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* Both Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have plead guilty in the Election Interference Racketeering case. I don't have time for proper coverage if I want to put this out today and it's a busy weekend for me RL.

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* "After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-war-biden-rafah-e062825a375d9eb62e95509cab95b80c

* "Biden expresses outrage over Gaza hospital attack, directs team to investigate:" https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-expresses-outrage-over-gaza-hospital-attack-directs-team-investigate-2023-10-17/

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* "Israel-Hamas war updates: Israel and Egypt agree to let aid into Gaza:" https://www.npr.org/live-updates/biden-israel-gaza-hamas-palestine

* "Biden offers example of recent U.S. past in cautioning Israel on revenge:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-offers-example-of-recent-u-s-past-in-cautioning-israel-on-revenge-195941957697

* "Richard Madeley condemned for ‘racist’ question to MP Layla Moran about Hamas attack on Israel:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/richard-madeley-layla-moran-hamas-israel-palestine/

* "There’s no Jewish American consensus about the conflict in Israel and Gaza:" https://www.vox.com/23915948/jewish-american-israel-gaza-war-attacks-opposing-beliefs-progressive-movement

* "Muslim boy killed and woman wounded in Illinois hate crime motivated by Israel-Hamas war, police say:" https://apnews.com/article/muslim-boy-killed-chicago-landlord-will-county-5135dea218326d6e639a996564d9369e

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

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* "Saudi Arabia: Migrants workers who toiled in Amazon warehouses were deceived and exploited:" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/saudi-arabia-migrants-workers-who-toiled-in-amazon-warehouses-were-deceived-and-exploited/

* "Canadian Human Rights commissioner resigns over new school pronoun rule to out kids to parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/canada-saskatchewan-heather-kuttai-education-pronouns-trans/

* "Anti-LGBTQ+ Tory MP Peter Bone facing suspension over bullying and sexual misconduct allegations:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/peter-bone-bullying-sexual-misconduct-suspension/

* "Anti-feminist, right-wing Manchester mayoral candidate makes trans ‘joke’ as part of campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/nick-buckley-manchester-anti-trans/

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* "Ukraine uses secretly shipped U.S. missiles to launch surprise strike :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/ukraine-uses-secretly-shipped-u-s-missiles-to-launch-surprise-strike-00121932

* "600 days into the war, Russia’s assault on a key eastern Ukraine city appears to be weakening:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-donetsk-counteroffensive-ae6a7dd33a43ae91bd9660aa5ca2b9a0

* "Russia destroyed 300,000 tons of grain since July in port, ship attacks, Kyiv says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-destroyed-300000-tons-grain-since-july-port-ship-attacks-kyiv-2023-10-13/

* "Ukraine claims a major strike on Russian airfields and thanks US for providing long-range missiles:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-avdiivka-attacks-8b5fd038c7e496dcb8f015b759b74666

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* "Supreme Court tells 5th Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/16/1206245991/supreme-court-ghost-guns

* Some of the speaker stuff may be out of date by the time you read it.

* "Jim Jordan lacks enough support on first House speaker round: Next vote scheduled for Wednesday:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "Republicans Say Jim Jordan’s Pressure Campaign for Speaker Has ‘Backfired’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-say-jim-jordans-pressure-campaign-for-speaker-has-backfired

* "What to know about Jim Jordan's role in Jan. 6 :" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jim-jordans-role-jan-6/story?id=104014959

* "House Republicans reject Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House, again:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/18/1206757302/house-speaker-vote-news

* "‘Roomba stuck in a corner’: GOP infighting escalates as Jordan loses second speaker vote:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-roomba-stuck-in-a-corner-gop-infighting-escalates-as-jordan-loses-second-speaker-vote-195931205855

* "Jordan bully tactics backfire, provoke threats and harassment of fellow Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/jordan-bully-tactics-backfire-provoke-threats-and-harassment-of-fellow-republicans-195939397781

* "Let's talk about the Speaker options for Republicans....:"

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* "Republicans struggle to ignore half the country in speaker fight; Democrats stand by:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-struggle-to-ignore-half-the-country-in-speaker-fight-democrats-stand-by-196031045907

* "Dem rep: 199 Republicans voted for 'Insurrection Caucus' leader for speaker:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dem-rep-199-republicans-voted-for-insurrection-caucus-leader-for-speaker-195933253628

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

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

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

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

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

* "Kari Lake’s lawsuit over metro Phoenix’s electronic voting machines has been tossed out:" https://apnews.com/article/kari-lake-lawsuit-electronic-voting-machines-e8671f52c752946e1ec239df87a9d762

* "Arizona Republican Kari Lake launches 2024 Senate campaign:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204870164/arizona-republican-kari-lake-launches-2024-senate-campaign

* "Mike Pence heckled by man claiming they are both gay:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/mike-pence-heckled-gay/

* "Transgender Montana Legislator Zooey Zephyr Unsilenced and Unyielding at Equality Convention:" https://www.advocate.com/news/zooey-zephyr-equality-convention-interview

* "Menendez accused of acting as foreign agent for Egypt while helming Senate Foreign Relations Committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/12/menendez-accused-of-acting-as-foreign-agent-for-egypt-while-helming-senate-foreign-relations-committee-00121225

* "Campaign of Rep. George Santos refunds more money than it raises :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/16/santos-campaign-refunds/

* "The House GOP’s Crazy Week Gets Even Weirder With George Santos Tirade:" https://newrepublic.com/post/176239/house-gops-crazy-week-gets-even-weirder-george-santos-tirade

* "Embattled N.Y. Republican Congressman George Santos faces 10 new felony charges:" https://www.npr.org/ny-republican-congressman-george-santos-faces-new-felony-charges

* "'It wasn't me': George Santos says he won't take a plea deal:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/11/congress/santos-shaggy-defense-plea-deal-00120918

* "Republican lawmakers to introduce resolution to expel Rep. George Santos from Congress:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-york-house-republicans-introduce-resolution-expel-rep-george-santo-rcna119917

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* "Trump tells judge he will appeal gag order in federal election interference case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-files-notice-appeal-judge-issues-partial-gag-order-rcna120924

* "Let's talk about Trump's DC gag order....:"

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* "A school shooting left a 7-year-old terrified to go back.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/townville-school-shooting-survivor-ava-olsen/

* "How a California tribe won their ancestral land back and saved endangered salmon:" https://www.vox.com/climate/23906426/winnemem-wintu-land-back-run4salmon-chinook-california-indigenous-peoples-rights-sovereignty

* "Rappahannock Tribe’s buyback efforts are becoming a national model:" https://whro.org/news/local-news/39215-rappahannock-tribe-s-buyback-efforts-are-becoming-a-national-model

* About a thousand of the kidnapped children are still missing. "Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years:" https://apnews.com/article/separated-children-trump-biden-border-immigration-f9a73685d0ddbcda86e5b69997f5f7dd

* "An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder:" https://apnews.com/article/innocence-project-wrongful-conviction-oklahoma-fbb59bbfb46d44a375704f172b6fc786

* Gender Affirming Care is Healthcare. "Trans convicts must have access to gender-affirming care in Washington prisons, landmark ruling finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/19/washington-prisons-gender-affirming-care-trans-inmates/

* CW: Self Harm. "The “Miserable Spectacle” of Executing People With Serious Mental Illness:" https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/andre-thomas-execution-death-penalty-mental-illness.html

* "Video shows US professor ‘assaulted’ by Turning Point members over Drag Queen Story Hour links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/video-shows-us-professor-assaulted-by-turning-point-members-over-drag-queen-story-hour-links/

* "Inside the anti-LGBTQ effort to put Christianity back in schools:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christianity-evangelical-schools-anti-lgbtq-grapevine-podcast-rcna118114

* "Publisher denies ‘bigot button’ allegations after flagging queer books for school exclusion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/publisher-scholastic-bigot-button-queer-books/

* "Moms for Liberty accused of ‘taking over’ school board to ban LGBTQ+ and inclusive books:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/moms-for-liberty-school-board-takeover/

* "Heavily persecuted, highly influential: China’s online feminist revolution:" https://restofworld.org

* "Some GOP-led states are chipping away at sex education in K-12 schools:" https://apnews.com/article/sex-education-us-laws-kentucky-florida-mississippi-bd6fffcb3a9a25babc32a143001f4ae1

* "India Supreme Court fails to legalise same-sex marriage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/india-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/

* "India’s LGBTQ+ community ‘must demand’ equality, following crushing same-sex marriage blow:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/india-supreme-court-marriage-equality/

* "Man jailed in France for protesting drag queen story time event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/france-protest-drag-story-time-event-lgbtq/

* "Turkey: 90 per cent of LGBTQ+ people facing digital violence:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/13/turkey-lgbtq-digital-violence/

* "Japan: Family court rules it’s unconstitutional to require surgery for gender change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/16/japan-surgery-gender-change-unconstitutional/

* "This Indian state’s groundbreaking initiative is helping trans community get into higher education:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/15/india-trans-higher-education-kerala-literacy-mission/

* "Canada school trustee says ‘holy spirit’ made her post anti-LGBTQ+ meme:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/school-trustee-holy-spirit-anti-lgbtq-meme/

* "Angela Rayner slams ‘dangerous’ anti-LGBTQ+ Tory rhetoric: ‘We can’t go on like this’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/angela-rayner-pinknews-awards/

* "Phyll Opoku-Gyimah calls on UK government to stand up for LGBTQ+ rights across the world:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/03/phyll-opoku-gyimah-kaleidoscope-trust-lgbtq-rights-uk/

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

* "Same-sex couples hit with ‘gay tax’ in over 90 per cent of NHS England trusts:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/same-sex-couples-ivf-nhs-england-gay-tax/

* How to tell someone is a terrible person. "Jacob Rees-Mogg says ‘you can’t offend the dead’ in GB News LGBTQ+ hate-crime discussion:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/jacob-rees-mogg-gb-news-hate-crime/

* "Brighton police hunt for gang of men who hurled stones at women in homophobic attack:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/brighton-police-homophobic-beach-attack/

* "LGBTQ+ groups protest gender critical conference hosting JK Rowling as a speaker:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/17/lgbtq-groups-protest-gender-critical-conference-hosting-jk-rowling-as-a-speaker/

* "Black trans choreographer Chyna Long shot and killed: ‘They took a piece of our joy’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/14/chyna-long-black-trans-woman-killed-milwaukee/

* "Three charged in alleged anti-LGBTQ+ hate-crime attack on 72-year-old man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/10/three-charged-in-alleged-anti-lgbtq-hate-crime-attack-on-72-year-old-man/

* "Trans woman wins fencing tournament, anti-trans campaigners are inevitably raging:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/18/trans-woman-wins-fencing-tournament/

* "Operation Warp Speed: The Untold Story of the COVID-19 Vaccine:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/operation-warp-speed-covid-19-vaccine

* "‘Flying syringes’ and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-06/la-me-rural-california-vector-control-conspiracy-theories-far-right

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* "When It Comes to Urban Trees, More Isn’t Always Better:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-09/what-mapping-every-tree-in-new-york-city-reveals

* "How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices:" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-11/historic-redlining-bird-biodiversity

* "Decades Later, Closed Military Bases Remain a Toxic Menace:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/military-base-closure-cleanup.html

* "X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet:" https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/

* "Division of labor in ants, wasps, bees — and us:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/evolution-of-division-of-labor

* "Female frogs fake their own death to avoid unwanted attention from males: Study:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/female-frogs-fake-death-avoid-unwanted-attention-males/story?id=103859698

* "Black bears in the backyard: Why they’re everywhere, and what to do:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/10/10/black-bears-backyard-sightings/

* "Feast Your Eyes on the Most Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur of All Time:" https://mossandfog.com/feast-your-eyes-on-the-most-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-of-all-time/

* "When Lions Were King: Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection:" https://www.archaeology.org/issues/522-features/11637-lions-ancient-world

* "‘Egyptian blue’ found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum:" https://www.cnn.com/style/greek-parthenon-sculptures-painted-egyptian-blue-scn/index.html

* "Scientists Have an Audacious Plan to Map the Ancient World Before It Disappears:" https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-have-an-audacious-plan-to-map-the-ancient-world-before-it-disappears/

* "1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-history-archaeology/1700-year-old-sock-spins-yarn-about-ancient-egyptian-fashion-180970501/

* "Ninth Victim of Suspected Gay Serial Killer Herb Baumeister Identified:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herb-baumeister-ninth-victim

* Tuesday I stayed up all morning with frustrating phone bureaucracy. Wednesday I managed to sort out the bare minimum on the extreior decorations. Thursday, I was frankensteining around because my legs were bad. I know I have a bunch of C7 bulbs somewhere, but I put thhem away somewhere clever last January. I also need a C5, apparently. I saw some Wednesday, not knowing I owned anything needing a C-5. Sigh.

Friday late, my oldest continuous friend arrives for the birthday celebrations. everything is a mess, but I did get most of the boxes back in the closet, except for the light boxes I still need to search. I strung the house lights for halloweentown Wednesday, but all the figurines are randomly located as no one was up to making it pretty, which means I can't finish garlands and lights in time for party weekend. Ah well.

I did at least wrap presents for my birthday. For new readers: we do a halloween party for my birthday and we do secret pumpkins and take turns opening presents. I think birthday parties are more fun if everyone gets something to unwrap, and I am an Old, so this is how we do.

If I am scarce over the weekend, this is why.

* More Gothmas Decorations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731563061736062976?source=share

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

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

* "Food Safety: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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Regulations are written in blood.

* "Took my tiny child with me to the Halloween store.:" https://www.tumblr.com/cleolinda/731352627145818112/deadmomjokes-took-my-tiny-child-with-me-to-the?source=share

* A thing on Our Flag Means Death and what's going on with ed and stede: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731696319921602560/i-think-stedes-doing-a-lot-of-running-away-from?source=share

* OFMD: Izzy hand's Leg: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/731697031851245568?source=share

* Black Sails and Our Flag Means Death Agree; Ned Low is a nasty, violent psychopath who needs to go.

* Cinderella after the Prince: https://batneko.tumblr.com/post/171036276147/cinderella-marries-the-prince-and-its-fine-the

* "Midnight Pals: The Dorsai:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/731536960132448256/midnight-pals-the-dorsai?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* Squirrel (https://www.facebook.com/mike.hutton.16/) has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Ukraine is hit by a massive cyberattack that targeted government websites:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/14/1073001754/ukraine-cyber-attack-government-websites-russia

* "Ruth Davidson blasts Boris Johnson over 'indefensible' lockdown party:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/12/ruth-davidson-boris-johnson-downing-street-party/

* "'Pathetic' Boris Johnson accused of 'lies and corruption' by furious LGBT+ MPs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/14/boris-johnson-lockdown-party-resignation-lgbt/

* "South African parliament fire suspect charged with terrorism offences:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/11/south-african-parliament-fire-suspect-charged-with-terrorism-offences

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* "WHO recommends two new drugs to treat COVID-19:" https://www.who.int/news/item/14-01-2022-who-recommends-two-new-drugs-to-treat-covid-19

* "Thousands of Hindus take holy dip in India, defying COVID surge:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/14/india-hindus-holy-dip-makar-sankranti-covid-surge

* "Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for US businesses:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-vaccine-mandate-eb5899ae1fe5b62b6f4d51f54a3cd375

* "White House promises to provide schools 10 million free coronavirus tests per month:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/12/biden-covid-tests-schools-antigen/

* "19 states have fewer than 15% of ICU beds left as health care staffing shortages complicate care:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

* "Lab Sued Over Covid Test Fees By Another Blue Cross, Blue Shield Insurer:" https://khn.org/morning-breakout/lab-sued-over-covid-test-fees-by-another-blue-cross-blue-shield-insurer/

* "FEMA administrator to announce expanded flexibility for National Guard to help support hospitals:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/fema-national-guard-support/index.html

* "Crush of Covid on U.S. hospitals calls for 'thinking outside of dogma' for solutions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/crush-of-covid-on-u-s-hospitals-calls-for-thinking-outside-of-dogma-for-solutions-130934853930

* "Dr. Fauci on why he ‘called out’ GOP Sen. Rand Paul: ‘Pure ad hominem’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-on-why-he-called-out-gop-sen-rand-paul-pure-ad-hominem-130647621751

* "Fox News' Tucker Carlson pushes Viagra as a COVID-19 cure, because of course:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/tucker-carlson-viagra-covid-19-treatment/

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* "Joy Reid: The fact that Guantanamo is still open after 20 years is a national embarrassment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/guantanamo-bay-received-its-first-prisoners-20-years-ago-this-week-130651717878

* "States send kids to foster care and their parents the bill — often one too big to pay:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/27/1049811327/states-send-kids-to-foster-care-and-their-parents-the-bill-often-one-too-big-to-

* CW: Child Abuse. "“They Took Us Away From Each Other”: Lost Inside America’s Shadow Foster System:" https://www.propublica.org/article/they-took-us-away-from-each-other-lost-inside-americas-shadow-foster-system

* "Kyrsten Sinema preempts Biden, dashing Democrats’ illogical hopes she would move on the filibuster:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/14/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster/

* "How Biden swung for filibuster reform — and missed with Manchin and Sinema:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/manchin-sinema-sink-filibuster-reform-527082

* "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema: The Dagger at the Throat of Democracy:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/1/14/sen-kyrsten-sinema-dagger-throat-democracy

* "Blurring Party Lines: The Democrats in Name Only:"

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* "Schumer says Senate will take up voting rights Tuesday as Democrats face grim odds:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/13/politics/biden-voting-rights-senate-democrats/index.html

* "Biden calls on Senate to change filibuster rules to pass voting rights bills in forceful speech: 'I'm tired of being quiet':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/biden-atlanta-voting-rights-speech/index.html

* "Joy Reid: What leverage does Biden have to get voting rights bills passed now?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/voting-rights-legislation-passing-in-senate-promoted-by-biden-as-many-demand-plan-of-action-130653253541

* "McConnell makes racist argument to defend blocking voting rights Elie Mystal says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/mcconnell-blasts-biden-for-saying-senate-gop-could-be-on-wrong-side-of-history-on-voting-rights-130743877806

* "Warren: We can launch voting rights bill, but don’t yet have landing gear:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-we-can-launch-voting-rights-bill-but-don-t-yet-have-landing-gear-130741317573

* "Voting rights is a democracy issue, not a niche issue for Black people Sherrilyn Ifill says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-challenging-senators-to-stand-up-for-voting-rights-discussed-by-sherrilyn-ifill-130651205836

* "Democrats work to convince Manchin, Sinema of the 'changed circumstance' needing new rules:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-work-to-convince-manchin-sinema-of-the-changed-circumstance-needing-new-rules-130666565860

* "Voting rights expert: GOP plotting next coup as Sinema, Manchin say they won’t stop it:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kyrsten-sinema-confirmed-opposition-to-changing-filibuster-despite-co-sponsoring-voting-rights-bill-named-after-john-lewis-130839621890

* 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/

* "Top Ohio court strikes down state's gerrymandered congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/14/ohio-congressional-map-struck-down-527116

* Bock, Bock, Bock! "RNC feud with presidential debate commission escalates with boycott threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/rnc-threatens-to-bar-candidates-from-presidential-debates-527037

* "The party of sabotage commits sabotage because it works:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1819401.html

* "Michigan AG asks feds to investigate fake GOP electors:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/michigan-ag-asks-feds-investigate-fake-gop-electors-82263515

* Why haven't they been arrested yet? "Similarities suggest coordination in fake elector letters from Republicans in five states:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/similarities-suggest-coordination-in-fake-elector-letters-from-republicans-in-five-states-130662469836

* "Fake elector struggles to explain role in scheme to submit false election papers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-elector-struggles-to-explain-role-in-scheme-to-submit-false-election-papers-130755653627

* "January 6th Committee documents suggest Meadows involvement in fake elector scheme:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-committee-documents-suggest-meadows-involvement-in-fake-elector-scheme-130753093989

* "Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will win Florida special election to replace the late Alcee Hastings, CNN projects:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/11/politics/florida-special-election-sheila-cherfilus-mccormick/index.html

* "Clay Aiken decided on Congress run after Republican's homophobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/clay-aiken-congress-north-carolina-homophobic-rant/

* "Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker promoted a ‘mist’ that he claimed would ‘kill any covid on your body’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/georgia-senate-candidate-herschel-walker-promoted-a-mist-that-he-claimed-would-kill-any-covid-on-your-body/2022/01/12/230ec9a8-73b9-11ec-bc13-18891499c514_story.html

* "Another cringey performance calls into question competence of favored Georgia Republican:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-cringey-performance-calls-into-question-competence-of-favored-georgia-republican-130753605896

* "Andrea Jenkins Is Nation's First Trans City Council President:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/11/andrea-jenkins-nations-first-trans-city-council-president

* "Read NPR's full interview with former President Donald Trump:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072176709/transcript-full-npr-interview-former-president-donald-trump

* "Donald Trump continuing to inspire GOP cult of personality critiqued by Joy Reid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-cult-of-personality-in-gop-slammed-by-joy-reid-in-the-absolute-worst-130840645705

* "Capitol attack panel subpoenas Google, Facebook and Twitter for digital records:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/13/capitol-attack-subpoenas-google-facebook-twitter-reddit-january-6

* "GOP leader McCarthy says he won't cooperate with 1/6 panel:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-mark-meadows-bennie-thompson-congress-92d310c0bb0232afc0c3d0a6b179874a

* "Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Trump Jr. advisers, Trump speechwriter:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/11/jan-6-panel-subpoenas-trump-jr-aides-trump-speechwriter-526916

* "Ted Cruz pushes far-right’s favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory to prove loyalty:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ted-cruz-pushes-far-right-s-favorite-jan-6-conspiracy-theory-to-prove-loyalty-130835013790

* "A year after Jan. 6, FBI still hunting for pipe bomber and other insurrection suspects:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-year-after-jan-6-fbi-still-hunting-for-pipe-bomber-and-other-insurrection-suspects

* "Justice Dept. creating unit focused on domestic terrorism:" https://apnews.com/article/united-states-national-security-terrorism-899caf47624dd8741d04f73e65659e68

* "Seditious conspiracy: 11 Oath Keepers charged in Jan. 6 riot:" https://apnews.com/article/stewart-rhodes-arrested-oath-keepers-jan-6-insurrection-70019e1007132e8df786aaf77215a110

* "'Seditious conspiracy' is tough to prosecute but couldn't be a more fitting case: McQuade:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-seditious-conspiracy-is-tough-to-prosecute-but-couldn-t-be-a-more-fitting-case-mcquade-130934853736

* "'Big deal': First ‘seditious conspiracy’ charge handed down to Jan. 6 suspect:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-deal-first-seditious-conspiracy-charge-handed-down-to-jan-6-suspect-130837061725

* "Joy Reid: Oath Keepers went from anti-government to pro-government with Trump’s election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/oath-keepers-leader-stewart-rhodes-charged-with-seditious-conspiracy-130925637913

* "New Braunfels police investigating after shovel-wielding woman smashes door of Democrats HQ:" https://herald-zeitung.com/community_alert/article_486ed54c-73d9-11ec-978a-db95131a66c7.html

* "All hostages out and safe at Texas synagogue, governor says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/15/us/colleyville-texas-hostage-situation/index.html

* "The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America’s Murder Spike:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/gun-sales-murder-spike/621196/

* "Queer Couple Flee After Being Charged With Murdering Young Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/11/queer-couple-flee-after-being-charged-murdering-young-woman-dallas-marisela-botello-valadez

* "Man free after 37 years due to 'sex for lies' false witness:" https://apnews.com/article/business-philadelphia-0f7a11db87d71a64f4acf07046b9e8be

* "Colston statue verdict ‘landmark’ in Britain's slave history:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-59892211

* "Path of resistance: a timeline of protest against Edward Colston:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/05/colston-timeline-of-protest-against-one-slave-trader

* "Homer Plessy, US civil rights pioneer, receives pardon 130 years on:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/homer-plessy-supreme-court-pardon-louisiana-new-orleans

* CW: Pedophilia. ""Christian Values": The Twisted Truths of the Duggar Family :"

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* CW: Sexual Assault "Prince Andrew loses military titles and use of HRH:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59987935

* "Gaetz's ex-girlfriend testifies before grand jury investigating the Florida congressman:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/matt-gaetz-grand-jury/index.html

* "McCarthy facing another possible Republican indictment as Gaetz case develops:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mccarthy-facing-another-possible-republican-indictment-as-gaetz-case-develops-130753605517

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Ghislaine Maxwell: Lawyers call for retrial over juror comments:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59884806

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "Prosecutors willing to drop Ghislaine Maxwell perjury charge if no retrial:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/10/ghislaine-maxwell-retrial-perjury-latest

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Why Ghislaine Maxwell Was Convicted (And How A Juror Might Undo It):"

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* CW: Sexual Abuse. "I Will Not Be Silenced by the Army or My Alma Mater:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/12/18/i-will-not-be-silenced-army-or-my-alma-mater

* "Ashley Madison's Affair with User Data and Shady Practices:"

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* "Priest charged with hate speech for homophobic rant about murder suspect:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/08/malta-david-muscat-hate-speech/

* "Sejm passes horrific anti-LGBT+ bill in Poland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/poland-sejm-lgbt-propaganda-lex-czarnek/

* "South Korea rejects gay couple's lawsuit for equal healthcare benefits:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/09/south-korea-court-equal-healthcare-benefits/

* "Senegal rejects chilling bill targeting LGBT+ people and allies:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/senegal-lgbt-bill-homosexuality/

* "Judge tells gay man he can adopt his husband’s child in historic step for Taiwan:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/06/taiwan-same-sex-lgbt-adoption-gay-couple/

* "'Warrior' trans rights activist Thalía Rodríguez shot dead on her doorstep:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/honduras-trans-thalia-rodriguez-murder/

* "Man stabbed, beaten and called ‘batty boy’ by group of boys who suspected him of being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/09/ghana-man-stabbed-suspected-gay-tema/

* "Tory plot to gut human rights law should horrify LGBT+ Brits, law professor warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/tory-human-rights-act-lgbt/

* "6 reasons 'prime minister Liz Truss' is a terrifying concept for LGBT+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/10/liz-truss-prime-minister-lgbt/

* "Unelected Tory peer wants to force trans people into the wrong prisons:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/11/house-of-lords-trans-prison-lord-blencathra/

* "Biphobic boy stabbed woman in attack that has 'scarred victim for life':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/08/jack-green-bisexual-canterbury-england/

* "Trans man refused haircut by bigoted barber left feeling 'disgusted and ashamed':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/12/trans-man-barber-bolton/

* "Canada's armed forces to 'eliminate binary uniform' so all members feel 'safe':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/08/canada-armed-forces-gendered-uniforms/

* "Bid to outlaw forced genital surgeries on intersex children in California pulled:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/intersex-forced-genital-surgeries-children-california-scott-weiner-sb225/

* "Republican lawmaker rings in the new year with 'hateful' attack on trans kids:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/03/arizona-republican-wendy-rogers-trans-bills-2022/

* "Black Trans Woman Duval Princess Shot and Killed in Jacksonville:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/14/black-trans-woman-duval-princess-shot-and-killed-jacksonville-florida

* There are straight women's lacrosse coaches? "Monks Sever Ties With School Months After It Hires Lesbian Coach:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/1/05/monks-sever-ties-catholic-school-months-after-it-hires-lesbian-coach

* "Students take the gay out of Gay-Straight Alliance after parents' furious protest:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/05/gay-straight-alliance-tennessee-lakeland-gsa-school-board/

* "Examining Chick-Fil-A's Strict Anti LGBTQ+ Practices:"

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* "Officials urged to throw out queer blood ban amid 'national blood crisis':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/14/queer-blood-ban-crisis-usa-officials-fda/

* "France Just Lifted Homophobic Blood Ban on Men Who Have Sex With Men:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/1/12/france-lifted-homophobic-blood-ban-men-who-have-sex-men-queer

* "Black-owned hospice seeks to bring greater ease in dying to Black families:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/28/1064096741/black-owned-hospice-seeks-to-bring-greater-ease-in-dying-to-black-families

* "Psychiatrists are uncovering connections between viruses and mental health. They’re surprising.:" https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22783685/covid-19-depression-mental-health-risks-immunology

* "Can COVID-19 alter your personality? Here's what brain research shows.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/can-covid-19-alter-your-personality-heres-what-brain-research-shows

* "The Weight Game: How Body-Size Bias Can Hold Back Health Science:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-weight-game-how-body-size-bias-can-hold-back-health-science/

* "‘It’s devastating’: how fentanyl is unfolding as one of America’s greatest tragedies:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/22/fentanyl-deaths-spike-us-tragedy

* "This Disability Activist Died After an Airline Broke Her Wheelchair:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/1/14/disability-activist-died-after-airline-broke-her-wheelchair

* "Sometimes, Life Stinks. So He Invented the Nasal Ranger.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/climate/nasal-ranger-chuck-mcginley.html

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* "EU scientists say 2021 was world's fifth-hottest year on record:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/eu-scientists-call-action-greenhouse-gas-levels-hit-high-2021-2022-01-10/

* "Nearly quarter of world’s population had record hot year in 2021, data shows:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/13/hot-year-temperatures-climate-crisis-2021

* "Beekeepers protest as Chile megadrought hits honey production:" https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/beekeepers-chile-megadrought-climate-crisis-b1986391.html

* "Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/climate/smithsonian-museum-flooding.html

* "Philadelphia house fire:" https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/philadelphia-house-fire-01-05-22/index.html

* "'Readiness and courage': Coast Guard rescuers pull body from car near edge of Niagara Falls:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/08/us-coast-guard-diver-body-car-niagara-falls/6437706001/

* "How Humans Are Changing the Oceans:"

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* "Hurricane Ida Recovery Reveals Climate Change Inequalities to Come:"

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* "The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change:" https://www.wired.com/story/the-quest-to-trap-carbon-in-stone-and-beat-climate-change/

* "These scientists want to solve the solar e-waste crisis:" https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22857157/solar-recycling-new-better-method

* "First space station tourist in ten years docks at ISS:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/tech/space-tourism-maezawa-soyuz-scn/index.html

* "This $10 billion high-tech detective will reveal the secrets of the universe:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/24/world/james-webb-space-telescope-infrared-scn/index.html

* Nope! Nopenopenope! Do not Want! "Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/taste-the-tv-japan-invents-lickable-screen-to-imitate-food-flavours

* "Hierotopia:" https://www.kierandodds.com/work/hierotopia/

* "World’s vast networks of underground fungi to be mapped for first time:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/30/worlds-vast-networks-of-underground-fungi-to-be-mapped-for-first-time

* "This subterranean creature has 1,306 legs. Yes, that's a record.:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/this-subterranean-creature-has-1306-legs-yes-thats-record-2021-12-16/

* "An extinct millipede the length of a car once roamed northern England:" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/20/1065759563/extinct-millipede-car-northern-england-arthropleura

* "Saving Kyrgyzstan's deer from brink of extinction:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-59731003

* "A Gene-Tweaked Jellyfish Offers a Glimpse of Other Minds:" https://www.wired.com/story/gene-tweaked-jellyfish-neurology/

* "Impeccably preserved dinosaur embryo looks as if it 'died yesterday':" https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-embryo-fossil-egg-discovered

* "Lion Bones Are Popping Up in Some Very Unexpected Places:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/archaeologists-find-lion-bones-europe/621201/

* "The One-Eyed African Queen Who Defeated the Roman Empire:" https://narratively.com/the-one-eyed-african-queen-who-defeated-the-roman-empire/

* "Gold rings, ancient coins and early Christian art found in shipwrecks off Israel's coast:" https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/gold-rings-coins-and-early-christian-art-found-in-shipwrecks-off-israel-s-coast-1.10485635

* "Why was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages?:"

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* "Joan of Arc: The Maid of Orléans:"

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* "Gilles de Rais: Serial Killer or Victim of an Unjust System | Prism of the Past:"

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* CW: All the Things "The Real Story of Elizabeth Bathory:"

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* "Stede Bonnet: The Gentleman Pirate:"

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* CW: War Crimes "Henry Wirz: The Only Confederate Officer to Be Executed for War Crimes After the American Civil War:"

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* "An 1875 almanac, books and a coin were revealed in time capsule discovered in the pedestal of Robert E. Lee statue:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/virginia-lee-time-capsule-open-trnd/index.html

* "Chopin's last piano gets its 19th-century features back:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-arts-and-entertainment-poland-paris-warsaw-90d18cca1a8467a453ca880d26ce5068

* "The Disappearance of Japan’s “Third Gender”:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-disappearance-of-japans-third-gender/?preview_id=280817

* "The Completely Bonkers History of the Bathroom Scale:" https://elemental.medium.com/the-completely-bonkers-history-of-the-bathroom-scale-35ba54e04805

* "Harlem Hellfighters: Rare photographs of the African American regiment renowned for courage despite prejudice, 1917-1918:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/harlem-hellfighters-photographs/

* CW: Antisemitism, Racism "H.P. Lovecraft: A Titan of Terror:"

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* "The Fearless Mother-Daughter Duo Who Tamed Lions to Save the Circus:" https://narratively.com/the-fearless-mother-daughter-duo-who-tamed-lions-to-save-the-circus/

* CW: Animal Cruelty, Child endangerment. "Inside California Alligator Farm where kids could ride and play with alligators, 1920s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/california-alligator-park-photographs/

* "The First Soviet Five Year Plan:"

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* "These Forgotten Essays Reveal the Secrets and Dreams of Jewish Teens As Hitler Drew Near:" https://narratively.com/these-forgotten-essays-reveal-the-secrets-and-dreams-of-jewish-teens-as-hitler-drew-near/

* "These Photos Capture the Lives of African American Soldiers Who Served During World War II:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/african-american-soldiers-served-during-world-war-ii-180974962/

* "He Bombed the Nazis, Outwitted the Soviets and Modernized Christmas:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/nyregion/bomber-pilot-christmas-trees.html

* "That Time the British Tried to Save Its Empire with Peanuts (And the Hilarity that Ensued):"

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* "The Somerton Man: Australia's Greatest Crime Mystery:"

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* "Did Anyone Escape Alcatraz?:"

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* "Wascally Wabbits: The Rabbit-Proof Fence That's Sealing Off Australia:"

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* "The Villisca Axe Massacre:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "One of the Most Disgusting Priests: Joseph Maskell :"

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* "Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened:" https://gizmodo.com/vacuum-sealed-container-from-1972-moon-landing-will-fin-1848234198

* "The Troubling and Disgusting Case of Luka Magnotta:"

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* "The Unfortunate Case of Otto Warmbier :"

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* "Pioneering chemsex activist and campaigner dies suddenly: 'We owe him a huge debt':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/12/david-stuart-chemsex-56-dean-street-hiv/

* "Naughty Children Get… EATEN? The Creepy History of Europe’s Christmas Folk Villains:"

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* "A Black People's History of Christmas:"

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* "Why Celebrities Are Getting Sued for Posting Photos of Themselves:"

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* "The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ordinalia-play-revitalize-cornish

* "Kidnapped as a Boy, This Man’s Hand-Drawn Map of Home Helped Him Find His Mom:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvkze/mans-hand-drawn-map-helped-find-mom

* "Real-life Ammonite fossil hunter to finally be honoured, 'righting historic wrong':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/04/ammonite-fossil-hunter-mary-anning-kate-winslet-lyme-regis/

* "Covering Up Hate:" https://thenib.com/covering-up-hate/

* "Maryland homeowner uses smoke to battle snakes, burns down house:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/03/snake-infested-house-fire/

* "11-year-old honored for saving fellow student from choking and woman from house fire all in one day:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/22/us/student-saves-two-people-davyon-johnson-trnd/index.html

* "Cat stuck inside chair that was donated to thrift store reunited with owners:" https://www.newsweek.com/cat-stuck-inside-chair-that-was-donated-thrift-store-reunited-owners-1666464

* "Woman reportedly breastfed her cat on flight to Atlanta:" https://www.nbc12.com/2021/12/06/woman-reportedly-breastfed-her-cat-flight-atlanta/

* "The Strangest Legal Defenses (That Worked!):"

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* ""Dressed Like A Man" aka The History Of Masculine Style In Women's Fashion:"

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* "The Problem With Asexual Representation:"

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* I'm not one hundred percent in agreement (call it 95%), but this captures the complexity of my thought in this area. "Why We Keep Retelling Persephone's Story:"

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* It’s funny, I used to teach this book as part of the middle School Curriculum here. It never once occurred to me it might not be intentional because the politics of it was so clear and thematic. "Holes & The Prison-Industrial Complex:"

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* "Ranking Every 2021 Costume Drama on Historical Accuracy || The 19th Century:"

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* "Freaks Isn't a Horror Film:"

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* "The Darkest Fairytale Ever Written:"

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* "Ben Shapiro's School Shooter Movie That No One Wanted:"

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* "When Gomer Pyle Married Rock Hudson: The Secret Life Jim Nabors:"

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* "The Right Still Can't Meme:"

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* "I've Got an Ace up My Sleeves | Asexual Memes:"

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* "Patton Oswalt - Christmas Shoes:"

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* "Jurassic Park but with a Cat:"

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* "All JASKIER Songs With Lyrics | The Witcher Season 2:"

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* Wednesday: Squirrel got his booster too late, looks like. (They take two weeks for full coverage). He gets tested at work and had yesterday off, so 2-3 days since infection. We resigned ourselves to the inevitability of infection when they informed him he'd be working with COVID patients. They've been taking all precautions, but Omicron is so terribly infectious.

He is staying entirely in his room; the cats and I are staying out here. I'm bringing him provisions and the like, and the plan is for us not to interact directly, but we must assume my exposure, given how terribly infectious omicron is. I was boosted in early December, so the risk to me is not that great. Either I'm in the unlucky 10% or I'm not. I must hope Pfiser will protect me. I told the Millennials to stay away, lest we infect them, because that is the far greater risk.

* Thursday I masked up with the best mask I had left and went out for provisions to tide Squirrel over in his room for quarantine, since someone had to go, and better me than him. Once I returned, I considered myself in quarantine too. This took all the Thursday spoons and likely some of Friday's.

Friday, I dealt with phone stuff and scheduled a Covid test for Tuesday. I dragged in forage delivery from the patio and sorted and put it away. I did the usual essential things. I am exhausted, but I would be in any case. I have a chronic sinus infection that comes in waves so is that mild stuffiness COVID or the usual? My lungs are in the normal range for this time of year and weather, though on the slightly goopier end of normal. COVId or just my CF Carrier/Allegries/COPD?

Squirrel was still recovering from the booster when he got COVID. We both are pretty sure his symptoms are all or mostly booster recovery, since his arc is pretty much the same one I experienced early December. He is noticeably better every day, but the other shoe could drop and he's higher risk than me.

Tavy can't understand any of this and is extra bitey. He doesn't understand why there are no Millennials. he can't understand why squirrel doesn't pet him. he can't understand why I won't crack the door so he can see what Squirrel is doing and maybe hang out with him. All the routines are in tatters. He gratuitously bit me so hard during lung time Thursday night that he left a dark bruise on my wrist. (The arm was innocently lying across my stomach a couple inches away. I was still. It was definitely nothing I did.) Livia is subtly unsettled and clearly missing his butt pets, but she is very much my cat, if you follow, and more cat social oriented than a people cat. This is so much harder on the emperor who is very much an extrovert.

* Not surprisingly, me having been a 14th century specialist before my break with academia and having been interested in yersina pestis since before even that other major plague struck like lightening and burned through the most vital and creative of two generations, I have thought about the Great Pestilence a lot in the past two years. I have written about that and the Great Plague of Athens in this space and others off and on.

What I haven't written of much or possibly at all is how much I've been thinking about wars. About all the soldiers marching into or later airlifted into meat grinders in places like the Somme or Galipoli or Gettysburg or Omaha Beach or Dien bien Phu. Really all of the Crimean War, or our American Civil War or WWI, and big chunks of all the wars after, once the gun tech reached a certain level.

I think about this when it comes to medical workers in the current Covid crisis. I think about two years of Doctors, nurses, and paramedics, exhausted beyond weeping begging over and over for people to where their masks and stay inside. I think of wave after wave grinding them down to burnt out nubs. I think of men baaing like sheep as they leave their troop transports because that was the only protest they were allowed as they were marched towards the meat grinder battles of WWI, most to come back badly damaged or not at all. You generally can't see neurological and cardiac damage the way you can see missing limbs or a ruined face, but oh the scars are their and so is the PTSD by whatever name an era chooses to call it.

In my highly vaccinated area, in the gap between the Delta spike and the Omicron wave that is drowning us now, the hospital sucked up 130+ nurses out of surrounding nursing home to fill the holes left by those leaving one way or another. (Burnt out, damaged irreparably, psychological damage, and those who don't care enough about other people that infecting and killing people for the Republican political cause made them no longer suitable for a profession that is fundamentally about empathy when practiced well). I kept thinking of the terrible stage in war where the old men and children are the only ones left to call up as a last defense. The healthy nurses went over the top long ago and the people left are people like Squirrel in the most vulnerable categories still able to work. Those nursing homes are now killing fields staffed by a skeleton crew.

Those people lost to death and disability and physical and emotional fatigue... We aren't getting them back. All that skill and intelligence and experience, they have moved on one way or another. The best case scenario here is things like private practice and medical bureaucracy. Far too many are gone for good. The first health care worker to die in NYC's first wave was a gay man. So many followed him.

The first wave could have been less deadly if people like 45 and Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsanaro weren't entirely devoid of ethics and empathy, but a lot of the early part couldn't be helped. It was better in places like the one where I live with responsible leaders who saw saving lives as the goal; it was a nightmare in most Republican controlled areas where killing as many people as possible for capitalism is a linchpin of the "pro-life" agenda. After that first wave though? That's all pretty much on purpose. Selfishness from the International down to the individual level.

Healthcare workers are being endlessly pushed into the meat grinder, and it is inexcusable and irreparable. We'll be lucky if the system recovers in a generation and that's an optimistic view. The people? So many of the people won't, and there's not really a token attempt anymore at saving them.

* "Stonehenge: History and Restoration through old photographs, 1880-1960:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stonehenge-history-restoration-old-photographs/

* A Romance Writer Asks a Doctor: https://twitter.com/sarahmaclean/status/1481757763999043586

* Iphegenia: https://twitter.com/mayadeanewriter/status/1472951601656700930

* Draculas: https://gothiccharmschool.tumblr.com/post/673494941662576640/cognitiveinequality-zooophagous-obsle

* Evaporated Milk: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/673391664499507200/can-someone-please-explain-to-me-what-evaporated

* Is Cum faery Food? https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/673219413102804992/thewinterotter-constant-instigator-audsbot

* "First Of All, There's Nothing Charlotte of "Charlotte's Web" Says About Wilbur That Isn't Also True Of The Virgin Mary:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/first-of-all-theres-nothing-charlotte?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NzAxMjkwNSwiXyI6IkhrV0dsIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQyMDQxMTU0LCJleHAiOjE2NDIwNDQ3NTQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.DFCo-zkCeHRvC2DQl2OdZhMQ25ja5J6WVTzlb-KnerM

* "Street Photographer Captures the Magical Moments That Happen When We’re Not Looking:" https://mymodernmet.com/eric-kogan-magical-street-photos/

* "'It broke something inside me,' writer says of bizarre meal at Michelin-starred restaurant:" https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-friday-edition-1.6281437/it-broke-something-inside-me-writer-says-of-bizarre-meal-at-michelin-starred-restaurant-1.6281479

* "A Food Critic Reviews the Swedish Chef’s New Restaurant:" https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/a-food-critic-reviews-the-swedish-chefs-new-restaurant

* "Making The News A Little More Fun:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/making-the-news-a-little-more-fun?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NTYzODYwOSwiXyI6Ilprb2d4IiwiaWF0IjoxNjM5ODA0MTM0LCJleHAiOjE2Mzk4MDc3MzQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.o9H7Sde1BoppRGR4nDVt2Yw-7nEq7OoAaHGM2T9YxgY

* "The Great Sphinx of Giza through vintage photographs, 1850-1940:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/great-sphinx-giza-old-photographs/

* "The 14 Best Moments In Willow, Ranked:" https://www.slashfilm.com/709595/the-best-moments-in-willow-ranked/

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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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* "Protesters face tear gas and bullets to oppose Sudan coup:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/sudanese-gather-mass-protests-against-coup-amid-tight-security-2021-11-13/

* "Lebanese government in ‘fantasy land’ amid crisis, UN envoy says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanese-government-fantasy-land-amid-crisis-un-envoy-says-2021-11-12/

* "Afghans facing 'hell on earth' as winter looms:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-59202880

* "UK counter-terrorism police arrest three after Liverpool car blast:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/one-person-dead-one-injured-after-car-explosion-liverpool-uk-2021-11-14/

* "Poland border crisis: EU to widen Belarus sanctions as row intensifies:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59289998

* "Ethiopian Civil War Sparks Rancorous Debate Over Immigration to Israel:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/world/middleeast/israel-ethiopia-jews-immigration.html

"Further confounding the situation, Israel’s National Security Council has assessed that there is no urgency or need for immediate rescue, even though Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just pulled the families of its diplomats out of Addis Ababa and has warned Israelis not to travel to Ethiopia."

* "Sierra Leone tanker explosion: Mass burial in Freetown:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59205372

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* "Austria and Germany impose restrictions on unvaccinated people as COVID cases surge:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/11/15/1055839727/austria-and-germany-impose-restrictions-on-unvaccinated-people-as-covid-cases-su

* "As pandemic pounds Ukraine, desperate officials try to scare people into getting the jab:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/coronavirus-ukraine-vaccine-russia/2021/11/05/f63e23f6-3ca4-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html

* "Germany’s Fourth Covid Wave: ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/world/europe/germany-covid-unvaccinated.html

* "Ron DeSantis’ surgeon general got his medical license approved in just two days:" https://www.rawstory.com/florida-surgeon-general-medical-license/

* "Texas schools can again set their own face mask rules after federal judge overrules Gov. Greg Abbott's ban:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/10/texas-schools-mask-mandate-ban-overturned/

* "A Texas hospital suspends a doctor's privileges for spreading 'misinformation' about Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/13/us/houston-doctor-suspended-covid-19/index.html

* "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs sweeping COVID-19 legislation into law:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/12/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-covid-19-legislation-general-assembly-legislature-businesses-masks/6264103001/

* "Alabama health leaders say unvaccinated are contributing to COVID deaths of all ages:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/alabama-health-leaders-say-unvaccinated-are-contributing-to-covid-deaths-of-all-ages/

* "Colorado announces vaccine mandate for certain indoor events as Mountain West states grapple with Covid-19 surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/us/colorado-covid-surge-vaccine/index.html

* "Latest COVID surge is the “straw that broke the camel’s back,” Colorado hospital nurses say:" https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/14/colorado-hospital-staffing-covid-nurses-icu/

* "Oklahoma National Guard rejects Pentagon’s coronavirus vaccine mandate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/11/13/oklahoma-national-guard-vaccine-mandate/

* This prevents localities from knowing how bad the infection rates are and thus taking effective measures to stop the spread. "'A little blind': Officials, health experts frustrated after State Health Department stops publishing local COVID-19 data:" https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/a-little-blind-officials-health-experts-frustrated-after-state-health-department-stops-publishing-local-covid/article_dfe17a6a-43d2-11ec-9880-8f0066661149.html

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* "U.S. military hid airstrikes that killed dozens of civilians in Syria:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-military-hid-airstrikes-that-killed-dozens-civilians-syria-nyt-2021-11-13/

* "World's autocrats eager to fill in where U.S. democracy falters on world stage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/world-s-autocrats-eager-to-fill-in-where-u-s-democracy-falters-on-world-stage-126327365655

* "Biden finally gets the ‘big effing deal’ signing ceremony of his own:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/15/biden-signs-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal-522567

* "Deere Reaches Third Tentative Deal With Union in Attempt to End Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/business/john-deere-strike-union.html

* "Kaiser Permanente Reaches Tentative Deal With Unions, Averting Strike:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/business/kaiser-permanente-unions-strike.html

* "A Gay Veteran on His Experience With Discrimination:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/11/gay-veteran-his-experience-discrimination

* 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/

* "Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/republicans-2022-redistricting-maps.html

* "Nevada Democrat aims to be 1st trans politician to win a statewide race:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/nevada-democrat-aims-be-1st-trans-politician-win-statewide-race-n1283790

Want to help Kimi Cole run for statewide office in Nevada? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kimi-cole-4-nevada-1

* "Kimi Cole seeks to make history in run for Nevada lieutenant governor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/kimi-cole-seeks-to-make-history-in-run-for-nevada-lieutenant-governor-126195269785

* "The Bye Line: Kevin McCarthy is no leader:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-kevin-mccarthy-is-no-leader-126194245911

* "Trump scores legal wins with one lawsuit dropped and another dismissed:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/politics/trump-lawsuits-michael-cohen-summer-zervos/index.html

* "'Un-American': Rep. Gallego slams Flynn call for ‘one religion’ in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-un-american-rep-gallego-slams-flynn-call-for-one-religion-in-u-s-126308933963

* "Another Trump lawyer wrote another memo pressuring Pence to overturn election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/another-trump-lawyer-wrote-another-memo-pressuring-pence-to-overturn-election-126306373919

* "Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders after his indictment on two counts of contempt of Congress:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/politics/steve-bannon/

* "Bannon makes curious choice of lawyer for contempt of Congress case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-makes-curious-choice-of-lawyer-for-contempt-of-congress-case-126323781967

* This one’s a wild ride. Trust me, it’s worth reading for the sheer wtf of it all. "Man convicted of threatening Dems says pretrial jail stint was enough punishment:" https://www.courthousenews.com/man-convicted-of-threatening-dems-says-pretrial-jail-stint-was-enough-punishment/

* "'One Toke Over The Line': Judge Denies Pot-Loving Capitol Rioter's Holiday Travel Request:" https://news.yahoo.com/one-toke-over-line-judge-212107756.html

* "Jenna Ryan, Texas realtor who tweeted she was 'definitely not going to jail,' gets 60 days in jail:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/jenna-ryan-texas-realtor-who-tweeted-she-was-definitely-not-going-to-jail-gets-60-days-in-jail-white-skin-blonde-hair-donald-trump-guy-womack/65-fb717bf2-3a07-4581-9486-bb9d8e144abd

* "Sandy Hook families win legal victory against Alex Jones in defamation case:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/media/alex-jones-sandy-hook-defamation-legal-victory/index.html

* "Sandy Hook families win legal victory against Alex Jones in defamation suit:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/n-hayes-alexjones-211115-126310469952

* "Prosecutors have used the defendants' own words in the Ahmaud Arbery case:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1054869628/prosecutors-call-witnesses-in-first-week-of-testimony-in-ahmaud-arbery-case

* "Closing arguments in Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial begin Monday:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/closing-arguments-in-kyle-rittenhouse-murder-trial-begin-monday-126194246001

* CW: Child Abuse. "This Company Profits Off the Most Vulnerable Children in the US:"

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* "More Republican leaders try to ban books on race, LGBTQ issues:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055524205/more-republican-leaders-try-to-ban-books-on-race-lgbtq-issues

* "Texas schools resist Republican request for records on classroom books:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/13/texas-schools-books-republican-matt-krause

* "SNP MP Joanna Cherry suggests trans conversion therapy should be legal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/15/joanna-cherry-snp-trans-conversion-therapy/

* "Tory MP who's spent years opposing LGBT+ rights quietly joins equalities committee:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/jackie-doyle-price-women-equalities-committee-lgbt/

* "BBC quits Stonewall scheme over 'risk of perceived bias':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/bbc-stonewall-diversity-champions-programme/

* "BBC boss tells LGBT staff 'get used to views you don't like' amid transphobia row:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/15/bbc-fran-unsworth-lgbt-transgender/

* "Boyfriend of Grindr killer victim 'pushed out' by anti-gay police, inquest told:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/stephen-port-inquest-daniel-whitworth/

* "Pensioner aggressively stalked librarians because she thought they were lesbians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/10/lesbian-stalker-beaconsfield-library-louisa-carlton/

* "Jenny De Leon Is Fourth Trans Woman Killed in Florida This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/11/14/jenny-de-leon-fourth-trans-woman-killed-florida-year

* "Can We Predict An Outbreak's Future? - Modeling: Crash Course Outbreak Science #9:"

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* "Nick had a wife, a baby and job – but he couldn't buy nappies without asking his parents:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-14/britney-spears-shines-light-on-america-conservatorship-laws/100605612

* "Sickle cell disease inquiry finds ‘serious care failings’ in NHS:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/15/sickle-cell-disease-inquiry-finds-serious-care-failings-in-nhs

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* "What the world did and didn’t accomplish at COP26:" https://www.vox.com/22777957/cop26-un-climate-change-conference-glasgow-goals-paris

* "Hundreds of global civil society representatives walk out of Cop26 in protest:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/12/global-civil-society-representatives-walkout-cop26-protest

* "'Atmospheric river' causes floods, evacuations in Northwest:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-mount-vernon-evacuations-a39b0e7fe7b0c5bf71256bd772d1ad25

* "This is how Venice will fall: conservation expert shares day-by-day destruction caused by rising water levels:" https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/10/29/this-is-how-venice-will-fall

* "Tourists having sex in the dunes is ruining a Spanish beach:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/gran-canaria-tourist-sex-dunes-maspalomas-scn/index.html

* ""Band-Aid on a bullet wound:" Flint locals seethe over $626M water settlement:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/11/flint-water-lead-court-settlement-residents-unhappy/

* "How a female-only line of salamanders 'steals' genes from unsuspecting males:" https://www.popsci.com/female-salamander-kleptogenesis/

* "Researchers discover first dinosaur species that lived on Greenland 214 million years ago:" https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dinosaur-species-greenland-million-years.html

* "Göbekli Tepe: The Dawn of Civilization:"

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* "What did Vikings wear, really? Attempting a historically accurate womens Viking costume:"

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* "The Black Women's Club Movement: Crash Course Black American History #23:"

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* "New Film Showcases the 'Coded' Homoeroticism of a Gay Artist:" https://www.advocate.com/film/2021/11/11/new-film-showcases-coded-homoeroticism-gay-artist-leyendecker

* "The Littlest Naval War: Britain's Insane Attempt to End German Domination of a Single African Lake:"

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* "Conrad Veidt, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Queer History of Weimar Germany:"

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* "When Mississippi Once Banned Sesame Street:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/611570/when-mississippi-banned-sesame-street

* "The Impossibly Badass Story of Mills' Marauders and the Battle of Grytviken:"

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* "Father Gabriele Amorth: The Vatican’s Chief Exorcist:"

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* "Armistice Day: Tributes paid across the North East:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-59246982

* "How Jewish delis are evolving -- even as pastrami and matzoh ball soup become a rarity across the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/us/jewish-delis-closing-evolving-cec/index.html

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

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* "Revolting Revolutionaries: The Feds Round Up More Jan. 6th Seditionists:"

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* "Man Park - SNL:"

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* "March of the Suitors - SNL:"

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* "Audacity in Advertising Awards - SNL:"

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* "Ted Cruz Sesame Street Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Trump Defends Pressuring Pence over Insurrection:" https://www.cc.com/video/77rdqt/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-defends-pressuring-pence-over-insurrection

* "Bootsie Proves Sex Parties Are Real - Uninformed Correspondent:"

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* "The Straights are Failing at Gender Reveals:"

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* "It's Plasticfest At Red Lobster!:"

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* As some of you may know we are having a lot of flooding in my area. This is the rainy season here and small amounts of flooding happen every few years. This is not that. This is large scale flooding including big patches of area that don't normally flood.

This is not normal. This is yet more of the climate crisis fucking with the local patterns.

Sunday Squirrel went out to his game and it was fine. Four hours later he was nearly cut off and trapped in a neighboring town. Luckily, the last road out was still open, though not for long.

A whole lot of communities have been cut off. Some people have been evacuated. The back bone of one of our two shopping districts is flooded. A lot of nursing homes are half staffed because people literally couldn't get there.

We are safe as of now. We are lower on the Hill than we used to be, but this part of town has excellent drainage and we are in the foothills. All of my Millenials have checked in and are safe.

I don't know how bad it's going to end up or how much will be lost.

Stay safe out there folks.

* "Sunday Sweets: Game On :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/11/14/sunday-sweets-game-on

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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.

* 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

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* This is actually the Sunday morning posting, but it was finish loading the aggregate or post, not both, and as it was I stayed up way too late.

* "Libya's rival authorities announce ceasefire:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53863627

* "Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security/mali-president-resigns-after-detention-by-military-deepening-crisis-idUSKCN25E1AF

* "Thousands celebrate Mali coup in capital:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53868236

* "Rare Israeli ruling against practice of demolishing homes of Palestinians accused of violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rare-israeli-ruling-against-practice-of-demolishing-homes-of-palestinians-accused-of-violence/2020/08/19/e1996e5e-defb-11ea-b4f1-25b762cdbbf4_story.html

* Looks to me like he’s trying to distract Belorussians from the protests and the likely illegitimate election with a bogus foreign threat. "Nato rejects Belarusian talk of border threat:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53877953

* "Don’t Drink the Tea: Poison Is a Favored Weapon in Russia:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/world/europe/navalny-poison-russia-kremlin.html

* "Comatose Russian dissident Navalny arrives at Berlin hospital:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/europe/alexey-navalny-germany-flight-intl-hnk/index.html
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* "Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick:" https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726

* "Still without a plan, Trump admin holding out for coronavirus 'miracle':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/still-with-no-plan-trump-admin-holds-out-for-covid-19-miracle-90457157711

* "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19:" https://www.propublica.org/article/meatpacking-companies-dismissed-years-of-warnings-but-now-say-nobody-could-have-prepared-for-covid-19#989716

* I meant to post this last week, but it got lost in the shuffle. "Sturgis rally visitors not allowed through Cheyenne River Reservation checkpoints:" https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/sturgis-rally-visitors-not-allowed-through-cheyenne-river-reservation-checkpoints/article_ff7ead8d-ad7d-5130-b3ec-52426c2fa20e.html

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* "In every aspect of his life, Donald Trump is a cheater:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-in-every-aspect-of-his-life-donald-trump-is-a-cheater-90454085909

* "Appeals court sets September 1 hearing on deadline for Trump's financial records subpoena:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/trump-motion-tax-records/index.html

* "Steve Bannon pleads not guilty to fraud charges related to border wall crowdfunding campaign:" https://www.axios.com/steve-bannon-charged-fraud-199c43c1-2e75-4535-8eb0-d96558c9f777.html

* "Bannon legal woes leave Trump scrambling for distance (again):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-legal-woes-leave-trump-scrambling-for-distance-again-90457669675

* "Kris Kobach claimed he spoke with 'enthusiastic' Trump three times about border wall project at center of fraud investigation:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/politics/kfile-kobach-wall-fraud/

* "Trump Jr. distances from Bannon group, says he attended 'single' event:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512937-trump-jr-distances-from-bannon-group-says-he-attended-single-event

* "Biden finally has his big moment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/dnc-convention-thursday-399585

* "Top Republican National Security Officials Say They Will Vote for Biden:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/republican-national-security-biden.html

* "Trump offers rebuttal to Democratic convention, where Biden criticized Trump as sowing division:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/21/trump-biden-live-updates/?hpid=hp_no-name_elex-luf-8am%3Aprime-time%2Fpromo

* "Trump’s reelection effort has officially spent more than $1 billion, a record sum at this point in the campaign:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/21/trumps-reelection-effort-has-officially-spent-more-than-1-billion-record-sum-this-point-campaign/

* "Log Cabin Again Licks Trump's Boots But Ignores His True LGBTQ+ Record:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/20/log-cabin-again-licks-trumps-boots-ignores-his-true-lgbtq-record

* "Parents of Matthew Shepherd, who was brutally murdered by homophobes, help formally nominate Joe Biden:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/19/joe-biden-nominated-democratic-national-convention-roll-call-matthew-shepherd/

* "Bernie Sanders - Uniting a Coalition of Voters Against Trump:"

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* This is a whole mess of worms and I'd been toying off and on with untangling them, but given how sick I've been with the antibiotic, I simply wasn’t up to the delicacy required. This is the piece on it that comes closest to my position. Within a hairsbreadth I'd say. "When It Comes to Alex Morse's Sex Scandal, No One Comes Off Well:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/8/20/when-it-comes-alex-morses-sex-scandal-no-one-comes-well

* Meanwhile on Autocracy Watch: 45's now threatening to illegally send large numbers of police to "monitor" aka scare people from the polls and presumably illegally bar them from voting on election day, because why else do this? The only trouble at the polls we've had in the half century I've been alive has been Republicans literally doing what Trump is threatening to do. Like there used to be a injunction that right wing judges overturned this century on the grounds that it was working to prevent the republicans from doing this and therefore it was no longer needed to stop them doing it. there is no left wing problem this solves; all it does is illegally prevent people of color from voting. Like yes, there is already generally an officer there on duty to oversee, but there is a difference between a person there overseeing and an army of them trying to stop people of colour from voting. "While Democrats urged fair elections, Trump was threatening to send law enforcement to the polls:" https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/08/as-democrats-urge-fair-elections-trump-threatens-to-send-law-enforcement-to-the-polls/

* "Trump Sows Doubt in U.S. Election With Polls Showing Biden Leading:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-21/trump-sows-doubt-in-u-s-election-with-polls-showing-biden-lead?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Trump Team Fails to Cite Mail-in Election Fraud Cases in Court:" https://theintercept.com/2020/08/20/trump-election-fraud-pennsylvania-court/

* "Pennsylvania AG: Trump 'suing us to make it harder for people to vote':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-ag-trump-suing-us-to-make-it-harder-for-people-to-vote-90448965558

* Don't hold your breath for McConnell allowing debate and the Senate then passing a veto proof majority. "House approves bill to send $25 billion to Postal Service and halt changes:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/22/politics/postal-service-house-vote-funding/index.html

* Still no explanation of how removing existing sorting machines, breaking them up, and throwing them out would make the mail more efficient instead of less. Also, he's going back to dismantling it after the election and there are reports he's still dismantling it now. ":" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/21/dejoy-postal-service-hearing-399659

* "Former top Postal Service official testifies Mnuchin and White House were involved in slowing mail:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-top-postal-service-official-testifies-mnuchin-white-house-slowing-mail/

* "Dems say evidence shows DeJoy was picked to lead Postal Service after 'highly irregular' process:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/20/democrats-louis-dejoy-postal-service-399489

* "Viewers tell 'All In' how mail slowdown has hurt their lives and businesses:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/viewers-tell-all-in-how-mail-slowdown-has-hurt-their-lives-and-businesses-90453061846

* It's part of trying to force them to go get infected at work. "White House formally declaring teachers essential workers:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/white-house-teachers-essential-workers/index.html

* "New York City Schools Face Strike As District Plans To Reopen Amid Pandemic:" https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904577530/new-york-city-schools-face-strike-as-district-plans-to-reopen-amid-pandem

* "Here's what we know about eight of the soldiers who have died this year at Fort Hood:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/25/us/fort-hood-soldier-deaths-trnd/index.html

* "'They rely on you being intimidated': Local elected officials in the US describe how police unions bully them:" https://www.citymetric.com/politics/they-rely-you-being-intimidated-local-elected-officials-us-describe-how-police-unions-bully

* "New York’s Most Virulent Opponent of Police Reform:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ed-mullins-sba-nypd-union.html#comments

* "When It Comes to Racism, We're Just Going in Circles:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/8/19/when-it-comes-racism-were-just-going-circles

* This is the republican mainstream is becoming, utterly unreachable by reason and evidence. "The Republican Embrace of QAnon Goes Far Beyond Trump:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/us/politics/qanon-trump-republicans.html

* CW: Rape. "Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to life in prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/us/golden-state-killer-sentencing/index.html

* "Veronica Chambers - "Finish the Fight!" & American Suffrage:"

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* "Katie Hill's Sexual Freedom Was Too Much for Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/8/21/katie-hills-sexual-freedom-was-too-much-congress

* CW: Self Harm "‘Tortuously long’ waiting lists for vital healthcare driving vulnerable trans kids to self-harm, charity warns:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/21/nhs-trans-gender-identity-clinics-waiting-lists-four-years-self-harm-gendered-intelligence/

* "Police urge witnesses to come forward after two men stage ‘vicious’ homophobic attack in London:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/22/police-urge-witnesses-to-come-forward-vicious-homophobic-robbery-attack-stamford-hill-london/

* "Pensioner admits hurling homophobic abuse at gay lawyer and his partner when he saw them holding hands:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/22/pensioner-admits-hurling-homophobic-abuse-gay-lawyer-partner-holding-hands-glasgow-scotland/

* "Pride Banners Incite Furor in Utah Town and Are Effectively Banned:" https://www.advocate.com/pride/2020/8/21/pride-banners-incite-furor-utah-town-and-are-effectively-banned

* "Arizona has refused to pay for trans healthcare for almost 40 years. Two teens are trying to end the ban once and for all:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/21/medicaid-transgender-arizona-national-center-lesbian-court-case/

* "Was Newark Trans Woman's Death Really a Suicide?:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/8/21/was-newark-trans-womans-death-really-suicide

* "When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/when-misdiagnosis-child-abuse/615337/

* "This Limpet May Be Evolving to Avoid Humans :" https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/this-limpet-may-be-evolving-to-avoid-humans/

* "Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/why-does-california-have-wildfires.html

* He is claiming that even though he just hallucinated the forest raking thing in 2018 and Finland doesn't do that, California doesn't deserve disaster funds because they sensibly didn't waste massive amounts time and money on a scheme that experts say doesn't make sense and which common sese says isn't physically possible. "Trump blames California for wildfires, tells state 'you gotta clean your floors':" https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/20/trump-blames-california-for-wildfires-tells-state-you-gotta-clean-your-floors-1311059

* "Researchers find dinosaurs' unique bone structure key to carrying huge weight:" https://www.smu.edu/News/2020/Research/Researchers-find-dinosaurs-unique-bone-structure-key-to-carrying-huge-weight

* "Thousands of Rare Artifacts Discovered Beneath Tudor Manor's Attic Floorboards:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-rare-artifacts-discovered-underneath-attic-floorboards-tudor-manor-180975578/

* "All the servants of a rich Gilded Age household:" https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/all-the-servants-of-a-rich-gilded-age-household/

* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day One:"

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* "Dul-Sayin' - The 19th Amendment:"

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* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day Two:"

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* "Conservatives Try to Disqualify Kamala Harris's Blackness :"

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* "The Young Delegates Coalition on Supporting Joe Biden:"

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* "The 2020 Democratic National Convention: Day Three:"

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* "Genetically Modified Mosquitos & Steve Bannon's Arrest:"

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* "Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies: How Governors Have Responded to the Pandemic Pt. 1:"

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* "Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies: How Governors Have Responded to the Pandemic Pt. 2:"

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* "From Hopeless to Hope-ish with Masha Gessen | Full Frontal on TBS:"

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* "Expect the Worst From This Election Season Pt. 1:"

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* "Expect the Worst From This Election Season Pt. 2 :"

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* "Broken News: There’s A Race Problem in Journalism:"

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* "Smash Mouth Kills It At Sturgis Biker Rally:"

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* "Fox News on 2020 DNC Speeches & Fox-Splaining Kamala Harris:"

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* "Quarantinewhile... A Selfie With The World's Most Dangerous Animal:"

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* "Uninformed Correspondent: Bootsie's Battle Against The Coronavirus:"

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* Friday: We now know what's wrong with my shoulder. my belief it is the AS colonizing another joint ad not a normal injury proved correct. In part. In the middle of the bad episode the last two months i stared getting what felt like tendinitis, I assumed in response to the whole trying to function with a fucked up shoulder. It looks like a tendon is sort of fucked now. Not normal injury fucked, so much as a year and a half of trying to cope with the weird ass bone and cartilage stuff happening in my shoulder causing slow secondary damage fucked.

This means neither of the likely treatments will work. (One for a normal injury; one for AS join damage).

She's trying to talk Medicare into some physio. We'll see. So this is basically my life now.

* Livia, who has never seen a real mirror because she doesn't go up on the bathroom sink, just had a fight with her reflection in the patio door. I've usually lowered the curtain by now. I don't think she's noticed her night reflection before. When I went over she meeped plaintively at me to let her out to kick mirror cat's butt. They are now having a staring content. That's literally the biggest cats she's seen since she was weened. That strange cat is on the patio where the human does weird things to plants! Clearly that is imperial territory.

In other cat news, yesterday she learned she can still just fit in the little bookshelf for a nap.

* The Historically accurate Sexism thread got resurrected again, and I added some comments to these two about how you got to pick who's in the story you write:

https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/627323593262514176/historically-authentic-sexism-in-fantasy-lets

This one also has why you can always have a racially diverse London at the bottom: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/627322048787693568/historically-authentic-sexism-in-fantasy-lets

* On a lesbian Irish folk tale: https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1297143608588619776

* "Personal Canons: The Books That Hate Us:" https://sarahgailey.substack.com/p/personal-canons-the-books-that-hate?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzgwMDYyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo4NjYzMDAsIl8iOiJFdnpyRSIsImlhdCI6MTU5Nzc5NDUwMCwiZXhwIjoxNTk3Nzk4MTAwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA0NDMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.73S-qaYFLwUxXwyrrGt-CndMIGTRhdpvd59iVCoWGeM

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

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*TW: Domestic Violence "How a Gang of Women Are Holding India's Men Accountable:" https://story.californiasunday.com/the-green-gang

* "With Hong Kong divided, Beijing tries new tactic to discredit protest movement:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/asia/china-hong-kong-protest-briefing-intl-hnk/index.html

* TW: Rape, Genocide. "India Annexes Kashmir and Brings Us Back to Partition:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/opinion/kashmir-india.html

"Before Article 370 was scrapped this week, Kashmiris had the notional privilege of making their own laws and flying their own flag. And what a privilege it was. They were punished for it for decades. Thousands of Kashmiris have been made to disappear; some who were detained by Indian soldiers said they were forced to eat their own flesh. Kashmir has also seen the largest mass blinding with pellet guns in human history.

But subjugating Kashmiris was not enough. The cheerleaders for Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India are cheering for Partition redux, a world-class massacre, ethnic cleansing. The brute power of Hindu supremacy has its own logic, and it requires not only that Kashmiris be denied a future but also that they be humiliated and punished for their past sin of not being grateful Indians. While individual Indian Muslims across the country are being lynched for trading beef or forced to chant Hindutva slogans, Kashmiris are locked up en masse. Thank you, we don’t need collaborators anymore."

* "Lock them up: India marginalizes Kashmiri separatist leaders by...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir-separatists-insight/lock-them-up-india-marginalizes-kashmiri-separatist-leaders-by-detaining-dozens-idUSKCN1UR4F9

* "Trump made 56 false claims last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/06/politics/weekly-fact-check-trump-early-august/index.html

* "Joaquin Castro doubles down amid backlash over tweeting names of Trump donors:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/06/joaquin-castro-trump-donors-1450672

* "Pondering Impeachment, House Sues Don McGahn, Ex-White House Counsel, for Testimony:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/us/politics/don-mcgahn-subpoena.html

* "Michael Bennet - Running to Overcome a Broken Washington in 2020 - Extended Interview:"

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* "Trump quietly used regulations to expand gun access:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/trump-gun-access-restrictions-1449663

* "Trump claims 'great appetite' for background checks as GOP looks elsewhere:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/donald-trump-background-checks-guns-1450897

* "Progress on gun reform getting 'stuck in the fight':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progress-on-gun-reform-getting-stuck-in-the-fight-65583685695

* "Texas to loosen firearm laws, allowing guns in churches and on school grounds:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/us/texas-gun-laws-el-paso-shooting-trnd/

"Many states took the opportunity in the last two years to learn lessons from the tragedies in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Parkland, and the every day gun violence that plagues our citizens, and enacted new laws to protect public safety through expanded background checks and extreme risk laws, which allow families and law enforcement to remove guns temporarily from individuals at risk of harming themselves or others," Brown said.

"Texas lawmakers, instead of reacting to the horrific shooting in Santa Fe by focusing on keeping guns out of dangerous hands, or even emphasizing safe storage of guns, instead doubled down on an NRA led agenda to encourage guns everywhere, no matter the risks and costs to safety."

* "Video games don’t cause violent crime:" https://www.vox.com/2019/8/5/20754769/trump-video-games-mass-shooting-el-paso-toledo

* "Sibling Killed in Dayton Shooting Was Trans Man Jordan Cofer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/8/07/report-sibling-killed-dayton-shooting-was-trans-man-jordan-cofer

* 45, feeling that the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, the terrorist in El Paso having been animated by the same extremist ideology 45 himself espouses, had not sufficiently harmed the people of those cities went there deliberately to insult the Mayors of the cities where the terrorist attacks took place as well as local politicians in hopes of further string up yet more hatred in his followers.

* "Trump attacks local leaders as he visits two cities grieving from mass shootings:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lashes-out-at-beto-orourke-and-the-media-ahead-of-visits-to-el-paso-and-dayton/2019/08/07/b0aa8afc-b8fb-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html?noredirect=on

* "Trump visits to gun massacre sites met with protests:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-visits-to-gun-massacre-sites-met-with-protests-65583685885

* "Divisive Trump presence disrupts Dayton community's healing unity:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/divisive-trump-presence-disrupts-dayton-community-s-healing-unity-65584709948

* "Here's the Moment an El Paso Congresswoman Learned the Massacre Was Underway:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yeyg/heres-the-moment-when-the-el-paso-congresswoman-learned-the-massacre-was-underway

* "FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat:" https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-documents-conspiracy-theories-terrorism-160000507.html

* "Trump Campaign Ad Features QAnon Signs:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-ad-features-qanon-signs

* "Donald Trump said he's going to do 'something' about hate groups:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/07/donald-trump-said-hes-going-to-do-something-about-hate-groups/

* "8chan owner called before Congress, as latest host drops site:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shooting-tech-idUSKCN1UX012

* "O'Rourke: Trump language is giving license to act on racism:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/o-rourke-trump-language-is-giving-license-to-act-on-racism-65582149542

* "Booker, Biden rail against racism and Trump rhetoric:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/booker-biden-rail-against-racism-and-trump-rhetoric-65585733584

* "Tucker Carlson’s claim that white supremacy is a hoax is easy to prove wrong. Just watch his show.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/tucker-carlsons-claim-that-white-supremacy-is-a-hoax-is-easy-to-prove-wrong-just-watch-his-show/2019/08/07/91ac782a-b90c-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html?noredirect=on

* "Tucker Carlson claims white supremacy is not a problem:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/tucker-carlson-claims-white-supremacy-is-not-a-problem-65574981579

* "The Weaponization of National Belonging, from Nazi Germany to Trump:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-weaponization-of-national-belonging-from-nazi-germany-to-trump

* "Why Were Trump's ICE Raids So Ineffective?:" https://psmag.com/social-justice/why-were-trumps-ice-raids-so-ineffective

* "An American Middle Schooler, Orphaned by Deportation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/magazine/deported-mother.html

* "Where Americans Lack Running Water, Mapped:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/08/plumbing-poverty-water-access-insecurity-race-class-map/595390/

* "Stun Belts Administer Shock Treatment in Court:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/07/29/shock-treatment-in-court

* "The Silent Problem Facing the Nation’s Courtrooms:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-silent-problem-facing-the-nations-courtrooms-11564315200

* "Girls are bearing the brunt of a rise in US cyberbullying:" https://www.apnews.com/96a0dad274244d50b32eea1699bcb3a5

* "After Being Pushed Out Of A Shell Oil Refinery Due To Harassment, This Woman Pushed Back:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/big-oil-shell-ciara-newton

* "Australia's anti-LGBT lobby targets trans kids in schools:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/08/australia-anti-lgbt-lobby-targets-transgender-kids-schools/

* "Number 14- Rest In Power Pebbles LaDime Doe:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/08/number-14-rest-in-power-pebbles-ladime.html

* "Republican mayor claims LGBT education is ‘an affront to almighty God’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/07/republican-mayor-lgbt-education-affront-almighty-god/

* "How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-rise-of-androgyny-changed-our-passports?ref=scroll

* TW: Dead Animals "The Deadly Winters That Have Transformed Life For Herders In Mongolia:" https://www.npr.org/2019/07/29/737990796/the-deadly-winters-that-have-transformed-life-for-herders-in-mongolia

* "The Crisis Lurking in Californians’ Taps: How 1,000 Water Systems May Be at Risk:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/us/the-crisis-lurking-in-californians-taps-how-1000-water-systems-may-be-at-risk.html

* "“Did fire come to Paradise or did Paradise go to the fire?”:" https://story.californiasunday.com/gone-paradise-fire

* "Inside the harsh lives of wolves living at the top of the world:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/08/arctic-wolves-harsh-lives-living-on-top-of-the-world-feature/

* "Why Does the U.S. Army Own So Many Fossils?:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-does-the-army-own-dinosaurs

* "A Crashed Israeli Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon:" https://www.wired.com/story/a-crashed-israeli-lunar-lander-spilled-tardigrades-on-the-moon/

* "Thousands of Years Ago, a Dog Gave Rise to an Immortal Entity:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/ctvt-tumor-broke-all-rules/595246/

* "As Scotland’s ‘Trainspotting’ Generation Ages, the Dead Pile Up:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/world/europe/scotland-heroin-deaths.html

* "Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths:" https://www.apnews.com/9d4c1c04c3994f158baab797083917b0

* ""You Can’t Recover If You’re Dead":" https://www.theringer.com/2019/8/6/20756144/overdose-prevention-site-us-2019

* "Why We Can’t Figure Out Why American Infrastructure Is So Expensive:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-out-why-infrastructure-is-so-expensive.html

* "Shirley Chisholm’s Historic Campaign for President Cannot be Erased:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/8/08/shirley-chisholms-historic-campaign-president-cannot-be-erased

* "Just Another Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week of Gun Violence:"

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* "A Reminder to Our Government That White Supremacist Violence is Terrorism:"

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* "Spring Breakers: Young Voter Edition feat. Allana Harkin:"

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* "Democrats Slam Trump for His Inaction on White Supremacy and Mass Shootings:"

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

* Here are a bunch of state level links to help people in immigrant detention: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/186058182962/woundability-this-4th-of-july-celebrate-the

* Angry about the concentration camps on our Southern Border? Here is a list of useful things you can do: https://medium.com/@togetherandfree/feel-helpless-amidst-the-horrific-immigration-news-youre-not-how-you-can-make-difference-today-108dc42de88e

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

Here is a massive list of things you can do to help refugees inside and outside of the Camps: https://s-leary.tumblr.com/post/185783586806/so-youve-probably-seen-the-post-going-around

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not 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.

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* "The warnings of escalation in the Russia-Ukraine standoff:" https://www.axios.com/russia-ukraine-crisis-getting-worse-c02757c8-e5d1-4763-bc44-555ced984780.html

* "Saudi and US resistance delays UN resolution on Yemen ceasefire:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/20/saudi-and-us-resistance-delays-un-resolution-on-yemen

* "Weighed down by sex and sleaze, the Coalition ends the year the way it started:" https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/weighed-down-by-sex-and-sleaze-the-coalition-ends-the-year-the-way-it-started-20181219-p50n4a.html

* "U.S. withdrawal from Syria is 'a message':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/u-s-withdrawal-from-syria-is-a-message-1404739139849

* I keep marveling that the only way there was any chance of us pulling out of Afghanistan was for the American President's Russian handler to tell him to do it quite openly on television?

* "As stocks drop, Trump fears he’s losing his best argument for reelection:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-stocks-drop-trump-fears-hes-losing-his-best-argument-for-re-election/2018/12/20/a7368994-fd53-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1473ecf35d78

* "Dow dives 400 points to end its worst week in 10 years:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/us-stocks-set-for-lower-week-after-fed-decision-government-shutdown-fears.html

* "‘A tailspin’: Under siege, Trump propels the government and markets into crisis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-tailspin-under-siege-trump-propels-the-government-and-markets-into-crisis/2018/12/20/e30347e0-046b-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.52a0e1af08a3

* "Trump's Hall of Mirrors:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-hall-of-mirrors

* Mueller's Special Council Office is will not be shutting down.

* "Hirono: Trump only wants an A.G. who will do his bidding:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hirono-trump-only-wants-an-a-g-who-will-do-his-bidding-1404852803713

* "Trump surrogate Katrina Pierson demands John McCain answer her questions -- and gets buried in ridicule:" https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-surrogate-katrina-pierson-demands-john-mccain-answer-questions-gets-buried-ridicule/?fbclid=IwAR1FBHz8eSBW5lYAzYXEvVrbQO-esVMGz1qfw8SPHulKeqB49dk31RCvXaU

* "A Top Aide’s Exit Plan Raises Eyebrows in the White House:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/politics/zachary-fuentes-coast-guard-retirement.html

* "Normal corruption scandal highlights distorted news climate:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/normal-corruption-scandal-highlights-distorted-news-climate-1404858947822

* "Russians Tried, but Were Unable to Compromise Midterm Elections, U.S. Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/us/politics/russia-midterm-election-influence-coates.html

* "Billionaire donor Robert Mercer cuts back on GOP support after being scrutinized for backing Trump:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/21/robert-mercer-scales-back-gop-support-after-scrutiny-for-backing-trump.html

* "Hayes: Country feels on the precipice of real crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-country-feels-on-the-precipice-of-real-crisis-1404712003724

* They caught it early because of the broken rib. Let us all hope her lymph node results are good. "Ruth Bader Ginsburg has surgery for malignant nodules in her lung:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-surgery-for-malignant-nodules-in-her-lung/2018/12/21/03009a1e-0545-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3587349f5c73

* "Government shutdown begins as talks falter over Trump’s border wall:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/21/senate-trump-wall-1072331

* "Why Trump shut down the government - again:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-trump-shut-down-the-government-again-1404709443949

* "Congress back to square one as Trump forces government shutdown:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congress-back-to-square-one-as-trump-forces-government-shutdown-1404857923725

* "Congressional GOP saves room for cheese amid shutdown crisis:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congressional-gop-saves-room-for-cheese-amid-shutdown-crisis-1404855363914

* "Supreme Court denies Trump administration request to immediately enforce new asylum rules:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-denies-trump-administration-request-to-immediately-enforce-new-asylum-rules/2018/12/21/e9cdaf32-03c8-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1b23bb8ae921

* "Under pressure, Pa. prisons repeal restrictive book policy:" http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania-book-ban-doc-books-through-bars-wetzel-20181102.html

* TW: Rape. "She swiped her co-worker’s Coke can. Police say it cracked a 28-year-old murder case.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/18/she-swiped-her-co-workers-coke-can-police-say-it-cracked-year-old-murder-case/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.92d95065d016

* "A Legislative Battle Looms Over Arizona's Repressive LGBT Education Laws:" https://psmag.com/education/the-education-legislation-battle-coming-to-arizona

* TW: Suicide. "Kaiser clinicians say Kaiser's mental health care is awful:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/kaiser-mental-health-care-problems/

* "Tiny raptor tracks lead to big discovery:" https://phys.org/news/2018-11-tiny-raptor-tracks-big-discovery.html

* "The Christians and the Pagans - Dar Williams:"

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* "Star Trek: Space Command:"

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* "The TV Is Telling The President What To Do:"

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* "Secretary Mattis Takes A Parting Shot At Trump:"

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* "A Very Special Counsel Christmas:"

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* This Solstice Ritual didn't go nearly as well as the summer solstice one. IDK. Anyway, best wishes to all who celebrate. This the coming year be better than this last.

* "Tonight is the Longest Night:" https://auresse.dreamwidth.org/7801.html

* The cats celebrated the evening with surprise messes to find with my feet. Bonus points for Tavy who managed not to re-break my toe while using it as a springboard for a Great Leap, scratching it all to hell and causing it to swell like a ballpark frank. I'm pretty sure none of these messes were Livia's fault, as one was a crime scene #2 situation for Tavy and the other looked like LM's mo.

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

* Trans Helplines: https://www.translifeline.org/

* Want to complaint about Betsy DeVos's plan to coddle college rapists? https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/29/2018-25314/nondiscrimination-on-the-basis-of-sex-in-education-programs-or-activities-receiving-federal#open-comment

* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html

They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001

* Naral https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/donate/supportnaral/#.W7nPzmNRfIU

* Planned Paranthood: https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/onlineactions/hkv0R7LN0E-Q-U5mXFaXRA2?sourceid=1004272&ms=4NALz1800K1N1A&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4I2IxID03QIVA7bACh3CCwHWEAAYASAAEgKlD_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

* "Resources for Male Victims of Abuse:" http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/178933672694/resources-for-male-victims-of-abuse

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

* Donate to HIAS to help refugees: https://act.hias.org/page/6048/donate/1

* Want to contribute directly to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services fund? "Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services:" https://www.raicestexas.org/

* Support Kids at the Border: http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/175022384240/support-the-kids-at-the-border

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not 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.

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

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

* This is a cool person and the swimsuits are being made from an ethical source. LGBTQIA+ swimsuits: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616

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

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

* "Ministers to unveil plans to make right to food a legal obligation:" http://www.thenational.scot/news/16132740.Ministers_to_unveil_plans_to_make_right_to_food_a_legal_obligation/

* "Lebanon paves way to election as regional tension soars:" https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/lebanon-paves-way-to-election-as-regional-tension-soars-1.726516

* "The silencing of Daphne:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/malta-daphne/

* "Cambridge Analytica's ruthless bid to sway the vote in Nigeria:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-analyticas-ruthless-bid-to-sway-the-vote-in-nigeria

* "Frightened wild elephants trample refugees:" http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-43991691/why-are-elephants-wrecking-a-rohingya-refugee-camp

* "Trump says date and location set for meeting with Kim Jong Un:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-date-location-set-meeting-kim-jong/story?id=54935670

* "Trump set to benefit as Qatar buys $6.5m apartment in New York tower:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/trump-qatar-buys-apartment-new-york-tower

* "Ben Rhodes reacts to Trump's approach to North Korea:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ben-rhodes-reacts-to-trump-s-approach-to-north-korea-1225350723847

* Sigh. "House Republicans Prepare to Endorse Trump’s Military Parade:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-04/trump-s-military-parade-would-be-endorsed-under-republican-bill

* "Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/04/pence-doctor-resigns-after-jackson-debacle-569004

* "Trump appoints Dr. Oz to fitness and nutrition council:" https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/trump-appoints-dr-oz-to-fitness-and-nutrition-council

* "Adelson helped arrange canceled Pruitt trip to Israel:" http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/386173-adelson-helped-arrange-canceled-pruitt-trip-to-israel-report

* "Pruitt reimbursed himself $65K from AG campaign:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-campaign-reimbursements/index.html

* "A Pruitt Aide's Attack on Zinke Angers the White House:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/epa-leaks/559607/

* "Scott Pruitt and the Swamp Olympics:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/scott-pruitt-and-the-swamp-olympics-1225342019956

* I really appreciate that they managed to report this without breaching Karen Pence's privacy rights. "Pence's doctor alerted WH aides about Ronny Jackson concerns last fall:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/karen-pence-doctor-privacy-ronny-jackson/index.html

* Lest we forget that Mike Pence is also a terrible person. "A 'champion of ... the rule of law': Mike Pence praises pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio:" http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-a-champion-of-the-rule-of-law-vice-1525275107-htmlstory.html

* TW: Lynching "New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims:" http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LYNCHING_MEMORIAL_TXOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

* "'Defund Planned Parenthood' law struck down in Ohio is similar to Tennessee's:" https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/04/19/ohio-law-same-aim-tennessees-defund-planned-parenthood-bill-struck-down/531856002/

* "Nebraska Lawmakers Pass Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood:" https://www.thecut.com/2018/04/nebraska-lawmakers-pass-bill-defund-planned-parenthood-abortion.html

* TW: Pedophilia. ""They Haven’t Sent an Amber Alert”: The Devastating Story Behind a Navajo Girl’s Murder:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a19561163/ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-navajo-reservation/

* "A Black Trans Man Is Running For The Nevada State Assembly!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-black-trans-man-is-running-for-nevada.html

* "The Battle over Malibu’s Beaches:" http://nowiknow.com/the-battle-over-malibus-beaches/

* "Canary in the Coal Pond:" https://www.propublica.org/article/canary-in-the-coal-pond

* "What the Archaeology of Night Reveals:" https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/night-archaeology/

* "The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-chinese-dino-boom-180968745/

* "Massive 6.9-magnitude quake rocks Big Island as eruption continues:" http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38087728/new-kilauea-eruption-triggers-house-fires-as-hundreds-evacuate-area

* "Hawaii becomes first US state to ban sunscreens harmful to coral reefs:" https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/may/03/hawaii-becomes-first-us-state-to-ban-sunscreens-harmful-to-coral-reefs

* "Rudy Giuliani Fuels Trump's Stormy Daniels Scandal:"

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* "Back in Black - The Primaries Are Working Their Stupid Magic:"

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* "A First Date Arranged By Facebook Dating:"

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* "Trump Threatens To 'Get Involved' In Mueller's Investigation:"

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* "Goodbye To Stephen's Favorite Trump Lawyer, Ty Cobb:"

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* "Jeff Bezos Launched A Very Phallic Rocket:"

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* A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a Millennial friend and mentioned, as part of a story, either "his business went up his nose" or "he snorted his business." I forget which, as both were common phrases amoung Xers. I've known a number of people over the years who lost jobs and were robbed of their final paychecks because their boss snorted the business. I've been irritated to find shops, restaurants, the occasional movie theater gone this way over nearly half a century of life. It's a thing that happens; what can you do?

She had no idea what the phrase meant. I had to explain that it was a cocaine reference. It has since dawned on me that the last time I'd known personally of someone's restaurant going up their nose was more than a decade ago. Of course a middle of the Millennial range person wouldn't have this be an ubiquitous hazard of her working life. Like, sure, people still do it, but not the way they did the first few decades I was alive. I mean, in the '80's I knew other minimum wage teens who snorted the occasional bump. I had a manage at a frigging Burger King who we all had to watch like a hawk lest he pocket money out of our drawers and blame the shortages on us because coke. I've lived across from literal crack houses as a adult. It was not my thing; it was not a thing, my personal friends were into; it was something acquaintances did and while not as ubiquitous as pot, easy to find pretty much everywhere if one was looking. It was a disaster that hit the little brother of a friend I grew up with; it ate businesses; it was like natural disasters: an expected sort of destruction that one can only avoid by not being proximate. coke is a rich person only thing now, I suppose and the lower end users have moved on to meth or opiods, them being cheaper and ubiquitous out here.

There is no moral to this little ramble, just an observation that I never noticed this particular shitty thing that used to happen wasn't happening anymore, and an odd figure of speech describing it that every Xer understood instantly isn't anymore.

* "Does Maeve Like Hector or Is She Using Him?:" https://rav3nb1ack.tumblr.com/post/173256034293/does-maeve-like-hector-or-is-she-using-him

* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it's all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $400 to stay afloat. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* I am still a month and a half behind due to a housing/car crisis. Ebay BPALs for sale, five days left: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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

* "Help us stop the humanitarian crisis on Manus:" https://www.asrc.org.au/donate-now/

* "RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees):" https://www.givenow.com.au/riserefugee/donate

* How to help Rohingya refugees: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/world/asia/rohingya-aid-myanmar-bangladesh.html?emc=edit_nn_20171012&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=50784086&te=1&_r=0

* Help fight for Net Neutrality restoration: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170010496350/democrats-are-just-one-vote-shy-of-restoring-net

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* Trans Lifeline is one of those organizations you can call at (877) 565-8860 in the US and in Canada (877) 330- 6366.

* The Trevor Project has a 24 hour hotline geared toward helping our youth, and you can call it at 1-866-488-7386

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

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

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

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/1925021.html

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

* "Yemen hospital battles world's worst cholera outbreak:" http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-40443989/yemen-hospital-battles-world-s-worst-cholera-outbreak

* "Cardinal Pell: Vatican treasurer denies Australia sex offences:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40439489

* "White House could offer to roll back sanctions in first Trump-Putin meeting:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/29/white-house-sanctions-first-trump-putin-meeting

* "Trump allies work to smear FBI, discredit Russia investigation:"

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* "Stepsister, Yes; Grandma, No: U.S. Sets Guidelines for Revised Travel Ban:" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/us/politics/homeland-security-prepares-to-issue-travel-restrictions.html

* "Trump Attacks ‘Crazy’ Mika Brzezinski: She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift’:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tweets-mika-was-bleeding-badly-from-a-face-lift

* "CBO: Republican health care bill will get worse with age:"

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* O.o "House panel votes to force new debate on terror war:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/29/congress-vote-authorize-war-islamic-state-240095

* "We Are the Sum of Our Stories - Kameron Hurley:" http://www.kameronhurley.com/lita-talk-sum-stories/

* "Trolls, hypocrites and performance artists are trying to hack our lives. Don’t let them.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2017/06/19/trolls-hypocrites-and-performance-artists-are-trying-to-hack-our-lives-dont-let-them/?utm_term=.ea194f94fdbe

* "Teaching The Camera To See My Skin:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/syreetamcfadden/teaching-the-camera-to-see-my-skin?utm_term=.ieaa46DJm2#.ouG6yxaYM9

* "Which jobs do economists say create the largest spillover benefits for society?:" https://80000hours.org/2017/06/which-jobs-do-economists-say-create-the-largest-spillover-benefits-for-society/

* "Some basic medieval fashion terms:" http://the-alexandrian-alchemist.tumblr.com/post/162422332481/some-basic-medieval-fashion-terms

* "Abraham Lincoln Doesn't Want Trump In The Hall Of Presidents:"

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* "Trump Thinks Healthcare Is Something You Can Win:"

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* "Yet Another Baker Who Won't Make Cakes For Same-Sex Weddings:"

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* "Dinosaur Decathalon - The Gong Show:"

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* I unironically adored this. "Zombie Ballet - The Gong Show:"

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* "What poet should I fight?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/162424963292/what-poet-should-i-fight

* I really want a quality TV version of Bombshells on STARZ or Netflix.

* "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back with Superheroines:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/two-steps-forward-one-step-back-with-superheroines/

* "Salim the Cinnamon Roll and Gay Muslim Representation:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/salim-the-cinnamon-roll-and-gay-muslim-representation/

* "I actually think you’ve picked good examples to show that GRRM tries to minimise the role of coincidences (which do have their place) and move his plot along through plausible character action.:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/162420744802/maybe-its-presentism-influencing-me-but-dont

* Two Days left. One no bid. I'm a hundred down on bills, plus we haven't money for electricity and Internet as we had to pay for car repairs (four hundred), so clearly it's ebay time.: http://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

* "So, what can people do?*:" http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/161640495373/so-what-can-people-do

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

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

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

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

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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