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* "General Strike to Take Place Nationwide on April 5: Here’s What Is Impacted:" https://www.newsweek.com/general-strike-nationwide-april-5-affected-11767415

* Once again I'm having to cut it off early because Action Items.

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* "Feuding French Socialists leave presidential prospects in disarray:" https://www.politico.eu/article/french-socialists-party-divisions-2027-election/

* "‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/04/bally-bagayoko-austerity-politics-french-mayor-tackling-far-right

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* Normally I try to do a big sampling of protests from around the country, but given my situation and just how bad last week was in incredibly time consuming ways, I'm going to have to limit my No Kings Coverage. About 8 million people showed up, and there were huge gains in red parts of the country. Stay strong. Stay noisy!

* "No Kings protests draw large crowds to rally against Donald Trump:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8wy7g1gd1o

* "‘The more they come down on us, the more we come together’: 14 No Kings protesters on where to go from here:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/30/no-kings-protest-crowds

* "'No Kings' rallies draw crowds across U.S. and Europe as Springsteen headlines Minnesota demonstration:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/no-kings-rallies-draw-crowds-across-u-s-and-europe-as-springsteen-headlines-minnesota-demonstration

* "‘No Kings’ protests held to rally against Trump administration, in photos:" https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-minnesota-springsteen-immigration-war-b4ce14b0ab16d148f4fdbe642c20fdb2?

* "No Kings: Vast Throngs Say No to Trump:" https://archive.ph/CN0Gh

* "Photos: 'No Kings' protests across the country:" https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2026/03/28/g-s1-115637/photos-no-kings-protests-across-the-country

* "5 Takeaways From the ‘No Kings’ Rallies as the Midterms Heat Up:" https://archive.ph/L2yAK

* Transgender activists rally in D.C. as nationwide protests bring out millions:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/transgender-support-rally-no-kings

* "Trump Stronghold Holds Largest Ever ‘No Kings’ Protest:" https://www.newsweek.com/trump-stronghold-holds-largest-ever-no-kings-protest-11752730

* "Macon No Kings event ends abruptly when sheriff tries to address concerns about cooperation with ICE:" https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/03/28/macon-no-kings-event-ends-abruptly-when-sheriff-tries-to-address-concerns-about-cooperation-with-ice/

* "Seattle police estimate at least 75K 'No Kings' protesters marched through downtown Seattle:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/protests/where-no-kings-protests-are-happening-this-weekend-western-washington/281-7c1c6f6a-0367-43b5-8538-abf637568c88

* "Thousands turn out — again — as third ‘No Kings’ rallies take over Maryland streets:" https://marylandmatters.org/2026/03/28/thousands-turn-out-again-as-third-no-kings-rallies-take-over-maryland-streets/

* "So you went to a No Kings protest. Now what?:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/29/no-kings-protest-next-steps-activism

* "Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-general-strike

* "Why all campus workers should join the May Day 2026 General Strike:" https://higheredlaborunited.org/2026/03/26/why-all-campus-workers-should-join-the-may-day-2026-general-strike/

* "Trump warns US will hit Iran ‘extremely hard’ over next two to three weeks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/trump-warns-u-s-will-hit-iran-extremely-hard-over-next-two-to-three-weeks-00855071

* "Trump fails to reassure investors on Iran war:" https://www.semafor.com/article/04/02/2026/trump-fails-to-reassure-investors-on-iran-war

* "‘Massive political failure’: Hayes, Wallace react to Trump prime-time address:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/massive-political-failure-hayes-wallace-react-to-trump-prime-time-address-2494802499623

* "Trump Says There’s No Money for Daycare Because We Have to Fight Wars:" https://newrepublic.com/post/208523/trump-no-money-daycare-medicare-fight-wars-military

* "White House denigrates non-cisgender people on Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/white-house-trans-day-visibility

* "Over her short tenure as Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi terrorized LGBTQ+ Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/pam-bondi-lgbtq-attacks-tenure

* "Trump fires staunch defender Pam Bondi:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/pam-bondi-fired-attorney-general

* "Once again, a woman takes the fall for an unpopular president:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/pam-bondi-trump-women-trend

* "Thank goodness Pam Bondi’s abhorrent tenure as AG is over:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/pam-bondi-out

* "Top Oversight Democrat says fired AG Pam Bondi ‘must answer’ for Epstein files:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/robert-garcia-pam-bondi-fired

* "Swalwell denies Bondi leaked to him, says Trump is ‘seeing ghosts’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/trump-seeing-ghosts-swalwell-denies-bondi-was-fired-over-leaks-to-him-2494971971554

* "The Trump Administration Admits to Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons:" https://transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-admits-to

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* CW: Child Abuse. "Kids can be subjected to harmful 'conversion therapy,’ U.S. Supreme Court rules:" https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-rejects-conversion-therapy-bans

Child Abuse is now legal as the 1st Amendment right for adults to harm children all they want trumps the right to life and to not be abused for children.

* CW: Child Abuse. "The Supreme Court just handed conversion therapy a new license for violence:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/conversion-therapy-scotus-violence

* "Kentucky governor condemns Supreme Court conversion therapy ruling:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/andy-beshear-scotus-conversion-therapy

* "Outrage at Stonewall after Supreme Court voids Colorado's conversion therapy ban:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/stonewall-conversion-therapy-protest

* "Republicans Flirt With Kicking Americans Off Health Care to Fund Iran War:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-health-care-cuts-fund-iran-war-1235538768/

* "Congress eyes DHS shutdown endgame:" https://www.semafor.com/article/04/02/2026/congress-eyes-dhs-shutdown-endgame

* "Trump says he’ll sign order to resume pay for Homeland Security. His move bypasses Congress:" https://apnews.com/article/senate-funding-homeland-security-shutdown-4a3e4a3e77bd33213b98888e79a81f51

* "Lindsey Graham seen dining at Disney World, as airport lines grow:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/lindsey-graham-disney-shutdown-photographs

Please call your Senators and encourage them to stay firm.

* "Only some driver’s licenses usable for voter registration under the SAVE America Act:" https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-save-act-identification-register-vote-d11d41b59f943bb72bcdca2d781293b7

I beg you to fight hard against the SAVE America Act because it's likely game over for American Democracy and absolutely deadly for trans people if they win this one.

* The goal of the SAVE Act is to make it illegal on a federal level for married women and trans people and people who can't afford expensive ID to vote.

I am really alarmed I am about to be stripped of my right to vote, that a large portion of Americans are about to be stripped of their right to vote.

Resistance in the Senate is Weakening. Please contact your Senators!

Please contact your US Senators to tell them to vote AGAINST the SAVE ACT

* Here is a model email: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2767709.html

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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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* We are in primary season now. States vote at different times, so I beg ALL of you to check when your state is voting. If you are in an in-person vote state, research ahead of time so you can vote for the candidate with views closest to your own. If you vote by mail, take the time to look them up when your ballot comes.

THIS is how you move the party further LEFT.

PLAN YOUR VOTE!!!

Primary schedule here:

* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/

I don't know where you live, so I can't link this for you, but I find the Progressive Voter Guide online very helpful in narrowing down candidates in the often packed primaries where I live.

I also suggest looking at things like volunteer work and endorsements, because it really, really helps with things like sheriff and judicial elections, but can be useful in all sorts of primaries when you have multiple good options.

REMEMBER: Don't just vote for the big things like US Congress. Vote in every State and local race down to the smallest and on all the referendums.

State and local elections have a massive impact on your quality of life.

* Indiana! Ohio! Don't forget to vote in the Primaries May 5!

* "Idaho governor signs law making transgender bathroom use a felony:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/idaho-trans-bathroom-bill-signed

The goal of this is to make it a felony for trans people to exist in public as trans people can't do things like work or go to school as they need to go home every few hours to pee.

* "The Idaho legislature isn’t governing. It’s hunting transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/idaho-bathoom-hunting-transgender-people

* "The Idaho legislature isn’t governing. It’s hunting transgender people:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/idaho-bathoom-hunting-transgender-people

* "Idaho’s bathroom bill isn’t just about bathrooms. It never was:" https://www.advocate.com/opinion/idaho-bathroom-bill-oped

* "Tennessee House passes de facto transgender registry bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/tennessee-house-transgender-registry

There is no non-genocide reason to do this.

* "Rabbi banned from state senate gallery after protesting anti-trans bill: “I’m doing what God wants”:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/rabbi-banned-from-state-gallery-after-protesting-anti-trans-bill-im-doing-what-god-wants/

* "The Real Origins of the Religious Right:" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

* CW: CSA. "The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science:" https://www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-billionaires-eugenics-project-harvard-academia-john-brockman

* "Diversity Is Our Strength:" https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/diversity-is-our-strength/

* "The Incredible Shrinking CPAC:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/the-incredible-shrinking-cpac/

* "CPAC crowd humiliates Trump with cheers for impeachment:" https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/cpac-crowd-humiliates-trump-with-cheers-for-impeachment-2494170691504

* "Shots fired at Myrtle Beach gay nightclub, one detained:" https://www.advocate.com/news/shooting-myrtle-beach-gay-club

* "Prosecutor Reacts to Afroman Trial:"

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* "Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas’ Bible-infused curriculum:" https://apnews.com/article/bible-texas-school-curriculum-97c62dba31ea9c68e496a24085b60759

They should not be doing this at all.

* "‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning:" https://www.404media.co/blockade-the-right-is-using-ai-content-scanners-to-try-to-supercharge-book-banning/

They should not be doing this at all.

* "Fired for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ books, Tennessee librarian says she’d do it again:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/fired-tn-library-director-speaks

* "I have major ethical concerns about the Adolescent and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study (AYAGDOS):" https://queersciencelab.beehiiv.com/p/i-have-major-ethical-concerns-about-the-adolescent-and-young-adult-gender-dysphoria-outcomes-study-a

* "Many alleged suicides of Black trans women are in fact modern-day lynchings, report finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/black-trans-women-modern-lynching

* "As gender-affirming care gets harder to access under Trump, trans people turn to GoFundMe:" https://www.advocate.com/news/people/gofundme-transgender-care-tdov

* "This Trans Day of Visibility, help these 5 trans people afford gender-affirming surgery costs:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/transgender-health-gofundme

* Fuck the IOC! "Olympics cave to Trump, banning transgender women from competition:" https://www.advocate.com/news/olympics-ban-transgender-women

They should not be holding games here. It's not safe for the athletes, coaches, and families.

* "The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up:" https://www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics-has-a-new-sex-testing-policy-the-evidence-doesnt-add-up/

* "The Ugly History Behind the Olympics’ New Gender Test:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/olympics-gender-testing-anti-trans-genetic-chromosomes-caster-semenya-nazis/

* "A New, Fungal STI Is Quietly Emerging: Everything You Should Know About TMVII:" https://www.them.us/story/new-fungal-sti-quietly-emerging-what-is-tmvii

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* "Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me:" https://www.theverge.com/podcast/898715/superhuman-grammarly-expert-review-shishir-mehrotra-interview-ai-impersonation

* "OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment:" https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/

* CW: Suicide. "Jury finds Meta and Google negligent in social media harms trial:" https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5746125/meta-youtube-social-media-trial-verdict

* CW: CSA. "Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, jury rules:" https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/24/jury-reaches-verdict-in-meta-child-safety-trial-in-new-mexico.html

* "I Decompiled the White House's New App:" https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app?ICID=ref_fark

* "Witness Caught Using Smartglasses in Court Blames it all on ChatGPT:" https://www.404media.co/witness-caught-using-smartglasses-in-court-blames-it-all-on-chatgpt/

* "FCC bans import of new consumer routers made overseas, citing security risks:" https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/fcc-bans-import-of-new-consumer-routers-made-overseas-citing-security-risks/

* "NASA launches Artemis II astronauts on mission around the moon:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/live-blog/nasa-artemis-ii-launch-time-watch-moon-mission-live-updates-rcna257132

* "See the 'amazing' photos of Earth taken on historic Artemis II moon mission:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/photos-artemis-moon-earth-space-rcna266665

* "An Artemis 2 astronaut took a 'bath' on camera on the way to the moon. Mission Control's reaction was priceless (video):" https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/an-artemis-2-astronaut-took-a-bath-on-camera-on-the-way-to-the-moon-mission-controls-reaction-was-priceless-video

* I ended up staying up super late last Saturday to finish fixing things after the catastrophic Firefox link loss. Really I should have put it aside for the next day, but it was really annoying me. I have things rough sorted again, and the work I put into fine sorting for Thursday lost. Sigh. Also lost was most of the Weaponized Judiciary/Push back section, the Trump-Epstein, and I think about half of SCOTUS and some things from categories usually lower on the aggregate page. Sigh.

And we are getting biannually inspected again mid April. At least my part of the Apartment is still mostly clean from one of the annual inspections in March. If it feels like I get inspected a lot, you are correct, as multiple agencies do separate annual inspections, plus the two fire/vent/etc. ones..

I still haven't done the stupid housing bureaucracy. I still need to do that one desk that's been a mess and half in boxes since the Great Contractor Disaster. Once fire inspection is over, I need to migrate the things we tucked in my room for annual inspection back out to the main room. The garden needs a big reorganization before things start growing in earnest. We already have some early lettuce and the neighborhood cherry trees are in bud. The ones out where they get the most sun on the street further towards the main road have started blooming. It's time.

I tried putting the scratchy thing Tavy was using as a chaise lounge on the living room window bench off and on for most of the last year of his life (A gift from Art and Techie Millennials) On my bed in hopes of Livia taking an interest in it. It's not her size. she like scratch boxes best, but it likely still has his scent and I was hoping maybe she'd take an interest in scratchy things again. It just upset her, so I took it away again.

* Monday: I finished the Housing paperwork. I am concerned I did it wrong, but there is nothing to do but turn it in and hope.

In related news, I've four errands to do downtown.

Update: Disabled parking was full again, but at least there was something a block away without a slope and I could sit in a chair to wait my turn, the line being literally one guy. I HAD done the paperwork wrong because the directions weren't clear, and they were just as clearly used to it, as she had one of those cool white out rollers right there. Asked several clarifying questions, whited out the wrong answers and write in correct ones herself. You have to be elderly or disabled to be in this program, so I bet most paperwork needs revision given the wording and complete lack of clarifying directions attached.

Anyway, I had inevitably turned up with Dramatically More Documentation than required. I always bring anything they could possibly want to bureaucracy, because if you turn up without something it's a big delay and maybe you can't get benefits or the like as a result. In this case ambiguous wording ended up with me bringing a thick packet when a couple pieces of paper would have done. Better safe than sorry though. (I vaguely remember this happening each re-up. They needed a lot of paper in the beginning when I first applied, but re-up they really only need the application plus a couple of things).

Anyway, I got rubber stamped and it'll be fine most like. This is one of those things, like federal income taxes where my complete lack of taxable income streamlines the shit out of things. It means no special deductions and the like because I'm already at the lowest possible income level so why bother.

I managed the other items fine. I should be able to pay housing tax end of week if nothing monstrous happens to social security and I've a leg up on document organizing for two exhausting bits of expected April bureaucracy.

I hate this. It is exhausting and stressful and time consuming.

In other news, I found a bunch of bad inter-collations after browser recovery. Sigh.

* I have had so much bureaucracy. Phone mostly after I turned Monday's papers in, and I basically had to give up on physio most nights as there were simply not enough spoons. Probably not enough to complete physio in any case, as just bare minimum is taking everything I've got. So many things to do, not enough time or energy to do them, plus bonus connectivity and website issues. I expect two more big bureaucracy packets to arrive this month. *facepalm*

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

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* "Denmark Sweats the Vote, Hittler Runs for Mayor & Kim Jong Un Is a Nuclear Girl Dad | The Daily Show:"

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* "Melania Brings a Robot to the White House & RFK Jr. Did What to a Dead Raccoon? | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump Bulls**ts About Iran Negotiations & Throws ICE Into Airport Chaos Mix | The Daily Show:"

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* "No Kings Rallies Can’t Stop CPAC's Trump Glazing & Iran War Hits One Month | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump Gets Mystery Gift from Iran & Sends ICE Into Airports to Force the SAVE Act | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump Claims Iran War Is Won, But Hegseth’s New Recruitment Standards Say Otherwise | The Daily Show:"

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* "Kristi Noem's Husband Gets Busty & Lindsey Graham Spotted at Disney World | The Daily Show:"

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* "PeaceHealth Recruiting:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qh3FY_7GxG8

* "One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution:" https://blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/one-battle-after-another-review

* "Julio Torres - “Color Theories” | The Daily Show:"

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* "Hozier - The Humours of Whiskey (Traditional, a cappella):"

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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.

* "Transcontinental Pipeline:" https://tcpipeline.org/steps/

* "Donate to Kansas ACLU:" https://action.aclu.org/give/support-aclu-kansas

* "Project Salt Box:" https://projectsaltbox.substack.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

* "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

* "2026 Statewide Primary Calendar:" https://www.270towin.com/2026-state-primary-calendar/

* "The List of Shame: People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it!:" https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

* "Keep Android Open:" https://keepandroidopen.org/

* "Taking action against AI harms:" https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/

* "Resist and Unsubscribe:" https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is what Russian promises are worth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just saying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These are essential experts that will be hard to replace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stand up now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Sen. Warren Extended Interview:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Republicans, every accusation is a confession.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If these are your Senators, please stop what you are doing and call now:

KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)

* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am really worried about what comes next.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It did eat my whole evening, alas.

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

So phone bureaucracy tomorrow, I guess.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Bernie Rocks Coachella:"

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* "Elmo Drops A Trump Diss Track:"

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

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

Me: do they know?

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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* "Why Israel's having some of its biggest protests since the war in Gaza began:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339490/israel-protests-netanyahu-hostages-gaza-war

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* "Russian strike kills 14, including six children in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine says:" https://archive.ph/YhVc3

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* "Labor accuses Dutton of copying Trump with suggestion children being ‘indoctrinated’ at school:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/01/labor-dutton-trump-comparison-doge-school-curriculum

Please don't follow us into the dark, Australia.

* "Elections watchdog warned AI presents 'high' risk in current campaign: internal documents:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ai-elections-rules-1.7499383

* "Canada election debates will see these 5 party leaders participate:" https://globalnews.ca/news/11110269/canada-election-leaders-debates-lineup-qualify/

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* "Iran wants indirect talks with US, warns regional countries over strikes against it:" https://archive.ph/YISOu

* "Rep. Balint: Trump wants to 'flex his muscles as the tough guy' with threats against Iran, Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-balint-trump-wants-to-flex-his-muscles-as-the-tough-guy-with-threats-against-iran-russia-235823685542

* "Exclusive: Trump preparing executive order to increase weapons exports, sources say:" https://archive.ph/8eVEY

* "See Trump’s list: More than 180 countries and territories facing reciprocal tariffs:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-countries-chart-imports-united-states.html

* "US slaps 26% tariff on India amid ongoing bilateral trade talks:" https://archive.ph/7EdpD

* "China urges US to immediately lift tariffs, vows retaliation:" https://archive.ph/AIYKX

* "Trump tariffs pile stress on ailing world economy:" https://archive.ph/WTPAM

* "Dow futures tumble over 800 points on fear Trump’s tariffs will spark trade war: Live updates:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/stock-market-today-live-updates-trump-tariffs.html

* "US Senate passes bill aimed at stopping Trump tariffs on Canada:" https://archive.ph/udQis

Unfortunately, Mike Johnson is blocking it in the House because that is how much Republicans hate America and how much Republicans want to destroy our economy, probably for generations because of all the trading partners (and islands entirely inhabited by penguins) we have burned.

Everyone who ever told you Republicans are good on the economy was LYING to YOU.

That was last true when Nixon was President.

Ever since Reagan, I've watched Republicans crash the economy over and over, and Democrats start to repair the damage, then have Republicans voted in and yet again crash the economy.

It's what they do. They suck money out of the pockets of ordinary people while giving tax cuts to the very richest and making decisions that harm everyone but a handful of billionaires.

This time they broke the economy, the government, and Democracy, things they've been vowing to do since I was born.

They could literally stop the Trump tariff destruction TODAY but backing the Senate on ending Trump's authority to destroy the American economy by rescinding Trump's emergency declaration that gives him the Authority to do this to us.

IF YOU HAVE A REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE in THE HOUSE, CALL THEM NOW.

Make the phones ring off the hooks. I am begging you. Every hour that passes the harder it is to fix.

Here is a script for calling Congress Critters on tariffs: https://www.tumblr.com/errorschacha/779843646911643648?source=share

* "Top Republican leads bill to reassert Congress’ tariff power amid Trump trade war:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/03/congress/top-republican-leads-bill-to-reassert-congress-tariff-power-amid-trump-trade-war-00268710

There is now one for all the Tariffs in the Senate, so call your Senator NOW!

* "Trump Goes Crazy on Trade:" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes-crazy-on-trade

* "Trump's targets for 'reciprocal' tariffs include uninhabited islands but exclude Russia and Iran:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-targets-reciprocal-tariffs-include-uninhabited-islands-exclude/story?id=120445283

* "Launching the Economic Version of the Iraq War.:" https://fallows.substack.com/p/launching-the-economic-version-of

* "Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?:" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the

* "President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc:" https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc

* "A third global recession in 20 years looms:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-cause-recession

* "It's the end of the world's economic order as we know it:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-canada-europe-allies

* "China hits back at Trump with 34% tariff on U.S. imports:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-hits-back-trump-34-tariff-us-imports-rcna199665

* "‘This Could Get Much Uglier’: The Fatal Flaw in Trump’s Trade War:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/03/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-confusion-00267945

* "Dow plunges 2,000 as sell-off for markets slams into a scarier gear following Trump’s tariffs:" https://apnews.com/article/market-rates-trump-tariffs-d86db525c370e9da834e6dfb76e23b86

* "‘Worst case scenario’ Hayes says Trump is waterboarding the U.S. economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-worst-case-scenario-hayes-says-trump-is-waterboarding-the-u-s-economy-236286533786

* "Needless economic pain from Trump not even worth it if his tariff gambit works: Economist:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/needless-economic-pain-from-trump-not-even-worth-it-if-his-tariff-gambit-works-economist-236488261814

* "Lack of answers from Trump on tariff game plan leaves investors uneasy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lack-of-answers-from-trump-on-tariff-game-plan-leaves-investors-uneasy-236491333583

* And for bonus stupid that explains so much... "Critics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots:" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/critics-suspect-trumps-weird-tariff-math-came-from-chatbots/

* "Trump is 'steering the Titanic towards the iceberg,' says CNBC reporter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-is-steering-the-titanic-towards-the-iceberg-says-cnbc-reporter-236596805514

* "The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-ridiculous-real-story-behind-the-tariff-plan-that-turned-donald-trump-into-a-global-disaster-236611653893

* "Amazon’s last-minute bid for TikTok comes as a US ban on the platform is set to take effect Saturday:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-amazon-bytedance-china-us-ban-19f62e2dba637a0d1a0b41102a2f351f

* Trump is openly disrespected our fallen soldiers again. "Trump Skips Honoring Soldiers Killed in Lithuania to Watch Golf:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-skips-transfer-soldiers-killed-lithuania-liv-golf-1235310901/

* "Donald Trump blows off dignified transfer of fallen U.S. soldiers for golf events:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-blows-off-dignified-transfer-of-fallen-u-s-soldiers-for-golf-events-236615749688

* "Appeals Court clears the way for Musk, DOGE to resume cuts to USAID:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/appeals-court-usaid-ruling-doge-00259154

* Cruelty is the point "A USAID worker's pregnant wife was denied an emergency medical evacuation after DOGE fired her:" https://www.advocate.com/news/usaid-pregnant-denied-medical-evacuation

* "Exclusive: Trump administration is pointing spy satellites at US border:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-directs-spy-satellite-agencies-surveil-us-mexico-border-2025-03-27/

* Everything about this is gross. "Donald Trump Reveals $5m Visa Gold Card With His Face On:" https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reveals-5m-visa-gold-card-his-face-2055171

* "The Trump DOJ Is Barreling Toward Contempt of Court. There’s Still One Way Out.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doj-contempt-boasberg-salvador-prison.html

* "Most US Institute of Peace workers get late-night word of their mass firing:" https://apnews.com/article/us-institute-peace-trump-doge-mass-firing-746aa4fce9ad35fe17e8e22ce29417e3

They aren't part of the executive branch. I don't understand how any of this is legal.

* "DOGE Staffer Appointed to Lead U.S. Institute of Peace Founded Company That Sells ‘AI Workers’: Nate Cavanaugh, a 28-year-old college dropout, is steeped in the hypercapitalist ideology of Silicon Valley:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doge-us-institute-of-peace-nate-cavanaugh-1235307495/

* "Trump administration takes $500M US Institute of Peace building for free:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/federal-fallout/us-institute-of-peace-usip-500-million-dollar-headquarters-department-of-government-efficiency-trump-administration/65-b32203f0-ec4a-410f-b128-15484a282d3c

* "'This is bananas': DOGE looks to finagle a building the federal government doesn't own:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-bananas-doge-looks-to-finagle-a-building-the-federal-government-doesn-t-own-235941445573

* "Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”:" https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights

* Xenophobic Lies vs. Reality: "Risk Analysis of Mass Shootings Committed by Immigrants and Native-Born Americans:" https://www.cato.org/briefing-paper/risk-analysis-mass-shootings-committed-immigrants-native-born-americans#

* "Maryland father sues U.S. officials after being deported to El Salvador prison:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-father-deported-el-salvador-abrego-garcia-us-immigration/

* "Wife of man mistakenly sent to El Salvador prison says she fears for his safety: "My husband's not a criminal":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wife-man-error-deported-to-el-salvador-prison/

* "‘Horrific’: Joe Rogan blasts Trump for sending innocent people to El Salvador prison:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-horrific-joe-rogan-blasts-trump-for-sending-innocent-people-to-el-salvador-prison-236093509538

* Now we find out if there is even a shred of rule of law left. "Judge orders the Trump administration to return man who was mistakenly deported:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5352448/judge-orders-the-trump-administration-to-return-man-who-was-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador

* "ICE agents detain nearly 40 employees during morning raid at Whatcom County businesst:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article303349791.html

* "Protest emerges at Ferndale facility after ICE reportedly detains Whatcom County activist:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article302806399.html

* "The Trump Administration’s War on Activists Is Escalating: ICE’s detention of a Washington state union organizer, alongside other threats to activists, raises the question of how far the Trump team will go to stifle dissent.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/193391/juarez-zeferino-ice-detention-activists

* If it is legitimate, why do it in secret and not tell the students? This prevents them getting due process, so they can be kidnapped. "Visas revoked, records terminated for more students at U of M, MSU Mankato:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/03/5-international-college-students-in-mankato-have-records-terminated-by-dhs

* "Ten Colorado international students – at least half Middle Eastern – have visas revoked:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/csu-cu-uccs-international-students-visas-revoked/

There were a bunch more of these as other colleges have started checking.

* "Colorado activist Jeanette Vizguerra's hearing delayed as legal team challenges deportation: "She was targeted":" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/family-legal-team-colorado-activist-jeanette-vizguerra-press-conference-hearing/

* "Judge denies Justice Department's effort to move detained Tufts student's case to Louisiana:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-detained-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-case-vermont/

* I can't cover all the protests in all the places people have been kidnapped from, but I want to thank all of you doing it. Stay noisy.

* "Students walk out at Ballou to demand release of Rümeysa Öztürk:" https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/04/students-walk-out-at-ballou-to-demand-release-of-rumeysa-ozturk

* "WATCH: Video shows Alireza Doroudi being detained by ICE officers at his apartment near the University of Alabama:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/watch-video-shows-alireza-doroudi-being-detained-by-ice-officers-at-his-apartment-near-the-university-of-alabama/

* "University of Alabama students protest to demand ICE release international student Alireza Doroudi:" https://www.wvtm13.com/article/university-alabama-protest-doroudi-student-detained-ice/64342584

* Reminder of how bullshit the claims are that they are renditioning criminals and not innocent asylum seekers: "The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/the-makeup-artist-donald-trump-deported-under-the-alien-enemies-act

* "British Tourist Detained by ICE for 19 Days Warns Against All US Travel:" https://www.newsweek.com/ice-tourist-immigration-detained-2055805

* "‘Inhumane conditions’ and death at Miami’s Krome migrant detention center:" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-01/inhumane-conditions-and-death-at-miamis-krome-migrant-detention-center.html

* "Weekend protests in South Florida over Trump deportation program and Tesla:" https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2025-03-31/weekend-protests-south-florida-trump-deportation-program-tesla-doge

* "Protesters march through downtown Dallas for the Mega March 2025:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/thousands-march-through-downtown-dallas-for-the-mega-march-2025/

* I can't cover all the protests, but I like to remind people that they are out there: "Protesters in small New York village march to Trump border czar's home over family's ICE detention:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-small-new-york-village-march-trump-border-czars-home-family-rcna199867

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

* "Huger man accused of posing as ICE officer in viral video excused from court Friday:" https://abcnews4.com/news/local/huger-man-seen-posing-as-ice-officer-in-viral-video-excused-from-court-friday-wciv-abc-news-4-sean-johnson-sullivans-island-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-kidnapping

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* "Russian punk band Pussy Riot pops up at Washington Square Park to issue warnings about authoritarianism in America:" https://www.amny.com/news/pussy-riot-washington-square-park-authoritarianism/

* "Hundreds of protests planned as Trump's abuses generate wide array of grievances:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hundreds-of-protests-planned-as-trump-s-abuses-generate-wide-array-of-grievances-236612677727

* "Angry protesters from New York to Alaska assail Trump and Musk in ‘Hands Off!’ rallies:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-protests-hands-off-472c574303260cbac315367cc808960d

* "Photos: See demonstrators around the country rally in 'Hands Off!' protests:" https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2025/04/05/g-s1-58479/photos-see-hands-off-protests-trump-musk

* "Anchorage demonstrators join ‘Hands Off!’ rally, part of national protests:"https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2025/04/05/over-1000-join-anchorages-hands-off-rally-part-of-national-protests/

* "Protesters mobilize across region for "Hands Off!" demonstrations:" https://6abc.com/post/protesters-mobilize-region-hands-off-demonstrations/16132025/

* "Demonstrators participate in "Hands Off" protests in South Florida, expressing frustrations with Trump administration:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-hands-off-president-trump-protest-elon-musk/

* "Big crowd for ‘Hands Off’ rally in heart of one of the most Trump supporting states in the country:" https://wvmetronews.com/2025/04/05/big-crowd-for-hands-off-rally-in-heart-of-one-of-the-most-trump-supporting-states-in-the-country/

* "See the photos as protesters gather in Eugene for the “Hands Off!” demonstration.:" https://www.registerguard.com/picture-gallery/news/2025/04/05/protesters-gather-in-eugene-for-hands-off-largest-nationwide-demonstrations-in-recent-years-over-110/82888339007/

* "Bellingham turns out for local version of national day of protest against Trump policies:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article303583746.html

* "'Bloodbath': Protesters meet Trump at every step as he butchers U.S. government agencies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-bloodbath-protesters-meet-trump-at-every-step-as-he-butchers-u-s-government-agencies-236123717533

* "'There's no other savior or option': Resistance to Trump mobilizes as Americans have seen enough:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-there-s-no-other-savior-or-option-resistance-to-trump-mobilizes-as-americans-have-seen-enough-235933765750

* "Chris Kluwe got arrested protesting MAGA. He's still protesting because 'it's the right thing to do':" https://www.advocate.com/news/chris-kluwe-pride-flag-arrest-update

* "Trump voters got exactly what they wanted — so why are people complaining?:" https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/trump-voters-tariffs/

* "We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy: Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.:" https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/senator-chris-murphy-this-is-how-democracy-dies-everybody-just-gets-scared

* "The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot.:" https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-dictatorship-universities-law-firms-20250323.html

* "Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Actions:" https://www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders

* "Democrats sue Trump administration over elections executive order:" https://archive.ph/Zcelw

* "Satire Won’t Save Us: Power, Masculinity, and the Cult of Trump:"

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* "Trump moves to strip unionization rights from most federal workers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/union-rights-federal-workers-donald-trump-00257010

* "Trump Just Pardoned … a Corporation?:" https://theintercept.com/2025/04/02/trump-pardons-corporation-bitmex-crypto/

* "Several federal agencies launch a 'deferred resignation' effort to encourage workers to leave their jobs:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-agencies-launch-new-deferred-resignation-effort-encourage-work-rcna199069

* "Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk-leaving-political-liability-00265784

* "Musk might be on his way out, but what happens to all the destruction he wrought on the federal government?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/musk-leaves-destruction

* "Protests against Elon Musk’s purge of US government swarm Tesla showrooms:" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-doge-protests-a07cb5f20d65d0fb4dcb3547e2b7879c

* "‘He’s a loser’: Tim Walz says Elon Musk’s ‘toxic personality’ repels voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-he-s-a-loser-tim-walz-says-elon-musk-s-toxic-personality-repels-voters-236279877905

* "The Tragedy and Comedy of Elon Musk:"

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* "Social Security: How to Prepare for Changes to Benefit Access:" https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-prepare-changes-benefit-access-2052895

* "A list of the Social Security offices across the US expected to close this year:" https://apnews.com/article/social-security-offices-closures-doge-trump-b2b1a5b2ba4fb968abc3379bf90715ff

* "Social Security demands that gay activist living with AIDS repay $200k in benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/social-security-demands-activist-repay

You know how I've been expressing concerns about targeted attacks on people the administration doesn't like. Do I know it's happening here? No, but I suspect it.

* "Musk's claim Biden administration gave Social Security numbers to millions of noncitizens lacks context: The Enumeration Beyond Entry program grants Social Security numbers to successful applicants for U.S. residency, work permits and citizenship.:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/01/musk-biden-social-security-numbers/

* "Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-mills-social-security-maine-leland-dudek_n_67ed2d99e4b0b937ab8f135c

* "DOGE cuts stall Maine seafood business trying to go green:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/19/doge-cuts-stall-maine-seafood-business-trying-to-go-green/

* "Maine DHHS forced to end dozens of contracts due to federal cuts:" https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-dhhs-forced-to-end-dozens-of-contracts-due-to-federal-cuts-cdc-programs-president-donald-trump-doge-elon-musk

* "Children put at risk in Donald Trump's petty vendetta against the state of Maine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/children-put-at-risk-in-donald-trump-s-petty-vendetta-against-the-state-of-maine-236497989870

* "Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845

* "Report: Waltz used Gmail for official work:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/mike-waltz-signal-gmail-security

* "Pentagon watchdog launches probe into Hegseth use of Signal chat ahead of Houthi airstrike:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-watchdog-launches-probe-signalgate/story?id=120458325

* "Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fresh-from-scandal-over-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-s-conduct-opens-him-to-ridicule-235934277935

* "One small part of Pete Hegseth's wardrobe is a big tell:" https://www.salon.com/2025/04/06/one-small-part-of-pete-hegseths-wardrobe-is-a-big-tell/

* He's doing another purge, this time based on a Neo-NAZI conspiracy theorist's suggestions. "Trump fires several national security officials over loyalty concerns:" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/04/03/trump-moves-to-fire-several-nsc-officials-over-loyalty-concerns/

* "Laura Loomer Is a Warning: No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted.:" https://archive.ph/jnAjK

* "‘Absurd’: Sen. Kim on MAGA conspiracist Laura Loomer's White House influence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-absurd-sen-kim-on-maga-conspiracist-laura-loomer-s-white-house-influence-236597829503

* "Pete Hegseth Moves to Replace Military’s Lawyers for Chilling Reason:" https://newrepublic.com/post/192695/pete-hegseth-replace-military-lawyers

Yet more purges of competent and ethical people. It's extra scary because they are essential to ethical conduct of our military

* "Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions:" https://archive.ph/YIl3Z

They are having to censor the naval academy library because the diversity ban bars them from having books about MLK or Jackie Robinson.

* "Appeals court denies Trump DOJ’s request to halt injunction on trans military ban — for now:" https://www.advocate.com/news/appeals-court-trans-military-ban

* "Meet the transgender Army lieutenant who is challenging Donald Trump's military ban \:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nicolas-talbott-transgender-soldier-plaintiff

* "Transgender Army officer Erica Vandal was born into military service. Now, she's suing Trump to stay in :" https://www.advocate.com/news/erica-vandal-decorated-transgender-leader

* "This trans Air Force recruit wants to jump out of planes to save others. He's suing Trump to serve:" https://www.advocate.com/news/clayton-mccallister-transgender-pararescue-recruit

* "Veterans, unions, top Michigan Dems gather to protest Trump VA order in Ann Arbor:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/03/29/veterans-unions-michigan-dems-protest-trump-va-order-in-ann-arbor/82721024007/

* "Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agencies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/kennedy-lays-off-thousands-across-the-health-bureaucracy-00262913

* "The CDC Has Been Gutted:" https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-gutted-rif/

* For salt in the wounds of the illegally fired: "Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead.:" https://archive.ph/DOKuM

* "Democratic-led states sue to block Trump from $11 billion health funding cut:" https://archive.ph/i9gGl

* "HHS firings undermine federal government’s ability to care for vulnerable Americans:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-firings-put-disabled-americans-at-risk/

* "HHS layoffs hit Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors and disabled:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl

* "Alzheimer’s Association Sounding the Alarm Over the Threat of Elimination of Alzheimer’s Programs at HHS, CDC:" https://www.alz.org/news/2025/threat-of-elimination-of-alzheimers-programs-hhs-cdc

* "Exclusive: Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response, source says:" https://archive.ph/PzkLw

* "Measles outbreak in west Texas continues while cuts on health agencies loom:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5343519/measles-outbreak-in-west-texas-continues-while-cuts-on-health-agencies-loom

* "50 canceled measles clinics, and other local impact from HHS cuts:" https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-layoffs-local-officials-react-rif-impacts-public-health/

* "Another child has died::" https://apnews.com/article/measles-texas-rfk-death-vaccine-4e28b0edf5cab47980b40b2d47f0ec50

* "Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH:" https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/

* This will bread more antibiotic resistant strains which is bad for everyone. Infectious disease know no borders. "Tuberculosis is the world’s top infectious killer. Aid groups say Trump’s funding freezes will cause more deaths:" https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/health/tuberculosis-impact-usaid-funding-intl-scli/index.html

* "Trump team guts AIDS-eradication programme and slashes HIV research grants:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00969-5

* "HIV Activists March in NYC to Protest “Death by 1,000 Musk Cuts”:" https://www.poz.com/article/hiv-activists-march-nyc-protest-death-1000-musk-cuts

* Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthood: The Title X funds were earmarked for birth control and other non-abortion services. "Trump admin cuts tens of millions from Planned Parenthood:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-admin-cuts-tens-of-millions-from-planned-parenthood-00261763

It was already illegal to use federal funds for abortion. This is intended to prevent access to birth control and cancer screenings. They are lying when they say they are "Pro-Life."

* "FDA's top tobacco official removed from post in latest blow to agency's leadership:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fdas-top-tobacco-official-removed-post-latest-blow-120366010

* "Donald Trump fired the man who likely saved his life: Former medical official:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/donald-trump-fired-the-man-who-likely-saved-his-life-former-medical-official-236335685814

* "Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-admin-fires-staff-liheap-agency-utilities-assistance-program-rcna199177

* "Drugmakers sink after key FDA official ousted as Trump plans health overhaul:" https://archive.ph/JYyC0

* "PHOTOS: Crowd gathers to protest firings, budget cuts at CDC:" https://www.ajc.com/configsection/photos-crowd-gathers-to-protest-firings-budget-cuts-at-cdc/MUC3JE3AKVE4HNYOGESFJCEHGU/

* " In a week, RFK Jr. fat-shames the West Virginia governor, fires 10k HHS workers, and enrages Wall Street:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/rfk-jr-offends-everyone

* "Senate confirms Dr. Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/03/senate-confirmation-mehmet-oz-medicare-medicaid-00270913

* "National Park Rangers rebel against queer erasure on Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.advocate.com/news/park-rangers-transgender-stonewall-erasure

* "K-12 schools must sign certification against DEI to receive federal money, administration says:" https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-school-discrimination-federal-funding-7d1025753b9bd924711ace4069fca399

* "Trump administration announces anti-trans investigations team to fight 'gender ideology' in schools:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-anti-transgender-investigations

* "Trump’s Latest Power Grab Threatens Free Expression and LGBTQ+ Voices in Smithsonian Institutions:" https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/trumps-latest-power-grab-threatens-free-expression-and-lgbtq-voices-in-smithsonian-institutions

* "ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services :" https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services

* "The White House press corps just caved to Trump, and that should terrify you:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/white-house-press-caves-trump

* "These universities are in Trump's crosshairs. Many don’t know why.:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/these-universities-are-trumps-crosshairs-many-dont-know-why-2025-03-27/

* "Trump administration halts dozens of research grants at Princeton University:" https://apnews.com/article/princeton-trump-federal-funding-9c32a996256849ac00792ef50dbdfb0e

* "Trump administration targets billions in funding to Harvard:" https://archive.ph/EP0gd

* "Judge dismisses Eric Adams case, denying DOJ an opportunity to revive it later:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/judge-dismisses-eric-adams-case-00265683

* "The Pathetic, Cowardly Collapse of Big Law: Trump’s actions are an attempt to tilt the scales of justice by using the raw power of government coercion—and they’re working.:" https://archive.ph/gvgpv

* "Another big law firm cuts a deal with White House to avoid sanctions:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/law-firm-cuts-deal-avoid-sanctions-00265285

* "Over 500 law firms sign brief backing Perkins Coie suit against Trump:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/500-law-firms-sign-brief-backing-perkins-coie/story?id=120499725

* "On a scale of 1-10, how freaked out is Eric Holder about the Trump admin so far?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/on-a-scale-of-1-10-how-freaked-out-is-eric-holder-about-the-trump-admin-so-far-236290117814

* "Truth Social filing would allow Trump's trust to sell up to $2.3 billion in stock:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-truth-social-stock

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* "Trump increasingly asks the Supreme Court to overrule judges blocking key parts of his agenda:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-deportations-birthright-citizenship-0787cdf8bd36b964c7974ed032717ed4?

* "The LGBTQ+ Supreme Court cases to watch this term:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-supreme-court-cases-2025#rebelltitem1

* "What are 'Religious Freedom' laws, and how are they used against LGBTQ+ people?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/religious-freedom-vs-lgbtq-rights

* "Supreme Court wrestles with red state efforts to defund Planned Parenthood:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/scotus-wrestles-with-red-state-efforts-to-defund-planned-parenthood-00266466

* "Activists rally outside Supreme Court in DC ahead of Planned Parenthood funding case:" https://wjla.com/news/local/march-for-life-rally-planned-parenthood-funding-abortion-rights-anti-abortion-supreme-court-pro-life-choose-health-medina-south-atlantic-tax-dollars-washington-dc-motherhood

The one time I was able to go to a big DC protest it was in support of Abortion Rights when there was a case before the Supreme Court (on a date!) in 1989. That time, we won.

I want to thank all of you protesting out there.

* "Supreme Court sides with administration over Education Department grants:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5345607/supreme-court-education-department

* "Some House Republicans voice opposition to the Senate's newly adopted budget for Trump's agenda:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-adopts-new-budget-trumps-agenda-gop-cracks-emerge-rcna199747

They are doing dramatic cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to Billionaires.

If this passes, people die.

They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.

It is essential to contact your Reps, especially if they are "Freedom Caucus."

I know this is counter intuitive, but they are challenging from the extreme right. Maybe try something like: the tax cuts are driving up the debt. IDK, I'm bad at working out how they think. You know your Congress Critter best.Seriously, call in to all republican reps. Make whatever argument works if they ask for one. For regular republicans try: cutting medicaid really hurts seniors on Medicare too, as a lot have both, or something similar.

* "Medicaid cuts would decimate Native American programs, tribal health leaders say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicaid-cuts-native-american-health-programs/

* We'll see, I guess. "Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick Throws President Under Bus in Confirmation Hearing:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-joint-chiefs-pick-dan-caine-calls-him-a-liar-at-confirmation-hearing/

* "A Democratic senator is putting holds on VA nominees to protest Trump’s plans to cut its workforce:" https://apnews.com/article/veterans-congress-gallego-trump-6236bbc77ff1a98f736b1cf134cab609

* "Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nominee-u-s-attorney-in-d-c-ed-martin-blocked-adam-schiff/

* "Booker stages Senate filibuster to protest 'crisis' he says Trump and Musk created:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/booker-stages-senate-filibuster-protest-crisis-trump-musk/story?id=120365354

* "BREAKING: Sen. Cory Booker gives marathon speech to ‘disrupt’ Senate in protest of Trump, Musk:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/sen-cory-booker-filibusters-on-senate-floor-to-disrupt-the-senate-because-our-nation-is-in-crisis-235914309998

* "Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347318/cory-booker-senate-speech

* "Cory Booker Breaks Senate Speech Record in 25-Hour Rebuke of Trump Administration:" https://time.com/7273417/cory-booker-filibuster-speech-senate/

* "Cory Booker wipes away a racist's record, fires up lost Democrats, and eyes a presidential run in 2028:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/cory-booker-record-speech

* "Cory Booker Broke a Record — Now Let's Fix Democracy!:"

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* "House Democrats open probe into FCC media investigations:" https://archive.ph/DfLAR

* "Elizabeth Warren launches campaign to investigate Department of Education closure: 'I will fight it with everything I've got':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/elizabeth-warren-launches-campaign-investigate-department-education-closure/story?id=120388078

* "Face-Off Between Trump Diehards Marjorie Taylor Greene and Anna Paulina Luna Gets Ugly:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/face-off-between-trump-diehards-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-anna-luna-gets-ugly/

* "Democrats introduce bill to expand gender-affirming care access to mark Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/becca-balint-trans-healthcare-bill

* "‘I promise I’ll behave’: Congress’ most mercurial Republican faces DOGE, Signalgate anger:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/29/town-hall-backlash-doge-signalgate-00005579

* "Charges dropped against trans advocate falsely accused of assault by Nancy Mace for giving her a firm handshake:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nancy-mace-handshake-charges-dropped

* "Sarah McBride: Trans visibility and proximity have never been more important than now:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/sarah-mcbride-opinion-tdov

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Trans and wanting to run for office? Danica Roem will help lead a training for transgender candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/victory-institute-transgender-training

* "PSA: If you or people you know voted in North Carolina:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3612905.html

They are trying to invalidate ballots from last November to overthrow an important election. Please check and cure your ballot if it's one of the ones in the court case.

* Democracy held in Wisconsin. "Democrats’ win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss for Elon Musk:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-81f71cdda271827ae281a77072a26bad

* "Jill Underly reelected as Wisconsin superintendent of schools:" https://www.wpr.org/news/april-election-dpi-state-superintendent-jill-underly-reelected-kinser

This is also a relief. I want to thank all of you who voted the whole ballot.

* "GOP retains two House seats in Florida, as Democrats claim 'historic' improvement:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5348089/florida-congressional-results-gop-patronis-fine

* "Louisiana voters reject constitutional amendments championed by Republican governor:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-constitutional-amendments-landry-c9a48606790251bdddb84978eea382ea

* "In Tuesday election, Aurora City Council incumbents appear to stay, except alderman at-large:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/aurora-alderman-at-large-election/

* Minnesotans! Don't Forget to Vote April 8! "Referendums on the April 8 special election ballot:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/01/minnesota-special-election-referendums-april-8

* "Minnesota Governor Walz Calls Special Election for Senate District 6 :" https://www.nfib.com/news/news/minnesota-governor-walz-calls-special-election-for-senate-district-6/

* "Gay U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas announces Senate bid:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chris-pappas-runs-us-senate

* "Can Democrats win Michigan's 2026 U.S. Senate seat? Mallory McMorrow says yes. | Opinion:" https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2025/04/06/u-s-senate-mallory-mcmorrow-democrat-dnc-michigan-elissa-slotkin-gary-peters/82797095007/

* "Protester carried out after undocumented student bill passes TN committee:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/protester-carried-out-after-undocumented-student-bill-passes-committee/

* "Florida Senate pushes ahead with 'don't say gay at work' bill after seemingly brushing it aside:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-dont-say-gay-work

* "Utah becomes first state to ban fluoride in public water:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-bans-fluoride-public-water-rcna193917

* "Utah bans Pride flags after “cowardly” governor avoids veto:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/utah-bans-pride-flags-after-cowardly-governor-avoids-veto/

* "Prosecutors seek 7-year prison sentence for George Santos in sweeping fraud case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-sentencing-recommendation

* "FBI raids leader of gay furry hacking group that went after the organization behind Project 2025:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/project-2025-gay-furry-hackers

* "Everyone Loved a Colorado Prison’s VFW Post—Until a Popular YouTuber Heard About It:" https://www.5280.com/everyone-loved-a-colorado-prisons-vfw-post-until-a-popular-youtuber-heard-about-it/

* "a promise, a threat, and a proportional response:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2033252.html

* "Here are 11 major companies standing up for DEI :" https://www.advocate.com/news/companies-keeping-dei#rebelltitem13

* "Alabama community saves library after funding cut over LGBTQ+ books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-town-saves-library

* "Iowa State students hold 'funeral' for LGBTQ+ center shut down by anti-DEI bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/iowa-state-lgbtq-center-closes-dei

* "Goth Is White: Pallor, Prejudice and Purity:"

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* "Lesbian former police officer wins $10 million in sexual harassment lawsuit:" https://www.advocate.com/news/ashley-cummins-lesbian-harassment-lawsuit

* "A Disturbing Advance in Fetal Personhood:" https://www.thecut.com/article/why-a-georgia-womans-arrest-after-miscarriage-is-disturbing.html

* "Georgia's War on Reproductive Freedom:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JpN99TQPs8Y

* "If a Fetus is a Baby...:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9x0SnANrjEI

* "A Win for Repro Rights: Alabama Can’t Charge Activists Helping Patients Get Out-of-State Abortions:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/alabama-cant-charge-abortion-groups-for-helping-patients-out-of-state-criminal-conspiracy/

* "Hormones and surgery improve transgender men's quality of life: study:" https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-men-surgery-hormones-benefits

Water is wet studies are essential for things like persuading people and the courts.

* "World Athletics to require DNA testing of athletes in women's track and field:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/world-athletics-dna-testing

* "Montana judge blocks anti-trans bathroom law:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/montana-2671627321

* "Parents don’t stop fighting for their LGBTQ+ kids:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/parents-dont-stop-fighting-for-their-lgbtq-kids

* "‘World’s largest transgender flag’ unfurled at Utah State Capitol for Trans Day of Visibility:" https://www.abc4.com/news/politics/inside-utah-politics/utah-largest-trans-flag-visibility/

* "Trump signed away my identity, but forgot biology doesn't follow orders:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-diversity-in-nature

* "Ervianna 'Baydee' Johnson, Black trans woman, found dead in North Carolina:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/ervianna-johnson-transgender-woman-killed

* "Meet the transgender woman arrested for using a Florida Capitol restroom (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-arrested-florida-bathroom

* "Outrage follows after Texas gay campground doubles-down on banning transgender men from property:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-men-banned-texas-campground

* "Transgender girl joins boys' track and field team in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/transgender-girl-joins-boys-team

* "‘You picked the wrong one’: Texas transgender teacher resigns after Libs of TikTok prompts far-right harassment campaign:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-teacher-resigns-after-targeting

* "A Mississippi cafe made a discount for straight couples only. Now, other restaurants are hitting back:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-cafe-discount-straight-only

* "In Memphis, Kayla Gore is building homes — and a future — for Black trans people:" https://www.advocate.com/news/black-transgender-housing-leader-tennessee

* "Autism’s missing women:" https://aeon.co/essays/the-missing-women-of-autism-are-differently-different?

Water is wet studies are essential for things like persuading people and the courts.

* "Bird flu could be heading north this spring with fewer federal health officials working to stop it :" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bird-flu-heading-north-spring-fewer-federal-health-officials-working-s-rcna199607

* "Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk:" https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

* "If You're Black, You Have Every Right To Be Paranoid About Where Your Genetic Data Is Going:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/23andme-genetic-discrimination_n_67eab84ce4b0b5d66dcfeb57

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* "Air pollution kills millions every year — where does it come from?:" https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution-sources

* "Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake: “We have the capacity to save lives, and the choice has been not to use it,” said the former head of the agency’s Myanmar mission.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-usaid-myanmar-earthquake-response-aid/

* "Myanmar images reveal scale of quake destruction as death toll climbs more than 2,700:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/myanmar-images-reveal-scale-quake-destruction-death-toll-climbs-2700-rcna199005

* "Volcano erupts in southwestern Iceland after a nearby town and spa are evacuated:" https://kfor.com/science/ap-science/ap-authorities-in-iceland-evacuate-southwestern-town-and-blue-lagoon-spa-over-fear-of-volcanic-eruption/

* "Amidst signs of possible eruption, Alaska Volcano Observatory updates Upper Valley residents on Mt. Spurr:" https://ktna.org/2025/04/amidst-signs-of-possible-eruption-alaska-volcano-observatory-updates-upper-valley-residents-on-mt-spurr/

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* "Advocates cry foul after YouTube quietly removes ‘gender identity’ from hate speech policy:" https://www.advocate.com/business/youtube-scraps-gender-identity-protection

* "The Town That Went Crazy for Crypto: In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won. Until they didn’t.:" https://archive.ph/FCrti

* "Dora Richter: Lacemaker & Trans Pioneer:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FlgQhdOrT6c

* "These three gay men began dating in 1970. Here are 50 Polaroid photos from their lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/polaroid-images-polyamory-gay-men#rebelltitem51

* "Zine Archives Preserve Trans Survival and Storytelling:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/queer-trans-zine-archives

* "Actor Val Kilmer has died — a look back at his most notable roles:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/val-kilmer-death-film-role-retrospective/105129062

* "ACT UP member Nanette Kazaoka, a fierce activist for marginalized people, is dead at 83:" https://www.advocate.com/news/nanette-kazaoka-aids-activist-obituary

* Social Security call back last Monday was an obviously exhausted and beaten down sounding woman. I'm sure it's absolutely terrible over there with terrified and likely furious Seniors calling all day. I apologized for bothering her because the phone tree was gone. I was polite as it was possible to be and I also laced in appreciation for her hard work and all the hard work they do over there, sincerely meant.

At one point I gave a little cough as I was doing the thing where I slowly lower chest elevation in preparation for sleep. She started apologizing like I'd yelled. I felt terrible and told her she needn't apologize and it was just a cough. I reiterated that I new how slammed they must be and how difficult it all is. It really made me wonder how rough other callers were being with people who's livelihoods were threatened through no fault of their own, that she be so alarmed by a cough.

By the time I was thanking her for her public service and wishing her the best of luck at the end of the call there were a tiny bit of life in her voice.

It was a small thing, a tiny drop of the bucket, done in the same spirit that leads me to apologize to a customer service worker when the person ahead of me has been a dick because someone owes them a damned apology, and then crank up my politeness to eleven. Nobody deserves to be treated like that by a single asshole customer, let alone by their own government. I can't really fix that, but I can least do my best to convey that I see the other person as a human being and think they deserve better.

The treatment of government workers in this country makes me furious.

All I can do is signal boost and hope people keep fighting for them and for all of us.

* Tuesday I had one of my periodic mega torso muscle spasm things, which ate a couple hour until I could get it under control. Luckily is was after I ran a couple essential, time sensitive errands.

Wednesday I was still aftershocky, but at the minor inconvenience level. I did errands by myself as two Millennials were making their homemade lasagna on the grand scale. The lasagna was magical.

In other news, My Social Security didn't arrive. On two previous occasions when Republicans were dicking around with Social Security, it came a day or two late, but under the current circumstances it is extra concerning. Have I been declared dead? Deleted from the roles by a teenager who decided I was disabled enough? Or are payments just delayed by assholery, but not gone, gone? I actually have some hope it's just delay as I checked in with a friend on SSI who did get theirs.

Still, there is no way to fix it until my in person appointment and that will be too late for Housing auto-withdraw.

Let's all cross our fingers, shall we?

Update: Tim Walz's mom's check was late too.

Update 2: Check arrives.

* My sleep schedule is still messed up, but luckily the meds disruption was only one day. (On time is ideal, but I don't have to be the kind of strict a lot of people do. Approximate works okay with most of my stuff. That said, three hours off on an anti-nausea medication is a special kind of unpleasant.)

Saturday, we did errands in the morning, because I'm not the only one dramatically sleep disrupted. They are no longer shopping like a hurricane is coming, but the drivers are dangerous and there is a different kind of panicky going on at the grocery store, which is hard to categorize. We were at the big ethical grocery (The Employee owned one), and I noticed they had way more people on shift than is usual for even the first weekend of the month, which suggests they've adjusted to the panic buying and anticipated both in ordering staple foods and staffing how people were going to react to Trump crashing the economy this week.

I still need to hit two more stores this week for things about to be in short supply that are important and necessary. I am exhausted.

We did do a little errand each for me and Goth Millennial for which the other stayed in the car because we were exhausted. We were supposed to go downtown, but had very little left and both had groceries to put away. (Goth Millennial is being jerked around again and hasn't been paid in almost a month for aid work. Things are getting pretty gnarly here at the Cat Asylum, but nothing can be done just yet as we have to wait on things out of our hands. *gestures at Trump and Musk setting the government on fire*).

There was a big demo with thousands of people downtown proper near the courthouse/city hall, but we weren't up to it. There has been a regular Friday demonstration more central downtown for decades. We get a lot of other demonstrations on different days generally as well. This is a very left wing town. It's a small city, but we do love to demonstrate.

We did pass a small, separate demonstration on the was home, but they had hands off signs, so I waved and beeped.

I am double booked Tuesday for two time sensitive things that protect my benefits. (I tried to get wait listed. I tried to move the theoretically more moveable one. It is impossible, which doesn't surprise me. *gestures to the government being on fire* The appointments are 40 minutes apart on check in and about fifteen minutes apart for space. I am terrified I won't make it. My plan is to try to go very early for appointment one in hopes somebody cancels. I have already gathered the paperwork.

I am FUCKED if I miss either.

Then I get inspected on the 11th, a thing I am in no way prepared for, and can't get anyone to help with. *See Goth Millennial being not paid.* I have tried calling around for other help. No joy.

* "Tasers & Excited Delirium: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO):"

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* "MAGA Becomes TIT | Why Trump Wants A Third Term | J.D.'s Stupid Greenland Trip:"

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* "Trump's Tariff Spectacle | Good Climate Change? | Everyone Is At Risk Of Being Sent To El Salvador:"

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* "Trump Risks Historic Economic Damage | Musk Crushed In Wisconsin | Sen. Booker's Marathon Speech:"

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* "Trump Jets Off To Watch Golf After Triggering Global Market Meltdown | No Tariffs On Russia:"

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* "7 lesbian-coded characters who made history in Hollywood's pre-Code era:" https://www.advocate.com/lesbian/7-lesbian-coded-early-characters

* "A Liberation Carol:"

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* "Jury Duty - SNL:"

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* "Planning New York - An SNL Animated Short:"

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* "The World Reacts To Trump's Tariffs:"

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* "The New Students- Woody Guthrie Cover - All You Fascists Bound To Lose:"

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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