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* "Trump says he won’t extend nuclear arms treaty with Russia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/trump-nuclear-arms-treaty-russia-00767497

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

* "THE DILDO DISTRIBUTION DELEGATION:" https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation

* "The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building:" https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua

Isn't moving squatters a job for Chicago PD at best and not an excuse for a violent military raid that involved ICE dragging naked children from their beds and zip tying them and parading them outside for their own personal pleasure?

* "ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive:" https://theconversation.com/ice-and-border-patrol-in-minnesota-accused-of-violating-1st-2nd-4th-and-10th-amendment-rights-are-testing-whether-the-constitution-can-survive-274613

* "Trump administration will pull 700 immigration officers from Minneapolis:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/trump-administration-will-pull-700-immigration-officers-from-minneapolis-00763994

2000 remain. Trump has already announced plans to violently invade Ohio.

* "Government lawyer yanked from immigration detail in Minnesota after telling judge ‘this job sucks’:" https://apnews.com/article/julie-le-job-sucks-minnesota-dhs-ice-b0affbb6c394c39184a813c8f597d5a2

* "‘We Know Where You Live.’ Protesters Say ICE Agents Retaliate With Threats, Investigations:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/04/ice-immigration-intimidation-tactics-protesters

* "Educators Sue Over ICE Activity on School Grounds and Nearby:" https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/educators-sue-over-ice-activity-on-school-grounds-and-nearby/2026/02

* "US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/23/us-immigration-two-year-old-minnesota-girl

* "Two Venezuelans, charged with assaulting agents in ICE shooting, re-detained despite judge’s orders:" https://www.startribune.com/mn-venezuelans-released-ice-shooting/601576035

ICE lied that he was attacking them, when they were actually shooting wildly through an apartment door nearly hitting a crib.

* "Don Lemon Arrested For Journalism:"

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* "‘For what?’: JD Vance refuses to apologize for smearing Alex Pretti:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/for-what-jd-vance-refuses-to-apologize-for-smearing-alex-pretti-2485410371683

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

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

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* "Trump wants to be paid $10 billion taxpayer dollars but says he’ll give it to charity:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-wants-to-be-paid-10-billion-taxpayer-dollars-but-says-he-ll-give-it-to-charity-2485698627610

* "Steve Bannon: “You're damn right we're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.” :" https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-youre-damn-right-were-gonna-have-ice-surround-polls-come-november

We need to be prepared to get out the vote in the face of voter intimidation.

* "‘Surround the polls’: Trump ally admits voter intimidation plan using ICE:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/surround-the-polls-trump-ally-admits-voter-intimidation-plan-using-ice-2485406275948

* "Gabbard's office examined voting machines in Puerto Rico:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/tulsi-gabbards-office-says-examined-electronic-voting-systems-puerto-r-rcna257602

* If they did nothing wrong why does the story keep changing? "Trump shifts explanation of why DNI Gabbard was at FBI Georgia election office raid:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-shifts-explanation-dni-gabbard-fbi-georgia-election/story?id=129890577

* "Trump resorts to the ridiculous, desperate to reverse engineer the 2020 election:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-resorts-to-the-ridiculous-desperate-to-reverse-engineer-the-2020-election-2485691459927

* "Trump administration makes it easier to fire thousands of federal employees:" https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/trump-federal-employees-at-will

* "Trump administration's denial of gender-affirming care to federal employees is unlawful, says LGBTQ+ group:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/eeoc-complaint-transgender-care-denial

* "The End of Free Speech:"

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* "Plummeting popularity sets Trump on a war against the truth:"

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* "Washington Post to make ‘significant’ cuts:" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/04/2026/washington-post-to-make-significant-cuts

* "‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/04/washington-post-layoffs

* "Mass layoffs fuel fears of ‘death spiral’ at Washington Post:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/05/mass-layoffs-washington-post

* "Fear of Trump pushed Bezos to gut Washington Post, says fmr. executive editor:"

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

* "Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics:" https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/

* "‘Going on offense’: Slotkin will not cooperate with Trump DOJ probe:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/going-on-offense-slotkin-will-not-cooperate-with-trump-doj-probe-2485670979917

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

* CW: CSA "Feminism Versus Trump and Epstein:" https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/feminism-versus-trump-and-epstein/

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* "Supreme Court won’t disturb new California congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/supreme-court-california-prop-50-map-00764862

* "Job openings plummet in warning sign for Trump's economy:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/05/job-openings-plummet-trump-economy-00767201

* "Ditching DEI is bad for employees and employers: HRC report :" https://www.advocate.com/news/ditching-dei-bad-business

* "Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democrats’ ICE demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-special-elections/new-jersey-house-results

* "‘This shouldn’t be that complicated’: Jeffries draws hard line on DHS funding:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/this-shouldn-t-be-that-complicated-jeffries-draws-hard-line-on-dhs-funding-2485668931822

They have a week to negotiate.

It is very important to call them and ask them to keep fighting to curb the abuses.

Here is a model email if you would like one to look at:

* "Emailing my legislators:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2762264.html

* " Scott Bessent struggles under questioning by New York Rep. Ritchie Torres during explosive House hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/scott-bessent-ritchie-torres-clash

* "Bessent refuses to say the administration will not sue the next Fed chair:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/05/congress/bessent-fed-chair-lawsuit-00767130

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Failed anti-LGBTQ+ immigrant MAGA influencer banned from Texas Republican Party events:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/valentina-gomez-expelled-texas-gop

* "On anniversary of Los Angeles wildfires, Bass and Newsom lay low:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/on-anniversary-of-l-a-wildfires-newsom-bass-nowhere-to-be-seen-00713275

* "Indiana advances bill that would 'mandate discrimination' against trans people, ACLU warns:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/indiana-transgender-bathroom-birth-certificate

* "Man who tried to shoot Trump at a Florida golf course gets life in prison:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-shooting-attempt-florida-ryan-routh-4bcddb2544bc127d6acf59b8311c458b

* "The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country:" https://archive.ph/MZg9m

* "‘She looks like a baby’: Why do kids as young as 5 or 6 still get arrested at schools?:" https://publicintegrity.org/education/criminalizing-kids/young-kids-arrested-at-schools/

This is child abuse. It's also racism and ableism.

* "The Two Faces of Lummie Jenkins:" https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/lummie-jenkins-alabama-racism

* "Nine men busted for drugs while trying to board massive Atlantis gay cruise in Miami:" https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/atlantis-cruise-drug-arrests

* "Texas A&M eliminates women’s and gender studies degree program:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-am-women-gender-studies

* "Texas A&M fired a professor for teaching about gender identity. Now, she's suing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-melissa-mccoul-lawsuit

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Manager of women’s football club banned for 12 years after bombarding players with indecent images:" https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/17/manager-of-womens-football-club-banned-for-12-years-after-bombarding-players-with-indecent-images

* "California doctor first to face lawsuit under Texas' bounty hunter abortion pill ban:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/california-doctor-texas-abortion-pill

* "Two medical associations update their recommendations on gender-affirming care for trans youth:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/ama-asps-backtrack-transgender-care

* "Parents of transgender kids sue Children’s Hospital Colorado for pausing gender-affirming care:" https://www.dailycamera.com/2026/01/21/childrens-hospital-colorado-sued-transgender-gender-affirming/

* "New York jury finds psychologist and surgeon didn't follow best practices in gender-affirming care case:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/jury-rules-malpractice-transgender-treatment

* "Maryland school district didn't violate teacher's rights by requiring chosen pronoun use, appeals court rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/education/court-upholds-inclusive-pronoun-policy

* "Nicki Minaj attacks trans kids—again:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/nicki-minaj-trans-kids-2675087040

Ironically, Gavin Newsom is also a transphobe.

* "No, trans women don't have inherent advantage over cis women in sports: new study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-women-athletes-no-advantage

* "HIV drug's Medicare costs under negotiation:" https://www.advocate.com/health/hiv-drug-medicare-negotiations

* "13 Black community organizations fighting HIV in the U.S. you should know:" https://www.advocate.com/health/black-hiv-organizations

* "The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It:" https://archive.ph/eN1Ex

* "Researchers Expose WHILL Wheelchair Safety Risks via Remote Hacking:" https://www.securityweek.com/researchers-expose-whill-wheelchair-safety-risks-via-remote-hacking/

* "The pandemic’s hidden toll: millions of chronic conditions left undiagnosed:" https://theconversation.com/the-pandemics-hidden-toll-millions-of-chronic-conditions-left-undiagnosed-273418

* "California becomes first state to join WHO disease network after US exit:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5703447-who-gavin-newsom-california/

* "Researchers begin trial of nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine:" https://www.kpwhri.org/news-and-events/recent-news/news-2026/researchers-begin-trial-nasal-spray-COVID-19-vaccine

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* Items below this point may be a little older.

* "The Impact Fee Illusion:" https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026-2-4-the-impact-fee-illusion

* "New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of Pfas ‘forever chemicals’:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration

* "AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

* CW: CSAM "Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it:" https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok

* "GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners:" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/

* "Astronomers Find the First Compelling Evidence of "Monster Stars" in the Early Universe:" https://www.universetoday.com/articles/astronomers-find-the-first-compelling-evidence-of-monster-stars-in-the-early-universe

* "Ancient Martian beach discovered, providing new clues to red planet's habitability:" https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-martian-beach-clues-red.html

* "The Moon’s Far Side Tells a Very Different Story Than the One We See From Earth:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-moons-far-side-tells-a-very-different-story-than-the-one-we-see-from-earth/

* "This strange form of water may power giant planets’ magnetic fields:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260112214308.htm

* "NASA’s Webb telescope just discovered one of the weirdest planets ever:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251227004146.htm

* "Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01838-6

* "Hidden dimensions could explain where mass comes from:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251215084222.htm

* "Marvelous Mold and Fabulous Fungus:" https://mossandfog.com/marvelous-mold-and-fabulous-fungus/

* "These Animals Are Expertly Adapted to the Cold:" https://nautil.us/these-animals-are-expertly-adapted-to-the-cold-1264317/

* "Missing for 200 Years, the Galapagos Rail Reappears Following Floreana Island Restoration:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/missing-for-200-years-the-galapagos-rail-reappears-following-floreana-island-restoration/

* "'Beautiful' rare octopus spotted on popular Welsh beach:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5yqnej8ejo

* "Gray wolves are hunting sea otters and no one knows how:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260129080446.htm

* "Orcas team up with dolphins to hunt salmon, study finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/orca-killer-whale-dolphin-hunt-salmon-study-british-columbia-canada?

* "Some polar bears are getting fatter despite a warming Arctic:" https://www.earth.com/news/some-polar-bears-are-getting-fatter-despite-a-warming-arctic/

* "Monkeys With Smaller Testicles Scream Louder to Compensate:" https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/monkey-small-testicle-screams-rep/

* "The deep ocean has a missing link and scientists finally found it:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251228074505.htm

* "Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists:" https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-giants-could-be-a-whole-new-kind-of-life-that-no-longer-exists

* "Why Earth’s earliest animals left little trace behind:" https://www.earth.com/news/why-earths-earliest-animals-left-little-trace-behind/

* "Ancient oceans were ruled by super predators unlike anything today:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251218060611.htm

* "18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline — and they set a new record:" https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/18-000-dinosaur-tracks-discovered-along-ancient-bolivian-coastline-and-they-set-a-new-record

* "Italy makes a surprising discovery ahead of the Winter Olympics: dinosaur tracks:" https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5647391/dinosaur-tracks-italy-olympics

* "Fossilized Bee Nests Inside Skeletons Are Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before:" https://gizmodo.com/fossilized-bee-nests-inside-skeletons-are-unlike-anything-weve-seen-before-2000700261?

* "This ancient fossil could rewrite the story of human origins:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260103155024.htm

* "1.5-million-year-old fossil face is forcing a rethink of human origins:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251216081935.htm

* "'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England:" https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/it-is-the-most-exciting-discovery-in-my-40-year-career-archaeologists-uncover-evidence-that-neanderthals-made-fire-400-000-years-ago-in-england

* "Discovery shows early humans were much more advanced hunters than previously believed:" https://www.earth.com/news/discovery-shows-early-humans-were-much-more-advanced-hunters-than-previously-believed/

* "Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests:" https://phys.org/news/2026-02-exposure-injuries-played-key-role.html

* "Why You Should Study History (Now More Than Ever):"

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* "Ancient people carried a wild potato across the American Southwest:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260125081143.htm

* "This 8,000-year-old art shows math before numbers existed:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251216081937.htm

* "Digital scans unveil new love notes and sketches on ancient Pompeii wall:" https://www.reuters.com/science/digital-scans-unveil-new-love-notes-sketches-ancient-pompeii-wall-2026-01-19/

* "Can You Decode the Roman Dodecahedron?:" https://artsandculture.google.com/story/can-you-decode-the-roman-dodecahedron/5wVh18uEpJuMnA?hl=en

* "What Do Native Cultures Have in Common?: Ep 6 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "The Real Impacts of Archaeology on Native Americans: Ep 7 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "The Truth About Columbus’s “First Contact”: Ep 10 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "There are no pure cultures:" https://aeon.co/essays/there-are-no-pure-cultures-we-have-always-been-global

* "Discover Michelangelo’s First Painting, Created When He Was Only 12 or 13 Years Old:" https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html?

* "500 Years Later, Scientists Prove That Leonardo da Vinci’s Bridge Design Works:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a69676907/da-vinci-bridge-design/

* "What the Tudors REALLY ate – and why it was healthier than you think:"

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* "Inside the Tudor bedroom: love and marriage in the 16th-century:"

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* "How did the Tudors have FUN? Ruth Goodman on maypoles, ale and deadly jousts:"

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* "What did ordinary Tudors do for work? Inside the 16th-century daily grind:"

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* "We Didn't Start The Class War: The Tudor Homelessness Crisis:"

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* "How Caravaggio Painted Class and Clothes:" https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/caravaggio-class-clothes-street-style-elizabeth-currie-1234751231/

* "British soldier’s long-lost memoir rediscovered in Cleveland:" https://www.popsci.com/science/british-soldier-memoir-cleveland/

* "National Portrait Gallery buys rare photographs of Ada Lovelace for the nation:" https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/national-portrait-gallery-saves-rare-photographs-of-ada-lovelace-for-the-uk-86284/

* "The Gay Scottish Lord Who Became A Mountain Man:"

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* "From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee: Ep 11 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "I Tested Different Victorian Menstruation Products:"

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* "The History of America’s Indian Boarding Schools: Ep 12 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "The Victorian Mystic who "Traveled to Other Planets":"

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* CW: Child Death "The Worst Fluid to Drown In:"

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* "The 1918 Flu Pandemic | World History | Extra History Complete:"

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* "Unhinged Amendments That Almost Passed:"

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* "American “Heritage” vs. American History | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart:"

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* "The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old:" https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-longest-running-lab-experiment-is-almost-100-years-old

* "The Indian Reorganization Act Explained: Ep 13 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "Found in the Archives, Seldom Seen Photos From World War II:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/found-in-the-archives-seldom-seen-photos-from-world-war-2?rid=9B8A108C20E98ED9C1E55C1A2BD40635

* "Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone:" https://www.vintag.es/2018/12/people-reading-newspapers.html

* "What are the Fish Wars and Why Do They Matter?: Ep 9 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "The Termination Act Explained: Ep 14 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "Alain Bombard: The Biologist Who Shipwrecked Himself to Prove a Point :" https://www.amusingplanet.com/2025/12/alain-bombard-biologist-who-shipwrecked.html

* "The haunting story of Mary Doefour and one man’s quest to give her back her real name:" https://thartribune.com/the-haunting-story-of-mary-doefour-and-one-mans-quest-to-give-her-back-her-real-name/

* "The ‘Race Against Time’ to Save Music Legends’ Decaying Tapes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/arts/music/iron-mountain-audio-tape-preservation.html

* "The Native Civil Rights Movement: Ep 15 of Crash Course Native American History:"

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* "A 1970s History of Food:"

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* Re: '70's Food:

Food from the '70's wasn't that good really. We were poor and grew most of our own vegetables in the summer so when we had to switch in the Autumn to supermarket it was always disappointing. Here in the 21st century, better quality more flavourful vegetables are in the supermarkets, even the discount ones.

When we had a babysitter we'd get to pick a frozen dinner which was super exciting because we actually got to chose what we ate and the packaging was cute. Rareness + choice made it a special treat. Libbyland tasted better than the other frozen dinners, but like them, the texture was distinctly off. I can get far better microwave dinners at literally any store now in a far wider variety.

For the record, I first saw my first micro-wave when I was six and never used one myself until I had my first restaurant job, and didn't live anywhere with one until I was an adult.. As you noted the price point was really high relative to wages. My parents worked three jobs between them and were always struggling. Microwaves were strange exotic rich people things. When I was a teen my dad got my mom a toaster oven for Christmas and it was super exciting.

I do desperately miss a few things like Aspen Soda, but if I want to splurge there are higher end brands I can buy now that I Know are better. It's just Aspen was one of like Four regular priced sodas you could by in half gallon/2 liter plastic bottles. (I remember how angry we were when they used metric conversion as an excuse to do what we now call shrinkflation, but I forget when it happened relative to Aspen soda availability.). The issue here is price point. Aspen was way better than say seven up or rootbeer for the same price, and like birch beer, was a rare treat for special occasions. If you offered me Jones, or Weinhards, or that imported orange soda with real juice and sugar, I'd take that over aspen, but I'd take aspen over any normal priced two liter.

For real, food is SO MUCH better now. The variety is better. The quality is usually better. There are so many good vegetarian and other special diet options that didn't exist yet in the 20th Century. The ground work for a lot of the things I eat now was started in the '70's with both the adoption of more natural foods (often considered hippy foods then) and food varieties from so many other cultures as you mention in your video. Seriously, I am grateful. I am old enough to have had to hand make my veggie burgers as a young adult. I spent the first couple decades I was alive having to eat things that made me some degree of ill because that was all that was available that we could afford. I miss a handful of discontinued foods, but I wouldn't trade all I have now to go back to my options in the '70's.

* "Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-01-28/space-shuttle-challenger-disaster-nasa-explosion-video-engineers/106162902

* "I Survived Canada’s Deadliest Mass Shooter. Then I Had to Prove It:" https://thewalrus.ca/lisa-banfield-portapique/?

* "He called himself an ‘untouchable hacker god’. But who was behind the biggest crime Finland has ever known?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes

* "I Was Kidnapped by Idiots:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/01/kidnapped-baghdad/685470/?gift=9UtyZb3mDuj0SBI8F16FpwE-BYovnJIiA7dUXQGglGg

* "How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs

* "Archive reveals hidden stories of Queer Norfolk:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c301d1np9jjo

* "A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/a-very-big-fight-over-a-very-small-language

* "Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/jollibee-fried-chicken-american-fast-food/684949/

* "104 Year Old Eddy Goldfarb Has Invented Over 800 Iconic Toys:" https://mossandfog.com/104-year-old-eddy-goldfarb-has-invented-over-800-iconic-toys/

* CW: Abuse "I Investigated Dr Phil:"

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* "Shelter pets rescued by the revitalized Seuk’s Army in photos:" https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/animal-rescue-flight-crash-volunteers-seuks-army-316372de52885f3eadaaa5af7e9dd64b

* "Police recover $19k Fabergé egg swallowed by NZ man:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qedglzpwo#0

* "Not Into Bad Bunny? MAGA Halftime Has Kid Rock | Gen Z Olympic Mascots | Help Coldbert Plow Chicago:"

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* "Trump: Republicans Should Nationalize The Elections | "Not A Crime To Party With Epstein":"

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* "Reproductive Horror (On-Screen and Off):"

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* "Nazis Have the Dumbest Star Trek Opinions:"

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* "What Does Star Trek Actually Tell Us About Fascism?:"

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* "The Problem With Saying “Bury Your Gays” Now:"

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* "V For Vendetta ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Does Tough Love Make Strong Men — or Broken Ones? | Therapist Reacts! (Peacemaker):"

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* "Interview With The Vampire ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Weird Al Yankovic Talks Comedy Legacy, eBay, and Dying On Stage:"

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* "Did Regency Women ACTUALLY Wear Wet Dresses?:"

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* "Why is everything boring? (hint: it's not Capitalism):"

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* "Notably Nasty Normans:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uNVNoKZRkCE

* "Gilded Galas:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hD0o31T0RcM

* "Vain Versailles:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jav929QRcFk

* "French Fencing Fighting Fits:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FM9etqwoO98

* "Dramatic Deutsch Duelists:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DYaVI564_uc

* "That 1 Immortal Friend 🙄:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1zV3egiy73w

* "Single On Valentine's Day?:"

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* "Discovering Hilda:" https://www.toilgirls.com/hilda

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "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/

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* "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.

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* 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

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* "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

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* "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

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* "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.

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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.

* "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

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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

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* 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/

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* "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

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* "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

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* "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/

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* "'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/

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* 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/

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* "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

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* "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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* I was ready to post Tuesday, but exhaustion claimed me, and inevitably more news needed to be folded in.

* "Eritrea deploying new army units into Tigray, says regional government :" https://sudantribune.com/article267040/

* "Iran must release protesters' bodies:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63715994

* "Taliban bars Afghan women from public parks, funfairs in Kabul:" https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221110-taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-entering-amusement-parks-in-kabul

* "A jailed Hong Kong lawyer defies Beijing's drive to subjugate the city:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-lawyers-crackdown-hongkong/

* "Jeremy Hunt’s austerity budget: necessity or political choice?:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/15/jeremy-hunts-austerity-budget-necessity-or-political-choice

* "I Emailed My Doctor 133 Times: The Crisis In the British Healthcare System:"

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* "U.K. nurses, struggling to pay bills, say strike is for future of health care:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/19/britain-nurses-strike-vote-inflation/

* "Eddie Izzard on selfish Tories, transphobes and her fight for fairness:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/08/eddie-izzard-labour-mp-trans/

* "Sheku Bayoh's sister received abuse after speaking at death inquiry:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-63676265

* "More than 70,000 UK university staff go on strike over pay and pensions:" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/24/more-than-70000-uk-university-staff-go-on-strike-over-pay-and-pensions

* "Scottish schools shut as teachers strike over pay:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-63734668

* "Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow:" https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ex-russian-spy-flees-to-the-nato-country-that-captured-him-delivering-another-embarrassing-blow-to-moscow-010049616.html

* "South Korea truckers strike again with auto, battery supply chains at risk:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/south-korean-truckers-go-strike-posing-risk-supply-chain-2022-11-23/

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* "What’s the Harm in Talking to Russia? A Lot, Actually.:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/22/russia-ukraine-war-negotiation-diplomacy-settlement-peace-ceasefire-armistice-putin/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editors%20Picks%20OC&utm_term=58702&tpcc=Editors%20Picks%20OC

* "Zelenskiy: Ukrainian forces repel 100 attacks in Donetsk region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-ukrainian-forces-repel-100-attacks-donetsk-region-2022-11-18/

* "Main units of Russia’s airborne forces likely redeployed to Donetsk, Luhansk directions:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3620840-main-units-of-russias-airborne-forces-likely-redeployed-to-donetsk-luhansk-directions.html

* "In Poland, a Warm Welcome for Ukrainian Refugees Wobbles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/world/europe/poland-ukrainian-war-refugees.html

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* "Biden extends student loan repayment freeze as forgiveness program is tied up in courts:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/student-loan-repayment-freeze-extended/index.html

* "SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett Urged to Skip LGBTQ+ Rights Case:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/21/scotus-justice-amy-coney-barrett-urged-skip-lgbtq-rights-case

* "'We Run Two Grocery Stores Where Everything is Free':" https://www.newsweek.com/we-run-two-free-grocery-stores-1734767?fbclid=IwAR3wPEqT1N4AOxWLVhSY61YgCRtYlYo7w0bmUv2coKnb3f-eptwS70LTUCU

* "These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days:" https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/11/15/1136039542/these-companies-ran-an-experiment-pay-workers-their-full-salary-to-work-fewer-da

* "Unions and Management Head Back to Negotiating Table as Strike Looms:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/22/unions-and-management-head-back-negotiating-table-strike-looms

* "Largest rail union rejects contract, stoking fears of a strike:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/1137640529/railroads-freight-rail-unions-vote-contract-strike

* "Congress holds first ever hearing on a congressional seat for the Cherokee Nation:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137534079/cherokee-delegate-congress-hearing-treaty-new-echota

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? 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/

* "Prosecutors drop charges against DeSantis’ voter fraud suspect:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/11/21/tampa-illegal-vote-desantis-voter-fraud-arrest-charges-dropped-hillsborough/

* "Why 21% of Tennessee’s Black Citizens Can’t Vote:" https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-black-voters-disenfranchised

* "In election, support for abortion rights was about much more:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-inflation-health-religion-9c15e24b280fe9c65f4f0c3ab4febb2a

* "Ohio Republicans are trying to make it harder to vote on abortion rights :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ohio-republicans-are-trying-to-make-it-harder-to-vote-on-abortion-rights-154844229918

* "Election officials feared the worst. Here's why baseless claims haven't fueled chaos:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1136537352/2022-election-how-voting-went-misinformation

* "Democrats slam Kevin McCarthy over his vow to remove them from committees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-slam-kevin-mccarthy-vow-remove-committees-rcna58159

* "Schiff contends Republican House majority will 'be chaos' with a 'very weak leader':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/schiff-bemoans-growth-crazy-caucus-house-gop/story?id=93616474

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Promised GOP Will Investigate Pelosi, DOJ: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marjorie-taylor-greene-promised-doj-probe-nancy-pelosi-1234632355/

* "House of Horrors: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress Is Upon Us:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/gop-house-majority-kevin-mccarthy-marjorie-taylor-greene

********** Election results **********

* "Lisa Murkowski Wins Re-election in Alaska, Beating a Trump-Backed Rival:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-alaska-senate-race.html

* "CNN projects Rep. Mary Peltola will win race for Alaska House seat, thwarting Sarah Palin's political comeback again |:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/peltola-palin-alaska-election-results/index.html

* "Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy reelected to second term:" https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/11/23/gov-mike-dunleavy-reelected-to-second-term/

* "Rep. Mary Peltola wins Alaska House race, defeating Sarah Palin:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-mary-peltola-wins-alaska-house-race-defeating-sarah-palin-155106373749

* "Mary Peltola (D) Wins Re-Election in Alaska House Race:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mary-peltola-d-wins-re-election-in-alaska-house-race-155112005993

* "Blake Masters joins Kari Lake's hit song, 'I lost so you cheated':" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/11/18/blake-masters-sings-kari-lake-song-lost-election-stolen/69661340007/

* "Two red counties in Arizona refuse to certify elections. That could backfire.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/two-red-counties-in-arizona-refuse-to-certify-elections-that-could-backfire-155013189525

* "Arizona will recount election results for Attorney General race:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/arizona-will-recount-election-results-for-attorney-general-race-155021381785

* "Rep. David Valadao wins reelection in endangered Central Valley congressional seat:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-21/2022david-valadao-rudy-salas-congress-central-valley

* "Rep. Karen Bass elected as next Los Angeles Mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-karen-bass-elected-as-next-los-angeles-mayor-154700357660

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* "Georgia counties scramble to meet new deadlines as Senate runoff looms:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/19/georgia-runoff-election-voting-law/

* "Georgia Supreme Court denies Republican bid to halt early voting in the Senate runoff Saturday:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/georgia-supreme-court-shoots-republican-bid-halt-early-voting-senate-r-rcna58554

* "Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker getting tax break in 2022 on Texas home intended for primary residence:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/kfile-herschel-walker-texas-tax-break-georgia-runoff/index.html

* "Herschel Walker accuser comes forward with fresh relationship claims:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/22/herschel-walker-us-senate-abortion-relationship

* "Herschel Walker Says 'This Erection Is About the People' During Fox News Appearance:" https://www.thewrap.com/herschel-walker-says-this-erection-is-about-the-people-during-fox-news-appearance-video/

* "Herschel Walker claims Texas as his primary residence on taxes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/herschel-walker-claims-texas-as-his-primary-residence-on-taxes-155108421803

* "Veteran GOP Strategist: Herschel Walker running for Senate 'was a ridiculous idea':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/veteran-gop-strategist-herschel-walker-running-for-senate-was-a-ridiculous-idea-155117637699

* "How Musk's Twitter takeover could endanger vulnerable users:" https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-tech-twitter/feature-how-musks-twitter-takeover-could-endanger-vulnerable-users-idINL8N3250CW

* "Elon Musk's Twitter Is 'Hellscape' for LGBTQ+ People, Critics Say:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/02/elon-musks-twitter-hellscape-lgbtq-people-critics-say

* "Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-twitter-poll-showing-narrow-majority-want-trump-reinstated-2022-11-20/

* *headdesk* "Kanye West running for president in 2024 – with ‘ex-gay’ Milo Yiannopoulos:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/kanye-west-milo-yiannopoulos-presidential-campaign/

* "Lindsey Graham testifies before Georgia grand jury in election probe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/22/lindsey-graham-georgia-grand-jury/

* "Manhattan Prosecutors Move to Jump-Start Criminal Inquiry Into Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/nyregion/trump-bragg-stormy-daniels.html

* "Appeals court is dubious of Trump's arguments for special master review of Mar-a-Lago search:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/appeals-court-trump-doj-mar-a-lago-docs

* "Supreme Court clears way for Trump tax returns to go to Congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/22/supreme-court-trump-taxes/

* "Prosecutors seek Mike Pence’s testimony on Jan. 6 grand jury probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/23/mike-pence-testimony-jan-6-grand-jury-00070778

* "Lessons from a World War II scandal that put the Justice Department to the test.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lessons-from-a-world-war-ii-scandal-that-put-the-justice-department-to-the-test-154852421830

* "Decision Fatigue:" https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/11/decision-fatigue.html

* "There Are No Lone Wolves:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/us-white-supremacy-violence.html

* This was the Trans Day of Remembrance. Another Republican Terrorist has attacked our community and killed our people. "Mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/colorado-springs-club-q-mass-shooting/index.html

* "Tributes pour in after five people killed in horrifying mass shooting at gay bar:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/20/colorado-mass-shooting-tributes/

* "Suspect named after five killed in horrifying mass shooting at gay nightclub:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/20/colorado-mass-shooting-gay-club-q-anderson-lee-aldrich/

* "Chasten Buttigieg, Others Slam Lauren Boebert’s Massacre Statement:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/20/chasten-buttigieg-others-slam-lauren-boeberts-massacre-statement

Republicans call dehumanize us and call for our deaths and then pretend to be surprised when terrorists they encouraged actually do it.

* "Club Q Shooting Survivor: Where Will We Go to Feel Safe Now?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/20/club-q-shooting-survivor-where-will-we-go-feel-safe-now

* "Club Q Shooting Comes Amid Increased Attacks on LGBTQ+ Venues:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/20/club-q-shooting-colorado-comes-amid-increased-attacks-lgbtq-venues

* "The Tragedy at Club Q, the Tipping Point, & the Bloodbath:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/11/20/tragedy-club-q-tipping-point-bloodbath

* "Biden, Polis, and More Call Out Gun Violence, Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/20/biden-polis-and-more-call-out-gun-violence-anti-lgbtq-bigotry

* Because of course she did. "Marjorie Taylor Greene Uses Gay Club Mass Shooting to Lie About Drugs:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/11/20/marjorie-taylor-greene-uses-gay-club-mass-shooting-lie-about-drugs

* "3 Victims of Colorado Springs Gay Club Shooting Remembered:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/3-victims-colorado-springs-gay-club-shooting-remembered

* "Colorado LGBTQ+ shooting suspect charged with hate crime as bomb arrest emerges:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-shooting-suspect-charged/

* "Photos: Who Were the 5 Victims of the Club Q Shooting?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/photos-who-were-5-victims-club-q-shooting-colorado-springs#media-gallery-media-1

* "LGB Alliance condemned for shameful response to Colorado LGBTQ+ shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/colorado-springs-shooting-lgb-alliance/

* "Club Q Victims, Heroes Identified by Colorado Springs Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/club-q-victims-heroes-identified-colorado-springs-police

* "Meet the Man Who Took Down the Club Q Gunman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/21/meet-man-who-took-down-club-q-gunman

* "Army vet explains how he stopped Colorado shooter with help of trans woman:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/richard-fierro-trans-woman-colorado-shooting/

* "Mother of trans man killed in Colorado Springs shooting issues powerful plea:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/mother-colorado-springs-shooting-speaks-out/

* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez links Colorado shooting to anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-colorado-springs-shooting/

* "Accused Colorado nightclub gunman grandson of longtime East County politician:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2022-11-20/accused-colorado-nightclub-gunman-grandson-of-longtime-east-county-politician

* "Sailor Who Heroically Intervened in Club Q Shooting Recovering in the Hospital:" https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/11/22/sailor-who-heroically-intervened-club-q-shooting-recovering-hospital.html

* "Herschel Walker Blasted for Anti-Trans Rants After Club Q Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/11/22/herschel-walker-blasted-anti-trans-rants-after-club-q-shooting

* "Gays Against Groomers Blames Gender-Affirming Care for Club Q Massacre:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/23/gays-against-groomers-founder-blames-gender-affirming-care-club-q-massacre

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene calls gay Democrat a 'groomer' after Club Q shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-scott-weiner-club-q-shooting-colorado-springs-groomer/

* "Colorado Springs shooter denied bail after first appearance in court:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/24/colorado-springs-shooter-denied-bail/

* "Club Q shooter’s dad more worried about his child being gay than a murderer:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/24/colorado-springs-shooting-father-anti-gay-rant/

* "The Club Q mass shooter is trolling, he's a homophobic man according to friends and family:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/23/2137984/-The-Q-Club-mass-shooter-is-trolling-he-s-a-homophobic-man-according-to-those-who-know-him?_=2022-11-23T00:34:30.000-08:00

* "TV anchor sent disgusting homophobic abuse for covering Club Q shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/colorado-springs-shooting-tv-anchor-receives-abuse/

* Lauren Boebert lies like a rug. "Lauren Boebert claims she's never said anything bad about LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/lauren-boebert-colorado-springs-shooting-anti-lgbtq/

* "Co-Owners of Club Q discuss aftermath of mass shooting:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/five-dead-18-injured-after-shooting-at-colorado-springs-lgbtq-club-154856005747

* "Club Q shooting: Fierro serves as rebuttal to right's bigotry toward queer spaces:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/club-q-shooting-fierro-serves-as-rebuttal-to-right-s-bigotry-toward-queer-spaces-155013189880

* "Ed Sanders, Club Q shooting survivor, recounts his experience:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ed-sanders-club-q-shooting-survivor-recounts-his-experience-155018309974

* "Pulse Survivors, Community Send Support to Club Q in Colorado Springs:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/22/pulse-survivors-community-send-support-club-q-colorado-springs

* "Pulse survivor sends support to Club Q victims and issues urgent plea:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/24/pulse-survivor-brandon-wolf-plea/

* "How to Help Those Affected by the Club Q Tragedy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/how-help-those-affected-club-q-tragedy

* "Mass Shootings Continue to Scar Colorado since Columbine in 1999:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/21/mass-shootings-continue-scar-colorado-columbine-1999

* "12 recent mass shootings that gained national attention:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-recent-mass-shootings-gained-national-attention/story?id=93851575

* "The Colorado attack is the 7th mass shooting in 7 days in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/us/7-mass-shootings-7-days-trnd/index.html

* "Shooting at Walmart in Virginia Adds to Nation’s Grim Gun Toll:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/walmart-shooting.html

* "Man arrested in ‘executions’ of 4 at Oklahoma pot farm:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/22/oklahoma-hostages-killed-marijuana-farm/

* "Four Students Are Injured in Shooting Near Philadelphia High School:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/us/philadelphia-school-shooting.html

* "Police looking for help from public to solve shootings in West Palm Beach:" https://cbs12.com/news/local/police-looking-for-help-from-public-to-solve-shootings-in-west-palm-beach-november-18-2022

* "One death at a time, gun violence claimed more than 400 lives in just three North Texas counties:" https://www.keranews.org/news/2022-11-01/one-death-at-a-time-gun-violence-claimed-more-than-400-lives-in-just-three-north-texas-counties

* "Deported Trans Activist Murdered in the Street:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/07/deported-trans-activist-murdered-street

* "Inside One of America’s Deadliest Police Departments:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1ll7JR5Lc

* DO NOT WANT!!!! "SFPD authorized to kill suspects using robots in draft policy:" https://missionlocal.org/2022/11/killer-robots-to-be-permitted-under-sfpd-draft-policy/

* "Cover-Up Over Killing of Gay Rapper Kevin Fret?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/07/cover-over-killing-gay-rapper-kevin-fret

* CW: Rape. "DNA Evidence Links 1980s Murders of D.C. Lesbian, Another Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/31/dna-evidence-links-1980s-murders-dc-lesbian-another-woman

* "Kentucky Student Arrested for Assaulting Black Student Worker:" https://advocatechannel.com/kentucky-student-arrested-for-assaulting-black-student-worker

* "Patrons Outraged Over Racist, Transphobic Show at Famous Leather Bar:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/03/patrons-outraged-over-racist-transphobic-show-famous-leather-bar

* "ACLU Tells Michigan Schools to Reverse Book Bans:" https://advocatechannel.com/aclu-tells-michigan-schools-to-reverse-book-bans

* "School District Pulls 7 LGBTQ+ Books From Shelves:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/08/wisconsin-school-district-pulls-7-lgbtq-books-shelves

* "Texas Rights Groups File Legal Complaint Over Ban on LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/texas-rights-groups-file-legal-complaint-over-ban-lgbtq-books

* CW: Rape "'Bondi Beast' serial rapist identified after almost 40 years:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-63699882

* CW: Sexual Assault. I believe the accuser. "Sex worker abused by Boy George blasts ‘hurtful’ I’m a Celebrity casting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/06/boy-george-assault-victim-im-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here-audun-carlsen/

* CW: Pedophilia "What Does it Mean To Be “Groomed”?:" https://thenib.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-groomed/

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'How Many Women Were Abused to Make That Tesla?':" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tesla-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-investigation-elon-musk-1234590697/

* "Gay Black Man Discovers He Can't Donate Sperm:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/10/24/gay-black-man-discovers-he-cant-donate-sperm

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* Georgians! Do not forget to vote! "Georgia Supreme Court reinstates six-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/23/politics/georgia-abortion-ban-supreme-court/index.html

* "Arizona Will Not Enforce 1864 Abortion Ban... Until Next Year:" https://advocatechannel.com/arizona-will-not-enforce-1864-abortion-ban-until-next-year

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* "Dubbed torture, ID policies leave transgender people sterile:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-sterilization-e2cd525389eb17bf5201fa0fcbabdbf3

* "Russia's State Duma Approves Bill to Ban 'LGBT propaganda':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/24/russias-state-duma-approves-bill-ban-lgbt-propaganda

* "New Australian Commission Examines Infamous String of Antigay Murders:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/03/new-australian-commission-examines-infamous-string-antigay-murders

* "Tokyo Same-Sex Couples Start Receiving Partnership Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/11/01/tokyo-same-sex-couples-start-receiving-partnership-certificates

* "Trans Day of Remembrance vigil filled with heartfelt memories of lives lost in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/trans-day-of-remembrance-soho-square-event/

* "Trans woman who died after 1,000 days on NHS wait list remembered by sister:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/21/trans-day-of-remembrance-alice-litman/

* "Liberal Democrats quitting over party's controversial definition of transphobia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/23/liberal-democrats-transphobia-definition-backlash-layla-moran/

* "British Airways drops archaic gendered rules for staff:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/11/british-airways-male-staff-to-wear-piercings-and-makeup/

* "‘Former detransitioner’ Ky Schevers on rebuilding her life after falling for ‘cult-like’ TERFs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/11/ky-schevers-detransition/

* "The magical moment I realised I was definitely not a woman:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/20/trans-non-binary-coming-out-nancy-eves-just-like-us/

* I am terribly disappointed in Stephen Fry.

How exactly are we meant to compromise with people who want trans people dead, to harm children, who are also Neo-NAZI allied antisemites. What does half way on genocide look like exactly? Does he think half of all trans people including the children agree to be sacrificed to the bigotry of Neo-NAZI TERFs? Ought we agree to give up half our civil and human rights? Because none of this looks good to me.

* "Non-binary firefighter assaulted and choked by colleagues due to their gender:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/12/non-binary-firefighter-ottawa-canada-hate-crime/

* "Here Are the Trans Americans Killed in 2022 So Far:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/5/06/here-are-trans-americans-killed-2022-so-far

* "Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors Those We've Lost to Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/11/20/transgender-day-remembrance-honors-those-weve-lost-violence

* "Meet 3 LGBTQ+ Scientists Putting Pride in STEM:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/18/meet-3-lgbtq-scientists-putting-pride-stem

* "Bills Introduced in Tenn. to Ban Drag Shows, Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/09/bills-introduced-tenn-ban-drag-shows-gender-affirming-care

* "Veteran Sues Defense Department Over Daughter's Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/22/veteran-sues-defense-department-over-daughters-gender-affirming-care

* Medical Discrimination kills. "Texas judge rules homophobia and transphobia in healthcare is absolutely fine:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/12/texas-judge-lgbtq-discrimination-healthcare-matthew-kacsmaryk/

* "Texas Appeals Court Dismisses Anti-Marriage Equality Official's Suit:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/04/texas-appeals-court-dismisses-anti-marriage-equality-officials-suit

* "Kansas School District OK's Anti-Trans Restroom, Sports Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/11/08/kansas-school-district-oks-anti-trans-restroom-sports-policy

* "Florida's Medical Boards Disagree on Access to Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/breaking-news/2022/11/04/breaking-floridas-medical-boards-disagree-gender-affirming-care

* "Queer Teen Accused of Stabbing Boyfriend to Death:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/12/queer-teen-accused-stabbing-boyfriend-death

* "Is a Gang in New York Murdering Gay Men?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/10/gang-men-killing-gay-men-new-york-city

* "Gay Men Say They Feel Lucky To Be Alive After Being Drugged, Robbed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/22/gay-men-say-they-feel-lucky-be-alive-after-being-drugged-robbed

* "Video: NYC Gay Bar Vandalized Three Times in a Week:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/21/video-nyc-gay-bar-vandalized-three-times-week

* Yet another Right Wing Terrorist. "Suspect Indicted for Setting Fire to LGBTQ+ Spaces in Manhattan:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/04/suspect-indicted-setting-fire-lgbtq-spaces-manhattan

* Republican Terrorists strike again. "Doughnut Shop Attacked With Molotov Cocktail After Drag Queen Event:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/11/03/doughnut-shop-attacked-molotov-cocktail-after-drag-queen-event

* "School Pulls Campers After Complaints Over Nonbinary Cabin Counselors:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/02/school-pulls-campers-after-complaints-over-nonbinary-cabin-counselors

* This is what Republicans want. "Cis Woman Mistaken as Transgender Records Being Berated in Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/01/cis-woman-mistaken-transgender-records-being-berated-bathroom

* "Iran players remain silent during national anthem at World Cup in apparent protest at Iranian regime:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/football/iran-national-anthem-england-2022-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html

* "Families of migrant workers who died in Qatar are waiting for answers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/18/qatar-world-cup-migrant-workers/

* Given that FOIFA is so strongly against human rights that they approve of the kadha system that has lead to so many deaths building their stadium in 120 degree heat is should be no suprise that they are taking such a strong official stance against LGBTQIA+ human rights as well. "World Cup Officials Won't Allow Players to Wear Pro-LGBTQ+ Armbands:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/11/21/world-cup-officials-wont-allow-players-wear-pro-lgbtq-armbands

* "FIFA 'blackmailed' World Cup teams into ditching LGBTQ+ armband:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/fifa-qatar-world-cup-blackmail-onelove-lgbtq-armband-germany-dfb/

* "Belgium ordered to remove hidden ‘love’ message from World Cup shirts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/22/fifa-belgian-love-jersey/

* "World Cup Security Denying Entry to Those Supporting LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/11/22/world-cup-security-denying-entry-those-supporting-lgbtq-rights

* "Disney Fires Bob Chapek, Rehires Bob Iger After 'Don't Say Gay' Mess:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/21/disney-fires-bob-chapek-rehires-bob-iger-after-dont-say-gay-mess

* "An HIV Therapeutic Vaccine, aka a Cure, Inches Forward:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/11/07/hiv-therapeutic-vaccine-aka-cure-inches-forward

* "This African Nation Just Hit an HIV Milestone:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/world-news/2022/11/10/african-nation-just-hit-hiv-milestone

* "Military Ban on People Living With HIV Faces Legal Challenge:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/10/military-ban-people-living-hiv-faces-legal-challenge

* "A Better Understanding of HIV's Effect on the Immune System:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/research-breakthroughs/2022/11/10/better-understanding-hivs-effect-immune-system

* "Some Good News From Florida: Orange County Shows Declining HIV Rates:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/11/09/some-good-news-florida-orange-county-shows-declining-hiv-rates

* Why are we doing more of this, instead of repealing all the Regan/Bush era laws? all this does is create stigma, discourage testing (thus increasing transmission), and ruin the lives of people for no reason. "Dem Governor Signs Bill Punishing HIV Transmission With Prison:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/2022/11/09/dem-governor-signs-bill-punishing-hiv-transmission-prison

* "HIV myths busted: Everything you need to know about prevention options:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/14/hiv-myths-busted/

* "Ask Dr. D: Why Isn't My Monkeypox Spot Going Away?:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/ask-tell/2022/11/04/ask-dr-d-why-isnt-my-monkeypox-spot-going-away

* "New Orleans Teacher, Two Others Found Dead in Mexico City Airbnb:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/09/new-orleans-teacher-two-others-found-dead-mexico-city-airbnb

* "Police Investigating as Four People Fall Sick at LAX Airport:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/31/police-investigating-four-people-fall-sick-lax-airport

* "'Viral jambalaya': Early flu adding to woes for US hospitals:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-covid-flu-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-4bb3180fce1ca15bb7bf4244d5c4085e

* "Children's health leaders call for emergency response as respiratory viruses continue to spread across the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/health/flu-rsv-spread-emergency-response

* "A Weird Trick to Get Doctors to Listen to You:" https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2022/11/4/a-weird-trick-to-get-doctors-to-listen-to-you

* CW: Eating Disorders "Hospitalizations for eating disorders grew in the pandemic. The problem isn't over, experts say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/health/eating-disorders-pandemic-wellness/index.html

* "The global economics behind America's fentanyl problem:" https://qz.com/the-global-economics-behind-americas-fentanyl-problem-1849729612

* "Just Deal With It: Married Same-Sex Couples Deal Better With Stress:" https://www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2022/11/03/just-deal-it-married-same-sex-couples-deal-better-stress

* "Please Don’t Lick the Psychedelic Toads, Man:" https://www.outtraveler.com/safety/2022/11/07/please-dont-lick-psychedelic-toads-man

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* "UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts:" https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-john-kerry-climate-and-environment-18f6e5cb8183c59ceaf0cf2408842e6c

* "Shocker, Most Middle Schoolers Learn Next to Nothing About Climate Change:" https://advocatechannel.com/shocker-most-middle-schoolers-learn-next-to-nothing-about-climate-change

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* "Earthquake Leaves Devastation, 56 Dead in Indonesia:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/21/earthquake-leaves-devastation-56-dead-indonesia

* "How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/08/how-to-move-a-country-fiji-radical-plan-escape-rising-seas-climate-crisis

* "The largest dam demolition in history is approved for a Western river:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137442481/dam-demolition-klamath-river-california-federal-regulators-salmon

* "Billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, study finds:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/07/world/billionaires-greenhouse-gases-climate-intl/index.html

* "U.S. colleges talk green. But they have a dirty secret:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-pollution-universities/

* "Descend Into the Sewers With London’s Fatberg:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/london-fatberg-sewer-excerpt

* "The Car Safety Feature That Kills the Other Guy:" https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html

* "Local ride-hailing startups thrive in the towns that Uber forgot:" https://restofworld.org/2022/local-ride-hailing-startups-thrive-uber-didi/

* "NASA Spacecraft Finishes Its Close Encounter With the Moon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/science/nasa-artemis-orion-moon-pictures.html

* "Virgin Boeing 747 to Launch Rocket Into Space:" https://www.outtraveler.com/airlines/2022/10/27/virgin-boeing-747-launch-rocket-space

* "Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Takes Off on Secret Mission:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/01/elon-musks-spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-takes-secret-mission

* "Debris from Space Shuttle Challenger Just Discovered in Ocean:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/11/11/debris-space-shuttle-challenger-discovered-underwater

* "How 'seafloor detectives' uncovered the secrets of the world's biggest underwater volcano:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/world/underwater-volcano-hunters-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-scn-hnk-spc-intl/index.html

* Late stage capitalist dystopia. "COMPANIES ALREADY INVESTING IN TECH TO SCAN EMPLOYEES’ BRAINS:" https://futurism.com/the-byte/companies-investing-tech-scan-employees-brains

* "Qatar World Cup: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "T**** Allowed Back On Twitter, Won't "Partake" In Special Counsel | Why Qatar Was A Bad Choice:"

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* "Are You Getting Scammed On Your Dating App?:"

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* "A Cloud Over The World Cup | New York's Massive Weed Stockpile:"

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* "Meanwhile… Belgium Has Too Much Cocaine | Musk Down $100 Billion In 2022:"

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* "Fine Points Cleveland Gets The #ColbertSmallBizBump With Help From “NCIS: Los Angeles”:"

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* "The President Of FIFA Feels A Lot Of Different Things:"

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* "Joe Biden Is Soft On Poultry And Soft On Crime:"

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* "Michael Shannon's Thanksgiving Album:"

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* Wednesday, both Millennials had assorted errands. We got them all, including mine, but they ate most of our spoons. Still, there are things that must be done for all of us before friendsgiving.

Notable thing that happened. At forage, I was waiting for a cart, leaning on crutch and line divider pole, burning spoons, my hips on fire. A family that turned up after me was waiting in line too. an able bodied person sharked the next cart that came in, and was stubborn about it being hers to me.

The check in lady politely but firmly made her turn it over to me because I was next. O.o

Number of places that I know staff will stop line jumpers is now officially two, the other being the Post Office.

The Imperial couple were So Good Wednesday. Tavy took turns which meant Livia got all the uninterrupted bed pets she wanted and Livia decided that even though there were two Millennials visiting, she was going to come out periodically for pets and treats. So brave. Techie Millennial saw more of her in a shortish visit than they possibly ever had.

Tavy DID get overstimulated, but he didn't bite anyone. he did hurt me, but it was an accident as he failed a dex roll and fell on me, at which point he understandably panicked.

When I got back from dropping people off, I walked in on them were running back and forth between my bedroom and Squirrel's door like they were doing a sprinting drill. Livia wore out first and sensible settled in her Happy Place wanting a nap. Tavy decided to do desk laps back and forth over two desks and laptop I was trying to work on until he too finally wound down to both Livia and my relief.

They spent the rest of the night, him in his special heated bed, her in her scratch box on my desk, rising for the occasional snack and/or love, then going right back to bed. I love it went we hang out together peaceably like we have the last few days.

* Chuck Tingle on Masking: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/701671748966432768/something-ive-been-curious-about-if-it-wouldnt

* Is this some sort of record? I woke up a few days ago with Goncharov suddenly all over my dash having been invented while I was asleep. By the time I woke up the next a whole developed fandom was there with gifs, analysis, discourse, posters, fanart, fanfic etc.. By evening mainstream media had found it. By 1:54 AM Tumblr was noticeable turning on it. It's now night three and there is a soundtrack and a ridiculously high number of fanFics on AO3.

I is the fundamentally creatively collaborative nature of Tumblr and the cultural sense of humor that have kept me there through good times and bad for so long.

* Re: The Locked Tomb:
I have thinking about what happens to planets after the spirit is killed and things like the fish on Canaan and odd seal behavior and the turnips on the ninth and the implications for why the ninth house was having so much trouble reproducing.

*shudder*

But it’s more than a low fertility rate. The animals etc. change slowly after. Humans are animals. I think it goes deeper than where necromancers come from. I keep thinking about the way the ninth house culture is in Gideon the Ninth. The way the pairs (and triad) were in Gideon. What we know about the seventh and fourth. The peculiarities of second, third, and eighth necromancy and their psychological implications. Some of the houses seem more effected than others, but I think it’s there in all of them.

I am thinking all sorts of half formed things about the differences between people raised on Thanargy dominant worlds vs. the Resettled.

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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.

* "How to Help Those Affected by the Club Q Tragedy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/11/22/how-help-those-affected-club-q-tragedy

* List of educational, diverse, and/or long term playable toys for things like Toys for Tots. High value toys for 20 dollars or less.: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/44WV8EVUP1Y

* On SCOTUS possibly repealing the act that prevents white people from stealing native babies, robbing them of their culture. contains how to help links at bottom: https://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/701035342837547008

* How to help HarperCollins strikers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/700611167247368192/waterhobbit-shaelit-we-interrupt-this-lovely

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

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