjzbz/kentucky-law-restricts-sexual-education-schools

* The plan is to make it illegal to discuss puberty at all with children until sixth grade, well after puberty starts for many people assigned female at birth. "“Don’t Say Period”: Now Florida wants to ban students from discussing menstruation:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/don-t-say-period-now-florida-wants-to-ban-students-from-discussing-menstruation/ar-AA19IpN4

* "Blue states passing laws to protect against red state overreach:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/blue-states-passing-laws-to-protect-against-red-state-overreach-172179013630

* "Leaked Files Expose Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTQ+ Medical Group:" https://www.advocate.com/health-care/anti-lgbtq-medial-group-files

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* "North Carolina Republicans reach deal to limit most abortions after 12 weeks:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/north-carolina-abortion-12-weeks/

* "North Carolina lawmaker Tricia Cotham switches to GOP, votes to ban abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/north-carolina-lawmaker-tricia-cotham-switches-to-gop-votes-to-ban-abortion-172832837854

* "New Mexico governor signs bill to shield abortion providers:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-transgender-rights-new-mexico-195c27ab1a60a8d7c07a71f157c07384

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* "Namibians Take the Fight for LGBTQ Rights to the Supreme Court:"

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* "Uganda passes cruel anti-gay bill for second time:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-passes-second-time/

* "U.S. religious extremists help push radical anti-gay laws in Africa:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-religious-extremists-help-push-radical-anti-gay-laws-in-africa-172183109504

* "Uganda risks 'LGBTQ+ genocide' with Anti-Homosexuality Bill, activist says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-lgbtq-frank-mugisha/

* "Russia adds LGBTQ+ human rights group to controversial list:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/07/russia-lgbtq-human-rights-nc-sos-crisis-group-foreign-agents/

* "Turkey's president Erdoğan claims 'LGBT will not emerge in this country' at rally:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/president-erdogan-reelection-anti-lgbt-speech/

* "Saudi Arabia now claims to 'welcome' LGBTQ+ tourists – despite its history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/saudi-arabia-lgbtq-rights-tourism/

* "South Korean drag artist wants the world to 'call Korea out' on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/south-korea-lgbtq-drag/

* "Barbados activists pushing for LGBTQ+ rights after shedding 'cloak of imperialism':" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/barbados-lgbtq-republic/

* "'Butch' Women Bikers Unite to Defend Drag Story Hour Event:" https://www.advocate.com/canada/drag-story-wind-sisters

* "NHS algorithms failing to recognise needs of trans patients, experts warn:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/nhs-algorithms-trans-patients/

* "Met Police accused of ‘siding’ with far-right group over anti-drag protests:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/07/met-police-turning-point-uk-drag-protests-honor-oak-pub/

* They want trans children dead. "Parents 'suing government' over schools supporting their trans kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/education-bad-law-project-dr-anna-loutfi-trans/

* "Posie Parker rally sees clash between right-wing protesters and LGBTQ+ activists:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/posie-parker-hyde-park-turning-point-uk-police/

* "Hungary PM tells right-wing Americans ‘no migration, no gender’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/cpac-hungary-anti-lgbtq/

* "You've Got to Stop Picturing Camps — Assigned:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/beyond-camps-prisons-hospitals-will-be-used-to-eradicate-transgender-people

* A new name for Conversion Therapy. "How Therapists Are Trying to Convince Children That They’re Not Actually Trans:" https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/gender-exploratory-therapy-trans-kids-what-is-it.html

* People will die. "Florida legislators send ‘dangerous' trans healthcare ban to Ron DeSantis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/florida-gender-affirming-healthcare-ban-trans-youth-adults-sb-254/

* If you ban trans people from using public restrooms, you are banning them from existing in public. "Florida passes chilling new bill banning trans people from toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/florida-anti-trans-toilet-bill-dont-say-gay/

* "Florida Passes Bill Allowing Trans Kids to Be Taken From Their Families:" https://newrepublic.com/post/172444/florida-passes-bill-allowing-trans-kids-taken-families

* They are mandating that teachers endanger the lives of their students. "Indiana governor signs cruel bill forcing teachers to out trans kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/indiana-governor-anti-trans-name-pronouns-bill/

* "Oklahoma Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/oklahoma-gender-affirming-care-ban

* "Texas police ‘violently arrest’ trans people protesting life-threatening bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/texas-trans-healthcare-protest-arrests/

* It’s temporary. "Missouri Judge Blocks GOP Attorney General’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/missouri-gender-care-injunction

* "Ohio Woman Targeted for Using Changing Room Found Not Guilty:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/update-ohio-woman-targeted-with-misdemeanors-for-changing-not-guilty

* I fear it won’t hold up legally. "Kansas City bids to become 'sanctuary' for trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/kansas-city-missouri-sanctuary-trans/

* "Maryland Governor Signs Bill Assuring Medicaid Coverage of Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-maryland

* "Teen arrested over fatal shooting of Kokomo City star Koko Da Doll:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/01/koko-da-doll-shooting-arrest-atlanta/

* "Suspect arrested over murder of Black trans man Mar'Quis Jackson:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/marquis-jackson-trans-murder-arrest/

* "Police searching for man accused of defecating on Pride flags:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/new-york-police-man-defecates-pride-flags/

* A police state can’t tolerate even a hint of dissent no matter how peaceful. "Student jailed after chanting ‘trans lives matter’ at peaceful protest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/arkansas-student-jailed-trans-protest/

* I am disappointed the way I was when Dave Mustaine went MAGA. sure none of these people are relevant anymore, but they should have known better. "KISS and Twisted Sister Rock Legends Go Full-on Transphobic:" https://www.advocate.com/people/paul-stanley-dee-snider-transphobic

* "British Rowing considers ban on trans women from female category:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/05/british-rowing-trans-non-binary-ban-sport/

* "Trans woman Austin Killips wins US cycle race. Transphobic outrage ensues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/02/austin-killips-cycling-us-transphobes/

* "Mental Health Crisis Among LGBTQ+ Youth Continues — But It Doesn't Have To:" https://www.advocate.com/health/lgbtq-mental-health-crisis

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* "‘Arcturus,’ a highly transmissible COVID variant eyed by the WHO, appears to have a new symptom. Here’s what you need to know:" https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/04/11/arcturus-a-highly-transmissible-covid-variant-eyed-by-the-who-appears-to-have-a-new-symptom-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

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* "For some long COVID patients, exercise is bad medicine:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/long-covid-patients-exercise-bad-medicine

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* "The Insane Standard That America Applies to Parking:" https://slate.com/business/2023/05/parking-spots-cities-paved-paradise-cars.html

* "Elon Musk threatens to reassign [community profile] npr on Twitter to 'another company':" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

* "Big Tech's big downgrade:" https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-ruining-apps-websites-internet-worse-google-facebook-amazon-2023-3

* CW: All the Things. "150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting:" https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

* "Rewilding the planet: how seven artificial islands could help a dying Dutch lake:" https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-01370-w/index.html

* "Zoonomia: Genetic research reveals all we share with animals:" https://apnews.com/article/zoonomia-project-genetics-animals-f80d1570acf5a97a8ed9e2a1104e74e9

* "New Species of Symbiotic Sea Anemone Discovered Off Coast of Japan:" https://www.sci.news/biology/stylobates-calcifer-10932.html

* "World’s oldest yarn hints that Neanderthals had basic math skills:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/neanderthals-made-the-worlds-oldest-thread/

* "Royalty, Debauchery and Executions - a Brief History of the OTHER King Charles:"

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* "The Long Forgotten Love Story of the Titanic's Interracial Couple:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/03/the-long-forgotten-love-story-of-the-titanics-interracial-couple/

* "The Helmet Art: Vintage Photographs of Graffiti on Soldiers’ Helmets During the Vietnam War:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/helmet-graffiti-vietnam-photos/

* "Game of Thrones’ Hodor witnessed gay club shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/03/game-of-thrones-kristian-nairn-belfast-gay-shooting/

* "Hawaii’s Native language nearly vanished—this is the fight to bring it back:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/hawaii-native-language-efforts-to-preserve-revive

* "The [Queer] Politics of Eurovision:"

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* My mother loved his music. His voice is one of the sounds of my childhood. "Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/133464279/gordon-lightfoot-canadian-folk-legend-dies-at-84

* "Nonbinary, Gender-Nonconforming Actors Make Tony Awards History:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/tony-awards-nonbinary-actors

* "Photos: Harvey Guillén on Bringing His Queer, Fat, POC, Self to the Met Gala:" https://www.advocate.com/people/harvey-guillen-met-gala-siriano#rebelltitem21

* "Carrie Fisher Honored With Walk-of-Fame Star on May 4th, Star Wars Day:" https://advocatechannel.com/carrie-fisher-honored-walk-of-fame-star-wars-day-may-4th

* "Newfoundland man captures phallic iceberg in Conception Bay:" https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/04/29/newfoundland-man-captures-phallic-iceberg-in-conception-bay/

* "Tucker Carlson Gets To Say Goodbye To His Viewers:"

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* "Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald :"

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* "Sit Down Young Stranger - Gordon Lightfoot:"

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* Sunday we did a bunch more cleaning and then dropped off the car at the mechanic. It was good I did, as my belief we were down to the metal on the driver's side proved correct. This cost $450.00, which is quite literally everything except housing and autowithdraws.

There is now nothing at all for gas or any of the other bills. I need at least 150.00 to cover gas and a bill that I had to put off due to the previous car repairs last month. The rest will still need paying, but is less urgent.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* In person bureaucracy errand turned out to be disorientingly in the same building as and down the hall from the people who did my root canal. There was an extra fifteen minute wait, as the lady who unlocks the doors was out sick and the lady replacing here was from another office and didn't know she was meant to do it. I flagged down someone going in the employee door and asked when they were opening. “It opens at eight. What time is it?” “8:15. It’s still locked.” It was quickly sorted and the rest was way faster than the old process with the only wait being for copying, which I did not have to do myself, so wins all around even if I did have to deal with a much longer hobble and the dangers of stairs.

The place with the good veg and starts that closed last year reopened with much shorter hours and was only two blocks out of the way on my way home, so I went and sat for fifteen minutes while I watched them open up, scoring some nice tomato plants and fresh fruit and veg for cheap. The short hours mean we will go their rarely, but I am glad they are back.

The for profit people that took over payroll for home care givers so disastrously two Januaries ago, are jerking around a big chunk of home caregivers over pay for May and June. Head Millennial has email saying very specifically they aren't, but their website says they are, which will be a hardship for them and me both.

Things will be very rough the next few months if we can't sort it. (We are both trying to sort it, and have been for several weeks, but have made plans for the worst case).

For profit is so much worse than government direct control, but no one ever asks me about these things. Sigh.

* Something I said on Tumblr that I often say in one gform or another:

Once a gift leaves my hand, it is not mine. To do anything else is not to give a gift, but an obligation.

Context doesn’t matter. Gifts are Gifts.

* The King and the Healer: https://www.tumblr.com/johannestevans/716711460986830848/thinking-about-a-king-who-is-travelling-from-his?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: The Case of the Martian Invasion:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/716505284287283200/midnight-pals-the-case-of-the-martian-invasion?source=share


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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* A resistance website for organizing and publicizing anti-censorship pro-education etc. rallies/protests/walkouts. "Walkout2learn:" https://www.walkout2learn.org/

* "Donate to The Committee to Elect Justin J. Pearson:" https://secure.actblue.com/donate/justinjpearson86?fbclid=IwAR1jXHNa6_VbtScA9wxsHH7Kun5llZGqvp6MdolMhgJ31-z1CZK3YSL9mpM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

* "You can now sponsor refugees yourself. Here’s how.:" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23569848/how-to-sponsor-refugees-welcome-corps-biden

* "LGBTQ Refugees Welcome campaign:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/lgbtq-refugees-welcome

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

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Black Phoenix Activism Fundraisers: https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/

* This is a long time friend of mine. They have secured future housing, but have spent everything in the previous fundraiser on gofundme to survive to this point and they need They need $5000 over the next couple months until their move in date.

Gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/hdykv-housing-crisis?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

You can also support them via their Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kandrinchae/shop?fbclid=IwAR0E1PRHlG45LWhBfDtVpGigD1YUk9Njm-__SviL4W7C8JZUCppFc1oG9Gs%22

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive.  Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. :

SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

They are also trying to GM for pay. They are an excellent GM. Here's where to sign up: https://startplaying.games/gm/1617744454089x564714756631343740

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Re: Netanyahu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I try very hard to do that in this space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can’t we try that just once?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

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* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

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* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

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* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

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* "Bail Reform:"

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* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

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* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

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* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

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* "DefunctTV: The History of the First Muppet Show, Sam and Friends:"

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* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

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* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

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* "Olive Garden Is The Perfect Place To Subvert Democracy:"

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* "This Is How Kari Lake's Comments Would Sound If They Were Actually Creatively Edited:"

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* "President Biden Midterms Address Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion - SNL:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

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* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

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* I only made it about midway into the 45 crime section of the rough sort and my backlog is alarming. It's Halloween week so no promises on the catch up, but I will do my best.

* "Inmates say guards fired tear gas after deadly blaze at Iranian prison:" https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/17/middleeast/iran-evin-prison-fire-survivors-guards-tear-gas-intl-hnk/index.html

* ""No going back": Gen Z at the forefront of the protests in Iran:" https://www.axios.com/2022/10/17/iran-protests-gen-z-mahsa-amini-death

* "Iranian schoolgirl ‘beaten to death for refusing to sing’ pro-regime anthem:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/18/iranian-schoolgirl-beaten-to-death-for-refusing-to-sing-pro-regime-anthem

* "Official document describes scale of abuses in Ethiopia war:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/official-document-describes-scale-of-abuses-in-ethiopia-war/2022/10/21/3f4649d8-5159-11ed-ada8-04e6e6bf8b19_story.html

* "YouTube and Facebook letting Brazil election disinformation spread, NGO says:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/brazil-election-disinformation-youtube-facebook

* "UK PM Truss Resigns: Who Could Replace Her?:" https://www.voanews.com/a/uk-pm-truss-resigns-who-could-replace-her-/6798192.html

* "Liz Truss's pitiful legacy will be one of 'silence and inaction' on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/20/liz-truss-resignation-lgbtq-reaction/

* I'm not holding my breath. "Next PM could 'unite country' by dumping Rwanda and banning conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/20/next-prime-minister-lgbtq-rights/

* "Baroness Liz Barker warns government could 'trash' anti-discrimination laws:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/20/baroness-liz-barker-government-equality-act/

* "Emily Thornberry calls for general election, warns Tories won't give up power easily:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/20/emily-thornberry-calls-for-general-election/

* "Penny Mordaunt is running for PM again and people are pointing out the obvious:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/21/penny-mordaunt-tory-leadership-race-prime-minister/

* "Tory hopefuls on LGBTQ+ rights: The bad, the ugly and the pathetic:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/21/tory-leadership-next-prime-minister-lgbtq/

* "Five simple reasons Boris Johnson shouldn't get a second chance:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/21/boris-johnson-tory-leadership-race-prime-minister-lgbtq/

* "Rishi Sunak's troubling anti-trans record proves he's unfit to be prime minister:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/22/rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-race-trans-comments/

* "Hayes: UK turmoil may forecast the fate of a GOP-led Congress—only worse:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-uk-turmoil-may-forecast-the-fate-of-a-gop-led-congress-only-worse-151190597764

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* "The COVID Data That Are Actually Useful Now:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/10/fall-winter-covid-cases-wave-data-predictions/671768/

* I stand by my aggressive attempts to not catch it. Get vaccinated. Wear your mask. "If you had COVID, several of your organs could be aging 3-4 years faster: Study:" https://abc7chicago.com/covid-long-haul-study-aging-faster-after-organs-kidney/12340213/

* "Omicron subvariants reflect a ‘viral evolution on steroids’:" https://news.yahoo.com/omicron-subvariants-reflect-viral-evolution-235030343.html

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* "U.S. confirms Iranian troops in Crimea training Russians on drones:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/john-kirby-russian-soldiers-should-not-agree-to-fight-in-ukraine-00062693

* "Zelenskyy warns Russia may attack major hydroelectric dam; Moscow orders arrest of rebellious TV reporter:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/21/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "In bloody battle for Bakhmut, Russian mercenaries eye a symbolic prize:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/22/bakhmut-russia-ukraine-wagner-war/

* "Russian-backed forces make advances towards eastern Ukrainian town, says UK:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-backed-forces-make-advances-towards-eastern-ukrainian-town-says-uk-2022-10-14/

* "Russian, Ukrainian troops gird for major battle in Kherson:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-seeks-regain-ground-hits-ukraines-power-plants-91788544

* "The Battle for Control Over Ukraine's Internet:" https://time.com/6222111/ukraine-internet-russia-reclaimed-territory/

* "Putin tightens grip on Ukraine and Russia with martial law:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-declares-martial-law-in-annexed-ukraine-regions-b48b555f547ff6a1a59b1cad17d0e269

* "‘The army has nothing’: new Russian conscripts bemoan lack of supplies:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/the-army-has-nothing-new-russian-conscripts-bemoan-lack-of-supplies

* "Russian anti-war protest journalist Marina Ovsyannikova flees to Europe:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-anti-war-protest-journalist-marina-ovsyannikova-europe/

* "Analysis: The ripples of the war Russia says isn't a war:" https://apnews.com/article/analysis-ripples-of-russian-war-in-ukraine-f07f976de967ca248f79d32739757ee9

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* "White House taking every step possible to avoid direct Biden-Putin encounter at G-20:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/biden-putin-g-20-00062446

* "China plans to seize Taiwan on ‘much faster timeline,’ Blinken says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/18/china-seize-taiwan-plan-blinken/

* "President Biden calls for ‘not intimidating anyone who is at the polls’ in exclusive interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-discusses-jan-6-committee-subpoenaing-donald-trump-and-calls-out-mega-maga-republicans-151264837820

* "'I’ll veto it': President Biden vows to protect women’s right to choose if GOP takes control of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-vows-to-protect-women-s-right-to-choose-if-gop-takes-control-of-congress-151266373724

* "Pentagon will pay for service members to travel for abortions:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/20/pentagon-will-pay-for-service-members-to-travel-for-abortions-00062782

* "Supreme Court delivers one of two legal wins for Biden's student loan forgiveness plan:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/student-loan-forgiveness-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/index.html

* "Hayes: Why the price of gas could decide the fate of American democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-price-of-gas-could-decide-the-fate-of-american-democracy-151105605608

* "What We’ve Lost Playing the Lottery:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/what-weve-lost-playing-the-lottery

* If you do not vote Democrat in November, you are voting for this. "Republicans introduce 'cruel' measure to pass Don't Say Gay law across all of US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/21/republicans-dont-say-gay-law-across-all-america/

* "The GOP push for a national anti-gay law and the attack on LGBTQ existence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-gop-push-for-a-national-anti-gay-law-and-the-attack-on-lgbtq-existence-151192133739

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* Early voting has started in a lot of places both for in person and mail in ballots. If early voting is an option where you live, I beg you to do it the first chance you get. It really helps cut down on polling place congestion in November, and if the republicans have arbitrarilily disenfranchized you, it gives you a chance to fight it.

I voted Friday.

Please vote. I'm begging you. Vote the whole ticket. Vote in every race however small. This may be the last free and fair election in your state if Republicans win. Please don't let them. Lives like mine, your basic rights, democracy, and the survival of the planet depend on it. Do not let the ideal of the perfect smother the good. If there is no democracy, we have no chance of fixing any of this.

Vote. Our lives depend on it.

* "Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/18/1126287827/redistricting-supreme-court-louisiana-black-african-american

* "Louisiana GOP looks to redefine 'Black' to duck racial fairness in voting districts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/louisiana-gop-looks-to-redefine-black-to-duck-racial-fairness-in-voting-districts-151117381601

* "Florida man's voter fraud charges dismissed in blow to DeSantis:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/florida-mans-voter-fraud-charges-dismissed-blow-desantis-2022-10-21/

* "Reid: Florida's saying votes aren't welcome if you're Black, brown, poor, not going to vote GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-voter-fraud-arrests-make-state-modern-version-of-jim-crow-151110725871

* "Right-Wing Leaders Mobilize Corps of Election Activists:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/us/politics/midterm-elections-challenges.html

* "Election workers need to be protected and, sometimes, protected against:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/election-workers-need-be-protected-sometimes-protected-against/

* "Election Workers Face an Obstacle Course to Reach the Midterms:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/election-workers-midterms-polls.html

* "Pro-Trump conspiracy theorists hound election officials out of office:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-nevada-washoe/

* "Election officials train for threats from 'stop the steal' conspiracy theorists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/election-officials-train-for-threats-from-stop-the-steal-conspiracy-theorists-151203397519

* "Election offices add protection against Trump 'stop the steal' conspiracy theorists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/election-offices-add-protection-against-trump-stop-the-steal-conspiracy-theorists-151202885702

* "Why the GOP seeks to stigmatize anything but same-day, in-person voting:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republican-fixation-with-limiting-early-voting-explained-by-joy-reid-151195205969

* "Early voters in Arizona midterms report harassment by poll watchers:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/20/arizona-early-voters-harassment-drop-box-monitors

* "NM prepares for disruptive poll challengers - Rio Rancho Observer:" https://rrobserver.com/nm-prepares-for-disruptive-poll-challengers/

* "RNC Sues for Poll Workers’ Information in Clark County, Nevada:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/rnc-sues-for-poll-workers-information-in-clark-county-nevada/

* "FBI warns of threats to Pennsylvania election workers:" https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2022/10/19/pennsylvania-election-worker-threats-fbi

* "Texas County Asks for U.S. Election Monitors as State Plans to Send Inspectors:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/us/politics/election-inspectors-harris-county-texas.html

* "Election administrators are under attack in Texas. Here’s what that means for the midterms.:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/17/election-administrators-harassment-david-becker/

* "Penultimate voter suppression:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2073851.html

* "Where Mark Kelly and Blake Masters stand on the issues:" https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2022/10/18/arizona-kelly-masters-decide-control-us-senate

* Please, please, please vote the whole ballot. "Democratic nominee for Maricopa County Attorney in Arizona exemplifies why down-ballot votes matter:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-nominee-for-maricopa-county-attorney-julie-gunnigle-on-potential-voter-intimidation-in-arizona-151196229877

* "The Overlooked Senate Race:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/north-carolinas-overlooked-senate-race

* "Proposal 3 on abortion access could leave questions for Michigan Supreme Court to decide:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/19/proposal-michigan-abortion-access-supreme-court/69568994007/

* "This Minnesota Race Will Show the Potency of Crime vs. Abortion:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/us/politics/minnesota-ag-keith-ellison-jim-schultz.html

* "Raphael Warnock goes there on the Herschel Walker abortion allegations:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/21/politics/raphael-warnock-herschel-walker-abortion-allegation-ad/index.html

* "Republican Sen. Ron Johnson faces Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in the Wisconsin Senate race:" https://www.businessinsider.com/ron-johnson-mandela-barnes-wisconsin-senate-election-2022

* "Ron Johnson Website and Video Urge Reporting of Suspected Election Problems:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/us/politics/ron-johnson-voter-fraud.html

* "Editorial: Election deceiver, science fabulist, billionaire benefactor. After 12 years, it's time to term-limit Sen. Ron Johnson:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/10/12/ron-johnson-has-no-business-being-wisconsin-senator-any-longer-editorial/7888310001/

* "Rubio and Demings trade barbs on abortion and guns in Florida debate:" https://www.axios.com/2022/10/19/marco-rubio-vs-val-demings-debate-florida

* "Bad blood in Ohio Senate debate: 'I think I struck a nerve':" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/17/ohio-ryan-vance-pelosi-trump-00062220

* "Tim Ryan asks why Democrats ‘don’t smell blood’ and help him in Ohio:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/19/ryan-ohio-senate-vance-democrats/

* "Can Ex-Democrat Tulsi Gabbard Bail Out This Election Denier?:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/can-ex-democrat-tulsi-gabbard-bail-out-election-denier-don-bolduc

* "Five takeaways from what’s clearly the only debate between Maryland gubernatorial candidates Wes Moore and Dan Cox:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-cox-moore-debate-takeaways-20221013-jhu7m7k37fe5xlfyy5qlvrvxt4-story.html

* "Maryland's Wes Moore Vows to Protect LGBTQ+ Rights as Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/29/marylands-wes-moore-vows-protect-lgbtq-rights-governor

* "Protesters outside Milwaukee GOP office denounce 'racist' ads:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/protesters-outside-milwaukee-gop-office-denounce-racist-ads/

* "As a TV doctor, Mehmet Oz embraced climate science. Now as a Senate candidate, he denies it.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/19/tv-doctor-mehmet-oz-embraced-climate-science-now-senate-candidate-he-denies-it/

* "The Uncomfortable Truths That Could Yet Defeat Fascism:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/opinion/midterm-democracy-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=UnEcyALdqCIwdHQs_xQ4HvWIJqRxfj8MtFP-zrX01XhvkhNiLpqY7w5RN63IV6iTFg3f3i7YC1QL9xYPO1cyPD2_QZAzT_NpT670KMYehdeAC7sdRBXrPchu4R_zP6uSh2COL08ndJPKrW_CJ42cqD4AlX8LYlvxmxtSUceRkazXSir6YNmli1kVCqWXqtKgD67BurHgXnURQgXarbd51eaXkVzMjSTxxkQZL-kfcc1zPhqbTF7X4duAKLfsrcfwuu1aEbgYkU0Il94plYxcMohyC9NZSpj02_6azHi_Ujlypr1aUZxFIVh5UVqbFISgLg1-EB_8MAw9rD7NwDuSL9Uu&smid=share-url

* "Students troll homophobe Mike Pence with Pride flags as he prepares 2024 run:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/21/mike-pence-2024-presidential-run-protest-pride-flag/

* "Sorry, Ron DeSantis, You Are No Donald Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/20/desantis-next-trump-00062662

* "Does Marjorie Taylor Greene represent the future of the Republican Party?:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/19/1129516628/trump-republican-marjorie-taylor-greene-robert-draper-weapons-of-mass-delusion

* "Many Republicans Believe Having More LGBTQ+ Members of Congress Is Bad:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/28/many-republicans-believe-having-more-lgbtq-members-congress-bad

* "New Database Tracks Corporate Donations to Anti-LGBTQ+ Lawmakers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/27/new-database-tracks-corporate-donations-anti-lgbtq-lawmakers-real-allies

* "Racist GOP appeals heat up in final weeks before midterms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/15/racist-appeals-heat-up-final-weeks-before-midterms/

* "Trevor Noah on messages that foster resentment at the root of racist, grievance politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trevor-noah-on-messages-that-foster-resentment-at-the-root-of-racist-grievance-politics-151111237929

* "Trevor Noah on the insidiousness of American 'coded' racism:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trevor-noah-on-the-insidiousness-of-american-coded-racism-151111749931

* "'We don't live in the same world anymore': Trevor Noah on how fragmented media polarizes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-we-don-t-live-in-the-same-world-anymore-trevor-noah-on-how-fragmented-media-polarizes-151111237958

* "Primary source for Trump-Russia dossier acquitted, handing special counsel Durham another trial loss:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/politics/durham-investigation-igor-danchenko-trial/index.html

* "Atlanta investigators can subpoena Lindsey Graham in 2020 election investigation, federal appeals court rules:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/lindsey-graham-georgia-subpoena/index.html

* "Giuliani names Trump election deniers as witnesses in legal ethics case:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/giuliani-trump-election-deniers-witnesses-legal-ethics-dc-pennsylvania

* "Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison for Contempt of Congress:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/us/politics/steve-bannon-sentence-contempt-congress.html

* CW: Rape "Trump appears for deposition in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/trump-deposition-e-jean-carroll/index.html

* "Trump Organization assets should be frozen, New York attorney general asks court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/trump-organization-tish-james-00061662

* "Sen. Lindsey Graham asks Supreme Court to block subpoena in Georgia probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-lindsey-graham-asks-supreme-court-to-block-subpoena-in-georgia-probe-151269445751

* "Aide tells FBI Trump ordered boxes moved at Mar-a-Lago :" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-trump-employee-tells-fbi-trump-ordered-mar-a-lago-boxes-be-moved-report-2022-10-12/

* "‘These are not souvenirs’: Intel on Iran, China among Trump's Mar-a-Lago docs:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-these-are-not-souvenirs-intel-on-iran-china-among-trump-s-mar-a-lago-docs-151269445877

* "Details of secret material seized from Trump focus concern on intelligence sources' safety:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/details-of-secret-material-seized-from-trump-focus-concern-on-intelligence-sources-safety-151275589917

* "Special master Dearie unhappy with Mar-a-Lago document progress: 'Where's the beef? I need some beef':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/politics/special-master-dearie-mar-a-lago-beef/index.html

* "Supreme Court rejects Trump request on Mar-a-Lago documents:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/13/supreme-court-trump-mar-a-lago-classified-documents/

* "Judge: Trump signed court document that knowingly included false voter fraud stats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/judge-trump-signed-court-document-that-knowingly-included-false-voter-fraud-stats-00062577

* "Fraud-related criminal trial against Trump Organization to start Monday:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/21/trump-organization-criminal-trial/

* "Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump, demanding historic testimony:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-subpoena-jan-6-committee-2d63a2ba74c1874ef6ef0d8ae6d788c1

* "George Conway: Trump Jan. 6 subpoena was like a ‘draft indictment’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-conway-trump-jan-6-subpoena-was-like-a-draft-indictment-151267909727

* "Oath Keepers Trial Rocked by Wacky Sexts Between Militia Boss and Lawyer:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/stewart-rhodes-kellye-sorelle-sexts-shown-in-oath-keeper-trial

* "American Terror: The Military’s Problem With Extremism In the Ranks:"

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* "Crush the Opposition, but First the Dissenters | Breaking The Vote:"

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* "Jeffco back-to-school supplies include buckets, kitty litter for kids to use bathroom during lockdowns:" https://www.denverpost.com/2019/08/21/jeffco-schools-buckets-cat-litter-lockdowns/

* "Biden turning to Trump-era rule to expel Venezuelan migrants:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-health-venezuela-donald-trump-mexico-409a67bb33d547bc5438a4d7160576f6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01&ref=Wake+Up+To+Politics-newsletter

* CW: Child Abuse, Child Murder. "The Rising Death Count at Youth Residential Facilities:"

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* "Why is the right suddenly interested in Native American adoption law?:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/why-is-the-right-suddenly-interested-in-native-american-adoption-law

* "‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’: KC area schools now ban these books and more:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/handmaid-s-tale-slaughterhouse-five-kc-area-schools-now-ban-these-books-and-more/ar-AA12EAiE

* "DeSantis' new education restrictions puts Florida teachers' certification on the line:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/desantis-new-education-restrictions-puts-florida-teachers-certification-on-the-line-151203909923

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* "What abortion ban with exception for ‘life of the mother' really means:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-abortion-ban-with-exception-for-life-of-the-mother-really-means-151108677535

* "Peril of abortion bans to women's health becomes dreaded reality:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/peril-of-abortion-bans-to-women-s-health-becomes-dreaded-reality-151203397690

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* "Never Enough? Why ADHD Brains Crave Stimulation:" https://www.additudemag.com/brain-stimulation-and-adhd-cravings-dependency-and-regulation/

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* "East Africa hit by drought, yet Kenya's Lake Turkana is flooding:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63278497

* "‘Nature is striking back’: flooding around the world, from Australia to Venezuela:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/20/flooding-world-climate-crisis-australia-venezuela-nigeria

* "Flooding in Nigeria has killed more than 600 people, the government says:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/17/1129399669/nigeria-floods-death-toll

* "Displacement and disbelief in flood-hit Rochester as residents survey the damage:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/20/displacement-and-disbelief-in-flood-hit-rochester-as-residents-survey-the-damage

* Lest you think I am exaggerating how bad the smoke is. This isn’t normal. This land is supposed to be all rain and fog right now. The world is burning. "Wildfire smoke chokes U.S. Northwest, residents don masks:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wildfire-smoke-chokes-us-northwest-residents-don-masks-2022-10-20/

* "Seattle currently has the world's worst air quality as wildfires burn across Washington:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seattle-portland-currently-has-the-worlds-worst-air-quality-as-wildfires-burn-across-washington/

* "Washington wildfire caused by pyrotechnic, police seek tips:" https://www.yaktrinews.com/i/washington-wildfire-caused-by-pyrotechnic-police-seek-tips/

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* "Environmental Activists Are Being Murdered at an Alarming Rate:" https://advocatechannel.com/environmental-activists-are-murdered-at-an-alarming-rate-report-finds

* "Nuclear waste ravaged their land. The Yakama Nation is on a quest to rescue it:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/yakama-nation-nuclear-waste-cleanup

* "The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve Reaches Apogee:" https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bus

* "The Troubling Thirst for Jeffrey Dahmer:"

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CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism

This captures exactly why I’m angry and won’t be watching the Netflix Show.

There were a lot of things I wanted to say about what it feels like when they do this kind of thing and it’s someone you loved who’s murder is being twisted and exploited. (Different murder, smaller scale, but it is an ugly ugly thing when they make this sort of entertainment about someone you loved).

My heart goes out to the families of the dead. To all the people who knew and loved those men who would still be alive today if the police weren’t racist and homophobic; if this person hadn’t decided to do these terrible things to them. To all the people who now have to watch people woobifying and thirsting for a man who literally was trying to make sex slaves to rape and murder. To all the peo0ple who are going to have to see countless people dressing as glorified versions of the man who did this to their friends, their family members, their lovers.

Real people, precious and unique, were violated on every level and murdered. Many of the people who loved them are still alive.

So much harm was done and is being done still. By the way media covered and still covers it. By the police who still mistreat people who aren’t straight/white/cis and ignore our deaths and disappearances. By killers still preying on our community.

I am so angry. I am angry every time it happens. It is still happening.

I will never be eloquent enough to convey to you the depths of my anger that it happened at all, that it is still happening in the 21st century, and that instead of something actually being done about it, it’s a joke, an entertainment, a Halloween costume.

It’s not funny or entertaining or cute or clever. It’s evil.

Thank you Mr. Somerton. Your research and understanding of the context is admirable. You have captured something of what it was like to live through that time and this trauma.

* "Speaker Pelosi Displayed Superhuman Composure During Jan 6 Attack On The U.S. Capitol:"

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* "Shocking Twist: Jan 6 Committee Votes To Subpoena The Former President:"

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* "Inside Amy Schumer | “Colorado”:"

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* "So Much News, So Little Time - Liz Truss Resignation & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/sssjc7/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-liz-truss-resignation-more

* "Meet The Flynnstones!:"

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* My arm is even worse than last week, but Friday it rained and we can all breathe again. It's time to start opening Gothmas prezzies, so here they are under the tree: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/698782942781112320/i-love-having-gothmas-presents-under-the-tree-for

* They ordered a burrito from taco bell and instead they gave me like 100$ worth of THC vape cartridges.: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/698056785089691648

* Death Curse: https://meg-moira.tumblr.com/post/644622280493760512/writing-prompt-s-may-you-have-a-life-of-safety

* The Sequel: https://meg-moira.tumblr.com/post/644962439024230400/the-witch-who-spoke-to-the-wind

* Dark sorcerer kidnaps a baby Princess: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/698989180300279808/drrove-writing-prompt-s-as-a-dark-sorcerer-you

* Humans as the Fae: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/698688660854407168/fracktastic-adulthoodisokay-dalekteaservice

* The Midnight Society vs JK Rowling: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1570836409015205891

* David Demchuk's Grandmothers and The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1571521403706544132

* The Midnight Society: The Appeal: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1573072694475919360

* Laurell K. Hamilton vs Anne Rice at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1574464109524897792

* JK Rowling vs mermaids at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1574806607564656644

* Patricia Highsmith Meets Laurell K. Hamilton The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1575567244825808896

* Laurell K. Hamilton vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society :https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1575900106825474049

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

* "How to help Pakistan’s flood victims:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-to-help-pakistans-flood-victims

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd

* How to help Puerto Rico: https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/695979319094394880

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

* If you would like to help support me and the Cats: paypal.me/Gwydion

* Fundraiser for final costs for a long time internet friend's mother: https://www.gofundme.com/f/annemarie-kergis

* Person in severe economic crisis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover-bills-and-pay-down-debts?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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* "For Iranian exiles, Mahsa Amini protests are a source of hope and pain:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/30/iran-protests-mahsa-amini-exile/

* "Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently:" https://theconversation.com/iranian-women-have-been-rebelling-against-restrictions-since-the-islamic-revolution-in-1979-with-renewed-hope-that-protests-this-time-will-end-differently-191463

* "Turnout key for Lula to clinch Brazil election in first round:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/turnout-key-lula-clinch-brazil-election-first-round-2022-09-30/

* "‘Lift this country up’: trans pioneer Erika Hilton seeks Brazil election win:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/28/lift-this-country-up-trans-pioneer-erika-hilton-seeks-brazil-election-win

* CW: Child Death "Olivia Pratt-Korbel: man, 34, arrested on suspicion of nine-year-old’s murder:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/29/olivia-pratt-korbel-man-34-arrested-over-of-nine-year-old

* "Fresh strikes set to paralyse British rail network:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/fresh-strikes-set-paralyse-british-rail-network-2022-09-30/

* "Indigenous Tribes Push Back Against Evangelical Missionaries:"

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* "Rohingya seek reparations from Facebook for role in massacre:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bangladesh-myanmar-c5af9acec46a3042beed7f5e1bc71b8a

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* "Why I Still Wear a Mask:"

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* "US warnings against Putin's nuclear threats mark a sobering moment for the world:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/us-warns-putin-nuclear-weapons-analysis/index.html

* "Russia to annex more of Ukraine on Friday at the Kremlin:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-treaties-01d56058eb6745c13d737bef44d269e6

* "Putin Suffers Most Humiliating Ukraine Defeat Yet:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-suffers-most-humiliating-ukraine-defeat-yet-around-key-city-of-lyman-in-donetsk

* "The Great Bluff: How the Ukrainians Outwitted Putin's Army:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-great-bluff-how-the-ukrainians-outwitted-putin-s-army-a-05d74f95-a5c5-482e-bb6a-837de8700fc9

* "Russians rebel as Putin drafts more people in battle for Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/29/russia-putin-mobilization-protests-fury/

* "Russians Are Fleeing In Fear Of Being Drafted:"

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* "Russians flee Putin's desperate draft operation to bolster failing Ukraine invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/russians-flee-putin-s-desperate-draft-operation-to-bolster-failing-ukraine-invasion-149574213755

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* Republicans are why we can't have nice things. "Biden administration scales back student debt relief for millions amid legal concerns:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/biden-administration-scales-back-student-debt-relief-for-millions-amid-legal-concerns-00059522

* "Biden’s hunger and nutrition goals confront November realities:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/27/bidens-hunger-nutrition-goals-november-00058938

* "Mortgage refinancing drops to a 22-year low as interest rates surge even higher:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/28/mortgage-refinancing-drops-to-a-22-year-low-.html

* "It’s Official: America Is an Oligarchy:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbo-american-wealth-inequality/

* "'Obscene,' Says Sanders After CBO Reports Richest 1% Now Owns Over 1/3 of US Wealth:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/obscene-says-sanders-after-cbo-reports-richest-1-now-owns-over-13-us-wealth

* "Senate passes funding bill to likely thwart weekend shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/senate-avert-shutdown-00059485

* "Same-sex marriage puts Ron Johnson in a bind:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/29/ron-johnson-same-sex-marriage-00054000

* "McConnell, Schumer back bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/27/mcconnell-schumer-electoral-reform/

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

* "How Propaganda Is Destroying Democracy:"

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* "American Monarchists:"

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* "Biden Says Social Security Is on ‘Chopping Block’ if Republicans Win Congress:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/us/politics/biden-social-security-republicans.html

* "One third of Republicans think more LGBTQ+ people in Congress would be a 'bad thing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/one-third-republicans-think-more-lgbtq-people-in-congress-a-bad-thing/

* "Coca-Cola, Disney and Pfizer among companies funding anti-LGBTQ+ politicians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/coca-cola-pfizer-disney-anti-lgbtq-politicians-database/

* "Buoyed by Abbott failures, GOP unpopularity, Beto O'Rourke musters campaign volunteer army:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/buoyed-by-abbott-failures-gop-unpopularity-beto-o-rourke-musters-campaign-volunteer-army-149647941537

* "In Minnesota, abortion key to Keith Ellison's 2nd term hopes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-minnesota-abortion-keys-keith-ellisons-2nd-term-hopes/2022/09/29/db3921fe-3fab-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html

* "Warnock: Voting rights battle is why I know 'I still have work to do' in Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warnock-voting-rights-battle-is-why-i-know-i-still-have-work-to-do-in-senate-149560901860

* "GOP Senate Candidate's Home Site of ‘Aggressive’ Incident With Police in 2018:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-senate-candidate-don-bolduc-was-aggressive-with-police-in-2018-incident

* "Wisconsin Dem. U.S. Senate nominee, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, slams incumbent’s abortion stance:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/wisconsin-u-s-senate-race-analyzed-by-democratic-nominee-mandela-barnes-149644357825

* "Records contradict Majewski's account of military punishment:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-afghanistan-ohio-campaigns-only-on-ap-14b98ee6b4e8ff023729a4498ade2ac0

* "Donald Trump made transphobic jokes while preparing for Hilary Clinton debate:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/donald-trump-homophobia-transphobia-book-maggie-haberman/

* "Judge again sides with Trump in Mar-a-Lago documents fight:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/29/judge-again-sides-with-trump-in-mar-a-lago-documents-fight-00059644

* "Hayes: Trump judges remind us the rule of law is a 'human institution':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-judges-reminds-us-the-rule-of-law-is-a-human-institution-149638725887

* "Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, testifies before Jan. 6 panel:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125886442/ginni-thomas-wife-supreme-court-justice-testifies-jan-6

* "‘Who asked Ginni Thomas to call legislators in Wisconsin and Arizona?’ legal expert asks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ginni-thomas-meets-with-jan-6-select-committee-investigators-149567045727

* "Raskin: ‘Remarkable’ that Ginni Thomas still believes election was stolen:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/raskin-remarkable-that-ginni-thomas-still-believes-election-was-stolen-149640261728

* "Stone may join Bannon in club of pardoned Trump henchmen who commit more crimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/roger-stone-says-before-2020-election-trump-should-just-declare-victory-149404741794

* "Jurors must decide how much Newtown families suffering worth:" https://apnews.com/article/business-shootings-education-violence-school-0237a512275c9ede38d28ebb9bfee03c

* "Police uncertain if girl killed in shootout was abducted:" https://apnews.com/article/shootings-violence-california-2621bd124c235bdfc1d91759d9812545

* "California woman charged with killing man over cat dispute:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-california-obituaries-santa-ana-311387a2cf8ceec8fbe0e4e417a5f454

* CW: Child Abuse "Making Money off Children’s Pain: Family Vloggers:"

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* "Mali – Hundreds of Homes Destroyed by Floods in Mopti Region:" https://floodlist.com/africa/mali-floods-mopti-september-2022

* "People in Cuba protest over the island-wide blackout caused by Hurricane Ian:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126189710/cuba-hurricane-ian-blackout-power-protests

* "Ian Becomes a Hurricane Again as It Takes Aim at South Carolina:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/29/us/hurricane-ian-florida

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "Before, after images show Hurricane Ian storm surge completely destroyed some Sanibel Island, Florida hotels | CNN:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/us/hurricane-ian-sanibel-before-after/index.html

* "Hundreds of thousands of Florida homes lie in flood-risk areas not recognized by FEMA's flood maps, research group says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-thousands-florida-homes-lie-flood-risk-areas-not-recognized-f-rcna50002

* "Ian will likely hit South Carolina as a hurricane, forecasters say:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125876027/hurricane-ian-east-coast-forecast

* "Florida’s Cape Coral real estate boom show reality of climate crisis era:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-cape-coral-real-estate-boom-show-reality-of-climate-crisis-era-149560901564

* "Cost of losses, lack of insurance compound storm's devastation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/cost-of-losses-lack-of-insurance-compound-storm-s-devastation-149645381986

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* "Mastriano Getting Desperate In PA | Frankie Lasagna Misses Judge's 61st Home Run:"

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* "Thinking Out Loud - Opportunistic Internet Arguers:" https://www.cc.com/video/giuhy6/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-thinking-out-loud-opportunistic-internet-arguers

* "Weather Reporters Are Risking It All During Hurricane Season:"

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* I am really struggling with my sinuses which fucks up my sleep, so this is short and a lot got left out. Apologies.

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

* "How to help Pakistan’s flood victims:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-to-help-pakistans-flood-victims

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd

* How to help Puerto Rico: https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/695979319094394880

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

* I am behind on my bills again. If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* Fundraiser for final costs for a long time internet friend's mother: https://www.gofundme.com/f/annemarie-kergis

* Person in severe economic crisis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover-bills-and-pay-down-debts?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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