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* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.




* "Israel expands attacks in Gaza and Yemen as Trump wraps up trip to region:" https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-israel-gaza-hamas-hostages-05-16-2025-fb5e3b08af46a55b6faeead7b8647dc6

* "Israeli bombing wave kills dozens in Gaza including at least 22 children, say reports:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/14/israel-hits-gaza-hospitals-in-deadly-strikes-after-pause-to-allow-release-of-edan-alexander

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* "Russia-Ukraine peace talks end after less than 2 hours with deal to swap POWs but no ceasefire:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-turkey-peace-talks-9a75e2069cea6c73d1276a9e53e7d6e5

* "Russia building major new explosives facility as Ukraine war drags on:" https://www.reuters.com/investigations/russia-building-major-new-explosives-facility-ukraine-war-drags-2025-05-08/?

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* "Kurdish PKK ends 40-year Turkey insurgency, bringing hope of regional stability:" https://archive.ph/EaRb3




* "What Would It Take to Rebuild Syria?:" https://thewalrus.ca/what-would-it-take-to-rebuild-syria

* "Romania’s Election Rerun: What’s at Stake as the Far Right Rises:" https://archive.ph/oC8Lf

* "Romania’s Destiny Rides on Trump Follower Versus Math Prodigy:" https://archive.ph/dyqPS

* "Libyan protesters demand prime minister quit as three ministers resign:" https://archive.ph/dI6bW

* "Workers strike in protest against job cuts at Ford Germany:" https://archive.ph/ZTztC

* "Protesters in Budapest demonstrate against 'Transparency Bill' with banner and red paint:" https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/16/protesters-in-budapest-demonstrate-against-transparency-bill-with-banner-and-red-paint




* "NATO mulls US demand for a big increase in defense spending as some struggle to meet today’s goal:" https://apnews.com/article/nato-rubio-trump-russia-ukraine-turkey-5c8b5ac67a05690635cab5e793a5e97d

* "Iran’s Khamenei Brands Trump a Liar in Escalation of Rhetoric:" https://archive.ph/Tfxv0

* "Dems move to block Middle East arms sales over Qatar plane deal:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/15/congress/dems-block-middle-east-arms-sales-00351865

* "No, You Can't Keep A "Free" Plane:"

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* "‘Hand-me-down’: How Trump got his jet from Qatar:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-hand-me-down-how-trump-got-his-jet-from-qatar-239693381917

* "The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-starlink-state-department-gambia-africa-pressure

* "Walmart says higher prices from tariffs coming as soon as this month:" https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5399154/walmart-higher-prices-tariffs

* "U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs:" https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-trump-media-stock-tariffs

* "Supreme Court halts Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.advocate.com/news/supreme-court-stops-deportations

* "Supreme Court leaves Trump disgruntled after rejecting his deportation plans:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-reduced-to-whiny-complaints-on-social-media-after-supreme-court-rejects-his-deportation-plans-239808581906

* "Boo-hoo! A petulant Trump whines about flying on the majestic Air Force One:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-complains-air-force-one

* "D.H.S. Requests 20,000 National Guard Members to Help With Immigration Crackdown:" https://archive.ph/XGvxY

The National Guard dragging people Trump doesn't like out of their houses does not lead anywhere good.

* "Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/gabbard-fires-intel-officials-oversaw-memo-contradicting-white-house-c-rcna206918

Remember how cherry picking intelligence at the White house's direction contributed to 9/11? I do.

* "Kirsti Noem won’t say if gay asylum-seeker deported to El Salvador’s ‘hellhole’ prison is still alive:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-andry-hernandez-romero

* "Trump’s DHS considers reality TV show where immigrants fight for citizenship:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-immigration-reality-show

* "Protesters demand release of Dalton teen from ICE detention outside Rep. Greene's office:" https://newschannel9.com/news/local/right-thing-to-do-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-approves-of-dalton-students-deportation-ximena-arias-cristobal-immigrations-and-customs-enforcement-ice-whitfield-county-immigration-undocumented

* Know your rights and plan ahead. "Reacting To Hasan Piker's CBP Detention:"

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* "DHS Threatens To Arrest Sitting Members Of Congress:"

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* "The rise of end times fascism:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

* We could be spending this money on keeping Social Security offices open. "Trump, US Army birthday bash plans include 25 Abrams tanks:" https://archive.ph/tF0ne

* This is all Dear Leader type stuff. "The huge banner of a glaring Trump in front of the USDA is a literal sign the U.S. has lost its democracy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/huge-trump-banner-signals-despotism

* "'Most Transparent’ White House In History Keeps Majority Of Trump’s Remarks Secret:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-secret-transcripts_n_6824fe20e4b021b5064adc84

* Trump also threatened Springsteen's safety and freedom. "After Bruce Springsteen calls Trump "treasonous," the president responds by criticizing the rock star's skin:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bruce-springsteen-land-of-hopes-and-dreams-tour-trump-truth-social-post/

* "How Trump unleashed executive power:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/EXECUTIVE-ORDERS/gdpznealwpw/

* "Stephen Miller re-emerges as an ‘untouchable’ force in Trump’s White House:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/stephen-miller-untouchable-force-trump-white-house-rcna206180

* Anyone surprised the fraud they were using to dismantle the phone system was imaginary? "DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none:" https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/05/doge-went-looking-phone-fraud-ssa-and-found-almost-none/405346/

* "Disabled workers have faced prejudice. Now they face DOGE firings:" https://apnews.com/article/disabled-federal-workers-layoffs-trump-77528e68350b62e52bab3455f0a87591

* "Pentagon begins mass removal of transgender troops:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-troops-purge-medical-records

* "NOAA database for extreme weather disasters cancelled:" https://flowingdata.com/2025/05/13/noaa-database-for-extreme-weather-disasters-cancelled/

* "FEMA 'not ready' for hurricane season, internal review finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fema-ready-hurricane-season-internal-review-finds/story?id=121837637

* I think we all know why. "Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation:" https://archive.ph/QoBiE

* "RFK Jr. Pledge to Review Abortion Pill Draws Quick Criticism:" https://news.bgov.com/health-law-and-business/rfk-jr-commitment-to-review-abortion-pill-draws-quick-criticism

* A thing on why RFK Jr,'s vaccine placebo studies are unethical: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/783809081015238656/cancer-treatment-studies-rarely-have-placebo?source=share

* "Sen. Sanders presses Secretary Kennedy on cuts to cancer research:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-sanders-presses-secretary-kennedy-on-cuts-to-cancer-research-239647813845




* "Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an All-Out Assault on the Voting Rights Act. Now It’s Here.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/supreme-court-justices-neil-gorsuch-clarence-thomas-voting-rights.html

* "Amy Coney Barrett Tears Into Trump Official to Defend Liberal Justice at Supreme Court:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/amy-coney-barrett-tears-into-trump-official-to-defend-liberal-justice-elena-kagan-at-supreme-court/

* "“Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas:" https://www.propublica.org/article/homevestors-fraud-charles-carrier-texas

* "Under ‘Crime-Free Housing’ Laws, Families May Be Evicted for Minor Offenses:" https://archive.ph/pdv8I

* "How Part-Time Jobs Became a Trap:" https://archive.ph/OKhcM

* We need to fight the Budget Bill

If this budget passes, people die because they won't be able to afford the copays, especially as Trump economic policies kill jobs and keep causing prices to rise.

They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.

When you contact your Congress Critter, say what you need to say to keep Republicans split and keep Democratic spines stiff in the House.

* It is working! Every delay helps! The more we can split Republicans, the better!

* "House budget panel rejects GOP megabill amid conservative opposition:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326

* Stay Noisy! Flood the Republicans with complaints! "GOP infighting sends Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' off the rails:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/-big-brutal-setback-gop-infighting-sends-trump-s-big-beautiful-bill-off-the-rails-239811141510

* 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

* "New Republican House bill bans transgender troops & seeks to strip trans vets of security clearances:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gop-bill-bans-transgender-military




* 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/

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

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

"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

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

"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/




* "From trauma to triumph, will NYC Councilman Erik Bottcher become the city's first out gay mayor one day?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-nyc-city-council

* "Texas House moves toward repealing anti-sodomy law:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-advances-sodomy-law-repeal

* "DeSantis signs bill making Florida second state to ban fluoride from its water system:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/desantis-signs-bill-making-florida-2nd-state-ban-121846716

* "American Dental Association Objects to Florida Surgeon General’s Stance, Reaffirms Strong Support for Community Water Fluoridation:" https://www.ada.org/about/press-releases/american-dental-association-objects-to-florida-surgeon-generals-stance

* "Florida just created a law to ban fluoride in water. What should you do now?:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/17/florida-just-passed-a-bill-to-ban-fluoride-what-should-you-do-now/

* "Rep. Libby’s rhetoric spoils high school running | Letter:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/rep-libbys-rhetoric-spoils-high-school-running-letter/

* "Nevada man used antigay slur in death threats to U.S. senator:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/death-threats-senator-nevada

* "How the MAGA 'manosphere' exploits attention to attract eager, young voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/how-the-maga-manosphere-exploits-attention-to-attract-eager-young-voters-239811141612

* "Teen ‘innocent bystander’ fatally shot during a fight near a New York City school:" https://apnews.com/article/girl-killed-stray-bullet-new-york-bronx-2698416723a3afa59705f16513f79a93

* "Judge orders ‘remediation manager’ to oversee Rikers Island jails:" https://gothamist.com/news/judge-orders-remediation-manager-to-oversee-rikers-island-jails

* "What you need to know about the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, & Biphobia (IDAHOBIT):" https://www.advocate.com/news/what-is-idahobit

* "Why June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month:" https://www.advocate.com/news/why-june-lgbtq-pride-month

* "Adolescents of the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Behavior, and Sexual Risk Exposure:" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3210350/

* Sigh. "Pope Leo XIV says marriage is 'between a man and a woman':" https://www.advocate.com/news/pope-leo-heterosexual-marriage

* "MEPs protest Hungary’s Budapest Pride ban:" https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/16/meps-protest-hungarys-budapest-pride-ban

* "NYU withholds degree from gay transgender student over commencement speech:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-student-nyu-speech






* "All of the biggest U.S. cities are sinking:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250508112609.htm

* "A century ago, suspended monorails were serious mass-transit contenders:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/suspended-monorails-history/

* "The Day Grok Told Everyone About ‘White Genocide’:" https://archive.ph/05Wqh

* "Four bad AI futures take root:" https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/four-bad-ai-futures-arrived-this

* "Yes, the Lopez v. Apple lawsuit over Siri allegedly snooping on users is real. Here's how to cash in:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lopez-apple-siri-lawsuit/

* "Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria:" https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-new-type-of-electricity-conducting-bacteria/

* "A rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg from its neck:" https://apnews.com/article/zealand-snail-egg-neck-powelliphanta-augusta-3cb8082547a83b8c47848b6621c06cb0?

* "In Order to Unravel the Many Mysteries of Squids, Scientists Dive Into Their Mating Frenzies:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-order-to-unravel-the-many-mysteries-of-squids-scientists-dive-into-their-mating-frenzies-180986551/

* "Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal:" https://theconversation.com/young-bats-learn-to-be-discriminating-when-listening-for-their-next-meal-253321

* "Scientists once thought only humans could bob to music. Ronan the sea lion helped prove them wrong:" https://apnews.com/article/ronan-dancing-sea-lion-boogie-wonderland-ef575607db2f710fe102e2dd7c994049

* "The surprising evolution of the weirdest animals on Earth, according to a new study:" https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/science/platypus-echidna-monotremes-evolution/index.html

* "Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago:" https://theconversation.com/antarctica-has-a-huge-completely-hidden-mountain-range-new-data-reveals-its-birth-over-500-million-years-ago-256231

* "Explore Rome’s Hidden Underworld, Where a City Lurks Beneath a City:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/explore-romes-hidden-underworld-city-beneath-city-180986228/

* "The Cult of Whiteness | How a 17th Century Idea Shaped Modern History:"

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* "The Hell We Raised: How Texas Shaped the Gunfighter Era:" https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/gunfighters-old-west-wilder-bloodier/

* "Marie Curie and Spooky Rays: Crash Course History of Science #31:"

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* "Carved in Memory: How a family heirloom uncovered the life of a man imprisoned in a First World War internment camp.:" https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/carved-in-memory

* "100 Years Ago: The Man Who Singlehandedly Stopped Thousands of Illegal Deportations:" https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/05/100-years-ago-the-man-who-singlehandedly-stopped-thousands-of-illegal-deportations/

* "Amaze Yourself With the Unbelievable Story of Bessie Coleman, the Black Aviator Who Wowed the Nation With Her High-Flying Achievements:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amaze-yourself-unbelievable-story-bessie-coleman-black-aviator-wowed-nation-high-flying-achievements-180986564/

* "The Art Spy who Stopped Hitler from Emptying the Louvre:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/05/14/the-artful-spy-who-stopped-hitler-from-emptying-the-louvre/

* "The Daring Polish Resistance Fighter Who Volunteered to Be Sent to Auschwitz So He Could Sabotage the Nazi Death Camp From the Inside:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-daring-polish-resistance-fighter-who-volunteered-to-be-sent-to-auschwitz-so-he-could-sabotage-the-nazi-death-camp-from-the-inside-180986559/

* "‘A Priceless Inheritance’: Preserving Memories of Black Life in Memphis:" https://archive.ph/W0q1Q

* "Veteran Crushes Tesla in Protest:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CKnQo5ZyFqA

* "Captivating Classics:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BQPj-DSaZ_U

* "Ruinous Rome:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0YMZBCsC9WE

* "Sizzling Senate Houses:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uORP0eOj7Vc

* "Pernicious Plantagenets:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JSHSEjKsznw

* "Rowdy Robert the Bruce:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLFouMTMhOc

* "Devilish Dinners:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JlOrGs_1y7Y

* "Terrifying Townton:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HmGMOhDMryY

* "Triumphant Tudors:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I1JK-_XUijE

* "Sulking Samurai:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/woxDfQtNCmE

* "Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780) :" https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chinese-fishes/

* "Sam Stone - Call ACab (Lyrics):"

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* "1953 Lavender Marriage Song:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/En3pf6qGyO8

* I am watching Murderbot with a friend.

We both found them putting Murderbot's bare face in the promotional stuff disturbing. Sec Unit would hate that and really in the books one lives inside Murderbot's head. It's just really jarring to be looking at it like that.

I have thought about it while watching the episodes. I think I would prefer if during the bits where the humans make it retract the helmet, all shots were either Murderbot POV of the other person or via the cameras/drones, whatever, so it's Murderbot's view of Murderbots via the remotes.

I know they'd never have done it that way as Skarsgard is expensive, so odds are they want his face on screen as much as they can justify.

I just, idk. I am so used to thinking of murderbot as genderless and from the inside. Having such a famous face embodying this character is super distracting.

(I have nothing against Mr. Skarsgard. He's beeen great in everything I've seen him in previously and he has a lot of range and a sense of humor about himself. It's not that I think he's doing anything wrong acting wise here, I just think having someone so famous doing this makes sense financially, but not artistically).

I think the rest of the casting is excellent and the characterizations seems good so far. I have some other concerns, but I'm happy with it over all. It's just a bit disorienting.

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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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* I'm doing better, but I still tire easily and the physio is already getting ugly. This means I'm going to run out of things like energy and pain resistance without much warning.




* "The Israeli military orders civilians to evacuate eastern Rafah as airstrikes escalate.:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/06/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas?smid=url-share#the-israeli-military-tells-civilians-in-eastern-rafah-to-move-to-a-humanitarian-zone

* "Israel begins military operation in Rafah, hours after Hamas agrees to a cease-fire:" https://apnews.com/live/cease-fire-israel-hamas-updates

* "World Food Program director Cindy McCain: parts of Gaza in 'full-blown famine':" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/israel-hamas/2024/05/04/gaza-famine-israel-hamas-war-world-food-program/73567949007/

* "Class destroyed: The rise and ruin of Gaza's revered universities:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/gaza-universities-destroyed-israel-military-war/index.html

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

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* "Far-right minister: Hostage deal throws war goals in trash to save only 22-33 hostages:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-claims-hostage-deal-throws-war-goals-in-trash-to-save-hostages/amp/

* "‘No doubt’ Netanyahu preventing hostage deal, charges ex-spokesman of Families Forum:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-hostage-deal-charges-ex-spokesman-of-families-forum/amp/

* "Biden says US will cut off offensive weapons to Israel ‘if they go into Rafah’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/biden-says-u-s-will-cut-off-offensive-weapons-to-israel-if-they-go-into-rafah-00156943

* "Netanyahu says Israel can ‘stand alone’ after Biden threatens arms halt:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/09/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/

* "Israel due to get billions of dollars more in US weapons despite Biden pause:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-due-get-billions-dollars-more-us-weapons-despite-biden-pause-2024-05-09/

* "Exclusive: USAID officials say Israel breached US directive on Gaza aid:" https://www.devex.com/news/exclusive-usaid-officials-say-israel-breached-us-directive-on-gaza-aid-107545?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=devex_social_icons

* "Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war:" https://cpj.org/2024/05/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/

* "Israel takes Al Jazeera off the air, raids its offices:" https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-takes-al-jazeera-off-the-air-raids-its-offices-following-vote/

* "Al Jazeera Managing Editor: Israel's Shutdown is an Effort to Silence Coverage of Gaza War:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/al-jazeera-managing-editor-israel-s-shutdown-is-an-effort-to-silence-coverage-of-gaza-war-210307653768

* "‘Where Is the Palestinian Gandhi?’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/magazine/issa-amro-palestinian-nonviolent-activist.html?

* "How these University of Texas-Austin students view Gaza war protests on their campus:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249296685/the-perspectives-of-protesters-at-the-university-of-texas-at-austin

* "Police Shoot at UCLA Protesters as Encampment Cleared:" https://www.newsweek.com/ucla-campus-protests-police-shoot-pro-palestinian-1896549

* "55 years after Reagan took on Berkeley, Newsom stays in the background amid roiling campus protests:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-05/50-years-after-reagan-took-on-berkeley-newsom-stays-in-the-background-amid-roiling-campus-protests

* "This California public university is first to revise investment policy after campus protests:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/sacramento-state-revises-investment-policy-avoid-19446646.php

* The Republican war on our basic freedoms continues. "Stefanik demands Biden administration yank Columbia’s federal funding:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/23/stefanik-columbia-federal-funding-00153967

* "The Real “Outside Agitators” of These Protests Are Members of Congress:" https://newrepublic.com/article/181213/outside-agitators-campus-protests-members-congress

* ""Boogeyman narrative": Columbia professors call out Eric Adams over "outside agitators" trope:" https://www.salon.com/2024/05/02/boogeyman-narrative-columbia-professors-call-out-eric-adams-over-outside-agitators-trope/

* "FROM UCLA TO COLUMBIA, PROFESSORS NATIONWIDE DEFEND STUDENTS AS POLITICIANS AND POLICE ATTACK:" https://theintercept.com/2024/05/02/professors-students-gaza-university-protests-columbia/

* "The Media’s Hypocritical Hysteria Over Campus Protests:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/the-media-s-hypocritical-hysteria-over-campus-protests-210275909834

* "Debunking the “Outside Agitator” Trope amid pro-Palestinian campus protests:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/debunking-the-outside-agitator-trope-amid-pro-palestinian-campus-protests-210307653799

* "Police Treatment of a Dartmouth Professor Stirs Anger and Debate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/dartmouth-professor-police-protests.html

* "In NYC and LA, police response to campus protests draws sharp criticism:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1248935672/campus-protests-police-arrests

* Have they not heard of the first amendment? "Lawmakers Admit They Want to Ban TikTok Over Pro-Palestinian Content:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lawmakers-tiktok-ban-pro-palestinian-content-1235016101/

* "Texas Senate panel to discuss campus free speech following UT protests:" https://www.nbc24.com/news/nation-world/texas-senate-panel-to-discuss-campus-free-speech-following-ut-protests-university-of-texas-at-austin-college-campus-anti-israel-demonstrations-hamas-war-middle-east-dei-ban-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiatives

* "Queer Eurovision fans on why they’ve chosen to boycott this year’s contest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/11/eurovision-2024-queer-lgbtq-boycott/

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* "Putin orders tactical nuclear weapon drills to deter the West:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-practice-tactical-nuclear-weapon-scenario-deter-west-defence-ministry-2024-05-06/

* "Russia says it has captured 5 villages in northeast Ukraine as more than 1,700 civilians flee:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv-offensive-26184a3898db0aece9f6e9eb3a700e7a

* "Russian drones injure 6 in Ukraine's Kharkiv, Dnipro regions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/debris-drones-injures-three-ukraines-kharkiv-governor-says-2024-05-03/

* "Kyiv’s forces are up against a concerted Russian push in eastern Ukraine, a military official says:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-odesa-missiles-d6b931b646cc78c5b48e1dc18614c7fb

* "Russian forces attack Ukraine's Kharkiv region, opening new front:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-sends-reinforcements-after-russian-forces-attack-kharkiv-region-2024-05-10/

* "Russian attack hits school stadium, injures four children in Ukraine's Kharkiv:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-attack-hits-school-stadium-injures-four-children-ukraines-kharkiv-2024-05-08/

* "Opinion Read Vladimir Kara-Murza’s Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary on Russia: Kara-Murza courageously wrote incisive, historically informed columns about Russia from his prison cell.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/06/vladimir-kara-murza-pulitzer-prize-commentary/

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* "Russia to withdraw troops from Armenia’s border:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-to-withdraw-troops-from-armenias-border/

* "Meet the Candidate Challenging Venezuela’s Authoritarian President:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/world/americas/edmundo-gonzalez-venezuela-elections.html

* "Is Venezuela Serious About Invading Guyana?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/05/venezuela-guyana-essequibo-border-dispute-referendum/678173/

* "Posie Parker’s Party of Women fails to gain any seats in local elections :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/03/posie-parker-party-of-women-local-elections-2024/

* "Controversial MSP Kate Forbes says she won’t run in the SNP leadership race, but John Swinney will:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/02/scotland-kate-forbes-snp-first-minister-leadership/

* "Bob Carr intends to sue NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters for defamation over on-air insult:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/bob-carr-to-sue-nz-winston-peters-over-aukus-radio-interview/103794588

* This cost cutting at the expense of children's nutrition reminds me of Reagan declaring ketchup a vegetable so he could deprive children of actual vegetables in the Us when I was a kid.
"Parents, principals react to the Government's low-cost school lunch programme:" https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/05/parents-principals-react-to-the-government-s-low-cost-school-lunch-programme.html

* "Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow. These songs wouldn't make the cut:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243632570/chechnya-music-ban-bpm

* "THE NEW PROPAGANDA WAR:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/

* "Biden administration toughens school nutrition standards:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-toughens-school-nutrition-standards-2024-04-24/

* "Biden awards the Medal of Freedom to Nancy Pelosi, Medgar Evers, Michelle Yeoh, Al Gore and others:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-05-03/biden-awards-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom-to-19-politicians-activists-athletes-yeoh-pelosi

* "Presidential Medal of Freedom recognizes the heroism of Judy Shepard:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judy-shepard-medal-freedom

* "Who is Jane Rigby, the lesbian scientist who just received a Medal of Freedom?:" https://www.advocate.com/news/jane-rigby-medal-of-freedom

* Republicans are suing for the right to incriminate against trans children in schools. "Nine GOP-led states sue Biden administration over new transgender protections under Title IX:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gop-states-sue-title-ix

* "South Carolina education leader: schools should ignore LGBTQ-inclusive Title IX rule:" https://www.advocate.com/education/south-carolina-ignore-title-ix

* "Joe Biden lauds new Microsoft center on the same site where Trump’s Foxconn project failed:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-microsoft-tech-election-2024-ec3501d041d7b8b563563b22fcc23db5

* "Biden trolls Trump over Foxconn 'con job:' He 'didn't build a damn thing':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-trolls-trump-over-foxconn-con-job-he-didn-t-build-a-damn-thing-210540101852

* "The FDA grants trans-inclusive at-home cervical screening device a priority review:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/09/cervical-screening-at-home-test/

* "How immigrants are helping boost the U.S. job market without affecting inflation:" https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/immigrants-are-helping-us-job-market-grow-without-affecting-inflation-rcna146570

* "Many in Gen Z ditch colleges for trade schools. Meet the 'toolbelt generation':" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1245858737/gen-z-trade-vocational-schools-jobs-college

* "Your Medicare Costs May Go Down Dramatically in 2024, Thanks to U.S. Law Kicking in:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/medicare-costs-have-gone-down-dramatically-thanks-to-inflation-reduction-act/

* "‘Failing act of political theater’: Greene ostracized after Johnson ouster push:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/09/congress/everybody-hates-mtg-00157030

* "800+ Jewish Professors Urge Biden, Senate to Oppose 'Dangerous' Antisemitism Bill: "Criticism of the state of Israel, the Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or Zionist ideology is not—in and of itself—antisemitic," reads a new letter.:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/antisemitism-bill

The Republican war on freedom of speech and the right to protest continues.

* Stop the government censoring queer and other minority voices off the Internet in the US : https://www.stopkosa.com/

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

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Barron Trump to be a Florida delegate at the Republican National Convention this summer:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/barron-trump-republican-national-convention

* "Nevada GOP nominates indicted ‘fake electors’ for national convention:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/may/10/state-gop-nominates-indicted-fake-electors-for-nat/

* "US Republicans target noncitizen voting, as Trump keeps up false voter fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-republicans-target-noncitizen-voting-trump-keeps-up-false-voter-fraud-claims-2024-05-08/

* "'They're tricking themselves!': Republicans contort election strategy around Trump's Big Lie:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-they-re-tricking-themselves-republicans-contort-election-strategy-around-trump-s-big-lie-210721349622

* "Texas voters make history electing first LGBTQ+ state senator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-molly-cook-lgbtq-senator

* "West Virginia governor’s race is a battle of who can be the most anti-trans:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/west-virgina-governors-race-transphobes

* Primaries are Ongoing:
Important! Remember to vote in all primaries, not just presidential!!!

NOTE: There is a call for people to vote "uncommitted" in the Democratic primary as a protest against Biden's Israel policy. The time to pressure Biden with your vote is now, not in November. The pressure from all the different types of protests do seem to be working, if far slower than we'd like.

NOTE 2: There is a similar protest against Trump where people vote for a candidate who isn't running. Check your state to see who people are promoting.

NOTE 3: Important non-Presidential Primaries are also ongoing! Vote the whole ballot!

Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia: 5/14/24 (Senate and House Primaries as well! Important!!!)

Georgia, Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho: 5/21/24 (House Primaries as well! Important!!!)

Idaho (Democrat): 5/23/24

Texas (Run Off Election): 5/28/24

Iowa (House Primary), District of Columbia (Democrats), Montana (General Primary, Important), New Jersey (General Primary, Important), New Mexico (General Primary, Important), South Dakota: 6/4/24


Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

If you live in an open primary state consider voting strategically. Otherwise, vote your heart in the primary. Remember how all those votes for Sanders and Warren pushed Biden and the party platform further left?

Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket even if it's in a separate primary (as it is in my state). Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "RFK Jr. makes California ballot by collaborating with political party with a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ+ past:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rfk-junior-california-aip

* "RFK Jr. claims a doctor told him a worm ate part of his brain, reports New York Times:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/rfk-jr-brain-worm-00156794

* "Ohio lawmakers are at odds over effort to ensure Biden appears on November ballot:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ohio-lawmakers-are-odds-effort-ensure-biden-appears-november-ballot-rcna151369

* "Kamala Harris responds to Donald Trump’s views on state punishments for abortion: ‘It’s outrageous’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/04/kamala-harris-donald-trump-response/

* "Is 2024 Doomed to Repeat 1968 or 2020—or Both?:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/is-2024-doomed-to-repeat-1968-or-2020-or-both

* "“As he sees fit”: Trump lays out the stakes — and the media is starting to hear his message:" https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/as-he-sees-fit-lays-out-the-stakes--and-the-media-is-starting-to-hear-his-message/

* "Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

* "'Quid pro quo:' Trump vowed to gut climate laws in exchange for $1B from oil bosses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-quid-pro-quo-trump-vowed-to-gut-climate-laws-in-exchange-for-1b-from-oil-bosses-210711621735

* "Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-revoke-trans-protections

* "Donald Trump shows his true colors in a Time Magazine profile:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/donald-trump-shows-his-true-colors-in-a-time-magazine-profile-210275397524

* "Rep. Maxine Waters: 'Donald Trump is a pure racist':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-maxine-waters-donald-trump-is-a-pure-racist-210304581899

* "'Energizing': Maddow puts U.S. fight to defend democracy in global context:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-energizing-maddow-puts-u-s-fight-to-defend-democracy-in-global-context-210396229831

* "Maddow: Trump, Republican attacks on legal system are actively damaging U.S. rule of law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-trump-republican-attacks-on-legal-system-is-actively-damaging-u-s-rule-of-law-210398789561

* "What to know about Louisiana's new tough-on-crime laws:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/louisianas-new-tough-crime-laws/story?id=107803112

* "Opinion | Bill to jail librarians appears to also make many stores “public nuisances”:" https://www.alreporter.com/2024/05/02/opinion-bill-to-jail-librarians-appears-to-also-make-many-stores-public-nuisances/

* "Mississippi Republicans pass anti-trans bathroom bill at last-minute:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/mississippi-republicans-trans-bathroom-bill

* "Utah auditor slams legislature for making him 'bathroom monitor' after 'snitch form' flooded with memes:" https://www.advocate.com/news/utah-snitch-line-auditor

* "Louisiana allows predominantly White area to form new city, sparking segregation concerns:" https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/louisiana-allows-predominantly-white-area-to-form-new-city-sparking-segregation-concerns-east-baton-rouge-parish-city-of-st-george-mayor-president-sharon-weston-broome-norman-browning

* ""The Tide Is Turning": Dozens Of Anti-LGBTQ Bills Die In Florida:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-tide-is-turning-dozens-of-anti?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=c0rw8&triedRedirect=true

* "Rhode Island advances law protecting doctors who provide abortions & gender-affirming care:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rhode-island-shield-law-abortion-transgender

* The Republican Agenda in a nutshell: Allow corporations to steal from regular people. "Ted Cruz Wants Airlines to Keep Your Cash When They Cancel Your Flight:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ted-cruz-airlines-automatic-refunds-faa-reauthorization-1235012248/

* My disappointment in her grows by leaps and bounds. "NY Governor Kathy Hochul Backpedaling After Ignorant Statement About Black Kids:" https://www.theroot.com/ny-governor-kathy-hochul-backpedaling-after-ignorant-st-1851467300

* "Months after threesome scandal, Bridget Ziegler attacks protections for Florida transgender students:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bridget-ziegler-transphobic-title-ix

* "Oops: Kristi Noem’s New Book Includes a Made-Up Story About Meeting Kim Jong Un:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/kristi-noems-new-book-includes-a-made-up-story-about-meeting-kim-jong-un

* CW: Animal Death. "South Dakota Republican Kristi Noem killed her dog. Now she wants to kill President Joe Biden's:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kristi-noem-dog-commander-biden-kill

* CW: Animal Death. "Kristi Noem roasted by Trump Jr., Bannon over dog killing revelation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/kristi-noem-roasted-by-trump-jr-bannon-over-dog-killing-revelation-210241605886

* "GOP congressman seems to endorse Ole Miss student's racist response to a Black protester:" https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/congressman-seems-to-endorse-ole-miss-students-response-to-a-black/

* "Democratic US Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife are indicted over ties to Azerbaijan:" https://apnews.com/article/henry-cuellar-texas-azerbaijan-ddb1dea393ba88d8d823557ec6c0d93a

* "Florida document dump reveals more about Christian and Bridget Ziegler's threesomes:" https://www.advocate.com/christian-ziegler-bridget-threesome

* "Trump Media's accountant is charged with "massive fraud" by the SEC:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-media-accountant-borgers-charged-with-massive-fraud-sec/

* "How Paul Manafort Tried to Make Money With a Project Supposedly Tied to the Chinese Regime:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/paul-manafort-china-trump-doorways/

* "Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/10/appeals-court-upholds-steve-bannons-conviction-for-defying-jan-6-probe-00157301

* "Ex-Trump advisor Bannon's trial over border wall scheme set for May 2024:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/ex-trump-advisor-bannons-fraud-trial-set-may-2024-2023-05-25/

* "Bannon set to enter Trump campaign-to-prison pipeline, crossing paths with Manafort:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/bannon-set-to-enter-trump-campaign-to-prison-pipeline-crossing-paths-with-manafort-210719813822

* "New York man pleads guilty to sending threats to state attorney general and Trump civil case judge:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2024-04-18/new-york-man-pleads-guilty-to-sending-threats-to-state-attorney-general-and-trump-civil-case-judge




* "Trump judge postpones documents case 'indefinitely' but new legal calendar could backfire on Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-judge-postpones-documents-case-indefinitely-but-new-legal-calendar-could-backfire-on-trump-210469957860

* "Let's be clear: What Trump's Judge Cannon is doing is a ‘scandal,' says Hayes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/let-s-be-clear-what-trump-s-judge-cannon-is-doing-is-a-scandal-says-hayes-210537541555

* "Georgia appeals court will review decision on Trump case DA, bringing another delay:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1249920941/fani-wade-disqualification-appeal-trump-georgia-case

* "Justice delayed: Lagging Trump trials belie justice system's usual ability to process big cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lagging-trump-trials-belie-justice-system-s-usual-ability-to-process-big-cases-210548293986

* "If Trump defies the gag order — again — he deserves to go to jail:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/donald-trump-jail-gag

* "Inside Trump's Trial: Chaos, Consequences, & Contempt:"

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* "Trump fined $1,000 for violating gag order again and threatened with jail time:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1248648842/trump-gag-order-new-york-trial-fine

* "Judge warns Michael Cohen to stop talking about Trump hush money case:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-warns-michael-cohen-stop-talking-trump-hush/story?id=110116950

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* "Rare non-scoundrel witness, Hope Hicks, obliterates Trump's defense with credible testimony:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/rare-non-scoundrel-witness-hope-hicks-obliterates-trump-s-defense-with-credible-testimony-210249797761

* "Trump's notorious micromanaging comes back to bite him in criminal trial testimony:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-notorious-micromanaging-comes-back-to-bite-him-in-criminal-trial-testimony-210629189617

* "'Tactical error': Trump defense hurts its own case by going too far with Stormy Daniels smear:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-defense-hurts-its-own-case-by-going-too-far-with-stormy-daniels-smear-210626629814

* "Trump's 'nuts and sluts defense' against Stormy Daniels backfires:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-nuts-and-sluts-defense-against-stormy-daniels-backfires-210614853935

* "15 of Stormy Daniels' most ruthless quotes that prove she suffers no fools:" https://www.advocate.com/news/stormy-daniels-quotes

* "Trump caught ‘cursing audibly’ during Stormy Daniels testimony:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-caught-cursing-audibly-during-stormy-daniels-testimony-210464325964

* Wake up, Babe, a new definition of pathetic just dropped. "Trump reads positive press clippings about himself to bide time during trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-reads-positive-press-clippings-about-himself-to-bide-time-during-trial-210712133526

* "Judge in hush money trial denies Trump's second request for a mistrial:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/09/1250172422/stormy-daniels-trump-trial-new-york




* "How to Publish a Magazine in a Maximum-Security Prison:" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/how-to-publish-a-magazine-in-a-maximum-security-prison

* "Former Ku Klux Klan leader’s adult child comes out as trans after rejecting white nationalism:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/10/former-ku-klux-klan-leader-child-transgender/

* "Anti-DEI laws are forcing universities to grapple with a mass exodus of LGBTQ+ professors: study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gop-dei-attacks-lgbtq-faculty

* CW: CSA "Where Child Marriage Is Still Legal In The US, Mapped:" https://digg.com/data-viz/link/child-marriage-legal-US-law-map

* CW: Sexual Harassment. Terfs keep sexually harassing women in bathrooms while lying this harassment somehow protects women. "Western Carolina University investigates student who recorded video of trans woman in bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/payton-mcnabb-transgender-bathroom-video

* "Utah launches 'snitch line' to report trans people in bathrooms; memes flood In:" https://www.advocate.com/utah-trans-snitch-line

* "FAT BODIES: LEARNING TO CARE FOR YOUR ROLLS AND FOLDS:" https://www.scarleteen.com/read/bodies/fat-bodies-learning-care-your-rolls-and-folds

* "Lesbian Georgia welder cites sex discrimination in EEOC complaint against her employer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/megan-mcdaniel-eeoc-republic-services

* "Why the Boy Scouts of America is changing its name and embracing everyone:" https://www.advocate.com/news/how-boy-scouts-became-inclusive

* "Gemma Collins says doctors advised her to terminate pregnancy because baby was intersex:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/09/gemma-collins-says-doctors-advised-her-to-terminate-pregnancy-because-baby-was-intersex/

* "Why ‘pregnant people’ and other gender-inclusive phrases should be acceptable:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-inclusive-phrases

* "These 4 states don't allow pregnant women to get a divorce:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pregnant-women-divorce-states

* "Texas Man Files Legal Action Over Ex’s Out-of-State Abortion:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-man-wants-legal-power-to-investigate-ex-partners-out-of-state-abortion

* "How a network of abortion pill providers works together in the wake of new threats:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/network-abortion-pill-providers-works-together-wake-new-threats-rcna146678

* "Tears and despair at Florida abortion clinic in final hours before ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/01/florida-abortion-clinic-6-week-ban/

* "How Transphobes Wield Nazi Crime Denialism To Further Fascism:"

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* "Queensland to protect non-binary and gender-diverse people in changes to its Anti-Discrimination Act:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/30/queensland-anti-discrimination-act/

* "Anger as George Galloway says gay relationships aren’t ‘normal’ and kids shouldn’t learn about them:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/02/george-galloway/

* "Right-wing media use Cass Report to justify violence against parents of trans youth:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/30/cass-report-violence-against-parents/

* "Homophobic killer who savagely beat ‘gentle soul’ to death jailed for life:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/homophobic-killer-wolverhampton-jailed-for-life/

* "Offender with 39 previous convictions jailed for ‘appalling’ homophobic hate crime:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/30/offender-with-39-previous-convictions-jailed-for-appalling-homophobic-hate-crime/

* "Man charged with murder after Black trans woman Starr Brown killed in Tennessee:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/09/starr-brown-trans-killing-memphis-tennessee/

* "A gay designer was attacked at a California fashion show in 2019. His assailant was just sentenced:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pol-atteu-assailant-sentenced

* "North Carolina restaurant countersues anti-drag protesters over ‘groomer’ and ‘pedophile’ smears:" https://www.advocate.com/news/north-carolina-restaurant-drag-lawsuit

* "Gay people often have older brothers. Why? And does it matter?:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/04/15/1243861703/sexuality-birth-order-gay-siblings

* "Vampire facial spa infected several women with HIV:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/law-crime/vampire-facial-spa-women-hiv

* "A biased test kept thousands of Black people from getting a kidney transplant. It’s finally changing:" https://apnews.com/article/kidney-transplant-race-black-inequity-bias-d4fabf2f3a47aab2fe8e18b2a5432135

* "Here are 3 solutions to get blood to folks in 'blood deserts.' One is often illegal:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/04/11/1242630805/blood-transfusions-donations-blood-bank-blood-desert

* "Milk Has Lost Its Magic:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/05/milk-cant-catch-a-break/678274/

* Our suspicions confirmed. "The sickest long COVID patients face symptoms identical to chronic fatigue syndrome:" https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2024/02/sickest-long-covid-patients-face-symptoms-nearly-identical-to-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.html




* "Europe is warming up faster than any other continent, and the heat is deadly:" https://www.npr.org/2024/04/22/1244791280/europe-is-warming-up-faster-than-any-other-continent-and-the-heat-is-deadly

* "Death toll from floods in Brazil's south climbs to 136:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/death-toll-floods-brazils-south-climbs-136-2024-05-11/

* "Rains return to flooded southern Brazil, interrupting rescues:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/death-toll-heavy-rains-brazil-hits-100-2024-05-08/

List of ways to help Brazil: https://www.tumblr.com/tuulikki/749885837529022464?source=share




* CW: Suicide. "Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Suddenly:" https://www.newsweek.com/boeing-whistleblower-joshua-dean-dies-sudden-illness-1896401

* "Emergency Slide Falls Off Plane, Winds Up At Home Of Lawyer Whose Firm Is Suing Boeing:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missing-delta-boeing-emergency-slide-found-on-beach_n_6630f8fae4b0c558f741c0e5

* "San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks—and Will for Years:" https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-muni-trains-floppy-disks/

* "In Serbian village, women fight to escape encroaching mine:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/serbia-mine-village/

* "Farmers in India are hit hard by extreme weather. Some say expanding natural farming is the answer:" https://apnews.com/article/natural-farming-climate-change-resilient-india-cyclone-disaster-fbf86b092b42303f5ae9d8af35aac8d9

* "Angry farmers in a once-lush Mexican state target avocado orchards that suck up too much water:" https://apnews.com/article/mexico-drought-avocados-dried-up-lakes-faaad63fdf0d3f3cba7b33fb0456c053

* "E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it:" https://apnews.com/article/electronic-waste-vietnam-recycling-workers-ewaste-fd437a066a967a3c8d2c8611a628c944

* "The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-next-heat-pump-frontier-nyc-apartment-windows/

* "Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers:" https://futurism.com/catholics-defrock-ai-priest-hallucinations

* "Dating app scams see ‘significant surge’ in Nigeria as victim opens up about being ‘set up’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/30/dating-app-scams-see-significant-surge-in-nigeria-as-victim-opens-up-about-being-set-up/

* "Warner Bros says two independent directors resign after DOJ probe:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/warner-bros-says-two-independent-directors-resign-after-doj-investigation-2024-04-01/

* "The Revenge of the Home Page:" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-revenge-of-the-home-page

* "The Shark Whisperer:" https://nautil.us/the-shark-whisperer-547680/

* "'Mind-blowing' deep sea expedition uncovers more than 100 new species and a gigantic underwater mountain:" https://www.livescience.com/animals/mind-boggling-deep-sea-expedition-uncovers-100-new-species-and-a-gigantic-underwater-mountain

* CW: Animal Death. "Wolf deaths have grown ‘alarming’ says Oregon Fish and Wildlife:" https://www.kezi.com/news/wolf-deaths-have-grown-alarming-says-oregon-fish-and-wildlife/article_6d0cf447-b182-5317-8eb5-8a302f767b6d.html?emci=0c33d4ba-8e02-ef11-96f3-7c1e521b07f9&emdi=948b6934-3a03-ef11-96f3-7c1e521b07f9&ceid=2308473

* "Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think:" https://gizmodo.com/alpaca-sex-is-even-weirder-than-you-think-1851449908

* "Orangutan's use of medicinal plant to treat wound intrigues scientists:" https://www.reuters.com/science/orangutans-use-medicinal-plant-treat-wound-intrigues-scientists-2024-05-02/

* "U.S. to restore more bison herds on tribal lands by tapping Indigenous knowledge:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-to-restore-more-bison-herds-on-tribal-lands-by-tapping-indigenous-knowledge

* "Bison return to Texas Indigenous lands, reconnecting tribes to their roots:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/13/texas-native-american-tribes-bison-return/

* "Ancient gender-nonconforming Romans found refuge in a community dedicated to a goddess:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-nonconforming-romans-cybele

* "The Myth of Tuberculosis Fashion : Victorian History Debunked:"

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* "Resurrectionists: The Body Snatchers that Built Modern Medicine:"

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* "They Used to Award Olympic Medals for Art?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/paris-olympics-arts-medals.html

* "Intriguing Vintage Spy Cameras: Covert Wonders of Espionage's Golden Age:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vintage-handheld-spy-cameras/

* "A Trail Gone Cold:" https://www.damninteresting.com/a-trail-gone-cold/

* "‘Did Something Happen to Mom When She Was Young?’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/19/greek-children-adoptions-cold-war-00153120

* "The Forgotten War on Beepers:" https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war-on-beepers

I used to sell them at a job I had in the very early '90's. They made us card people and take down all their details in case a minor got caught with them so we could prove we sold them to an adult.

* "Trans+ History Week: This diary of a gay man who died in 1991 is an amazing testament to trans joy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/10/lou-sullivan-youngman-diaries-gay-trans-man/

* "‘We Left the Girls Too Long in That Place’:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/04/complicated-psychology-victims-boko-haram/678030/

* "Inside the Kenyan cult that starved itself to death:" https://www.economist.com/1843/2024/04/19/inside-the-kenyan-cult-that-starved-itself-to-death

* "Cambodian villagers hold rare oxcart race, seeking to revive a centuries-old tradition:" https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-oxcart-race-lunar-new-year-4c85395cb0697780bfbeb812ef2fd99e

* "Tupperware Is in Trouble:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/tupperware-kitchen-storage-trouble/678046/

* "Forbidden to Watch Films as a Child, He Now Directs Somalia’s Top Shows:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/world/africa/somalia-director-abshir-rageh.html?

* "The Life and Death of Hollywood:" https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

* "Milton Diamond, Sexologist and Advocate for Intersex Babies, Dies at 90:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/health/milton-diamond-dead.html

* "Bernard Hill, ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Titanic’ Actor, Dies at 79:" https://au.variety.com/2024/film/news/bernard-hill-dead-lord-of-the-rings-13742/

* "John Waters is recovering after a car accident outside Baltimore:" https://www.advocate.com/people/john-waters-car-accident

* "Jon Stewart On Immigration Over the Years | The Daily Show:"

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* "Libraries: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Too many LGBTQ+ TV characters disappeared this year because their series was canceled: report:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/lgbtq-characters-canceled-series-report

* "How to Look at Art: Crash Course Art History #2:"

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* The Road to Dracula's Castle: https://www.tumblr.com/immediatebreakfast/749686291790249984/the-very-constant-presence-of-religious-symbols-in?source=share

* A thing to mull. "Jonathan = Dracula's horses?:" https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/749686750056759296/not-sleepy-up-all-night-definitely-not-sleepy-at?source=share

* "You are the adventurer who went on an epic quest and defeated the evil king, all to gain the sacred amulet and use its one wish to revive your sister. Now everyone expects you to accept her death and use the wish to undo the damage instead. You refuse.:" https://www.tumblr.com/caffeinewitchcraft/749483314977603584/you-are-the-adventurer-who-went-on-an-epic-quest

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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.

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* To track more general LGBTQIA+ Legislation: https://www.lgbtmap.org/

* An organization for the parents of trans youths: https://transparentusa.org/

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Verified charities to help Palestinians: https://cleolinda.tumblr.com/post/737312194805612544

* Fundraisers for Gaza: https://www.tumblr.com/el-shab-hussein/742344297699999744/hi-if-its-okay-i-saw-you-were-boosting?source=share

* Help Queer Folks in Ghana: https://www.silentmajorityghana.com/donate

* "Library of Congress Launches New Website for Americans to Share COVID-19 Stories:" https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-launches-new-website-for-americans-to-share-covid-19-stories/s/d5739534-fec6-4e13-9f16-68d6117ee94b

* "We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.:" https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/741780492503990272/kirby-conrod-is-a-cool-linguist-whos-done-neat

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* "The death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000 as the conflict enters a second month:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210831466/death-toll-gaza-israel-hamas-conflict

* "Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel fighting Hamas in 'heart' of Gaza City, general says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-is-open-gaza-fighting-pauses-aid-hostages-2023-11-07/

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* "Israel will keep bombarding Gaza with ‘all of its power,’ Netanyahu says after Blinken calls for pause:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/03/netanyahu-israel-hamas-war-00125225

* "The U.S. wants a humanitarian pause in Gaza, not a cease-fire. What's the difference?:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210992532/israel-hamas-cease-fire-humanitarian-pause

* "WFP Chief makes urgent plea for humanitarian access to Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/wfp-chief-makes-urgent-plea-for-humanitarian-access-to-gaza-197152325619

* "U.S. diplomats slam Israel policy in leaked memo :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/06/u-s-diplomats-slam-israel-policy-in-leaked-memo-00125538

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* "Kenya could lose ‘billions’ if harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law comes into force:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/07/kenya-could-lose-billions-if-harsh-anti-lgbtq-law-comes-into-force/

* Let them eat cake. "Joe Lycett trolls Suella Braverman for depicting homelessness as ‘lifestyle choice’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/05/joe-lycett-suella-braverman-homelessness-lifestyle-comment/







* "Voter groups warn Biden his stance on Gaza could suppress youth turnout next year:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/voter-groups-warn-biden-gaza-stance-suppress-youth-turnout-year-rcna123932

* "The White House is working on a strategy to combat Islamophobia. Many Muslim Americans are skeptical:" https://apnews.com/article/islamophobia-gaza-muslim-biden-israel-antisemitism-a0b26f1e11ef5a1b80c2b6a05c3a63bb

* "Senate Judiciary Committee plans to subpoena GOP megadonors over SCOTUS gifts:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/senate-judiciary-committee-plans-to-subpoena-gop-megadonors-over-scotus-gifts-197151301901

* "UAW president defies skeptics (including Trump) to negotiate historic deal for union workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uaw-president-defies-skeptics-including-trump-to-negotiate-historic-deal-for-union-workers-197264965759

* "Speaker Johnson on GOP plan to avert government shutdown: ‘Trust us’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/07/congress-shutdown-house-gop-plan/

Spoiler: I do not trust them even a tiny bit.

* "Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-republicans-expel-palestinians_n_65454496e4b01b258583b5de

* "Republican Representative Directly Compares All Palestinians to Nazis:" https://newrepublic.com/post/176559/republican-representative-brian-mast-compares-palestinians-nazis

* "Democrat Pushes Censure Of GOP’s Brian Mast For Comparing ‘Palestinian Civilians’ To ‘Nazi Civilians’:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/11/06/democrat-pushes-censure-of-gops-brian-mast-for-comparing-palestinian-civilians-to-nazi-civilians/?sh=23ba1cf736c4

* "House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric in a stunning rebuke:" https://apnews.com/article/congress-house-censure-resolution-tlaib-8085189047a4c40f2d44ada4604aa076

* "Democrats in Congress Weigh Calls for Cease-Fire Amid Pressure From the Left:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/us/politics/democrats-cease-fire-israel-gaza.html

* Eeew. "Mike Johnson and son use anti-porn app to monitor each other’s web history:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/06/mike-johnson-covenant-eyes-son-web-history/

* "Gay Rep. Mark Pocan on Anti-LGBTQ+ House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Leadership:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-caucus-pocan-mike-johnson

* "Senator Tommy Tuberville's shameful military blockade:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/senator-tommy-tuberville-s-shameful-military-blockade-197152325640

* "Republicans and Democrats Clash on Book Bans in Congressional Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/republicans-support-book-bans-hearing

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Let's talk about talking to your representative and social media....:"

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* "Youngkin ‘purge’ removed nearly 3,400 legal Virginia voters from rolls:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/youngkin-virginia-voting-felons-restore-rights-election

* "Top takeaways from 2023 election results — and what they mean for 2024:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/07/election-results-2023-takeaways/

* "Ohio votes to protect right to abortion in landmark pro-choice win:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/08/ohio-protect-abortion-landmark-pro-choice-win/

* "Virginians hand Democrats control of the legislature, blocking GOP efforts on abortion and trans rights:" https://19thnews.org/2023/11/virginia-state-legislature-results/

* "Danica Roem Makes History Again and Is Elected Virginia's First Transgender State Senator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/danica-roem-wins-virginia-senator

* "Daniel McCaffery wins Pa. Supreme Court seat as Democrats increase majority to 5-2:" https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/daniel-mccaffery-wins-pa-supreme-court-seat-as-democrats-increase-majority-to-5-2/3689574/

* "Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear reelected to second term in Kentucky, overcoming state’s GOP dominance:" https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-primary-governors-race-election-2023-e8df45cd3978ce5a1691ba447c84bafc

* I hadn't much hope on this one, and there were real problems with Presley, though he was far better than the alternative. "Gov. Tate Reeves claims win in hard-fought race against Brandon Presley:" https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-governor-2023-general-election-results/45752346

* "Congress’ Progressive Israel Critics Face A Wave Of Primary Threats:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/progressive-congress-members-pro-israel-primaries_n_65445254e4b0cde80b8c57f1

* "Ron DeSantis refuses to apologize for saying he aims to start ‘slitting throats’ of federal employees:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/06/ron-desantis-federal-employees/

* "Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/trump-revenge-second-term/

* ""Nightmare scenario": Legal scholars alarmed over Trump's "plot to abuse his power" for revenge:" https://www.salon.com/2023/11/06/nightmare-scenario-legal-scholars-alarmed-over-plot-to-abuse-his-power-for-revenge/

* "Report paints ominous picture of early days of planned second Trump term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-paints-ominous-picture-of-early-days-of-planned-second-trump-term-197265477713




* "Maddow: No accident Trump's courtroom chaos makes a mockery of the legal system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-no-accident-trump-s-courtroom-chaos-makes-a-mockery-of-the-legal-system-197266501583




* "Man Avoids Jail Time For Threatening LGBTQ+ High School Students:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/brandon-moore-threats-nonbinary-prom

* "Suspect turns self in after 2 killed in shooting at Tacoma bar overnight:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/1-dead-3-injured-shooting-tacoma-bar-overnight/281-1e7b2808-50e1-482b-9ab9-26802d165f70

* "Black Trans Woman A'nee Roberson Killed After Being Assaulted and Hit With a Car in Washington, D.C.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/anee-roberson-murder-dc







* "The most important deity you've never heard of: the 3000 years long history of Nanaya:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/733248794091749376?source=share

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* "Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Millennial Women May Never Recover From The Romcom:"

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* "That Izzy line about Ed being "a complicated man" immediately put me in mind of the Wilson translation of The Odyssey:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/732988429215875072?source=share

* "My Arch Nemesis Cynthia:" https://ridinkskinned.com/post/188426780699/my-arch-nemesis-cynthia-is-of-course-at-the

* "Superhero Sweets For DragonCon:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/superhero-sweets-for-dragoncon-2023

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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.

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

* "If anyone wants to donate to Wadea Al-Fayoume's family then here:" https://www.tumblr.com/abigail-pent/731484616352989184/arab-mother-attacked-and-6-year-old-murdered-in?source=share

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* An old friend of mine's beloved dog needs money for vet bills and special food: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

* Apply for Project 2025 so they have to pick through resumes, using their resources: https://apply.project2025.org/ords/r/p25/pub/questionnaire?p4_qid=1

* Want to help Andy Kim beat Bob Menendez? https://www.andykim.com/

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "27 experts urge Biden not to allow Saudis to enrich uranium for Israel deal:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/27-experts-urge-biden-not-to-allow-saudis-to-enrich-uranium-for-israel-deal/

* "Hungarian president Katalin Novak uses UN General Assembly to go on ‘anti-family’ tirade:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/hungary-president-un-general-assembly-anti-family/

* "Turkey’s president Erdoğan doesn’t know what Pride colours are, makes UN complaint anyway:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/turkeys-president-erdogan-un-pride-colours/

* "Hundreds protest overhaul in New York as Netanyahu meets with world leaders:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-protest-overhaul-in-new-york-as-netanyahu-meets-with-world-leaders/

* "Netanyahu wraps up US visit as protesters shout ‘shame’ at departing convoy in NY:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-ends-us-visit-with-protesters-shouting-shame-at-departing-convoy/

* "Azerbaijan says it has retaken breakaway Armenian enclave after separatists surrender:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/asia/nagorno-karabakh-russia-ceasefire-intl/index.html

* "Iranian authorities arrest Mahsa Amini’s father on anniversary of her death:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/mahsa-amini-father-arrest-iran-protest-crackdown-00116401?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

* "Residents See Signs of Crackdown on Dissent After Libya Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/world/middleeast/libya-floods-derna-crackdown.html

* "Nearly 100 migrants rescued from a yacht off southwestern Greece:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/rescue-operation-underway-off-southwestern-greece-90-migrants-103334178

* "Canada Post breaking law by gathering info from envelopes, parcels to build marketing list: privacy watchdog:" https://www.cp24.com/news/canada-post-breaking-law-by-gathering-info-from-envelopes-parcels-to-build-marketing-list-privacy-watchdog-1.6570397

* "Rishi Sunak slammed for ‘reckless political gimmick’ amid plans to roll back on Tory green policies:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/rishi-sunak-climate-change-plans-uk/

* "Daily Mail retracts Iceland boss claims of HIV needle attacks in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/daily-mail-iceland-boss-claims-retracted/

* "‘Racist, homophobic’ teen who defaced Windrush mural named:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/teen-dafaced-windrush-mural-named/

* "India tells citizens in Canada to exercise caution as relations worsen:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-opposition-congress-dismisses-canadas-suspicions-sikh-leaders-murder-2023-09-20/

* "Biden raised issue of Canadian Sikh's murder with Modi at G20, Financial Times reports:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-raised-issue-canadian-sikhs-murder-with-modi-g20-ft-2023-09-22/

* "Surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada led to allegations around Sikh killing, official says:" https://apnews.com/article/india-canada-visas-sikh-activist-killing-381e973e84f8d0c10b0bd53b03ccbdf2

* "Let's talk about Canada and India....:"

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* "'A really dark moment': Canadians react to Poilievre's comment on Trudeau's LGBTQ+ post:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/canadians-pierre-poilievre-justin-trudeau-lgbtq-post-020533727.html

* "A brief note about changes in rhetoric:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1937558.html

* "Let's talk about social media influence....:"

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* "The Elusive Figure Running Wagner’s Embattled Empire of Gold and Diamonds:" https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/wagner-africa-sytii-prigozhin-gold-12a45769

* "Let's talk about how news is created rather than reported and charts....:"

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* "Let's talk about Ukraine and when it will end....:"

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* "U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-imf/

* "Ukraine finds new sources of aid to fight Russia as politics with Poland gets complicated:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/ukraine-finds-new-sources-of-aid-to-fight-russia-as-politics-with-poland-gets-complicated-193428037981

* "Poland, with election looming, says it isn't sending new arms to Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-no-longer-arming-ukraine-says-pm-2023-09-21/

* "Ukraine’s counteroffensive may be painful. But its success is crucial to wider European security:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-crucial-european-security-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Fighting ‘through hell.’ To reclaim Bakhmut, a Ukrainian brigade must first survive the forest:" https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-counteroffensive-bakhmut-684873be8aad1b1502ff8d67ea48afac

* "Ukraine breaches Russian defensive line on southern front:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/23/ukraine-breach-verbove-zaporizhzhia/

* "Transgender American Suspended by Ukrainian Military After Controversial Video:" https://www.advocate.com/world/trans-ukraine-spokeswoman-suspended




* "U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-china-tech-surveillance/

* "Inside the delicate art of maintaining America’s aging nuclear weapons:" https://apnews.com/article/nuclear-warheads-military-bomb-plutonium-6b86198def4516cebe496c9f5fbfbb75

* "U.S. will expand Temporary Protected Status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200719816/venezuelan-migrants-temporary-protected-status-us-border

* "Biden is unveiling the American Climate Corps, a program with echoes of the New Deal:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200483937/biden-climate-corps-job-training

* "Biden launches Climate Corps; pairs new jobs with climate, infrastructure work:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-launches-climate-corps-pairs-new-jobs-with-climate-infrastructure-work-193428037800

* "First White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/first-white-house-office-of-gun-violence-prevention-193651781888

* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* "Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

* " Propublica: Clarence Thomas Participated in Koch Network Donor events:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/propublica-clarence-thomas-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events-193618501778

* "The Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady but hints at more action this year:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200327332/federal-reserve-inflation-economy-interest-rates

* "The Kids on the Night Shift:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/magazine/child-labor-dangerous-jobs.html

* "Florida Republican files bill to allow minors to work full-time and overnight:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/florida-bill-child-labour-overnight/

* "UAW strike day 9: Negotiations continue after strike expansion to other plants:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/23/uaw-strike-day-9-talks-continue-after-strike-expansion/70945125007/

* "Autoworkers share what it's like working under an expired contract:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2023/09/21/uaw-detroit-three-strike-expired-contract/70912395007/

* Short version: WGA still needs to vote on it as of this writing. The Union doesn't want anyone to go back to work until it's all finalized. SAG-AFTRA is still on strike. "Writers and Studios Reach Deal That Will End Strike:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/writers-guild-wga-strike-deal

* "US Strike Wave Could Soon Grow as Airline, Healthcare Workers Fight for Decent Contracts:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-strike-wave

* "Republicans find scapegoat for auto workers strike: Woke cars:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-find-scapegoat-for-auto-workers-strike-woke-cars-193515589707

* "Why YOU Need a Union with Kim Kelly:"

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* "Why Can't Americans Afford Funerals?:" https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/729138701341507584?source=share

* "Uber Eats will start accepting food stamps for grocery delivery in 2024:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/20/23880403/uber-eats-food-stamps-snap-ebt-fsa-flex-ai-assistant

* "Day care owners are fighting for survival as federal funding runs out this month:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/childcare-funding-american-rescue-covid-daycare-philadelphia-20230923.html

* "Senate leaders trumpeted a spending plan to flex on McCarthy. It's stuck too. :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/20/congress/senates-own-funding-stumble-00117094

* "House GOP erupts as McCarthy fails to move Pentagon bill :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/21/house-gop-conservatives-block-defense-bill-00117400

* "'These are not serious people': GOP pays the price for filling ranks with extremists:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-these-are-not-serious-people-gop-pays-the-price-for-filling-ranks-with-extremists-193427525732

* "Let's talk about McCarthy's missed moment coming back around....:"

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* "Pro-Equality Lawmakers Demand Removal of Anti-LGBTQ+ Sections From Defense Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/defense-bill-anti-lgbtq

* "Republican infighting continues as shutdown looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-infighting-continues-as-shutdown-looms-193618501793

* "Let's talk about Humpty Dumpty, Republicans, and McCarthy....:"

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* "Let's talk about McCarthy, budgets, and bites....:"

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* "Let's talk about the potential shutdown and proposed CR....:"

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* "Kevin McCarthy: The Idiot of the House:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/kevin-mccarthy-idiot

* "Inside the Chaos in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/inside-the-chaos-in-the-gop-193653317640

* "'Disrupting this Country': Rep. Waters on GOP Chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/disrupting-this-country-rep-waters-on-gop-chaos-193652293814

* "Schumer takes on Tuberville’s blockade, teeing up votes on top military picks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/20/schumer-takes-on-tubervilles-blockade-teeing-up-votes-on-top-military-picks-00117143

* "Gen. C.Q. Brown confirmed as top military officer despite Tuberville's roadblock:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1200705608/senate-tuberville-hold-military-promotions

* "Sen. Tuberville continues to block military nominations:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sen-tuberville-continues-to-block-military-nominations-193618501803

* "Democratic Lawmakers Reintroduce Landmark LGBTQ+ Military Equality Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-military-equality-bill-reintroduced

* "Pete Buttigieg Explains the Difference Between Climate Change and Seasons to Republican Lawmaker:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-explains-climate-change

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Democrats have been winning big in special elections:" https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-winning-big-special-elections/story?id=103315703

* "'Pro-democracy': Dems overperform in 24 of 30 special elections so far in 2023:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-democracy-dems-overperform-in-24-of-30-special-elections-so-far-in-2023-193416773961

This only holds if everyone keeps showing up to vote.

* "Democrats retain narrow control of Pennsylvania House after special election:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-special-election-pittsburgh-8895ca07c1436640045861aff6c9ad6c

* "Flipped seat sets the stage for even split in N.H. House:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/20/metro/flipped-seat-sets-stage-even-split-nh-house/

* "Missouri Republican Vows to Burn 'Woke Pornographic Books' If Elected Governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/missouri-book-burning-video

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican mayoral candidate once pleaded guilty to ‘promoting prostitution’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/anti-lgbtq-mayoral-candidate-promoting-prostitution/

* "35 Bisexual Politicians You Should Know:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/bisexual-politicians-visibility-day

* "Does 14th Amendment Bar Trump From the Presidency?:"

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* "Trump blue collar act a tougher sell now with anti-labor record:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-blue-collar-act-a-tougher-sell-now-with-anti-labor-record-193335877717

* "Donald Trump Asked Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley, 'Are You Soft on Transgenders?':" https://www.advocate.com/military/donald-trump-mark-milley-transgender

* "‘This is horrifying': Top New Jersey Democrats call on Bob Menendez to resign after his second indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/new-jersey-democrats-menendez-indictment-00117693

* "Rupert Murdoch to Step Down from Fox and News Corp Boards in November:" https://www.advocate.com/business/rupert-murdoch-retiring-fox-news

* "Will Lachlan Murdoch Bring a New Era to Fox News or the Same Hell?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news




* "Giuliani’s former lawyers sue him for $1.36M in unpaid legal fees:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/rudy-giuliani-lawyer-trump-00116671

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Georgia DA lists Trump ally Lin Wood as state witness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-lists-trump-ally-lin-wood-as-state-witness-193419845977

* "Trump Privately Frets He Could Be Headed to Prison:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-prison-conviction-trial-1234828231/




* "Nazis Are Returning to the Streets:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byyd/2024-election-neo-nazis-visible-on-streets

* "Police investigate after bomb threat shuts down drag storytime at Utah bookstore:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/bomb-threat-drag-storytime/

* "The Police Will Never Protect Us:"

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* "Victory for Students: LGBTQ+ Resource Center Reopens at Missouri University:" https://www.advocate.com/news/missouri-university-reopens-lgbtq-center

* "Virginia Beach Parents Sue to Force Schools to Adopt Glenn Youngkin's Anti-Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/law/youngkin-transgender-schools-sue-lawsuit

* "Students protest Virginia schools anti-trans policies: ‘We will be bullied and dead-named’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/25/student-protest-virginia-anti-trans-policies/

* "Americans Divided on Use of Chosen Names and Pronouns in Schools, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-divided-student-chosen-names

* "California governor signs raft of protections for LGBTQ+ youth:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/california-governor-lgbtq-gavin-newsom/

* "Texas Teacher Fired For Assigning Anne Frank Graphic Novel:" https://advocatechannel.com/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank

* "Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports:" https://apnews.com/article/books-bans-american-library-association-42b34a284a6363439de20bbb65bb43b4

* "Virginia Library Temporarily Avoids Closing Over LGBTQ+ Books Controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/samuels-library-front-royal-open

* CW: Rape. "Decades-Old Trove of DNA Evidence, Collected by a Maryland Doctor, Leads to a Serial Rape Arrest:" https://www.propublica.org/article/decades-old-trove-of-dna-evidence-leads-to-serial-rape-arrest-maryland

* CW: Rape. "Protecting a Predator: How Columbia University ignored women, undermined prosecutors, and allowed one of its OB/GYNs to abuse hundreds of patients.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/columbia-obgyn-robert-hadden-sexually-assaulted-patients.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Rudy Giuliani groped her before Jan. 6 Capitol riot:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/20/trump-aide-says-rudy-giuliani-groped-her-on-january-6.html

* "Somalia's first all-women newsroom spotlights female taboos:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/somalias-first-all-women-newsroom-spotlights-female-taboos-2023-09-20/

* "Natasha Devon: Trans panic risks taking sex education back to the days of Section 28:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/trans-sex-education-transphobia-section-28-natasha-devon/

* "They Live in the US, but These LGBTQ+ Couples Can’t Get Married. Here's Why:" https://www.advocate.com/news/navajo-nation-married-queer-couples

* "California governor vetoes bill on gender-affirmation in child custody cases:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/california-gender-affirming-bill-trans/

* "Transgender Youth Face Hurdles Getting Gender-Affirming Care Even When It's Legal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-youth-access-care-restricted

* "Texas church launches non-profit to help transgender minors access healthcare:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/texas-church-transgender-minors-healthcare/

* "He Needs Gender-Affirming Surgery, but His State Is Fighting to Deny Coverage:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-health-care-north-carolina-coverage-denied

* "Abortions resume in Wisconsin after 15 months of legal uncertainty:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200610927/abortions-resume-in-wisconsin-after-15-months-of-legal-uncertainty

* "‘I looked in the mirror and saw the man in me’: Trans elders on the ‘hope’ in ageing authentically:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/trans-elders-lgbtq-coming-out-ageing-joy/

* "How queer Iranians are fighting back against the country’s online LGBTQ+ crackdown:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/mahsa-amini-protests-iranian-diaspora-collective-onlin/

* "Anti-trans rallies met with huge counter-protests across Canada:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/20/canada-pro-anti-lgbt-protests/

NOTE: Canadian correspondants are saying they were way more protests not covered in the article including Calagary, were the oposite.

* "New study finds decline in UK trans acceptance: ‘A shift that benefits no one’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/21/uk-less-tolerant-of-trans-people-study/

* "Civil servants up in arms over ‘woke’ policies on trans inclusion and a calendar marking Pride Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/civil-servants-woke-complaint-letter-trans/

* "Updated EHRC guidance suggests misgendering trans pupils not discriminatory:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/ehrc-guidance-trans-misgendering-pupils-schools/

* "Kate Osborne blasts Suella Braverman’s ‘woke policing’ claims: ‘Legitimising hate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/23/kate-osborne-suella-braverman-woke-policing/

* "Pentagon Says It'll Review Cases of LGBTQ+ Vets Who Were Denied Honorable Discharges:" https://www.advocate.com/news/lgbtq-veterans-pentagon-dadt-review

* "Let's talk about Missouri, change, and elections....:"

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* "Angelica Ross is ‘leaving Hollywood’ after American Horror Story transphobia row:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/22/angelica-ross-american-horror-story-emma-roberts-ryan-murphy-leaving-hollywood/

* "She has Medicare and Medicaid. So why should it take 18 months to get a wheelchair? :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200657834/she-has-medicare-and-medicaid-so-why-should-it-take-18-months-to-get-a-wheelchai

* "Federal government to relaunch free COVID test program:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-government-relaunch-free-covid-tests-program/story?id=103347741

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* "‘They’re obsessed’: Dr. Fauci on death threats, 'lab leak,' and vaccine safety:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-they-re-obsessed-dr-fauci-on-death-threats-lab-leak-and-vaccine-safety-193484357913

* "Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sewage-key-track-disease-covid-19-wastewater

* "Rural hospitals are closing maternity wards. People are seeking options to give birth closer to home:" https://apnews.com/article/birthing-rural-hospitals-maternity-care-births-e67a91d927eb545459e83bc7b2b95a0d

* CW: Child Death "Cough syrup killed scores of children. Why no one has been held to account :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coughsyrup-india/

* "At Japan’s dementia cafes, forgotten orders are all part of the service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/19/japan-aging-elderly-dementia-care/




* "Phoenix hit 110 degrees on 54 days in 2023, setting another heat record:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/phoenix-hit-110-degrees-on-54-days-in-2023-setting-another-heat-record

* "Ravaged by floods and fires, Greece struggles on the front lines of our climate reality:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ravaged-floods-fires-greece-struggles-front-lines-climate-reality-rcna107985

* "In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, survivors of the quake take stock of all they've lost:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/20/1199471923/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountains-survivors-loss

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate




* "Wildfires are destroying decades of clean air efforts in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wildfires-are-destroying-decades-clean-air-efforts-us-rcna105140

* "Renewable energy is now cheap—what’s next?:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/renewable-energy-is-now-cheap-whats-next/

* "How to Cool Down a City:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/18/world/asia/singapore-heat.html?unlocked_article_code=HSk3tYP63honaw6JVn60sCk2OyUJmggqmzSIK7lP_OWn6_9pFszirIXkmTLXDcXyRjn3rb5O5MgeQVi_FaD3W02hlA7Jjpbtw97pHNa5YV4GcIulAYY-fRPWhu9E9aMgO-1r0POf8CiuB54APIMbIIZYdAhOfHfPAcTiqgtY1jzeaWyOebK9mwNnx4VByANdE3qQEuqwyWdHf2NVemqZIQl9rh7bQY1vavuSlJJbcXoUmLZPj-Aa9HEGdRpQw6njaDeR0D2fL41PXsa0i626uNbLUHYiBchPr_dJQo-WtHDqeajLOdJA23VKtxYKQ1l9dNmgCUq_SroOLzSmYhKjjwcTlVTJS0KV-6LG&smid=url-share

* "This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90952175/this-spanish-city-has-been-restricting-cars-for-24-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it

* "The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?:" https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/

* "The Physics of Crowds: Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.:" https://nautil.us/the-physics-of-crowds-388020/

* "Let's talk about Rand Paul and a billboard....:"

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* You know how I kept saying these were an obvious scam from the beginning? "Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

* "‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement:" https://apnews.com/article/openai-lawsuit-authors-grisham-george-rr-martin-37f9073ab67ab25b7e6b2975b2a63bfe

* "Decoding racial bias in artificial intelligence:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/decoding-racial-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-193619013836

* "AI in schools puts LGBTQ+ students at risk, new study reveals:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/24/ai-schools-digital-surveillance-lgbtq-students/

* "xQc Is Stealing Content (and So Are Most Reaction Streamers):"

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* "Elon Musk accuses George Soros of wanting ‘destruction of western civilization’ a day before meeting Netanyahu over antisemitism on X:" https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-george-soros-antisemitism-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-twitter-x/

* "Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/urban-animals-wildlife-biodiversity-traits-pigeons-reptiles-amphibians

* "What Made a 17th-Century Midwife Good at Her Job?:" https://juliamartins.co.uk/what-made-a-17th-century-midwife-good-at-her-job

* "Dead Reckoning:" https://magazine.atavist.com/dead-reckoning-honda-point-navy-disaster-1923/

* "Welcome to the Little Cuba of the Sahara Desert:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cuba-influence-western-sahara

* Wednesday's plans fell through for a bunch of nobody's fault reasons, but at least the annual curtain cleaning got done, along with a bunch of necessary errands and the like. I was exhausted and ended up going to bed for a few hours before the Thursday dose. (It went up again. I'm fine, but it takes a lot out of me). I had planned to get my COVID boosters, but there is a local distribution delay. I am rescheduled for Saturday the 30th, which is far less convenient, but there was nothing to be done. It'll be my first Moderna shot; I've had Pfiser every time previous, but apparently the Pfiser delay is a lot longer if I don't want to cross the mountains and do like an hourish of driving in my ancient car to a crappy little town I've only been to once and don't know my way around.

Waiting is simpler and cheaper as I need to make this half tank last, so I will wait.

no one was letting me sleep Thursday. It was that thing where I was having trouble sleeping because of the pain being so extreme, and when I finally started to drift off, the phone would ring. Rinse and repeat. One of them let me sleep a whole hour, which was exciting. By the time we got to the 5-7th calls, I had reached a state of grimly amused. Then I woke up choking, which hasn't happened for a while and is likely to do with the Thursday shot and me running out of a side effect mitigation med I can't afford to replace until the 1st, by which time there will be no more shots until the new clinic opens.

I can't remember if I wrote about the two doctors getting a new office in the new clinic that opens in October, but they aren't scheduling yet. Let's hope the gap isn't so big I have to start over.

I did finally get a little REM sleep, but not much. Then I completely borked the bad shoulder trying to do physio. The arm didn't want to and it's bad enough I had to break out emergency meds and use the sling. Grr.

* "Star Trek Doesn't Understand Eugenics:"

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* "The White Gaze of Hairspray:"

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* "15 Hunky Black and White Folsom Street Fair Photos by Chantis :" https://www.advocate.com/photography/folsom-street-fair-2022-chantis

* "Halloween 🎃 Outdoor Decor | DIY Halloween Decorations for Outside | Front Yard Halloween Decorating:"

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* "If "Pride and Prejudice" was a podcast:"

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* Dracula: Lucy and Jonathan Parallels: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/729285707782389760/with-lucy-gone-now-and-van-helsing-saying-that?source=share

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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.

* "COVID-19 Tests:" https://www.covid.gov/tests

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "‘She could be my sister’: Iranian activists on why Mahsa Amini protests are an LGBTQ+ fight too:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/iran-lgbtq-mahsa-amini-protests-year/

* "Netanyahu's Supreme Court overhaul effort seen by protesters as threat to Israel's democracy:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-supreme-court-60-minutes-transcript/

* "Gender reform law: Scottish and UK governments battle in court over Section 35 block:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gender-reform-law-scotland-uk-governments-court/

* "The Serial Killer Hiding in Plain Sight:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epv54m/the-serial-killer-hiding-in-plain-sight




* "Biden urges UN: Stand united with Ukraine :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/biden-un-general-assembly-ukraine-00116739




* "Rallies held nationwide as Netanyahu heads to US; protesters denounce him at airport:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/rallies-held-nationwide-as-netanyahu-heads-to-us-protesters-to-await-him-at-airport/

* "Five Americans detained in Iran walk free, released in deal for frozen Iranian assets:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-prisoner-swap-sanctions-assets-4e1fa477f8e6af45fb764acd259c2f1a

* "It's complicated: Options limited when U.S. companies work contrary to U.S. interests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/it-s-complicated-options-limited-when-u-s-companies-work-contrary-to-u-s-interests-193255493552

* "'It's a huge dilemma': U.S. looks for leverage against Uganda's 'kill the gays' law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-a-huge-dilemma-u-s-looks-for-leverage-against-uganda-s-kill-the-gays-law-193256517570

* "Let's talk about Biden, recommendations, and information....:"

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* "Flipping Kavanaugh: What's really behind Alabama's gerrymandering gambit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/flipping-kavanaugh-what-s-really-behind-alabama-s-gerrymandering-gambit-193334853864

* This makes so much sense. "Dark money: The backstory of Alabama’s redistricting defiance:" https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/16/dark-money-the-backstory-of-alabamas-redistricting-defiance/

* "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says 'whole truth' about Black history must be taught:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-truth-black-history-taught/story?id=103220003

* "U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at 16th Street Baptist Church:"

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* "Ford Revolutionized 5-Day Work Weeks, Now They Won't Give 4-Day a Shot:" https://advocatechannel.com/uaw-strike-henry-ford-five-day-work-week

* "UAW strike, Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200052537/uaw-strike-worker-job-plant-layoffs-day-4-gm-ford

* "UAW strike enters third day:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/uaw-strike-enters-third-day-193146437782

* "Let's talk about Biden, the UAW, and unions....:"

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* "Another doomed GOP spending plan collapses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/18/gop-spending-plan-government-shutdown-mccarthy-deal-00116508

* "House GOP in open warfare over doomed spending plan :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/house-gop-spending-plan-00116631

* "Somebody Left a Motion to Remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker in House Bathroom:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/somebody-left-a-motion-to-remove-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-in-house-bathroom

* "House Republicans to hold first impeachment hearing into President Biden next week:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200364227/impeachment-house-republicans-president-biden-hearing

* Ken Buck Op Ed. "My fellow Republicans: One disgraceful impeachment doesn’t deserve another:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/15/congressman-ken-buck-biden-impeachment/

* "‘Fictitious’ facts and ‘imagined’ history: GOP Rep. Ken Buck slams Biden impeachment effort:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/gop-rep-ken-buck-impeachment-biden-00116396

* "Watch George Santos Give Bizarre CNN Interview About Impeachment, Lies:" https://www.advocate.com/media/george-santos-cnn-interview

* "Let's talk about a tale of 3 impeachments....:"

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* "'Biggest political scandal right now': heat on Javanka money haul:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-biggest-political-scandal-right-now-heat-on-javanka-money-haul-193113157632

* "GOP Sen. John Kennedy Reads Queer Sex Excerpts at Cringe-Worthy Senate Hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/john-kennedy-explicit-senate-hearing

* "Fetterman jeers Republicans 'losing their mind' over new Senate dress code:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fetterman-jeers-republicans-losing-their-mind-over-new-senate-dress-code-193242693970

* "‘Preposterous': Conspiracy theorists think John Fetterman uses a ‘body double’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-preposterous-conspiracy-theorists-think-john-fetterman-uses-a-body-double-193325637904

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* This is the end of free and fair elections and intended to end democracy. "North Carolina Republicans seek control over state and local election boards ahead of 2024:" https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-republicans-election-changes-voting-4f5184d25d63ac7a464dff9be0f93c52

* Republicans removed her for conducting a free and fair election which goes against their core fascist principals. "Wisconsin GOP votes to remove state’s elections chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/14/wisconsin-gop-remove-state-elections-chief-00115995

* "We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175311/america-polarized-traumatized-trump-violence

* "Americans Don’t Want Politicians Focusing on Transgender Issues, Survey Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-dont-focus-transgender-issues

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is motivating more trans and non-binary people to run for office:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/trans-non-binary-run-for-office-anti-lgbtq/

* "Olivia Hill of Nashville Council Is First Trans Person Elected in Tennessee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/tennessee-nashville-first-transgender-official

* "Virginia Democratic Candidate Slams Republicans Sharing Her Sex Tapes: ‘It Won’t Intimidate Me’:" https://advocatechannel.com/susanna-gibson-virginia-democratic-candidate-sex-tapes

Want to help Susanna Gibson beat David Owen? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/sg-web?refcode=home-cta

* "Rep. Pelosi on why she's running for reelection in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-pelosi-on-why-she-s-running-for-reelection-in-2024-193146949773

* "Rep. Pelosi on the looming government shutdown:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-pelosi-on-the-looming-government-shutdown-193146437865

* CW: Child Abuse. "GOP candidate promising to protect children from LGBTQ+ people faced child cruelty charges:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/gop-louisiana-john-raymond-child-cruelty/

* "Mike Pence Shifts to ‘Gender Ideology’ When Asked About Anti-Trans Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pence-gender-ideology-transgender-townhall

* "Ramaswamy says he’d deport children of undocumented immigrants, calls 14th Amendment ‘contested’:" https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4195861-ramaswamy-says-hed-deport-children-of-undocumented-immigrants-born-in-the-us-calling-14th-amendment-contested/

Children born here are citizens under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. He's saying the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is somehow not Constitutional and we need to mass deport American Citizens.

* "Ron DeSantis ditched by biggest donor after ‘pointless’ war with Disney:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/19/ron-desantis-disney-donor/

* "Petition filed to block Trump from Minnesota’s 2024 ballot under ‘insurrection clause’:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-amendment-insurrection-ban-ballot-lawsuit-559469071b5f104e74ca698bed6afb5d

* "Trump calls DeSantis abortion ban ‘a terrible mistake,’ sparking anger from some key Republicans:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-desantis-abortion-ban-republican-primary-5bdbba55f9c2f328d49b5fbe9727677e

* "Trump Warns That ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden Will ‘Lead Us Into World War 2’ in Confused Speech:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-warns-cognitively-impaired-biden-172337832.html

"This wasn’t the only mistake Trump made during his speech. At another point, he appeared to imply that he is also beating President Obama in the 2024 election polls."

Every accusation is a confession.

* "Let's talk about Trump, Meet the Press, and accuracy....:"

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* "In Rosh Hashanah message, Trump says US Jews voted ‘to destroy America and Israel’:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rosh-hashanah-message-trump-says-us-jews-voted-to-destroy-america-and-israel/

* "Lauren Boebert caught fondling date’s crotch at family-friendly show:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/lauren-boebert-sexual-behaviour-theatre/

Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* "Gov. Kemp decides not to suspend state Senator named in election interference indictment:" https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/gov-kemp-decides-not-suspend-state-senator-named-election-interference-indictment/QXKUVNTW5NAILGAGSQQGMOU7B4/

* "Let's talk about Paxton being acquitted....:"

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* "Trump civil fraud trial in New York will last nearly three months, judge says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trumps-new-york-fraud-trial-will-last-nearly-3-months-judge-rcna104100

* "Let's talk about rhetoric and reality....:"

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* I don't like the ableism here, but most of the other coverage is worse in one way or another. "A Befuddled Trump Both Admits and Denies that He Was 'Waving Around' a Classified Document:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/14/2193353/-A-Befuddled-Trump-Both-Admits-and-Denies-that-He-Was-Waving-Around-a-Classified-Document

* "Trump wrote to-do lists for assistant on White House documents marked classified:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113

* "Trump co-defendant Jeffrey Clark seeks to move Georgia election case to federal court:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-co-defendant-jeffrey-clark-seeks-move-georgia-election-case-fede-rcna105555

* "Jack Smith seeks gag order on Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/jack-smith-seeks-gag-order-on-trump-00116366

* "Trump blasts special counsel Jack Smith for seeking gag order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/15/trump-blasts-special-counsel-jack-smith-for-seeking-gag-order-00116376

* "Twitter turned over at least 32 direct messages from Trump’s account to special counsel:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/politics/trump-twitter-direct-messages/




* "Ray Epps, ex-Marine targeted by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged with a misdemeanor in riot:" https://apnews.com/article/ray-epps-capitol-riot-jan-6-fox-38748c79cd7b6916584a5db7ca87af7a

* "'Victim of Fox': Feds charge man at center of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-victim-of-fox-feds-charge-man-at-center-of-jan-6-conspiracy-theories-193327685617

* "Proud Boys are GOP's 'neo-fascist foot soldiers' — and have their full support: reporter:" https://www.rawstory.com/proud-boys-gop-2665058802/

* "‘Attack on military readiness’: Human rights groups sound new alarm on extremism:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/14/civil-rights-groups-alarm-over-white-supremacism-military-extremism/70848380007/

* "FBI investigating violent threats against officials in Fulton County, Georgia:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/fbi-investigating-violent-threats-against-officials-in-fulton-county-georgia-.html

* "Threats mount against prosecutors and FBI agents working on Hunter Biden probe:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/prosecutors-fbi-agents-hunter-biden-investigation-threatened-rcna104932

* "Maddow: What sets us apart as a country is fragile and worth fighting to protect:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-what-sets-us-apart-as-a-country-is-fragile-and-worth-fighting-to-protect-193247813919

* "This Transgender Harvard Law Instructor’s Front-Row Seat to Domestic Terrorism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/alejandra-caraballo-bomb-threats-emails

* "Maryland Man Admits Sending Terror Threats to LGBTQ+ Group, Allies:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/maryland-terror-threats-lgbtq-group

* "Federal judge again declares that DACA is illegal with issue likely to be decided by Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-daca-dreamers-51ba8c941993ffa26e1251aef84b0284

* "Infamous Neo-Nazi blog praises Mayor Adams’ claim that NYC is being ‘destroyed’ by migrant crisis:" https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/09/08/infamous-neo-nazi-blog-praises-mayor-adams-claim-that-nyc-is-being-destroyed-by-migrant-crisis/

* "Let's talk about Memphis, the feds, and Mr. Nichols....:"

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* They carelessly killed her, then mocked her in death. The Seattle PD are pretty fucking evil. "Seattle Police Union Leader Under Investigation for Joking Woman Killed by Patrol Car Had 'Limited Value':" https://people.com/seattle-police-officer-under-investigation-for-jokes-about-grad-student-killed-7969630

* "Let's talk about Seattle and low value....:"

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* " Most Cops Involved in High-Profile Killings Since 2014 Kept Their Police Licenses :" https://theintercept.com/2023/09/16/police-decertification-license/

* "Milwaukee police to withhold victims’ gender when reporting on crimes to avoid misgendering:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/police-crime-victims-misgendering-milwaukee/

* "Transgender Jan. 6 Rioter Is Now in a Women's Prison. Did Far-Right Republicans Help?:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/trans-insurrectionist-appeals-transphobes

* "Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it:" https://apnews.com/article/illinois-criminal-justice-cash-bail-reform-b8aac667b7d3016e12ea64a70964bf55

* "Rolling Stone founder apologises for ‘inflammatory’ comments about Black and female musicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/jann-wenner-rolling-stone-black-female-artists-articulate-comments-reaction/

* "Texas Anti-Drag Law Blocked Again by Judge:" https://www.advocate.com/law/tennessee-drag-ban-blocked-again

* "Hispanic Federation’s queer president condemns Don’t Say Gay laws: ‘All you’re doing is isolating children’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/hispanic-heritage-month-lgbtq-latinx-frankie-miranda/

* "Two California school districts ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/california-sunol-temecula-pride-flag-ban/

* "Yet another California school district introduces parental notification policy for trans students:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/california-parental-notification-policy-students/

* "How Teachers Are Being Silenced on LGBTQ+ Issues and More:" https://www.advocate.com/education/silencing-teachers-lgbtq

* "Alabama anti-porn group wants librarians to face jail for offering LGBTQ+ books to kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/alabama-jail-librarians-lgbtq-books-porn-group/

* CW: CSA, Child Abuse. "The Menedez Brothers Case and the Changing Perceptions of Child Abuse:"

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* CW: Rape "Met Police pays ‘substantial’ damages to women arrested at Sarah Everard vigil:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/metropolitan-police-sarah-everard-payout-patsy-stevenson-dania-al-obeid/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Lesbian former PA accuses ‘narcissist’ Russell Brand of ‘sickening’ behaviour amid rape and sexual assault allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/russell-brand-rape-sexual-assault-allegations-lesbian-pa/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Russell Brand promised to bring ‘naked’ female assistant to meet Jimmy Savile on BBC show:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/18/russell-brand-jimmy-savile-sexual-abuse/

* CW: Sexual Assault, Abuse. "Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones defend Russell Brand over sexual assault allegations:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tucker-carlson-alex-jones-defend-russell-brand-over-sexual-assault-allegations-193243717889

* "Lyft Now Lets Women and Nonbinary Riders Request Their Driver’s Gender:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lyft-women-nonbinary-driver-option

* CW: Rape. "Virginia's Glenn Youngkin Pardons Man Involved in Altercation Over Trans Restroom Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/youngkin-pardon-restroom-case

* CW: Child Abuse. "Fox News contributor Tyrus threatens to assault trans kids in swimming pools:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/tyrus-fox-news-trans-swimming/

* CW: Child Abuse. "Christian influencer’s arrest points to Religious Right’s history of 'oppression and cruelty':" https://www.alternet.org/christian-nationalism-2665081569/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

* "A Big New Report on American Children Is Out. It’s Horrific.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse. "The Right’s War on Divorce—and Its Costs:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/no-fault-divorce-texas-republican-gop-crowder/

* "Gay adult shop in Manchester attacked for a fifth time this year: ‘This cannot continue’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/13/gay-adult-shop-manchester-attacked/

* "Older Gay Men More Sexually Active Than Older Straight Men: Survey:" https://www.advocate.com/health/older-gay-men-sex-lives

* "She Posted About Making Shakshuka on a Lazy Saturday. Then She Got Death Threats:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/shakshuka-girl-matt-walsh-internet-x-drama-1234819913/

* "While LGBTQ+ Community Embraces Open Marriages, Straight Society Is Scandalized: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/society/lgbtq-support-open-marriages

* "‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html

* "Jersey to improve legal rights for same-sex parents: ‘Recognising families as equal’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/jersey-same-sex-parents-legal-rights-surrogacy/

* "Conservatives approve policies to limit transgender health care for minors, end race-based hiring:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-policy-convention-transgender-1.6961991

* Trans Adults are no longer entitled to bodily autonomy in Florida and are not considered competent to make their own health care decisions. "Judge Won't Block Florida's Restrictions on Care for Trans Adults:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-ban-florida

* "Alabama Families Continue to Appeal to Block Transgender Care Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-alabama-appeal

* "Missouri Trans Clinic forced to cease services following trans healthcare ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/missouri-trans-clinic-cease-services/

* "Hong Kong: Lesbian couple’s IVF legal victory a ‘giant step forward for rainbow families’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/17/hong-kong-lesbian-couple-ivf-victory-same-sex-parents/

* "Let's talk about Kentucky, the wheels of justice, and costs....:"

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* "Alabama's attorney general says the state can prosecute those who help women travel for abortions:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/alabamas-attorney-general-state-prosecute-women-travel-abortions-102844622

* "As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html

* ""YOU'RE NOT OPPRESSED!" | Twitter, Pride Month, and Acephobia [Asexuality]:"

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* "Welcome to the 'Fluidity Renaissance':" https://www.advocate.com/voices/welcome-to-the-fluidity-renaissance

* "‘Nobody is safe in Chechnya’: Life of torture survivor accused of being gay at risk, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/10/chechnya-russia-torture-salman-mukaev-extradite-armenia/

* "A Proposed Law in This Country Would Require Citizens to Report LGBTQ+ People to Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill

* "Homophobia in Lebanon: Queer community ‘hopeless’ as ‘moral panic’ targets LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/13/lebanon-lgbtq-rights-crackdown/

* "In time of war, Russia turns up aggression on transgender citizens:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/10/russia-outlaws-transgender-citizens/

* "Belgrade queer community defiant at Serbia Pride, despite anti-LGBTQ+ leadership and religious groups:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/serbia-pride-belgrade-christian-orthodox-protest/

* "Cork’s ‘favourite’ LGBTQ+ bar removes Pride flags and cancels drag performances:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/cork-chambers-bar-lgbtq-ireland/

Correspondants in Ireland tell me there is now a boycott on, but I haven't seen the reporting yet.

* "Mausoleum for Trans Women Inaugurated in Mexico City:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/trans-women-mausoleum-mexico

* "Hundreds protest Posie Parker event in Dublin: ‘Trans people aren’t going anywhere’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/hundreds-of-trans-folks-and-allies-protest-posie-parker/

* I hope he sues. "Posie Parker suggests trans ally David Tennant is a paedophile – and fans aren’t having it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/david-tennant-posie-parker/

* "Anti-trans activists rage at Pride flag boot sticker, only to discover it came from ‘gender critical’ store:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/posie-parker-gender-critical-anti-trans-sticker/

* "Protestors warn government has ‘run out of time’ to fulfil vow to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/government-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Liz Truss doesn’t want trans people to transition until they turn 18 – but she’s got it all wrong:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/16/trans-schools-guidance-age-social-transition-uk/

* "Labour MP warns against gender-critical activists wanting women to show passports in public toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/angela-eagle-passports-toilets/

* "Transgender Woman Wins $125,000 After Settling Discrimination Suit with American Samoa:" https://www.advocate.com/news/american-samoa-transgender-employee-lawsuit

* "Former Pastor jailed for eight years for murder of Black trans woman Kelly Stough:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/michigan-albert-weathers-kelly-stough-trans-murder/

* "Suspect Arrested in Vandalism at Two Orlando LGBTQ+ Centers:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/arrest-orlando-vandalism-lgbtq-centers

* "New York City Police Arrest 2 More Over Stonewall Pride Flag Vandalism:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/stonewall-arrests-2-vandalism-flags

* "Florida City Declares Itself LGBTQ+ Sanctuary:" https://www.advocate.com/dont-say-gay/sanctuary-city-florida-lgbtq

* "California Becomes First State to Declare Transgender History Month:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/california-first-transgender-history-month

* "Are religious people OK? Pastor smashes Barbie Dream House with Bible taped to baseball bat:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/11/pastor-greg-locke-barbie-dream-house-bible-baseball-bat/

* "Stephen Miller Really Hates Gay Pop-Tarts:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/stephen-miller-hates-gay-poptarts

* CW: Suicide. "Alice Litman inquest to examine impact of gender clinic waiting lists on trans woman’s death:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/14/alice-litman-inquest-gender-clinic-waiting-times/

* "Australian state to hold inquest into deaths of trans and non-binary people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/victoria-trans-non-binary-suicide-inquest/

* "COVID cases are rising again. Here’s a refresher on everything you forgot.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/sick-covid-refresher-tests-masking-isolation-medicine

* "Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccines-shots-cdc-5bc4db844557120bcc50dc0838c0e044

* "A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-flesh-eating-bacterium-is-creeping-north-as-oceans-warm/

* "A Story About Pain:" https://audacity.substack.com/p/a-story-about-pain

* "The Woman on the Line: Every day, the calls come. She can tell quickly who might die.:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/09/overdose-drugs-fentanyl-opioid-never-use-alone.html




* "East Libya Strongman Keeps Tight Control Over Aid After Floods:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/world/middleeast/libya-flood-aid-khalifa-hifter.html

* "Libyan flood survivors weigh water shortages against landmine risk:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/libyan-flood-survivors-weigh-water-shortages-against-landmine-risk-2023-09-17/

* "Survivors of Libya's deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199761659/libya-floods-derna-survivors-deaths

* "Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives:" https://apnews.com/article/morocco-photos-earthquake-920c39947f895cdfc3448e5431df7562

* "Morocco's earthquake crumbled much of this adobe village nestled in the mountain:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/19/1200132282/morocco-earthquake-atlas-mountain-village

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/donate




* "Today’s world requires vastly more copper than you could imagine, and the world of electric vehicles will require even more. That means finding new ways to find and extract copper from the earth’s crust and oceans.:" https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-discovery-of-copper

* "LGBTQ+ indie game developers hit back at ‘worrying’ new Unity fees for installs:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/15/unity-development-fees-indie-games/

* "Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, could charge all users for access:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/x-elon-musk-charge-all-users-18374233.php

* "‘The Trumpian Playbook’: Mehdi unpacks the GOP and Elon Musk’s war on truth:" https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-the-trumpian-playbook-mehdi-unpacks-the-gop-and-elon-musk-s-war-on-truth-192472133703

* "Eclipse Records Pin Dates of 12th and 13th Century Eruptions:" https://eos.org/articles/eclipse-records-pin-dates-of-12th-and-13th-century-eruptions

* "Triboulet the Butt-Slapping Jester: Investigating a Historical Meme:"

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* "The London History Show: The Great Fire:"

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* "The Pub Where They Hanged Pirates: The London History Show:"

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* "Was Victorian modesty a myth? Fashion history mythbusting with sunscreen and school dress codes:"

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* "How Queer Communities Created Secret Languages:"

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* "The Remarkable Versatility of Cloris Leachman: From The Last Picture Show to Young Frankenstein:"

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* Saturday I "won" a game of "What am I allergic to now?"

Spoiler: sandalwood. It was sandalwood. Sigh.

* Thursday was likely the last of the good fruit from the market garden down the street as I can't afford more. They were plums. The oval ones with the dark purple skin and the yellowish interior, perfectly rich of flavour and sweet. I already miss them. Sunday I ate one of the tomatoes that hadn't developed right from the garden and it was like the whole flavour of what would have been a full sized heirloom was compressed into something a tad larger than a cherry tomato. It was still warm from the sun. I dislike summer, but I do love the fresh fruit and veg it brings.

Last Wednesday we started Gothmas prep stuff. The Gothmas season stretches from when the first leaves start turning until some time first week of January. It has many phases. I didn't used to count prep as a phase, but it really is. Last Wednesday was basically Adult Arts and Crafts and cleaning air-conditioner vents. Sunday was things like break down and drain the living room air condition. admittedly a risk with this humidity, but we can't move forward without putting it away. We are hoping to start interior decorating Wednesday.

As always, the goal is to have everything up but the exterior by the end of the 27th. Let's hope i remember to start the curtains in the washing machine before I leave for Wednesday errands. (I really shouldn't be taking the curtains down myself, but I can't put them back up myself, so the timing needs to be a thing that happens when I'm dressed for the day, but with enough time for wash and dry while the Millennials are here.

I am so ready for Autumn, which should be much farther along, but the wind patterns have been radically fucked for half a decade thanks to climate crisis.

The cleaner tricked poor Livia Friday into thinking he was Goth Millennial. He was very quiet and making familiar doing things in the kitchen sounds, so without checking his identity she trundled out of her hide so she could watch birds from her padded podium by my bedroom window. About and hour and a quarter later, he loomed into her doorway. Panic! Goth Millennial was a doppelganger! a Tricksey shape Shifting stranger!

Saturday, she hid from Goth Millennial in case they performed the same shape shifting trick again. Fool me once….

Sunday she was on my bed with Tavy when I brought Goth Millennial in, and we were mid-chat, so she decided Goth Millennial was not a Decepticon because that meant she could keep enjoying the pet I was giving her and a nap in her Spot instead of repairing to her Fortress of Solitude for the evening. it was fine. no shape shifting shenanigans ensued.

* I'd have been harder on Tarantino, but otherwise, perfection. "The Campy Queer Sensibilities of Barbie:"

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* Dracula Thought: So here is the question: Knowing what we know now, is the maids begging to watch by Lucy earlier in her illness touching or sinister?

* "Midnight Pals: Playground of Death:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728732779485036544/midnight-pals-playground-of-death?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Help Adam Frisch beat Lauren Boebert: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/defeatlaurenboebertnowz

* Want to contribute to Gloria Johnson's senate run in Tennessee? https://www.votegloriajohnson.com/

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* "STOP Moms for "Liberty":" https://www.stopmomsforliberty.com/

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* I posted about a third of what I intended too. Apologies.

* I get angry every time a government does this. "How slums in Delhi were flattened before the G20 summit:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/G20-SUMMIT/SLUM/zdpxrxoaypx/

* "Has India Changed Its Name? A G20 Invite Raises Eyebrows.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/world/asia/india-bharat-g20-summit.html

* "China’s Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations:" https://apnews.com/article/china-india-g20-xi-jinping-1540c1850f60edebc067ad430b968c00

* "Let's talk about China, G20, and explanations....:"

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* "Guatemala's top elections court suspends ban on president-elect Arevalo's party:" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230903-guatemala-s-top-elections-court-suspends-ban-on-president-elect-arevalo-s-party

* "Guatemala prosecutor seeks to strip electoral authorities of immunity after election:" https://apnews.com/article/guatemala-election-bernardo-arevalo-22fe6c74f3b4a7cd689517f15db6a060

* Terfs are lying when they claim to be feminist. "How do the Taliban, who ‘know what a woman is’, treat women in Afghanistan?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/julia-hartley-brewer-taliban-tweet-trans/

* "Chile will search for 1,000+ victims of forced disappearance by Pinochet dictatorship:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1197019905/chile-search-disappeared-victims-pinochet-dictatorship

* "New scheme to help LGBTQ+ migrants bring ‘cultures and experiences’ to cities as they settle in Europe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/04/queers-beyond-borders-queer-migrants-europe/

* "Who are the LGBTQ+ allies in Labour’s new front bench?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/labour-keir-starmer-reshuffle-lgbtq-allies/

* "Romania Starts Sending Natural Gas To Moldova Through Pipeline:" https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-gas-supply-moldova-ukraine-war/32162977.html




* "Far-Right German Parliamentary Aide Tasked by Russia with Stopping Leopard Tanks to Ukraine:" https://theins.info/en/politics/264014

* "Musk says he refused Kyiv request for Starlink use in attack on Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/musk-says-he-refused-kyiv-request-use-starlink-attack-russia-2023-09-08/

* "Russia amplifies right-wing influence campaign to undermine support for Ukraine by exploiting Hawaii's tragedy:" https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence

* "Let's talk about Russia, a talking point, and the reality....:"

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* "What Were the Russians Doing in Chornobyl?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/09/russia-ukraine-chernobyl-disaster/675083/

* "Ukrainian intercepts show Russian soldiers’ anger at losses, disarray :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-intercepts/

* "How They Tried to Kill Me:" https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/how-they-tried-to-kill-me/




* "Chinese Intel Officers Interfered in U.S. Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/china-facebook-instagram-propaganda-campaign-1234813762/

* "Let's talk about Fox, a story, and context....:"

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* "How President Biden came to grips with Trump-era radicalism:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-president-biden-came-to-grips-with-trump-era-radicalism-192331334000

* "Biden blocks oil drilling on 10M acres in Alaska, including leases Trump sold :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/biden-to-cancel-trumps-oil-drilling-leases-in-alaskan-nature-refuge-00114243

* "Kamala Harris tour to inspire ‘critical generation’ of young people in fight for LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/kamala-harris-fight-for-our-freedoms-college-tour-lgbtq-rights/

* "Let's talk about Congress, confusion, and continuing resolutions....:"

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* "Let's talk about soft landings, recession, and Biden....:"

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* "This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/affordable-housing-montgomery-county.html

* "How the twin crises of climate change and poor public housing are harming people’s health:" https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/29/climate-change-public-housing-health-consequences/

* That's sure what it looked like, but it's helpful to have it substantiated. "New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749

* "Let's talk about Beshear, McConnell, Kentucky, and the constitutions....:"

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* Republicans are lying when they say they care about national security or our troops. "Republican Cowardice Is Creating a Mess for the U.S. Military:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/tommy-tuberville-military-department-of-defense-blockade.html

* "Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro accused Sen. Tommy Tuberville of helping the nation’s enemies.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/navy-secretary-tuberville-military-blockade-communists-00114115

* "Let's talk about Tuberville, poetry, and the military....:"

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* "Eight Things You Need to Know About the Navy’s Failed Multibillion-Dollar Littoral Combat Ship Program:" https://www.propublica.org/article/navy-littoral-combat-ship-takeaways

* Republicans continue to wage war on the Rule of Law in their pursuit of autocracy. "Jim Jordan and Wisconsin Republicans Know the Law—They Just Don’t Care:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175458/jim-jordan-wisconsin-republicans-conservatism-destruction

* "‘Offensive’: Georgia prosecutor excoriates Jordan for probe into Trump charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/07/fani-willis-jim-jordan-offensive-00114583

* "Georgia DA eviscerates GOP Congressman, suggests he buy book on RICO law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/georgia-da-eviscerates-gop-congressman-suggests-he-buy-book-on-rico-law-192496709613

* "Senator Admits "Kids Online Safety Act" Will Target Trans Content Online:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/senator-admits-kids-online-safety

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Court tosses Alabama congressional map after GOP refuses to draw second Black district:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/court-throws-out-alabama-gop-congressional-map-for-violating-voting-rights-act-00113962

* "Court decides Alabama Republicans can’t be trusted to draw congressional maps:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/court-decides-alabama-republicans-can-t-be-trusted-to-draw-congressional-maps-192327749981

* "DeSantis Florida redistricting map is unconstitutional and must be redrawn, judge says:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/02/1197452442/desantis-florida-redistricting-map-gerrymandering-unconstitutional

* "Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley criticized a colleague for not recusing from a case involving a donor. Six years ago, she helped kill a measure requiring those recusals.:" https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/09/02/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-rebecca-bradley-criticized-a-colleague-for-not-recusing-from-a-case-involving-a-donor-six-years-ago-she-helped-kill-a-measure-requiring-those-recusals/

* Republicans insist that acknowledging facts is utterly disqualifying for Judges. "State Republicans Try to Remove Top Jurist for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/north-carolina-gop-anita-earls-ethics-case.html

* "Let's talk about Wisconsin and the GOP not getting the answer they wanted....:"

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* "‘Tennessee Three’ members blast GOP rules restricting speech in state House :" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4165033-tennessee-three-members-blast-gop-rules-restricting-speech-in-state-house/

* "Oregon Republicans barred from running for re-election after boycotting votes:" https://www.rawstory.com/oregon-gop-re-election/

* "Oregon Republican senators sue to run for reelection, saying walkout rule shouldn’t stop them:" https://apnews.com/article/oregon-republican-lawmaker-walkout-reelection-72dc264fc144539034ad2eb716eb208e

* "Backers blast approved ballot language for Ohio’s fall abortion amendment as misleading:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-access-ballot-issue-election-2023-a628e9b323b8544847ace0a0504c5733

* I beg people over and over to vote in all the down ballot races in every election. This is why. "The GOP school boards making California Dems red in the face :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/21/gop-school-boards-california-00112084

* "Historic Win: Gay Candidate Triumphs in Mississippi Primary :" https://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2023/09/historic-win-gay-candidate-triumphs-in-mississippi-primary/

* "Author of MS Care Ban Lost His Primary Because He’s Not Racist Enough:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/author-of-ms-care-ban-lost-his-primary-because-hes-not-racist-enough

* "Tennessee political candidate responds to homophobic smear campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/06/tennessee-eric-patton-smear-campaign/

* "Let's talk about Blake vs Lake in Arizona....:"

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* "Gay club owner faces backlash over nearly $10,000 in Republican Party donations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/michael-purdum-gop-donations/

* "Oliver Anthony Slams Republicans Using His Song 'Rich Men North of Richmond':" https://advocatechannel.com/oliver-anthony-slams-republicans

* "Republican presidential Project 2025 plans to define trans people as ‘pornographic’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/conservative-think-tank-project-2025/

For fuckssake take this seriously. They are trying to make it illegal for us to exist in public. We are already subject to the death penalty in Florida for existing. They are planning to nationalize this.

They are coming for us first, but they will come for the whole queer community next. Respectability politics and throwing us under the bus won;t save you.

* "A lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from the primary in Colorado, citing Constitution’s insurrection clause:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-constitution-2024-election-primary-ballot-19ca3f17881e8818302cb1260e7c2aed

* "‘Pro-baby:’ Republicans trying to rebrand the anti-abortion movement:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-pro-baby-republicans-trying-to-rebrand-the-anti-abortion-movement-192584261851

* "Environmental groups sue over Virginia's withdrawal from greenhouse gas pact:" https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative-virginia-youngkin/article_f19e339a-4053-11ee-be13-2f3505af27d5.html

* "DeSantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to board overseeing state employee conduct:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/desantis-appoints-moms-for-liberty-tina-descovich-florida-ethics-commission/70777620007/

Reminder: Mons for Liberty is a Neo-NAZI extremist hate group that openly admires Hitler and espouses his goals.

* "Impeachment trial begins for Texas Republican Ken Paxton:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/impeachment-trial-begins-for-texas-republican-ken-paxton-192327237660

* "Let's talk about why Republicans turned on Paxton....:"

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* "Trump White House official Navarro convicted of contempt after defying House Jan. 6 subpoena:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-navarro-contempt-congress-jan-6-a4ad58e1f590e5884fd347c86c121a8a

* "New York attorney general asks judge to fine Trump for ‘frivolous’ legal arguments:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/trump-civil-fraud-lawsuit-sanctions-00114054

* "Witness in Trump documents case reached deal with prosecutors, ex-attorney says:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/witness-trump-documents-case-reached-deal-with-prosecutors-ex-attorney-says-2023-09-06/

* "Is Judge Cannon preparing to kneecap Trump's Florida documents case?:" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-florida-documents-case

* "Lordy, more tapes! Trump lawyer's notes add details on lead-up to FBI search of Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-more-tapes-trump-lawyer-s-notes-add-details-on-lead-up-to-fbi-search-of-mar-a-lago-192418885579

* "Prosecutors race against Trump media's campaign to corrupt jury pool:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prosecutors-race-against-trump-media-s-campaign-to-corrupt-jury-pool-192594501612

* "'His efforts fall short.': Judge stomps on Mark Meadows' bid to take Georgia trial federal:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-his-efforts-fall-short-judge-stomps-on-mark-meadows-bid-to-take-georgia-trial-federal-192592453609

* "Fani Willis lays out criminal case against false electors :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/fani-willis-criminal-case-electors-trump-00114149

* "All defendants in Georgia racketeering case, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty:" https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197697531/georgia-racketeering-case-defendants-arraignment-trump-giuliani-meadows

* "Citing lumbering Young Thug case, Trump co-defendant seeks separate trial:" https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/citing-lumbering-young-thug-case-trump-co-defendant-seeks-separate-trial/LKEU6XM4AZBFBLBZH33VOGX33E/

* "Trump’s co-defendants are already starting to turn against him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/trump-cases-defendants-flipping-00113910

* "Trump, co-defendants scatter on strategy as legal heat intensifies:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-co-defendants-scatter-on-strategy-as-legal-heat-intensifies-192332357685

* "Let's talk about Trump, Georgia, Willis and the most important takeaway....:"

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* "Threats, slurs and menace: Far-right websites target Fulton County grand jurors:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194471162/trump-indictment-fulton-county-grand-jurors-threats

* "Trump Georgia election trial juror names should be secret, DA tells judge:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/atlanta-da-wants-trump-georgia-election-trial-juror-names-to-be-secret.html

* "‘The corruption of Lindsey Graham:’ Why the senator risked indictment for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-corruption-of-lindsey-graham-why-the-senator-risked-indictment-for-trump-192586309563

* "Trump’s daily statements threaten to prejudice jury pool in D.C. elections case, prosecutors warn:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/05/trumps-daily-statements-threaten-to-prejudice-jury-pool-in-dc-elections-case-prosecutors-warn.html

* "'A new avenue of investigation': Jack Smith's grand jury that indicted Trump reconvenes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-a-new-avenue-of-investigation-jack-smith-s-grand-jury-that-indicted-trump-reconvenes-192505413868




* "Here are the longest Jan. 6 prison sentences handed down so far :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/05/enrique-tarrio-prison-sentencing-proud-boys-00114104

* "Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy:" https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-capitol-riot-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-da60222b3e1e54902db2bbbb219dc3fb

* "‘Wrong’ and ‘excessive:’ DeSantis, Ramaswamy criticize Proud Boys sentences:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-wrong-and-excessive-desantis-ramaswamy-criticize-proud-boys-sentences-192498245678

* "A Christian Crowdfunding Site Has a White-Power Problem:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-crowdfunding-givesendgo-white-power-problem-1234809799/

* "Neo-Nazis Parade Around Florida Chanting "Jews Will Not Replace Us":" https://www.advocate.com/news/neo-nazis-gather-orlando-florida

* Reminder: Both Libs of Tik Tok and Leave Our Kids Alone are Neo-NAZI hate groups know for inciting violence in pursuit of anti-LGBTQIA+ exterminationist goals. "“Lynch them all!” Libs of TikTok incites death threats targeting Los Angeles Unified School District:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/lynch-them-all-libs-of-tiktok-incites-death-threats-targeting-los-angeles-unified-school-district

* "Sonja Shaw reshares threatening post against AG Rob Bonta: “you’re about to f- around and find out”:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/sonja-shaw-reshares-threatening-post-against-ag-rob-bonta-you-re-about-to-f-around-and-find-out

* "U.S. judge orders Texas to move Rio Grande barriers to embankment, siding with Biden:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-orders-texas-move-rio-grande-barriers-embankment-siding-with-biden-2023-09-06/

* "Busload of migrants, the 12th sent by Texas, arrives in Los Angeles:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-04/busload-of-migrants-12th-sent-by-texas-arrives-in-los-angeles

* "Thirteenth bus of migrants arrives at Union Station from Texas:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-09/bus-of-migrants-arrives-at-union-station-from-texas

* Police continue to murder people for sport. "New video shows Philadelphia Police officer shot Eddie Irizarry within seconds of getting out of patrol car:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/eddie-irizarry-philadelphia-police-shooting-mark-dial-family-lawyer-20230822.html

* "Video released in trooper's fatal shooting of Ricky Cobb II in Minneapolis:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ricky-cobb-ii-state-trooper-fatal-shooting-video-released-minneapolis/

* "White ex-officers in Mississippi plead guilty to racist assault on 2 Black men during raid:" https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5c

* "A Chicago Cop Is Accused of Lying Under Oath 44 Times. Now Prosecutors Are Dropping Cases That Relied on His Testimony.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-officer-kriv-perjury-prosecutors-dropped-criminal-cases

* "Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/antioch-cops-morteza-amiri-eric-rombough-devon-wenger-1234812466/

* "Dallas cops laughed after disabled military vet was denied restroom, urinated on himself:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-safety/2023/08/16/dallas-cops-laughed-after-disabled-military-vet-denied-toilet-access-urinated-on-himself/

* "SPD illegally searched trunk after driver says he was stopped due to race, judge rules:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/spd-illegally-searched-trunk-after-driver-says-he-was-stopped-due-to-race-judge-rules/

* All this for exercising their first amendment rights. This is some bullshit. "61 Cop City Protesters in Atlanta Are Being Hit With RICO Charges. Dozens of activists have been indicted for opposing the construction of a massive police facility outside Atlanta.:" https://newrepublic.com/post/175382/cop-city-protesters-atlanta-rico-racketeering-charges

* "Kansas State Police Tell Court It’s Too Much To Ask For Troopers To Respect The Constitution:" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/31/kansas-state-police-tell-court-its-too-much-to-ask-for-troopers-to-respect-the-constitution/

* "New Proof That Police Use Civil Forfeiture To Take From Those Who Can’t Fight Back:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2021/10/25/new-proof-that-police-use-civil-forfeiture-to-take-from-those-who-cant-fight-back/?sh=25be27434e84

* "Racist abuse by Mississippi officers reveals a culture of misconduct, residents say:" https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-racist-abuse-police-culture-1feb54483e62bef53efe1a1a16be29f1

* "Woman forced to do her own detective work when an LAPD officer stole her debit card:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/31/woman-forced-to-do-her-own-detective-work-when-an-lapd-officer-stole-her-debit-card.html

* "Well-Funded Reactionary Police Unions Are Recalling Progressive DAs Who Hold Cops Accountable:" https://www.downwithtyranny.com/post/well-funded-reactionary-police-unions-are-recalling-progressive-das-who-hold-cops-accountable

* Sheriffs wage war on the rule of law. "IN THE SHERIFF WE TRUST:" https://azcir.org/cspoa/

* "Sheriffs Who Back the “Great Replacement” as the New “Big Lie”:" https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/sheriffs-who-back-the-great-replacement-as-the-new-big-lie/

* "NYPD will use drones to monitor private parties over Labor Day weekend:" https://www.engadget.com/nypd-will-use-drones-to-monitor-private-parties-over-labor-day-weekend-001909102.html?src=rss

* "Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with civilian teams — not police:" https://apnews.com/article/mental-health-crisis-911-police-alternative-civilian-responders-ca97971200c485e36aa456c04d217547

* "A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.:" https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-argues-fetus-doesn-t-right-life-new-18292079.php

* "Is This the End of Prison Phone Fees?:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/08/conneticut-prison-phone-fees-securus/

* "Texas drag ban: ‘I never dreamed I’d be in court fighting for the right to wear make-up and a wig’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/texas-drag-ban-lawsuit-injunction-brigitte-bandit-extragrams/

* "Iowa Mayor Blocks LGBTQ+ Group From Labor Day Parade, Citing ‘Safety’ Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/iowa-mayor-lgbtq-labor-day

* "At a College Targeted by DeSantis, Gender Studies Is Out, Jocks Are In:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/columnists/gender-studies-ron-desantis-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=iXRmJv42iabGRCWy2uY4F-FYZ_ntHEV7YRICgRsdHsE_zKNrMgPf5LpB7FfwlGLPb0YMg30o8rP7TFuwQ-WmWl2fXJrjHqDzOj4DD-E14MRQ5vxziXzg88itfuIu-zAm817zINVHywwnzkFdkBFJFfygyvnDZ1i1LtpbwGIu-fBFOpbBkUDZVOsHC0Y4T9EoxJ3hPgtiLZ0N4_6TZdkjQ9wdnUR6agNTlwr9nGwWoK566TPLYobR5EDRHOP5_Y5c2yvNoaw271NGv4YncIiCY3xn3x0ZOmSwWjZ2dMGAZ9Bu5Diw4CyfsfPEntum2EHJP3YhNfOShZNUt2t4D8h_rIxiLG6LaOUK4Bw55l5cZEhLM_Iso6hK&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

* "Houston ISD Takeover, The Musical:" https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-isd-takeover-the-musical/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-5f5fbe19c0-34916046&mc_cid=5f5fbe19c0

* "Queer History Lecture Prompts Vengeance From Alabama GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/history/queer-history-lecture-alabama-gop

* "Florida school principal on leave after holding a Powerpoint session to tell Black kids they must improve:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/26/florida-school-principal-on-leave-after-holding-a-powerpoint-session-to-tell-black-kids-they-must-improve.html

* "PragerU’s ‘Propaganda’ Videos Infiltrate Another State’s Classrooms:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/pragerus-propaganda-videos-okd-for-oklahoma-classrooms-by-supt-ryan-walters

* "Conservative propaganda site targeting schools looks to expand state partnerships:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conservative-propaganda-site-targeting-schools-looks-to-expand-state-partnerships-192332357883

* "How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis–Denial Empire:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p33j/fracking-farris-dan-wilks-prageru-climate-crisis-denial-shapiro

* "Follow the money: Fracking billionaires funding anti-renewable energy propaganda cartoons:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/follow-the-money-fracking-billionaires-funding-anti-renewable-energy-propaganda-cartoons-192512069824

* "Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda:" https://popular.info/p/pennsylvania-school-district-requires

* "Florida school board votes not to recognise LGBTQ+ History Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/07/florida-school-board-lgbtq-history-month/

* "School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books:" https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

* "California passes anti-book ban bill for schools: ‘The true freedom state’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/california-book-bans-lgbtq-race-inclusive-schools/

* "Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books:" https://apnews.com/article/library-book-ban-association-withdraw-7f5743a9e464433a745697f9111d7f6b

* ""Detransitioner Wave" Fails To Materialize, Trans Regret Rates Remain Low:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/detransitioner-wave-fails-to-materialize?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

* "Why aren’t we all being offered an autumn Covid booster? We can’t let cost prevent us keeping Britain healthy:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/autumn-covid-booster-britain-uk-vaccine-long-covid-economy

I hate linking to the Guardian because they hate people like me, but the Tories making Eugenics against disabled people their official public health policy isn't well covered anywhere not blatantly transphobic, so I'm doing it.

* "COVID Booster Is Coming, but Here’s Why You May Not Get It:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-booster-is-coming-but-cdc-hasnt-decided-who-is-eligible

* I always ask them to do my left as a matter of course. I now feel lucky. "Which arm gets the Covid-19 booster may make a difference, study shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/health/covid-vaccine-arm-wellness/index.html

* "How Black autistic women and girls are excluded from conversations on resources and research:" https://19thnews.org/2023/06/black-women-and-girls-autism-data/

* "Is It Real or Imagined? Here’s How Your Brain Tells the Difference:" https://www.wired.com/story/is-it-real-or-imagined-heres-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference/

* This doesn't surprise me even a little, given my Uncle's experiences. "Largest study of brains of athletes younger than 30 finds early signs of CTE even in amateur players :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/28/health/cte-younger-athletes/index.html




* "Where dangerous heat is surging:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/extreme-heat-wet-bulb-globe-temperature/

* "This Brutal Summer in 10 Alarming Maps and Graphs:" https://www.wired.com/story/this-brutal-summer-in-10-alarming-maps-and-graphs/

* "Climate-linked ills threaten humanity:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/pakistan-extreme-heat-health-impacts-death/

* "Maui’s Wildfire Recovery Is Haunted by the Specter of Colonialism:" https://newrepublic.com/article/175209/maui-wildfire-recovery-haunted-colonialism

* "‘Everything was gone in minutes’: How queer people on Maui came together after devastating wildfires:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/05/lgbtq-support-impact-maui-wildfires-hawaii/

* "Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 and damages historic Marrakech:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/africa/morocco-6-8-magnitude-earthquake-intl-hnk/index.html

* "In a Place Shattered by War and Earthquakes, People Feel Forgotten:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/world/middleeast/syria-earthquake-rebuilding.html

* "The Burning Man disaster is ‘a teachable moment’ about climate change:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/09/05/burning-man-exodus-flooding-climate-change/




* "A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement:" https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/asphalt-pavement-climate-cities/

* "The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/03/kiwifarms-website-offline/

* "More than 11,000 years in jail for crypto firm founder :" https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/08/more-than-11000-years-in-jail-for-crypto-firm-founder

* "Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

* "With Elon Musk, Free Speech Comes at a Price:" https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-free-speech-price-man-sentenced-death-1824155

* "Elon Musk Blames Anti-Defamation League for Destroying Website He Ruined Himself:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-blames-anti-defamation-league-twitter-advertisting-revenue-antisemitism-1234818503/

* "Elon Musk Agrees to Libs of TikTok Request for X ‘Data Dump’ on Anti-Defamation League:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elon-musk-defends-chaya-raichik

* "X/Twitter executives had a very bad day defending Musk's platform:" https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-linda-yaccarino-interview-illegal-content

* "“How is still being on Twitter, for whatever reason, actually ‘handing money’ to [Musk and his fascist project]?:" https://solarbird.net/blog/2023/04/23/how-is-still-being-on-twitter-for-whatever-reason-actually-handing-money-to-musk-and-his-fascist-project/

* "Elon Musk’s X sues California over law meant to tackle hate speech on social media:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/elon-musk-x-sue-california-law-hate-speech-social-media/

* "Enough! Advertisers and Governments Must Dump Elon Musk.:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/enough-advertisers-and-governments-must-dump-elon-musk?ref=home?ref=home

* "The truth about Elon Musk and anti-Semitism :" https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-elon-musk-and-anti

* Free speech doesn't mean free of consequences."Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is Part Of The Free Speech You Pretend To Support :" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/05/hey-elon-the-adl-convincing-advertisers-to-run-away-from-your-site-is-part-of-the-free-speech-you-pretend-to-support/

* "Civil rights groups attacked by Elon Musk are mounting a counteroffensive:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/civil-rights-groups-attacked-elon-musk-are-mounting-counteroffensive-rcna103579

* "Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome:" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

* I remember a similar campaign with vaccinated sandwiches decades ago. This is so much cleverer. "The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-massive-campaign-to-air-drop-tiny-rabies-vaccines-to-raccoons/

* "Viking Age Tools and the Mighty Mästermyr Tool Chest:"

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* "Who was the 1920s Moulin Rouge Drag Queen that inspired Man Ray and Cocteau?:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/02/15/who-was-the-1920s-moulin-rouge-drag-queen-that-inspired-man-ray-and-cocteau/

* "SOME LIKE IT HOT: Secrets, Scandals, and Marilyn's Mystique:"

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* "Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there:" https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-native-american-land-back-b09c0dc8dd6289a1545684e04599f94f

* "Smash Mouth's Former Lead Singer Steve Harwell Dead at 56:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/smash-mouth-steve-harwell-dead

* "See the wild, customized creations of Indonesia’s ‘rebel riders’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/see-wild-creations-indonesia-vespa-rebel-riders

* "‘Back to school’ means anytime from late July to after Labor Day, depending on where in the U.S. you live:" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/back-to-school-dates-u-s/

* "Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg:" https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/

* Wednesday was errands. Thursday, they upped my dose. After I got my flu vaccine. Between the two I'm a bit low grade ick, but it is so worth it. This year's flu is extra nasty. I'll take a few days of low grade meh over a month of illness and the risk of the hospital any day.

You might want to get yours soon.

Pharmacy is strict on the RSV age limit and isn't doing medical wavers. Given my immune system, I have hopes of the doctor giving me one despite being too young.

I hope to get the new COVID formulation next week.

Friday was the dentist. No cleaner, but it was a nobody's fault thing. She called Thursday morning while I was getting my jabs and I didn't check until it was to late to call back. she tried the call box out front, which doesn't work 98% of the time. When it does work, it may or may not ring and if it does all we get is static. She was gone when I checked. I was too tired and discouraged to cope with reschedule.

Did I mention today's random draw dentist looked and low key sounded like Colin Robinson? Because he did.

* "Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun:"

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* "Midnight Pals: The Fourth Estate:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727555012038885377/midnight-pals-the-fourth-estate?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Publisher Assassins:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727637341777297408/midnight-pals-publisher-assassins?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: FUCK THIS HOUSE:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/727733292100681728/brian-asman-submitted-for-the-approval-of-the?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Tapeworms:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/728004145119903744/midnight-pals-tapeworms?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "US Patent Bureau call for comment on AI:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/2286373.html

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Guatemala presidential election: Unraveling the final candidates’ platforms:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/14/guatemala-presidential-election-unraveling-the-final-candidates-platforms

* "Guatemala presidential frontrunner to keep same-sex marriage illegal and run country with ‘fear of God’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/guatemalan-presidential-campaign-candidate-sandra-torres/

* "Let's talk about 2 things falling in Russia....:"

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* "Asylum seeker explains why ‘inhumane’ rhetoric is so hurtful: ‘See the person behind the story’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/asylum-seeker-refugee-rishi-sunak-lee-anderson-bisexual/

* "How the ECHR has transformed LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, as Tories consider leaving it:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/echr-rwanda-lgbtq-rights/

* Doesn't undo the trauma of the police brutalizing her though. "Autistic girl arrested over ‘lesbian nanna’ comment to face no further action, police say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/autistic-girl-arrest-west-yorkshire-police/




* "Ukraine says two killed in Russian shelling of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia regions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-two-killed-russian-shelling-kharkiv-zaporizhzhia-regions-2023-08-12/

* "Ukraine briefing: Russian shelling kills 7, including infant, in Kherson; cargo ship fired on in Black Sea:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/13/russia-ukraine-war-news/

* "Crimea Bridge Strikes 'Continue To Disrupt' Russian Logistics: ISW:" https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-russia-crimea-bridge-chonhar-kerch-strait-logistics-1819386




* "Student Loan Bills Are Higher Than Mortgage Payments for Some Borrowers:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-16/student-loan-payments-restart-borrowers-will-pay-more-than-their-mortgage?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj

* "More than 800,000 student loan borrowers are getting billions of dollars in debt forgiveness this week:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-loan-forgiveness-income-driven-repayment-plans-president-biden/

* "Fed officials see ‘upside risks’ to inflation possibly leading to more rate hikes, minutes show:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/fed-meeting-minutes-signal-coming-rate-moves.html

* "U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-mortgage-interest-rates-jump-716-highest-since-2001-2022-10-26/

* "Let's talk about Colorado, Alabama, and a General's house....:"

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* "Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin blasts GOP senator's blockade of military promotions as 'unnecessary' and 'unsafe':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-blasts-gop-senators-blockade-military-p-rcna99759

* "LGBTQ+ Community Centers: Invaluable, Imperiled:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/republicans-target-lgbtq-community-centers

* "Number of Homeless Americans Rises at Record Rate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/number-of-homeless-americans-rises-at-record-rate-wsj

* "Texas man ticketed for feeding the homeless outside Houston library is found not guilty:" https://apnews.com/article/houston-homeless-feeding-food-not-bombs-not-guilty-530a5e5931fc6db8f0ab7d51b2331492

* "Let's talk about Texas, definitions, and people....:"

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* "Grindr Accused of Union Busting: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/business/grindr-union-busting-accusations

* "Marvel VFX Artists Will Vote to Unionize:" https://www.wired.com/story/marvel-vfx-unionization-big-deal/

* "Unionizing the Skies with Sara Nelson:"

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* "Democrat-turned-Republican who's now pushing for a Biden impeachment inquiry once opposed doing the same for Trump because it lacked 'bipartisan support' and would 'divide the country':" https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-van-drew-democrat-republican-impeachment-inquiry-bipartisan-support-2023-8

* "Democrats call for hearing to ‘investigate attacks on democracy’ after DeSantis suspension of state attorney:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4148046-democrats-call-for-hearing-investigate-attacks-on-democracy-after-desantis-suspension-of-state-attorney/

* "Trans military bans undermine ‘very essence of the American Dream’, says Marine vet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/marine-corps-veteran-lgbtq-trans-inclusion-military-ban/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Groups Back New Kids Online Safety Act: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/law/kosa-anti-lgbtq-groups

* "You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills:" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Judge calls new Texas election law unconstitutional but state says it will appeal ruling:" https://apnews.com/article/voting-texas-elections-harris-county-unconstitutional-2f0ee4a3a4bee1b673782544c39e36a9

* "Let's talk about the GOP trying again in Ohio....:"

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* "Let's talk about a GOP constitutional amendment....:"

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* This is terrorism. "Violent threats against public officials are rising. Here's why:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193463117/violent-threats-against-public-officials-are-rising-heres-why

* "The President touts "Bidenomics" as administration tries to sell economic message:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-president-touts-bidenomics-as-administration-tries-to-sell-economic-message-190735941627

* "Vivek Ramaswamy: LGBTQ+ People Created 'Tyranny of the Minority':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-lgbtq-people-tyranny

* "Mike Pence Runs Out of Gas:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-pence-out-gas

* "Asa Hutchinson: I will prosecute Trump at the debate—whether he's there or not:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/asa-hutchinson-i-will-prosecute-trump-at-the-debate-whether-he-s-there-or-not-191148613887

* "Orlando Magic Donates $50K to Ron DeSantis Super PAC:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-orlando-magic

* "DeSantis replaces campaign manager as he struggles to catch up to Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/08/ron-desantis-replaces-campaign-manager-00110253

* "‘This belongs in the Smithsonian’: Inside the meme video operation that swallowed Ron DeSantis’ campaign:" https://www.semafor.com/article/07/31/2023/desantis-meme-factory

* "DeSantis’ leaked debate memo leads us to ask: Is this guy for real?

* "Ron DeSantis Instructed to ‘Show Emotion’ at GOP Debate: Leaked Memo:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-debate-memo

* "How Should DeSantis Handle Trump? Strategists Suggest Dropping Out or Becoming a Different Person.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/desantis-trump-campaign-primary-political-operatives-advice.html

* "How a weird McConnell video may explain the embarrassing leak of DeSantis' debate strategy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-a-weird-mcconnell-video-may-explain-the-embarrassing-leak-of-desantis-debate-strategy-191079493824

* "McConnell's Legacy in Flames as Trump Crime Show Swamps GOP:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mcconnell-legacy-trump-crime-show

* "Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/donald-trump-legal-bills-campaign.html

* "Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis is crowdfunding her Georgia indictment defense fees:" https://www.npr.org/2023/08/16/1194133648/former-trump-attorney-jenna-ellis-is-crowdfunding-her-georgia-indictment-defense

* "Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak':" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/

* "DeSantis’ ‘anti-woke’ bills are costing Florida millions of dollars in business:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/economy/florida-convention-business-cancellations/index.html

* Republican Matt Gaetz is openly calling for Republicans to violently overthrow the government so a Republican fascist dictatorship can put an end to the rule of law. They aren't even pretending that's not the goal any more. "Congressman Matt Gaetz declares only “force” can bring change in Washington as he defends Trump in Iowa:" https://www.msnbc.com/american-voices/watch/congressman-matt-gaetz-declares-only-force-can-bring-change-in-washington-as-he-defends-trump-in-iowa-190749765584

* "Florida Republican chairman wants ‘perverted’ parents of LGBTQ+ youth to leave the state:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/florida-republicans-ron-desantis-christian-ziegler/

* "Republican Reportedly Called Child 'F*g' Then Sued News Outlet for Covering It:" https://www.advocate.com/media/wisconsin-lawsuit-republican-antigay-slurs

* "Texas Republican Sarah Davis explains how she became a trans ally: ‘It was very simple’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/15/texas-republican-sarah-davis-trans-lgbtq-campaign/

* "A former fundraiser for Rep. George Santos has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft:" https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-fundraiser-indicted-congress-new-york-565b0a82e6ca2ceb6c69d1978254ac5b

* "Tennessee Republican with Anti-LGBTQ+ History Sentenced in Campaign Finance Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/tennessee-lawmaker-prison-campaign-finance

* "Police video shows Rep. Ronny Jackson swearing at Texas officers :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/police-video-shows-rep-ronny-jackson-swearing-at-texas-officers-00111204

* "Republican finds limit to his 'back the blue' stance in aggressive arrest:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republican-finds-limit-to-his-back-the-blue-stance-in-aggressive-arrest-190998597831

* "Canadian woman sentenced to nearly 22 years for 2020 ricin letter sent to Trump in White House:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/canadian-woman-sentenced-22-years-2020-ricin-letter-102348326




* CW: Sexual Assault "Trump counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll dismissed, DA can get deposition:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/07/judge-trump-deposition-in-e-jean-carroll-case-can-go-to-prosecutors.html

* "How Fani Willis oversaw what might be the most sprawling legal case against Donald Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-fani-willis-indictment-32bfdd2cca9d3184056836b208a78379

* "Special prosecutor will examine actions of Georgia’s lieutenant governor in Trump election meddling:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-investigation-burt-jones-willis-16e76d68ca32a9b705b440c0c5098ef0

* "Trump, allies charged with racketeering scheme over bid to subvert election in Georgia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/fulton-county-trump-indictment-00111211

* "Trump is indicted in Georgia on charges of racketeering. What it means, what happens next:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/trump-indicted-georgia-explained/

* "Trump, Giuliani, Sidney Powell Among Many Indicted by Georgia Jury:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trump-giuliani-powell-indicted-georgia

* "2 Chicago-area people indicted with Trump, accused of trying to overturn Georgia election results:" https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2023/8/15/23832765/trevian-kutti-stephen-lee-indicted-trump-overturn-georgia-election-results

* "DA seeks March 4 trial date for Trump Georgia election case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/da-seeks-march-4-trial-date-for-trump-georgia-election-case.html

* "4 things revealed by Trump’s Georgia indictment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/15/takeaways-trump-georgia-indictment/

* "How Donald Trump tried to undo his loss in Georgia in 2020:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/interactive/2023/trump-georgia-election-investigation/?itid=hp-more-top-stories_p005_f004

* "Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump/index.html

* "Georgia State Sen. Elena Parent on Donald Trump's New Indictments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-indictments-georgia-elena-parent

* "A human face on the real victims: Georgia indictments offer some justice to maligned election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/georgia-indictments-offer-some-justice-to-maligned-election-workers-190832197692

* "‘Ludicrous’: Hayes on GOP’s ‘painful’ defense of Trump after 4th indictment:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ludicrous-hayes-on-gop-s-painful-defense-of-trump-after-4th-indictment-190899269953

* "Former Kanye publicist named in Trump Georgia case; could mean justice for election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/former-kanye-publicist-named-in-trump-georgia-case-could-mean-justice-for-election-workers-190907973608

* "Giuliani finds himself on the wrong end of his favorite anti-Mafia tool in Georgia case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/giuliani-finds-himself-on-the-wrong-end-of-his-favorite-anti-mafia-tool-in-georgia-case-190908485946

* "Let's talk about how Trump's Georgia case is different....:"

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* "Authorities investigating threats to grand jurors who indicted Trump in Georgia:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-indictment-threats-grand-jurors-b489aea1bf8210224d1500895830528d

* "Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/names-addresses-grand-jurors-georgia-trump-indictment-posted-online-rcna100239

* "Distressing but unsurprising: Targets of Trump vitriol face real threats from his followers:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/distressing-but-unsurprising-targets-of-trump-vitriol-face-real-threats-from-his-followers-190998085969

* "Hayes: Trump is ‘obviously’ fomenting violence against judges, prosecutors:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-is-obviously-fomenting-violence-against-judges-prosecutors-191067717906

* "Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia prosecution to federal court:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/meadows-georgia-case-federal-court-00111382

* "Mark Meadows seeks to move Georgia conspiracy case to federal court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mark-meadows-seeks-to-move-georgia-conspiracy-case-to-federal-court-190902853685

* "Texas woman accused of threatening to kill judge overseeing Trump election case and a congresswoman:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-judge-threats-texas-7d90ad3c8b552b49e269a3f842a6700c

* "With new indictments, things get real for Trump's fake electors:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/with-new-indictments-things-get-real-for-trump-s-fake-electors-190909509844

* "Special counsel obtained Trump DMs despite ‘momentous’ bid by Twitter to delay, unsealed filings show :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/special-counsel-obtained-trump-twitter-howell-00111410

* "Judge suggests Elon Musk withheld Twitter data to ‘cozy up’ to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-suggests-elon-musk-withheld-twitter-data-to-cozy-up-to-trump-190992965683

* "Third defendant in Trump classified documents case pleads not guilty:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/15/trump-classified-docs-carlos-de-oliveira-00111252

* "Feds say Trump not entitled to ‘special treatment’ in documents case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/14/feds-say-trump-not-entitled-to-special-treatment-in-documents-case.html

* "“Dopey and Constitutionally Dubious”: Legal Experts Blast Judge Aileen Cannon’s Latest Pro-Trump Rulings:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/egal-experts-blast-judge-aileen-cannons-latest-pro-trump-rulings

* "Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/feds-alert-judge-to-trumps-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you-post-00109944

* "Trump attacks special counsel Jack Smith and judge assigned to 2020 election case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-attacks-special-counsel-jack-smith-judge-assigned-2020-election-rcna98518

* "Judge warns Trump: ‘Inflammatory’ statements about election case could speed trial :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/11/judge-warns-trump-speed-trial-00110870

* "Trump co-conspirator said plan was to use military to put down opposition to him staying in office:" https://boingboing.net/2023/08/01/the-plan-was-to-use-military-to-put-down-any-opposition-to-trump-staying-in-office-after-election-loss.html

* "Let's talk about Trump revealing his emotional state....:"

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* "Trump seeks trial on election interference charges in 2026:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/trump-election-trial-date-proposal-00111775

* "Keeping Track of the Trump Investigations:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.html




* "Prosecutors seek 30-year sentences for Proud Boys leaders in Jan. 6 case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/30-year-sentence-proud-boys-jan-6-00111796

* "Feds seek 30 years in prison for Philly Proud Boys president Zach Rehl’s role in Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/zach-rehl-proud-boys-sentence-january-6th-capitol-riot-20230818.html

* "Prosecutors seek 33-year sentence for Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs:" https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/courts/2023/08/18/prosecutors-seek-33-years-prison-for-volusia-county-proud-boys-leader/70617676007/

* "Pezzola sentencing set for Aug. 29, government recommends 20 years for participation in Capitol Riot:" https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/top-stories/pezzola-sentencing-set-for-aug-29-government-recommends-20-years-for-participation-capitol-riot-january-6-jan/

* "Top Proud Boys lieutenant thinks he should walk free for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy conviction, while feds want decades:" https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-breach/top-proud-boys-lieutenant-thinks-he-should-walk-free-for-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-conviction-while-feds-want-decades/

* "Proud Boy on house arrest in Jan. 6 case disappears ahead of sentencing:" https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-capitol-attack-proud-boy-1341d4596fb96ee2828b54d70ef7e126

* "Bomb threats and ‘swatting’ campaign hits dozens of synagogues:" https://forward.com/news/557648/bomb-threats-and-swatting-campaign-hits-dozens-of-synagogues/?amp=1

* "2 synagogues evacuated during livestreamed Shabbat services as wave of bomb threats enters 4th week:" https://www.jta.org/2023/08/14/united-states/2-synagogues-evacuated-during-livestreamed-shabbat-services-as-wave-of-bomb-threats-enters-4th-week

* "Fullerton synagogue evacuated during Sabbath service due to bomb threat:" https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/fullerton-synagogue-evacuated-during-sabbath-service-due-to-bomb-threat/3204919/?amp=1

* "Proud Boys, III%ers, and MAGA radicals target drag story hour in San Diego:" https://www.vpsreports.com/post/proud-boys-iii-ers-and-maga-radicals-target-drag-story-hour-in-san-diego

* "Armed Neo-Nazis With Swastika Flags Disrupt Wisconsin Pride Event:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gays-against-groomers-neo-nazis

* "North Carolina Drag Show Postponed After Man Arrested Over Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/north-carolina-drag-show-threats

* This is Terrorism. "Oregon Medical Clinic Received Bomb Threat After Libs of TikTok Spotlight:" https://www.advocate.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-oregon-bomb

* "Illinois to outlaw gun advertisements that appeal to children, pose safety threat:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/illinois-to-outlaw-gun-advertisements-that-appeal-to-children-pose-safety-threat

* CW: Child Death "Child shoots and kills another child with a rifle moments after they were playing with Nerf guns, Alaska troopers say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-child-shoots-kills-child-with-rifle-after-playing-nerf-guns/

* "How Police Make Up The Law:"

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* CW: Rape and Torture. This is a really bad one, folks. Read at your own risk. "Mississippi “Goon Squad” Cops Plead Guilty to Racist Dildo and Taser Attacks:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/goon-squad-mississippi-police

* "All Charges Dropped Against Trans Man Beaten by Cop in Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-man-california-cop

* "Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones:" https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

* "The ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement Is Vandalizing Pro-Police Companies Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ak8xy/stop-cop-city-movement-bigger-than-atlanta

* "Richard Hanania, Rising Right-Wing Star, Wrote For White Supremacist Sites Under Pseudonym:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-hanania-white-supremacist-pseudonym-richard-hoste_n_64c93928e4b021e2f295e817

* "Ex-Denver Postal Worker Goes on Bizarre Rant at Target While in Blackface: Video:" https://www.advocate.com/news/racist-former-usps-worker-blackface

* "A Gay Conservative Wrote a Fawning Tome on Tucker Carlson. It Flopped:" https://www.advocate.com/media/gay-conservative-tucker-carlson-book

* "Texas Sued Over 'Unconstitutional' Drag Ban by ACLU:" https://www.advocate.com/law/aclu-sues-texas-drag-ban

* "DeSantis' Florida approves classroom videos that compare climate activists to Nazis:" https://www.rawstory.com/prageru-florida-2662923106/

* "Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal' :" https://www.comicsands.com/prager-university-cartoon-justifies-slavery-2663089717.html

* "Will Florida Teachers Still Be Punished for Teaching AP Psychology?:" https://www.advocate.com/education/ap-psychology-florida-ban-confusion

* "Ron DeSantis’ Attempt to Erase Trans People From Florida Schools Is Now Underway:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/florida-ron-desantis-attacks-trans-students-teachers.html

* "Florida School District Bans Trans Employees From Using Their Pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-employees-pronouns-ban-florida

* "Florida town, students fight to preserve record against state's war on Black history:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/florida-town-students-fight-to-preserve-record-against-state-s-war-on-black-history-191154757893

* "A Bill Proposed a New Way to Teach History. It Got the History Wrong.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/us/virginia-lincoln-douglas-debates-bill.html

* "Maryland Parents Ask Judge to Allow Students to Avoid LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/law/maryland-parents-optout-lgbtq-books

* "Georgia Teacher Fired for Reading Gender-Inclusive Book Appeals Decision:" https://www.advocate.com/education/georgia-teacher-appeals-firing-book

* "Idaho ‘teacher of the year’ winner flees state after attacks on her pro-LGBTQ+ views:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/idaho-teacher-of-the-year-lgbtq-black-lives-matter-flees-illinois/

* "Question on Sexually Explicit School Library Books Upsets Virginia Parents:" https://www.advocate.com/education/sexually-explicit-book-question-spotsylvania

* "Far Right Attacks It Gets Better After Group Donates $600k to Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/it-gets-better-project-grants

* "Federal Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Targeting Books & Librarians:" https://www.advocate.com/law/arkansas-judge-blocks-librarian-criminalization

* "Longtime Wyoming Library Director Fired For Refusing to Scrap Shelves of LGBTQ+ Books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/wyoming-library-director-fired-lgbtq

* "Starting next year, child influencers can sue if earnings aren't set aside, says new Illinois law:" https://www.kcra.com/article/starting-next-year-child-influencers-can-sue-if-earnings-arent-set-aside-says-new-illinois-law/44802567

* "MAGA judge: Abortion pill robs doctors ‘joy’ of fetus pictures:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maga-judge-abortion-pill-robs-doctors-joy-of-fetus-pictures-191071301834

* "Let's talk about evil in a religious context....:"

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* "LGBTQ+ People Are Facing Increased Persecution, Violence, Ethiopian Activists Say:" https://www.advocate.com/world/ethiopia-anti-lgbtq-crackdown

* "UK government announces crackdown on gender-neutral toilets:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/13/gender-neutral-toilets-policy-kemi-badenoch/

* "UK crackdown on gender-neutral bathrooms could put trans people in danger – just look at the US:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/bathroom-ban-use-gender-neutral-us-uk-trans/

* "Two Brewers staff praised for ‘exemplary’ work protecting customers after Clapham stabbing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/two-brewers-london-clapham-stabbing-lgbtq-gay/

* "Give us teachers more time to teach about LGBTQ+ lives – it could make all the difference:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/14/rse-relationships-sex-education-teachers-lgbt/

* "Transgender Woman Violently Attacked in Palm Springs, Video Shows:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/palm-springs-trans-woman-attacked

* "Chess regulator effectively bans trans women from competitive play for two years: ‘These are dark days’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/chess-regulator-fide-trans-women/

* "Right-wingers are threatening to boycott yet another brand – this time, it’s Skittles:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/12/skittles-boycott-black-lives-matter-pride/

* "What Are the New Guidelines for Gay and Bi Men Donating Blood?:" https://www.advocate.com/health/blood-donation-gay-discrimination-ends

* "Michael Oher, former NFL tackle known for ‘The Blind Side,’ sues to end Tuohys’ conservatorship:" https://apnews.com/article/nfl-movie-blind-side-michael-oher-tuohys-c2593f08f8788db5ee267b9a23007c6d

I avoided that movie because it reeked of white savior complex. The fact that it was all a fraud to steal from Mr. Oher, is unfortunately not a huge surprise.

* Hint for Florida: if you put someone who thinks demons cause disease, not pathogens, in charge of public Health for your state, horrible shit happens. If the party in charge is committed to killing constituents with contagious disease for political gain, horrible things happen.

* "Dengue is breaking records in the Americas — what’s behind the surge?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02423-w

* "Let's talk about dengue in Florida....:"

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* "Dengue spreads to Broward County; 10 people in FL have gotten sick this year:" https://floridaphoenix.com/blog/dengue-spreads-to-broward-county-10-people-in-fl-have-gotten-sick-this-year/

* "In Florida's local malaria outbreak, forgotten bite led to surprise hospitalization :" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/26/1189852024/in-floridas-local-malaria-outbreak-forgotten-bite-led-to-surprise-hospitalizatio

* "Texas man diagnosed with ‘medieval’ illness after rash:" https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/texas-man-diagnosed-with-medieval-illness-after-rash/news-story/f180247bbfc5f3904b7344336c699e0b

* "Florida leprosy cases highlighted in recent report aren’t linked to COVID-19 vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-florida-leprosy-cases-cdc-covid-vaccines-352032756100

* "How leprosy arrived in Florida, and how it is spreading: New clues are emerging:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/08/07/how-leprosy-arrived-in-florida-and-how-it-is-spreading-new-clues-are-emerging/

* "Traveling to Florida or Texas? Here’s what CT experts say about reports of malaria, dengue fever, even leprosy :" https://www.courant.com/2023/08/14/traveling-to-florida-or-texas-heres-what-ct-experts-say-about-reports-of-malaria-dengue-fever-even-leprosy/

* "A woman with a severe peanut allergy says airline staff laughed at her and ignored her requests when she tried to fly to Costa Rica:" https://www.insider.com/woman-severe-peanut-allergy-says-airline-staff-laughed-at-her-2023-7?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&mibextid=2JQ9oc

* CW: Suicide. "US suicides hit an all-time high last year:" https://apnews.com/article/suicides-record-2022-guns-48511d74deb24d933e66cec1b6f2d545




* "Rising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-global-warming-impacts-data/?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Let's talk about heat, pavement, and Arizona mostly....:"

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* "Hawaii governor addresses sirens failure and 'grim' aftermath of Maui wildfire:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/hawaii-governor-addresses-sirens-failure-and-grim-aftermath-of-maui-wildfire-190735941609

* "Video puts scrutiny on possible cause of Maui wildfire:" https://abc7ny.com/maui-fires-hawaii-wildfire-hawaiian-electric-lawsuit-power-lines/13657819/

* "Maui’s emergency services chief resigns after facing criticism for not activating sirens during fire:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-wildfires-recovery-maui-lahaina-land-c8cfcacd2e63bdcd66ec13f2963cea8e

* "Left unchecked, Maui’s nonnative grasses turned into wildfire fuel:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/maui-wildfires-grass-overgrown-nonnative-flammable-hawaii-rcna99963

* "Maui wildfire crews continue to fight "flare-ups" in Lahaina and inland, as death toll rises to 93:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maui-wildfires-crews-flare-ups-lahaina-upcountry-inland-death-toll-rises/

* "How did the Maui fire start? What we know about the cause of the Lahaina blaze:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-did-maui-fire-start-cause-lahaina-hawaii-wildfire/

* "How Invasive Plants Caused the Maui Fires to Rage:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html

* "Fires and other disasters are increasing in Hawaii, according to this AP data analysis:" https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-fires-disaster-declarations-0344e3c954db7e0635cdaa8e87e25c92

* "Let's talk about Hawaii and theories....:"

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* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* "Lookout Fire ‘growing rapidly’ in Lane County:" https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/lookout-fire-growing-rapidly-in-lane-county/

* "Rare New England tornado lifts car from a highway as strong storms damage homes and flood roads:" https://apnews.com/article/new-england-tornado-60bdefd4dda026f349c76f17faa29975

* "Powerful Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico’s Baja. Rare tropical storm watch issued for California:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-hilary-baja-california-arizona-406a3f7474eacb6222cedc33993d4657

* "‘Rare and historic’: California under first-ever tropical storm watch:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-rare-and-historic-california-under-first-ever-tropical-storm-watch-191149125707




* "Montana judge sides with youth in historic climate trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/14/montana-judge-sides-with-youth-in-climate-trial-00107668

* "Let's talk about Held v Montana and a win....:"

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* "The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/12/climate/clean-energy-us-fossil-fuels.html

* "The first generation of solar panels will wear out. A recycling industry is taking shape:" https://apnews.com/article/recycle-solar-panel-circular-economy-sustainability-dc7284bab2180b5bd86ff5cb5c847652

* "It Gets Better Steps Back From Twitter/X Over Hate Speech Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/business/it-gets-better-stops-twitter

* "Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law Taking Effect Next Month:" https://www.advocate.com/law/pornhub-lawsuit-texas

* "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires):" https://janefriedman.com/i-would-rather-see-my-books-pirated/

* "Bot Therapy and Informed Consent:" https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/discords-kokobot-triggers-an-ethics-controversy/

* "Extreme Weather Is Coming. Someone Has to Tell the Chimps.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/science/extreme-weather-chimpanzees.html

* "Ailing and baby hummingbirds nursed to health at woman’s apartment-turned-clinic in Mexico City:" https://apnews.com/article/mexico-hummingbirds-clinic-3f8247ca7957416aa97ccbb7b2f1aca8

* "Why Do Archaeologists Rebury Their Excavations?:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-do-archaeologists-rebury-their-excavations-180982542/

* "The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show:"

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* "On The Fairy Dog Petitcrieu, Who Cuts In Half All Sorrows:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/on-the-fairy-dog-petitcrieu-who-cuts?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=135893278&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

* "This book vanished when Anne Boleyn was executed. Now it reveals her secrets.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/anne-boleyn-book-of-hours-ultraviolet-hever

* "In Colonial Williamsburg, Thieving Rats Save History:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/colonial-williamsburg-bray-school-rat-nest-archaeology

* "Vintage Photos of Babies Learning to Walk Using Wicker Walkers, 1900s-1920s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/wicker-walker-old-photos/

* "Heartstopper star Joe Locke wants people to ‘learn their boundaries’ after privacy violations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/09/heartstopper-season-two-joe-locke-people-need-boundaries-grandma/

* I am still catching up financially from the car repairs. I had a choice to buy 2 out of these three: cat little, kibbles, and gas. I chose the kibbles and gas as they were nearly out and necessary, and I had hopes of the litter lasting the month. It's not going to. If you could kick in a little for litter, it would cut down on Tavy getting creative which he has done three times this week: paypal.me/Gwydion

* "If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud:"

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* "Warrior Nun gets resurrected as film trilogy after massive fan campaign: ‘We made history’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/16/warrior-nun-returns-film-trilogy-cancelled-netflix-fan-reactions/

* "Death on the Nile ~ Lost in Adaptation:"

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* "Midnight Pals: Once Upon a Time in Delain:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725655545417252864/midnight-pals-once-upon-a-time-in-delain?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Chesssss:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725836407952785409/midnight-pals-chesssss?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: BBC:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/725926403116236800/midnight-pals-bbc?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help the people of Maui?

Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/

Maui Humane Society: https://www.mauihumanesociety.org/

Center for Native Hawaiian Advancement: https://www.memberplanet.com/campaign/cnhamembers/kakoomaui

Hawai'i Red Cross: https://www.redcross.org/local/hawaii/ways-to-donate.html

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

* I admit to having a wicked good time tormenting myself and other history geeks with my polls: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydpolls

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* "Escaping China with a spoon and a rusty nail:" https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/uyghur-thailand-escape-xinjiang-jail/

* "The Coup Is Over, but Putin Is in Trouble:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/06/putin-russian-coup-over-prigozhin-wagner/674522/

* "Ukraine Will Be the Big Winner of Prigozhin Turning On Putin:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ukraine-will-be-the-big-winner-of-prigozhin-turning-on-putin-in-russian-insurrection

* "Let's talk about Russia cooling off and stranger things to come....:"

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* "U.S. spies learned in mid-June Prigozhin was planning armed action in Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/24/us-intelligence-prigozhin-putin/

* "Blinken on Russia crisis: ‘We haven’t seen the last act’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/25/blinken-russia-crisis-00103552

* "Biden says U.S. and allies "had nothing to do with" Wagner rebellion in Russia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-wagner-group-russia-mutiny/

* "How a 'sad sack nutball' ended up at the center of the Russia crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-a-sad-sack-nutball-ended-up-at-the-center-of-the-russia-crisis-185201221916

* "Belarus starts taking delivery of Russian nuclear weapons:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belarus-has-started-taking-delivery-russian-tactical-nuclear-weapons-president-2023-06-14/

* "Lukashenko offers nuclear weapons to nations willing ‘to join the Union State of Russia and Belarus’:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/europe/lukashenko-nuclear-weapons-belarus-russia-intl-hnk/index.html




* "UN puts Russian forces on blacklist for killing children in Ukraine:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/un-puts-russian-forces-on-blacklist-for-killing-children-in-ukraine

* "Ukrainian Forces take control of several positions near Krasnohorivka, which Russia held since 2014
Ukrainian Forces take control of several positions near Krasnohorivka, which Russia held since 2014:" https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3727224-ukrainian-forces-take-control-of-several-positions-near-krasnohorivka-which-russia-held-since-2014.html

* "Ukraine war latest: Military reports advance on Bakhmut flanks; 2 Ukrainian teenagers reportedly killed by Russians in Berdiansk:" https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-june-25/

* "‘Pretending to live a civilian life’: How pro-Ukrainian residents of occupied Melitopol feel daily fear:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/11/europe/ukraine-life-under-russian-occupation-melitopol-intl-cmd/index.html

* "The Africans fighting on Russia’s front line in Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-wagner-africa




* "Biden announces how $40 billion for high-speed internet will be used, as he pitches 'Bidenomics':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-announce-40-billion-high-speed-internet-pitches/story?id=100380154

* "Biden and Harris Reaffirm Backing for Reproductive Rights a Year After Dobbs:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/biden-dobbs-one-year-abortion

* "White House Mocks Fox News With Pride Cupcakes :" https://www.advocate.com/media/white-house-fox-news-cupcakes

* Shameful. "Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-navajo-nation-water-rights-dispute-rcna83584

* "U.S. Supreme Court allows Biden's shift on immigration enforcement:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-allows-bidens-shift-immigration-enforcement-2023-06-23/

* "The Supreme Court is making religion an all-purpose excuse for ignoring the law :" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-18/supreme-court-303-creative-colorado-gay-wedding-website-religious-liberty

* "Christian-Owned Business Can Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ People: Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/christian-business-lgbtq-discrimination

* Shameful. "Supreme Court turns away veterans who seek disability benefits over 1966 hydrogen bomb accident:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-veterans-radiation-accident-disability-benefits-e541ded7f3d8a17d680a07fc2105a6df

* "Supreme Court rules in favor of Coinbase:" https://www.axios.com/2023/06/23/supreme-court-coinbase-arbitration

* "Supreme Court limits federal prisoners’ ability to bring some post-conviction challenges:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/prisoner-firearms-conviction-case-supreme-court/index.html

* "Supreme Court dismisses Louisiana’s appeal of ruling that found racial gerrymandering :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/26/supreme-court-louisiana-racial-gerrymandering-00103631

* "The Real Cause of Poverty with Matthew Desmond:"

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* "The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted:" https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-small-business-labor-fb1d9a9eb24857efbe4611344311ae78

* "Millionaires Are Begging Governments to Tax Them More:" https://www.wired.com/story/millionaires-begging-governments-tax-wealth/

* "Boston’s Leadership Brainery Opens Doors for Marginalized Students Seeking Advanced Degrees:" https://www.advocate.com/activism/leadership-brainery-advanced-degrees

* I kind of love that I have trouble telling the difference between Pride parade stills and Our Flag Means Death Actors on the WGA picket line.

* "‘We Never Stopped Applying Pressure’: Hard-Fought Success on Rail Sick Days:" https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

* "340,000 UPS workers are voting whether to authorize a massive strike:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/business/ups-strike-vote-authorization/index.html

* "Starbucks Employees to Strike Nationwide After Pride Decoration Controversy:" https://www.advocate.com/business/lgbt-starbucks-employees-to-strike

* "House votes to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183564794/schiff-censure-house-republicans

* "Democrats Introduce Bill to Support LGBTQ & Women’s History in Schools:" https://www.advocate.com/law/lgbtq-history-womens-bill

* "Equality Act, the Sweeping LGBTQ+ Rights Bill, Reintroduced in Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/equality-act-reintroduced

* "Anti-Trans Misinformation Spewed at Senate Hearing — But It Gets Countered:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-trans-misinformation

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Election workers are already being threatened. They're worried about 2024:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183289840/election-workers-are-already-being-threatened-theyre-worried-about-2024

* "Sarah McBride Is Out to Be the First Trans Member of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-

* Why isn't he running as a Republican? "Nepo Baby RFK Jr. Hates Vaccines, Poppers, and the Kennedy Legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/rfk-jr-hates-vaccines-kennedy-legacy

* "‘Horrifying’ Republican 2024 race could be catastrophic for young LGBTQ+ Americans, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/republican-presidential-election-race-anti-trans-rhetoric-hate/

* "Chris Christie Opposes Restrictions on Care for Trans Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/chris-christie-gender-affirming-care

* "Pence calls for 2024 GOP candidates to back a 15-week federal abortion ban:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pence-calls-for-2024-gop-candidates-to-back-a-15-week-federal-abortion-ban

* "Ron DeSantis Tweets Lie About L.A. Dodgers Pride Night, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/los-angeles-dodgers-desantis

* The Republican War on the 14th Amendment continues. "DeSantis says he would seek to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants :" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/desantis-seek-end-birthright-citizenship-children-undocumented-immigrants/story?id=100377864

* "17,000 Australians Sign Petition to Prevent Donald Trump Jr. From Visiting:" https://advocatechannel.com/australia-petition-donald-trump-jr

* Republicans want you to know this diarrhea dribble of a man is the absolute best they have to offer in the year 2023. "Trump Receives ‘Man of the Decade’ Award at Republican Dinner:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-awarded-man-of-the-decade-at-republican-partys-lincoln-day-dinner

* "Trump’s “Final Battle” :" https://theintercept.com/2023/06/25/trump-communism-red-scare/

* "North Carolina Senate acts quickly to attempt to override 4 of Gov. Cooper's vetoes:" https://www.wunc.org/politics/2023-06-21/north-carolina-senate-attempt-override-gov-cooper-vetoes

* "New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills Into States With Bans:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/health/abortion-shield-law-new-york.html

* "My State Is Sliding Into Fascism. Here's How We're Stopping It:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/montana-sliding-into-fascism

* "New Jersey appoints ‘talented and inspirational’ trans cabinet official in historic first:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/new-jersey-trans-allison-myers-historic-first/

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* "Fake Trump Electors Strike Deal to Testify in DOJ’s Jan. 6 Probe: Report:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jack-smith-trump-fake-electors-immunity-testimony-1234777165/

* "Judge Cannon Will Control Trump's Prosecution:"

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* "Listen: Audio of Trump discussing classified documents published by CNN:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/listen-audio-of-trump-discussing-classified-documents-published-by-cnn-185190981958

* "Let's talk about the Trump recording....:"

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* "'This is some really powerful evidence': McQuade assesses the Trump Bedminster tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-some-really-powerful-evidence-mcquade-assesses-the-trump-bedminster-tape-185202245888

* "Five or six Secret Service agents have testified before Jan. 6 grand jury, sources say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/secret-service-agents-jan-6-grand-jury-trump-rcna91182

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* "The Woman Who Bought a Mountain for God:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/christian-movement-new-apostolic-reformation-politics-trump/674320/

* "Kansas Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Up, Bomb Nashville Pride:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/nashville-pride-threatened-kansas-man

* "Neo-Nazi Arrested for Firebombing LGBTQ-Friendly Donut Shop:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/donut-shop-neo-nazi-firebombing

* "Anderson Lee Aldrich pleads guilty to 53 charges for Club Q shooting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/26/club-q-colorado-springs-anderson-lee-aldrich-pleads-guilty/

* "For many migrants being bused from New York City to other towns, hostility awaits:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/18/1181933592/for-many-migrants-being-bused-from-new-york-city-to-other-towns-hostility-awaits

* "Judge denies stay of trial for ex-police officer in motorist Patrick Lyoya’s killing:" https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2023/04/judge-denies-stay-of-trial-for-ex-police-officer-in-motorist-patrick-lyoyas-killing.html?outputType=amp

* "What Reparations Actually Bought:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/japanese-american-wwii-internment-reparations-redress-movement/674349/

* "Fort Polk is now Fort Johnson after US Army moves to honor World War I hero :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/fort-polk-johnson-renamed-us-army/index.html

* "The Military Ignores Its History With Drag and Queer Vets:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/military-ignores-history-with-drag-and-queer-vets

* "Florida Transgender Veteran Kicked Out of VA Medical Center Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-veteran-transgender-bathroom

* Moms for Liberty aren't even pretending not to be a Neo-NAZI group anymore. "Moms for Liberty Defends Hitler Quote in Newsletter Before Removing It:" https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-hitler-quote

* "School protesters clash with police in ugly row over LGBTQ+ teaching during Pride Month:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/glendale-school-california-protests-lgbtq-pride-month/

* "Authors of gay penguin book banned in Florida school sue over Don’t Say Gay law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/and-tango-makes-three-authors-sue-florida-book-ban/

* "Children’s author defends teacher set to be fired for reading inclusive book to class:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/26/scott-stuart-my-shadow-is-purple-teacher-georgia/

* "How torture, deception and inaction underpin UAE's thriving sex trafficking industry:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/uae-trafficking-sex/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Conor McGregor Accused of Sexual Assault (Again):" https://www.advocate.com/crime/conor-mcgregor

* "Menstrual Health Education Taught For the First Time in U.S.:" https://advocatechannel.com/menstrual-health-education-washington-dc

* "Pose star Dominique Jackson opens up about sex work journey: ‘For years I struggled with my past’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/pose-dominique-jackson-the-stroll-sex-work-past/

* What would Jesus do? Be a grown man brutally harassing a nine year old for not meeting is stereotyped gender expectations. "Child, nine, says she was ‘crying and hurt’ after vile transphobic school sports day abuse:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/16/cisgender-girl-transphobic-sports-day/




* "One year without Roe: Data shows how abortion access has changed in America:" https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/dobbs-abortion-access-data-roe-v-wade-overturned-rcna88947

* "One Year After Dobbs: Keeping Up the Fight for Bodily Autonomy:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dobbs-abortion-lgbtq-roe-wade

* "Taking Away Our Civil Rights Must Not Become the New Normal After Dobbs:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/abortion-rights-fight-back

* "Trans-led group helps people get safe abortions one year on from Roe v Wade ruling:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-year-trans-non-binary-abortion-bans/

* "What’s an Ex–Abortion Doctor in Alabama to Do? Fight for better pregnancies and births for those who have no choice.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/alabama-abortion-dr-yashica-robinson-roe-v-wade-dobbs-anniversary.html

* "After Roe v. Wade fell, this father-daughter duo left Texas to go on providing abortions:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-abortion-family/




* "Trans people are loved: Allies urged to take a stand in powerful new campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/trans-people-are-loved-campaign-uk-pride/

* "Oslo Pride targeted with threats following 2022 shooting which killed two people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/oslo-pride-police-warning-terror-threats/

* "Lesbian Mothers Targeted by Prosecutor Going After Children's Birth Certificates:" https://www.advocate.com/law/lesbian-mothers-italy-birth-certificates

* "Chinese diplomat claims trans people are a ‘deformity’ in abhorrent tweet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/17/china-xue-jian-japan-trans-deformity/

* "Trans woman pushed to the brink in Russia amid fresh Putin crackdown: ‘I’m scared s**tless’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/russia-trans-healthcare-ban-2/

* "More than 60 people detained at Istanbul Pride as thousands defy ban to march:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/25/istanbul-pride-turkey-arrests/

* "More than half the population of India supports same-sex marriage – where it is still illegal:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/20/india-same-sex-marriage-support-lgbtq/

* "LGBTQ+ Victories Did Happen in 2023:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-victories-did-happen-in-2023

* "Estonia Legalizes Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/world/estonia-marriage-equality

* "'More to Pride than celebration': Hamilton LGBTQ community calls for greater support:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/lgbt-pride-month-celebration-against-hatred-1.6866839?cmp=rss

* "Celebration and protest erupts during Canada’s largest Pride parade in Toronto:" https://globalnews.ca/news/9792508/toronto-pride-parade-2023/

* "MP injured at trans protest says he’ll ‘take a punch for queer and trans youth any day’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/joel-harden-canada-ottawa-trans-protest/

* "Olivia Blake MP: LGBTQ+ refugees suffer most in detention – it’s time to end this cruel practice:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/lgbtq-refugee-week-pride-month-immigration-detention/

* "UK government expected to enforce cruel ban on trans kids in school sports, reports claim:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance-sports-parents/

* "Police apologise for three-year wait to deal with violent homophobic threats to gay man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/dyfed-powys-police-homophobia-apology/

* "LGBTQ+ activist left bloodied after ‘punch from Met officer’ at anti-drag protest :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/met-police-honor-oak-turning-point-uk/

* "‘None of our pupils identify as a cat’: School shuts down widely-shared claims from right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/23/pupil-identifies-as-cat-claims-denied/

* "Homophobic vandals invited to Gloucestershire Pride to ‘educate’ themselves after spate of attacks:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/homophobic-vandals-gloucestershire-pride-education/

* "Wickes faces boycott after boss says transphobes aren’t welcome in stores:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/17/wickes-fraser-longden-boycott/

* "Care homes host heartwarming Silver Pride events for LGBTQ+ elders: ‘I can finally be myself’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/silver-pride-care-homes-uk/

* "Federal judge turns Ron DeSantis’ own law against him to block Florida drag ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/florida-drag-ban-injunction-ron-desantis/

* "Walgreens refuses to give trans man his hormone prescription due to ‘religious beliefs’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/23/walgreens-trans-hormone-prescription/

I believe people should not sign up to do a job and then refuse to do it.

However, supreme court is consistently siding with Christians refusing services to Queer people. They literally just decided that the law against discrimination is trumped by the right to discriminate in the 303 Creative case.

I have a nasty suspicion that they will agree health care providers are allowed to let us die if they discriminator is Christian. After all, they are happy to let people who are pregnant bleed to death in front of hospitals or die of sepsis according to the Dobbs Decision.

I’d love to be wrong, I really would, but I don’t think we should bet our lives on SCOTUS deciding that Christian Pharmacists and doctors and EMT’s aren’t allowed to deny us care and make us die for their religion. After all they have decided pregnant people regardless of faith or lake their of should be forced by the state to die for it.

* "Fox News Accused of Altering AP & Reuters Stories to Incite Anti-Trans Rage:" https://www.advocate.com/media/fox-news-ap-reuters

* "These military sisters used to be brothers: 'Our situation is so unique':" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/military-sisters-used-brothers-situation-221757047.html

* "‘We are everywhere’: How rural queer communities connect through storytelling:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/country-queer-oral-history-connects-a-community-across-rural-america

* "How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brain-protects-itself-from-blood-borne-threats-20230620

* From earlier reporting I strongly suspected this was the case. "Australia's 'worst female serial killer' freed after her children's deadly gene mutations come to light:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/australias-worst-female-serial-killer-153528557.html

* "Voluntary Recall of Specific Frozen Fruit Products Due to Possible Contamination by Listeria monocytogenes:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/voluntary-recall-specific-frozen-fruit-products-due-possible-contamination-listeria-monocytogenes




* Looks like mass murder to me."‘If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned:’ CNN investigation raises questions about Greek coast guard’s account of shipwreck tragedy:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/europe/greece-migrant-boat-disaster-investigation-intl-cmd/index.html

* "More Than 30 Feared Dead as Boat Bound for Spain's Canary Islands Sinks:" https://www.voanews.com/a/more-than-30-feared-dead-as-boat-bound-for-spain-s-canary-islands-sinks-/7147772.html

* "Four boats with over 300 migrants rescued in Spain's Canary Islands:" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/06/22/four-boats-with-over-300-migrants-rescued-in-spain-s-canary-islands_6035448_4.html




* "Turbulence on flights is getting worse because of climate change:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2377658-turbulence-on-flights-is-getting-worse-because-of-climate-change/

* "How South Korea Puts Its Food Scraps to Good Use:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/world/asia/south-korea-food-waste.html

* "How ‘Daylighting’ Buried Waterways Is Revitalizing Cities Across America:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-daylighting-buried-waterways-is-revitalizing-cities-across-america-180981793/

* "NYC Sets Fines for Extra Forks, Ketchup and Soy Sauce Packets in Takeout Orders:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/nyc-sets-fines-for-extra-forks-ketchup-and-soy-sauce-packets-in-takeout-orders

* "If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?:" https://theconversation.com/if-humans-went-extinct-what-would-the-earth-look-like-one-year-later-199737

* "r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes:" https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14ds81l/rblinds_meetings_with_reddit_and_the_current/

* "Twitter accused of failing to pay millions in employee bonuses after Musk takeover:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/tech/twitter-bonus-lawsuit/index.html

* "Elon Musk’s ‘cowardly’ cisgender Twitter ban slammed by researcher who coined the term:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/elon-musk-cisgender-twitter-creator-response/

* "17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

* "Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke. Outspoken critic delivers sobriety check on EV maker’s Full Self-Driving mode:" https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-full-self-driving-critic

* "Trapped Under Trucks:" https://www.propublica.org/article/underride-crashes-nhtsa-dot-iihs-safety-cars-trucks

* "Humans traveled less during COVID restrictions. Animals traveled more:" https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181043524/humans-traveled-less-during-covid-restrictions-animals-traveled-more

* "Nearly half of US honeybee colonies died last year. Struggling beekeepers stabilize population:" https://apnews.com/article/honeybees-pollinator-extinct-disease-death-climate-change-f60297706e19c7346ff1881587b5aced

* "Bees Get All the Love. Won’t Someone Think of the Moths?:" https://www.wired.com/story/bees-get-all-the-love-wont-someone-think-of-the-moths/

* "Poland investigating bird flu outbreak among cats:" https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/06/poland-investigating-bird-flu-outbreak-among-cats/

* "150 years of Masc Women causing a Moral Panic:"

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* "Florida’s first war on woke:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rachel-maddow-presents-deja-news/episode-2-floridas-first-war-woke-rcna89983

* "3 Black and Queer Trailblazers You Might Not Have Heard of:" https://advocatechannel.com/black-queer-trailblazers

* "50 Year Ago, the Fire at the Up Stairs Lounge Gay Bar in New Orleans Killed 32:" https://www.advocate.com/history/upstairs-lounge-fire-50-years

* "How the decriminalisation of homosexuality set Ireland on a rapid, awe-inspiring path to modernisation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/25/ireland-lgbtq-rights-homosexuality-decriminalisation/

* "Senator David Norris: The man who overturned Ireland’s homosexuality ban, 30 years on:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/david-norris-decriminalisation-homosexuality-anniversary/

* "Equality Day: Why Is June 26 So Momentous for LGBTQ+ Rights?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/june-26-equality-day-lgbtq

* Glenda Jackson meant a lot to me both for her acting and her politics. She will be so missed. "Glenda Jackson, Revered Actress, Politician, and LGBTQ+ Ally, Dead at 87:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/glenda-jackson-lgbtq-ally

* "Photos: Juneteenth celebrations across the US:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/photos-juneteenth-celebrations-across-us/

* On Biblical Translation around Eve: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VIXKQb1E22s

* "True Facts: The Curious Adaptations of Sharks:"

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* "The Matrix films are about Neo’s trans journey into becoming Trinity, author argues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/24/the-matrix-trans/

* Meds Update: My notorious super sensitivity to drugs is possibly working in my favour for once. After the first two nights I was able to adjust to the bits of side effects. It very much is working. sub-clinical my ambiguous ass. I notice it's kicked in because it peels out about a third of the pain. I get about eight ours of prime relief and about four hours of lesser coverage. I am considering letting them scale up with the second pill to cover sleep. I'm worried about side effects scaling up too to something I can't handle still, but we'll see when we get there.

* The car is a good news/bad news situation. I was legitimately scared it was going to be the transmission this time, which is a death sentence for the car. I am disabled. I need this car for transport. There is no chance of me saving up the kind of money I'd need for a new used car.

It was not the transmission. It was, get this, the speed sensor. Which needed replacing. I have no idea why the speed sensor going wonky was messing the gear lights. Let us hope that's not a separate problem. In any case, the parts and labor was $250. They know me and the guy running it is a sweetheart, so they let me down pay what I had which was the fifty dollars I'd intended for gas and a birthday present for my sister. all I have left in my account is just enough to cover car insurance auto withdraw. I can't touch it or I get cascading overdraft fees so that's right out. This leaves two hundred I still will need to pay them.

I know, it's asking a lot. This is four total car repairs between me and squirrel in three months and y'all bought me a replacement stove last summer when mine went kaput, but here we are again.:

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* "Pride in Makeup: Unleashing Your Artistic Expression:" https://www.out.com/gay-lifestyle/pride-in-makeup-unleashing-your-artistic-expression

* Listen to the end. It's worth it: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/721054948286169088?source=share

* "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn:" http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/steve-irwin-and-the-unicorn/

* "Midnight Pals: Raw Deal:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/721135161945751552/midnight-pals-raw-deal?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* "Gay Ex-Adult Film Star Antonio Moreno Elected Mayor of Small Town :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/antonio-moreno-mayor-elect

* "Russian opposition leader Navalny urges anti-Kremlin campaign as his new trial begins:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-navalny-trial-c1c5cb7936e2c4eebcb76c1289aadfd6

* "Russia bars media from new "extremism" case against Navalny:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-navalny-court-face-extremism-charges-2023-06-19/

* "A failed plot to assassinate a C.I.A. spy in 2020 in part led to expulsions of the agency’s chief in Moscow and his Russian counterpart in Washington.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/politics/russia-spy-assassination.html

* "Book shows Putin broke unwritten rule with plot to kill defector on U.S. soil:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/book-shows-putin-broke-unwritten-rule-with-plot-to-kill-defector-on-u-s-soil-nyt-183393349660




* "Russian mercenary boss accuses top brass of Ukraine battlefield cover-up:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-mercenary-boss-accuses-top-brass-ukraine-battlefield-cover-up-2023-06-22/

* Let's hope the people of the Crimea aren't left behind at the end of this. "Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in blow to Russian supply route:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-hits-bridge-linking-crimea-mainland-blow-russian-supply-route-2023-06-22/

* "Russia steps up aerial strikes on Ukraine, killing at least 6 amid Kyiv counteroffensive:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-odesa-f31bf4e312800e08803cc0190e28823a




* "Biden Rolls Out New LGBTQ+ Resources on Day of Historic White House Pride Celebration:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/biden-historic-pride-month-celebration

* "Biden Blasts ‘Prejudiced’ Lawmakers for Targeting LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/joe-biden-gop-lawmakers-prejudiced

* "White House Pride Flag Display Enrages Right-Wingers:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/gop-pride-flag-violation

* "Fox News Says White House Flew ‘Pedophile,’ ‘Groomer’ Pride Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/media/outrageous-fox-news-pedophile-pride

* "Kamala Harris: Our One-on-One With the Vice President:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/exclusive-vice-president-kamala-harris

* "Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court :" https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

* "Alito didn’t recuse himself from case involving billionaire fishing friend:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/propublica-alito-didn-t-recuse-himself-from-case-involving-billionaire-fishing-friend-183940165990

* "As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will soon be nullified:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/

* "If Writers Lose the Standoff With Studios, It Hurts All Filmmakers:" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/film-editor-view-writers-strike-1235511140/

* "VOCATIONAL AWE AND LIBRARIANSHIP: THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES:" https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

* "House GOP vows to continue Biden probes despite Hunter’s ‘sweetheart’ deal :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/20/house-republicans-hunter-biden-00102666

5 years of intensive partizan investigation and all they found were two minor tax misdemeanors that he already paid back, a fraction of what Roger stone owes and refuses to pay, and an addict in possession of a gun charge that they usually only pursue when there is other more serious crime involvement, that they are very likely only pursuing because he's the relative of a public figure.

Republicans are lying that this is a sweet heart deal. It's slightly more harsh than the average citizen. Meanwhile they are lying that Drumpf is somehow being persecuted unfairly for being investigated for a bunch of geometrically worse crimes related to various attempts to overthrow the US government where he either was caught on tape of publicly admitted them or where there is a mountain of evidence and where he doesn't get hand cuffed or mug shots or have to spend time in jail pending arraignment, and where the FBI and DOJ foot dragged and refused to even consider investigating for over a year, because those institutions don't believe that there should be equal treatment under the law for Drumpf. The Republicans agree with him that he should be allowed to shoot people in broad daylight with no consequences so even the most deferential treatment and mild consequences are unfair.

Yes, Hunter Biden made some bad decisions, mostly around his addiction, but this is penny ante stuff. He didn't kill anybody, or take bribes while in public office, or steal classified documents to compromise national security, or repeatedly try to overthrow the government. The disparity in the way Drumf is being treated vs any normal person doing similar things is massive, but Republicans are pretending that the scandal is that Hunter Biden is only getting slightly harsher than average treatment for the minor stuff he did and not being changed with the imaginary crimes they want him to have committed, and not Drumpf getting all these extra privileges.

* "‘Sheer sadism’: Hayes on the right’s fixation with Hunter Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sheer-sadism-hayes-on-the-right-s-fixation-with-hunter-biden-183607877536

* "House GOP ponders action against DOJ in defense of Trump :" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4054435-house-gop-doj-defense-trump/

* "Adam Schiff Gets John Durham to Admit Russia Helped Trump:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-schiff-gets-john-durham-to-admit-russia-helped-trump

* "Rep. Ted Lieu pulls no punches during Durham report committee hearing:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/21/2176745/-Rep-Ted-Lieu-pulls-no-punches-during-Durham-report-committee-hearing

* "Lieu blasts ‘dumb’ Durham hearing: Republicans focused on ‘stupid stuff’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lieu-blasts-dumb-durham-hearing-republicans-focused-on-stupid-stuff-183949381728

* "Democrats Push for Mental Health Support for LGBTQ+ Youth in Republican-Led House:" https://www.advocate.com/lgbt-youth/lgbtq-youth-mental-health-bill

* "Republican Dan Crenshaw Says Gender-Affirming Care Ban Is ‘The Hill We Will Die On’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/dan-crenshaw-gender-affirming-care

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "'Stay Woke Florida!' tour begins 15-city 2024 voter outreach effort:" https://www.wptv.com/news/political/stay-woke-florida-tour-begins-15-city-2024-voter-outreach-effort

* "No Labels Is Helping a Firm that Raises Money for Right-Wing Extremists:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/no-labels-is-helping-a-firm-that-raises-money-for-right-wing-extremists-anedot/

* "Poppers Cause AIDS, the Environment Makes Boys Trans Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-poppers

Remember how that Poppers caused AIDS not HIV rumor killed so many people in the '80's? RFK Jr. is pushing it as part of his Anti-Vax presidential campaign. I thought that died when Protease inhibitors came in! RFK Jr.: The Worst Kennedy.

He peddles that anti-Autistic people ableist bullshit. He tried to get as many people killed during the worst of COVID as possible. He's now trying to get Dr. Hotez killed by anti-vax terrorists as part of his presidential campaign.

Now with bonus transmisogyny and toxic masculinity.

* "RFK Jr's campaign of conspiracies: 'The leader of everybody’s brain worms':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rfk-jr-s-campaign-of-conspiracies-the-leader-of-everybody-s-brain-worms-183615557966

* "11 Republican Presidential Hopefuls and Their Awful Anti-LGBTQ+ Records :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2024-presidential-candidates-gop-lgbtq

* "Donald Trump Gives the Game Away on Conservatives' Transgender Panic:" https://advocatechannel.com/donald-trump-transgender-schools

* "GOP presidential candidates use trans bodies as political stepping stones:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/gop-presidential-candidates-use-trans-bodies-as-political-stepping-stones/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

* "Why aren’t LGBTQ people safe right now? Because Republicans want votes.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-2023-pride-backlash-polls-bud-light-rcna89564

* "'New level of hypocrisy': Why the GOP is wooing Muslims after decades of hate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-new-level-of-hypocrisy-why-the-gop-is-wooing-muslims-after-decades-of-hate-183374405573

* "Miami GOP Mayor Francis Suarez jumps into presidential race:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/14/francis-suarez-president-mayor-miami-00102030

* "What a trio! The Florida men — Trump, DeSantis, Suarez — are a hoot to watch:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article276552331.html

* "Will Hurd, a moderate Texas Republican and Trump critic, announces run for president:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/22/will-hurd-presidential-campaign-2024/

* "Former Rep. Will Hurd jumps into 2024 race as Republican field grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/former-rep-will-hurd-jumps-into-2024-race-as-republican-field-grows-184204869811

* "DeSantis fixation on 'the woke' has a poor track record as a political strategy in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-fixation-on-the-woke-has-a-poor-track-record-as-a-political-strategy-in-florida-183396421714

* As if we needed more proof Ron DeSantis is terrible at even the most basic parts of his job. "Pete Buttigieg Can’t Reach Ron DeSantis to Talk Florida Transportation Projects:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-ron-desantis-calls

* "Tallahassee Mayor Nixes LGBTQ+ Advisory Council Meeting During Pride Month:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-tallahassee-lgbtq-advisory-council

* "How the Stain of Prop. 8 May Be Removed From California:" https://www.advocate.com/law/evan-low-scott-wiener-marriage

* "Trans Judge Appointed in New York, Makes History:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/transgender-man-new-york-judge

* "Rep. Judy Chu: I am a target of the right’s new McCarthyism:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rep-judy-chu-target-rights-new-mccarthyism-rcna73477

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene Revives Anti-Trans Bathroom Predator Myth:" https://www.advocate.com/politicians/marjorie-taylor-greene-anti-trans

* "California Investigates School District After Board Members Call Harvey Milk a 'Pedophile':" https://www.advocate.com/news/harvey-milk-school-district-pedophile

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* This is from early May. I can't remember if I posted it then, but I think it's a good reminder due to developments in Michigan and Nevada. "Judge: Wisconsin fake electors complaint must be reheard:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-fake-electors-2020-trump-lawsuit-fb9cf9a5cdf109798fafc83cbaf1c72a

* "What ever happened to the federal investigation of Trump's fake elector scheme?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/what-ever-happened-to-the-federal-investigation-of-trump-s-fake-elector-scheme-183395397606

* "Eastman plan to keep Trump in power faces a reckoning, as authorities seek his disbarment :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/20/eastman-disbarment-trial-trump-election-plan-00102784

* "Trump’s promise of payback for prosecution follows years of attacking democratic traditions:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-retribution-indictment-documents-biden-american-democracy-5a8ec37b359fee85d0f0956139d79f51

* "The Next Big Lie:" https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-next-big-lie

* "U.S. judge sets Aug. 14 trial date for Trump in Florida documents case:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-sets-aug-14-trial-date-trump-florida-documents-case-2023-06-20/

* "Barr Says Documents Case Against Trump Is ‘Entirely of His Own Making’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/us/politics/barr-trump-documents-russia.html

* "Donald Trump's Legal Troubles Continue to Pile Up:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/donald-trump-s-legal-troubles-continue-to-pile-up-183135301973

* "Trump Indictment Raises Questions Over Possible Damage to National Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/trump-indictment-raises-questions-over-possible-damage-to-national-security-183135301994

* "Trump is not the first president special counsel Jack Smith has prosecuted:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-is-not-the-first-president-special-counsel-jack-smith-has-prosecuted-184200773818

* "FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/

* "DOJ resisted investigating Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 for over a year:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wapo-doj-resisted-investigating-trump-s-actions-on-jan-6-for-over-a-year-183369797838

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* "‘Bob’s Burgers’ Actor Jay Johnston Charged in January 6 Riot:" https://advocatechannel.com/bobs-burgers-jay-johnston-charged-january-6-riot

* "Is America Already in a Civil War?:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-far-right-brad-onishi-america-civil-war-interview-1234772017/

* "MAGA pastor: Christians need people who are ‘willing to strap bombs to their chest’ like the Muslims:" https://deadstate.org/maga-pastor-christians-need-people-who-are-willing-to-strap-bombs-to-their-chest-like-the-muslims/

* "Donald Trump and the party of political violence:" https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4049597-donald-trump-and-the-party-of-political-violence/

* "Unmasking Moms for Liberty:" https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/unmasking-moms-liberty

* "Suspect arrested after FBI uncovers alleged mass shooting plot:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspect-arrested-after-fbi-uncovers-alleged-mass-shooting/story?id=100155442

* They want to murder him for the crime of saving lives. He's such a good, compassionate, and empathetic man and I am furious that Anti-vaxxer shit RFK Jr. is waging a vendetta against him for calling him on his deadly and ableist bullshit to his face. "Vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez harassed outside Houston home after weekend of online attacks:" https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/coronavirus/2023/06/19/454720/peter-hotez-harassed-houston-house-joe-rogan-rfk-attacks/

* "Florida says it’s responsible for transporting migrants to Sacramento:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-06/florida-migrants-sacramento

* "Migrants share their experience, say they were deceived when they were flown to Sacramento:" https://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-migrants-florida-california-texas/44228637

* "Newsom calls DeSantis ‘small, pathetic man,’ implies kidnapping charges over migrant stunt:" https://www.kron4.com/news/newsom-calls-desantis-small-pathetic-man-implies-kidnapping-charges-over-migrant-stunt/

* CW: Lynching. "Was Rasheem Carter Lynched?:"

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* Kentucky Police side with a dangerous member of a terrorist organization because they don't believe Queer People are human enough to defend. "KKK Members in Kentucky Pull Gun on LGBTQ+ Activists — Police Let Them Off:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kkk-kentucky-lgbtq-gun-threat

* "Neo-Nazis Protest Outside Disney World With Swastikas & DeSantis Signs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-desantis-nazi-disney-swastikas

* "Military Chief Defends Cancellation of Drag Show at Nevada Military Base:" https://www.advocate.com/news/drag-show-military-chief-cancellation

* "NH officials say they're looking into neo-Nazi incident outside drag story hour in Concord:" https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-06-19/nsc131-neo-nazi-teatotaller-drag-story-hour-concord

* "How the conservative Christian right is hijacking homeschooling:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/schools-are-under-attack-america-s-religious-right-n1295340

* "Most Americans OK Discussing Gender and Sexuality in Schools: Survey:" https://www.advocate.com/news/schools-gender-sexuality-okay

* "College Board says it won’t alter AP courses to comply with Florida’s laws:" https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4051993-college-board-says-it-wont-alter-ap-courses-to-comply-with-floridas-laws/

* "Ron DeSantis Objects to AP Course's LGBTQ Content, College Board Defends It:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-ap-college-board

* "Don’t Let Extremists Deny LGBTQ+ Students an Education:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/point-foundation-valencia-education

* "Florida School District Offers Refunds, Erasure of Yearbook's LGBTQ+ Content:" https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-lgbtq-yearbook-refund-censorship

* In a disaster, look for helpers. "High school English teacher makes a stand over book bans, erasure of LGBTQ+ students :" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/06/18/high-school-english-teacher-makes-a-stand-over-book-bans-erasure-of-lgbtq-students/

* "L.A. School Board President Gives a Lesson on LGBTQ+ Inclusion:" https://www.advocate.com/news/school-lgbtq-inclusion-la-board

* "Missouri's Largest Library System Boots Pride Displays in Kids, Teen Areas:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/missouri-library-bans-pride-displays

* "How Do You Fight Book Bans? GLAAD and EveryLibrary Offer a Guide:" https://www.advocate.com/books/book-bans-guide-glaad-everylibrary

* "Despite Book Bans, LGBTQ+ Fiction Sales Soar:" https://www.advocate.com/books/lgbtq-books-record

* "Queer Representation in Children's Books Is More Important Than Ever, Says Author Seamus Kirst:" https://advocatechannel.com/queer-children-books-seamus-kirst

* "'Maus' Author Art Spiegelman Deeply Concerned About 'Authoritarian' Book Bans:" https://advocatechannel.com/art-spiegelman-maus-authoritarian-book-bans

* "With 'The Little Mermaid,' young Black kids are more interested in the water than ever. What to know about swimming racial disparities.:" https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/the-little-mermaid-young-black-kids-swimming-racial-disparities-213941973.html

* CW: Human Trafficking "Romanian prosecutors change human trafficking charge against Andrew Tate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romanian-prosecutors-change-human-trafficking-charge-against-andrew-tate-2023-06-13/

* CW: Child Sexual Abuse. "Archdiocese provides District Attorney Jason Williams voluminous file on disgraced priest:" https://www.nola.com/news/courts/archdiocese-provides-jason-williams-file-on-disgraced-priest/article_9f0308da-0bc5-11ee-9e46-cf8ef429070a.html

* Bet his mama's proud of him. What would Jesus do? Harass and terrify a nine year old out of cruelty for fun, apparently. "Man Harasses 9-Year-Old at Field Day Event, Falsely Insists She’s Transgender:" https://www.advocate.com/news/canadian-field-day-transgender-girl

* "TikTok Star Barrett Pall Shares How Misogyny Hurts Men, Too:" https://advocatechannel.com/barrett-pall-tiktok-misogyny-hurts-men-too

* "Southern Baptists reject Rick Warren’s appeal to reinstate Saddleback:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/06/14/southern-baptists-rick-warren-vote/

* "Playing With Yourself Has Been Perfected Over Millions of Years:" https://www.advocate.com/news/masturbation-evolution-primates

* "Documents show how conservative doctors influenced abortion, trans rights:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/15/abortion-transgender-christian-doctors/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMxNjY3NzkiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjg2ODAxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjg4MDk3NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2ODY4MDE2MDAsImp0aSI6IjgzMWE2MmY0LTM4ZDEtNGY5NS1hYTcyLTM2ODRiMDk1MWYzOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyMy8wNi8xNS9hYm9ydGlvbi10cmFuc2dlbmRlci1jaHJpc3RpYW4tZG9jdG9ycy8ifQ.Z9BU0-uG1kom8puxLC9eIUHPUoxxNtpmqRTFcH9sBL8







* "Support for Same-Sex Relationships Plummets as Less Find Them "Morally Acceptable":" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-relationships-decrease-gallup

* "Without Self-Respect, There Is No Pride:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/without-self-respect-there-is-no-pride

* "Immediate access to gender-affirming hormone therapy eases distress, depression, suicidal thoughts for transgender adults, research finds:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/immediate-access-gender-affirming-hormone-130021402.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJ3DZb5dKhaU7JElIJ2zvo9piTp-qTv-k2BfF8SzC8VmSU6lC_jX829G_jM_rzgfxWgxIkv_XV7m9t_EpH4AoR06MsWbsW0zRZQmoLa_Y5njvgiLspkR0Ef-rFfx3__HxpLwexVQeyK_NfkhDub-p8zDWynfrTjLrWWfKf7QykTe

* "A Message to White Gays:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/message-to-white-gays

* "Queer Athletes on Competing in Countries with Anti-LGBTQ Laws:"

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* "31 Places Where Showing LGBTQ+ Pride Is Illegal :" https://www.advocate.com/world/where-is-it-illegal-to-be-gay-31

* "Qatar targeting LGBTQ+ people with ‘full blown force’ six months after World Cup, activist says:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/qatar-lgbq-world-cup/

* "Being LGBTQ+ in Malaysia: ‘You don’t know who to turn to’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/18/malaysia-lgbtq-persecution-non-binary-musician-moreofthem/

* "Baltic Pride knife assault victim recalls ‘pain and confusion’ of homophobic attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/baltic-pride-knife-attack-patrick-tianen/

* "Queensland passes new law allowing trans people to self-ID on birth certificates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/15/queensland-birth-certificates-trans-self-id/

* "Man Who Murdered Gay American Scott Johnson in 1988 Is Sentenced Again:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/scott-johnson-murderer-sentenced-again

* "Right-wing troll charged with harassment of LGBTQ+ activist for posting selfie with dying dad:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/bubba-pollock-end-of-life-care-dad-ontario/

* "Growing up as a queer, masc woman in a small town wasn’t plain sailing – but it wasn’t all bad:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/18/queer-masc-lesbian/

* "LGBTQ+ refugees don’t feel safe in the UK: ‘Everything’s attacking us, we’re demonised’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/teslim-joel-refugee-week-nigeria-sierra-leone/

* "Gay Afghan who fled Taliban couldn’t claim LGBTQ+ asylum in UK, John Nicolson MP writes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/john-nicolson-mp-gay-afghan-asylum/

* "Tory government and US conspiracy theories to blame for anti-drag attacks in UK, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/anti-drag-us-uk-conspiracy-theory-research/

* "Activists blast Tory conversion therapy consent loophole: ‘This will cost many lives’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/21/conversion-therapy-rishi-sunak-boris-johnson-consent-loophole/

* "Electric Shock Treatment, Overt Homophobia in U.K. Armed Forces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/armed-forces-uk-homophobia-report

* "Royal College of Nursing members demand resources to better support LGBTQ+ hate crime victims:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/18/royal-college-of-nursing-hate-crime-lgbtq/

* "Rishi Sunak urged to drop ‘harmful’ trans schools guidance dubbed ‘new Section 28’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance/

* "Rishi Sunak’s ‘disgusting’ anti-trans jokes condemned by MPs and LGBTQ+ charities:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/rishi-sunak-leaked-video-trans-reaction/

* "LGBTQ+ advocates shocked by Equality Act reforms debate: ‘Distressing and infuriating’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/13/westminster-debate-equality-act-sex-trans/

* "Bristol Pride calls for allyship after billboard advert is set on fire in ‘cowardly’ hate crime:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/bristol-pride-billboard-attack/

* "Lesbian couple ‘heartbroken’ by homophobic doormat attack supported by kind neighbours:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/pride-doormat-attack-bristol-lesbian-couple/

* "‘Let women speak. No not like that’: TERFs pile on female Guardian writer for pro-trans article:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/terfs-guardian-trans-allyship/

* "‘Gender-critical’ activists attempted to protest a Primark in Lincoln. Two people showed up:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/19/lincoln-primark-lgbtq-protest/

* "Bolt apologises after taxi driver leaves queer man stranded with ‘no gay boy’ insult:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/22/bolt-taxi-service-homophobia-manchester/

* "The Insidious Violence of Civility Politics:"

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* "LGBTQ+ Americans: Let's Take Back Our Flag:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/lgbtq-americans-let-s-take-back-our-flag

* "SARS-CoV-2 airborne infection probability estimated by using indoor carbon dioxide:" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-023-27944-9




* "Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/17/world/four-climate-charts-extreme-weather-heat-oceans/index.html

* "Greece finds no more survivors of migrant boat disaster with hundreds missing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greece-finds-no-survivors-migrant-boat-disaster-hundreds-missing-rcna89440

* "New accounts clash with official version of migrant shipwreck disaster off Greece:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230619-new-accounts-clash-with-official-version-of-migrant-disaster-off-greece

* "Titanic-bound submersible suffered ‘catastrophic implosion.’ The US Navy detected an implosion Sunday and told rescuers, an official tells CNN:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/us/submersible-titanic-oceangate-search-thursday/index.html




* "Live camera shows I-95 collapse repairs underway in Philadelphia:" https://abc7ny.com/i-95-collapse-philadelphia-i95-interstate-highway-road/13386149/

* "The Hidden Chemicals Destroying American Farms:"

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* "GLAAD: Social media companies are enabling real world violence:" https://www.axios.com/2023/06/15/glaad-social-media-companies-hate-speech-lgbtq

* Steve Huffman is vowing to send Reddit into the toilet after Twitter, looks like. "Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock the platform :" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

* "Despite widespread protest, Reddit CEO says company is ‘not negotiating’ on 3rd-party app charges :" https://thehill.com/business/despite-widespread-protest-reddit-ceo-says-company-is-not-negotiating-on-changes-to-data-access/

* "Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763538/reddit-blackout-api-protest-mod-replacement-threat

* "Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview:" https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview

* "Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media:" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

* "Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent:" https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/twitter-is-being-evicted-from-its-boulder-office-over-unpaid-rent/

* "Twitter is the worst major social media platform when it comes to LGBTQ+ safety, says GLAAD:" https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-technology/twitter-worst-among-major-social-media-platforms-when-it-comes-to-lgbtq-safety-glaad-says/

* "Musk Incites Anti-Vaccine Conspiracists By Mischaracterizing Peter Hotez:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/06/19/musk-incites-anti-vaccine-conspiracists-by-mischaracterizing-peter-hotez/?sh=505b10e3108f

* "Elon Musk has made some disturbing comments about Jews. Here’s a list:" https://forward.com/news/550035/elon-musk-disturbing-comments-jews/?amp=1

* "Elon Musk’s promise to treat ‘cis’ as a slur will provoke more extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jk-rowling-elon-musk-cisgender-trans-slur-rcna90632

* I often feel like reality has sailed on past the Onion these days. "Mark Zuckerberg agrees to fight Elon Musk in cage match:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight/

* "Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/neanderthals-seem-to-be-the-first-humans-to-make-synthetic-materials/

* "Send beer!’ Life on the Roman frontier revealed by soldiers’ private letters:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/vindolanda-roman-fort-england

* "The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-first-self-proclaimed-drag-queen-was-a-formerly-enslaved-man-180982311/

* "The Bread and Roses Strike of 1912:" https://thefatovamingusfiles.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/the-bread-and-roses-strike-of-1912/

* "Jane Addams: Chicago's Haunted Sapphic Icon:"

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* "14 Inspiring Queer Protest Posters in Days of Rage from ONE Archives :" https://www.advocate.com/activism/14-inspiring-queer-protest-posters

* "The Importance of Juneteenth - the Newest Federal Holiday:" https://www.advocate.com/news/juneteenth-importance-federal-holiday

* "Treat Williams, LGBTQ+ Ally in Gay-Themed Films, Dead at 71:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/treat-williams-lgbtq-ally-dead

* "Pride’s Bookshelf: Unveiling The LGBTQ+ Memoirs You Must Own:" https://www.out.com/gay-lifestyle/prides-bookshelf-unveiling-the-lgbtq-memoirs-you-must-own

* "13 Vintage Photos of Los Angeles Pride from ONE Archives :" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/vintage-photos-los-angeles-pride

* "17 Photos of the Trans Experience by Mariette Pathy Allen :" https://www.advocate.com/art/mariette-pathy-allen-breaking-boundaries#rebelltitem18

* "10 Iconic Photos of LGBTQ+ History From Getty Images:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/10-photos-lgbtq-history

* My garden makes me happy, tiny as it is. I love the way it smells of basil and tomato leaves and rosemary and spearmint. I love the lushness of it compared to the sterile looking landscaping management insists on. It feels like the glorious chaos of nature fighting back every time seeds blow out of my container garden and sprout amongst the deliberately barren patches beyond my porch border. I love being surrounded by green and all those vegetable plant flowers.

This is already shaping up to be the best year ever for my tiny strawberry patch. I likely would have been the best year for asparagus, judging from the early growth, but the compost sprouted such an abundance of other things that I fear the asparagus hasn't a chance. Maybe next year. The day after New Millennial brought over the Pride Pinwheel they painted, my beloved carnations started blooming. Some of the early tomatoes are already growing on the bigger plants, which gives me hopes of this year being as good as last year for tomatoes.

* Tuesday, I met the new, alas temporary Doctor. Today's medical theme was arthritis. For those following along, but medical records are on the scale of the complete unabridged writings of Aquinas, as it's impossible for anyone to get a handle on them quickly, so we are doing a series of appointments each centered on a major theme to help get things on track.

I have warned her about the opiods and anti-psychotics both artificially inducing hallucinations and paranoia in people of my family and how it happened to me post surpery in percacet last year so she'll know if I get in a car accident and start hallucinating so they give me an anti-pscotic which together may induce psychotic break. Brains are fun.

I have a new replacement referral for the wheelchair/mobility assessment. It turns out there is now literally one allergy doctor with a tiny practice left in the whole city, which is why we are all so fucked. Peacehealth closed two other essential specialties in which they had a monopoly, fucking over all those patients too, the bastards. she's going to check our county and the county just south for me. It's worth blowing my medical transport credits on. They just way upped the limit anyway.

Medical science has moved forward a lot in the last 10-15 years. One of the early rheums said I likely had fibromyalgia, but it wasn't worth pursuing as medicare didn't believe in it and the treatment would be the same as my way easier to document arthritis and visible to the naked eye spinal damage.

So we are trying a new class of meds to see if I can tolerate them without my brain and/or body flipping out, as so often happens when one introduces new meds to it. I'm at a sub clinical dose to test tolerance, but I can feel the difference. I also feel a bit peculiar, though I'm adjusting.

Long time readers know the drill. I am weird, but if you spot anything obviously weird for me, way off my usual sort of postings, nonsense, irrationality, that sort of thing, give me a heads up that new meds may be driving me off the rails. Squirrel and my usual chat buddies know the drill and I'll let the millennials know what to watch for. Odds are it will be fine. I'm more likely to get stopped by physical side effects on this one, but it's always good to have more spotters.

* Wednesday, Squirrel lent us his cat for errands and then we hug out. We are still looking for a better sobriquet for New Millennial. Head Millennial will henceforth be called Goth Millennial.

So Goth Millennial and I are on the sofa and Techie Millennial and New Millennial are on the chairs. The Emperor was understandably excited. Many of his personal Millennials were here. (As of this week, New Millennial is in the Clowder according to the Emperor, so he climbed onto me to enjoy, being part of the group. Pictured here, Tavy, the Tiny Terror himself, in the crook of my arm alertly participating in the group discussion.

https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/720889365153349632/wednesday-squirrel-lent-us-his-cat-for-errands?source=share

* The elderly car goes into the shop Friday for the third time in threeish months. I've no idea how expensive it will be, but I've a nasty feeling it will be bad. I have blown all my money on catching up the bills I didn't pay in April for the previous repair. If you want to chip in: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Cat Rescue fund raiser. They made a lot of money with the event, and the games will be used in recurring fundraisers.

* TNG: The Spot Centric Episode: https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/720868927245336576?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Dracula Sovereign of the Damned:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720324019247792128/midnight-pals-dracula-sovereign-of-the-damned?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: this is so stupid:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720767546126712832/midnight-pals-this-is-so-stupid?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: New Friends:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/720492487495630848/midnight-pals-new-friends?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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* I'm Too Tired Too Weed things that aren't needed in the Debt ceiling section. i'm a little better tpoday, but not great.

* "Sudan military ruler seeks removal of UN envoy in letter to UN chief, who is ‘shocked’ by the demand:" https://apnews.com/article/sudan-war-un-envoy-military-rsf-f88097b73244a90a02158ce781a9e44f

* "Nearly 1.4 million people displaced in Sudan since civil war erupted, UN report says :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/africa/sudan-displaced-people-gender-violence-intl-hnk/index.html

* "‘As the night descended, they came and killed’: Sudan’s other war:" https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/5/30/as-the-night-descended-they-came-and-killed-sudans-other-war

* "Tens of thousands protest overhaul for 21st weekend, but turnout remains lower:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/tens-of-thousands-protest-overhaul-for-21st-weekend-but-turnout-remains-lower/

* "French unions plan June 6 protests against Macron and his pension law:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-unions-call-new-day-protest-against-pension-reform-june-6-2023-05-02/

* "What's next for French protesters?:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/1178747991/whats-next-for-french-protesters

* I didn't have much hope, but still it makes me sad. "Erdogan cements his power with a victory in Turkey's presidential runoff election:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/28/1178660299/erdogan-has-claimed-victory-in-turkeys-presidential-runoff-election

* "Türkiye’s president Erdoğan uses election victory speech to take aim at ‘LGBT forces’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/recep-tayyip-erdogan-lgbtq-gay-turkey/

* "Israel’s Far Right Government is a Gift to Settlers:"

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* "India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks — experts are baffled:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01770-y



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* "Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-plans-simulate-accident-nuclear-power-plant-2023-05-26/

Publicizing it makes it less likely they'll do it, I suspect.

Honestly, I've been expecting them to arrange an "accidental" meltdown since they seized the plant as it is easier to get plausible deniability than actually nuking Ukraine as they keep threatening to do as part of their genocide, but I limit the amount of speculation I do in print.

* "Russia, Ukraine fail to embrace IAEA plan to protect nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-nuclear-watchdog-asks-russia-ukraine-protect-zaporizhzhia-plant-2023-05-30/

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* "Supreme Court sides with 94-year-old woman who accused government of stealing her home equity:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-sides-94-year-mn-woman-striking/story?id=99600689

* "Let's talk about SCOTUS and checks and balances....:"

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* "Biden reaches milestone in judicial appointments:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/biden-reaches-milestone-in-judicial-appointments-177593413777

* "Biden signs debt limit bill, avoiding U.S. default:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-lifting-us-debt-limit-2023-06-03/

* "Here are the 6 must-know provisions of the new debt ceiling deal :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/28/6-pillars-of-the-debt-ceiling-deal-00099108

Republicans wanted to dramatically increase the national debt through credit default, by preventing the government from paying the bills, but have settled for a smaller increase in the national debt by increasing the military budget while lowering revenues through cuts to IRS enforcement targeted at billionaire and the major corporation tax cheats.

They are lying when they say they want to lower the debt. They always dramatically increase it when they are in charge and all the things they were demanding in exchange for not blowing up the world economy was designed to increase the debt and harm ordinary people.

Democrats, are far more fiscally responsible generally as the money they tend to want to spend is an investment in things like the economy, education, health care, while all republicans want to do is suck money out of the economy to give to the extremely wealthy and frittering it away on our massively bloated military budget while cutting anything that invests in the future or ordinary Americans.

Never buy the lie of Republican fiscal responsibility.

* Saying the quiet part out loud. "Grassley: GOP ‘not interested’ in whether Biden accusations are ‘accurate’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/grassley-gop-not-interested-in-whether-biden-accusations-are-accurate-179203141918

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene slays irony, stresses House ‘decorum’:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/marjorie-taylor-greene-slays-irony-stresses-house-decorum-rcna86223

* "Robert Garcia Counters Majorie Taylor Greene's Homophobia With Resolution Honoring All Families:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-garcia-families

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

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

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

* The Indivisible Guide: "A Practical Guide to defeating MAGA:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* "Minnesota lawmakers bring national popular vote one step closer to reality:" https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/24/minnesota-lawmakers-bring-national-popular-vote-one-step-closer-to-reality/

* "Zooey Zephyr & the Politics of Civility:"

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* If she doesn't pay attention to politics or the news, why the fuck is she in politics? "Nebraska senator who voted for anti-trans, anti-abortion bill says she wasn’t paying attention:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/nebraska-senator-christy-armanderiz/

* "New RNC Debate Rules Could Limit GOP Primary Field:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/new-rnc-debate-rules-could-limit-gop-primary-field-179734597857

* "Hayes: Biden delivering on 2020 promises makes for a strong 2024 pitch:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-biden-delivering-on-2020-promises-makes-for-a-strong-2024-pitch-178522693779

* "Republican Primary Field Expands as 2024 Approaches:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/republican-primary-field-expands-as-2024-approaches-177592901887

* "One-on-One with 2024 Republican Presidential Candidate Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/one-on-one-with-2024-republican-presidential-candidate-former-gov-asa-hutchinson-177773125916

* "7 telling moments from Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Twitter launch: Hate, lies and reheated Trumpism:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/ron-desantis-twitter-president-bid/

* "Fox News mocks Ron DeSantis after ‘disaster’ presidential launch:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/fox-news-ron-desantis-disaster-twitter-2024-campaign/

* "Let's talk about DeSantis and a failure to launch....:"

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* "‘Disastrous position:’ The DeSantis bid to be the anti-vaccine candidate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disastrous-position-the-desantis-bid-to-be-the-anti-vaccine-candidate-179577925819

* "Would Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis be worse for LGBTQ+ rights in the US?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/donald-trump-ron-desantis-president/

* "Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general who said trans youth care is ‘child abuse’, faces impeachment:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas/

* "Impeached Texas AG Ken Paxton tries out Trump defense playbook:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/impeached-texas-ag-ken-paxton-tries-out-trump-defense-playbook-178524741975

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* "Complexities of a RICO case seen in wide-ranging Georgia investigation of Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/complexities-of-a-rico-case-seen-in-wide-ranging-georgia-investigation-of-trump-179619909811

* "Trump reportedly building revenge list against feds investigating him:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-reportedly-building-revenge-list-against-feds-investigating-him-178556485747

* "Lordy! Special counsel reportedly has audio of Trump talking about secret document he kept:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-special-counsel-reportedly-has-audio-of-trump-talking-about-secret-document-he-kept-178813509751

* "Hayes: New evidence points to Trump motive in documents case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-new-evidence-points-to-trump-motive-in-documents-case-179575877895

* "What the latest Trump tapes twist is all about and why it matters:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-the-latest-trump-tapes-twist-is-all-about-and-why-it-matters-179271237736

* "Lordy! Special counsel reportedly has audio of Trump talking about secret document he kept:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/lordy-special-counsel-reportedly-has-audio-of-trump-talking-about-secret-document-he-kept-178813509751

* "Trump's lawyers reportedly beginning to turn on each other:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-lawyers-reportedly-beginning-to-turn-on-each-other-178549829715

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* I am wondering what A.L. Milne would think about all of it. "DISD parents concerned about ‘run, hide, fight’ Winnie-the-Pooh book:" https://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2023/05/winnie-pooh-run-hide-fight/

* "8 people killed, 71 injured in mass shootings over Memorial Day weekend:" https://www.axios.com/2023/05/30/mass-shootings-memorial-day-weekend

* "New Biden Asylum Policy Will Hurt LGBTQ+ Migrants and Others, Activists Say:" https://www.advocate.com/news/biden-asylum-immigration-policy-citicized

* "Transgender Woman Given Another Chance to Fight Deportation by U.S. Supreme Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/supreme-court-trans-immigration

* "'Our governor is a job-killing moron': DeSantis immigration policy threatens state economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-our-governor-is-a-job-killing-moron-desantis-immigration-policy-threatens-state-economy-179258437978

* The police decided to murder an innocent unarmed 12 year old for the crime of calling the police for help. It is lucky the child lived. "Mom demands answers after 11-year-old son allegedly shot by police officer at home:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/mom-demands-justice-after-11-year-son-shot/story?id=99598767

* "Why Cops Are Untouchable with Joanna Schwartz:"

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* This is an older piece, but I think relevant given the current Target stuff. "How Target Got Cozy With the Cops, Turning Black Neighbors Into Suspects:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-25/how-target-tgt-police-surveilled-black-neighbors-in-inner-cities

* "In New York Prisons, Guards Who Brutalize Prisoner Rarely Get Fired:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/05/19/new-york-prison-corrections-officer-abuse-prisoners

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/strip-searches-trauma-isolation-trans-men-describe-life-bars-rcna6490

* "ESPN Anchor Under Fire For Mocking Indigenous NHL Player's Name:" https://advocatechannel.com/john-anderson-espn-under-fire-mocking-zach-whitecloud-indigenous-name

* "Don’t visit Florida if you’re LGBTQ+, Human Rights Campaign warns: ‘It’s dangerous’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/human-rights-campaign-equality-florida-ron-desantis/

* "'Don't Say Gay' Bill Signed in Iowa; GOP Gov. OK's Ratting on Trans Students:" https://www.advocate.com/dont-say-gay/don-t-say-gay-law-signed-in-iowa

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene, who calls drag queens ‘groomers’, thinks it’s fine for her boyfriend to do drag:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/marjorie-taylor-greene-drag-partner-hypocrisy/

* "As Predicted, Anti-Drag Laws Are Being Weaponized to Silence Trans People:" https://www.themarysue.com/montana-library-cancels-transgender-speaker-because-of-anti-drag-law/

* "How to Stop Neo-Nazis From Crashing Pride Month:" https://newrepublic.com/article/173096/stop-neo-nazis-crashing-pride-month

* "Florida Rejected Social Studies Lessons — You'll Never Guess Which Ones:" https://advocatechannel.com/florida-rejected-social-studies-lessons-youll-never-guess-which-ones

* "Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture:" https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/lost-tv-show-culture

* CW: Pedophilia, Domestic Abuse. Given how many of the people who think all queer people are pedophiles turn out to be pedophiles, maybe law enforcement ought to take a closer look every time a politician publicly announces they don't understand the concept of consent. "LGBTQ book ban proponent faces felony child molestation charge in Missouri:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lgbtq-book-ban-advocate-faces-felony-child-molestation-charge-missouri-rcna14763

* CW: Pedophilia. "White nationalist pleads guilty in child porn case after arrest for trying to riot at LGBTQ pride:" https://lawandcrime.com/crime/white-nationalist-pleads-guilty-in-child-porn-case-after-arrest-for-trying-to-riot-at-lgbtq-pride/

* CW: Pedophilia. The far right's every accusation is a confession. "Andrew Hazelton, reputed neo-Nazi and son of Westford Select Board member Scott Hazelton, arrested on child porn charges :" https://www.lowellsun.com/2021/05/07/andrew-hazelton-reputed-neonazi-and-son-of-westford-select-board-member-scott-hazelton-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/

* "ITV ‘investigated’ rumours of Phillip Schofield’s relationship with younger employee:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/phillip-schofield-itv-affair/



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* "Hospitals in Two States Denied an Abortion to a Miscarrying Patient. Investigators Say They Broke Federal Law.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/two-hospitals-denied-abortion-miscarrying-patient-breaking-federal-law?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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* "Pansexual, intersex and transgender people worst represented in LGBTQ+ media, damning survey finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/just-like-us-lgbt-representation-media-young-adults-survey/

* "As a teacher, I’ve watched students learn misogyny and anti-LGBTQ+ hate from the internet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/teacher-misogyny-anti-lgbtq-schools-andrew-tate/

* "Uganda’s president Museveni signs Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law: ‘How many will die?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/uganda-anti-homosexuality-act-signed-law-yoweri-museveni-lgbt/

* "Polish politician suggests LGBTQ-friendly schools are staffed by ‘paedophiles’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/poland-mikolaj-pawlak-schools-lgbtq-investigation/

* "Hong Kong: Queer teachers forced to hide their relationship say marriage equality would change everything:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/hong-kong-same-sex-marriage-lgbtq-2/

* "Woman carrying Pride flag shot in head with BB gun after Polish LGBTQ+ parade: ‘Attack on all of us’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/poland-lgbtq-equality-march-bb-gun-assault/

* "Malaysia seizes rainbow Pride-themed Swatch watches:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/malaysian-swatch-pride-watches/

* "Mexico unveils new non-binary passport: ‘Diversity enriches and flourishes’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/mexico-gender-marker-passports/

* "Overturning British colonial-era ‘buggery’ law ‘first step’ to protecting LGBTQ+ people in Guyana:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/guyana-lgbtq-rights-british-colonial-law-sasod/

* "EHRC suspends ‘bullying’ investigation into chair Kishwer Falkner:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/ehrc-investigation-suspended-baroness-falkner/

* "Anti-trans Tory MP Miriam Cates doesn’t want children ‘changing gender in school’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/miriam-cates-tory-trans-children-schools/

* "Tory MP Mark Jenkinson calls trans women ‘men’ in unprompted Twitter attacks:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/mark-jenkinson-twitter-trans-women-misgendering/

* "Rishi Sunak asked to condemn schools simply for supporting trans kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/rishi-sunak-schools-trans-guidance-pronouns/

* "Ex-Mermaids CEO shuts down suggestion Tavistock gender clinic links were inappropriate:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/mermaids-telegraph-susie-green-gender-affirming-healthcare/

* Don't ever kid yourselves. They want us all dead. That's the goal. "Sacked anti-trans teacher Joshua Sutcliffe claims ‘all sin deserves the death penalty’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/teacher-joshua-sutcliffe-piers-morgan-sin-death-penalty/

* "Oxford University dons back queer students opposing ‘gender-critical’ Kathleen Stock talk :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/oxford-university-kathleen-stock/

* "Drag queen expertly shuts down anti-LGBTQ+ protester at Birmingham Pride parade: ‘The only sin is you spreading hate’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/birmingham-pride-drag-queen-protester/

* "Pitiful turnout of anti-drag protesters countered with ‘joyful’ LGBTQ+ street party:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/turning-point-uk-drag-event-honor-oak/

* "Trans and non-binary participants in Gender Wars documentary accuse Channel 4 of ‘misleading’ them:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/gender-wars-documentary-channel-4-trans-non-binary-backlash/

* "So, a Top Guardian Editor Was Married to the Founder of Mumsnet:" https://judedoyle.medium.com/so-a-top-guardian-editor-was-married-to-the-founder-of-mumsnet-836cddf8fdc4

* "Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-model-legislation-5cc4a7cb4ab69150f670d06fd0f361ab

* "Florida's Trans Bathroom Ban Signed: Arrests To Follow Regardless Of Legal Gender Status:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/floridas-trans-bathroom-ban-signed

* The Republican War on Reality continues. "Montana signing bill defining sex as binary compared to legislating that Earth is flat:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/montana-bill-sex-binary-backlash-zooey-zephyr/

* "Georgia’s new anti-trans law also disparages autistic people like me:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/georgias-new-anti-trans-law-also-disparages-autistic-people-rcna76858

* Intersex people are now barred from all public restrooms as well and are classified as "disabled" under the new law. "Kansas now has some of nation's strictest anti-trans laws, banning bathroom access and ID changes:" https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2023-04-27/kansas-now-has-the-nations-strictest-anti-trans-law-banning-access-to-bathrooms-and-shelters

* Six Anti-Trans Bills in Hawaii: https://translegislation.com/bills/2023/HI

* "Cruel bill banning trans healthcare killed off in Louisiana – by just one vote:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/louisiana-fred-mills-matt-walsh/

* "Indiana governor signs cruel bill forcing teachers to out trans kids to their parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/06/indiana-governor-anti-trans-name-pronouns-bill/

* "Kansas City Is Now Sanctuary City for Those Seeking Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/sanctuary-city-transgender-kansas-city

* "Kansas City, Missouri becomes an LGBTQ sanctuary city:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/kansas-city-missouri-becomes-an-lgbtq-sanctuary-city-179736133598

* "San Francisco DA Defends Decision Not to Charge Black Trans Man's Killer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/black-transgender-man-killed-walgreens

* "Mum of disabled son blames anti-trans law for being refused entry to public toilet:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/26/anti-trans-bathroom-bill-kansas-disabled-cisgender-son/

* "Florida Publix Refuses to Write 'Trans' on a Cake, Citing Company Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/business/publix-florida-trans-cake

* "Enraged parents call for boycott of school Pride Day assembly to keep kids ‘innocent’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/anti-lgbtq-parents-call-to-boycott-la-school-over-pride-day-assembly/

* "Lil Nas X mocks fragile right-wing backlash to Target Pride collection:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/lil-nas-x-target-pride-backlash/

* "LGBTQ+ anti-bullying group receives violent threats amid Target backlash: ‘Dangerous lies’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/29/glsen-target-fox-news/

* "Trans youth hold their own joy-filled prom after teen excluded from graduation:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/trans-youth-prom-washington-dc/

* "Bud Light truck drivers targeted with homophobic abuse: ‘Gay beer salesmen’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/27/bud-light-truck-drivers-homophobic-abuse/

* "LA Dodgers issue grovelling apology to drag act after uninviting them from Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/23/la-dodgers-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-pride/

* "British Cycling’s new ‘open’ category will put trans athletes at ‘major disadvantage’, says former racer:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/28/british-cycling-trans-women-ban/

* "Gay & Bisexual Men Now Eligible to Donate Blood Under New FDA Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/health/gay-men-donate-blood-new

* "Blockbuster PrEP Lawsuit: Gilead Wins Over U.S. Government:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/prevention/blockbuster-prep-lawsuit-gilead-wins-over-u-s-government

* "New mpox cases found in UK: ‘The infection has not gone away’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/25/mpox-new-cases-uk-london/

* Regarding the abusiveness of ABA: https://www.tumblr.com/allaboardthecolumboat/718451358139826176/i-thought-i-had-already-posted-this-here-but-it?source=share



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* "Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says:" https://apnews.com/article/earth-environment-climate-change-nature-sick-2dded06915af4645253f5c29abff4794

* "Disappearing lakes, dead crops and trucked-in water: Drought-stricken Spain is running dry:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/europe/spain-drought-catalonia-heat-wave-climate-intl/index.html

* "Eastern Canada's Halifax declares emergency over wildfire, shutting schools:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/eastern-canadas-halifax-declares-emergency-over-wildfire-2023-05-29/

* "Across Canada, tens of thousands have evacuated due to wildfires in recent weeks:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179241527/across-canada-tens-of-thousands-have-evacuated-due-to-wildfires-in-recent-weeks

* "Avalanche kills 11 members of nomadic tribe in northern Pakistan:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/avalanche-kills-11-members-nomadic-tribe-northern-pakistan-2023-05-27/

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* "Climate-fueled insurance crisis hits California:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2023/05/31/climate-fueled-insurance-crisis-hits-california-00082767

* "‘Murderers’ and ‘criminals’: Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/27/world/meteorologists-conspiracy-harassment-abuse-climate-intl/index.html

* "AI Deepfakes of True-Crime Victims Are a Waking Nightmare:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-tiktok-ai-deepfake-victims-children-1234743895/

This needs to fucking go. It’s incredibly exploitative. It is bad enough to see sensationalist coverage of someone you love who was murdered. It is fucking creepy to see fictionalized and/or thinly veiled versions of a crime that lives forever in your head. This is beyond the pale.

Those poor families.

* I am grumpy that I now know what knotting is because of AI coverage.

* "Combating Global Animal Extinction with Clones and Frozen Sperm:"

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* "Ray Stevenson, Actor in ‘Punisher: War Zone,’ ‘RRR’ and ‘Thor’ Films, Dies at 58 :" https://variety.com/2023/film/people-news/ray-stevenson-dead-punisher-ahsoka-1235621641/

* We've been getting whiffs of the wildfire smoke now and then in other parts of town, but it only reached us here in the cat asylum before dawn of May 26. My lungs have been doing above average well this spring, and when the tree I'm particularly allergic to started mating in earnest earlier this week, it mostly meant a runny nose and a bit of extra itch.

I can already tell, the fire's changing that. I'm starting to gunk up, my eyes are itching, and the smoke is giving me a headache. The smell got really nasty around 8ish AM. We should have put the livingroom filter in, but we've had such good breeze out of Alaska through the weird little wind tunnel where I live, that I was putting it off so the cats could enjoy the open window.

Canada is burning, burning, burning, and the only Republican response is to try to force the repeal of the infrastructure Law's climate measures in debt negotiation.

* Thursday I woke up in bad shape. I've been off an on extreme pain for the last month, and it's pushing my body to it's limits. The arm attached to my damaged shoulder is my dominant one, and it was barely functioning and startlingly painful. I'm struggling with stupid stuff like rolling over in bed and pouring tea. I keep giving myself scalds and small burns because some cooking tasks need two hands doing separate things, and my arm shakes or randomly loses power for tiny intervals. This kind of pain fucks with sleep, and I end up losing hours hear and there because I got a phone call or went to pee and can't get back to sleep which adds more strain to the system.

My arm was doing this and I had the shakes. I woke up exhausted and couldn't go back to sleep after. When I eventually dragged myself out of my room, it was really clear staying up for the Friday morning cleaner was going to be a nightmare, but I did it, and got things done. The aggregate had not nearly all the things in it I wanted to put in, but it went out. I even managed to do a little TUMBLR post programming, which I'd barely managed anything of in the past week. I haven't been this far behind in over a year. I am, in fact, so far behind that my PRIDE Month programming started half a month early. Which is fine, but it means there is very little leeway for me. I kept being to tired to do it.

The cleaner had called Thursday night to ask if they could come early, to which I readily agreed. I picked the time I did on the grounds it would be hard to get anyone to fill an earlier slot. The time they said they'd come passed. No call. No cleaner. The official start time passed. no call, no cleaner. I didn't want to get them in trouble, but I was shaking even worse with pain and exhaustion and with forcing myself to stay up 3-4 hours after my body wanted to go to bed, and also I'd pulled my bedding apart because I needed the sheet changed and my damaged arms really can't do it anymore. (My non-dominant shoulder is also messed up, just not as badly, and the mattress is too heavy for arms that go limp if you push them.).

At twenty past the hour, I call returned the cleaner. No answer. Then I looked up the number for the agency, and left them a call me back. Around the half hour the cleaner got back to me sounding terrible and telling me they'd cancelled. Apparently this is when the Asshole Agency got back to me leaving a message saying they couldn't reach me with a long robot survey thing on the end. This is the only message on the answering service and had a time stamp matching the cleaner call.

I am now furious and frustrated to the point of tears. Why did no one call my to tell me of the cancellation, preferably before I took the bed apart half an hour before the official start time? Why did no one call me at all, leaving it to me to call around? what exactly is the procedure with a cancellation? Do they send someone else? Reschedule? How the fuck am I putting a fitted sheet back on that mattress so I can sleep? I can hear Squirrel snoring. If they had called even ten to fifteen minutes after expected start time to tell me no one was coming, I could have got Squirrel to help.

Insert cursing here.

I still needed a lung treatment and to stay up for forage delivery, so I called asshole agency again and set up a call back. I moved the phone to where I could reach. I set up a treatment. Tavy curled up for lung time on top of me. About half way through the phone panicked him and he clawed the shit out of me in the scramble for safety. Let us hope he hasn't given me yet another staph infection. (I'm pretty sure the sore on my outer thigh that won't heal from last week is another staph infection from his claws as the normal antibiotic cream does nothing). I still have the cream from the January staph infection and had just scaled up to it for the leg infection, so I'm doing the deeper claw marks on my stomach with it, because I really don't want more staph infections on my stomach and I can do it when I'm treating my leg.

Anyway, Asshole agency guy lied to my face that they repeated tried to contact me about the cancellation. I was sitting literally right next to the phone. The ringer is working. It never rang once except when the cleaner called back. They left no message about cancellation, only the one from when I was talking to the cleaner. If they'd tried to call and for some reason neither phone's ringer was working, the TV also puts a message announcing calls on screen which really fucking helps when the lung motor is going. He insisted it was a phone call and not a text. (I only have a landline, but people have trouble grasping that some people don't have text capability.) I can only conclude he lied about one or both of these things. Add white hot fury shaking to the my body is on the verge of cascade failure from being pushed to hard and being in too much pain for too long.

While I had him one the phone I did ask about if I could request the nice hard working cleaner from last week as a first choice. It is allowed apparently. I which there was some sort of instruction manual except for one poorly designed and probably deliberately uninformative web site. I have listed cool queer cleaner as preferred. I also now have answers about the rescheduling system.

Right at hang up they listed how many hours of service I have left for the year. (Things like this reset benefits at the end of the year without carry over). I did the math. I have two extra months of two hour service slots. Which will be great in the exhausting back half of the year, but which is concerning as hell for next year, because that is clearly not enough for a year of weekly two hour cleanings. O.o

But that is next year's problem.

By the time forage delivery came (right as lung time was finishing), and I'd sorted stuff and put away the perishables, and endured the torture of the fitted sheet replacement and putting the rest of the bed stuff back where it goes, I'd been up nearly as long as I would have been if a cleaner had come. I don't blame the cleaner who sounded genuinely awful on the phone. I do blame Asshole Agency. (The company name is so obnoxious and condescending and literally patronizing, that it makes me angry just thinking about it. It was no surprise at all that they exploit the shit out of the workers and lie about phone calls).

Last week cleaner said they were scheduled for next week. Assuming I haven't scared them off, that will be good.

* ....And no cleaner today. At least the Asshole Agendcy called. Twice. Once to reschedule later in the day; once to cancel. These were two of the seven phone calls in the five hour sleep period I had between deciding I was too tired to continue and the alarm for the second cleaner time. I actually missed the second call from Asshole Agency, as The call before them was one of those invasive mandatory health surveys they force Medicare people to do. This wasn't the actual medicare annual harrassment, but the agency the medical social workers work for. So that ate an hour of sleep between that and the not being able to get back to sleep after and then having to get up to sort out the laundry and forage box situation. I didn't think to check messages until the cleaner turned up late. I've tried rescheduling for Tuesday. at least Asshole agency was answering the phone.

I know it's generally considered reasonable and normal to wake up a disabled person in extreme pain six times in a five hour sleep, but I resent it so much. Especially today when even lying still in the safest position the pain was unbearable and trying to ewalk a dangerous nightmare. Plus, you know, my shoulder joint also being a trip to hell all by itself. I had to give in and take a stronger pain pill, always a risky prospect given how I respond to them. At least they all let me sleep after I finished with asshole agency.

Tavy jumping on my head from the upper shelf, where he is not allowed to be, was the blood icing on the pain cake, as he clawed the shit out of my scalp when he landed, and scalp wounds are famously bloody. I had no one to help clean the wounds and ended up getting rubbing alcohol in my eye, mostly becusse my arms are barely working just like my legs right now. He's a tiny terror, but his weight dropped from that height onto my head did not improve my headache either. It took three hours more to get everyone fed and my own dinner made.

This is all way too hard.

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* I'm still chugging along with the Babylon 5 movies as of this writing. I finished River of souls and moved on to the extras and JMS said something about the central dilemma of the movie that I think was wrong. I mean, yes, there is a debate built in to the Soul Hunter scenario, around what happens after you die, but he's missed the forest for the trees.

The actual debate is simpler than he thinks. The question is not, are the Soul Hunters right about their being no afterlife or reincarnation or what have you. No. The central issue is Consent.

Did the person being Collected consent to being collected? The answer is a pretty resounding no in both the original Soul Hunter episode and this one. The Membari did not consent to having the souls of their notables stolen. They resisted violently the attempt to steal the soul of Dukat. The Souls stolen in the original Soul hunter episode emphatically did not consent. The planet of souls stolen in River of Souls are furious about their imprisonment. The souls are capable of expressing consent or lack thereof, but the Soul Hunters didn't ask them.

It does not matter one whit if there is an after life or reincarnation or nothing at all. Even if the Soul hunters are correct that there is nothing after death in the objective sense, they are still not heroes saving people. They could ask the people they collect if they do or don't want eternal life in a whisper gallery. If they don't, imprisonment is cruel and unusual punishment on an unimaginable scale. If they do want it? Totally fine.

The thing is a character actually brings up that imprisonment against ones will for a million years or possibly forever is a pretty good definition of hell. characters definitely confront the soul Hunter with the consent issue.

It's textual. Death of the author and all that. I think JMS got distracted by the more theological debate and missed the underlying theme in his own work because he's so close to it. It happens. This is not remotely an attack on JMS. One of the many, many things I love about B5 is how important consent and free will are thematically to the whole series, whether you're talking Vorlons and Shadows, or Psy Corps vs. Rogues, or Centauri vs. Narns, or Fascism vs.Sheridan's and Mars's resistance, or individual episodes, like the one with the child that needed surgery or the plague episode or Epsilon 5 or Sinclair and B4 and tons of other things.

B5 is good anti-fascist and anti-colonialist science fiction because it asks hard questions about ethics and theology and government, but never ever lets go of that central championing of consent and free will. It can have all this ethical and cultural complexity because it's built on a foundation of resistance to the people trying to steal the choices away, and it never ever sides with people saying my choice is the only right one for you, even if you like the person trying to imposed their choice on someone else, even if you as an audience member thinks the choice being made is the wrong one.

I fucking love this show. I'll never stop being angry that season 4 ended up too dense because of cancellation, leaving season 5 a bit light. I'll never not be furious Crusade got cancelled after one season. Wear their flaws and problems? Hell yes, but it's still the best TV made in the '90's as far as I'm concerned. (I loved other shows from the '90's deeply, especially the brilliant Deep space Nine, but B5 wins. It just does).

It is heartbreaking that the generations after mine have mostly forgotten it or never have heard of it.

* Van Helsing gives; Dracula takes: https://www.tumblr.com/vickyvicarious/718338134745677824/i-like-the-contrast-to-pointed-out-with-the-loving?source=share

* "Jonathan Harker and Doomed Bride imagery:" https://www.tumblr.com/anony-geist/718672560043311104/jonathan-harker-and-doomed-bride-imagery-lenore?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: What a Deal:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/718958767502491648/midnight-pals-what-a-deal?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Support the WGA. "Entertainment Community Fund:" https://entertainmentcommunity.org/

* A resistance website for organizing and publicizing anti-censorship pro-education etc. rallies/protests/walkouts. "Walkout2learn:" https://www.walkout2learn.org/

* New Indivisible Guide! "A Practical Guide to defeating MAG:" https://indivisible.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/20220104_Indivisible_%20A%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Defeating%20MAGA.pdf

* A very old friend and all around stand up guy wrote this. "Safest Family on the Block: 101 Tips, Tricks, Habits, and Hacks to Protect Your Family at Home, at School, and in the World:" https://www.amazon.com/Safest-Family-Block-Tricks-Protect-ebook/dp/B0C4JZ1QRX

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* Cool Blackwork Embroidery Patterns for Beginners: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thehaberdasheress/?etsrc=sdt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* I am terribly disappointed in Stephen Fry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Michael Shannon's Thanksgiving Album:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*shudder*

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Re: Netanyahu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I try very hard to do that in this space.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can’t we try that just once?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What the fuck is wrong with people?

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

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

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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

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

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

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* "Bail Reform:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

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* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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* "Political crisis continues in Baghdad after bloody clashes:" https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-iraq-baghdad-muqtada-al-sadr-62e9d144b591e60c43d72c3f4d2b7cbc

* "Rift between Tehran and Shi'ite cleric fuels instability in Iraq:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/iraq-iran-shiites/

* "UN report on Xinjiang ups pressure on brands from Nike to Airbnb:" https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/9/1/un-report-on-xinjiang-raises-pressure-on-firms-to-cut-ties

* "Nord Stream 1: Russia shuts major gas pipeline to Europe:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62732835

* "The ‘QAnon Queen’ Told Her Followers to Arrest Cops. It Didn’t Go Well.:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb5y/queen-romana-didulo-citizen-arrest-qanon

* "Northern Ireland's first out gay party leader wants to nationalise energy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/30/mal-ohara-green-party-northern-ireland-gay-leader/

* "Scotland school and waste service strikes called off after ‘credible’ pay offer:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/02/scotland-refuse-and-school-strikes-called-off-after-credible-pay-offer

* "Myanmar junta sentences ex-British ambassador to one year in prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/asia/myanmar-junta-jails-former-british-ambassador-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Ex-Tory MP accuses anti-trans groups of 'Machiavellian' lobbying in leadership race:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/02/ben-howlett-conservative-leadership-race-trans-lgb-alliance/

* "Edinburgh clean-up begins as refuse collections resume:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/30/edinburgh-clean-up-begins-as-refuse-collections-resume

* "Police accused of blindsiding Grindr killer victims' families:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/30/met-police-stephen-port-compensation/

* "Eight arrested after climate activists superglue themselves around Commons Speaker’s chair:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/02/extinction-rebellion-activists-superglue-themselves-commons-chamber-speaker-seat

* I have no words. "Stabbings in Canada kill 10, wound 15; suspects at large:" https://apnews.com/article/saskatchewan-stabbings-multiple-victims-suspects-sought-999fe33f8da5025e0e19a3010bae108f

* "Wave of bull runner deaths turns focus on Spain's fiestas:" https://apnews.com/article/sports-spain-valencia-8097c3b17a51c2aded36244becfa7045

* "Argentina's vice president is threatened by a man wielding a handgun:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/02/1120688951/argentina-vice-president-threatened-handgun

* "Two Air France pilots suspended after cockpit fight:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/air-france-pilots-cockpit-fight/index.html

* "'Man of the Hole': Last of his tribe dies in Brazil:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62712318

* "Fears for independent media in India as tycoon eyes major news channel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/24/india-ndtv-adani-media-takover/

* "Podcast leads to Australian’s conviction in wife’s murder:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/podcast-leads-to-australians-conviction-in-wifes-murder/

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* "Low vaccine booster rates are now a key factor in COVID-19 deaths – and racial disparities in booster rates persist:" https://theconversation.com/low-vaccine-booster-rates-are-now-a-key-factor-in-covid-19-deaths-and-racial-disparities-in-booster-rates-persist-187272

* "Long COVID: How researchers are zeroing in on the self-targeted immune attacks that may lurk behind it:" https://theconversation.com/long-covid-how-researchers-are-zeroing-in-on-the-self-targeted-immune-attacks-that-may-lurk-behind-it-169911

* "The government will no longer be sending free COVID-19 tests to Americans:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119880329/the-government-will-no-longer-be-sending-free-covid-19-tests-to-americans

* "US clears updated COVID boosters targeting newest variants:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-vaccine-omicron-booster-shot-227514678d25a99b65b7ee092735fb03

* "5 Things Immunologists Want You to Know About Omicron-Specific Booster Vaccines:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/09/01/omicron-booster-shot/

* Don't fuck around with this. You could literally kill or permanently disable someone. "Californians working while sick with COVID-19, fooled by mild symptoms:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-27/otc-sat-7am-more-are-working-while-sick-with-covid-19-fooled-by-mild-symptoms

* "Black Covid long-haulers say doctors dismissed their symptoms, so now they’re relying on one another for support:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-covid-long-haulers-felt-invisible-health-care-system-formed-supp-rcna44468

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* "Why people are advised to take iodine tablets in the event of a nuclear disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-people-are-advised-to-take-iodine-tablets-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-disaster-147302981817

* "Russia's war in Ukraine puts fragile nuclear power plant in peril:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russia-s-war-in-ukraine-puts-fragile-nuclear-power-plant-in-peril-147305541654

* "UN inspectors arrive at Ukraine nuclear plant amid fighting:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-united-nations-ce8c3e254c8dd44b8ae4eb3cea3c5907

* "Ukraine wages counterattack to reclaim Russia-occupied Kherson:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/30/ukraine-launches-counterattack-to-reclaim-russia-occupied-kherson

* "Against Fierce Resistance, Ukraine Makes Small Gains in the South:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-south-kherson.html

* "A Frontline Shadow Economy: Ukrainian Units Swap Tanks and Artillery:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/ukrainian-soldiers-weapons-front-line.html

* "Ukrainian Women Are Clearing Unexploded Bombs From Ukraine:"

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* "“We Felt Like Hostages”: Ukrainians Describe Forcible Transfers and Filtration by Russian Forces:" https://theintercept.com/2022/09/01/ukraine-russia-war-forced-deportations/

* "It's back to school in Ukraine — but far from normal:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-education-efe7f1cc5610f6605c5256c8c5323e47

* "At edge of Russian onslaught, city of Bakhmut clings to freedom:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/02/ukraine-bakhmut-frontline-city/

* "A Russian paratrooper seeking asylum in France describes disarray in Putin’s military.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/europe/russian-defector-france-book.html

* "What Russians See in the News: A War Over Western Plans to Subjugate Them:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/europe/russian-media-ukraine-war.html

* I am a bit late for Ukrainian Independence day, but given current offensives, now is an excellent time to donate: https://www.hospitallers.life/needs-hospitallers

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* "Navy expedites waterborne drones to close gap with China:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-china-robotics-pacific-ocean-b8262b737593a07ca28d8b99b0f2555d

* "Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan | Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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* Of course they are. "Conservatives Plot Legal Challenge To Joe Biden’s Student Debt Relief:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-student-debt-relief-legal-challenge_n_6310d394e4b063d5e622a63d

* "Student Loan Forgiveness a win for progressives:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/student-loan-forgiveness-a-win-for-progressives-147186757936

* "Warren ‘has had it with idea’ that people needing student debt relief are slackers:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/student-debt-relief-recipients-are-hardworking-middle-class-working-class-folks-sen-warren-says-147381829846

* "Biden sounds newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-philadelphia-5d0f7c02df093f0d3a3340474a53be4b

* "If Biden's speech sounded divisive and extreme, here's why.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-if-biden-s-speech-sounded-divisive-and-extreme-here-s-why-147640901565

* "Mortgage rates soar to their highest levels since late June:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/01/mortgage-rates-soar-their-highest-levels-since-late-june/

* "Secret Service recovers $286M in stolen pandemic loans:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-small-business-us-secret-service-ed482641a658543f4db9e2ec5121153e

* "Census Bureau: 3.8 million renters will likely be evicted in the next two months — why the rental crisis keeps getting worse:" https://moneywise.com/managing-money/debt/millions-of-renters-on-verge-of-eviction

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* Of course they are."Election workers abruptly quit, upending rural Texas county:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/election-staff-abruptly-quits-upending-rural-texas-county

* "Public service agencies, large and small, chilled by violent threats from Trump supporters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/public-service-agencies-large-and-small-chilled-by-violent-threats-from-trump-supporters-147302981574

* Of course they are. Check your voter registration. "Trump Allies Back Mass Challenge to Voter Eligibility in Georgia:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-01/trump-allies-back-mass-challenge-to-voter-eligibility-in-georgia

* Why voting in school board elections matters: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/694342530748350464

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

* "Abortion policy motivating potential voters, Minnesota State Fair attendees say:" https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2022/09/02/abortion-policy-motivating-potential-voters-minnesota-state-fair-attendees-say

* "Another Republican Scrubbed His Support for Total Abortion Ban on Website Before Midterms:" https://jezebel.com/another-republican-scrubbed-his-support-for-total-abort-1849468223

* "Senate candidate Dr. Oz, who once defended Roe v. Wade, earlier this year said abortion is 'still murder' at any point in a pregnancy, according to a report:" https://www.businessinsider.com/daily-beast-dr-mehmet-oz-abortion-murder-any-point-pregnancy-2022-8

* "Fetterman slams Oz demand that he fire 'wrongfully convicted' brothers who received clemency over 1993 murder:" https://www.businessinsider.com/fetterman-slams-dr-oz-demand-he-fire-wrongfully-convicted-brothers-2022-9

* "'Nasty': Hayes on Oz’s ‘shockingly disingenuous’ attack on Fetterman:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-nasty-hayes-on-oz-s-shockingly-disingenuous-attack-on-fetterman-147642437803

* They stole money from the country's poorest children to give to a rich cis white straight guy. I'm not sure if it's possible to be more Repubilcan than that. It is the purest distillation of the Republican christian agenda. "FBI questions Brett Favre in Mississippi welfare scandal:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nations-poorest-state-used-welfare-money-pay-brett-favre-speeches-neve-rcna45871

* "Out LGBTQ+ Elected Officials Jump to Record Level in Past Year:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/8/19/out-lgbtq-elected-officials-jump-record-level-past-year

* "Democrat Peltola beats Palin in Alaska special election upset:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/31/democrat-peltola-beats-palin-in-alaska-special-election-upset-00054428

* This makes me so happy. "Palin loss suggests waning voter indulgence of Trump-style spectacle candidates:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/palin-loss-suggests-waning-voter-indulgence-of-trump-style-spectacle-candidates-147476549631

* "Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/09/01/ginni-thomas-wisconsin-bernier-tauchen/

* "Judge again rejects Graham bid to throw out subpoena in Atlanta-area Trump probe:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/01/graham-subpoena-atlanta-trump-probe-00054527

* "Judge rejects bid by Gov. Kemp and Trump attorney Chesebro to quash subpoenas:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/29/judge-kemp-trump-attorney-subpoenas-00054053

* "Lindsey Graham’s prediction of riots reads more like a threat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/lindsey-graham-trump-riots-threat-reckless/

* "What Is Lindsey Graham Doing to Try to Prevent 'Riots' If Trump Is Charged With a Crime?:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a41020367/lindsey-graham-riots-trump-indicted-mar-a-lago/

* "With no excuses left, Trumpworld turns to threatening violence amid docs probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/with-no-excuses-left-trumpworld-turns-to-threatening-violence-amid-docs-probe-147293253882

* "'That's a fascist statement:' Cicilline on Lindsey Graham’s 'riot' threat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-that-s-a-fascist-statement-cicilline-on-lindsey-graham-s-riot-threat-147294789514

* "Historian: Graham saying Republicans will riot if Trump's indicted ‘like race-baiter from the '20s’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/graham-saying-republicans-will-riot-if-trump-s-indicted-like-a-race-baiter-from-the-20s-beschloss-says-147298885767

* "‘This is the fight of our lifetime’: Rep. Cicilline on poll showing expectations of civil war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-slams-the-maga-republican-threat-to-the-rule-of-law-147380805858

* "For civil rights community, defending democracy mirrors fight for voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/for-civil-rights-community-defending-democracy-mirrors-fight-for-voting-rights-147650117574

* "What if Trump's conspiracy was way bigger than we know?:" https://www.rawstory.com/trump-seditious-conspiracy-2657964597/

* "Intel officials to assess national security fallout from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/27/intel-officials-national-security-fallout-trumps-mar-a-lago-documents-00054006

* "Ex-chief of DOJ Counterintelligence Section analyzes photo of Mar-a-Lago docs:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-chief-of-doj-counterintelligence-section-analyzes-photo-of-mar-a-lago-docs-147464773684

* "Trump delay tactics risk stalling important security review of compromised material:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-delay-tactics-risk-stalling-important-security-review-of-compromised-material-147475525716

* I have serious concerns. "Trump search inventory reveals new details from FBI seizure:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-6bd103a8e418166b17a34d77e8d9102d

* "What to understand about the empty folders found at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-to-understand-about-the-empty-folders-found-at-mar-a-lago-147647557870

* "Folder marked ‘classified’ apparently on display at Trump 45-themed bar:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/folder-marked-classified-apparently-on-display-at-trump-s-45-themed-bar-147640901659

* "Sparse precedent could earn Supreme Court attention for Mar-a-Lago search:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/sparse-precedent-could-earn-supreme-court-attention-for-mar-a-lago-search-147648581835

* "Review of possibly privileged Trump papers already over:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-92eadcf7c102d1f64b8603caa816e796

* "Days before Mar-a-Lago subpoena, Trump lawyer claimed she scoured his office, closets and drawers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/31/days-before-mar-a-lago-subpoena-trump-lawyer-claimed-she-scoured-trumps-office-closets-00054369

* "Trump team likely sought to conceal classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells judge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/30/trump-justice-department-filing-warrant-00054319

* "Obstruction now a major focus in Trump documents probe:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-government-and-politics-05541b18c364a484891f2b3076bf1847

* "Trump Mar–a-Lago affidavit reveals ‘handwritten notes,’ highly classified material led to warrant request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/26/trump-mar-a-lago-affidavit-release-00053944

* "If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted:" https://politicalwire.com/2022/08/31/if-it-were-anyone-else-theyd-be-prosecuted/

* "Three weeks after Trump announced FBI search he's yet to say why he had documents at Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-mishandling-of-classified-documents-now-under-review-for-security-risks-147298373770

* "House committee reaches deal to get Trump financial records:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-personal-taxes-subpoenas-investigations-962ba3fef1ae51133a53005a289b675c

* "Ex-NYPD officer sentenced to record 10 years for Jan. 6 riot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-nypd-officer-gets-10-years-in-prison-for-jan-6-attack/2022/09/01/5284375e-2a34-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

* "Rioter who encountered senator gets over 4 years in prison:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rioter-who-encountered-senator-gets-over-4-years-in-prison/2022/08/29/529497c8-27bb-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

* "Man suspected of randomly killing 3 ‘terrorized’ Detroit, police chief says:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-aud-detroit-shootings-suspect-20220829-tnlwyafd7jfhtb7znxi6kv6uka-story.html

* "A Venezuelan family's harrowing, 10-country trek to New York City, with their Pitbull in tow:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/us/venezuela-family-journey-new-york/index.html

* "Dust and Bones:" https://atmos.earth/climate-change-heat-mexico-border-migrant-deaths/

* Do Not Want. "Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef

* "The Humiliating History of the TSA:" https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland

* "Panel: West Point should rename Lee Barracks, nix KKK art:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/panel-west-point-should-rename-lee-barracks-nix-kkk-art/2022/09/01/e95ca73e-2a42-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

* "Christian Mission Ousted from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after Distribution of Hate Materials:" https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/christian-mission-ousted-from-pine-ridge-indian-reservation-after-distribution-of-hate-materials

* "‘The results confirm our fears’: Federal school test scores dropped during pandemic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/01/federal-school-test-scores-dropped-pandemic-00054414

* "Judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/judge-tosses-suit-deem-books-obscene-kids-89070787

* "Gender Queer author says it's 'dangerous' to ban books on LGBTQ+ people and sex:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/02/gender-queer-maia-kobabe-dangerous-ban-lgbtq-books/

* It includes massive racist censorship of libraries and curriculum as well. "Texas School District Adopts Antigay, Anti-Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/24/texas-school-district-adopts-antigay-anti-trans-policies

* CW: Sexual Abuse, Domestic Abuse. "The DISTURBING Depp & Marilyn Manson Texts. Is Manson's Wife a Victim or "Amber 2.0"?:"

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* "California bill to make vasectomies cheaper goes to governor:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/california-bill-make-vasectomies-cheaper-governor-89129882

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* CW: Rape "Ukrainian Refugees Arrive In Reproductive Rights Nightmare:"

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* "Abortion pill: Why Japanese women will need their partner's consent to get a tablet:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62515356

* "Their ancestors came to America. After Dobbs, they want out.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/08/29/dual-citizenship-european-union-germany-italy/

* This is terrifying. "U.S. government sues Idaho data company it says tracks people at abortion clinics:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/us-government-sues-idaho-data-company-says-tracks-people-abortion-clin-rcna45316

* "New Texas trigger law makes abortion a felony:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/27/1119795665/new-texas-trigger-law-makes-abortion-a-felony

* "Veterans Affairs says it will provide abortions — even in Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/02/va-abortions-veterans-texas/

* "South Carolina House approves abortion ban with exceptions:" https://www.theheraldreview.com/news/article/Abortion-ban-faces-exceptions-fight-in-South-17406528.php

* Republicans are absolutely ideologically opposed to democracy and human rights."Abortion bans are terrible. The debates over them are actually worse.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/09/01/abortion-ban-bill-south-carolina-house/

* "Michigan Republicans block abortion referendum, setting up showdown:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/31/michigan-abortion-ballot/

* "'We're a part of this movement, too.' Transgender and nonbinary people say they feel excluded from the abortion fight:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/us/transgender-nonbinary-abortion-reproductive-care-reaj/index.html

* "Forced parenthood and failing safety nets: This is life in post-Roe America:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/abortion-bans-states-social-safety-net-dobbs/

* "Forced Pregnancy Is What They Want, Not What They're Willing to Tolerate:"

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* "Cost of living crisis forcing trans youth to 'choose between eating and hormones':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/31/akt-cost-of-living-crisis-lgbtq-trans-youth/

* Security decided to allow people to use the memorial to our dead as a urinal and made zero effort to protect it. "National Trans Memorial 'irreparably damaged' by fire during Manchester Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/30/nation-trans-memorial-fire-manchester-pride/

* "Wisc. School Board Affirms Ban on Pride Displays & Preferred Pronouns:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/19/wisc-school-board-affirms-ban-pride-displays-preferred-pronouns

* "Anti-Trans Policy on Bathroom Access Considered by Va. School Board:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/10/anti-trans-policy-bathroom-access-considered-va-school-board

* "Judge Blocks Utah Trans Sports Ban, While Probe of Athlete Emerges:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/19/judge-blocks-utah-trans-sports-ban-while-probe-athlete-emerges

* "Children's hospitals are the latest target of anti-LGBTQ harassment:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1119634878/childrens-hospitals-are-the-latest-target-of-anti-lgbtq-harassment

* "Black trans woman Dede Ricks murdered in Detroit:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/03/dede-ricks-black-trans-woman-murder-detroit-michigan/

* "Monkeypox: US confirms 31 child cases in latest outbreak update:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/01/monkeypox-child-cases-us/

* "White House Accelerates Monkeypox Vaccine Efforts with 1.8 million Doses:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/8/18/white-house-accelerates-monkeypox-vaccine-efforts-18-million-doses

* "Newest Details on Human-to-Animal Monkeypox Transmission:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2022/8/17/newest-details-human-animal-monkeypox-transmission-0

* "A mutated virus, anti-vaxxers and a vulnerable population: how polio returned to the US:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/polio-us-vaccines-new-york-rockland-county

* "Covid, monkeypox, polio: Summer of viruses reflects travel, warming trends:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/09/01/summer-viruses-covid-19-monkeypox-polio/

* "Jeunesse the MLM Company With 16 Lawsuits to Their Name:"

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* "How Drug Users Developed a Key Approach to Fighting Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/opinion/harm-reduction-covid.html

* "U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/health/life-expectancy-covid-pandemic.html

* "Bacteria’s Immune Sensors Reveal a Novel Way to Detect Viruses:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/bacterias-immune-sensors-reveal-a-novel-way-to-detect-viruses-20220829/

* "Zombie cells central to the quest for active, vital old age:" https://apnews.com/article/zombie-cells-central-quest-active-vital-old-age-e52713983444185dcd6ed116305d0764

* "The Right to Privacy for Nonspeaking Autistics:" https://neuroclastic.com/privacy-nonspeaking-nonverbal-nonspeaker-autism-autistic/

* "Britney Spears shares horrifying new details about abusive conservatorship:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/29/britney-spears-conservatorship-audio-abuse/

* "The Weird Psychological Theory behind Gym Class:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-weird-psychological-theory-behind-gym-class/

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* "Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches:" https://apnews.com/article/science-oceans-glaciers-greenland-climate-and-environment-9cd7662658ebbeaba05682352de8aa87

* "Ocean heat reached all-time high in 2021, report finds:" https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/ocean-heat-reached-all-time-high-2021-report-finds

* "Switzerland's vanishing glaciers threaten Europe's water supply:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62689707

* "The Colorado River drought is coming for your winter veggies:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23310631/colorado-river-drought-arizona-california-farms

* "Why are Pakistan’s floods so extreme this year?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02813-6

* "Pakistan floods caused by 'monsoon on steroids,' says UN chief in urgent appeal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/asia/pakistan-flood-damage-imf-bailout-intl-hnk/index.html

* "In Pakistan, fears of waterborne diseases as floods recede:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-health-pakistan-united-nations-monsoons-6849f83a664ff0022e82a775aaf7fd3b

Want to help? https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/

* "A flash flood emergency in northwestern Georgia is at least a 1-in-200 year event:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/weather/georgia-flash-flood/index.html

* "‘Very dangerous’ heat may reignite fire season in western U.S.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/29/western-california-heatwave-fires-forecast/

* "Get ready for Southern California's hottest and longest heat wave of the year:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-29/heat-wave-southern-california-hottest-longest-2022

* "Wildfire reaches 4,240 acres in Barrett Junction area; 2 hurt, at least 4 structures destroyed:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2022-08-31/quick-moving-brush-fire-threatening-homes-in-barrett-junction-area-of-east-county

* "Route fire near Castaic explodes to 5,100 acres; 8 firefighters suffer heat-related injuries:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-31/fire-5-freeway-castaic-route-fire

* "Growing wildfire threatens thousands of structures in SW Oregon:" https://www.koin.com/news/wildfires/growing-rum-creek-fire-southwest-oregon-threatens-structures-08312022/

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* "The Lessons of Uzbekistan’s Lost Sea:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/08/29/uzbekistan-russia-climate-change-global-warming/

* This is a man made disaster and the goal of Republican policy making. "GOP Repeatedly Opposed Infrastructure Upgrades. Now This Mississippi City Has No Safe Water:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/30/gop-repeatedly-opposed-infrastructure-upgrades-now-mississippi-city-has-no-safe

* "Mississippi state capital has no "reliable running water" after river flooding:" https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-flooding

* "The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html

* "Water crisis in Jackson, MS is decades in the making:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/water-crisis-in-jackson-ms-is-decades-in-the-making-147391045747

* "Jackson, MS water catastrophe lays bare state's failures of governance:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/jackson-ms-water-catastrophe-lays-bare-state-s-failures-of-governance-147476549879

* "Jackson mayor slams ‘circumstances of divestment’ for contaminated water in Mississippi's capital:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jackson-mississippi-s-contaminated-water-product-of-circumstances-of-divestment-mayor-says-147646021656

* "Fishermen begin legal campaign over dead shellfish:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-62679557

* "UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62677534

* "The Himalayas' ancient earthquake-defying design:" https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220825-kath-kuni-the-himalayas-ancient-earthquake-defying-design

* "Now hiring: US offshore wind ramps up, workers taught safety:" https://apnews.com/article/united-states-massachusetts-energy-industry-climate-and-environment-bc94888f71341ad785878203d46841fb

* "How the Car Industry Made Walking Illegal:"

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* "Robinhood: From Hero to Sellout:"

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* "Elon Musk and the Power of Money:"

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* "Elon Musk sells $7B in Tesla shares ahead of Twitter fight:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/elon-musk-sells-7b-tesla-shares-ahead-twitter-88188111

* "Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/africas-cold-rush-and-the-promise-of-refrigeration

* "NASA won't try to launch the Artemis 1 moon mission again for at least a few weeks:" https://www.npr.org/2022/09/03/1120742884/nasa-artemis-1-launch-saturday-time-moon-mission-rocket-orion-sls

* "Rock-hunting NASA rover reveals Martian crater's surprising geology:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/rock-hunting-nasa-rover-reveals-martian-craters-surprising-geology-2022-08-25/

* "NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has made oxygen 7 times in exploration milestone:" https://www.space.com/mars-moxie-experiment-makes-oxygen

* "Seahorse fathers give birth in a unique way, new research shows:" https://phys.org/news/2022-09-seahorse-fathers-birth-unique.html

* "The mysterious inner life of the octopus:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220720-do-octopuses-feel-pain

* "Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bird-songs-changed-pandemic

* "Cry wolf? Debate over presence of wolves in Northeast:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cry-wolf-debate-presence-wolves-northeast-88889723

* "US Agents in Memphis Seize Shipped Ancient Egyptian Artifact:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-agents-in-memphis-seize-shipped-ancient-egyptian-artifact-/6719448.html

* "History Summarized: Cleopatra:"

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* This is such a horrifying mix of good urban design and horrific Stepford fascist dystopia. "Defunctland: Walt Disney's City of the Future, E.P.C.O.T.:"

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* "Defunctland: The History of the Worst Six Flags Coaster, Green Lantern: First Flight:"

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* "Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended cold war, dies aged 91:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/mikhail-gorbachev-dies-soviet-leader-92

* For balance an Eastern European perspective on Gorbachev: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/694253693907959808

* "Faust to go (Goethe in 9 minutes, English version):"

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* It's been an exhausting week. I had a ton of RL, I am bad in the heat, and I am still in the aftermath of the extreme pain incident, though noticeably improved. I haven't gotten around to scheduling the blood work follow up due to various alarms and excursions, but I can intuit some of the results from the fact that when I went to get my prescription strength D, there were two other prescription strength vitamins waiting for me. No wonder I'm exhausted. We gave up taking me off the prescription strength D for half a year... half a decade ago? Longer? My levels drop as soon as I stop taking them. My chronic anemia was fixed by a drug I was on for a while years ago, but my body seems to have finally bounced back to it's natural state. The third one, I'm pretty sure is related to me not being able to chew as my main dietary source involves fresh vegetables, which inability honestly could be causing the anemia or making it worse also. (For someone not anatomically equipped to menstruate, it's a stupid problem to have. IDK, maybe vampires? sigh.)

Actually, the blood tests were not long after we finally got an oven again (Thank all of you who helped), and honestly the no oven and no chewing were a double whammy to my nutrition since last late Winter? Spring? I've lost track. It's certainly made protein hella challenging. I bet the tests captured my absolute nadir, but it really does explain why I'm still feeling pretty crap.

As of this writing, at the turning of Wednesday into Thursday, I am a week away from being able to chew. I missed so many salad's this summer. I have gone to bed hungry because I don't have the spoons to cook something soft and most of my emergency foods I would normally eat are dangerous. I fantasize about cheese and crackers. I fantasize about toast and sandwiches and pizza and caramels and nuts.

I have eaten the first garden tomatoes though. Two undersized volunteer specimens damaged by the fucked up weather patterns over the weekend, and one full sized perfect heritage tomato I nommed today despite the slight danger posed by the skin, all three fresh from the vine and sun warmed. the flavour was so rich...

I am not explaining this past week here, because most of the things aren't mine to talk about, just know that my found family look after their own.

* We have continued to take the forage boxes, even though they are wasteful because a lot of times I'm too ill to go down in person or I have conflicting medical stuff and there's even less at the in person anyway. squirrel and I get separate boxes and we don't share food and have mutually exclusive medical diets. They put in a program a little while back where there are four types of boxes instead of one. Problem was they made us get the same type and I couldn't get the vegan box if Squirrel was to get his meat. (I'm vegetarian, not vegan, but the vegan box is the only one promising safe for me protein. In person hasn't had safe for me protein since the pandemic except for things like dried beans that are too much work).

This month they worked out a way for us to separate our deliveries and Friday we got the first split delivery. It is a lot less wasteful, and the way it's wasteful can't be helped. (EX: Squirrel can't eat eggs and won't eat carrots. I can't eat egg yolks and can only use the small amount of whites in baking. We literally haven't had an oven that could bake since last winter until a couple of weeks ago, and Ii haven't been able to chew since some point last spring. Cutting two dozen eggs to one is helpful, but we're still going to be giving eggs away to other poor people. We still can't use twenty carrots a week. When I could chew one or two carrots a week was maximum usage). There are still a bunch of things we are simply going to have to give away to other poor people or take to the food bank and things no one we know can use. (Squirrel, several of my Millennials, and I all can't digest onions, for example). There is a fundamental problem because there can't be customization at this scale, but at least having four box types is a step forward.

Get this, the vegan box came with Impossible burger meat! There was enough for two. Head Millennial made me one Saturday and it was delicious. we used tomatoes and lettuce from the garden, with ketchup and some of the good Mexican Revolutionary hot sauce. (I forget the name, but it has the round ball top?) Omnomnom.

Saturday, a few of us went out to look at Halloween store displays (aka. free haunted houses), as Spirit opened up at the mall. While we were out I got fresh fruit and an eggplant, head Millennial promises to cook when we are not so tired.

It's not that we've been ignoring my nutrition, but it has been just stupid hard to make good food I can eat until recently. It's still a struggle. I'm so tired of being hungry all the time.

Wednesday can't come soon enough. I noticed when brushing Saturday morning the preliminary's starting to loosen. I'm hoping it will hold together until Wednesday as it already hurts when I brush.

* The sky is still the wrong colour and everything smells scorched and toxic, but round about Thursday or Friday, the wind pattern snapped back into something like normal. We even had a little drizzle Sunday evening. We can't dismantle the heavy air filtration until the inland fires are done, but everything is much more bearable now in our tiny micro-climate.

I am still tired and hungry, but I'm starting to feel a little better. There was a really good sale on Beyond Burger when we stopped in to the Cheapie looking for soft foods, so I got some. It's not that I don't have Bocas in my freezer, but something in this feels like it's filling a nutritional hole. Pea protein? IDK. They are usually far to expensive to buy, but I'm guessing theirs a local glut or something. They are too much work for me to cook in my current state, but Head Millennial can make them well.

* Thank you to everyone who contributed to the recent fundraiser. Friday, I was informed the transwoman is housed and has funds to carry her to safety in the North once her paperwork is sorted.

* Every time they run that add where the father tells his daughter he loves his son best and then the father and son smugly fist bump and the ad pretends this is cute and funny I want to slap an ad executive and whoever okayed it at whatever company's product is is trying to sell. Some kind of chicken? IDK. I don't eat meat, so really all I notice is the decision to normalize cruelty and emotional abuse in an ad that runs multiple times an hour.

What kind of monster thinks this is okay?

* I am disgruntled over the Animal Kingdom finale. I'm fine with what happens to Craig. Andrew's fate, annoying as the Jay outcome is, made complete sense with his series character arc and this season's arc particularly, so it worked for me. I was pretty sure this was where Jay's arc was going from season one on and much as I'd have loved a twist, it makes character and narrative sense, and I never let my hopes get up for something different.

It's Darren that burns me. It seems to me they could have cut like 30 seconds of the endless boring shot of Jay looking around and used that to show a quick shot of Darren in an airport disembarkation area. If it wasn't worth the price of Adrian's actor or he wasn't available, they could have shot over the shoulder of a body double to show Darren's face as he sees who's waiting. They could close shot as they wrap their arms around each other. Simple, neat, and they'd have one fucking arc in there with a happy ending, for the character who's arc all series was realizing he wanted something better for himself and that included love.

Instead, a brilliantly acted devastating scene, but no real resolution. Did he make it to Mexico and on to Thailand or Indonesia? Get shot by cops? Get arrested?

With Black Sails, the Schrodinger's ending made sense thematically and characterize given the double layer of unreliable narration. I don't hate ambiguous endings where they fit with everything else. I hate it here because you have four characters we've been following since episode one, and oops! Only the gay one doesn't get a real ending of his own, just again a beautiful acted reaction to the end of the least interesting of the four character's story, and it feels so fucking cheap and having had at least half the season to anticipate them selling the gay character's arc short doesn't make me any less disgusted by it.

* Am I furious over the "Freddie" episode of What We Do in the Shadows for at least five reasons? Yes. I'm waiting to see where the last episode goes before I decide where I am on the show as a whole.

* A Dracula Daily exchange I am proud of regarding 8/31's entry (Arthur begging Seward to examine Lucy): https://krinsbez.tumblr.com/post/694198358156443648/random-dracula-thoughts-august-30th

* "Act of Grace: Masculinity, Monstrosity, and Queer Catharsis in Our Flag Means Death:" https://www.tor.com/2022/04/25/act-of-grace-masculinity-monstrosity-and-queer-catharsis-in-our-flag-means-death/

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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.

* Pakistan is experiencing absolutely catastrophic floods: https://islamic-relief.org/appeals/pakistan-floods-appeal/

* Fundraiser for a librarian under threat for Fighting Censorship: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-for-librarian-amanda-jones

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* I have been in terrible pain for most of this week. I am doing my best, but it's kind of a mess.

* "WHO slams 'unimaginable cruelty' inflicted on Tigray:" https://news.yahoo.com/slams-unimaginable-cruelty-inflicted-tigray-161331782.html

* "I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/afghanistan-evacuation-sisters-fall-of-kabul-taliban/670602/

* "‘They robbed me of my children’: Yemen’s war victims tell their stories:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/aug/25/yemen-war-victims-stories-they-robbed-me-of-my-children

* "‘Explosion of violence’: Sierra Leone picks up the pieces after protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/21/sierra-leone-protests-inflation-cost-of-living

* "Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan charged under anti-terror law:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/imran-khan-pakistan-former-pm-charged-under-anti-terror-law

* "Latvia brings down Soviet-era monument's obelisk in capital:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-germany-soviet-union-denmark-riga-6b841105e8fb8bc8310b053ae1d9f40a

* "The Question Menacing Brazil’s Elections: Coup or No Coup?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/world/americas/brazil-election-bolsonaro-coup.html

* "Ex-Tory ministers slam Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak for 'pandering to bigots':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/26/liz-truss-rishi-sunak-tory-leadership-lgbtq/

* "An Islamic State member is sentenced to life in prison in the deaths of hostages:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/19/1118508089/islamic-state-isis-beatles-life-sentence-hostage-deaths

* CW: Child Murder "Second man arrested on suspicion of murdering Liverpool girl Olivia Pratt-Korbell:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/26/man-arrested-in-connection-with-killing-of-liverpool-girl-olivia-pratt-korbel

* "UK sales of The Satanic Verses surge after Rushdie stabbing:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/23/uk-sales-of-the-satanic-verses-surge-after-rushdie-stabbing

* "Missing nurse Owami Davies found safe and well, say police:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/23/owami-davies-found-safe-well-police-say

* Of course the best solution would be to pay worker's fairly. "Edinburgh faces rat surge due to refuse workers’ strike, warn heritage leaders:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/23/edinburgh-faces-rat-surge-due-to-refuse-workers-strike-warn-heritage-leaders

* "Sturgeon accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ over bin strike:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/26/nicola-sturgeon-bin-strike-pay-dispute-schools-scottish-tories

* The pay structure is appalling. They aren't paid until the case is over even if they spent a couple years on it. The government offer means all the cases people have been working on are paid at the old, wildly indicate rate in the face of the cost of living crisis. "It tears barristers like me apart to strike, but the government has left us no choice:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/22/barristers-government-england-and-wales-criminal-justice-system

* "From barristers to refuse collectors, Britons strike en masse:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/26/economic-uncertainty-in-the-uk-lead-to-a-watershed-of-strikes

* "The gathering crisis:" https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/08/the-gathering-crisis.html

* "From barristers to refuse collectors, Britons strike en masse:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/26/economic-uncertainty-in-the-uk-lead-to-a-watershed-of-strikes

* It would be nice if something more than lip servic, but I trust Macron not at all. "Macron in Algeria announces new historians body to study colonial past:" https://www.euronews.com/2022/08/26/macron-announces-france-algeria-historians-commission-to-study-painful-colonial-past

* "Life Under “The Ghetto Law”:" https://thenib.com/life-under-the-ghetto-law/

* "Go-karting for French prisoners a mistake, admits Fresnes governor:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62659179

* "A toxic chemical was found in the bodies of 21 teens who died in a South Africa tavern:" https://www.npr.org/2022/07/19/1112310405/south-africa-teens-methanol-bar-deaths

* "In converted buses and tin-roof sheds, migrant students get a lesson in hope:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1118858805/mexico-migrants-education-school-tijuana-children

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* "Hospitalization, multiple symptoms linked to long covid in children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/23/children-long-covid/

* "Could tiny blood clots cause long COVID’s puzzling symptoms?:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02286-7

* These are the new booster that targets Omicron variants, and I'm really excited for it. "Biden Administration Plans for New Booster Campaign Soon After Labor Day:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/covid-booster-shots-biden.html

* "Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-health-public-italy-9c2d261c7d73e0ba5dbb5c8adb50eefc

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* "Russian Orthodox patriarch to skip conference where he was to meet with Pope Francis:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-25/russian-patriarch-skips-meeting-meet-pope

* "Armed Forces of Ukraine force Russian troops to retreat on Bakhmut front General Staff report:" https://news.yahoo.com/armed-forces-ukraine-force-russian-041127794.html

* "Ukraine strikes administration headquarters in Donetsk, Russia-installed separatists say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-strikes-administration-headquarters-donetsk-russia-installed-separatists-2022-08-23/

* "'It's like sitting on a powder keg', say people near Ukraine nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/its-like-sitting-powder-keg-say-people-near-ukraine-nuclear-plant-2022-08-22/

* "Vast nuclear plant held by Russia disconnects from Ukraine's grid:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/both-working-reactors-occupied-ukrainian-nuclear-plant-shut-down-after-nearby-2022-08-25/

* "Ukraine’s independence day was always important. Now it is a matter of life and death:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/ukraine-independence-day-kyiv-russia-war

* "Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/world/europe/odesa-ukraine-putin-russia.html

* "Doctors stay in Ukraine's war-hit towns: 'People need us':" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-covid-health-41582c3f96e162de962b865752c62a6a

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* "Biden is canceling up to $10K in student loans, $20K for Pell Grant recipients:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1118879917/student-loan-forgiveness-biden

* "'Bring it on!': Warren unbowed by GOP attacks on widely popular student loan debt relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-bring-it-on-warren-unbowed-by-gop-attacks-on-widely-popular-student-loan-debt-relief-146946629983

* "Black women, a key Biden constituency, carry highest student loan burden:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/black-women-a-key-biden-constituency-carry-highest-student-loan-burden-146950725606

* "White House points to growth in manufacturing jobs in tandem with student debt relief plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/white-house-points-to-growth-in-manufacturing-jobs-in-tandem-with-student-debt-relief-plan-147034181779

* "Not the White House Twitter account clapping back at hypocritical Republicans!:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/not-the-white-house-twitter-account-clapping-back-at-hypocritical-republicans-147108421881

* "IRS initiates safety probe after threats to workers:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-misinformation-health-care-reform-internal-revenue-service-fb835c1099dad4cca5ff893bfd07d466

* "Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection expert:" https://apnews.com/article/anthony-fauci-announces-retirement-7efdacac6a9ff7aa6e2f870b551fe508

* "Climate Law Gives Clean Air Act a Legal Boost After Court Rebuke:" https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/climate-law-gives-clean-air-act-a-legal-boost-after-court-rebuke

* "Electric Utilities Shut Off Power 3.6 Million Times While Increasing Payouts to Shareholders, Executives:" https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/report-electric-utilities-shut-off-power-36-million-times-while-increasing-payouts-to-shareholders-executives-2022-05-02/#:~:text=In%20September%202021%20the%20Center,year%20of%20the%20Covid%2D19

* "State Laws on Voting Rights/Time Off to Vote:" https://www.workplacefairness.org/voting-rights-time-off-work?state=TN

* "Women lead surge in new voter registrations since Roe overturned:" https://www.newsweek.com/women-lead-surge-new-voter-registrations-since-roe-overturned-1735346

* "Abortion rights motivates women voters as state restrictions spread:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/abortion-rights-motivates-women-voters-as-state-restrictions-spread-146951749944

* "Abortion rights concerns galvanize women voters christening 2022 the new 'Year of the Woman':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/abortion-rights-concerns-motivate-women-to-register-to-vote-boosts-democratic-candidates-147031621567

* "Tuesday brought more evidence abortion rights could help Democrats in November" https://www.npr.org/sections/2022-live-primary-election-race-results/2022/08/24/1119243085/abortion-pat-ryan-new-york-florida-primary-takeaways

* "Seven takeaways from primaries in Florida, New York and Oklahoma runoffs:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/florida-new-york-oklahoma-election-takeaways/index.html

* "First openly gay Black congressman loses seat to multimillionaire Levi heir:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/25/mondaire-jones-loses-seat-daniel-goldman-democratic-primary/

* "Nadler topples Maloney, ending fellow House Democrat’s 30-year tenure:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/nadler-maloney-new-york-primary-00053435

* "Democrat Pat Ryan wins bellwether special election in New York’s Hudson Valley:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/pat-ryan-molinaro-new-york-special-00053458

* "The message that helped deliver this key election for Democrat Pat Ryan:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/the-message-that-helped-deliver-this-key-election-for-democrat-pat-ryan-146952261733

* "Special election results show voters increasingly rejecting GOP extremism:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/special-election-results-show-voters-increasingly-rejecting-gop-extremism-146941509899

* "Republican Who Praised Hitler Somehow Loses Congressional Primary:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/carl-paladino-loses-new-york-republican-congressional-primary-1234580459/

* This is why I beg people to vote in every single race. Education is at stake here, the future of our country. "DeSantis flexes influence with ‘anti-woke’ school board victories:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/florida-desantis-schools-election/

* "It's marketed as the nation's 'only Christian conservative wireless provider.' Now it's taking over school boards.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-christian-cell-company-patriot-mobile-took-four-texas-school-boards-rcna44583

* "Mobile phone company makes mission of Christian nationalism in schools:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mobile-phone-company-makes-mission-of-christian-nationalism-in-schools-147032645586

* "Christian nationalists target school boards to advance agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/christian-nationalist-target-school-boards-to-advance-agenda-147033157895

* He is under investigation for sex trafficking under age girls. "Rep. Matt Gaetz beats primary challenger who suggested he was 'informant' in Mar-a-Lago raid:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/23/matt-gaetz-beats-primary-foe-who-called-him-informant-in-trump-mar-a-lago-raid.html

* "Democrat Charlie Crist to face Ron DeSantis in Florida race for governor:" https://www.npr.org/sections/2022-live-primary-election-race-results/2022/08/23/1119042390/florida-governor-primary-election-results-democrat-crist-desantis-republican

* "Representative Val Demings wins Democratic primary to run for U.S. Senate in Florida:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/representative-val-demings-wins-democratic-primary-run-us-senate-florida-2022-08-24/

* "After being compared to screen legend Pam Grier, Rep. Val Demings and the iconic actress talk politics:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-val-demings-democratic-candidate-for-u-s-senate-for-florida-and-iconic-actress-pam-grier-on-voter-motivation-146948165940

* "Gen Z candidate will win Democratic nomination in Florida's 10th District, CNN projects:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/gen-z-maxwell-frost-florida-democrat/index.html

* "Florida congressional nominee Maxwell Frost could be first Gen Z member of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maxwell-frost-could-be-first-gen-z-member-of-congress-as-democratic-nominee-for-florida-s-tenth-congressional-district-147030597877

* "Maxwell Frost: The new youngest member of Congress vs. the last one:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/maxwell-frost-the-new-youngest-member-of-congress-vs-the-last-one-146943557884

* "J.D. Vance appeared with podcaster who once said "feminists need rape":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/jd-vance-appeared-with-podcaster-jack-murphy-who-said-feminists-need-rape/

* "Tim Ryan to JD Vance: 'Screw you, we’re not giving up on the industrial Midwest':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tim-ryan-to-jd-vance-screw-you-we-re-not-giving-up-on-the-industrial-midwest-147026501731

* "Beto O’Rourke intensifies campaign on abortion rights as trigger law goes into effect:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/25/beto-orourke-abortion-texas/

* "O'Rourke says Abbott is ‘more beholden to NRA, gun manufacturers’ than those he is meant to serve:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/beto-o-rourke-democratic-nominee-for-texas-governor-on-the-failures-of-the-abott-administration-146859077558

* "Md. GOP nominee Cox deletes account on Gab, site known for hate speech:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/24/gab-dan-cox-maryland-governor/

* "Michigan's GOP Nominee for Governor: Giving Birth After Rape Is 'Healing' for a 14-Year-Old:" https://jezebel.com/michigans-gop-nominee-for-governor-giving-birth-after-1849438097

* "Arizona GOP Senate candidate attempts to soften anti-abortion stance in pivot to general election:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/politics/blake-masters-abortion-arizona-senate/index.html

* "Sen. Warren bullish on Democrats holding the Senate; cites litany of accomplishments:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/sen-warren-bullish-on-democrats-holding-the-senate-cites-litany-of-accomplishments-146947653598

* "The Q Queen's Crusade of Hatred: Marjorie Taylor Greene:"

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* You can tell what crimes Republicans are committing by what lying accusations they make against others. "Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/22/election-system-copied-files-trump/

* "Right-wing dark money gets $1.6 billion donation from one donor :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-wing-dark-money-gets-1-6-billion-donation-from-one-donor-146773061891

* "Trump Interior Secretary Zinke lied during casino investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/interior-inspector-general-finds-zinke-lied-during-casino-investigation-00053556

* "2 plead guilty in scheme to sell Biden's daughter's diary:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-new-york-government-and-politics-43eb5a9845aa633aa4e5ade7d16cb735

* "The DOJ under Barr wrongly withheld parts of a Russia probe memo, a court rules:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1118625157/doj-barr-trump-russia-investigation-memo

* "Bill Barr lied about considering charging Trump with obstruction of Mueller, court says:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bill-barr-lied-about-considering-charging-trump-with-obstruction-of-mueller-court-says-146781253791

* "Trump White House exerted pressure on FDA for Covid-19 emergency use authorizations, House report finds:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/trump-white-house-exerted-pressure-on-fda-for-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-house-report-finds-00053428

* "The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/us/politics/trump-fbi-search.html

* "Feds Recovered 300 Classified Docs in 3 Batches From Mar-a-Lago: NYT:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-agents-recovered-300-classified-documents-from-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-estate-report-says

* "Documents recovered at Mar-a-Lago were among government's most classified, letter shows:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/23/national-archives-letter-trump-security-00053250

* "Mention of 'obstruction' in Mar-a-Lago search affidavit compounds Trump's legal peril:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/mention-of-obstruction-in-mar-a-lago-search-affidavit-compounds-trump-s-legal-peril-147115589809

* "Is that everything? Questions linger after Trump's brazen lying about returning documents :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/is-that-everything-questions-linger-after-trump-s-brazen-lying-about-returning-documents-147115589864

* "Human intelligence sources included in classifications of documents sought from Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/human-intelligence-sources-included-in-classifications-of-documents-sought-from-trump-147118661832

* "DOJ memo: Witness intimidation concerns ‘not hypothetical’ in Mar-a-Lago case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/doj-memo-witness-intimidation-concerns-not-hypothetical-in-mar-a-lago-case-147107397658

* "Trump, Without the Presidency’s Protections, Struggles for a Strategy:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/politics/trump-investigation-strategy.html

* They aren’t his. "Trump Tells His Lawyers: Get 'My' Top Secret Documents Back:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tells-lawyers-get-my-top-secrets-documents-back-1234580501/

* "FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance, delay by Trump:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/23/trump-records-mar-a-lago-fbi/

* "Judge says FBI’s evidence for searching Mar-a-Lago is ‘reliable’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/judge-fbi-evidence-mar-a-lago-reliable-00053074

* "Trump's Bad Defenses and Bad Lawyering:"

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* "Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/gang-of-8-trump-mar-a-lago-search-00053118

* "They'll Let Just Anybody into Mar-a-Lago These Days:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41003284/mar-a-lago-rothschild-imposter/

* "Accused scammer's access to Mar-a-Lago highlights club's lax security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/accused-scammer-s-access-to-mar-a-lago-highlights-club-s-lax-security-147116613981

* "Report: Woman posed as heiress to infiltrate Mar-a-Lago, Trump inner circle:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/report-woman-posed-as-heiress-to-infiltrate-mar-a-lago-trump-inner-circle-147108421797

* "Trump files suit demanding special master in Mar-a-Lago search case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/trump-files-suit-special-master-mar-a-lago-search-00053196

* "Trump special master filing merely a ‘PR document,’ says fmr. federal judge:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-special-master-filing-merely-a-pr-document-says-fmr-federal-judge-146852933818

* "'It's just insanity': ATF now needs 2 weeks to perform a routine gun trace:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/s-just-insanity-atf-now-needs-2-weeks-perform-routine-gun-trace-rcna39606

* "Ron DeSantis suspends 4 Broward County School Board members after a grand jury investigation prompted by Parkland massacre:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/us/florida-desantis-broward-school-board-suspensions/index.html

* "Uvalde school board votes unanimously to fire police chief Pete Arredondo:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/us/uvalde-school-police-pete-arredondo/index.html

* "Hundreds of kids witness parents shot to death. This is what it does to them.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2022/kids-witness-parents-shot-killed/

* "2 men convicted in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer:" https://apnews.com/article/elections-presidential-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-grand-rapids-9ad8f100d32e7d5883b1be9d6c4cb8d5

* "Ex-Louisville police officer pleads guilty to Breonna Taylor cover-up:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/former-louisville-officer-plead-guilty-breonna-taylor-cover-up-2022-08-23/

* "Officers won’t face any charges in Rayshard Brooks shooting:" https://apnews.com/article/rayshard-brooks-shooting-officer-no-charges-910f8d1812fc7775d621242aaccbad9d

* "3 charged with killing Boston gangster Whitey Bulger in 2018:" https://apnews.com/article/whitey-bulger-killing-men-charged-11072fae9deaad36a929080798802804

* "After the Zodiac Killer's '340' Cipher Stumped the FBI, Three Amateurs Made a Breakthrough:" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a40601672/zodiac-killer-340-cipher-solution-fbi/

* "The Shortage Pushing Legal Systems to the Brink:"

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* This is some bullshit."Loved ones of prisoners banned from wearing #visitsmatter T-shirts:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/os-ne-visits-matter-prison-t-shirts-ban-directive-fdoc-20220813-jsf7xj6ycfbiln6nb5ht7526ka-story.html

* "Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy:" https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/caste-california-tech-giants-confront-ancient-indian-hierarchy-2022-08-15/

* "A Texas school district approved limits on books, critical race theory and gender identity:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/texas-grapevine-colleyville-school-district-policies-reaj/index.html

* "Texas school district reinstates an adaptation of Anne Frank's diary amid firestorm of controversy :" https://www.jta.org/2022/08/23/united-states/texas-school-district-reinstates-an-adaptation-of-anne-franks-diary-it-previously-removed-amid-firestorm-of-controversy

* "What does the new Grapevine-Colleyville schools policy mean for LGBTQ kids?:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2022/08/23/what-does-the-new-grapevine-colleyville-schools-policy-mean-for-lgbt-kids/

* "Grapevine High School students walk out to protest district’s policies on gender, pronouns:" https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article264958244.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Actor Gary Busey faces sex offense charges at Monster Mania Convention in New Jersey:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/entertainment/gary-busey-sex-offense-charge/index.html

* "Kevin Spacey Ordered to Pay Almost $31M to 'House of Cards' Company:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2022/8/10/kevin-spacey-ordered-pay-almost-31m-house-cards-company

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* "The Reason Anti-Abortion Activists Just Won’t Stop:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/why-anti-abortion-activists-want-fetal-personhood.html

* "Leonard Leo, the most powerful person in America you’ve never heard of :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/leonard-leo-the-most-powerful-person-in-america-you-ve-never-heard-of-146772037944

* People will die. "Biden administration can’t force Texas hospitals to provide emergency abortions, judge rules:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/24/emergency-abortions-joe-biden-ken-paxton/

* "Texans who perform abortions now face up to life in prison, $100,000 fine:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/25/texas-trigger-law-abortion/

* It’s only a partial stay, but better than nothing. "Judge blocks enforcement of Idaho's abortion ban in medical emergencies day before it was set to take effect:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/idaho-abortion-ban-doj/index.html

* "Michigan appeals court stops Legislature's legal effort to overturn abortion order:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/24/michigan-abortion-order-court-appeals/65418435007/

* "A South Carolina Republican’s sad awakening on abortion:" https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article264911724.html

* "Louisiana woman faces ‘horrifically cruel’ abortion choice over fetus missing skull:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/louisiana-abortion-woman-nancy-davis-benjamin-crump

* "‘Predatory’ and ‘dangerous’ anti-abortion clinics will expand in Indiana:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2022/08/22/indiana-abortion-law-crisis-pregnancy-centers-look-to-expand/65392111007/

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* "Explaining Hunter Schafer's Transmedicalism (& Why It’s a Problem):"

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* "Being Trans Is Not a Craze Among Youth, Study Finds:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/11/being-trans-not-craze-among-youth-study-finds

* Rightly so. "LGB Alliance Ireland labelled 'far right hate group' in new extremism report:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/23/lgb-alliance-far-right-extremist-group-gpahe/

* "'Don't Say Gay' Law Fuels Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry Online: Report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/10/twitter-and-facebook-fail-enforce-anti-lgbtq-bigotry-rules-report

* "Students Return to Florida Schools Now Under 'Don't Say Gay' Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/13/students-return-florida-schools-now-under-dont-say-gay-law

* "LGBTQ+ Books Given Warning Labels in Florida School District:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/09/lgbtq-books-given-warning-labels-florida-school-district

* "Anti-Trans Policy on Bathroom Access Considered by Va. School Board:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/8/10/anti-trans-policy-bathroom-access-considered-va-school-board

* "Wisconsin school board votes in favor of banning teachers from displaying pride flag and listing preferred pronouns:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wisconsin-school-board-votes-in-favor-of-pride-flag-preferred-pronoun-ban/

* "A Mich. library refused to remove an LGBTQ book. The town defunded it.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/michigan-library-defunded-gender-queer/

* "Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/gender-dysphoria-covered-disability-law-federal-court-rules-rcna44781

* "Judge tells Arkansas it can't block trans youth from life-saving healthcare:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/26/arkansas-judge-block-trans-youth-healthcare/

* "Pennsylvania Governor Signs Anti-Conversion Therapy Order:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/16/pennsylvania-governor-wolf-signs-anti-conversion-therapy-order

* "Texas Realtor Helps At-Risk LGBTQ+ Homeowners Flee Texas:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/8/11/texas-realtor-helps-risk-lgbtq-homeowners-flee-texas

* "Gay Couple Violently Attacked and Called Monkeypox Slur in D.C.:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/8/09/gay-couple-violently-attacked-and-called-monkeypox-slur-dc

* "Monkeypox Can Be Asymptomatic, Two Studies Suggest:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/8/16/monkeypox-can-be-asymptomatic-two-studies-suggest

* "Experts Try to Understand Rare Cases of Monkeypox Deaths:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/8/15/experts-try-understand-rare-cases-monkeypox-deaths

* " Everything Monkeypox with Gay Doc - Doctor Carlton :"

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* CW: Eating Disorders "What Caused the Toxic Rebrand of Weight Watchers:"

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* "Proactiv to MLM: The Rodan + Fields Story :"

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* "The Most Prevalent Illness You’ve Never Heard Of! // Severe ME/CFS:"

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* "The Forgotten Virus: Zika Families and Researchers Struggle for Support:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/health/zika-children-research.html

* "US doctor issues warning of many undiagnosed polio cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62469534

* "More polio virus detected in upstate New York wastewater:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/polio-virus-detected-upstate-york-wastewater-88905004

* "London kids to be offered polio shot after more virus found:" https://apnews.com/article/health-london-473e92cf88201d7e7a92e6445498500f

* CW: Child Death. "Nebraska child dies from rare infection caused by brain-eating amoeba:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/19/nebraska-brain-eating-amoeba-child-dies

* "58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change:" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/58-of-human-infectious-diseases-can-be-worsened-by-climate-change/

* "USDA getting tougher on salmonella in chicken products:" https://apnews.com/article/health-iowa-agriculture-food-safety-93664bd92422447542090e51f74101d7

* "Pigs Can Breathe Through Their Buttholes and So Could You, Scientists Say:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzxj4/pig-breathe-through-anus-study

* "The pigs had been dead for an hour. Scientists made their hearts beat again.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/08/04/yale-organex-dead-pigs-revived/

* "First Heart Transplant Performed Between HIV-Positive Donor, Recipient:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/8/01/first-heart-transplant-performed-between-hiv-positive-donor-recipient

* "To save children with cancer, doctors turn to new weapons:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/05/childrens-cancer-research-gains/

* "A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-08-04/texas-pregnancy-care-worsens-as-maternity-wards-close

* "Camhs deaths expose child mental health unit pressures:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62294650

* "'Magic mushroom' psychedelic may help heavy drinkers quit:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/magic-mushroom-psychedelic-heavy-drinkers-quit-88795414

* This is a terrible idea. "Japan wants young people to drink more alcohol:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/asia/japan-tax-alcohol-competition-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Cigarette advertising aggressively targets kids in low- and middle-income countries, a new study finds:" https://theconversation.com/cigarette-advertising-aggressively-targets-kids-in-low-and-middle-income-countries-a-new-study-finds-186628

* I have concerns. "South Korea develops nanotech tattoo as health monitoring device:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/skorea-develops-nanotech-tattoo-health-monitoring-device-2022-08-02/

* "Conjoined twins separated with the help of virtual reality:" https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62378452

* "The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-curious-afterlife-of-a-brain-trauma-survivor/

* "Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in US:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-government-and-politics-9fba21c0cd4c417e14544e6966b5a298

* "Ugandan online TV bridges information gap for the deaf:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandan-online-tv-bridges-information-gap-deaf-2022-08-04/

* "New glasses for the deaf and hard of hearing display subtitles while people speak:" https://abc17news.com/news/2022/08/01/new-glasses-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-display-subtitles-while-people-speak/

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* "Thunderstorms are moving East with climate change:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/thunderstorms-are-moving-east-with-climate-change

* "Tibetan Glacial Melt Threatens Billions:" https://www.voanews.com/a/melting-tibet-could-threaten-billions-of-people/3075426.html

* "How climate change drives inland floods:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115384628/how-climate-change-drives-inland-floods

* "Mapping the Coolest Spots Inside the World’s Sweltering Cities:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-city-heatwave-adaptations/

* "We built a fake metropolis to show how extreme heat could wreck cities:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/heat-infrastructure-transportation/

* "A new 'extreme heat belt' with 125 degree temps could cut through U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/us-see-new-extreme-heat-belt-2053-rcna42486

* "A ‘megaflood’ in California could drop 100 inches of rain, scientists warn:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/12/megaflood-california-flood-rain-climate/

* "As many as one in six U.S. tree species is threatened with extinction:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/extinct-tree-species-sequoias/

* "Five 1,000-year rain events have struck the U.S. in five weeks. Why?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/flood-united-states-climate-explainer/

* "The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, new research shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/11/us/arctic-rapid-warming-climate/index.html

* "How are floods and droughts happening at the same time?:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23297362/kentucky-flood-lake-mead-california-arizona-drought

* "Record-breaking heat wave in Europe will be the norm by 2035, analysis shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/europe/record-heat-climate-analysis-summer-2035-intl-scli/index.html

* "Forest fires burn twice as many trees as two decades ago, report finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/24/forest-fires-trees-burn/

* "Wildfires rage as China's Chongqing suffers unrelenting record heat wave:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/china/china-heat-wave-chongqing-wildfires-intl-hnk/index.html

* "China’s summer heat wave is breaking all records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/24/china-drought-heat-wave-climate-change/

* "Firefighters battle the East Fire northeast of Glendora, California:" https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/08/25/firefighters-battle-the-east-fire-northeast-of-glendora-california/

* "The world has never seen a heat wave quite like China's 70-day streak:" https://www.axios.com/2022/08/22/china-heat-wave-drought-unprecedented

* "Pakistan Hit by Deadly Floods of ‘Epic Proportions’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/world/asia/pakistan-flood.html

* "Wildlife under stress as dry spell shrinks rivers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62465805

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* It looks like it wasn't a murder after all. Seriously, folks, be careful when out in nature. Just because it's pretty doesn't mean it's safe. "Human foot found in Yellowstone hot spring may be linked to July death:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/08/20/foot-yellowstone-hot-spring/

* "The Bigger This Fungus Gets, the Worse We’re Doing:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/humongous-fungus-climate-change-biggest-organism/671109/

* "Rising seas threaten the Gullah Geechee culture. Here's how they're fighting back.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rising-seas-threaten-the-gullah-geechee-culture-heres-how-theyre-fighting-back

* "Eastern Kentucky's people looked for a fresh start after coal. Then came the floods:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/05/1116036174/eastern-kentucky-floods-recovery-efforts

* "Infrastructure damage hampers flood recovery in Kentucky:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-kentucky-weather-emergency-management-6971f52cd2cc0cc79da8553dbc5d38f4

* "Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming:" https://www.propublica.org/article/mia-mottley-barbados-imf-climate-change#1376580

* "America’s biggest financial threat isn’t government spending. It’s the cost of climate change:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90778129/americas-biggest-financial-threat-isnt-government-spending-its-the-cost-of-climate-change

* "These communities are trapped in harm’s way as climate disasters mount:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/08/these-communities-are-trapped-in-harms-way-as-climate-disasters-mount/

* "California air agency to ban sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/24/california-air-agency-to-ban-sales-of-gasoline-powered-cars-by-2035-00053547

* "We used to force oil companies to clean up their messes. Why is climate change different?:" https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3597154-we-used-to-force-oil-companies-to-clean-up-their-messes-why-is-climate-change-different/

* "Federal study: New climate law to slice carbon pollution 40%:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-science-united-states-pollution-climate-and-environment-2f4438895e15c8292aa37a987758d0e0

* "US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-forests-trees-plants-de0505c965c198a081a4b48084b0e903

* "Saving the sequoias:" https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-WILDFIRES/YOSEMITE/zjvqkbqodvx/index.html

* "The race to reclaim the dark:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220614-the-crusade-for-darker-night-skies

* "How The Thames, Once a 'Zombie River,' Was Brought Back to Life:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zombie-river-thames

* "Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland:" https://undark.org/2022/08/01/mexican-farmers-and-scientists-share-a-mission-saving-a-wetland/

* "How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia:" https://hakaimagazine.com/news/how-indigenous-sea-gardens-produced-massive-amounts-of-food-for-millennia/

* "What's in a name? Illinois hopes to make invasive carp fish more palatable:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whats-name-illinois-hopes-make-invasive-carp-fish-more-palatable-2022-08-10/

* "A sacred area for native Hawaiians is filling up with trash. Crews are 'fighting the onslaught.':" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/07/hawaii-papahanaumokuakea-marine-national-monument-debris-cleanup/10248143002/?gnt-cfr=1

* "Voyage of the Gross:" https://www.curbed.com/2022/08/nyc-trash-landfill-incineration-recycling-compost-voyage-gross.html

* "'The Sacrifice Zone': Myanmar bears cost of green energy:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-forests-myanmar-75df22e8d7431a6757ea4a426fbde94c

* "‘The Sun has changed my life’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-62482251

* "How Los Angeles is Restoring its Ancient River System into an Urban Green Oasis:"

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* "A former employee accuses Twitter of big security lapses in a whistleblower complaint:" https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119071586/twitter-whistleblower-complaint-elon-musk-security-bots-fake-users

* "Facebook parent Meta posts first revenue decline in history:" https://apnews.com/article/meta-first-ever-revenue-decline-a7632a8ef1a970dc69753980e03c026b

* "Facebook misses misinformation in Brazilian election ads:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/facebook-misses-misinformation-in-brazilian-election-ads

* "Hawaii seeks end to strife over astronomy on sacred mountain:" https://apnews.com/article/astronomy-science-technology-cultures-mauna-kea-545c06092561df27421b6fe48d2985dd

* "Why We Need to Study Nothing:" https://nautil.us/why-we-need-to-study-nothing-22553/

* "Breathtaking New Photos Show Jupiter's Hypnotic Swirling Storms, And How Is This Real?:" https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-storm-vortices-swirl-at-the-north-pole-of-jupiter-in-new-juno-pic

* "The Coziest Spot on the Moon:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/moon-lunar-pits-comfortable-temperature/670991/

* "Scientists discover "first of its kind" triple star system:" https://www.axios.com/2022/07/30/space-triple-star-system-astronomy

* "‘They said it was impossible’: how medieval carpenters are rebuilding Notre Dame:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-medieval-carpenters-guledon

* "The Social, The History Of Women’s Body Hair Removal:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083x6t8

* "Hershey says it won't be able to meet Halloween demand this year:" https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/28/business/hershey-halloween/index.html

* Friday I discovered that I am now dangerously allergic to Cantaloupe. My throat didn't close all the way, so I didn't die, but the swelling in my mouth was scary and bad things happened in my throat. I appear to be also reactive to honeydew and cucumber, though not to that extent. Sigh. More beloved foods lost forever. I spent the weekend trying to recover. There is still a bad patch at the back of my mouth and I'm still tired and generally ick, butt this is nuisance level from a chronic pain perspective.

Monday was disability assessment, which I had completely forgotten. Luckily I had just gotten back from the bathroom as it's super long. Normally I like to be at my desk where I have better access for things like checking my meds, since I have the bottles there for the dailies instead of just presort med trays and emergency PRN bottles.

Tuesday, I spent a stupid amount of time at the Seelie dentist. We have a good mold, and they sealed my tooth, and replaced my temp with a preliminary. It is the same amount of be super careful what and how one eats, but now if I fuck up I don't get a second root canal (not covered), I just get pain and have to go in for a replacement preliminary. I'm going to try not to fuck up, but the stakes being lower is a huge fucking help. They kept remarking on what a good/easy patient I am. I have no anxiety and mostly just meditate unless they need me to do something.

Did I mention Seelie Dentist’s intake form had a section right under legal name for preferred name and pronouns and they were all super polite and seemed really competent. 10/10 would recommend and I’d make them my regular dentist if I weren’t already a patient at poverty clinic, where they also are super good with trans patients.
I got back just in time to see if Head Millennial wanted pick up. (I usually collect them downtown and we do errands on Wednesdays, but he was meant to take the bus as I had no clue how long crown preliminary would take). It was cool in the morning, but melting hot in the late afternoon, and we were dishrags by the time we got back to the air conditioning, so I told them to do bare minimum after their break and took them home.

* Techie Millennial and I hung out Thursday, which is something we haven't done much lately between assorted things going on in both our lives. We had a great time and got a lot of stuff done.

* A trans friend of a friend in Florida needs money for a few months while she deals with the bureaucracy to move in with relatives in Canada, and she are happy to move literally anywhere in the United states.

She has found temporary housing, but needs money for the move:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/trans-girl-needs-a-new-home?member=21261213&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EllieDMox

* "The Sandman creator Neil Gaiman ruthlessly hits back at troll's moaning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/24/the-sandman-neil-gaiman-woke-twitter-reply/

* "Go behind the scenes of "A League of Their Own" with trans actor Lea Robinson:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/go-behind-the-scenes-of-a-league-of-their-own-with-trans-actor-lea-robinson/ar-AA10wVUR

* "ALOTO's Lea Robinson on Queer Family and What Connects Us:" https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alotos-lea-robinson-queer-family-164042937.html

* I hope this show sinks like a stone. "Stunt workers' fury over Lord of the Rings injuries:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/stunt-workers-fury-over-lord-of-the-rings-injuries/2IGAURQ4XGCS3FCBB2IGUI4WVU/

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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.

* A trans friend of a friend in Florida needs money for a few months while she deals with the bureaucracy to move in with relatives in Canada, and she is happy to move literally anywhere in the United states.

She has found temporary housing, but needs money for the move:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/trans-girl-needs-a-new-home?member=21261213&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/EllieDMox

* Fundraiser for a librarian under threat for Fighting Censorship: https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fees-for-librarian-amanda-jones

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* "Strike paralyzes Lebanon as economic conditions worsen:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/strike-paralyzes-lebanon-amid-worsening-economic-conditions/2022/01/13/9e80dedc-744f-11ec-a26d-1c21c16b1c93_story.html

* "Portraits of fear and loss:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/women-life-taliban-afghanistan/?itid=mr_world_1

* "Russia moves more troops westward amid Ukraine tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/moscow-russia-europe-belarus-ukraine-555703583c8f9d54bd42e60aca895590

* "Sen. Murphy: We should be very worried about war in Europe over Russia-Ukraine tensions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-facing-100-000-russian-troops-amassed-on-its-border-discussed-by-sen-chris-murphy-131253829691

* "The Day After Russia Attacks:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-01-21/day-after-russia-attacks

* "Biden predicts Russian invasion of Ukraine, but "minor incursion" may prompt discussion over consequences:" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/joe-biden-press-conference-01-19-22/h_699d89bb5c17489b49a54ae70409fbca

* "Tory MP claims No 10 ‘blackmailing’ rebels as Wakeford says funding was threatened before he defected – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jan/20/boris-johnson-conservatives-tory-labour-latest-updates

* This is from tumblr, but it's an excellent summary of the Boris Johnson cluster of scandals: https://becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys.tumblr.com/post/673901375516753920/hoo-boy-the-circus-is-in-town-this-week-lads-i

* "As an MP, I've had death threats and been attacked, but I will never be silenced:" https://metro.co.uk/2022/01/07/as-an-mp-ive-had-death-threats-and-been-attacked-i-wont-be-silenced-15881199/

* "Woman jailed for death threats to Bradford MP Naz Shah:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/14/naz-shah-mp-death-threats-sundas-alam-jailed

* "‘Unpalletable’: Scott Morrison hits reverse on plan to allow under-18s to drive forklifts:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/20/unpalletable-scott-morrison-hits-reverse-on-plan-to-allow-under-18s-to-drive-forklifts

* "Kenyan vigilantes taking on avocado gangs:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59989656

* "Belgian court jails trafficking gang leader for Vietnamese truck deaths:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/belgian-court-jails-trafficking-gang-leader-vietnamese-truck-deaths-2022-01-19/

* "China's births fall in 2021, as workforce shrinks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinas-birth-rate-falls-2021-workforce-shrinks-rcna12446

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* "Study shows COVID-19 vaccines offer lasting protection:" https://uncnews.unc.edu/2022/01/12/study-shows-covid-19-vaccines-offer-lasting-protection/

* "Association of vaccination status with Long COVID symptoms:" https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220110/Association-of-vaccination-status-with-Long-COVID-symptoms.aspx

* "COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near:" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00100-3/fulltext

* "Biden acknowledges his team should have done more COVID testing earlier:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/19/1073825012/biden-press-conference-covid-19-aid-infrastructure

* "White House to distribute 400 million free N95 masks starting next week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/19/free-n95-masks/

* "“We’re about to catch on fire”: Inside a Texas hospital battling omicron and staffing shortages:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/17/texas-hospital-omicron-staff-nurses/

* "For Texas children, COVID-19 hospitalizations are outpacing vaccinations:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/14/texas-covid-19-children-hospitalizations/

* "COVID cases are at an all-time high in Mississippi. Are vaccination rates following?:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2022/01/17/covid-19-surges-mississippi-vaccination-rate-stays-stagnant/6539131001/

* "Alabama health leaders worried about youth COVID numbers:" https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/local/alabama-health-officials-concerned-rising-number-kids-covid/525-7f7f1e6f-5140-4789-b345-a5f86dbc302e

* "COVID not going away even after omicron wave peaks in Alabama, expert says:" https://www.al.com/coronavirus/2022/01/covid-not-going-away-even-after-omicron-wave-peaks-in-alabama-expert-says.html

* "Northeast TN COVID case rate up 86% in a week, just off record high:" https://www.wjhl.com/local-coronavirus-coverage/northeast-tn-covid-case-rate-up-86-in-a-week-just-off-record-high/

* "Indiana House passes bill restricting employer vaccine mandates despite COVID-19 surge:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/18/indiana-house-passes-bill-restricting-vaccine-mandates-hb-1001/6529347001/

* "'Everyone is so tired': Inside IU Health Methodist as it is overwhelmed by COVID patients:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/01/13/indiana-covid-19-patients-iu-health-methodist-overwhelmed-coronavirus-pandemic/9135493002/

* "Indiana schools buckling under weight of eye-popping new record for COVID-19 cases:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2022/01/18/covid-indiana-schools-cases-last-week-double-previous-record/6561727001/

* "COVID-19 hits Missouri nursing homes again; staff hard hit:" https://www.ky3.com/2022/01/14/covid-19-hits-missouri-nursing-homes-again-staff-hard-hit/

* "As COVID-19 surges, Rhode Island Hospital welcomes help from military medical team:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/01/13/us-military-medical-team-dispatched-by-biden-welcomed-ri-hospitals-covid-cases-surge/6512218001/

* "New Hampshire hospitalizations rise as COVID-19 cases continue to hit record levels:" https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-hospitalizations-covid-19-cases-january-13-2022/38760941#

* "What the Omicron Wave Looks Like at One Brooklyn E.R.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/nyregion/brooklyn-omicron-cases.html

* "Gorsuch didn't mask despite Sotomayor's COVID worries, leading her to telework:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073428376/supreme-court-justices-arent-scorpions-but-not-happy-campers-either

* "Justice Sotomayor works remotely due to apparent occupational hazard:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/justice-sotomayor-works-remotely-due-to-apparent-occupational-hazard-131159109913

* Why Covid is so much worse than the death rate: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/674056022331162624

* "Have I finally found the right word?:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1819999.html

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* "Newly Declassified Video Shows U.S. Killing of 10 Civilians in Drone Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike-video.html

* "‘Give Manchin the pen’: Markey, Khanna on how to get climate in Build Back Better:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-give-manchin-the-pen-markey-khanna-on-how-to-get-climate-in-build-back-better-131437125850

* "Chris Hayes: Lawmakers must prioritize climate in the Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-lawmakers-must-prioritize-climate-in-the-build-back-better-bill-131437125721

* "Sec. Buttigieg: We’re focused on making infrastructure jobs more workers of color, women:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-s-first-anniversary-infrastructure-bill-administration-s-plans-discussed-by-transportation-sec-buttigieg-131351621575

* "BNSF Railroad Tries to Block 17,000 Workers From Striking:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2022-01-19/bnsf-railroad-tries-to-block-17-000-workers-from-striking

* "Wisconsin Judge Orders At-Will Employees to Stay at Jobs:" https://themountain.news/news/wisconsin-judge-orders-at-will-employees-to-stay-at-jobs

* "Voting bill collapses, Democrats unable to change filibuster:" https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-joe-biden-kyrsten-sinema-elections-voting-f6c2cfd9f79a1658c2998f3b7b14588d

* "Rep. Sewell: "A high sign of hypocrisy" that lawmakers who approved Voting Rights Act in 2006 won't act now:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-sewell-a-high-sign-of-hypocrisy-that-lawmakers-who-approved-voting-rights-act-in-2006-won-t-act-now-130992197829

* "Jonathan Capehart explains why he's worried about democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/jonathan-capehart-explains-why-he-s-worried-about-democracy-130994245730

* "Voting rights activists see hope in fight for access to the ballot:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/voting-rights-activists-see-hope-in-fight-for-access-to-the-ballot-130994757844

* "Congressional Black Caucus chair offers political warning to voting rights opponents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congressional-black-caucus-chair-offers-political-warning-to-voting-rights-opponents-131084869950

* "Dr. Bernice King: I think it's time for massive civil disobedience, noncooperation with evil:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/martin-luther-king-s-legacy-is-remembered-by-his-daughter-dr-bernice-king-131077189703

* "Marc Elias to GOP: Stop suppressing the vote, and I’ll stop suing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marc-elias-to-gop-stop-suppressing-the-vote-and-i-ll-stop-suing-131249221767

* "Senator Hassan shames Republicans for failure to stand up for democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-hassan-shames-republicans-for-failure-to-stand-up-for-democracy-131262533996

* "Protecting the Right to Vote: The Only Way to Safeguard LGBTQ+ Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/17/protecting-right-vote-only-way-safeguard-lgbtq-rights

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Idaho Supreme Court hears arguments over redistricting:" https://apnews.com/article/lawsuits-idaho-redistricting-boise-voting-districts-daef27a4d91bc6892753e9c449d2baae

* "DeSantis shakes up Florida redistricting as veto concerns grow:" https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2022/01/18/desantis-shakes-up-florida-redistricting-as-veto-concerns-grow-1405811

* "Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/poll-closures-rural-lincoln-county-georgia/index.html

* "A Wisconsin judge rules absentee ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072929277/a-wisconsin-judge-rules-absentee-ballot-drop-boxes-are-not-allowed-under-state-l

* "Texas rejects hundreds of mail ballot applications under new voting limits:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-rejects-hundreds-mail-ballot-applications-under-new-voting-limits-2022-01-18/

* "Republican voting restriction strategy already bearing fruit in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-voting-restriction-strategy-already-bearing-fruit-in-texas-131084869857

* "Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/trump-campaign-officials-rudy-giuliani-fake-electors/index.html

* "New Mexico Republican who signed bogus electoral certificate says he has 'no regrets whatsoever':" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mexico-republican-signed-bogus-electoral-000924926.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAINyCQrzPs6hkXAdjAHESwULWpkF6JBU29FbN0LShN8riN81g1tyGOKl3cbQCPOB9DnGbzYL3Hhlh_eUooETlQqUvT1zObgjUyxOBJjTFqlaStzo86br1tM0CaItqT-XgDkik_xFiMySv2ejcKtvbAEGEOdQVPg4NhZ2FKdajvAX

* "Legal line crossed? Nevada GOP’s faux electors draw scrutiny:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2022/jan/20/legal-line-crossed-nevada-gops-faux-electors-draw/

* "Milwaukee County prosecutor seeks to pass off case over fake electors to state or federal agencies:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/20/milwaukee-county-seeks-pass-case-over-fake-electors-wisconsin-ag/6591509001/

* "Michigan GOP co-chair says Trump campaign directed fake electors, per CNN audio:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2022/01/20/meshawn-maddock-donald-trump-fake-electors-cnn-audio/6599607001/

* "Will false Trump electors’ attempt to hijack the Georgia vote be punished?:" https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/01/18/will-false-trump-electors-attempt-hijack-the-georgia-vote-be-punished

* "Arizona's phony electors aren't patriots, they're traitors:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/01/14/phony-electors-jan-6-house-committee/6525978001/

* "Rudy Giuliani reportedly the ringleader of fake Trump elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rudy-giuliani-reportedly-the-ringleader-of-fake-trump-elector-scheme-131362373903

* "U.S. charges Texas man for threatening Georgia election officials:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-texas-man-threatening-georgia-government-officials-2022-01-21/

* "People Left Death Threats for Election Workers. We Called Them Back.:"

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* "DOJ task force brings first charges for threats against election workers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-task-force-brings-first-charges-for-threats-against-election-workers-131448389571

* "Republican hails infrastructure investment she bashed as 'socialism'; voted against it:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-hails-infrastructure-investment-she-bashed-as-socialism-voted-against-it-131449413701

* "One-on-one with outgoing Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and lessons learned from "the yearbook incident.":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/one-on-one-with-outgoing-virginia-gov-ralph-northam-and-lessons-learned-from-the-yearbook-incident-130994757727

* "Dem U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers on his viral campaign ad featuring cannabis smoking:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-uphold-texas-abortion-ban-as-roe-vs-wade-reaches-49-131440709935

* "Republicans enter 'post-election' phase, blindly disputing vote outcomes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-enter-post-election-phase-blindly-disputing-vote-outcomes-131085381986

* "MAGA hats and QAnon: Inside Trump’s first rally of 2022:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/16/trump-first-rally-2022-maga-527206

* "Trump shares stage with self-proclaimed Oath Keeper at Arizona rally:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-shares-stage-with-self-proclaimed-oath-keeper-at-arizona-rally-131075141612

* "New York attorney general's office says it has identified numerous 'misleading statements and omissions' in Trump Org. financial statements:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/politics/new-york-attorney-general-trump-organization-investigation/index.html

* "Trumps surprisingly uninsulated from sketchy accounting, court documents suggest:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trumps-surprisingly-uninsulated-from-sketchy-accounting-court-documents-suggest-131264581698

* "Court filings expose Trump pattern of exaggerating values of real estate holdings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/court-filings-expose-trump-pattern-of-exaggerating-values-of-real-estate-holdings-131264069797

* "DA for Atlanta area requests special grand jury to probe Trump's election interference:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/georgia-trump-grand-jury/index.html

* "Criminal investigation of Trump in Georgia takes key step with special grand jury request:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/criminal-investigation-of-trump-in-georgia-takes-key-step-with-special-grand-jury-request-131364421545

* "Even Trump’s Justices Rule Jan. 6 Panel Can See His Docs:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-court-allows-government-to-send-trump-docs-to-jan-6-panel

* "Draft document would have had Trump order seizure of voting machines, election equipment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/draft-document-would-have-had-trump-order-seizure-of-voting-machines-election-equipment-131448389745

* "Luria: 'Concerning' that Trump doc to seize voting machines was among official records:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/luria-concerning-that-trump-doc-to-seize-voting-machines-was-among-official-records-131437637513

* "Trump held secret meetings in days before Capitol attack, ex-press secretary tells panel:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/20/trump-secret-meetings-january-6-capitol-attack-stephanie-grisham

* "Rudy Giuliani among Trump allies subpoenaed by Jan. 6 panel:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-boris-epshteyn-bennie-thompson-donald-trump-subpoenas-871ecaecc54ffff987205684833850ed

* "Jan. 6 committee requests interview with Ivanka Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-bennie-thompson-elections-election-2020-b974bb17f8ce4ea0200f3b016e50176b

* "January 6th Committee uses evidence to paint Ivanka Trump into a corner on testifying:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-committee-uses-evidence-to-paint-ivanka-trump-into-a-corner-on-testifying-131365445516

* "January 6th probe tips its hand with eye-popping details in letter to Ivanka Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tips-its-hand-with-eye-popping-details-in-letter-to-ivanka-trump-131363397590

* "Mike Pence script change seems to address fake Trump elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mike-pence-script-change-seems-to-address-fake-trump-elector-scheme-131083845811

* "Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court

* "Justice Thomas ignores basic ethics where wife's activism, lobbying conflict with cases:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/justice-thomas-ignores-basic-ethics-where-wife-s-activism-lobbying-conflict-with-cases-131445829777

* "Elie Mystal: Justice Thomas is lone dissenter on issues that may implicate his wife in Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-must-recuse-on-issues-impacting-far-right-activist-elie-mystal-says-131439685792

* "Why Some Chinese Dissidents Love QAnon:"

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* "6 people have been injured in a mass shooting in Oregon:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/15/1073323357/six-people-have-been-injured-in-a-mass-shooting-in-oregon

* "What it was like inside the Colleyville, Texas, synagogue during the 11-hour hostage standoff:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/us/inside-texas-synagogue-hostage-standoff/index.html

* "The Invisible Violence of Carceral Food:" https://inquest.org/the-invisible-violence-of-carceral-food/

* "White Supremacy, 4 Years After Charlottesville:"

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* "The Necessity of Gay Crime | James Somerton:"

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* "The Spiral of John McAfee:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Catholic church suggests 12-year-old enjoyed abuse because he's gay :" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/16/catholic-abuse-poland-gay-priest-janusz-szymik/

* CW: Rape, Torture. "​​RAF accused of 'torturing' serviceman for days after finding out he was gay" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/17/raf-gay-torture/

* "Gracie Spinks death: Parents of 'stalking victim' call for law change:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-59913331

* "Supreme Court deals a setback to abortion providers' bid to quickly block Texas law:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court-denies-bid-to-send-case-back-to-federal-judge.html

* "Afghan tradition allows girls to access the freedom of boys:" https://apnews.com/article/bacha-posh-Kabul-Afghanistan-ad82563ff1ddae630ca0e5b52236172b

* "LGBT+ activist flees Jordan and is finally ‘supported, seen and heard’ in Australia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/16/jordan-lgbt-activism-australia-alshaima-omama-alzubi/

* It is amazing to me they solved this after all that time and got a conviction. I’m glad there will be some measure of justice. "Australian Man Convicted Over the 1988 Murder of Gay American:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/13/australian-man-convicted-over-1988-murder-gay-american-scott-johnson

* "Anti-Trans Legislative Push Starts Again in 2022:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/1/13/states-anti-trans-legislative-push-starts-again-2022

* "Police open homicide investigation after LGBT rights hero found dead in landfill:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/jorge-diaz-johnston-police-homicide-florida/

* "Gay Adult Performer Cole Connor Beaten, Mugged by Group of Men:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/20/gay-adult-performer-cole-connor-beaten-mugged-group-men

* "High Schooler Censored By School Administration Over Saying He's Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/14/high-schooler-censored-school-administration-over-saying-hes-gay

* "NCAA Adopts New Policy for Transgender Athletes:" https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2022-01-19/ncaa-adopts-new-policy-for-transgender-athletes

* "Brave and beautiful 11-year-old trans girl is finalist for TIME's Kid of the Year:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/20/kai-shappelly-trans-texas-time-kid-of-the-year/

* "Biden Admin Speaks Out About Blood Donation Policy for Queer Men:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2022/1/19/biden-admin-speaks-out-about-blood-donation-policy-queer-gay-bi-men

* "Locks of Love: Corporate Casket:"

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* "The Battle Over Psychedelic Therapy’s Future:"

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* "The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/magazine/military-burn-pits.html

* "Telehealth changes ‘devastating’ for psychiatry patients in regional areas:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/04/telehealth-changes-devastating-for-psychiatry-patients-in-regional-areas

* "Specialist mental health unit failures exposed by patients:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59964353

* "No way to Grow Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/briefing/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html

* "Epstein-Barr virus may be leading cause of multiple sclerosis:" https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/epstein-barr-virus-may-be-leading-cause-of-multiple-sclerosis/

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* "Two-Spirit activists explain why LGBT+ folk must unite against climate disaster:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/indigenous-environmental-activist-two-spirit-lgbt/

* "How the speed of climate change is unbalancing the insect world:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/11/climate-change-insect-world-global-heating-species

* "All homes on one of Tonga's islands destroyed, three dead:" https://www.reuters.com/world/significant-damage-reported-tongas-main-island-after-volcanic-eruption-2022-01-17/

* "Three Tiny Islands Have Borne the Brunt of Tonga’s Tsunami:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/asia/tonga-tsunami-volcano.html

* "‘Unacceptably high’ risk of tailings dam failure in Canadian miner’s Amazon project:" https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/unacceptably-high-risk-of-tailings-dam-failure-in-canadian-miners-amazon-project/

* "‘Like a work of art’: rare stretch of pristine coral reef discovered off Tahiti:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/20/like-a-work-of-art-rare-stretch-of-pristine-coral-reef-discovered-off-tahiti-age-of-extinction

* "New York's Central Park Becomes a Living Climate Laboratory:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-yorks-central-park-becomes-a-living-climate-laboratory/#

* "‘Tenants have no choice’: Racism in urban planning fuels high rate of Black fire deaths:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/tenants-no-choice-racism-urban-planning-fuels-high-rate-black-fire-dea-rcna11986

* "Other Countries Have Gates That Would Have Prevented NYC’s Subway Killing:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn7y5/other-countries-have-gates-that-would-have-prevented-nycs-subway-killing

* "Citizen scientists discover planet the size of Jupiter that NASA algorithms missed:" https://www.cnet.com/news/citizen-scientists-discover-planet-the-size-of-jupiter-that-nasa-algorithms-missed/

* " Why Elizabeth Holmes Was Convicted (and Also Acquitted) :"

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* "After rain burst, California salmon reclaim old spawning grounds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/after-rain-burst-california-salmon-reclaim-old-spawning-grounds-2022-01-19/

* "Study: Dolphins Have Lots of Lesbian Sex Due to Evolved Clitorises:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/18/study-dolphins-have-lots-lesbian-sex-due-evolved-clitorises

* CW: Torture, Rape, Incest "Caligula – Rome’s Mad Emperor:"

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* "Tikal: The Mayan City of the Jaguar God:"

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* "Niccolo Machiavelli: "It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both":"

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* "A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Cook:"

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* I was happier not knowing, and it's speculative, but ymmv. "Cold case team believes it has solved the mystery of who may have betrayed Anne Frank:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073618330/anne-frank-cold-case-investigation

* "The Black Arts Movement’s Revolution in the South:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/james-smethurst-black-arts-movement/

* "White Shoes, WASPs and Law Firms:" https://daily.jstor.org/white-shoes-wasps-and-law-firms/

* "Martin Luther King's Gay Best Friend // Bayard Rustin:"

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* "Singer Meat Loaf dies aged 74:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60080934

* "Iconic Vogue Editor André Leon Talley Has Died at Age 73:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/1/18/iconic-vogue-editor-andre-leon-talley-has-died-age-73

* "Biden’s 1st Year as POTUS: The Yays and Mehs:"

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* "Insurrection Investigation Committee Reveals GOP's Batshit Plan To Overturn 2020 Election:"

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* "Put Down Your Pandemic Pet: We’ve Got a COVID Mental Health Crisis:"

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* "Ingraham Angle Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Message from the President Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Eric Adams Press Conference - SNL:"

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* "Ranking Every 2021 Costume Drama on Historical Accuracy || "Ancient" - 18th Century:"

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* "What Hawkeye gets right about Deafness:"

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* "Winter Formal - SNL:"

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* "The Greatest Musical NEVER Made | Rogers the Musical the Documentary:"

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* "MacGruber: Coronavirus - SNL:"

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* "Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That):"

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* Rest in Peace, Man. "Rocky Horror Picture Show-Hot Patootie-Bless my soul:"

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* To our great surprise, I tested negative for COVID. I guess that booster shot, plus our best efforts at quarantine protocol worked. This means that last weekend's terrible cold symptoms really were a head cold. Which I thought I was mostly over, but apparently not. Sigh. Squirrel seems to have caught it despite masking and quarantining in his room. idk. Maybe the food and medicine packages I handed off by putting them outside his door?

By current CDC standards he'd have been out of quarantine earlier in the week, but we opted for the older, stricter standards because there is debate about the new ones. He was supposed to be out tomorrow, but his cold came with a sore throat and is significantly worse than mine was even last weekend, so idk.

Being out of quarantine, I did curbside library pick up, much to Tavy's delight and had an excellent game of cat in Bag followed by the Ribbon Game. The poor little button has been pining for Millenials and when he hears people passing outside in the late afternoon/early evening runs to the nearest window to check.

I actually did have enough to catch up bills and cover the medical copay thanks to all you benefactors, plus get kibbles for the cats, as Livia's special girl kibbles ran out last week. (Long term readers will remember Livia nearly dying as a teenager. She has to have a special diet to prevent a recurrence so I can just get them ocean friskies or the like.). I'm still expecting a car tab renewal bill and then it's time to work out how to pay this year's housing tax, but there is no point in panicking until the bills arrive. For now, the cat asylum is afloat. Ish.

I keep eyeing my last two burners with concern. I keep trying to work out what I want for dinner then remember I can't make the thing because the oven's dead. I've never lived with out an oven before; it's disturbing.

But for now, we are all alive if not well, and housed for which we are grateful.

* On Seward Johnson: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/673956797047013376/sam-i-have-an-important-chicago-question-just

* A Cool thing on costuming Geralt and Jaskier in the Witcher: https://tuulikki.tumblr.com/post/673328227570384896

* I watch a lot of shows and movies not originally in English. I am one of those people who really likes subtitles. I use them with English language stuff anyway, because it helps cover if I have sensory processing issues with the dialog, so watching subtitled foreign language stuff isn't that different for me. Subtitles mean you keep the original vocal performance that can really matter.

At the same time there are problems. They with use white subtitles on white backgrounds or black subtitles on dark backgrounds, t which point, why subtitle at all? They will sometimes make them too small, as if everyone is watching on a massive screen. They will sometimes cover something essential with words that I kind of need to see. (some productions will move the subtitles around so they stay in negative space. Some subtitles with be white in a black band to cut down on the lack of contrast issue).

Then there are all the people subtitles don't work for. My Mother's eyes weren't good enough the last several decades of her life, which was unfortunate as she was also HoH for about that long. It sucked a lot of fun out of her life to have to give up anything with subtitles or accented English or muddy sound design. There are people who don't have the vision or literacy level. There are people with dyslexia and the like.

Yes, dubbing exists, but it's often, frankly a mess. No translation is ever going to be perfect. it's a fundamental problem with subtitles too. No language maps one to one on another. Information is lost and/or added inevitable. Ambiguity is created or lost. Often the dubbed performance is frankly bad voice acting.

Sometimes it is an adequate performance, but doesn't remotely match the tone of the original performance. I notice this a lot with things dubbed out of French. I'm no longer fluent and mostly only speak it to cats, but I was fluent once and as long as there isn't a thick regional accent or too much technical vocabulary or unfamiliar slang or they aren't going extremely fast, I can usually still follow.

There is a tendency to hire people with English received pronunciation type accents to do the voices for french costume dramas and the results are terrible. You have all these restrained upper class English performances that not only lose the class and regional nuances, but they are sort of flat and restrained vocals over often intense physical performances. It is so dissonant it hurts my head. They lose the tone siblings use to tease and bicker; they lose the angry arguments between heroine and villain; they lose the passion and warmth between friends or lovers.

A lot of the 19th century french literature I read back in the day would do these clever and often playful things with formal and informal language: describe something intimate in formal language, do something formal with bits of intimate language tucked here and there, that sort of thing. There is a flavour to it that I often find in the french dialog and performances, that gets utterly lost in translation. 18th and 19th century English language dramas tend to go either formal or informal. They don't play back and forth much. Inevitably I switch it back to french.

I don't know if it's this bad for other languages, but it wouldn't surprise me. But what if they decided to do better? The foreign language things I watch most often are either Korean or French. I frequently see people in major roles who I know also speak English well enough to act beautifully in English language productions. Why the fuck don't they spend the money to hire them to do the dubbing for their own characters? I know there are plenty of people who act in more than one language. Speak German and french? Why not dub the other language too? I bet the original actor would be better at preserving the tone of the performance than a stranger.

For monolingual actors, you could hire someone with a similar class and regional accent who comes from the original language group but also speaks the target language, so there'd be a better chance of carrying original emotional tone and meaning across even where the words can't quite convey by themselves.

And hire people who are good voice actors instead of doing it the cheap. Would it be perfect, no, but it would be better than some goofy sounding bad actor or a performance so off tone as to make it hard to watch. It would be something at least.

* I was not and am still not convinced that Peacemaker ought to be foregrounded by giving him a show, however, I am legitimately appreciating how queer the show is. There's marvel over there to scared to do anything like good representation, the little hints designed to be clipped out for China. (Do not start me on the people who wrote Loki not understanding what "gender fluid" means. yes, it's nice they tried, but it's not exactly hard to google that, or hire a nonbinary person onto the writing staff. just saying). Meanwhile DC is doing a Batwoman, a show full of queer women characters, Doom Patrol, etc., and now Peacemaker with multiple lesbian and bi characters. Watching the opening credits for the first episode I was wondering, "Is that bisexual lighting on purpose? Are they teasing me?" No, no they were not. So points there.

I am concerned about things like their uneven lighting for characters of color and a number of things about the basic show design. On the one hand, the horrible racist/misogynist characters are consistently called out by disgusted other characters, and the narrative seems to be of the same opinion. At the same time, having a horrible racist and misogynist right wing character as the main character the show is named after, even if they are clearly not the good guy has a messy history. Carrol O'Conner was a strong civil rights advocate, but an awful lot of right wing folks liked Archie Bunker and took that character as permission. Similarly, the Colbert Report was an elaborate mock of the Right, but a lot of the right didn't get the joke and took him for serious. The things Peacemaker and his father say are clearly terrible. That doesn't mean they won't reinforce that in our culture.

I like the women in this. A lot. I appreciate the horrifying psychopath friend/sidekick and associated humor. I appreciate the ruthless way the narrative and other characters treat Peacemaker. At the same time? I am afraid of where this is going. I do not want him to win over the blond agent. I am scared of an easy redemption arc that rewards him without drastic fucking change. Maybe it will be okay, but I don't trust like that. I'm sticking with it for now. Warily.

* "Sunday Sweets: Watercolor Cakes:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/23/sunday-sweets-watercolor-cakes

* "Stray Cats Save Osaka Restaurant from Going Out of Business During Pandemic:" https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2022/01/13/diorama-restaurant-stray-cats/

* "Sunday Sweets: Pretty as a Peacock:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/16/sunday-sweets-pretty-as-a-peacock

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Lebanon's soul has been eviscerated by its financial crisis. Not even the children want to play:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/middleeast/lebanon-crisis-children-cmd-intl/index.html

* "Russia lists Pussy Riot member, art collector and satirist as 'foreign agents':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/europe/pussy-riot/index.html

* "Lesbian Pop Star Denise Ho Arrested by Hong Kong Authorities:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/30/lesbian-pop-star-denise-ho-arrested-hong-kong-authorities-cantopop-china

* "The mob killing of a factory manager in Pakistan comes amid surge in anti-blasphemy violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/24/pakistan-blasphemy-violence-labbaik/?itid=mr_world_4

* "“Meet a Jew,” Germany’s New Scheme to Convince the Country That Jews Are People:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/12/meet-a-jew-germany-anti-semitism-crime.html

* "‘My grandmother hid Jewish children’: Poland’s underground refugee network:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/dec/24/my-grandmother-hid-jewish-children-polands-underground-refugee-network

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* "WHO: global COVID cases up 11% last week, omicron risk high:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/who-global-covid-cases-up-11-last-week-omicron-risk-high.html

* "FDA: Antigen tests may have reduced sensitivity detecting Omicron:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/fda-antigen-tests-reduced-sensitivity-omicron-526217

* "You might get a breakthrough case of Covid-19 this winter. Here’s how to prepare.:" https://www.vox.com/22841985/breakthrough-covid-19-winter-positive-test-how-to-prepare

* "COVID cases surge in Lebanon ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/31/warnings-lebanon-covid-rising-figures

* "NHS trusts in England declare critical incidents amid Covid staff crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/03/several-nhs-trusts-declare-critical-incidents-amid-covid-staff-crisis

* "U.S. sets new daily high for Covid cases:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/28/us-new-daily-high-covid-526223

* "US children hospitalized with COVID in record numbers:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-children-hospitalized-covid-record-numbers-82004052

* "FDA Expands Pfizer Boosters for More Teens as Omicron Surges:" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-01-03/fda-expands-pfizer-boosters-for-more-teens-as-omicron-surges

* "Omicron makes up 95% of sequenced Covid cases in U.S. as infections hit pandemic record:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/04/omicron-makes-up-95percent-of-sequenced-covid-cases-in-us-as-infections-hit-pandemic-record.html

* "Hospitalizations spike amid rocketing Covid case counts; threat to hospitals renewed:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hospitalizations-spike-amid-rocketing-covid-case-counts-threat-to-hospitals-renewed-130067013845

* "Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/26/1066395049/intimate-portraits-of-a-hospital-covid-unit-from-a-photojournalist-turned-nurse

* "White House issues a warning to unvaccinated Americans as concerns about omicron grow:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/17/1065312060/white-house-issues-a-warning-to-unvaccinated-americans-as-concerns-about-omicron

* "Chris Hayes: How omicron’s contagiousness is changing the pandemic normal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-omicron-s-contagiousness-is-changing-the-pandemic-normal-129800261794

* "Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-pfizer-medication-f5f65e7e61d6aa9c7dfa193053e8878a

* "US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID & SARS Variants, Researchers Say:" https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/12/us-army-creates-single-vaccine-effective-against-all-covid-sars-variants/360089/

* "‘This was the moment’: CDC defends altered guidance amid Omicron surge:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/29/cdc-defends-new-covid-guidelines-526234

* "Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-pandemics-london-7004e1f1b1847b9831623e6adcedb5f3

* "Covid-19 surges spark chain reactions that strain US hospitals everywhere:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22849829/covid-omicron-variant-cases-surge-us-hospitals

* "Florida breaks state record for COVID-19 cases again, for 4th time in 7 days:" https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/florida-breaks-state-record-for-covid-19-cases-again-fourth-time-in-7-days/

* "Orange Mayor Demings blasts DeSantis, expands COVID-19 testing, requires masks for employees:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronavirus-orange-update-12-28-20211229-3xmrumwt45gllkym5su6jz26nq-story.html

* "Dem Florida gov. candidate Nikki Fried calls out DeSantis’s lack of visibility as Omicron surges:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-ron-desantis-appears-to-be-missing-in-action-as-omicron-sweeps-across-his-state-129803845777

* "Activist claims DeSantis ‘decided to just sit back, do nothing’ as Covid surged in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-largely-missing-from-public-from-december-17-through-new-year-s-eve-as-covid-surged-130060869600

* "Despite vaccines, more Texans died of COVID-19 in 2021 than in first year of pandemic:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/coronavirus/article/Despite-vaccines-Texas-COVID-deaths-35-higher-16722967.php

* "Omicron is sidelining even health care workers as it rips through Texas:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/28/omicron-texas-covid-19/

* "Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations rise more than 11% in a day:" https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/hospitalizations/texas-covid-19-hospitalizations-rise-more-than-11-in-a-day/

* "R.I. health care system ‘is currently collapsing,’ emergency doctors warn :" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/18/metro/ri-health-care-system-is-currently-collapsing-emergency-doctors-warn/

* "Frustrated emergency doctor says R.I. isn’t doing enough to address health system ‘collapse’:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/21/metro/frustrated-emergency-doctor-says-ri-isnt-doing-enough-address-health-system-collapse/

* "Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying 'at a rate we've never seen die before' -- and it's taking a toll on health care workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/us/hospital-covid-19-deaths-michigan/index.html

* "Surge in COVID-19 cases overwhelms Indianapolis hospitals:" https://www.wishtv.com/news/vaccinecentral/surge-in-covid-19-cases-overwhelms-indianapolis-hospitals/

* "'There's going to be opposition': Indiana lawmakers prep to fast track vaccine mandate bill:" https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/17/covid-indiana-lawmakers-prep-fast-track-vaccine-mandate-bill/8925925002/

* "Nearly two-thirds of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire unvaccinated, report says:" https://www.wmur.com/article/nearly-two-thirds-of-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-in-new-hampshire-unvaccinated-report-says/38628992

* "Inside a New Hampshire hospital overwhelmed by COVID:" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/12/20/covid-cases-overwhelm-new-england-hospitals

* "About 25% of Ohio coronavirus tests are coming back positive. Gov. Mike DeWine says actual positivity is higher.:" https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/12/about-25-of-ohio-coronavirus-tests-are-coming-back-positive-gov-mike-dewine-says-actual-positivity-is-higher.html

* "Ohio hospital saw pediatric COVID-related hospitalizations triple in the last week:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ohio-hospital-pediatric-covid-related-hospitalizations-triple-in-the-last-week/530-3228dfd1-2f0b-4a15-9956-de0267ca8fdd

* "More Ohio hospitals postpone surgeries as COVID cases rise:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/more-ohio-hospitals-postpone-surgeries-covid-cases-rise/530-4c8f04ca-8fe4-4125-8250-a71c16e970b3

* "‘We’re begging you’: Ohio hospitals have more COVID-19 patients in emergency rooms than ever before:" https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/12/20/were-begging-you-ohio-hospitals-have-more-covid-19-patients-emergency-rooms-than-ever-before/

* "'Nurses are at a breaking point': Union sounds plea as healthcare workers face continuing COVID-19 surge:" https://www.kare11.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/nurses-breaking-point-minnesota-nurses-association-pleas-healthcare-workers-covid-19-surge/89-1dd21ed7-fa65-4926-8432-0ab1860471ed

* "Mississippi in 5th wave of COVID-19, state health official says:" https://www.wapt.com/article/msdh-issues-updated-guidance-on-omicron-covid-19-treatments/38635488

* "COVID-19 cases to climb even higher as students return to school, health officials say:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/12/28/mississippi-covid-cases-rise-sharply-going-into-new-year/9035370002/

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations up dramatically in Missouri:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-st-louis-kansas-city-missouri-44e8dc99f89b812fecbe01c7b9c5a3ba

* "COVID cases surge in Kansas City as the new year arrives: here are three key takeaways:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256930162.html

* "Alabama adds 5,900 new COVID cases, positivity rate hits all-time high:" https://www.al.com/news/2021/12/alabama-covid-positivity-rate-at-all-time-high-nearly-6000-new-cases-reported-wednesday.html

* "COVID-19 hospitalizations, school cases increasing in Alabama:" https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/12/22/covid-alabama-coronavirus-cases-hospitals-schools-omicron-variant/8998336002/

* "COVID-19 cases continue to rise in New Jersey:" https://abc7ny.com/covid-in-new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-restrictions-coronavirus-updates/11361136/

* "NJ's Largest Hospital System Expects Hospitalizations to Exceed Worst of 2020 Soon:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/njs-largest-hospital-system-expects-hospitalizations-to-exceed-worst-of-2020-soon/3473230/

* "Inmates at NYC's Rikers Island jail in the midst of 'emerging crisis' related to Omicron surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/omicron-surge-rikers-jail/index.html

* Why are cruises still a thing? "3rd Florida-based ship has outbreak, state cases hit record:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/3rd-florida-based-ship-outbreak-state-cases-rise-81932406

* "People should avoid cruise travel regardless of their vaccination status, the CDC says:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/12/30/1069253312/cdc-cruise-ship-travel-covid-19

* "Fauci on Fox’s Jesse Watters: He ‘should be fired on the spot’:" https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/fauci-on-foxs-jesse-watters-he-should-be-fired-on-the-spot/

* "Extremists shifting attention to influencing local governments expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/u-s-sets-global-record-of-one-million-covid-cases-reported-monday-130145349717

* "Anti-vaccination protesters targeted a Cheesecake Factory — 6 were arrested:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-vaxxer-protesers-cheesecake-factory-arrests/

* "Congress' doctor urges lawmakers to work remotely and upgrade masks as omicron rages:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1070037412/covid-congress-house-senate-omicron

* "Congress' attending physician says there are "unprecedented" cases of Covid throughout the complex. :" https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-3-2022/omicron-swamps-the-hill/

* "Pentagon Chief Austin Says He Has Tested Positive for COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/pentagon-chief-austin-says-he-has-tested-positive-for-covid

* "Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker test positive for Covid amid US Omicron surge:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/19/elizabeth-warren-tests-positive-covid-omicron-surge

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* "Alexander Vindman supports arming Ukrainians to make Russian attack ‘less palatable’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-joe-biden-spoke-to-vladimir-putin-as-russian-troops-remain-stationed-at-ukrainian-border-129874501741

* "No surprise, Donald Trump just endorsed Hungary homophobe Viktor Orbán:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/donald-trump-viktor-orban-hungary-election-lgbt-rights/

* "The Human Toll of America’s Air Wars:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/magazine/victims-airstrikes-middle-east-civilians.html

* "Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into US:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-immigration-massachusetts-kabul-taliban-8ea41eef2c1e1735d748fcb796faccab

* "Biden to speak with Putin on Thursday at Russian leader's request:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/politics/biden-putin-call/index.html

* "Dems fight back against GOP accusations of being weak on Russia: "That dog won't hunt!":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/06/smacked-down-on-senate-floor-for-calling-dems-soft-on-russia-that-dog-wont-hunt_partner/

* "How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken):"

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* "White House unveils plan to replace every lead pipe in the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-unveils-plan-replace-every-lead-pipe-u-s-n1286079

* "Biden’s Pick for Banking Regulator Pulls Out After ‘Inappropriate Personal Attacks’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/saule-omarova-bidens-pick-for-banking-regulator-withdraws-after-inappropriate-personal-attacks

* "Biden finishes 2021 with most confirmed judicial picks since Reagan:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/biden-finishes-2021-with-most-confirmed-judicial-picks-since-reagan-2021-12-28/

* And yet Manchin insists we can’t afford the infrastructure Bill. "Biden signs $768B defense policy bill that supersized his original Pentagon request:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/27/biden-signs-defense-policy-bill-526171

* "Manchin says he won't vote for Build Back Better Act:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-manchin-build-back-better/index.html

* "Corporate donations to Sen. Joe Manchin's PAC surged as he fought President Biden's agenda:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/joe-manchin-pac-saw-surge-of-corporate-donations-as-he-fought-biden-agenda.html

* "As Congress fails on climate (again), focus turns to executive options for Biden:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-congress-fails-on-climate-again-focus-turns-to-executive-options-for-biden-129880645576

* "They Are Essential Workers. They Pay Taxes. But They've Been Largely Excluded from Pandemic Aid.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/12/15/essential-but-excluded

* "The Undercover Anarchists’ Secret Construction Collective:" https://narratively.com/the-undercover-anarchists-secret-construction-collective/

* "Hostile Architecture: The Fight Against the Homeless:"

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* "Supply shortages and emboldened workers: A changed economy:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-health-business-prices-66e5f5612c0a56c18ac218425e2cd20a

* "The world as we know it is ending. Why are we still at work?:" https://www.vox.com/2021/12/16/22837830/covid-pandemic-climate-change-great-resignation-2021

* "Senate parliamentarian rejects latest Dem proposal on immigration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/16/senate-parliamentarian-rejects-latest-dem-proposal-on-immigration-525195

* "Senate Democrats renew focus on voting rights as domestic policy bill stalls and filibuster changes are considered:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/voting-rights-filibuster-manchin/2021/12/15/3492c0b0-5de5-11ec-ae5b-5002292337c7_story.html

* "Politics expert asks: Will Democratic leaders really listen to voters in 2022?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/senate-majority-leader-chuck-schumer-has-promised-a-vote-on-the-build-back-better-bill-in-2022-129873989697

* "'This is it': Swalwell warns 2022 could be last election if GOP wins majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-it-swalwell-warns-2022-could-be-last-election-if-gop-wins-majority-130056261886

* "Historian: We must protect democracy in 2022, or lose it forever.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/historian-we-must-protect-democracy-in-2022-or-lose-it-forever-129969221954

* "How Out Texas Rep. Celia Israel Put Voting Rights First in 2021:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/12/16/how-out-texas-rep-celia-israel-put-voting-rights-first-2021

* "Schumer tries to jump-start Dems with rules change threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/03/schumer-threatens-vote-on-senate-rules-change-in-january-526394

* "Sen. Schumer on Manchin, Sinema: We've got to keep pressing them on voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-chuck-schumer-vows-vote-on-senate-filibuster-rules-changes-to-advance-voting-rights-legislation-130058821956

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Lincoln County, Georgia, Where The Population Is One-Third Black, Proposes Closing Down All But One Polling Place:" https://www.theroot.com/lincoln-county-georgia-where-the-population-is-one-th-1848257870

* "Washington redistricting commission sued over transparency issues as behind-the-scenes dealings emerge:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lawsuit-washington-redistricting-commission-violated-open-meetings-law/

* "Political stakes are high as trial begins in NC gerrymandering lawsuit:" https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article257010887.html

* "Congressional redistricting hits the Ohio Supreme Court:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/12/29/congressional-redistricting-hits-the-ohio-supreme-court/

* We still have a fighting chance if we all turn out next November. "Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/democrats-are-doing-weirdly-well-in-redistricting.html

* "Republicans hit snags deploying gerrymandering strategy to strengthen grip on power:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-hit-snags-deploying-gerrymandering-strategy-to-strengthen-grip-on-power-129879109973

* "'Slow-motion insurrection': How GOP seizes election power:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-united-states-elections-electoral-college-election-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

* "Colorado Election Fraud Group Is Training Conspiracists in Other States to Knock Doors in Search of 'Phantom Ballots':" https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2021/10/colorado-election-fraud-group-is-training-conspiracists-in-other-states-to-knock-doors-in-search-of-phantom-ballots/39935/

* "A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don’t want you to know about it:" https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/12/06/utah-group-is-going-door/

* "Amid Texas GOP’s effort to question electoral integrity, attorney general tried to indict Travis County elections chief:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/20/texas-ken-paxton-travis-county-elections/

* "‘A real conflagration’: Wisconsin emerges as front line in war over the 2020 vote:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-2020-vote-battle/2021/12/16/6c585248-5931-11ec-9a18-a506cf3aa31d_story.html

* "Most threats against election workers, stoked by Trump's Big Lie, go unpunished: Reuters :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/most-threats-against-election-workers-stoked-by-trump-s-big-lie-go-unpunished-reuters-129878597732

* "Trump aide admits he was behind meeting with Kanye West publicist and Georgia election worker:" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2070502

* "Eric Adams becomes New York City's 110th mayor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/eric-adams-becomes-new-york-city-s-110th-mayor-129969733747

* "‘National divorce:’ Congresswoman openly advocates end to American democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-national-divorce-congresswoman-openly-advocates-end-to-american-democracy-129871429742

* "Dominion Voting wins key decision in lawsuit against Fox News:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/media/fox-news-court-dominion/index.html

* "Twitter Bans Personal Greene Account for COVID-19 Misinfo:" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-01-02/twitter-bans-personal-greene-account-for-covid-19-misinfo

* "GOP Candidate Claims Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Not Gay, Is Abuser:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/16/gop-candidate-claims-colorado-gov-jared-polis-not-gay-abuser

* "Herschel Walker stumbles badly on John Lewis, voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/herschel-walker-stumbles-badly-john-lewis-voting-rights-n1286559

* "3 retired generals: The military must prepare now for a 2024 insurrection:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/17/eaton-taguba-anderson-generals-military/

* "GOP blows off Trump’s bid to oust McConnell:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/gop-trump-oust-mcconnell-525207

* "Trump sues NY attorney general, seeking to halt civil probe:" https://apnews.com/article/business-new-york-lawsuits-donald-trump-albany-8cd1fd3c9dc206a5b563116f3966f2a4

* "GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump’s legal bills in N.Y. probes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republican-party-trump-legal-bills-new-york-probe/2021/12/16/08af4524-5c3f-11ec-9c0e-a955f8a009c1_story.html

* "New York attorney general subpoenas Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/donald-trump-jr-ivanka-trump-new-york-attorney-general

* "Subpoenas for Ivanka, Trump Jr suggest NY AG investigation entering final stages:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/subpoenas-for-ivanka-trump-jr-suggest-ny-ag-investigation-entering-final-stages-130065477932

* "The U.S. military men spreading Trump’s baseless fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-military/

* "Cheney: January 6 committee has 'firsthand testimony' that Ivanka asked Trump to intervene during insurrection:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/bennie-thompson-trump-capitol-insurrection/index.html

* "Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/27/capitol-attack-panel-investigate-trump-call-willard-hotel-before-assault

* House panel asks Supreme Court to say by mid-January whether it's taking Trump's January 6 records case":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-records-january-6/

* "Why the ‘consensus opinion’ during and right after Jan. 6 is worth remembering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-the-consensus-opinion-during-and-right-after-jan-6-is-worth-remembering-130056773581

* "House committee seeks to interview GOP firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan about January 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/jim-jordan-house-select-committee-january-6/index.html

* "Michael Flynn loses his legal challenge to the House January 6 probe, one day after filing it:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/politics/michael-flynn-january-6-lawsuit/index.html

* "Trump ally Straka has provided potentially significant information:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/trump-ally-brandon-straka-information-525272

* "January 6 committee sends letter to GOP Rep. Scott Perry, asking to interview him:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/20/politics/scott-perry-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Trump ally Roger Stone pleads the Fifth in deposition with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/roger-stone-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Capitol rioters' tears, remorse don't spare them from jail:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-rioters-prison-95bdc863812cab48be3d98ada67bd582

* "Judge: Lack of charges for Trump over Jan. 6 is no basis for leniency for others:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/17/judge-lack-charges-trump-jan-6-525277

* "Remembering the Jan. 6 insurrection: What it was like inside the Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/remembering-the-jan-6-insurrection-what-it-was-like-inside-the-capitol-129968709883

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "Capitol rioter told FBI he was "in the bathroom pooping when the violence occurred":" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/03/capitol-rioter-told-fbi-he-was-in-the-bathroom-pooping-when-the-violence-occurred_partner/

* "Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in Capitol riot:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/22/1066944829/matthew-greene-proud-boys-jan-6-capitol-pleads-guilty

* "'Jesus Christ Superstar' actor, an accused Capitol rioter, claimed 'divine' authority in court hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/politics/january-6-jesus-christ-superstar-sovereign-citizen/index.html

* "‘Q’ Has Been Quiet, but QAnon Lives On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/qanon-conspiracy-movement.html

* "Defense seeks dismissal of indictment for Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/26/defense-dismissal-indictment-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-michigan-governor-coronavirus-covid

* "Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/03/trump-qanon-online-money-war-jan6/

* "Police: Gunman in Denver who killed 5 targeted some victims:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article256898017.html

* " Why Alex Jones Lost the Sandy Hook Lawsuits :"

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* "North Carolina 3-year-old who accidentally shot herself on Christmas Day has died:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/29/us/north-carolina-christmas-shooting-toddler-dies/index.html

* "How a bloody land feud in Honduras is stoking migrant flight to U.S.:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/honduras-migration-land/

* "Ex-officer Kim Potter found guilty of two counts of manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/23/us/kim-potter-trial-thursday/index.html

* "A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard:" https://theintercept.com/2021/12/18/little-rock-police-chief-keith-humphrey/

* "How Paid Experts Help Exonerate Police After Deaths in Custody:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/police-deaths-in-custody-blame.html

* "A Rogue Climber Running From the Law Was Fleeing His Own Trauma:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/isaac-wright-driftershoots-ptsd.html

* "5 teenagers charged in armed carjacking of US Rep. Scanlon:" https://apnews.com/article/congresswoman-mary-gay-scanlon-carjacked-teens-charged-3b17b2cc9d2dc00f0782f0f937e960d0

* "'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski moved to prison medical facility:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-moved-prison-medical-facility-81916720

* "Rocker Rod Stewart, son resolve Florida hotel assault case:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-florida-rod-stewart-3ffb512ae758f75593d0cc8f1ab5ecb1

* "Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kbbey/prison-phone-companies-are-recording-attorney-client-calls-across-the-us

* "Behind the Violence at Rikers, Decades of Mismanagement and Dysfunction:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/nyregion/rikers-island-correction-officers.html

* "The Injustices of the Private Prison System:"

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* "Far-right using COVID-19 theories to grow reach, study shows:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-race-and-ethnicity-europe-1952ea369c0f4afdb6d23c7706aaadc8

* "Debunking the right-wing’s shoplifting freak-out:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/debunking-wing-shoplifting-freak-015411156.html

* "Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on four out of 11 federal charges:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/tech/elizabeth-holmes-verdict/index.html

* "He wore a wire, risked his life to expose who was in the KKK:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-veterans-ku-klux-klan-fa0ec4120b1457f56c527108074795b5

* "Claudette Colvin: Civil rights pioneer has record cleared:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59688404

* "OK bill would pay parents $10K each day their nominated banned books remain in libraries:" https://www.newsweek.com/ok-bill-would-pay-parents-10k-each-day-their-nominated-banned-books-remain-libraries-1663511

* "Some school librarians fed up with book bans are organizing and fighting back:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/us/texas-school-librarians-book-challenges/index.html

* CW: Psychiatric Abuse, Domestic Abuse. "The Rise and Fall of Dr. Phil, Part One:"

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* CW: Child Abuse, Torture "Dr. Phil's Involvement with Turnabout Ranch is Uncomfortable :"

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* "Pushed to Perform: How Reality TV Became About Kids:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Joshua Bassett's childhood sexual abuser was a family member who groomed him for years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/28/joshua-bassett-sexual-abuse-coming-out-zach-sang/

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1066219689/ghislaine-maxwell-verdict-trial-jeffrey-epstein

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Rape, Pedophilia. "What Medieval Women Who Trafficked Girls Can Teach Us About Ghislaine Maxwell:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-history-of-female-complicity-in-sexual-abuse.html

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Prince Andrew accuser’s 2009 deal with Jeffrey Epstein made public:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59861831

* CW: Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia"A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/

* "Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/02/1066099271/child-grooms-are-often-overlooked-in-the-fight-to-stop-child-marriage

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth: Two women accuse Sex And The City actor of sexual assault:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59689064

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Chris Noth Is Dropped From ‘The Equalizer’ Amid Sexual Assault Allegations:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/chris-noth-the-equalizer-fired.html

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Prosecutor drops groping charge against former NY Gov. Cuomo:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-andrew-cuomo-albany-david-soares-24c140df57e2cf65bea8e576bf427f74

* CW: sexual Misconduct "Chris Cuomo, newly fired from CNN, faces an allegation of sexual misconduct:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/05/1061639233/chris-cuomo-newly-fired-from-cnn-faces-an-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct

* "Bryan Singer accused of 'controlling, abusive' relationship with young assistant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/bryan-singer-x-men-director-abuse-allegations-blake-stuerman/

* "Alex Jones' wife arrested on domestic violence charge:" https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-wife-arrested-domestic-204930217.html

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Dubai ruler must pay ex-wife $700M in divorce settlement:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/dubai-ruler-pay-wife-700m-divorce-settlement-81873513

* CW: Domestic Violence "Students walked out before ‘transphobic’ Rod Liddle speech 'over assault caution':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/rod-liddle-durham-assault-caution/

* "Death of pregnant woman ignites debate about abortion ban in Poland:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/death-pregnant-woman-ignites-debate-about-abortion-ban-poland-2021-11-05/

* "Tennessee Planned Parenthood destroyed in early morning fire:" https://apnews.com/article/health-fires-tennessee-knoxville-planned-parenthood-524edc1a8bd12e46774c1fcdf37c6c72

* "US groups behind bid to outlaw abortion linked to global attacks on human rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/07/homophobic-groups-fund-abortion-case-us/

* "Abortion bans 'certain' across America if Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/abortion-supreme-court-roe-v-wade/

* "For Young LGBTQ+ Folks, Emergency Contraception on Campus Is Essential:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/29/young-lgbtq-folks-emergency-contraception-campus-essential

* "Vladimir Putin uses annual four-hour speech to attack trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/24/vladimir-putin-russia-trans-coronavirus-pandemic/

* "Hungary’s cruel anti-LGBT+ law breaches basic human rights, say legal experts:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/hungary-anti-lgbt-law/

* "Kiss-A-Thon Held at Six Flags Mexico After Queer Couple Reprimanded:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/1/03/kiss-thon-held-six-flags-mexico-after-queer-couple-reprimanded-kissing

* "Same-Sex Couples in Israel Will Soon Have Access to Surrogacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/04/same-sex-couples-israel-will-soon-have-access-surrogacy

* "Majority of Scots think trans people should be 'free to express their identity':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/17/trans-scotland-self-id-survation-poll/

* "All historic gay sex convictions to be pardoned: 'The UK did so much wrong':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/gay-sex-pardon-turins-law-priti-patel/

* "Crucial appeal against anti-trans LGB Alliance’s charity status to be heard in 2022:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/23/lgb-alliance-charity-appeal/

* "Tories should give non-binary people legal recognition by 2024, say MPs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/21/non-binary-legal-recognition-inquiry/

* "The real-life stories of Grindr serial killer Stephen Port's tragic victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/stephen-port-victims-anthony-walgate-daniel-whitworth-gabriel-kovari-jack-taylor/

* "America's LGBT+ population could be twice as big as previously thought, study says:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/19/usa-lgbt-population-census-pulse-survey-trans/

* "Black Trans Woman Ke’Yahonna Stone Shot Morning After Christmas:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/31/black-transgender-woman-keyahonna-stone-shot-morning-after-christmas-indiana

* "21-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Amarey Lej Killed in Pittsburgh:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/04/21-year-old-black-trans-woman-amarey-lej-killed-pittsburgh

* "'Angry' students take stand after school targeted in racist, homophobic attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/homophobic-racist-slurs-san-dieguito-academy/

* "Billionaire Mormon quits church over relentless attacks on LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/jeff-t-green-mormon-quit-lgbt-gay/

* "Their fears are mirrors of what they desire:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1814418.html

* "Game-changing injectable PrEP taken every other month to be rolled out in US:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/22/prep-injection-fda/

* Child Death "They Lost Three Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/health/sickle-cell-nigeria.html

* "The whitest specialty: As medicine strives to close its diversity gaps, one field remains a stubborn outlier:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/13/whitest-specialty-as-medicine-strives-to-close-diversity-gaps-orthopedic-surgery-remains-stubborn-outlier/

* "New Zealand's unique cigarette ban may be a model for other countries:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064212737/new-zealands-cigarette-ban-model

* "The Problem With the Myers-Briggs Personality Test:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-problem-with-the-myers-briggs-personality-test

* "US population growth at lowest rate in pandemic's 1st year:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-immigration-health-us-census-bureau-covid-19-pandemic-d224035ee70e805f1e42da6c1a9c079c

* "Alyssa always wanted to be a doctor. Then her dad died of covid and her dream fell apart.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/father-covid-grief/

* "Children, Coping With Loss, Are Pandemic’s ‘Forgotten Grievers’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/politics/children-lost-parents-caregivers-covid-grief.html

* "Fentanyl number one cause of death for adults 18-45, recent government data says:" https://www.abc12.com/news/fentanyl-number-one-cause-of-death-for-adults-18-45-recent-government-data-says/article_ed0bfe28-5f79-11ec-8aa0-af3f6cbff03c.html

* "States target Sackler family for opioid crisis justice after judge dumps bankruptcy deal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/states-target-sackler-family-for-opioid-crisis-justice-after-judge-dumps-bankruptcy-deal-129812037758

* CW: Suicide "Hazmat incident from suspected suicide closes Main Street in Springfield:" https://news.yahoo.com/hazmat-incident-fire-police-officials-023532091.html

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* "‘Our house was gone, it was sea and sand’: life on the vanishing coasts – in pictures:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2021/dec/29/our-house-was-gone-it-was-sea-and-sand-life-on-the-vanishing-coasts-in-pictures

* "Boulder County wildfires: How to help those impacted by the disaster:" https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/30/boulder-county-wildfires-how-to-help/

* "Alaska records all-time December high of 67 degrees:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alaska-records-all-time-december-high-of-67-degrees-129871429768

* "‘Doomsday glacier’: Experts raise alarms about cracking Antarctic ice shelf:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-doomsday-glacier-experts-raise-alarms-about-cracking-antarctic-ice-shelf-129872965776

* "3 people missing, nearly 1K structures scorched in Colorado wildfire, officials say:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/01/colorado-fire-boulder-county-2-people-believed-missing/9067357002/

* "Drivers fret about food and fuel while stranded on highway :" https://apnews.com/article/snow-storm-weather-195-virginia-660346cff578c655186ac517fb45f17f

* "The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/kansas-aquifer-ogallala-water-crisis-drought/621007/

* "The rising threat to businesses in 2022? Water.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-flooding-businesses-2022/

* "Trash for rice: Bali recycling scheme gives families pandemic lifeline:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/trash-rice-bali-recycling-scheme-gives-families-pandemic-lifeline-2021-12-29/

* "Inside the Chicago-area factory aiming to end US overreliance on Asia's PPE production:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/us/medical-gloves-ppe-chicago-factory/index.html

* "The First Dynasty of Egypt: The Birth of a Civilization:"

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* "The Great European Famine: The First Catastrophe of the 14th Century:"

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* "Syphilis: The Disease that Changed Europe:"

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* CW: Rape, Torture. "François L’Olonnais: The Most Savage Pirate of the Caribbean:"

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* "Emiliano Zapata: Mexico’s Greatest Revolutionary:"

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* CW: NAZIs, Holocaust, Torture. "Bayer's History is a Hard Pill to Swallow :"

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* "The Black Cop Who Infiltrated the KKK: Ron Stallworth:"

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* CW: Pedophilia, Child Murder "Inside the hunt for Christine Jessop's real killer:" https://torontolife.com/city/inside-the-hunt-for-christine-jessops-real-killer/

* "Betty White defended a Black dancer on her 1950s variety show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/01/betty-white-show-arthur-duncan-black-tap-dancer-racism/

* "Betty White Understood Gay Men, and We Loved Her for It:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/31/betty-white-understood-gay-men-and-we-loved-her-it

* "Gay Olympic Diving Star Ian Matos Is Dead at 32:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2021/12/24/gay-olympic-diving-star-ian-matos-dead-32

* "A Quick Memory of Harry Reid:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1815738.html

* "Mummers 2022 Fancy Brigade 06 Vikings:"

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* "Mummers 2022 Fancy Brigade 02 Avenuers:"

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* "Mummers 2022 Fancy Brigade 01 Satin Slipper:"

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* "Mummers 2022 String Band Fralinger - Orchestration Station:"

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* That’s It. That’s the movie. "Mummers 2022 String Band 10 Quaker City- Getting the Band Back Together:"

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* "Mummers 2022 South Philadelphia String Band - Circus Space-Tacular:"

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* "Psychology of a Hero: Katniss Everdeen (part 1):"

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* This latest crisis is of course happening in that weird liminal space between end of year holidays, so the fact that I got any call backs on my Wednesday round of message leaving as various social service agencies was all by itself impressive.

Thursday morning at 7AM, the phone rang. This is an alarming time for anyone to call anyone, and we are far enough north it's not yet dawn. With Squirrel's slightly longer commute to his new job (He'd have been home by then from his old job, if he hadn't stopped for groceries or gas or the like, but at 7 he's often still commuting these days) and the whole melted snow freezes into dangerous ice overnight thing, I was worried it was Squirrel having had an accident on the way home.

It was not. It was a very nice man filling in for someone on vacation at a long shot agency I called the previous day. The answer was the expected no, but he had two more leads to try.

Poverty is very time consuming. I have been poor most of my life, including all my adult life. Phone tag, the endless time consuming search for hidden little programs that might help one with whatever nightmare poverty has tossed at you this time. I fish and I wait. There is noting else to do sometimes.

It was very sweet of him to call first thing, and really kind to try to help the only way he could.

Want to help with the bills/wiring crisis? paypal.me/Gwydion

* The roads are so bad, the security guys coming to fix the fire system cancelled. Really there is nothing to be done until after the new year.

Head Millenial came in on his day off. We've got white fairy lights strung up in the kitchen and an extension cord running to the bathroom with a bedroom lamp attach. The beta now has light and heat. The lighting is dimmer than ideal but we can now see what we're doing at night and the small space heater is attached to the most stable of the household circuits, the one that is also lighting the bathroom. It's not ideal but the safety issue is abated and I have a stomache with protein in it as I typed this.

Addendum: The temperature dropped fast tonight, so it was very good we sorted out the space heater power supply.

* Friday, I'm awakened by some guy yelling about water leaking outside the interior door. So I throw on some clothes and go and answer it. It's an inspector needing to take moisture readings of his wall that connects to the neighbor on his side. So I wake squirrel up.

He hit us first, so I don't know the results of the inspection, but he had information that may be a game changer. He said that the fire suppression sprinkler cracked due to the weather, and was leaking into next door's apartment. I told him about our fire suppression and electrical issues and he said likely next door's water leak zapped us too.

If this is the case, odds are I can leverage that into getting management to pay to fix the electricals, since weather damage in another apartment leaking into ours and doing massive damage sounds a lot like the time I called in water coming out of the ceiling in the bathroom and they had to fix it for me. the Inspector said it sounded as crazy to him as it did to us that they wanted us to pay a massive repair bill caused by weather damage in someone else's apartment.

So Monday, I'll call around and verify if this is the case, and if it is, I have a good case for this being someone else's problem. Which leaves us with the bills I didn't pay so I could fix my brakes and the medical bill. I've got a few donations, including one that means I can cover the one that flips into fines on the 7th. I need to wait for money to shift around and for the electrical situation to get settled one way or another, at which point I an give an update on my level of fucked, but odds just shifted from this is my life now I guess to solvable by Spring.

In other news, the cats and I are still holed up against the cold and snow and spending a lot of time napping in a group. I am adjusting to the dim emergency lighting we've strung up and still have the battery lanterns for close work. What did I do for New Years? Pet assorted cats and read Medieval history between naps. Oh, and had spasms. So many spasms. I spent the last couple of days trying to head them off, and lost.

But we are all fed and warm and that's more than a lot of people have right now.

* The Mummer's Parade got postponed to Sunday, so I stayed up to watch it live streaming. you could see the effects of the pandemic particularly in the Comics, I think, and in some of the string Bands. Most of the parade did pretty well on the whole racism, appropriation problem. There was one thing in each section before the fancy brigades if i remember correctly, plus a really bad one by a DJ in the fancies, but trust me this is progress. It used to be so much worse.

The Fancy Brigades though? Jesus fuck! It was like some sort of racism/cultural appropriation Olympics. There were always problems in the fancies division, but this is by far the worst it's been since the '90's. no wonder the my agish black man doing the cultural sensitivity training for Mummers sounded so damned tired.

The fuck!
Anyway, money has moved around and the immediate personal financial crisis that started with the brakes on the car is under control thanks to donors. The wall I was going to hit on the seventh has been removed. If I can talk property management into fixing the electricity, it will be tight for January and possibly ugly in February, but the immediate oh shit has become a next month problem. I should know in a week or two how fucked we will be next month. I'll let you know then.

* Monday I spent all day doing bureaucracy and errands. A half an hour's argument with management rendered a hard no. Luckily, the City called and is willing to put me on the expedited waiting list. The form required me to spend two hours on hold to get a single number from an agency, but I filed the application for the city to fix the electricals the same day via email.

Going out to get the application packet turned into more of a saga than hoped, as one of my tires was on the rim flat. Luckily squirrel was awake and lent me his car. Also, I was exhausted, barely mobile and in a lot of pain. Still, the essential adulting got done.

Tuesday I spent most of the morning on more phone bureaucracy (tracking down more leads, etc.). apparently if I had 2500 I could get the electricals fixed myself. Might as well wish I had a million. I then drove on the rim to the tire store. It took two hours, which was no surprise. The line is always long there, and it was worse because of the whole people snowed in and new year thing, plus they were having computer issues which was slowing check in considerable. I couldn't not replace the tire and waiting for a better day would not make things any easier.

Apparently, the tire was under warranty, which surprised the hell out of me as I didn't know i had a warranty. I certainly hadn't paid for one. My assumption is is came automatically with the tires. As I bought these tires in February a year before the pandemic, my suspicion is if the tire had punctured say a month and a half from now, it would have expired. As it fell out, I got a free replacement tire, so that's a win.

I turned out one of the bills I didn't pay because brakes had acquired and extra 25 or so of fees; the other was the amount expected. I'll need to pay this month's bills, of course, plus the 70.00 medical bill, plus whatever they are going to charge me for car tabs later in the month, so I'm still some degree of fucked, but this could have been so much worse.

I also bought a grocery sandwich on EBT, because while it's not as bad as yesterday, my body is really not doing well at the basics. I turned in the hard copy of our application on the grounds that trying to read my arthritis handwriting on Squirrel's cell phone picture sounded dicey to me. I actually have faith that the city will help since both of the people involved in that decision are very invested in getting it sorted. It's more a matter of how long until my waiting list spot rises to an open slot and then about a three month process after that. We may even get them to replace the unreliable refrigerator and fix my broken kitchen drawer in the process.

It's going to be unpleasant, but if we can make it to April financially, we'll be okay.

* Wednesday, we didn't forage. Nearby Millennial was trapped at home because the compacted ice made her hill too dangerous. Head Millennial could make it, so we worked on stuff in the living room, while the snow invisibly piled up outside. Luckily, Squirrel took Head Millennial home before he went to work.

He called me from work. They have an outbreak and it's bad. Really, really bad. He's working directly with COVID patients. He is taking all precautions at work and is masking when he has to leave his room for food or work, but our risk just went way up.

In other news, I packed up Halloweentown today as a preliminary to taking down the interior Gothmas display. The cats had an exciting time exploring the cleared space and sitting together to stare out at the snowy landscape and occasional dog walker.

Did I mention the previous Wednesday, Head Millennial brought in a dish of snow for the cats? neither of them have much outdoor experience. (Livia escaped once and was deeply traumatized. Tavy has escaped more often, usually to the bushes in front of our patio to check for hidden Millenials). They've never been out in snow and seeing it fall only happens once or twice a year in the normal course of things, so they are fascinated and a bit alarmed whenever it happens.

The dish of snow blew the Emperor's mind. He finds snow both fascinating and alarming at the best of times. He'd never seen it indoors or been close to it. It really freaked him right out. he'd approach the bowl cautiously, tail lashing, then skitter away sideways. He did eventually sniff it, at which point he recoiled in horror. Livia basically gave it the side eye and would skirt around it.

Imperial opinion is united: It was not a hit. Snow belongs Outside, with noises and strangers.

* Since 2016, I've tried to write up a thing in the dark of every year, but this year, I didn't find the words. Looks like the Mountain Goats guy found them for me. :https://star-burp.tumblr.com/post/672168512356237312

* "Sunday Sweets For Roy G. Biv:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/1/2/sunday-sweets-for-roy-g-biv

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* It's been a truly terrible several weeks here at the Cat Asylum. A longer explanation is below. I have literally weeks of newslinks I haven't posted. My body is doing incredibly painful things. On top of the brakes emergency, we've had snow bad enough to knock out power in a bunch of places in town and imprison me likely for at least another week, and we've had some of the wiring fry, an expensive prospect that I haven't much hope of solving short of a miracle.

So 2021 continuing the streak, really. I have reached the fuck it point and am posting the aggregate with the understanding I'm sitting on I'd guess 100-200 prepped links that aren't included and that weeding and sorting are likely a bit rough.

* "200 years ago, everyone lacked democratic rights. Now, billions of people have them:" https://ourworldindata.org/democratic-rights

* "Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe:" https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-migrants-trek-through-alps-seek-new-future-02613cb26351c9249c27ee20f5d1681f

* "Lesbian risks life and flees Afghanistan to escape forced marriage to Taliban brute:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/27/afghanistan-lesbian-taliban-forced-marriage/

* "Shining shoes for a piece of bread:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-59761535

* "Guterres in Lebanon: Fair elections in 2022, an ‘essential opportunity’ for voices to be heard:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1108552

* "Lebanon's Aoun calls for defence dialogue, hinting at friction with Hezbollah:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-president-calls-national-dialog-reach-understanding-defense-economic-2021-12-27/

* "Security forces loyal to Somalia PM gather outside presidential palace:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-says-supports-somalian-pms-efforts-rapid-credible-elections-2021-12-28/

* "Why Authoritarian Regimes Bother With Elections:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/12/hong-kong-stunt-election-democracy/621071/

* "Hong Kong universities remove more monuments marking Tiananmen:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59752089

* "Hong Kong pro-democracy news site closes after raid, arrests:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068696336/hong-kong-police-raid-pro-democracy-news-outlet-arrest-6

* "'Erasing history': Russia closes top rights group, capping year of crackdowns:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-orders-closure-top-rights-group-2021-12-28/

* "How the Kremlin Is Militarizing Russian Society:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/world/europe/russia-military-putin-kremlin.html

* "Georgia: The rise of the right:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-59763185

* "We should all be worried by what Liz Truss is doing to our equalities watchdog:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/24/trans-equality-watchdog-liz-truss/

* "Barrister who slammed Stonewall trans inclusion advice given key equalities role:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/20/stonewall-akua-reindorf-ehrc/

* "Why North Shropshire result is good news for Labour as well as Lib Dems:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/17/north-shropshire-byelection-result-good-news-for-labour-lib-dems

* "The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-secretive-libyan-prisons-that-keep-migrants-out-of-europe

* "Indian Christians fear attacks or jail over conversions:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59724425

* "Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/world/asia/india-christians-attacked.html

* First they came for the Muslims, then they came for the Christians....

This all looks part of the same violent Hindu nationalism that strips away basic rights and encourages violence and torture from both police and mobs.

* "Myanmar massacre: two Save the Children staff among dead:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/myanmar-massacre-two-save-the-children-staff-among-dead

* "The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59614595

* "The U.S. predicted his downfall but Maduro strengthens his grip on power in Venezuela:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1061290155/maduros-grip-on-power-in-venezuela-only-gets-stronger

* "Chile breathes sigh of relief as pro-LGBT president elected over far-right bigot:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/20/chile-election-gabriel-boric-president-lgbt/

* "Nonbelievers across Africa risk freedom and family support:" https://apnews.com/article/africa-religion-nigeria-ce936d8627ca1c233e479961ac440944

* "Kenyans find rural lifeline after Covid city exodus:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59630164

* "Bruno Le Maire - An Inclusive Future for France:" https://www.cc.com/video/v9jyq7/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-bruno-le-maire-an-inclusive-future-for-france

* "Mali Says Chad to Send 1,000 Additional Troops as France Backs Off:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-12-18/mali-says-chad-to-send-1-000-additional-troops-as-france-backs-off

* CW: Torture "Jailed for the killing of Haiti's president, five suspected assassins say they're innocent:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/americas/haiti-assassination-colombian-prisoners-exclusive-intl-cmd/index.html

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* "Omicron infects 70 times faster than previous COVID strains:" https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/586074-omicon-infects-70-times-faster-than-previous-covid-strains-study?rl=1

* "A tantalizing clue to why omicron is spreading so quickly:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/15/1064597592/a-tantalizing-clue-to-why-omicron-is-spreading-so-quickly

* "UK data suggests hospitalization is less likely with omicron:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-omicron-variant-symptoms-hospitalization-less-likely-8ed5a786604ac1df349464296aa7e3c8

* "Europeans Ponder Living With, Not Defeating, Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/world/europe/europe-covid-pandemic-omicron.html

* "Spain's COVID-19 infections soar after Christmas:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spains-covid-19-infections-soar-after-christmas-2021-12-27/

* Let Them Eat Cake. "Why is anyone surprised at Boris weaselling his way through another scandal?:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/boris-johnson-christmas-party-downing-street-covid/

* "Ecuador: Coronavirus vaccination mandatory for most citizens:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ecuador-coronavirus-vaccination-mandatory-citizens-81919392

* "Pfizer pill becomes 1st US-authorized home COVID treatment :" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-pfizer-medication-f5f65e7e61d6aa9c7dfa193053e8878a

* "Game changer: New Covid treatment pill could be key to ending pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/game-changer-new-covid-treatment-pill-could-be-key-to-ending-pandemic-129431621896

* "CDC recommends Moderna, Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines over J&J's:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/blood-clot-rates-after-jj-vaccine-higher-than-previous-estimates-cdc-advisers-2021-12-16/

* "Chris Hayes: How the booster shot messaging got muddled :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-the-booster-shot-messaging-got-muddled-129230405826

* "'No slack in the system': Struggling hospitals despair at prospect of Omicron wave:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-no-slack-in-the-system-struggling-hospitals-despair-at-prospect-of-omicron-wave-129243205641

* "Maddow: If you've been putting off vaccination, the time to do it is now.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-if-you-ve-been-putting-off-vaccination-the-time-to-do-it-is-now-129251909682

* "'It's a balancing act': New CDC guidance weighs practicality but raises questions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-a-balancing-act-new-cdc-guidance-weighs-practicality-but-raises-questions-129740869850

* "Hospitals' concern: Volume of Omicron cases could counter lower hospitalization rate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hospitals-concern-volume-of-omicron-cases-could-counter-lower-hospitalization-rate-129340997873

* "Army: 98% of active duty got COVID-19 vaccine by deadline:" https://www.kvoa.com/coronavirus/army-98-of-active-duty-got-covid-19-vaccine-by-deadline/article_ef26a17e-5e87-11ec-82a0-43255e602142.html

* "White House labels Orange County Florida ‘rapid riser,’ as state reports 29,568 COVID-19 cases:" https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-florida-coronavirus-dec-17-20211217-zbdv6y3cefd3lnqa2wqazfrlzi-story.html

* "University of Texas sees 'alarming' spike in COVID-19 cases likely due to omicron variant:" https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/12/16/ut-austin-spike-covid-19-cases-likely-omicron-variant/8923174002/

* "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’ll take fight against federal vaccine mandate for large businesses to Supreme Court:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/17/vaccine-mandate-businesses-texas/

* "Kansas City COVID-19 deaths more than doubled in the past week, data shows:" https://amp.kansascity.com/article256597306.html

* "Kansas hospitals brace for 'long, tough winter' of COVID. Here's what experts fear if omicron surges.:" https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/12/16/covid-19-kansas-hospitals-omicron-transfers-surge-full-beds/8908272002/

* "Tennessee nursing homes to enforce vaccine with federal mandate back in place Wednesday:" https://newschannel9.com/news/coronavirus/tennessee-nursing-homes-to-enforce-vaccine-with-federal-mandate-back-in-place-wednesday

* "New York state reports highest number of daily Covid cases of entire pandemic at more than 21,000:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/17/new-york-state-reports-highest-number-of-daily-covid-cases-of-entire-pandemic-at-more-than-21000.html

* "‘We've Never Seen This Before in NYC': COVID Positivity Rate Doubles in 3 Days on Omicron Spread:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/weve-never-seen-this-before-in-nyc-covid-positivity-rate-doubles-in-3-days-as-omicron-spreads/3454450/

* "NYC offers 500,000 free rapid Covid tests, 1 million masks amid case surge:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nyc-offers-500000-free-rapid-covid-tests-1-million-masks-amid-case-surge/vi-AARTnRJ

* "Classroom closures spike as COVID-19 cases climb in NYC:" https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2021/12/16/nyc-doe-school-closures-spike-as-covid-cases-climb-in-nyc

* "Several NYC Restaurants Temporarily Close Due to COVID Spike:" https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-york/nyc-restaurants-are-closing-due-to-covid-surge

* "As Virus Cases Surge, New Yorkers Feel a Familiar Anxiety:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/nyregion/new-york-covid-cases.html

* "U.S. Surgeon General decries Fox News commentator urging conservatives to ‘ambush’ Dr. Fauci:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jesse-watters-urging-conservatives-to-ambush-dr-fauci-decried-by-u-s-surgeon-general-129330245886

* "House oversight committee releases report detailing efforts of Trump administration officials to 'undermine' Covid-19 efforts in US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/17/politics/house-committee-trump-covid-19/index.html

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* "Congress approves import ban targeting forced labor in China :" https://apnews.com/article/science-business-china-asia-beijing-d73f6a5b82a58209480f5aa010895100

* "President Biden reaches year's end with growing list of successes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/president-biden-reaches-year-s-end-with-growing-list-of-successes-129655877954

* "Manchin says he won't vote for Biden's Build Back Better Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/manchin-says-he-won-t-vote-for-biden-s-build-back-better-act-129114181654

* "Rep. Cori Bush: It's "not a huge surprise" that Sen. Joe Manchin won't vote for Build Back Better:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-cori-bush-it-s-not-a-huge-suprise-that-sen-joe-manchin-won-t-vote-for-build-back-better-129118789504

* "Wearied by Manchin perfidy, progressives eye 'two track process' to achieve BBB's goals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wearied-by-manchin-perfidy-progressives-eye-two-track-process-to-achieve-bbb-s-goals-129244229595

* "Manchin negotiated in bad faith to obstruct bill that would help his state Joy Reid says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joe-manchin-slammed-or-withdrawing-support-for-biden-s-build-back-better-bill-129331781669

* "Bernie: Striking workers ‘courageous’ in face of Kellogg’s ‘abrasive’ tactics :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-striking-workers-courageous-in-face-of-kellogg-s-abrasive-tactics-128943685558

* I hope they win. "Workers at candle factory hit by tornado file class-action lawsuit against employer:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/us/mayfield-candle-factory-lawsuit-tornado/index.html

* "MLK III on King holiday: "No celebration without legislation":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/mlk-iii-on-king-holiday-no-celebration-without-legislation-129117765664

* "The Senate filibuster isn't what it used to be because the Senate isn't either:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/the-senate-filibuster-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be-because-the-senate-isn-t-either-129053765588

* "Senate Democrats get serious about protecting elections, voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-democrats-get-serious-about-protecting-elections-voting-rights-128958021557

* "Sen. Klobuchar: I would get rid of the filibuster in a minute if I could:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-agenda-struggling-due-to-gop-conservative-democratic-senators-discussed-by-sen-amy-klobuchar-128948293717

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Accountability elusive as Trump's Big Lie runs amok in Wisconsin:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/accountability-elusive-as-trump-s-big-lie-runs-amok-in-wisconsin-129341509806

* "Absent accountability, Republicans run roughshod over election system in Wisconsin:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/absent-accountability-republicans-run-roughshod-over-election-system-in-wisconsin-129341509594

* "Republicans bullying election officials achieve their ends even in failure:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-bullying-election-officials-achieve-their-ends-even-in-failure-129431621674

* "Republicans overhaul local election board, look to eliminate six of seven polling stations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-overhaul-local-election-board-look-to-eliminate-six-of-seven-polling-stations-129434181622

* "Fmr. top general warns of potential ‘2024 insurrection,’ urges preparedness:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-top-general-warns-of-potential-2024-insurrection-urges-preparedness-129231941834

* "Michael Eric Dyson: American democracy is only as good as we are willing to fight for it:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-capitol-insurrection-anniversary-a-reminder-of-our-endangered-democracy-experts-say-129649733982

* "Is this seriously who Republicans want representing Georgia instead of Raphael Warnock?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/is-this-seriously-who-republicans-want-representing-georgia-instead-of-raphael-warnock-129502277945

* "California's Out Insurance Commissioner Gets Reelection Backing:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/15/californias-out-insurance-commissioner-gets-reelection-backing

* "Softening Trump political potency seen in endorsement flops, limp ticket sales:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/softening-trump-political-potency-seen-in-endorsement-flops-limp-ticket-sales-129051205777

* "Lawmaker targeted by Trump shares disturbing death threat voicemail:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/lawmaker-targeted-by-trump-shares-disturbing-death-threat-voicemail-129648709644

* "New details paint 'insane' picture of how right wing media obtained Biden daughter's diary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-details-paint-insane-picture-of-how-right-wing-media-obtained-biden-daughter-s-diary-128959557852

* "Sketchy Chinese company under investigation is well suited to partner with Donald Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sketchy-chinese-company-under-investigation-is-well-suited-to-partner-with-donald-trump-129502789793

* "Legal expert says Trump lawsuit against New York attorney general will likely be thrown out:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-lawsuit-accusing-new-york-attorney-general-of-bias-will-likely-be-thrown-out-expert-says-129233477757

* "Republican Party helping Trump pay his personal legal bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-party-helping-trump-pay-his-personal-legal-bills-wapo-128956997854

* "Basis of new Cohen lawsuit over Trump abuse of power warrants concern among Americans:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/basis-of-new-cohen-lawsuit-over-trump-abuse-of-power-warrants-concern-among-americans-129051717673

* "Jan. 6 committee weighs possibility of criminal referrals:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-jan-6-committee-weighs-possibility-of-criminal-referrals-129230917531

* "Legal expert: DOJ must immediately conduct 'full-blown' Jan. 6 probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/legal-expert-doj-must-immediately-conduct-full-blown-jan-6-probe-129492037712

* "Joy Reid: House GOP is trying to throw all the sand it can into Jan. 6 probe gears:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/house-minority-leader-attempting-to-install-jim-jordan-on-jan-6-select-committee-129495109652

* "Jim Jordan and Trump's coup: The calls were coming from inside the House:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jim-jordan-and-trump-s-coup-the-calls-were-coming-from-inside-the-house-128938565877

* "Legal expert believes Jim Jordan text to Mark Meadows is probable cause for criminal charge:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-jim-jordan-text-to-mark-meadows-probable-cause-for-criminal-charge-legal-expert-says-129041989724

* "Rep. Aguilar on why Rep. Jordan was never ‘fit to serve’ on Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-aguilar-on-why-rep-jordan-was-never-fit-to-serve-on-jan-6-committee-129420357806

* "CIA expert: Can you imagine what’s on Mark Meadows’ encrypted Signal app?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mark-meadows-plotted-with-six-house-republicans-to-overturn-2020-election-washington-post-reports-128945733905

* "Legal expert believes Jim Jordan text to Mark Meadows is probable cause for criminal charge:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-jim-jordan-text-to-mark-meadows-probable-cause-for-criminal-charge-legal-expert-says-129041989724

* "Many who mock the Jan. 6 committee actively plotted with Trump’s White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-s-phone-calls-with-jim-jordan-on-jan-6-of-interest-to-house-select-committee-129423941806

* "Jan. 6 committee requests testimony, documents from Republican Rep. Scott Perry:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-select-committee-investigating-capitol-insurrection-reportedly-considering-more-criminal-referrals-129332805580

* "Legal expert says Department of Justice is ‘not doing its job' regarding Jan. 6 prosecutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jan-6-plot-reportedly-launched-by-steve-bannon-and-peter-navarro-analyzed-on-the-reidout-129731653881

* "'Rosanne didn't radicalize herself': After death on 1/6, family seeks accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-rosanne-didn-t-radicalize-herself-after-death-on-1-6-family-seeks-accountability-129653317889

* "'We took the Capitol’: Proud Boy pleads guilty to Jan. 6 conspiracy charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-took-the-capitol-proud-boy-pleads-guilty-to-jan-6-conspiracy-charges-129493061593

* "Jan. 6 rioter provides evidence that may impact sentencing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jan-6-rioter-provides-evidence-that-may-impact-sentencing-129039429661

* "'We took the Capitol’: Proud Boy pleads guilty to Jan. 6 conspiracy charges:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-took-the-capitol-proud-boy-pleads-guilty-to-jan-6-conspiracy-charges-129493061593

* "D.C. Attorney General Files Civil Lawsuit Against Proud Boys, Oath Keepers:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/d-c-attorney-general-files-civil-lawsuit-against-proud-boys-oath-keepers-129117253787

* "Right’s ‘celebration of violence’ on full display at Turning Point USA convention:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-s-celebration-of-violence-on-full-display-at-turning-point-usa-convention-129328197797

* "Rep. Bass on Kim Potter guilty verdict: Communities fear she'll get a slap on the wrist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kim-potter-guilty-verdict-for-killing-daunte-wright-could-still-result-in-slap-on-the-wrist-rep-bass-says-129494597620

* "‘Surprising is an understatement’: Civil rights attorney on Kim Potter verdict:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-surprising-is-an-understatement-civil-rights-attorney-on-kim-potter-verdict-129493061543

* "Lawyer of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors: We must have closure, know where the mass graves are:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-have-lawyer-send-letter-to-department-of-justice-requesting-federal-investigation-129732677906

* "US regulators lift in-person restrictions on abortion pill:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-abortion-health-medication-a6634601a37fb048aecdd9f030e0863a

* "FDA makes access to abortion medication by mail permanent:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fda-makes-access-to-abortion-pills-by-mail-permanent-128959045505

* "Campaigner Christie Elan-Cane dubs gender-neutral passport ruling an 'abomination':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/15/christie-elan-cane-supreme-court-passport-ruling/

* Another reason to boycott all JK Rowling: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/671138868165296128

"But, of course, the law doesn’t (shouldn’t) discriminate, and if autistic teens and/or adults can’t legally consent to treatment of gender dysphoria, we can’t legally consent to the treatment of anything. We won’t be able to access any treatment or medication without approval from a responsible adult."

* "Jury Awards $4M to Trans Boy After School Denies Him Restroom Access:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/15/jury-awards-4m-trans-boy-after-school-denies-him-restroom-access

* "Uber Reportedly Blocked Trans Drivers’ Accounts For Being “Fraudulent”:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/15/uber-reportedly-blocked-trans-drivers-accounts-being-fraudulent

* CW: Elder Abuse. "How Nursing Homes Hide Profits While Residents Suffer:"

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* "How do Outbreaks End? Vaccines and Recovery: Crash Course Outbreak Science #14:"

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* "Debunking Anti-Vax: The Real History About Andrew Wakefield:"

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* "Autopsy: Severe brain trauma in ex-NFL player who shot 6:" https://apnews.com/article/nfl-sports-health-shootings-football-15b2c553682a7d122dbbc0d1eb76731c

* "Fresh Express Announces Recall of Fresh Salad Products Due to Potential Health Risk:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/fresh-express-announces-recall-fresh-salad-products-due-potential-health-risk

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* "Chile Writes Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/climate/chile-constitution-climate-change.html

* "‘Receding before our eyes:’ Vancouver Island glaciers likely to be all gone by mid-century:" https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/receding-before-our-eyes-vancouver-island-glaciers-likely-to-be-all-gone-by-mid-century

* "Super Typhoon Rai slams into the Philippines as rescue operations get underway:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/asia/super-typhoon-rai-philippines-intl-hnk/index.html

* CW: Dead Children. "Bouncy castle tragedy: Emotional police commissioner reveals 40 kids involved - NZ Herald:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/bouncy-castle-tragedy-emotional-police-commissioner-reveals-40-kids-involved/MNAAFFSSGHKDLTBUTYRMNR5ZOY/

* "Rebuilding tornado-ravaged Kentucky town could take years:" https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-kentucky-weather-mayfield-d67943a53d55d95db354011b45bfd995

* "Hurricane Ida Recovery Reveals Climate Change Inequalities to Come:"

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* "Entangled whale cannot be freed with newborn calf close by, ocean experts say:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/15/entangled-whale-cannot-be-freed-newborn-calf

* "Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/africa/desmond-tutu-death-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Tributes pour in for anti-apartheid leader and LGBT+ ally Archbishop Desmond Tutu:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/26/desmond-tutu-death-lgbt-ally-anti-apartheid/

* "Harry M. Reid, pugnacious Senate majority leader, dies at 82:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/harry-reid-dead/2021/12/28/775787dc-43f9-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html

* "Queer Black Feminist Writer bell hooks Dies at 69:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/12/15/queer-black-feminist-writer-bell-hooks-dies-69

* "Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/23/joan-didion-dies-526068

* "'Dallas Buyers Club' director Jean-Marc Vallée dies:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/27/entertainment/jean-marc-vallee-obit/index.html

* "Princeton teaches Ge'ez for the first time:" https://classics.princeton.edu/department/news/princeton-teaches-geez-first-time

* "Sweden's Gavle Christmas goat torched... again:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59696442

* "U.S. Warns Russia Not To Take Ukraine | Earth's Black Box Will Record Humanity's Demise:"

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* "Meanwhile... Woman Seen Breastfeeding Her Cat On A Flight | Omicron (The Band) Is Not A Virus:"

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* "Fox News Christmas Tree Fire Wasn't Politically Motivated | The Debt Ceiling Shouldn't Be A Thing:"

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* ""He's Destroying His Legacy" - Scared Fox News Hosts Texted Mark Meadows During Capitol Attack:"

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* "As Wrong As It Gets - Republicans Don't Want You To Know What Happened On Jan. 6th:"

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* "GOP Says Covid Is Overhyped | Sheriff In Hot Water Over Pic Of Santa Getting A Gun Permit:"

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* "On The Next Season Of Succession: Who Will Replace Chris Wallace?:"

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* "Omicron Is Taking Over & Teachers Dash for Cash:" https://www.cc.com/video/srbo0b/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-omicron-is-taking-over-teachers-dash-for-cash

* "Mark Meadows Held in Contempt:" https://www.cc.com/video/piaqpv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-mark-meadows-held-in-contempt

* "Dul-Sayin' - The History of Kwanzaa:" https://www.cc.com/video/lrx340/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-dul-sayin-the-history-of-kwanzaa

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - China's Africa Investments:" https://www.cc.com/video/xhwr8p/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-china-s-africa-investments

* "Man with Thong Mask & MLK's Family Calls for No Celebration:" https://www.cc.com/video/63uk0a/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-man-with-thong-mask-mlk-s-family-calls-for-no-celebration

* "Viral Clip Of Runaway Airport Luggage Is The Pixar Film We Needed | Seditionist Roundup Round Up:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxsJAbchko&list=PLiZxWe0ejyv8n24CSzVDLGdvDR1qCX6jY&index=2

* "Santa Song - SNL:"

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* "Hotel Ad - SNL:"

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* "The Global Warming Christmas Special - SNL:"

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* "The Viral Cat Spreading All That Misinformation Has Been Found:"

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* "Men Writing Women...Badly:"

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* "Santa Is Packing Heat:"

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* "The Hallmark Channel Presents: Frankenclaus:"

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* "The Late Show Presents: A Conspiracy Carol:"

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* "Colbert's "Lord of the Rings" Rap Celebrates 20 Years Of The Greatest Trilogy In Movie History:"

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* Today I learned that Tumblr forcing me to look at the severed lady bits and buttocks from behind ad is significantly less disturbing than the dismembered anatomically correct torso, though still very do not want. I want to be clear that I don't judge people who buy these sex toys, I just think the images should be opt in.

* I've been thinking a lot about the Figure Skater, now choreographer, Kurt Browning. There were a lot of figure skaters I loved in his era, but there was something about him that really made him linger in my mind. I think that special something was that he fundamentally looked like he loved what he was doing. Oh, he definitely wanted to win, and he had bad skates like everything else, but that fundamental love was baked into his choreography, into his artistic expression, into the style of every element. It radiated out of him in interviews too.

The longer he skated both as an amateur and professional, the stronger his personal voice was in his work. He didn't always make choices to my taste. That happens when you have a strong and particular artistic voice. Still, I adored so many of his routines and even the ones that weren't for me were memorable.

At some point after he started to do choreography, some skater would come back from summer training completely transformed. They wouldn't be skating like him, but they would be skating with a new joy and with their own clear voice. They would have new routines that fit them like gloves, that helped them reach out to the audience, that gave them a particular magic they'd never had before. I would watch them and think "I wonder if they've been working with Kurt," and they almost invariably have.

What a beautifully gift to give the world.

I've no idea what he's like as a person beyond his public persona, but damned if he hasn't had a beautiful ripple effect in the world.

* So this is what's going on with me. My AS has been really terrible the last two months. It's hard to explain the level of debilitating too someone who's body works. To give yo and Idea of how hard basic stuff is, on the twenty third, it took me four hours to get dressed and do physio. My legs kept buckling as I shuffled about trying to do the bare minimum as far as feeding cats, fish, and myself. I literally scream from pain and nearly went over when I tried to feed Livia.

It's why the post schedule is so weird and I why I have...idk a couple weeks of link back log as of this writing. I am doing what I can, but even my high pain threshold ass can't make this work. The barometer has been yoyoing, and that generally just fucks me up.

So on the twenty forth, I was going to run out to grab a last minute thing before the store closed with the last of my EBT. Three hours for dressing and physio, two cats in cling mode. To give you an idea of the cling level, I was trying to put my shoe on, got as far as one sock and getting a shoe half on when Tavy leapt onto me and proceeded to nap in my arms. Me: Well I guess I'm doing lungs before instead of after the errand.

I was latter than I meant, but surely the shop was still open, right? We're a fairly secular college town. It is not that cold, but I step out to find flurries and a thin layer of snow on my car, though none sticking yet on the ground. I grew up with snow. the quality of the air and the look of the flurries told me they would be sticking soon. I figure I should be fine on a fifteen minute errand, but I'd been snowed in all weekend.

The temperature kept dropping noticeably; the snow was coming faster. Shop was closed. I likely would have made it if I'd fought Tavy over the shoes, but no matter. I'd guess I was gone five to seven minutes and it was brutal cold and coming down hard by the time I'd parked again. Squirrel had work and the driving was scary. I'd guess we got six inches, which is a lot in a town where the only people with snow tires either regularly commute over the Mountain pass or are skier/snowboarders. Our large town/small city has a snow plow, but they hit the big streets first, and generally the snow is melted before they get streets like ours, our worse the last three streets I lived on. My current street is an increasingly busy feeder instead of the true back streets I've always lived on between coming North and this place. Saturday it warmed up just enough for what little melted to freeze over after dark making it incredibly unsafe after. Squirrel was white as a sheet when he got home from work 7ish Sunday morning. It had snowed hard all night and my end of town the wind was so high it was blowing nearly horizontal. The cats sat in the window watching in fascination. It did that all day, i suspect, as it was still going past noon when I looked.

Luckily Squirrel didn't have work, and I don't leave the house unless all paths and streets are clear except for emergencies as I don't want to break anything or tear ligaments. The snow it utterly beautiful, but I'm someone finding the hobble to the bathroom challenging, and i don't want to go to the ER and spend a month laid up like last time.

Except the fire alarm kept going off. Nothing was on fire. I'd been trying to get him to change the battery in his detector for a couple of months, but he kept spacing it. I knew it wasn't mine as I changed them last... it was before I got my second shot end of March, so I'd say less than a year ago, but not by a lot. The little detectors are wired to the big ones. It went on for hours, waking people up, terrifying cats. I finally gave him a battery, because I had one, being exactly that sort of anal retentive and the chirping will drive me bats because of my sensory stuff. (I hate being caught without an emergency 9 volt). A couple hours passed, but I could hear it chirping in his room again and it went off again, because of course it did. He pulled it out, which the management company hates. his theory is it's old and the equipment needs replacing, so I guess I'm staying up to deal with them.

I am tired and everything hurts, and I've lost track of how long the aggregate posting gap is. I am sorry. It likely won't be any better until the weather evens out.

* Tuesday I went to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, flipped on a switch, and there was a flash of light and blue sparks. Attempts to flip the fuse elicited more of the same. This means no microwave, not bathroom or kitchen lights, no small appliances, no bathroom electricity at all. We suspect the wiring's fubared. squirrel is wondering if this it what was setting the fire alarms off. So I'm staying up to call iyt in, but i haven't much hope of a solution any time soon with snow and the holidays.

We've been waiting for nearly two years for them to connect squirrel's bathroom vent to the outside. They took three years not to fix a hole they put in my ceiling. I gave up and paid for fixing it myself. Who wants to bet they don't consider wiring burning in the walls an emergency?

* ...And We’re hosed. Even though the contracts said things inside the walls are them, they are making us pay for the wiring.

I have no idea how we’re going to manage it. I have no idea what it will cost even to get an estimate.

Bonus and extra 70.00 uncovered copay came in. Why the fuck not?

paypal.me/Gwydion
are there any lawyer friends/legal aid places that might remotely type up an official-sounding letter for free?

* FAQ: Everyone is asking some version of: "Are there any lawyer friends/legal aid places that might remotely type up an official-sounding letter for free?"

They answer to this and what we are doing is very, very long and complicated: )

Wishful thinking though and best not to plan on it, so I am focusing on practical stuff like how to learn to live without non-major appliance power in the darkest parts of the Cat Asylum, and setting long term solutions in motion (See Parts One and Two).

You see why I’ve been short handing it. :)

* I am so used to normal blackouts that I am having a vaguely surreal time dealing with the current crisis. This is not a complaint, just an observation. The house we moved into just before I started high school was super prone to blackouts, just like the part of town where I've lived a majority of the time since I moved up here for third college, used to get regular black outs. The ones back East could be a day or two long, and happened a bunch of times in the November through December with such regularity, we all had assigned blackout chores in my family. We get little black outs here all the time, also most in November or December, but blackout season starts in October and runs until true spring. Most years we lose power all night at least once. Sometimes we have a good year or a bad year. Sometimes it's a day or two, but that's rare.

I'm that person with emergency candles and battery lanterns and black out contingency plans, so I have a battery lantern where I can grab it entering the bathroom with what light reaches from the living room. I have a stronger lamp set up further in that I can use the cheap light to find. (If the cheap light breaks it's not a big deal. I don't want to risk the expensive light where I can knock it off and break it easily or near water.) It a good spot to grab it if I need it in the kitchen. I'm basically living off stockpiled emergency vegetarian cup of soups because low mobility/low visibility stove top cooking is harder than it sounds because while I can navigate in there okay, it's hard to see details and the counters are in shadow. The range light and hood are dead, which means things like pasta aren't a good idea. I can make tea and cup of soups safely so it's that and cold foods and energy bars right now. I may branch out into stove top regular soup heating, but I can't walk away and sit down while I do that.

I desperately needed a bath so in the period Wednesday midday while I was waiting for return emails and phone calls, I took a bath. That's the surreal part. I've had power go out mid bath a bunch of times. I have a protocol for it. Turn off water (to save what hot water is left) and motor (so it doesn't turn on when the power does. I think there's a safety shut off when power goes out, but I don't want to chance it. Turn on the good emergency bathroom lantern (Stored where I can easily grope it in the dark, but where it's apt to stay safe from falls and water). Finish shampoo and rinse. Turn off any other switches that were on. Use the good emergency lantern to do last meds and set things up as far as bedroom emergency lighting for when I inevitable shamble out later to pee or if I'm unlucky and have to start the next meds cycle in the semi dark.

So water heater's on a dedicated circuit. So is my tub. I don't worry about either as they were city inspected at the beginning of the pandemic. It was so fucking weird to have hot water and the hydrotherapy motor going while bathing by light of a battery lantern. Did my head in, it did.

(Long term readers may remember the city buying me a new tub and my doctor managing to talk them into jets for my back and shoulders on medical grounds. These have been a life saver given how much my joints have deteriorated in the intervening twoish years. It was a whole saga that involved most of the plumbing and a bunch of appliances being replaced along with small stuff like us getting working exterior doorknobs).

Nearby Millenial has spiked hiking boots and lives a long block away in my old complex, so came for her shift. She also has a head lamp. (She's legally blind, but has low vision and walks around at night, so has things like a reflective safety vest and a powerful headlamp. She does chunk of her job by touch and she is very, very good as an Aid. Not kidding 10 out of 10). Picture her doing the dishes with her headlamp on. Picture us endlessly moving from dark to light flipping dead switches. She did a brilliant job today.

Still so fucking surreal to watch her doing it.

unless we are super super lucky in the morning, This will likely be how it is for weeks or months. If we are unlucky, this is our life now. I will get used to it, but it's strange.

It was just weird.

* "It's A Sweet Day For A Winter Wedding:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/26/its-a-sweet-day-for-a-winter-wedding

* "Sunday Sweets: Your Holiday Happy Place:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/19/sunday-sweets-your-holiday-happy-place

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What's stopping aid getting in?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/57929853

* "The nine-year-old who teaches in a war zone:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-56212929

* "Cuban family finds welcome, refugee status in distant Serbia:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-russia-cuba-europe-migration-fee97ad2b57816e2e15a1cb7f0e431ae

* "Dozens killed after truck packed with people crashes in Mexico:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/dozens-killed-after-truck-packed-with-migrants-crashes-in-mexico

* "Rohingya sue Facebook for $150bn over Myanmar hate speech:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59558090

* "Uyghurs subjected to genocide by China, unofficial UK tribunal finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/uyghurs-subjected-to-genocide-by-china-unofficial-uk-tribunal-finds

* "Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai among three prominent democracy activists convicted on Thursday:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-prominent-democracy/story?id=81648043

* "Why is anyone surprised at Boris weaselling his way through another scandal?:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/08/boris-johnson-christmas-party-downing-street-covid/

* "Tory plot to weaken human rights law is 'unashamed power grab':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/human-rights-act-reform-dominic-raab/

“From Hillsborough, to Grenfell to the appalling mishandling of the recent COVID crisis in care homes, we have never so badly needed a means to hold the government to account and we know that the Human Rights Act does that extremely effectively."

* "'Sinister' Tory anti-refugee bill treats people seeking asylum as less than human:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/lgbt-asylum-seekers-refugee-nationality-borders-bill/

* "Russia planning massive military offensive against Ukraine involving 175,000 troops, U.S. intelligence warns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russia-ukraine-invasion/2021/12/03/98a3760e-546b-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

* "Putin keeps West guessing with dangerous brinksmanship:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-keeps-west-guessing-with-dangerous-brinksmanship-128074821878

* "Falsifying Russia’s History Is a Step Toward More Violence:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/putins-plot-against-russias-future/620930/

* "Six ways Russia views Ukraine — and why each should worry the West:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/11/russia-ukraine-putin/

* "Putin tests U.S., allies with belligerence toward Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-tests-u-s-allies-with-belligerence-toward-ukraine-128166469888

* "Sen. Chris Murphy on foreign policy and guns:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/sen-chris-murphy-on-foreign-policy-and-guns-128524869950

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* "Pfizer says its booster shot can protect against Omicron:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/08/pfizer-booster-omicron-523935

* "What Johnson & Johnson Can Still Teach Us:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/vaccine-durability-annual-covid-boosters/620863/

* "Data indicate omicron is milder, better at evading vaccines:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-africa-south-africa-c8d09bed79be4a25f752237c0470961b

* "Covid Omicron: Time to consider mandatory jabs, EU chief says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59497462

* "Dragged up the stairs for my hospital appointment:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-59498152

* "Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/14/omicron-us-spread/

* "Dr. Fauci on Omicron: Boosters promising in fighting off severe disease:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-on-omicron-boosters-promising-in-fighting-off-severe-disease-128838213900

* "As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/covid-deaths-elderly-americans.html

* "FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine booster shots for 16- and 17-year-olds amid omicron threat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/09/covid-vaccine-boosters-16-17-year-old/

* "How the Air Force will handle Oklahoma Guardsmen who refuse COVID-19 vaccinations:" https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/12/08/how-the-air-force-will-handle-oklahoma-guardsmen-who-refuse-covid-19-vaccinations/

* "Senate votes to repeal key Biden administration vaccine and testing policy:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/08/republicans-vaccine-congress-coronavirus/

* "Will new Head Start rules on masks and COVID-19 vaccines trigger another Texas lawsuit?:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/12/13/will-new-head-start-rules-on-masks-and-covid-19-vaccines-trigger-another-texas-lawsuit/

* "The Government Asked Us Not To Release Records From The CDC’s First Failed COVID Test. Here They Are.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/covid-test-false-positive-failure-cdc-documents

* "Buzzfeed News: Covid test failure revealed in secret CDC investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buzzfeed-news-covid-test-failure-revealed-in-secret-cdc-investigation-128358469657

* "Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

* "Three Northeast states deploy National Guard amid medical capacity crisis due to pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/us/maine-new-york-covid-national-guard/index.html

* "Florida’s governor celebrated his anti-mandate Covid laws. Now Omicron is here:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/04/covid-omicron-florida-republican-ron-desantis

* "University of Florida researchers pressured to destroy COVID-19 data, told not to criticize DeSantis: report:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/584909-university-of-florida-researchers-pressured-to-destroy-covid-19-data

* "University of Florida launches formal investigation after reports of pressure to destroy Covid-19 research data:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/us/florida-university-covid-19-data/index.html

* "More Alabama counties have high rate of COVID transmission:" https://www.wbrc.com/2021/12/03/more-alabama-counties-have-high-rate-covid-transmission/

* "Alabama has second largest COVID deaths per capita in nation, third least vaccinated:" https://www.alreporter.com/2021/12/14/alabama-has-second-largest-covid-deaths-per-capita-in-nation-third-least-vaccinated/

* "Dobbs: 'A challenging season' ahead as COVID-19 cases rise and flu kicks up in Mississippi:" https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/12/03/covid-19-flu-cases-rise-mississippi/8849562002/

* "‘We Can Get It Done’: How Jefferson County Became First In Mississippi For Vaccination:" https://www.mississippifreepress.org/18447/we-can-get-it-done-how-jefferson-county-became-first-in-mississippi-for-vaccination/

* "Michigan sets hospitalization record, leads nation in new coronavirus cases per capita:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/health/michigan-covid-cases-hospitalizations/index.html

* "Covid shows ominous signs as winter sets in; Omicron incidental to flare-up:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-shows-ominous-signs-as-winter-sets-in-omicron-incidental-to-flare-up-128169541802

* "Lee Norman, fired as Kansas health secretary, says he was 'Fauci'd' by COVID politics:" https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2021/12/03/lee-norman-fired-kansas-health-boss-says-covid-politics-crux/8852270002/

* "'Too much straight talk' on Covid forces Kansas health secretary out of office:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-too-much-straight-talk-on-covid-forces-kansas-health-secretary-out-of-office-128268357957

* "'Pretty stubborn population': Kansas health officials worry about vaccination rates as COVID worsens:" https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/12/08/kansas-covid-vaccine-rates-as-hospitalizations-cases-rise-coronavirus-updates/8891607002/

* "Missouri AG Eric Schmitt orders schools to drop COVID rules. They say he can’t do that:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256432276.html

* "NYC to impose vaccine mandate on private sector employers:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/mayor-vaccine-mandates-required-nyc-employers-81582082

* "Supreme Court declines to block New York vaccine mandate:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/13/politics/supreme-court-new-york-vaccine-mandate/index.html

* "Tenn medical board takes virus misinformation policy offline:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/tenn-medical-board-takes-virus-misinformation-policy-offline-81631746

* "‘My guy’: Trump was impressed Meadows carried Covid briefcase, book says:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-my-guy-trump-was-impressed-meadows-carried-covid-briefcase-book-says-128250949722

* 45 deliberately exposed more than 500 people than we know of to COVID when he was sick last year. "Seven days: Following Trump’s coronavirus trail:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-positive/2021/12/05/b1a55fda-544f-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html

* "The wide and dangerous gap between Trump’s covid recommendations and his treatments:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/07/wide-dangerous-gap-between-trumps-covid-recommendations-his-treatments/

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* "White House announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/white-house-boycott-beijing-olympics-523817

* "UK opens door to Assange extradition to US on spying charges:" https://apnews.com/article/julian-assange-espionage-extradition-87c7f8f5acf747bbddb7cb87005fded6

* Good. Finally. "US woman accused in high-profile road crash to face UK trial:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-woman-accused-high-profile-road-crash-face-81730323

* "The history of the metal box that’s wrecking the supply chain:" https://www.vox.com/recode/22832884/shipping-containers-amazon-supply-chain

* "'The crisis we face is real': Blinken on why Biden is convening a Summit for Democracy:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/12/08/president-biden-hosting-democracy-summit-here-why/6418307001/

* "As Biden rallies world's democracies, U.S. political right sides with authoritarians:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-biden-rallies-world-s-democracies-u-s-political-right-sides-with-authoritarians-128269893538

* "Biden elevates democracy as a value to the chagrin of China, Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-elevates-democracy-as-a-value-to-the-chagrin-of-china-russia-128371781713

* DeJoy's at it again. "USPS suspends delivery of mail to certain countries:" https://holiday-wishes.dreamwidth.org/93123.html

* "Lesbian Fox News Host Slams Biden for Saying Women and Men Are Equal:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/12/10/lesbian-fox-news-host-slams-biden-saying-women-and-men-are-equal

* "Biden order would make US government carbon neutral by 2050:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-joe-biden-technology-business-environment-and-nature-caee9ef67c7274ee2a9399f5c9b1976e

* "Gay Indian-American to Become Top LGBTQ+ White House Staffer:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/10/gay-indian-american-become-top-lgbtq-white-house-staffer

* "How Reggie Greer Fights for LGBTQ+ Rights From Inside the Biden Admin:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/12/08/how-reggie-greer-fights-lgbtq-rights-inside-biden-admin

* "Biden nominee withdraws name after GOP ‘red scare’ campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-nominee-withdraws-name-after-gop-red-scare-campaign-128252997939

* "Congress votes to raise the debt ceiling, punting the next fight to 2023:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064114046/congress-votes-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-punting-the-next-fight-to-2023

* "Senate sends $768B defense policy bill to Biden:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/15/senate-sends-768b-defense-policy-bill-to-biden-524734

* "McConnell secures GOP support for new debt strategy:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/07/mcconnell-gop-raise-debt-limit-523878

* "Despite past objections, Senate adds filibuster exception for debt ceiling. So, what next?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-past-objections-senate-adds-filibuster-exception-for-debt-ceiling-so-what-next-128462405659

* "Manchin keeps Dems guessing on their megabill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/13/manchin-fiscal-concerns-524158

* "Senate Dems' choice: Election reform first, or Biden's megabill?:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/14/senate-democrats-wrestle-with-two-end-of-the-year-priorities-524217

* "‘Shameless:’ Republicans tout funding that passed with zero GOP votes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-shameless-republicans-tout-funding-that-passed-with-zero-gop-votes-128149573821

* "Elizabeth Warren to Elon Musk: The world's richest freeloader evidently has very thin skin:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elizabeth-warren-responds-to-elon-musk-tweeting-she-s-senator-karen-calling-him-world-s-richest-freeloader-128837189631

* "Who can still afford to live in the city?:"

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* "Starbucks workers at Buffalo store vote to unionize:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/business/starbucks-union-vote/index.html

* "‘Monumental victory’: Starbucks workers in Buffalo vote to unionize:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-monumental-victory-starbucks-workers-in-buffalo-vote-to-unionize-128357957671

* "Andrew Zimmern: We have enough food to reach people and desperately need Congress to take notice:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-exacerbating-the-food-insecurity-problem-in-this-country-discussed-by-andrew-zimmern-128450117954

* "Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid:" https://www.propublica.org/article/utahs-social-safety-net-is-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-what-does-that-mean-if-youre-not-one#1178670

* "If we made other professions ‘Dash for Cash’ like we do teachers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/dash-cash-teachers-dollar-bills-satire/

* "‘What have we come to?’: Mehdi on ‘dystopian’ contest for extra classroom funds:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-what-have-we-come-to-mehdi-on-dystopian-contest-for-extra-classroom-funds-128635973839

* "Banks slowly reconsider overdraft fees, amid public pressure:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/banks-slowly-reconsider-overdraft-fees-amid-public-pressure-81742084

* "How the Taxi Workers Won:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/taxi-driver-strike/

* "Two recent filibuster exceptions expose lie of filibuster as insurmountable hurdle:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/two-recent-filibuster-exceptions-expose-lie-of-filibuster-as-insurmountable-hurdle-128649797728

* "'These are no ordinary times': Warnock calls for action to stem erosion of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-these-are-no-ordinary-times-warnock-calls-for-action-to-stem-erosion-of-democracy-128756293942

* "Warnock to Senate Democrats: Bipartisanship at whose expense?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/warnock-to-senate-democrats-bipartisanship-at-whose-expense-128755269590

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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* "New York City poised to give voting rights to noncitizens:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-york-new-york-city-voting-state-elections-cb6067185112b9f3aca9f3f1ae14f11b

* "Biden administration sues to block Texas redistricting maps:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/doj-sues-to-block-texas-congressional-map-523819

* "North Carolina delays 2022 primaries to give redistricting challenges more time:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062542865/north-carolina-delays-2022-primaries-to-give-redistricting-challenges-more-time

* "How Utah Republicans ‘weaponized’ redistricting:" https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/11/17/how-utah-republicans/

* "Judge allows lawsuits against Georgia’s voting law to move forward:" https://www.axios.com/federal-judge-lawsuits-georgia-restrictive-voting-law-641137a5-3d1e-49e0-9c6a-afe89483ca05.html

* "Republicans overhaul election system in Georgia, purging Democrats; Black county targeted:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-overhaul-election-system-in-georgia-purging-democrats-black-county-targeted-128460358001

* "Fmr. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder discusses the 2022 midterms and the battles over redistricting:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fmr-u-s-attorney-general-eric-holder-discusses-the-2022-midterms-and-the-battles-over-redistricting-128525893857

* "Republicans overhaul election system in Georgia, purging Democrats; Black county targeted:"https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-overhaul-election-system-in-georgia-purging-democrats-black-county-targeted-128460358001

* "Addressing Insider Threats in Elections:" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/addressing-insider-threats-elections

* "Trump, supporters not willing to risk 2024 outcome with a fair election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-supporters-not-willing-to-risk-2024-outcome-with-a-fair-election-128081477557

* "Rep. Schiff: GOP seems to be putting in place apparatus for overturning 2024 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/house-voting-on-mark-meadows-contempt-referral-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-128740933783

* CW: Death threats, Lynching. "Two election workers break silence after enduring Trump backers' threats:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-two-election-workers-break-silence-after-enduring-trump-backers-2021-12-10/

* "Kanye West publicist pressed Georgia election worker to confess to bogus fraud charges:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10/

* "Details of intimidation of Georgia election workers puts new scrutiny on Trump campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/details-of-intimidation-of-georgia-election-workers-puts-new-scrutiny-on-trump-campaign-128459845849

* "Election worker received threats, had to change appearance after being falsely accused by Trump of rigging votes:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-falsely-accusing-georgia-election-worker-ruby-freeman-of-rigging-votes-leads-to-threats-against-her-128451141544

* "Residents of Trump-Loving Retirement Community Arrested for Allegedly Voting Twice in 2020 Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/florida-three-arrested-vote-twice-the-villages-1271574/

* "Election officials gain defenders against Trump Republicans bent on corrupting democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/election-officials-gain-defenders-against-trump-republicans-bent-on-corrupting-democracy-128851013580

* "Republican rips colleagues for damaging, wasteful election spectacle:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-rips-colleagues-for-damaging-wasteful-election-spectacle-128848453845

* "Retired Army colonel who circulated election-denying PowerPoint speaks to Louisiana election commission:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/retired-army-colonel-circulated-election-220900873.html

* "Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/sidney-powell-defending-republic-donations/2021/12/06/61bdb004-53ef-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

* "Joy Reid critiques shadowy Utah Voter Verification Project going door-to-door looking for nonexistent voter fraud:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/utah-voter-verification-project-going-door-to-door-looking-for-nonexistent-voter-fraud-critiqued-by-joy-reid-128152133986

* "Republicans lay the groundwork to subvert the 2024 election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/republicans-lay-the-groundwork-to-subvert-the-2024-election-128525893895

* "The Terrifying Future of the American Right:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/

* "Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/

* "Dana Milbank: Reporters should be partisan when it comes to democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-loyalists-leading-america-toward-authoritarianism-128069701544

* "Trump's 'propaganda ecosystem' priming supporters for violence: Gellman:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-propaganda-ecosystem-priming-supporters-for-violence-gellman-128078917725

* "Wherein Matt Lewis is madly ahistorical:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1812100.html

* "Joy Reid: The party of open hostility to democracy is the Republican Party:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-kick-off-first-summit-for-democracy-as-gop-voter-suppression-ploys-advance-128358469955

* "How Trump pushed Perdue into the Georgia governor's race, kicking off a bitter GOP fight:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-official-perdue-to-challenge-kemp-for-ga-governor-ensuring-divisive-gop-primary/2021/12/06/7f5fd94c-56a7-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html

* "Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue will announce primary bid against Georgia governor this week:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/05/perdue-georgia-governor-kemp-primary-523772

* "Chris Hayes: David Perdue’s governor bid is about one thing and one thing only:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-david-perdue-s-governor-bid-is-about-one-thing-and-one-thing-only-128063045727

* "What the GOP Does to Its Own Dissenters:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/peter-meijer-freshman-republican-impeach/620844/

* "Lisa Middleton Becomes First Trans Mayor in California:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/09/lisa-middleton-becomes-first-trans-mayor-california

* "Liliana Bakhtiari Is First Nonbinary Member of Atlanta City Council:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/06/liliana-bakhtiari-first-nonbinary-member-atlanta-city-council

* "Rep. Omar on calls for ‘condemnation and punishment’ for Lauren Boebert’s racist, anti-Muslim comments:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/lauren-boebert-s-racist-anti-muslim-comments-condemned-by-rep-ilhan-omar-128151109982

* "Trump shell company faces SEC investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/trump-spac-sec-investigation-523795

* "In odd career move, Devin Nunes announces abrupt departure from Congress :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/devin-nunes-announces-abrupt-departure-from-congress-in-odd-career-move-128076869653

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Devin Nunes to Lead Donald Trump's Media Company:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/07/anti-lgbtq-rep-devin-nunes-lead-donald-trumps-media-company-trump-media-technology-group

* "Trump appeals judge’s ruling that tax records can be released by Treasury Department to Congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/14/trump-tax-records-treasury-release/

* "Trump inadvertently admits to obstruction of justice in new Fox News interview:" https://www.salon.com/2021/12/07/inadvertently-admits-to-obstruction-of-justice-in-new-fox-news-interview_partner/

* "Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro refuses to provide documents subpoenaed in House Covid-19 probe:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/politics/peter-navarro-documents-covid-19-probe/index.html

* "New York attorney general seeks Trump’s deposition as part of civil fraud investigation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-letitia-james-deposition/2021/12/09/01b10140-587f-11ec-a219-9b4ae96da3b7_story.html

* "Parallel criminal and civil cases put Trump in a legal bind:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/parallel-criminal-and-civil-cases-put-trump-in-a-legal-bind-128370245760

* "Tim O’Brien: NY attorney general seeking Trump deposition signals investigation’s end is near:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-sought-for-deposition-by-new-york-attorney-general-tish-james-128360005830

* "New Evidence: Trump White House May Have Worked With DOJ Official in Scheme to Overturn the Election:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jeffrey-clark-white-house-overturn-georgia-election-1267012/

* "House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress over Jan. 6 probe dispute:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/full-house-expected-hold-mark-meadows-contempt-congress/story?id=81745730

* "Meadows sues as Jan. 6 panel proceeds with contempt case:" https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/meadows-sues-as-jan-6-panel-proceeds-with-contempt-case/KAP2FTXTDVC5VC77MVS2IRFCR4/?outputType=amp

* "Meadows Jan. 5 email indicated Guard on standby to ‘protect pro Trump people,’ investigators say:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/12/meadows-jan-6-national-guard-trump-524133

* "New details show depth of Mark Meadows' role in effort to overturn Trump's 2020 loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-details-show-depth-of-mark-meadows-role-in-effort-to-overturn-trump-s-2020-loss-128271429559

* "New Meadows texts further implicate members of Congress in Trump plot to overturn election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-meadows-texts-further-implicate-members-of-congress-in-trump-plot-to-overturn-election-128754757912

* "Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/politics/trump-meadows-republicans-congress-jan-6.html

* "Contents of texts to Meadows from Fox News hosts, Congress members revealed at 1/6 hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/contents-of-texts-to-meadows-from-fox-news-hosts-congress-members-revealed-at-1-6-hearing-128646725898

* "Meadows evidence appears to implicate members of Congress in plots to flip state elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/meadows-evidence-appears-to-implicate-members-of-congress-in-plots-to-flip-state-elections-128649797535

* "Potential crimes by Donald Trump seen as a focus for January 6th Committee at hearing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/potential-crimes-by-donald-trump-seen-as-a-focus-for-january-6th-committee-at-hearing-128648773600

* "Jan. 6 panel: Fox News hosts texted Meadows amid riot, urged intervention:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/jan-6-panel-fox-news-hosts-texted-meadows-amid-riot-urged-intervention-128633925722

* "Fox hosts, Don Jr. texts reveal everyone was horrified by riot—except Trump :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-hosts-don-jr-texts-reveal-everyone-was-horrified-by-riot-except-trump-128738373993

* "Mary Trump: Trumpism has moved beyond Donald, is about undoing our democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-supporters-including-mark-meadows-kevin-mccarthy-scrutinized-by-mary-trump-128837701791

* "House committee subpoenas six people linked to Jan. 6 rally, including Trump-backed Ohio congressional candidate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/10/house-committee-subpoenas-six-individuals-linked-jan-6-rally-including-trump-backed-ohio-congressional-candidate/

* "January 6th Committee reveals what we already knew - it wasn't a group of rowdy tourists:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/january-6th-committee-reveals-what-we-already-knew-it-wasn-t-a-group-of-rowdy-tourists-128525381957

* "Top Pence aide cooperating with January 6 committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/politics/marc-short-pence-aide-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Appeals court rejects Trump's bid to keep January 6 documents from House committee:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/trump-documents/index.html

* "Another Trump loss: Court affirms legitimacy of 1/6 investigation; fallout for Bannon?:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-trump-loss-court-affirms-legitimacy-of-1-6-investigation-fallout-for-bannon-128370757686

* "Judge sets July 18 for Bannon ‘contempt of Congress’ trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/07/july-18-bannon-contempt-of-congress-trial-523885

* "'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777

* "Ex-D.C. guard official: Michael Flynn’s brother lied to Congress about Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ex-d-c-guard-official-michael-flynn-s-brother-lied-to-congress-about-jan-6-128064069660

* "D.C. attorney general sues Proud Boys, Oath Keepers over Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/racine-jan-6-lawsuit/2021/12/14/4e581d00-5c51-11ec-bda6-25c1f558dd09_story.html

* "Army awards Purple Hearts to soldiers whose injuries were minimized by Donald Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/army-awards-purple-hearts-to-soldiers-whose-injuries-were-minimized-by-donald-trump-128268357931

* "Florida district to pay $26 million to shooting victims:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/florida-district-pay-26-million-shooting-victims-81767791

* "California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/california-gun-control-texas-abortion-legal-tactics/index.html

* "Joy Reid slams Republicans who seem to lionize gun worshippers and lethal shooters:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/deadly-shootings-getting-the-rightwing-spin-treatment-slammed-by-joy-reid-128070725508

* "Are the Crumbley Parents Responsible?:"

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* "'No one is solvent': Coffee crisis in Central America fuels record exodus north:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/no-one-solvent-coffee-crisis-central-america-fuels-record-exodus-north-rcna8023

* "Chauvin pleads guilty to federal charge in Floyd’s death:" https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-george-floyd-minneapolis-race-and-ethnicity-st-paul-a8b12b1e3e0fedc1270c659e3428134e

* "Exonerated after 43 years in jail despite his innocence, Kevin Strickland opens up to Joy Reid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kevin-strickland-after-43-years-in-jail-via-wrongful-conviction-by-an-all-white-jury-is-exonerated-freed-128257093649

* "Police Trading Homophobic, Racist Texts Jeopardize Hundreds of Cases:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/09/police-trading-homophobic-racist-texts-jeopardize-hundreds-cases

* "The Police Killings Were Years Ago. New Prosecutors Are Reopening Cases.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/us/prosecutors-investigating-police-killings.html

* CW: Lynching "No new charges as Emmett Till investigation closed by Justice Department:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/emmett-till-investigation-closed-justice-department-523825

* "Keechant Sewell to be 1st woman, 3rd Black person to lead New York City police:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-12-15/new-york-police-sewell

* CW: Suicide "Family of Georgia Trans Inmate Wins $2.2M Wrongful-Death Settlement:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/08/family-georgia-trans-inmate-wins-record-two-million-dollar-wrongful-death-settlement

* "Violence & Protest | Philosophy Tube:"

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* "White Supremacy, 4 Years After Charlottesville:"

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* "How do you deradicalise an incel?:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-do-you-deradicalise-an-incel

* "Jussie Smollett was found guilty on 5 felony counts. Here's what comes next:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/us/jussie-smollett-trial-guilty-next-steps/index.html

* "‘Terrifying’ Nashville statue of Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest is removed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/07/nashville-forrest-confederate-statue-removed/

* "Fall of 'heinously ugly' racist statue marks another step in slow march of progress:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fall-of-heinously-ugly-racist-statue-marks-another-step-in-slow-march-of-progress-128167493824

* "A Confederate General's Remains Are Being Moved Out Of Memphis:" https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008371491/confederate-general-remains-memphis-moved

* "Virginia to begin removal process of Robert E. Lee statue pedestal in Richmond, governor says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/us/virginia-robert-e-lee-statue-pedestal-removal/index.html

* "The Mantra of White Supremacy:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/white-supremacy-mantra-anti-racism/620832/

* Spoiler: He's also super racist. "Rod Liddle 'transphobia' row proves students are being sacrificed for speech:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/durham-university-rod-liddle-transphobia-student/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Little Elm families want accountability after protest that led to clash between students and police:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/12/01/little-elm-families-want-accountability-after-protest-that-led-to-clash-between-students-and-police/

* CW: Pedophilia. "John Kricfalusi's Disgusting Behavior With Work and Minors | Corporate Casket:"

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* CW: Sex Trafficking. "The prosecution rests its case in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/10/1063224243/the-prosecution-rests-its-case-in-ghislaine-maxwells-sex-trafficking-trial

* CW: Pedophilia. "Reality TV’s Josh Duggar convicted of child porn possession:" https://apnews.com/article/josh-duggar-convicted-child-pornography-26436604345361733003627af33bda78

* "The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/children-sex-trafficking-conspiracy-epidemic/620845/

* "US groups behind bid to outlaw abortion linked to global attacks on human rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/07/homophobic-groups-fund-abortion-case-us/

* "SCOTUS allows clinics’ challenge to Texas abortion ban to proceed:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/10/supreme-court-allows-clinics-challenge-to-texas-abortion-ban-to-proceed-rebuffs-biden-admin-524083

* "LGBTQ+ Groups: SCOTUS Should Have Blocked Texas Abortion Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/10/lgbtq-groups-scotus-should-have-blocked-texas-abortion-law

* "Anti-abortion Supreme Court justices risk slippery slope with ruling on Texas abortion law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-abortion-supreme-court-justices-risk-slippery-slope-with-ruling-on-texas-abortion-law-128460869959

* "Jennifer Rubin: Women are on their own throughout pregnancy and childbirth in Mississippi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mississippi-governor-defends-anti-abortion-stance-as-his-state-is-ranked-50th-for-child-welfare-128068165812

* "Priest jailed after stealing £85k from church to fund drug-fuelled orgies:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/10/priest-stole-church-gay-sex-orgies-drugs/

* "Chile's Congress Approves Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/08/chiles-congress-approves-marriage-equality

* "Tokyo Plans to Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships Next Year:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/12/08/tokyo-plans-recognize-same-sex-partnerships-next-year

* "Here's The Current List of Countries That Recognize Marriage Equality:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2021/12/08/heres-current-list-countries-recognize-marriage-equality#media-gallery-media-1

* "LGBTQ+ Iranians Are Suffering and Dying While the World Yawns:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/10/lgbtq-iranians-are-suffering-and-dying-while-world-yawns

* "Barbados can 'wipe the slate' on LGBT+ rights as a republic, campaigners say:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/14/barbados-lgbt-rights-republic-colonial-laws/

* "Presbyterian Church goes after reverend for 'endorsing gay relationship':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/10/presbyterian-church-gay/

* "Police failings in case of evil Grindr killer Stephen Port 'probably' led to more deaths:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/10/stephen-port-inquest-jury-police/

* CW: Rape "BBC Transphobia? Or Just Terrible Journalism? (Or Both?!):"

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* CW: Rape. "J.K. Rowling Casts Transphobic Tweets Again:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/13/jk-rowling-casts-transphobic-tweets-again

* "JK Rowling (Again) Pushes Trans Women Predator Narrative:"

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* "JK Rowling Promotes Anti-Trans Doxers to Condemn Doxing:"

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* "More Than 20 Million Americans Identify as LGBTQ+, According to Report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/15/more-20-million-americans-identify-lgbtq-according-report

* "Here Are the 50 Trans Americans Killed in 2021 So Far:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/10/20/all-trans-people-killed-murdered-violence-2021-record-statistics

* "Florida Removes LGBTQ-Inclusive Antibullying Info From State Website:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/12/06/florida-removes-lgbtq-inclusive-antibullying-info-state-website

* "Catholic Diocese Says LGBTQ+ People Are Not Allowed Sacraments:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/12/10/michigan-catholic-diocese-says-lgbtq-people-are-not-allowed-sacraments

* Suspect Arrested After Gay Man Was Beaten with Metal Pole":" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/13/suspect-arrested-after-gay-man-was-beaten-metal-pole

* "Man Threatened to Attack NYC Pride, Eclipsing Pulse Massacre:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/07/man-threatened-attack-nyc-pride-eclipsing-pulse-massacre

* "Trans Woman Nikai David Killed in Oakland in Deadliest Year on Record:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/12/06/trans-woman-nikai-david-killed-oakland-california-deadliest-year-record

* CW: Suicide. "12-YO Dies by Suicide After Bullies Say He’d Go to Hell for Being Gay:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/07/12-year-old-boy-kills-self-after-bullies-say-hed-go-hell-being-gay

* "Minnesota Town Rallies Around Outed Trans Child:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/07/minnesota-town-rallies-around-outed-trans-child

* "Trans Woman Wins Settlement in Suit Against California Gym:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/09/trans-woman-wins-settlement-suit-against-california-gym

* CW: Suicide "Study: Hormone Therapy Connected to Lower Suicide Risk in Trans Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/12/14/study-hormone-therapy-connected-lower-suicide-risk-trans-youth

* "These People Think Bleach Will Cure Autism:"

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* CW: Torture, Child Abuse "How Can Infrastructure Help Us Stop Outbreaks? Crash Course Outbreak Science #12:"

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* "The Horrors of Autism Speaks:"

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* CW: Child Abuse, Torture. " Autism Speaks' Electrifying Past :"

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* CW: Child Abuse "Is NEXT For Autism Just Autism Speaks Jr?:"

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* "What Is Outbreak Culture? Crash Course Outbreak Science #13:"

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* "4 Dead Infants, a Convicted Mother, and a Genetic Mystery:" https://www.wired.com/story/kathleen-folbigg-sudden-infant-death-mystery/

* "‘I’m blind but technology helps me animate’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-59429216

* "Supervised injection sites have reversed 9 overdoses since opening in NYC: Mayor de Blasio:" https://abc7ny.com/mayor-de-blasio-supervised-injection-needle-exchange-drug-addiction/11300973/

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* "Postcards From a World on Fire:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html

* "Conservatives Have a New Bogeyman: Critical Energy Theory:" https://newrepublic.com/article/164641/conservatives-new-bogeyman-critical-energy-theory

* "‘Critical energy theory’: Right wing declares war on ‘woke’ climate policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-critical-energy-theory-right-wing-declares-war-on-woke-climate-policy-128253509763

* "‘So Many Dimensions’: A Drought Study Underlines the Complexity of Climate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/climate/climate-change-madagascar-drought.html

* "The drought ravaging East African wildlife and livestock:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-59513118

* "The exact link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw. Here's why:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/13/1063676832/the-exact-link-between-tornadoes-and-climate-change-is-hard-to-draw-heres-why

* "More than 80 feared dead after tornadoes hit central and southern US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/weather/severe-weather-tornadoes-saturday/index.html

* "The full extent of weekend tornado damage might not be known for days, officials say:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/12/1063522811/emergency-response-continues-in-kentucky-after-deadly-tornadoes-in-south-and-mid

* "Candle factory had been 'going 24/7' to meet Christmastime demand. Then the storm hit:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/us/candle-factory-mayfield-ky-tornado/index.html

* "Kentucky candle factory: questions arise over why staff worked during tornadoes:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/13/kentucky-tornadoes-candle-factory-search-survivors

* "Crews search rubble after 6 die at Illinois Amazon facility:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/crews-search-rubble-after-6-die-at-illinois-amazon-facility/2021/12/12/5832affa-5b72-11ec-b1ef-cb78be717f0e_story.html

* "Survivors of deadly tornadoes may go weeks without heat, water, electricity, Kentucky officials say:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tornado-kentucky-storm-dec13-2021-1.6283500

* "Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-tornado-factory-workers-threatened-firing-left-tornado-employ-rcna8581

* "The U.S. Government Is Wasting Billions on Ineffective Wildfire Policy:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/fire-industrial-complex-wildfire-policy-suppression.html

* CW: Child Death. "Storm Drains Keep Swallowing People During Floods:" https://www.propublica.org/article/storm-drains-keep-swallowing-people-during-floods

* "British waste dumped in Romania:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-59557493

* "Urban garden in Rio feeds hundreds of families in former ‘crackland’:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/urban-garden-rio-feeds-hundreds-families-former-crackland-2021-12-05/

* "California goes to war with food waste. Composting is its next climate crusade:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/california-goes-war-food-waste-130026484.html

* "The ingenious living bridges of India:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211117-how-indias-living-bridges-could-transform-architecture

* "Pansexual Furry to Become 1st Out LGBTQ+ Person in Space This Weekend:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/10/pansexual-furry-become-1st-out-lgbtq-person-space-weekend

* "Every Night, Hordes of Sea Creatures Rise From the Deep:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/why-sea-creatures-migrate-surface-every-night/620979/

* "Museum Showcases Queer Relationships in the Animal Kingdom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/12/10/museum-showcases-same-sex-queer-relationships-animal-kingdom

* "Watch a stunning MIT video of butterfly scales forming inside a chrysalis:" https://www.cnet.com/news/watch-a-stunning-mit-video-of-butterfly-scales-forming-inside-a-chrysalis/

* "Reindeer’s Eyes Change Color With Seasons:" https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/10/reindeers-eyes-change-color-with-seasons.html

* CW: Animal Abuse, Dead Animals "Discussing the History of Animal Abuse in Hollywood | Prism of the Past:"

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* "Akhenaten - A Pharaoh Obsessed - Extra History:"

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* "Thermopylae:"

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* "King Herod: Mad Tyrant or Misunderstood Hero?:"

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* "Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/pompeii-still-has-buried-secrets

* "Creepy Archaeological Discoveries:"

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* " More Creepy Archaeological Discoveries :"

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* "Subutai: Genghis Khan’s Demon Dog of War:"

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* "Machu Picchu: The Lost City of the Incas:"

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* "Frederick the Great: Prussia’s Fabulous King:"

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* "A Day in the Life of an Enslaved Lady's Maid:"

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* "Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer:"

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* "Mary Seacole:"

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* "What Were Halloween Parties Like in the Early 1900s?:"

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* "That Time When a Shortage of Sausage and Beer Killed 1,000 People and Toppled an Empire:"

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* "Sleeping Sickness: The Terrifying Disease that Everyone Forgot:"

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* "Rhinelander v Rhinelander: The 1920s Race & Sex Scandal You've Never Head Of:"

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* " Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Black American History #27 :" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HY8d4ABHQA

* "The Great Depression: Crash Course Black American History #28:"

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* "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run:"

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* "What was Life Like for Women in the USSR?:"

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* "Magora Kennedy: Meet The 83-Year-Old Reverend And Stonewall Veteran:" https://www.advocate.com/lesbian/2021/12/13/magora-kennedy-meet-reverend-stonewall

* "Rita Moreno vs Hollywood: The Other "West Side Story" Rumble:"

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* "The Overlooked History of Berlin's Black Community:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-black-community-germany

* "Jay Toole: The Stonewall Veteran Reflects On 25 Years of Homelessness:" https://www.advocate.com/women/2021/12/07/jay-toole-stonewall-veteran-reflects-25-years-homelessness

* "Looking at the Cause of the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse of 1981:"

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* "Why Aren’t We Taking to the Streets for Canadian Women and Girls?:" https://www.flare.com/news/canadian-activism/

* "Vozrozhdeniya "Rebirth" Island: The Soviet Union's Bio Weapons Lab:"

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* "Don Decker: The Rain Man:"

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* "Legendary author bell hooks, who believed 'feminism is for everyone', dies aged 69:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/15/bell-hooks-death-tributes-author-feminism/

* "Steve Bronski, co-founder of pioneering gay band Bronski Beat, dies aged 61:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/steve-bronski-beat-dead/

That Smalltown Boy video meant so damned much when it was new. It was a promise that if you could hold on and survive, you could get out and it would be better.

* "Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy:"

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* "Anne Rice, best-selling novelist who helped launch a vampire revival, dies at 80:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2021/12/13/anne-rice-dead/

* "Anne Rice, Noted for Supernatural and Homoerotic Novels, Dies at 80:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/12/12/anne-rice-noted-supernatural-and-homoerotic-novels-dies-80

* "Michael Nesmith, Monkees Singer-Songwriter, Dead at 78:" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/monkees-michael-nesmith-dead-1270079/

* "Yemen: The woman saving a crumbling heritage:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59262086

* "The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/bogdanos-antiquities-new-york/620525/

* "Negro League baseball players earn spots in the National Baseball Hall of Fame:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/us/negro-league-players-baseball-hall-of-fame/index.html

* "The secret history of Sesame Street: ‘It was utopian – it’s part of who we all are’:" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/11/found-photographs-sesame-street-season-one-utopian

* "Cream cheese shortage hits NYC bagel shops amid supply chain issues:" https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/12/05/cream-cheese-shortage-hits-nyc-bagel-shops-amid-supply-chain-issues

* "Italian bishop apologizes for telling children Santa doesn't exist:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/11/europe/christmas-santa-claus-italy-bishop-apology-scli-intl/index.html

* "SCOTUS: Where Reproductive Rights Go to Die:"

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* "The Dangers of the Supreme Court Shadow Docket:"

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* "How Our Culture of “Fast and Free Returns!” is Not So Free:"

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* "Mark Meadows is Having a VERY Bad Week:"

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* "If You Don’t Know, Now You Know - U.S. Housing Demand Soars:" https://www.cc.com/video/kk62bw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-u-s-housing-demand-soars

* "Fringe-Watching - Lauren Boebert :" https://www.cc.com/video/l6mrai/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-fringe-watching-lauren-boebert

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Vaccination in SoCal:" https://www.cc.com/video/i0hd3o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-vaccination-in-socal

* "Boris Johnson Party Scandal & Hillary Clinton Victory Speech:" https://www.cc.com/video/5ax2mr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-boris-johnson-party-scandal-hillary-clinton-victory-speech

* "Elon Musk's TIME Feature & Gavin Newsom's Gun Law Gambit:" https://www.cc.com/video/1i23gl/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-elon-musk-s-time-feature-gavin-newsom-s-gun-law-gambit

* "Queerbaiting: Manipulating the LGBTQ+ Into False Representation:"

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* CW: Suicide "What Went Wrong with Dear Evan Hansen:"

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* "Richard Hunt: The Gay Man Behind the Muppets:"

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* "1000 Years of Hanukkah in Jewish historical costume! Celebrating the history of Hanukkah traditions:"

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* "500 Years of Correcting “Historical” Halloween Costumes:"

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* " Redesigning "Historical" Halloween Costumes According to Actual Historical Evidence: Men's Edition :"

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* "Landlords, Class Disparity & The People Under the Stairs:"

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* "How Adam West's Batman Lit the Way for the Dark Knight:"

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* "How Did the Whole Stan Lee Cameo Thing Start? (And the Hilariously Awkward Way He Met His Wife):"

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* "One Villainous Scene - Demona is Alone:"

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* "The World's Most Dangerous Musical: The Chaotic History of Spider-Man on Broadway:"

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* I wrote this in response to someone's post about a Christmas Carol. (Mildly Edited.)

My Father was Marley every year from when I was a few months old until the year before he died. (He missed the last pageant because he was literally on his death bed, dying Christmas Eve.) He loved doing it the way he loved being a ghoul every Halloween to give out candy. The make up was rather similar and he spent years perfecting and aging both costumes. This was a man who owned his own chains, real steel so the rattle would carry. (The School chapel had excellent acoustics. It was a theater in the round situation, with the whole school assembled on three sides. The building had a sort of raised stage in the center of the cross. (4th side had choir, organ, robing room, storage, offices). The acoustics were designed so an unamplified would carry beautifully from the center stage.

You say "Marley" and I see my Father in his dingy shroud and the make up designed to make him look haggard and dead, raising his chains, and his booming voice wailing the monologue that started, "These are the chains I forged in life," punctuated by rattling chains to which they had attached the coffers of greed. He somehow honed a combination of real soul torment and skin chilling warning.

This will always be the Christmas Carol in my head. It was truly Haunting and very much drawn from the original story in tone and design.

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes, plus the donations. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* I'm having a lot of extreme pain which is why posting is so irregular. Apologies.

* "Goofy 18th-Century Self-Portraits by Joseph Ducreux:" https://kottke.org/21/11/goofy-18th-century-self-portraits-by-joseph-ducreux

* "11 Profoundly Useless Educational Films From the 1940s-1960s:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653019/profoundly-useless-educational-films

* "8 Helpful Tips for Keeping Pets Out of Christmas Trees:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/653446/how-to-keep-pets-out-of-christmas-trees?utm_content=infinitescroll2

* "Timey-Wimey Sweets:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/5/timey-wimey-sweets

* "Sunday Sweets: Polar Opposites:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/12/12/sunday-sweets-polar-opposites

* "A Comprehensive Account Of Every Feeling I Have Ever Had At A Medieval Times:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/a-comprehensive-account-of-every?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NTUzMDk0MSwiXyI6Ik1EdnZtIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM5NjU1ODAyLCJleHAiOjE2Mzk2NTk0MDIsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.qFhrRLsLTBEyBfMnIOzGkKrcPUIfuoPwNyBhu4NrTqY

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* Hardly any of the Sunday news made it onto this and i have a massive back up waiting to be scaffolded, but if I don't post it will get so much worse, so here we are.

* "Tensions flare as Chinese flights near Taiwan intensify:" https://apnews.com/article/tensions-flare-chinese-flights-near-taiwan-02b30ed449f663cf53ef0782482e35e9

* "Extremists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/africa-islamists-sahel-leaders/

* "An Asylum Seeker’s Wrenching Choice: Stay on the Run or Save His Child’s Life:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-crisis.html

* "Authorities call fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker terrorist act:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-london-england-eda5b4786c84e68a59de9075efecbcf7

* "ASEAN to exclude Myanmar junta chief from leaders' summit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-does-not-want-myanmar-junta-leader-summit-if-no-progress-minister-2021-10-15/

* "Beirut's worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/middleeast/lebanon-blast-gunfire-protest-intl/index.html

* "Lebanese firefighters put out fire at fuel facility:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-al-jadeed-tv-reports-fire-near-zahrani-oil-facility-2021-10-11/

* "It’s time to drop the curtain on Japan’s colonial legacy :" https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/

* "Justin Trudeau Tells International Conference Left-Wing ‘Extremist Groups’ Are ‘Pushing White Supremacy’:" https://pressprogress.ca/justin-trudeau-tells-international-conference-left-wing-extremist-groups-are-pushing-white-supremacy/

* "British football coach sentenced to 25 years’ jail in Dubai over CBD vape liquid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/british-football-coach-sentenced-to-25-years-jail-in-dubai-over-cbd-vape-liquid

* "Australia's Daintree rainforest returned to Aboriginal ownership:" https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/australia-daintree-rainforest-aboriginal-owners-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Inside the manic race to replace Duterte as the Philippines' leader:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/asia/philippines-election-president-duterte-marcos-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Help find this man wanted for BITING and assaulting Game Store Employees!:"

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* "Australia ends migrants housing deal with Papua New Guinea:" https://wtop.com/australia/2021/10/australia-ends-migrants-housing-deal-with-papua-new-guinea/

* "Austrian Chancellor Kurz resigns amid corruption allegations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/austria-kurz-resigns-corruption/2021/10/09/fd58ac5a-2927-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html

* "96-year-old German woman released after going on the run to skip Nazi war crimes trial:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/96-year-old-german-woman-released-after-going-run-skip-n1280876

* "Calls for investigation after court finds Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/calls-for-investigation-after-court-finds-dubai-ruler-hacked-ex-wifes-phone

* "Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/

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* "Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-mild-cases-of-covid-may-leave-a-mark-on-the-brain/

* "Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809

* "Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill:" https://apnews.com/article/merck-asks-fda-to-authorize-covid-pill-e731ada126414396b402c4dfc3cf8d2c

* "South Sudan: How to deliver Covid vaccines in a country with few roads:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58911911

* "New Zealand will phase out its zero-covid strategy, acknowledging it cannot eliminate coronavirus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/05/new-zealand-zero-covid-strategy/

* "As Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, vaccines offer hope worst is over:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-nears-600000-covid-19-deaths-vaccines-offer-hope-worst-is-over-2021-10-08/

* "Brazil pandemic probe to recommend Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, senator says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-pandemic-probe-recommend-bolsonaro-face-11-criminal-charges-senator-says-2021-10-15/

* "COVID Misinformation Has People Injecting Bleach:"

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* "US to reopen land borders in November for fully vaccinated:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-covid-19-pandemic-air-travel-health-c3f7e2b8feca4c8cdaf4301ae9c81a79

* "COVID-19 Vaccination:" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html

* "F.D.A. Panel Unanimously Recommends Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/health/johnson-johnson-vaccine-booster.html

* "FDA panel endorses lower-dose Moderna COVID shot for booster:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-moderna-booster-shot-fda-2de19cdff021ad11b95c6b67fd5d8617

* "J&J Covid vaccine recipients are better off getting Pfizer or Moderna booster, NIH study suggests:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/jj-covid-vaccine-recipients-are-better-off-getting-pfizer-or-moderna-booster-nih-study-suggests.html

* "Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations:" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-09-17/study-finds-big-gap-between-pfizer-moderna-vaccines-at-preventing-covid-hospitalizations

* "Getting a Booster Too Soon Could Cause This Serious Side Effect:" https://bestlifeonline.com/booster-side-effect-news/

* "Boosters and mixes: Health officials consider most beneficial combinations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/boosters-and-mixes-health-officials-consider-most-beneficial-combinations-123695685898

* "POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans support vaccine mandates for schoolkids:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/poll-support-vaccine-mandates-students-515657

* "Florida is only state not to submit school Covid-19 relief funding plan, US Education Department says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/florida-schools-covid-relief-funding-plan/index.html

* "Florida trying to block money Biden sent to school districts fined for mask mandates:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-working-block-money-biden-school-districts-mask/story?id=80419199

* "Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried urges Florida to speed up distribution of federal COVID relief dollars:" https://www.wptv.com/coronavirus/agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-urges-florida-to-speed-up-distribution-of-federal-covid-relief-dollars

* "Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with mask mandates compare to those without:" https://www.kxan.com/investigations/texas-school-covid-19-cases-how-those-with-mask-mandates-compare-to-those-without/

* "Texas order reflects growing GOP vaccine mandates hostility:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-nba-sports-business-aa6c30fa6270b735acafc69e2ce26766

* "Texas Republicans spar over who is more pro-Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-republicans-spar-over-who-is-more-pro-covid-123393605771

* "Study: Vaccines Helped Reduce COVID-19 Deaths in Oklahoma:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2021-10-05/study-vaccines-helped-reduce-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma

* "Stitt: Oklahoma ready to ‘take President Biden to court’ over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.koco.com/article/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-president-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/37963844

* "48 hours to live: An Oklahoma hospital’s rush to find an ICU bed for a covid patient:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/hospital-covid-patient/

* "This Teen's Community Rallied As She Fought COVID. But Many Still Shun The Vaccine:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/03/1032665979/child-near-death-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-mis-c

* "TN doctor warns of ‘death lag’ with younger people hospitalized for COVID:" https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/tn-doctor-warns-of-death-lag-with-younger-people-hospitalized-for-covid/

* "Tennessee physicians who spread COVID-19 misinformation could now face disciplinary action:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-physicians-who-spread-covid-19-misinformation-could-now-face-disciplinary-action

* "More than 20 Tennessee school staff members have died from COVID-19:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/more-than-20-tennessee-school-staff-members-have-died-from-covid-19/

* "Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-montana-8c47ca9308494b678f41f41764094800

* "Amid COVID crisis, Idaho health care workers grapple with burnout and misinformation: "I'm treating patients for their political views":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-health-care-workers-covid/

* This is in line with the findings from Brazil earlier in the year. "Pregnant women at risk with COVID-19:" https://idahonews.com/news/local/pregnant-women-at-risk-with-covid-19

* "COVID spike pushes Alaska’s health care system to brink:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-pandemics-18bd9ffb116ce59872451f11067e94eb

* "Alaska reports 3 deaths, 871 COVID-19 cases as delayed monoclonal antibody shipments begin arriving:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/05/alaska-reports-3-deaths-871-covid-19-cases-as-delayed-monoclonal-antibody-shipments-begin-arriving/

* "'Reckless': Parents sue school district for failing to protect kids from Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-reckless-parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-for-failing-to-protect-kids-from-covid-123396165875

* "Anti-Vax Protesters Confront Parents About Masks Outside Beverly Hills School:" https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/07/anti-vax-protesters-confront-parents-about-masks-outside-beverly-hills-school/

* A special place in hell. "10-Year-Old Died of COVID After Teacher Made Her Be ‘Nurse’ to Sick Kids, Parents Say:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-teresa-sperry-died-of-covid-after-teacher-made-her-be-nurse-to-sick-kids-parents-say?ref=scroll

* "'The mood is grim': Death threats and violence mark another pandemic school year:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-05/covid-vaccine-mask-fury-shakes-up-california-schools

* "Masks burned outside Brevard School Board meeting; board passes final budget:" https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/09/09/covid-19-masks-burnt-protest-outside-brevard-school-board-meeting/8264824002/

* "Cops Charge Zip-Tie Guys Who Ambushed School Principal Over COVID Rules:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/men-charged-for-ambushing-mesquite-elementary-school-principal-with-zip-ties-over-covid-rules

* "Marchers Attack Coronavirus Testing Station in Union Square:" https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/anti-vaccine-mandate-protest-new-york-city.html

* "Police unions across U.S. urge members to defy vaccine mandates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-unions-across-u-s-urge-members-to-defy-vaccine-mandates-123688005985

* "Death Threats, Trolling Common for Scientists Who Speak to Media About COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-14/death-threats-trolling-common-for-scientists-who-speak-to-media-about-covid

* "Man charged federally with threatening former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen over COVID vaccine support:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-wen-threats-charges-20211012-iiiutjgxyfbslh2zmlpv3yntlu-story.html

* "Republican lawmaker banned from Alaska Airlines over mask rules tests positive for COVID:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/14/alaska-airlines-lawmaker-banned-flights-tests-positive-covid/8455352002/

* "Hayes: How America is processing the trauma of living through a pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-america-is-processing-the-trauma-of-living-through-a-pandemic-123492421658

* "Police Cite Anti-Vaccine Motive in Killing of Pharmacist and 2 Others:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/jeffrey-burnham-pharmacist-brother-covid-vaccine.html

* "Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense--He's Bankrolling It:" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/

* "Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-allen-west-texas-pneumonia-health-03839ff2547c8895fb0e4f155705322a

* ""The tyranny of evidence-based medicine.":" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1806319.html

* "Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/us/texas-man-sentenced-covid-hoax/index.html

* "Fox News hosts deride vaccine mandates while complying with strict Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-hosts-deride-vaccine-mandates-while-complying-with-strict-covid-policy-122842693795

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* "Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58842793

* "Afghanistan: Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58807734

* "Global minimum tax effort moves forward as Ireland and Hungary join pact:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/08/minimum-corporate-tax-oecd-biden/

* "3 US-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs:" https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32

* "Maryland husband and wife arrested in nuclear submarine spy case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/10/maryland-husband-wife-arrested-espionage-case-515761

* "FBI: U.S. Navy engineer tried to sell nuclear submarine secrets :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fbi-u-s-navy-engineer-tried-to-sell-nuclear-submarine-secrets-123297861573

* "America Is Running Out of Everything:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/

* "Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/

* "Grocery store shelves aren't going back to normal this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html

* "Biden tries to tame inflation by having LA port open 24/7:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-los-angeles-health-48ff262b882a37308e4a3f15934b2ee4

* "Biden plan aims to untangle supply chain with focus on clearing backed up ports :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-plan-aims-to-untangle-supply-chain-with-focus-on-clearing-backed-up-ports-123505221529

* "US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-lawsuits-james-comey-jeff-sessions-2be69b9a619dcbeb64469edd485b1a1b

* "Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-utah-environment-and-nature-b763897fc47136339bd12360a90079c0

* "New HUD rule aimed at preventing public housing evictions:" https://apnews.com/article/public-housing-evictions-biden-ab3191da5dbb1bd0db5ae91856383be4

* "Biden's Supreme Court commission is leaving everyone unhappy:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/biden-supreme-court-liberals/index.html

* "Congress punts debt limit crisis into December:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/12/congress-debt-limit-december-515820

* "Senate advances short-term debt limit hike after GOP scramble:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/senate-leaders-strike-deal-on-short-term-debt-limit-patch-515578

* "Senate votes to extend debt limit after McConnell caves:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-votes-to-extend-debt-limit-after-mcconnell-caves-123040837854

* I admit, I’d hoped Manchin and Sinema would give up on the filibuster. Ah well.

* "Ted Cruz and John Cornyn opposed a debt-limit increase that will stave off economic catastrophe, but backed previous borrowing hikes:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/08/ted-cruz-john-cornyn-debt-ceiling/

* "Progressives focus on key priorities to narrow BBB bill for Manchin, Sinema:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-focus-on-key-priorities-to-narrow-bbb-bill-for-manchin-sinema-122854981959

* "Watch Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Supporters Confront Her in Restroom:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/04/watch-former-sen-kyrsten-sinema-supporters-confront-her-restroom

* "Sanders offers rejoinder to Manchin's "entitlement society" word games:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-offers-rejoinder-to-manchin-s-entitlement-society-word-games-122964549966

* "Sanders frustrated with lack of specificity of Manchin, Sinema objections to BBB bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-frustrated-with-lack-of-specificity-of-manchin-sinema-objections-to-bbb-bill-122963525955

* "'It's not a 50/50 deal.': Sanders critical of Manchin, Sinema obstructing popular will:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-a-50-50-deal-sanders-critical-of-manchin-sinema-obstructing-popular-will-122964549928

* "Chris Hayes to Kyrsten Sinema: What are you doing here?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-kyrsten-sinema-what-are-you-doing-here-123595845509

* "‘Biden agenda overwhelmingly helps working class White people’ Dem strategist says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-face-trouble-going-into-midterms-experts-say-123300933692

* "Manchin pulls plug on U.S. clean electricity ambitions in Biden budget bill: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-pulls-plug-on-u-s-clean-electricity-ambitions-in-biden-budget-bill-nyt-123694661824

* "Climate Program Likely to be Dropped from Build Back Better Bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/climate-program-likely-to-be-dropped-from-build-back-better-bill-123786821627

* "The reconciliation stalemate: when and how will this end?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-reconciliation-stalemate-when-and-how-will-this-end-123787333579

* "Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions:" https://web.archive.org/web/20211005070657/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/museum-workers-embrace-unions-after-pandemic-job-cuts

* "Elizabeth Warren backs Deere strike, saying workers have gotten the short end of the stick 'for decades':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/business/deere-strike-elizabeth-warren/index.html

* "Workers at all of Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants go on strike:" https://apnews.com/article/kelloggs-cereal-plants-strike-d9185eb8fa9054d34a078063c3db6c33

* "American workers gain upper hand to demand better working conditions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-workers-gain-upper-hand-to-demand-better-working-conditions-123693637949

* "USPS pilot expands postal banking services after years of skepticism:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/10/usps-pilot-expands-postal-banking-services-after-years-of-skepticism/

* "The ban on evictions has ended: Here's what to do if you're facing eviction:" https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/your-money/the-ban-on-evictions-has-ended-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-facing-eviction/

* "ITT Tech: Profit Over Education :"

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* "How This Recession Could Set Us Back 30 Years:"

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* "Activists keen to keep voting rights bill in spotlight of Biden's attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/activists-keen-to-keep-voting-rights-bill-in-spotlight-of-biden-s-attention-122858053542

* "Ending the Filibuster | Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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* "Pennsylvania AG Shapiro vows to use ‘veto pen’ to protect state if elected governor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-attorney-general-shapiro-running-for-governor-filed-motion-to-block-republican-election-investigation-123598917624

* "Republicans eyeing upcoming votes stack local elections boards with Trump loyalists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-eyeing-upcoming-votes-stack-local-elections-boards-with-trump-loyalists-123408453715

* "In Dead of Night, Texas House Approves GOP's Gerrymandered Map:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/13/dead-night-texas-house-approves-gops-gerrymandered-map

* "Congressional Redistricting Taking Place Across the Country:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/congressional-redistricting-taking-place-across-the-country-123205701796

* "Joy Reid: We're still feeling impact of Voting Rights Act being gutted in 2013:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-passes-proposed-map-increasing-majority-white-districts-decreasing-latinx-and-black-majority-districts-123490885908

* "Georgia ballot inspection case dismissed after no fraud found:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-ballot-inspection-case-dismissed-after-no-fraud-found/OUVOQ5I5ARHMBJ62CX3YBHRMYM/

* "Judge stomps out Trump Big Lie case in Georgia; triggers Trump tantrum:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judge-stomps-out-trump-big-lie-case-in-georgia-triggers-trump-tantrum-123505221632

* "Once central to Trump's Big Lie, Arizona conspiracy theory fizzles into incoherence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/once-central-to-trump-s-big-lie-arizona-conspiracy-theory-fizzles-into-incoherence-123148869589

* "Why the Cyber Ninjas CEO Skipped the Oversight Hearing on His Own Audit in Arizona:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/cyber-ninja-ceo-skips-oversight-hearing-on-arizona-election-audit.html

* "Rep. Steve Scalise repeatedly refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-steve-scalise-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-2020-election-wasn-t-stolen-123205189966

* "‘Stop the Steal’ Movement Races Forward, Ignoring Arizona Humiliation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/arizona-election-audit-analysis.html

* "'Shut this fake investigation down': Clumsy Republican 'audit' stunt elicits blowback:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-shut-this-fake-investigation-down-clumsy-republican-audit-stunt-elicits-blowback-123608645850

* "Joy Reid: The cancer of the Big Lie has spread through GOP ranks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-polls-her-supporters-on-potential-national-divorce-123400773762

* "Recap of the Trump-endorsed rally at the Michigan State Capitol:" https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/live-updates-from-the-trump-endorsed-rally-at-the-michigan-state-capitol/

* "Trump Allies Call for 'Audit' of 2020 Results in Michigan:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2021-10-12/trump-allies-call-for-audit-of-2020-results-in-michigan

* "Trump Tells Republicans Not to Vote in 2022 or 2024:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-in-2022-or-2024

* "Trump suggests he will back primary challenges to Michigan GOP lawmakers:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/trump-suggests-he-back-primary-challenges-michigan-lawmakers/8435061002/

* "Trump tells Republicans not to vote if his 2020 election loss isn't 'solved':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-if-his-2020-election-loss-isn-t-solved-123504709941

* "Head of GOP election inquiry compares Milwaukee newspaper to Nazi propagandist:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/head-of-gop-election-inquiry-compares-milwaukee-newspaper-to-nazi-propagandist/article_82287223-b974-5877-a297-990531bde8dc.html

* "Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Republican review of Wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/06/republican-reviewing-2020-vote-says-he-doesnt-know-how-elections-work/6020978001/

* "Gableman video puts a polished gloss on election nonsense:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/09/21/gablemans-taxpayer-financed-video-puts-a-reasonable-face-on-election-fraud-craziness/

* "Republicans seeking to discredit Wisconsin elections off to a bumbling start:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-seeking-to-discredit-wisconsin-elections-off-to-a-bumbling-start-123147333958

* "Republican threat to Wisconsin elections no laughing matter despite farcical clumsiness:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-threat-to-wisconsin-elections-no-laughing-matter-despite-farcical-clumsiness-123310149663

* "Impartial audit? Wisconsin Republicans tap Trump appointee, Trump lawyer:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impartial-audit-wisconsin-republicans-tap-trump-appointee-trump-lawyer-123612229601

* "Mike Lindell now claims he's found people as old as 850 years who voted in 2020 election: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-voter-fraud-2655251741/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates’ Domestic Abuse Allegations:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-shrug-off-candidates-with-domestic-violence-allegations_n_615cb61ee4b06f0ef2897f2b

* "Stacey Abrams: Youngkin ‘should be rejected’ for backing election audit:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-youngkin-should-be-rejected-for-backing-election-audit-122948677666

* "Political Giants Stump for Terry McAuliffe:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/political-giants-stump-for-terry-mcauliffe-123786309783

* "Joy Reid: Republican party has abandoned its once-lofty principles for Trumpism:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-gop-embrace-of-trumpism-and-erosion-of-voting-rights-analyzed-by-politics-experts-123492933901

* "Chris Hayes: What Chuck Grassley traded for Trump’s endorsement :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-chuck-grassley-traded-for-trump-s-endorsement-123298373686

* "AT&T funds rightwing channel One America News, Reuters reveals:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/07/att-source-revenue-one-america-news

* "Hayes: What 25 years of Fox News ‘poison’ has done to America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-25-years-of-fox-news-poison-has-done-to-america-123130437945

* "Joy critiques GOP leaders cultivating an ‘Idiocracy’ normalizing stupidity:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-conservatives-right-wing-extremists-slammed-for-cultivating-culture-of-stupidity-123138629986

* "'Think about democracy as something which has a future': Snyder on hope in troubled times:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-think-about-democracy-as-something-which-has-a-future-snyder-on-hope-in-troubled-times-122963525615

* "Idaho governor repeals political rival’s executive order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/idaho-governor-repeals-political-rivals-executive-order-515542

* "This governor and lt. governor duo are trying to out-Trump each other:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-governor-and-lt-governor-duo-are-trying-to-out-trump-each-other-122950725570

* "Joy Reid critiques Idaho’s governor and lieutenant governor’s game of GOP one-upmanship:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/idaho-s-governor-and-lieutenant-governor-engage-in-game-of-gop-one-upmanship-122952773947

* "Whistleblower testifies to Senate as patience with Facebook wears thin in Washington:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-testifies-to-senate-as-patience-with-facebook-wears-thin-in-washington-122858053507

* "Expert: Why Facebook’s business model is ‘incommensurable with democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/expert-why-facebook-s-business-model-is-incommensurable-with-democracy-122847813728

* This gets scarier the more we know. "New details on ‘democratic near-death experience’ of Trump election plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-democratic-near-death-experience-of-trump-election-plot-123038789931

* "Questions yet unanswered suggest probe of DOJ misuse by Trump shift focus to White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-yet-unanswered-suggest-probe-of-doj-misuse-by-trump-shift-focus-to-white-house-123056197607

* "Senate report exposes 'a mini attempted coup d'état' within the DOJ under Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-report-exposes-a-mini-attempted-coup-d-etat-within-the-doj-under-trump-123055685783

* "Political hijacking of Justice Department by Trump raises cleanup questions for Garland:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/political-hijacking-of-justice-department-by-trump-raises-cleanup-questions-for-garland-123056197797

* "Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eastman-trump-bar-complaint/2021/10/04/26dc7d50-2535-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html

* "Trump hotel lost $70M despite millions in foreign business:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-business-4203026146d39a3a2315eecd7fe79486

* "Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-give-videotaped-deposition-protest-lawsuit-judge-orders/story?id=80579982

* "State Department Investigating if Trump Officials Stole G-7 Gift Bags Meant for Foreign Leaders:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/trump-gift-bags-g7-missing-gifts-saudi-fake-fur.html

* This is very 45. "White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html

* "Schiff book documents when Republicans gave up and gave in to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-book-documents-when-republicans-gave-up-and-gave-in-to-trump-123309637776

* "Rep. Bennie Thompson: Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely manner:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/bannon-defying-subpoena-what-garland-should-do-discussed-by-jan-6-select-committee-chair-thompson-123596358002

* "Biden White House waives executive privilege for initial set of Trump-era documents sought by Jan. 6 panel:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/bannon-jan-6-subpoena-515681

* "Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-investigation-trump-2020-election/index.html

* "Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/trump-jan-6-committees-subpoena-515593

* "Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/06/trump-aides-capitol-attack-house-select-committee

* "Jan. 6 Panel Threatens to Pursue Charges Against Bannon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/steve-bannon-capitol-riot.html

* "Schiff: Enforcing select committee subpoenas tests ‘principle no one is above the law’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/steve-bannon-defying-jan-6-select-committee-subpoena-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-123691077812

* "Rosen, former acting AG under Trump, appears before Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/13/rosen-jan-6-committee-515910

* "Jan. 6 panel moving swiftly as it sets Bannon contempt vote:" https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-bennie-thompson-9823b7d1c15eabd235cd3a9887b1f46e

* "Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to 2 of its senior leaders Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/capitol-police-whistleblower-rebuke-jan-6-515696

* "Prosecutors: Capitol cop told Jan. 6 rioter to hide evidence:" https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/capitol-police-officer-indicted-for-obstruction-after-riot

* "‘Just looking out’: Capitol officer charged with telling rioter to delete evidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-just-looking-out-capitol-officer-charged-with-telling-rioter-to-delete-evidence-123686469722

* "Judge holds DC jail officials in contempt in 1/6 riot case:" https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-district-of-columbia-capitol-siege-b944fd79b8e132f633bfb0111adfaba8

* "100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What They Did And What They’re Facing.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/100-capitol-riot-guilty-pleas

* "Capitol rioter admits to two new felonies while representing himself in bond hearing:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-brandon-fellows-admits-to-two-new-felonies-while-representing-himself-in-bond-hearing-judge-trevor-mcfadden/65-a40af9c2-9809-4adb-aaec-7e36ad12b308

* "Capitol rioter represents himself, accidentally admits to more crimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/capitol-rioter-represents-himself-accidentally-admits-to-more-crimes-123491909794

* "Gay Trump Supporter Brandon Stratka Pleads Guilty in Capitol Riot Role:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/gay-trump-supporter-brandon-stratka-pleads-guilty-capitol-riot-role

* "U.S. Capitol Police arrest man who parked suspicious vehicle outside Supreme Court:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/capitol-police-says-it-investigating-suspicious-vehicle-front-us-supreme-court-2021-10-05/

* "Maryland senior housing shooting kills 2; suspect held:" https://www.khq.com/regional/gunman-held-in-shooting-of-2-staffers-inside-senior-facility/article_adb26ce1-aba9-50cb-b1b3-d8a254f771cf.html

* "How Thousands of Haitians Became Trapped in Mexico:"

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* "Reporting on the Humanity of the Immigration Crisis | Field Notes:"

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* How is it legal to deport kids to Haiti when they aren't from there? Why would anyone deport anyone to Haiti right now let alone Brazilian and Chilean children? More than 40 children with non-Haitian passports deported to Haiti: IOM":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/haitian-kids-deportees-intl-latam/index.html

* "Biden administration canceling more border wall contracts:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/border-wall-contacts-canceled-biden-administration/index.html

* "At least 1,000 migrant children separated under Trump still haven't been reunited with parents:" https://www.axios.com/migrant-children-still-separated-from-parents-92a72738-f295-410b-ac61-076c634eaaea.html

* "Family Demands Surveillance Video After Alabama Woman Christina Nance Was Found Dead in Unused Police Van:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/family-demands-surveillance-video-after-alabama-woman-christina-nance-was-found-dead-in-unused-police-van/

* "Feds won't seek charges against cop in Jacob Blake shooting:" https://apnews.com/article/us-news-us-department-of-justice-rusten-sheskey-jacob-blake-kenosha-4f8493dd0776ef6046e052a538cd1460

* "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist#1133516

* "‘County with staggering history of detaining children’ revealed in shocking report:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tennessee-county-was-profiting-off-jailing-black-children-as-young-as-seven-123298885901

* "A homeless man was arrested for a 43-cent ‘theft’ of a Mountain Dew. He could face 7 years in prison.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/21/pennsylvania-mountaindew-theft-joseph-sobolewski/

* "Texas Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/george-floyd-pardon-texas.html

* "FBI raids New York's police sergeants union offices and the union president resigns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043567201/fbi-raid-new-york-police-sergeants-union-ed-mullins

* "A look at track record of NYPD union head who resigned after FBI raid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-at-track-record-of-nypd-union-head-who-resigned-after-fbi-raid-123042373581

* "Derecka Purnell - "Becoming Abolitionists":" https://www.cc.com/video/0w8kcq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists

* "How the nation's Chinese American communities grapple with systemic racism and gentrification:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-the-nation-s-chinese-american-communities-grapple-with-systemic-racism-and-gentrification-123205189953

* "The Latest in Jussie Smollett's Ongoing Alleged Hoax Attack Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/06/heres-latest-jussie-smolletts-ongoing-hoax-attack-case

* "Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html

* "Texas school official says classrooms with books on Holocaust must offer ‘opposing’ views:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/texas-school-holocaust-books-race-southlake

* "Islamophobia: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube:"

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* CW: Pedophila, Rape. "French clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950, report finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/

* CW: Rape. "UK police won't act against Prince Andrew over abuse claim:" https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-sexual-assault-allegations-jeffrey-epstein-f0e955fd2345884173ba1321bb105048

* "NFL players attack ‘fraud’ Jon Gruden after racist and homophobic emails:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/12/nfl-players-reaction-jon-gruden-emails-racist-homophobic

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'Toxic culture': NFL cheerleaders demand release of full workplace inquiry:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-toxic-culture-nfl-cheerleaders-demand-release-of-full-workplace-inquiry-123494469775

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'We feel invisible': Washington Football Team employees experienced decades of abuse, sexual harassment:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/14/jon-gruden-washington-football-team-owner/8450505002/

* "California Outlaws 'Stealthing,' Mandates Gender-Neutral Toy Sections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/california-outlaws-stealthing-mandates-gender-neutral-toy-sections

* "Appeals court puts temporary hold on judge's order blocking Texas 6-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/texas-abortion-appeal/index.html

* "Biden administration: Texas abortion ban, in place despite constitutional questions, offers road map for other states:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-ban-appeal/2021/10/12/fd649804-2b60-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html

* "Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/15/biden-justice-department-supreme-court-texas-abortion-516093

* "DOJ rips Texas abortion ban in new appeals court filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-rips-texas-abortion-ban-in-new-appeals-court-filing-123312197593

* "DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law:" https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-texas-aeedf9630e395f9115909ce5fb63eea5

* "Attacks on abortion rights already forcing women to dangerous 'back alley' alternatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attacks-on-abortion-rights-already-forcing-women-to-dangerous-back-alley-alternatives-123409477923

* "Fact check: Pennsylvania bill proposing restrictions on male reproductive rights is satirical:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/07/fact-check-legislation-male-reproductive-rights-parody-bill/6032780001/

* "A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath

* "Justice secretary Dominic Raab thinks misogyny can be a 'woman against a man':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/06/dominic-raab-tory-misogyny/

* "Daddy Issues, Misogyny, and the Pinnacle of Male Privilege:"

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* "Gay couple’s son finally granted citizenship in landmark Namibian ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/16/namibia-gay-couple-children-citizenship-win/

* "Evangelist who backed death penalty for gays wants to run the National Trust:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/national-trust-christian-voice-stephen-green/

* "Genderfluid Person in Dress and Heels Attacked, Left Black and Blue:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/genderfluid-person-dress-and-heels-attacked-left-black-and-blue

* "Thug beats man with wine bottle for ‘holding another man’s hand’ near gay village:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/11/birmingham-homophobic-attack-kesseler/

* "Birmingham announces major steps to combat spike of anti-LGBT+ violence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/birmingham-homophobic-attacks-lgbt/

* "Protesters demand the Guardian 'stop platforming transphobia' at newspaper's HQ:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/08/guardian-transphobia-protest-london/

* "LGBT+ students demand university fire anti-trans professor: 'We've had enough':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/kathleen-stock-university-sussex/

* "Biden Calls Out Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation on National Coming Out Day:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/11/biden-calls-out-anti-lgbtq-legislation-national-coming-out-day

* "Black Trans Man Mel Groves Shot to Death in Mississippi:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/13/black-trans-man-mel-groves-shot-death-mississippi

* "The Queer Tax on LGBTQ+ Women Who Partner With Women:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/10/07/queer-tax-lgbtq-women-who-partner-women

* "Trans writer cuts ties with Netflix over 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle special:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/dave-chapelle-netflix-the-closer-criticism/

* "The Complex Transphobia of Dave Chappelle:"

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* They used her name without her consent, the bastards. "Hannah Gadsby slams Netflix boss over Dave Chappelle: ‘F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/hannah-gadsby-netflix-dave-chappelle-the-closer/

* "Trans Worker Who Criticized Netflix's Chappelle Special Is Suspended:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/11/trans-worker-who-criticized-netflixs-chappelle-special-suspended

* "The Bye Line: Jonathan Capehart calls out Tucker Carlson's homophobia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-jonathan-capehart-calls-out-tucker-carlson-s-homophobia-123784773952

* "Sally Ride and Nina Otero-Warren to Be 1st LGBTQ+ Faces on U.S. Coins:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/sally-ride-and-nina-otero-warren-be-1st-lgbtq-faces-us-coins

* CW: Suicide. "Texas Removes Access to Youth LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline, Resource Page:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/13/texas-removes-access-youth-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-resource-page

* "Trans-inclusive cervical screenings aren't a debate. They can be life-saving:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/09/trans-cervical-cancer-screenings/

* "Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition: Crash Course Outbreak Science #3:"

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* "The Weaponization of Outbreaks: Crash Course Outbreak Science #5:"

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* "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century:"

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* "BSE: Britain’s Deadly Disease Scandal:"

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* "NHS England to offer breakthrough treatment for sickle cell disease:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/05/nhs-england-breakthrough-treatment-sickle-cell-disease

* "WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-experts-back-using-malaria-vaccine-african-children-2021-10-06/

* "COVID is changing medical fly-in missions — and it might be for the better:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/07/1041862629/covid-is-changing-medical-fly-in-missions-and-it-might-be-for-the-better

* "Maddow: Look past conspiracy nonsense and weirdos to appreciate modern medical science:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-look-past-conspiracy-nonsense-and-weirdos-to-appreciate-modern-medical-science-123411013592

* "‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-a-crisis-tens-of-thousands-of-children-affected-by-pandemic-related-deaths-of-parents/ar-AAPdH5o?ocid=msedgntp

* "Valley Fever Is Spreading Through a Hotter, Drier Western US:" https://www.wired.com/story/valley-fever-is-spreading-through-a-hotter-drier-western-us/

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* "Pope, other religious leaders issue pre-COP26 appeal on climate change:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-world-religious-leaders-issue-pre-cop26-appeal-climate-change-2021-10-04/

* "Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly in 2021:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805

* "At least 15 dead after heavy rainfall and flooding in northern China:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/china/flooding-china-shanxi-ntl-hnk/index.html

* "China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58866854

* "Torrential rain follows summer wildfires, flooding homes across Greece:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/torrential-rain-follows-summer-wildfires-flooding-homes-across-greece-2021-10-15/

* "Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rescues-underway-after-flash-flooding-parts-alabama-2021-10-07/

* "Elite Firefighters Have a Secret Skill:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/smokejumpers-wildfires-sew-their-own-gear/620323/

* "More flee as Canary Island eruption continues, creates 'lava tsunami':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/more-flee-canary-island-eruption-continues-creates-lava-tsunami-n1281690

* "'Catastrophic' California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-oil-spill-washes-ashore-california-killing-wildlife-2021-10-03/

* "At least 2 dead in California plane crash that torched homes:" https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-california-plane-crashes-fires-suburbs-44a0451856e261b5314fb9528d9fa644

* "Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23:" https://apnews.com/article/science-pakistan-earthquakes-bd2be7e2982a44a0f02ecb4f12e9d0e3

* "City in Michigan urged to use bottled water due to lead risk:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/city-michigan-urged-bottled-water-due-lead-risk-80444860

* "Majority Black city in Michigan faces water lead levels higher than Flint’s at height:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-tells-majority-black-city-of-benton-harbor-not-to-drink-lead-laced-water-123401797648

* "How economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action for decades:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/economists-helped-big-oil-companies-obstruct-climate-action-benjamin-franta-stanford-university/

* "Masai Woman Builds Beautiful Off-Grid Homestead in the African Bush:"

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* "In Kenya, An Inspiring Maasai Man Creates Change Through Permaculture:"

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* "How Dying Gas Wells Are Making One Company Rich:"

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* "Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs as oceans warm, study shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-change-is-killing-worlds-coral-reefs-oceans-warm-study-2021-10-05/

* "Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save the Amazon:"

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* "Fast fashion: The dumping ground for unwanted clothes:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58836618

* "What It's Like to Document the Death of Ecosystems:"

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* "Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-melting-ice-stays-smooth-20211006/

* "A Centuries-Old Physics Mystery? Solved:" https://scitechdaily.com/a-centuries-old-physics-mystery-solved/

* "Planet with iron rainfall is even more extreme than scientists thought:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/iron-rain-exoplanet-scn/index.html

* "Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

* "If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-virtual-reality-metaverse-safety-children-jakki-bailey.html

* "The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along:" https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along

* "Scientists solve the mystery of the Etruscans’ origins:" https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-etruscans-discovered

* CW: Lynching, Sexual Assault "Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20:"

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* "Jailbreak! The International King of Escapes:"

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* I was angry about what happened to Monika Lewinsky while it was happening. Everyone else in the scandal was absolutely vile. The media and the comics decided to completely destroy her life. It was very there but for the grace and I had huge empathy for her. I love the person she grew up to be, and every time I see her out and about doing activism it makes be happy. She not only survived the terrible thing our whole society did to her; she took that trauma and made something beautiful and powerful out of it.

"Monica Lewinsky - "15 Minutes of Shame":" https://www.cc.com/video/6of5s5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-monica-lewinsky-15-minutes-of-shame

* "‘Do right by Henrietta Lacks’ family attorney of Black woman whose cells are commercialized by pharmaceutical company asks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/henrietta-lacks-family-member-discusses-suit-filed-over-black-woman-s-cells-sold-to-advance-medicine-science-122849861560

* CW: Suicide mention. "The Disappearance of Elisa Lam:"

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* "Gentrification Is Erasing Philly’s Black Horse Stables:"

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* "Two men arrested for alleged illegal smuggling of Kentucky Fried Chicken:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/two-men-arrested-alleged-illegal-171700302.html

* "Thank Me Later - Crusade for Clitoral Awareness:" https://www.cc.com/video/6bwz5l/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-thank-me-later-crusade-for-clitoral-awareness

* "Facebook Hearings Cold Open - SNL:"

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

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* "PFAS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "TikTok Challenge Incites School Vandalism:" https://www.cc.com/video/l5foji/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tiktok-challenge-incites-school-vandalism

* "Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu:" https://www.cc.com/video/hk1pbh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-spanish-flu

* "The Rise of Water Witches in California:" https://www.cc.com/video/qr1e8g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-rise-of-water-witches-in-california

* "New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & Man Faces Prison Over 43 Cents:" https://www.cc.com/video/biv64w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-zealanders-smuggle-kfc-man-faces-prison-over-43-cents

* "Climate Week - Trickle-Down Effects of the Global Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/3a9x5k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-climate-week-trickle-down-effects-of-the-global-crisis

* "Ongoing Crisis at the U.S. Border:" https://www.cc.com/video/jshkgv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ongoing-crisis-at-the-u-s-border

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Mask Rally:" https://www.cc.com/video/dxm2d3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-mask-rally

* "Booster Shots Approved & 46% of Americans Believe in Ghosts:" https://www.cc.com/video/53kjvm/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-booster-shots-approved-46-of-americans-believe-in-ghosts

* "Switzerland OKs Same-Sex Marriage & Kids Face Climate Woes:" https://www.cc.com/video/6ig1jw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-switzerland-oks-same-sex-marriage-kids-face-climate-woes

* "CP Time - Black Fashion Models:" https://www.cc.com/video/2vcs6m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-fashion-models

* "Can We Convo? - Reporting on Missing White Women:" https://www.cc.com/video/sp35bc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-can-we-convo-reporting-on-missing-white-women

* "Keeping Up with the Congressians - Capitol Hill Crunch Time :" https://www.cc.com/video/2on71h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-the-congressians-capitol-hill-crunch-time

* "Amazon Unveils $1K Robot & Man Traps Alligator in Trash Can :" https://www.cc.com/video/ghjlcw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-amazon-unveils-titlek-robot-man-traps-alligator-in-trash-can

* "Pandora Papers Expose Wealthy Tax Dodgers:" https://www.cc.com/video/52gnv2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-pandora-papers-expose-wealthy-tax-dodgers

* "Black Family vs. Racist Neighbor & Meghan Trainor's Toilets:" https://www.cc.com/video/vyqduj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-family-vs-racist-neighbor-meghan-trainor-s-toilets

* "Red, White and Broken - Religious Exemptions for Vaccines :" https://www.cc.com/video/05hv1g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-red-white-and-broken-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines

* "Remotely Educational - How Hollywood Works:" https://www.cc.com/video/2o4rhr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-remotely-educational-how-hollywood-works

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Right to Repair:" https://www.cc.com/video/iv0hvu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-right-to-repair

* "Freedom of Speech Battle in New Jersey:" https://www.cc.com/video/fpz5ow/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-freedom-of-speech-battle-in-new-jersey

* "Back in Black - Hollywood's De-Aging Problem :" https://www.cc.com/video/wr6ipp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-back-in-black-hollywood-s-de-aging-problem

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - America's Great Resignation:" https://www.cc.com/video/26ld3k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-america-s-great-resignation

* "Ladies Night Song - SNL:"

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* "End Of Iris - El Tango De Roxanne (Moulin Rouge Cover):"

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* Wednesday I spaced a Doctor's appointment. (In my defense, I was very aware of it Monday and planning to go, but they never sent a reminder call and scheduling on Tuesday and Wednesday was tight, so it just fell out of my head with all the other stuff I needed to remember). I remembered it about an hour too late. Sigh. The reschedule and the long wait times between nurse and doctor because they were squeezing me into cracks meant I only got a few hours of sleep.

Add to this that all the gimping about Wednesday led to my dicey left hip joint trying to dislocate itself later that night, which is a thing it just sort of does periodically, but hadn't for several years. The pain of even a failed dislocation is stunningly painful and means the leg stops being load bearing sporadically. Luckily, Thursday it waited until I was parked at home to make another series of attempts to escape it's socket. (This has to do with my AS made worse by things like the distance running and ballet in my youth. My cartilage is under constant attack by my immune system. Yes, I know this isn't a problem most people have. It was always the left hip joint that used to pop out. I think I must have done extra damage to it in my teens somehow). The weather being changeable enough to ramp my arthritis pain level way up is not helping either and is likely contributing though I can't prove it. I just know when I dislocate, it tends to be in autumn or Winter.

Also, I needed head Millennial for an essential project, which meant I needed to bail the tanks myself (Nearby Millennial is the best at all the other tank cleaning components, which I flat out can't do since the AS started gnawing that shoulder joint which sent the fragile right shoulder joint. Normally Head Millennial does the bailing when things are running smoothly, as it's something Nearby Millennial absolutely can't do), into it's own exciting pain Wednesday night. Luckily this is more remediable than the hip joint thing, and the measures I took Wednesday night moved it make into the unpleasanter end of functional, which is really all I could ask for given the givens.

So I've been a serious mess physically for a couple of days, add in the lack of sleep and the way the need to get to the appointment on short notice threw my meds schedule into chaos and basically, I'm just trying to stay up late enough that Friday will still work and doing stuff that doesn't require too much eye focus.

* Over the weekend we managed to nearly finish decorating for Phase II, and on Sunday a friend came to visit. Livia is still full of complaints about the lack of live mice in food deliveries, but there is nothing to be done.

* I've been having a particularly bad chronic pain week, made worse by the nobody will let me sleep thing. I'm getting Police union auto-dialers from at least three different zip codes and as between them they have about twenty and I can only block 25 numbers, every time I block one another one wakes me up later. I wish there were a do not call list for police unions, but... America. they called twice today. It was so bad Thursday and Friday that after call five Friday, Tavy stood on my hip and complained angrily until I hung up. There were four more calls to come in the next couple hours including two separate calls from my dentist reminding me of the same appointment, one live and one robo.

I'm also getting daily harassment from a robot claiming to be a pharmacy, which insists on calling me every morning between 9-9:30AM wanting me to get up, find pen and paper and in the short time it takes for the robot to read the number, and write down their number and call them back, you know, exactly the way scammers trying to steal your social security or credit card numbers like to do. I haven't blocked them on the grounds that I haven't heard from lung ampule people for a while and it's just possible they subcontracted out. Medicare advantage does the same thing some times, you see. They like to wake me up once or twice a day with a rambling generic robot message that doesn't properly identify themselves and what they want in the thirty seconds before I hang up. Eventually they give up and have a live person call and properly identify themselves. So I tend not to block medical type things that behave like that on the off it actually is Medicare being too lazy to properly contact me. I hoping if that's what's going on here, do that before I have to start a game of phone tag with the wildly incompetent folks at lung medicine head office. which took most of a month last time my machine died.

* I voted Saturday. Yes, it's election season again. I know people have trouble caring about off year elections, but state and local elections have a massive effect on your quality of life. My ballot had a ton of initiatives and common sense tax stuff needing affirming. Turn out matters. My ballot had a ton of local and county offices that very much mattered for issues like affordable housing and environmental measures.

Don't sleep on this election. Republicans are pushing hard most places to take over state election positions with partisan extremists who want to end democracy. They are packing school boards with people who want to censor history and thing that you need to teach "The other side of the holocaust." Who your sheriff is can make the difference between mental health and drug diversion vs. Stop and frisk.

Don't sleep on this, I beg you. People sleeping on state level elections is why so many states are getting extreme racial gerrymandering next year.

* I am worried about Tavy. He slipped past Squirrel when he came home from work a few days ago, and I didn't notice until after lung time. Late Saturday, he got diarrhea. He slept most of Sunday and was still ill. He's drinking lots of water and is behaving normally while awake, but not eating much and is low energy for him. I'm worried he ate something he shouldn't while he was lose in the pre-dawn or caught a paracite from one of the complex dogs, since a lot of the owners are too lazy to toss their feces in the receptacle.

I'll see how how is tomorrow. I definitely can't afford the vet and squirrel is skint this month. *digits cruciform*

* "AI improves your Halloween costumes!:" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/665293325032669184

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.5: Is There in Truth No Beauty?

They are escorting the Medusan ambassador to the Federation home. Humans can't talk to the Medusans face to face as sight of the Medusan driving them insane. Spock must wear a visors, though there is concern about his human half. The Medusan is traveling in a future tech cat carrier apparently with Larry and Miranda. The cat carrier opens. Spock flinches, but gazes on the entity for a while. He tells Miranda, the woman assisting the Ambassador that he envies her assignment. The Assistant tries to touch his mind. She seems to project her envy on Spock. Clue number one. Apparently he telepathy is why he studies on Vulcan. She wishes she could see the Medusan.

They have a dinner party where they discuss Vulcan telepathy and the need to block out other's thoughts. Miranda takes a badge he wore in honor of her as a taunt. Clue number 2. Bones argues that Vulcan is boring and that the Medusans must be evil because they are ugly. Spock keeps gently rebuking McCoy instead of slapping him. Spock is a better man than I. Kirk calls beauty the last prejudice, but then toasts Miranda's beauty. Bones is racist and paternalistic. Miranda rebukes him on the racism. Miranda says she senses someone thinking about murder, but can't say who. She rebuffs Bones' attempt to escort her to her room. Scotty invites the other guy that came with the Medusan to go drinking, but he too turns down the offer. Bones says she's 'disturbing' possibly because she doesn't want to fuck. *side eye*

Larry has a deep crush on Miranda and is losing his shit because she's going to live with the Medusa instead of having sex with him. He kisses her. she is not into it and tells him to leave. She now knows the murdery feelings and envy are from Larry. The Creep. He goes to murder the Medusa out of sexual jealousy, thus seeing the Medusa and going violently mad. He runs around attacking people. Miranda tells the feds about Larry.

Larry the Incel turns up at engineering. Scotty gives him the controls before the announcement of Larry's homicidal insanity comes over. He knocks out Scotty and starts driving the Enterprise dangerously fast. He sends them beyond the galaxy boundaries before they subdue him. He is raving about dreams. Only Miranda can calm him. He thinks about the Medusa, they calls her a liar and tries to kill her, but he dies instead. Everything just stopped.

So now they are lost in space. (Danger Will Robinson). It's a void. they can't recross the barrier in sub-light and the sensory distortion in warp makes navigating impossible. The only solution is a mindlink with the Medusan which Spock suspects Dr. Miranda Jones won't allow. Kirk volunteers to distract her with a date to the arboretum. *side eye* Kirk tries to talk her out of her asexuality. *side eye* She doesn't enjoy other people's violent emotions and finds the Medusans restful. Kirk keeps trying to seduce her anyway, insulting her Medusan friend. Asshole.

Miranda works out what Spock is planning and tries to take his place. he points out she doesn't know how to pilot the ship. Bones points out a blind person can't fly the ship. (He'd been keeping her blindness private because ethics, but he couldn't let her endanger the ship). Her dress contains a sensor web. Kirk works out she hides her blindness to avoid pity. She insists. Kirk says to ask the Medusan, who says no.

Spock mind melds with the Medusan and the two become one. The blend quotes Byron at Uhura and the Tempest at Miranda. They navigate back to entry point, at which point the Medusan waxes poetic about the wonder of being embodied but also the intense loneliness of it. Spock goes to put the entity back in the cat carrier, but forgets his visor. He goes berserk and Kirk has to stun him. Nimoy's performance in this scene is really beautiful, with all the switches back and forth in both personality and emotion.

Miranda is Spock's only hope, via Mind Meld. Kirk gets impatient and finds her in there without her net. Kirk thinks she should wake him with a kiss then accuses her of trying to kill Spock. She goes all the way down, risking them both. Spock recovers. Kirk gives Miranda a rose and she goes off to live with the aliens. She and Spock respect each other now.

The men (except Spock are just really gross in this one.

*****
* 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.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "The Gender Criticals:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "What Republicans Get Wrong About Vaccine Mandates:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tomorrow? We decorate the Cat Asylum Interior!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is now a next weekend problem.

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

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

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

* Tuesday, the pain won.

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

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

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

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

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

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They clean up the tricoder recording. The adults had anxiety, of which the children are free. They kept poking around in the cave, despite growing anxiety. The last survivor of a dead race took refuge in there long ago.

The children want to go to Markus XII. Kirk says no. The leader stays on the bridge to psychically influence the navigators. The girl turns up with her security guard. The Leader is making them think they are circling the planet still when they are actually flying to Markus XII. Uhura notices and gets zapped too. Scotty notices down in engineering, but they already zapped the other Engineers. They fight, but Scotty wins.

On the tapes, the expedition head says they were making him do things like call Starfleet for transportation. he tried to warn them when he realized what he'd done, but "The Enemy within!" The dispatch was never sent. It happened fast. They realize that whatever it was misled 'the innocent' IE: The children. The destroyed race were marauders that kept attacking their neighbors until they were eventually destroyed by their combined victims. Kirk thinks the evil has returned. McCoy objects to damaging the children. Kirk is like the ship comes first.

Kirk goes to switch planetary investigation crews, but the planet isn't there, so the guys they send down are beamed into space and they can't bring up the ones they left down there. Why are there no safety protocols for this?

The children summon the alien on the bridge surrounded by tranced out adults. Kirk is not best pleased. The alien says they've been discovered, but it's too late for the adults to stop them. If the adults give them trouble the children should release the beast of fear in the adults. Kirk battles the leader for control of Sulu and Uhura. The child makes Uhura see herself old, which... fuck you writers. Let's make the woman vane. Sulu thinks if he changes course they will be destroyed. Spock refuses to obey the order to send a report to StarFleet. he fails to obey, despite all that mental discipline training and I think that makes no sense. Logically, Spock should be resistant rather than Kirk, but Spock does break the control. The security guards can't understand Kirk. Spock takes Kirk off the bridge, just as Kirk succumbs to his fear of losing control.

Spock mind melds him and fixes it in the elevator. Scotty's been zapped and threatens to kill Kirk if he touches the instruments. The engineers attack, but Spock and Kirk escape. Spock wants to do something about the children, "Without followers evil can not spread." The ship and the crew are in danger. "The evil is spreading fast." Kirk agrees that if they can't excise the evil the children will need to be killed. Chekhov turns up with security to arrest them. The Leader gets Chekhov to threaten to kill them. Conflicting loyalties are invoked. A fight ensues. The leader runs when his people lose.

Kirk returns to the bridge, where the leader is in the captain's seat. A very childish argument ensues. Kirk points out their leader is afraid to be seen. If he's not afraid he should show himself. Spock plays the recording of the Alien summoning chant. The Alien appears. Kirk and Spock argue with him. he thinks Kirk and Spock's gentleness makes them weak. They show the children pictures of the children playing with their late parents. They smile. Then there is the image of their dead parents and the smiles fade. So very manipulative. The Alien tries to justify murdering their parents to the crying children. Kirk points out to the children that without them the alien is nothing. he turns "ugly," because of course star Trek needs to hammer in the idea that the beautiful are good and anyone who isn't is bad. Fuck you, Roddenberry.

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* 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.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

* Hey! Want to propose Washington State geographical features to be renamed? "Committee on Geographic Names:" https://www.dnr.wa.gov/about/boards-and-councils/board-natural-resources/committee-geographic-names

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

* Want to help Maxwell frost go to congress? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/119806

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* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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