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* News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That was last true when Nixon was President.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "The Tragedy and Comedy of Elon Musk:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to thank all of you protesting out there.

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

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

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

If this passes, people die.

They are sacrificing people for the billionaires that bought them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let's all cross our fingers, shall we?

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

Update 2: Check arrives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am FUCKED if I miss either.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "A Liberation Carol:"

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* "Jury Duty - SNL:"

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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* Hardly any of the Sunday news made it onto this and i have a massive back up waiting to be scaffolded, but if I don't post it will get so much worse, so here we are.

* "Tensions flare as Chinese flights near Taiwan intensify:" https://apnews.com/article/tensions-flare-chinese-flights-near-taiwan-02b30ed449f663cf53ef0782482e35e9

* "Extremists target African village leaders in wave of assassinations:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/africa-islamists-sahel-leaders/

* "An Asylum Seeker’s Wrenching Choice: Stay on the Run or Save His Child’s Life:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-crisis.html

* "Authorities call fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker terrorist act:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-london-england-eda5b4786c84e68a59de9075efecbcf7

* "ASEAN to exclude Myanmar junta chief from leaders' summit:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-does-not-want-myanmar-junta-leader-summit-if-no-progress-minister-2021-10-15/

* "Beirut's worst street violence in more than a decade kills at least 6:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/middleeast/lebanon-blast-gunfire-protest-intl/index.html

* "Lebanese firefighters put out fire at fuel facility:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/lebanons-al-jadeed-tv-reports-fire-near-zahrani-oil-facility-2021-10-11/

* "It’s time to drop the curtain on Japan’s colonial legacy :" https://lausan.hk/2021/japans-colonial-legacy/

* "Justin Trudeau Tells International Conference Left-Wing ‘Extremist Groups’ Are ‘Pushing White Supremacy’:" https://pressprogress.ca/justin-trudeau-tells-international-conference-left-wing-extremist-groups-are-pushing-white-supremacy/

* "British football coach sentenced to 25 years’ jail in Dubai over CBD vape liquid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/13/british-football-coach-sentenced-to-25-years-jail-in-dubai-over-cbd-vape-liquid

* "Australia's Daintree rainforest returned to Aboriginal ownership:" https://edition.cnn.com/travel/amp/australia-daintree-rainforest-aboriginal-owners-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Inside the manic race to replace Duterte as the Philippines' leader:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/asia/philippines-election-president-duterte-marcos-dst-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Help find this man wanted for BITING and assaulting Game Store Employees!:"

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* "Australia ends migrants housing deal with Papua New Guinea:" https://wtop.com/australia/2021/10/australia-ends-migrants-housing-deal-with-papua-new-guinea/

* "Austrian Chancellor Kurz resigns amid corruption allegations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/austria-kurz-resigns-corruption/2021/10/09/fd58ac5a-2927-11ec-8739-5cb6aba30a30_story.html

* "96-year-old German woman released after going on the run to skip Nazi war crimes trial:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/96-year-old-german-woman-released-after-going-run-skip-n1280876

* "Calls for investigation after court finds Dubai ruler hacked ex-wife’s phone:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/calls-for-investigation-after-court-finds-dubai-ruler-hacked-ex-wifes-phone

* "Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.reuters.com/world/philippines-journalist-ressa-russian-journalist-muratov-win-2021-nobel-peace-2021-10-08/

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* "Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain:" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-mild-cases-of-covid-may-leave-a-mark-on-the-brain/

* "Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid 'miracle' drug:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58170809

* "Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill:" https://apnews.com/article/merck-asks-fda-to-authorize-covid-pill-e731ada126414396b402c4dfc3cf8d2c

* "South Sudan: How to deliver Covid vaccines in a country with few roads:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58911911

* "New Zealand will phase out its zero-covid strategy, acknowledging it cannot eliminate coronavirus:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/05/new-zealand-zero-covid-strategy/

* "As Brazil passes 600,000 COVID-19 deaths, vaccines offer hope worst is over:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-nears-600000-covid-19-deaths-vaccines-offer-hope-worst-is-over-2021-10-08/

* "Brazil pandemic probe to recommend Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, senator says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-pandemic-probe-recommend-bolsonaro-face-11-criminal-charges-senator-says-2021-10-15/

* "COVID Misinformation Has People Injecting Bleach:"

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* "US to reopen land borders in November for fully vaccinated:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-covid-19-pandemic-air-travel-health-c3f7e2b8feca4c8cdaf4301ae9c81a79

* "COVID-19 Vaccination:" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html

* "F.D.A. Panel Unanimously Recommends Johnson & Johnson Booster Shots:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/health/johnson-johnson-vaccine-booster.html

* "FDA panel endorses lower-dose Moderna COVID shot for booster:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-moderna-booster-shot-fda-2de19cdff021ad11b95c6b67fd5d8617

* "J&J Covid vaccine recipients are better off getting Pfizer or Moderna booster, NIH study suggests:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/13/jj-covid-vaccine-recipients-are-better-off-getting-pfizer-or-moderna-booster-nih-study-suggests.html

* "Big gap between Pfizer, Moderna vaccines seen for preventing COVID hospitalizations:" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-09-17/study-finds-big-gap-between-pfizer-moderna-vaccines-at-preventing-covid-hospitalizations

* "Getting a Booster Too Soon Could Cause This Serious Side Effect:" https://bestlifeonline.com/booster-side-effect-news/

* "Boosters and mixes: Health officials consider most beneficial combinations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/boosters-and-mixes-health-officials-consider-most-beneficial-combinations-123695685898

* "POLITICO-Harvard poll: Most Americans support vaccine mandates for schoolkids:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/poll-support-vaccine-mandates-students-515657

* "Florida is only state not to submit school Covid-19 relief funding plan, US Education Department says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/florida-schools-covid-relief-funding-plan/index.html

* "Florida trying to block money Biden sent to school districts fined for mask mandates:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-working-block-money-biden-school-districts-mask/story?id=80419199

* "Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried urges Florida to speed up distribution of federal COVID relief dollars:" https://www.wptv.com/coronavirus/agriculture-commissioner-nikki-fried-urges-florida-to-speed-up-distribution-of-federal-covid-relief-dollars

* "Texas school COVID-19 cases: How those with mask mandates compare to those without:" https://www.kxan.com/investigations/texas-school-covid-19-cases-how-those-with-mask-mandates-compare-to-those-without/

* "Texas order reflects growing GOP vaccine mandates hostility:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-nba-sports-business-aa6c30fa6270b735acafc69e2ce26766

* "Texas Republicans spar over who is more pro-Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-republicans-spar-over-who-is-more-pro-covid-123393605771

* "Study: Vaccines Helped Reduce COVID-19 Deaths in Oklahoma:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2021-10-05/study-vaccines-helped-reduce-covid-19-deaths-in-oklahoma

* "Stitt: Oklahoma ready to ‘take President Biden to court’ over COVID-19 vaccine mandates:" https://www.koco.com/article/kevin-stitt-oklahoma-president-biden-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/37963844

* "48 hours to live: An Oklahoma hospital’s rush to find an ICU bed for a covid patient:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/hospital-covid-patient/

* "This Teen's Community Rallied As She Fought COVID. But Many Still Shun The Vaccine:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/03/1032665979/child-near-death-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-mis-c

* "TN doctor warns of ‘death lag’ with younger people hospitalized for COVID:" https://www.wate.com/news/tennessee/tn-doctor-warns-of-death-lag-with-younger-people-hospitalized-for-covid/

* "Tennessee physicians who spread COVID-19 misinformation could now face disciplinary action:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-physicians-who-spread-covid-19-misinformation-could-now-face-disciplinary-action

* "More than 20 Tennessee school staff members have died from COVID-19:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/more-than-20-tennessee-school-staff-members-have-died-from-covid-19/

* "Montana only state to ban vaccine requirements for employees:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-montana-8c47ca9308494b678f41f41764094800

* "Amid COVID crisis, Idaho health care workers grapple with burnout and misinformation: "I'm treating patients for their political views":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/idaho-health-care-workers-covid/

* This is in line with the findings from Brazil earlier in the year. "Pregnant women at risk with COVID-19:" https://idahonews.com/news/local/pregnant-women-at-risk-with-covid-19

* "COVID spike pushes Alaska’s health care system to brink:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-pandemics-18bd9ffb116ce59872451f11067e94eb

* "Alaska reports 3 deaths, 871 COVID-19 cases as delayed monoclonal antibody shipments begin arriving:" https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/05/alaska-reports-3-deaths-871-covid-19-cases-as-delayed-monoclonal-antibody-shipments-begin-arriving/

* "'Reckless': Parents sue school district for failing to protect kids from Covid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-reckless-parents-sue-wisconsin-school-district-for-failing-to-protect-kids-from-covid-123396165875

* "Anti-Vax Protesters Confront Parents About Masks Outside Beverly Hills School:" https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/10/07/anti-vax-protesters-confront-parents-about-masks-outside-beverly-hills-school/

* A special place in hell. "10-Year-Old Died of COVID After Teacher Made Her Be ‘Nurse’ to Sick Kids, Parents Say:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/10-year-old-teresa-sperry-died-of-covid-after-teacher-made-her-be-nurse-to-sick-kids-parents-say?ref=scroll

* "'The mood is grim': Death threats and violence mark another pandemic school year:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-05/covid-vaccine-mask-fury-shakes-up-california-schools

* "Masks burned outside Brevard School Board meeting; board passes final budget:" https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/education/2021/09/09/covid-19-masks-burnt-protest-outside-brevard-school-board-meeting/8264824002/

* "Cops Charge Zip-Tie Guys Who Ambushed School Principal Over COVID Rules:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/men-charged-for-ambushing-mesquite-elementary-school-principal-with-zip-ties-over-covid-rules

* "Marchers Attack Coronavirus Testing Station in Union Square:" https://www.curbed.com/2021/10/anti-vaccine-mandate-protest-new-york-city.html

* "Police unions across U.S. urge members to defy vaccine mandates:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/police-unions-across-u-s-urge-members-to-defy-vaccine-mandates-123688005985

* "Death Threats, Trolling Common for Scientists Who Speak to Media About COVID:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-10-14/death-threats-trolling-common-for-scientists-who-speak-to-media-about-covid

* "Man charged federally with threatening former Baltimore health commissioner Dr. Leana Wen over COVID vaccine support:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-wen-threats-charges-20211012-iiiutjgxyfbslh2zmlpv3yntlu-story.html

* "Republican lawmaker banned from Alaska Airlines over mask rules tests positive for COVID:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/14/alaska-airlines-lawmaker-banned-flights-tests-positive-covid/8455352002/

* "Hayes: How America is processing the trauma of living through a pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-how-america-is-processing-the-trauma-of-living-through-a-pandemic-123492421658

* "Police Cite Anti-Vaccine Motive in Killing of Pharmacist and 2 Others:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/jeffrey-burnham-pharmacist-brother-covid-vaccine.html

* "Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense--He's Bankrolling It:" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/

* "Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-allen-west-texas-pneumonia-health-03839ff2547c8895fb0e4f155705322a

* ""The tyranny of evidence-based medicine.":" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1806319.html

* "Texas man sentenced to 15 months in prison for posting Covid-19 hoax on social media:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/us/texas-man-sentenced-covid-hoax/index.html

* "Fox News hosts deride vaccine mandates while complying with strict Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-hosts-deride-vaccine-mandates-while-complying-with-strict-covid-policy-122842693795

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* "Afghanistan: Deadly attack hits Kunduz mosque during Friday prayers:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58842793

* "Afghanistan: Taliban unlawfully killed 13 ethnic Hazara people, Amnesty says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58807734

* "Global minimum tax effort moves forward as Ireland and Hungary join pact:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/08/minimum-corporate-tax-oecd-biden/

* "3 US-based economists win Nobel for research on wages, jobs:" https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prizes-business-europe-3cbc672f994ae6f4f486a68b52c2bb32

* "Maryland husband and wife arrested in nuclear submarine spy case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/10/maryland-husband-wife-arrested-espionage-case-515761

* "FBI: U.S. Navy engineer tried to sell nuclear submarine secrets :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fbi-u-s-navy-engineer-tried-to-sell-nuclear-submarine-secrets-123297861573

* "America Is Running Out of Everything:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/

* "Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is:" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/09/pandemic-supply-chain-nightmare-slow-shipping/620147/

* "Grocery store shelves aren't going back to normal this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/business/grocery-stores-food-supply-chain/index.html

* "Biden tries to tame inflation by having LA port open 24/7:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-business-los-angeles-health-48ff262b882a37308e4a3f15934b2ee4

* "Biden plan aims to untangle supply chain with focus on clearing backed up ports :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-plan-aims-to-untangle-supply-chain-with-focus-on-clearing-backed-up-ports-123505221529

* "US to restore full pension of FBI official fired under Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-lawsuits-james-comey-jeff-sessions-2be69b9a619dcbeb64469edd485b1a1b

* "Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-utah-environment-and-nature-b763897fc47136339bd12360a90079c0

* "New HUD rule aimed at preventing public housing evictions:" https://apnews.com/article/public-housing-evictions-biden-ab3191da5dbb1bd0db5ae91856383be4

* "Biden's Supreme Court commission is leaving everyone unhappy:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/15/politics/biden-supreme-court-liberals/index.html

* "Congress punts debt limit crisis into December:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/12/congress-debt-limit-december-515820

* "Senate advances short-term debt limit hike after GOP scramble:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/senate-leaders-strike-deal-on-short-term-debt-limit-patch-515578

* "Senate votes to extend debt limit after McConnell caves:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/senate-votes-to-extend-debt-limit-after-mcconnell-caves-123040837854

* I admit, I’d hoped Manchin and Sinema would give up on the filibuster. Ah well.

* "Ted Cruz and John Cornyn opposed a debt-limit increase that will stave off economic catastrophe, but backed previous borrowing hikes:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/08/ted-cruz-john-cornyn-debt-ceiling/

* "Progressives focus on key priorities to narrow BBB bill for Manchin, Sinema:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressives-focus-on-key-priorities-to-narrow-bbb-bill-for-manchin-sinema-122854981959

* "Watch Former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Supporters Confront Her in Restroom:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/04/watch-former-sen-kyrsten-sinema-supporters-confront-her-restroom

* "Sanders offers rejoinder to Manchin's "entitlement society" word games:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-offers-rejoinder-to-manchin-s-entitlement-society-word-games-122964549966

* "Sanders frustrated with lack of specificity of Manchin, Sinema objections to BBB bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanders-frustrated-with-lack-of-specificity-of-manchin-sinema-objections-to-bbb-bill-122963525955

* "'It's not a 50/50 deal.': Sanders critical of Manchin, Sinema obstructing popular will:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-a-50-50-deal-sanders-critical-of-manchin-sinema-obstructing-popular-will-122964549928

* "Chris Hayes to Kyrsten Sinema: What are you doing here?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-to-kyrsten-sinema-what-are-you-doing-here-123595845509

* "‘Biden agenda overwhelmingly helps working class White people’ Dem strategist says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-face-trouble-going-into-midterms-experts-say-123300933692

* "Manchin pulls plug on U.S. clean electricity ambitions in Biden budget bill: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-pulls-plug-on-u-s-clean-electricity-ambitions-in-biden-budget-bill-nyt-123694661824

* "Climate Program Likely to be Dropped from Build Back Better Bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/climate-program-likely-to-be-dropped-from-build-back-better-bill-123786821627

* "The reconciliation stalemate: when and how will this end?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-reconciliation-stalemate-when-and-how-will-this-end-123787333579

* "Museum Workers, Jolted by Pandemic Job Losses, Turn to Unions:" https://web.archive.org/web/20211005070657/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/museum-workers-embrace-unions-after-pandemic-job-cuts

* "Elizabeth Warren backs Deere strike, saying workers have gotten the short end of the stick 'for decades':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/business/deere-strike-elizabeth-warren/index.html

* "Workers at all of Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants go on strike:" https://apnews.com/article/kelloggs-cereal-plants-strike-d9185eb8fa9054d34a078063c3db6c33

* "American workers gain upper hand to demand better working conditions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/american-workers-gain-upper-hand-to-demand-better-working-conditions-123693637949

* "USPS pilot expands postal banking services after years of skepticism:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2021/10/usps-pilot-expands-postal-banking-services-after-years-of-skepticism/

* "The ban on evictions has ended: Here's what to do if you're facing eviction:" https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/your-money/the-ban-on-evictions-has-ended-heres-what-to-do-if-youre-facing-eviction/

* "ITT Tech: Profit Over Education :"

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* "How This Recession Could Set Us Back 30 Years:"

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* "Activists keen to keep voting rights bill in spotlight of Biden's attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/activists-keen-to-keep-voting-rights-bill-in-spotlight-of-biden-s-attention-122858053542

* "Ending the Filibuster | Where Do We Go From Here?:"

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* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* "Pennsylvania AG Shapiro vows to use ‘veto pen’ to protect state if elected governor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pennsylvania-attorney-general-shapiro-running-for-governor-filed-motion-to-block-republican-election-investigation-123598917624

* "Republicans eyeing upcoming votes stack local elections boards with Trump loyalists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-eyeing-upcoming-votes-stack-local-elections-boards-with-trump-loyalists-123408453715

* "In Dead of Night, Texas House Approves GOP's Gerrymandered Map:" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/13/dead-night-texas-house-approves-gops-gerrymandered-map

* "Congressional Redistricting Taking Place Across the Country:" https://www.msnbc.com/cross-connection/watch/congressional-redistricting-taking-place-across-the-country-123205701796

* "Joy Reid: We're still feeling impact of Voting Rights Act being gutted in 2013:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-passes-proposed-map-increasing-majority-white-districts-decreasing-latinx-and-black-majority-districts-123490885908

* "Georgia ballot inspection case dismissed after no fraud found:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-ballot-inspection-case-dismissed-after-no-fraud-found/OUVOQ5I5ARHMBJ62CX3YBHRMYM/

* "Judge stomps out Trump Big Lie case in Georgia; triggers Trump tantrum:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judge-stomps-out-trump-big-lie-case-in-georgia-triggers-trump-tantrum-123505221632

* "Once central to Trump's Big Lie, Arizona conspiracy theory fizzles into incoherence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/once-central-to-trump-s-big-lie-arizona-conspiracy-theory-fizzles-into-incoherence-123148869589

* "Why the Cyber Ninjas CEO Skipped the Oversight Hearing on His Own Audit in Arizona:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/cyber-ninja-ceo-skips-oversight-hearing-on-arizona-election-audit.html

* "Rep. Steve Scalise repeatedly refuses to say 2020 election wasn't stolen:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-steve-scalise-repeatedly-refuses-to-say-2020-election-wasn-t-stolen-123205189966

* "‘Stop the Steal’ Movement Races Forward, Ignoring Arizona Humiliation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/arizona-election-audit-analysis.html

* "'Shut this fake investigation down': Clumsy Republican 'audit' stunt elicits blowback:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-shut-this-fake-investigation-down-clumsy-republican-audit-stunt-elicits-blowback-123608645850

* "Joy Reid: The cancer of the Big Lie has spread through GOP ranks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-polls-her-supporters-on-potential-national-divorce-123400773762

* "Recap of the Trump-endorsed rally at the Michigan State Capitol:" https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/live-updates-from-the-trump-endorsed-rally-at-the-michigan-state-capitol/

* "Trump Allies Call for 'Audit' of 2020 Results in Michigan:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2021-10-12/trump-allies-call-for-audit-of-2020-results-in-michigan

* "Trump Tells Republicans Not to Vote in 2022 or 2024:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-in-2022-or-2024

* "Trump suggests he will back primary challenges to Michigan GOP lawmakers:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/13/trump-suggests-he-back-primary-challenges-michigan-lawmakers/8435061002/

* "Trump tells Republicans not to vote if his 2020 election loss isn't 'solved':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-tells-republicans-not-to-vote-if-his-2020-election-loss-isn-t-solved-123504709941

* "Head of GOP election inquiry compares Milwaukee newspaper to Nazi propagandist:" https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/head-of-gop-election-inquiry-compares-milwaukee-newspaper-to-nazi-propagandist/article_82287223-b974-5877-a297-990531bde8dc.html

* "Former Supreme Court Justice Gableman, head of Republican review of Wisconsin election, says he does not understand how elections work:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/10/06/republican-reviewing-2020-vote-says-he-doesnt-know-how-elections-work/6020978001/

* "Gableman video puts a polished gloss on election nonsense:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/09/21/gablemans-taxpayer-financed-video-puts-a-reasonable-face-on-election-fraud-craziness/

* "Republicans seeking to discredit Wisconsin elections off to a bumbling start:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-seeking-to-discredit-wisconsin-elections-off-to-a-bumbling-start-123147333958

* "Republican threat to Wisconsin elections no laughing matter despite farcical clumsiness:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-threat-to-wisconsin-elections-no-laughing-matter-despite-farcical-clumsiness-123310149663

* "Impartial audit? Wisconsin Republicans tap Trump appointee, Trump lawyer:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/impartial-audit-wisconsin-republicans-tap-trump-appointee-trump-lawyer-123612229601

* "Mike Lindell now claims he's found people as old as 850 years who voted in 2020 election: report:" https://www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-voter-fraud-2655251741/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "Senate Republicans Shrug Off Candidates’ Domestic Abuse Allegations:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-shrug-off-candidates-with-domestic-violence-allegations_n_615cb61ee4b06f0ef2897f2b

* "Stacey Abrams: Youngkin ‘should be rejected’ for backing election audit:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-youngkin-should-be-rejected-for-backing-election-audit-122948677666

* "Political Giants Stump for Terry McAuliffe:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/political-giants-stump-for-terry-mcauliffe-123786309783

* "Joy Reid: Republican party has abandoned its once-lofty principles for Trumpism:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/virginia-governor-race-gop-embrace-of-trumpism-and-erosion-of-voting-rights-analyzed-by-politics-experts-123492933901

* "Chris Hayes: What Chuck Grassley traded for Trump’s endorsement :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-chuck-grassley-traded-for-trump-s-endorsement-123298373686

* "AT&T funds rightwing channel One America News, Reuters reveals:" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/07/att-source-revenue-one-america-news

* "Hayes: What 25 years of Fox News ‘poison’ has done to America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-what-25-years-of-fox-news-poison-has-done-to-america-123130437945

* "Joy critiques GOP leaders cultivating an ‘Idiocracy’ normalizing stupidity:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-conservatives-right-wing-extremists-slammed-for-cultivating-culture-of-stupidity-123138629986

* "'Think about democracy as something which has a future': Snyder on hope in troubled times:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-think-about-democracy-as-something-which-has-a-future-snyder-on-hope-in-troubled-times-122963525615

* "Idaho governor repeals political rival’s executive order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/idaho-governor-repeals-political-rivals-executive-order-515542

* "This governor and lt. governor duo are trying to out-Trump each other:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-governor-and-lt-governor-duo-are-trying-to-out-trump-each-other-122950725570

* "Joy Reid critiques Idaho’s governor and lieutenant governor’s game of GOP one-upmanship:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/idaho-s-governor-and-lieutenant-governor-engage-in-game-of-gop-one-upmanship-122952773947

* "Whistleblower testifies to Senate as patience with Facebook wears thin in Washington:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whistleblower-testifies-to-senate-as-patience-with-facebook-wears-thin-in-washington-122858053507

* "Expert: Why Facebook’s business model is ‘incommensurable with democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/expert-why-facebook-s-business-model-is-incommensurable-with-democracy-122847813728

* This gets scarier the more we know. "New details on ‘democratic near-death experience’ of Trump election plot:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-democratic-near-death-experience-of-trump-election-plot-123038789931

* "Questions yet unanswered suggest probe of DOJ misuse by Trump shift focus to White House:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questions-yet-unanswered-suggest-probe-of-doj-misuse-by-trump-shift-focus-to-white-house-123056197607

* "Senate report exposes 'a mini attempted coup d'état' within the DOJ under Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-report-exposes-a-mini-attempted-coup-d-etat-within-the-doj-under-trump-123055685783

* "Political hijacking of Justice Department by Trump raises cleanup questions for Garland:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/political-hijacking-of-justice-department-by-trump-raises-cleanup-questions-for-garland-123056197797

* "Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on election challenges:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eastman-trump-bar-complaint/2021/10/04/26dc7d50-2535-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html

* "Trump hotel lost $70M despite millions in foreign business:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-business-4203026146d39a3a2315eecd7fe79486

* "Trump must give videotaped deposition in protest lawsuit, judge orders:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-give-videotaped-deposition-protest-lawsuit-judge-orders/story?id=80579982

* "State Department Investigating if Trump Officials Stole G-7 Gift Bags Meant for Foreign Leaders:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/trump-gift-bags-g7-missing-gifts-saudi-fake-fur.html

* This is very 45. "White Tiger and Cheetah Furs: A Mess of Trump Gift Exchanges:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html

* "Schiff book documents when Republicans gave up and gave in to Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-book-documents-when-republicans-gave-up-and-gave-in-to-trump-123309637776

* "Rep. Bennie Thompson: Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely manner:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/bannon-defying-subpoena-what-garland-should-do-discussed-by-jan-6-select-committee-chair-thompson-123596358002

* "Biden White House waives executive privilege for initial set of Trump-era documents sought by Jan. 6 panel:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/bannon-jan-6-subpoena-515681

* "Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/senate-judiciary-committee-investigation-trump-2020-election/index.html

* "Trump tells 4 former aides to defy Jan. 6 committee's subpoena:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/trump-jan-6-committees-subpoena-515593

* "Top Trump aides set to defy subpoenas in Capitol attack investigation:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/06/trump-aides-capitol-attack-house-select-committee

* "Jan. 6 Panel Threatens to Pursue Charges Against Bannon:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/us/politics/steve-bannon-capitol-riot.html

* "Schiff: Enforcing select committee subpoenas tests ‘principle no one is above the law’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/steve-bannon-defying-jan-6-select-committee-subpoena-discussed-by-rep-adam-schiff-123691077812

* "Rosen, former acting AG under Trump, appears before Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/13/rosen-jan-6-committee-515910

* "Jan. 6 panel moving swiftly as it sets Bannon contempt vote:" https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-donald-trump-capitol-siege-subpoenas-bennie-thompson-9823b7d1c15eabd235cd3a9887b1f46e

* "Capitol Police whistleblower delivers scathing rebuke to 2 of its senior leaders Jan. 6:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/08/capitol-police-whistleblower-rebuke-jan-6-515696

* "Prosecutors: Capitol cop told Jan. 6 rioter to hide evidence:" https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/capitol-police-officer-indicted-for-obstruction-after-riot

* "‘Just looking out’: Capitol officer charged with telling rioter to delete evidence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-just-looking-out-capitol-officer-charged-with-telling-rioter-to-delete-evidence-123686469722

* "Judge holds DC jail officials in contempt in 1/6 riot case:" https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-district-of-columbia-capitol-siege-b944fd79b8e132f633bfb0111adfaba8

* "100 Capitol Rioters Have Pleaded Guilty. Here’s What They Did And What They’re Facing.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/100-capitol-riot-guilty-pleas

* "Capitol rioter admits to two new felonies while representing himself in bond hearing:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/capitol-rioter-brandon-fellows-admits-to-two-new-felonies-while-representing-himself-in-bond-hearing-judge-trevor-mcfadden/65-a40af9c2-9809-4adb-aaec-7e36ad12b308

* "Capitol rioter represents himself, accidentally admits to more crimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/capitol-rioter-represents-himself-accidentally-admits-to-more-crimes-123491909794

* "Gay Trump Supporter Brandon Stratka Pleads Guilty in Capitol Riot Role:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/gay-trump-supporter-brandon-stratka-pleads-guilty-capitol-riot-role

* "U.S. Capitol Police arrest man who parked suspicious vehicle outside Supreme Court:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/capitol-police-says-it-investigating-suspicious-vehicle-front-us-supreme-court-2021-10-05/

* "Maryland senior housing shooting kills 2; suspect held:" https://www.khq.com/regional/gunman-held-in-shooting-of-2-staffers-inside-senior-facility/article_adb26ce1-aba9-50cb-b1b3-d8a254f771cf.html

* "How Thousands of Haitians Became Trapped in Mexico:"

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* "Reporting on the Humanity of the Immigration Crisis | Field Notes:"

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* How is it legal to deport kids to Haiti when they aren't from there? Why would anyone deport anyone to Haiti right now let alone Brazilian and Chilean children? More than 40 children with non-Haitian passports deported to Haiti: IOM":" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/haitian-kids-deportees-intl-latam/index.html

* "Biden administration canceling more border wall contracts:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/border-wall-contacts-canceled-biden-administration/index.html

* "At least 1,000 migrant children separated under Trump still haven't been reunited with parents:" https://www.axios.com/migrant-children-still-separated-from-parents-92a72738-f295-410b-ac61-076c634eaaea.html

* "Family Demands Surveillance Video After Alabama Woman Christina Nance Was Found Dead in Unused Police Van:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/family-demands-surveillance-video-after-alabama-woman-christina-nance-was-found-dead-in-unused-police-van/

* "Feds won't seek charges against cop in Jacob Blake shooting:" https://apnews.com/article/us-news-us-department-of-justice-rusten-sheskey-jacob-blake-kenosha-4f8493dd0776ef6046e052a538cd1460

* "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist#1133516

* "‘County with staggering history of detaining children’ revealed in shocking report:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tennessee-county-was-profiting-off-jailing-black-children-as-young-as-seven-123298885901

* "A homeless man was arrested for a 43-cent ‘theft’ of a Mountain Dew. He could face 7 years in prison.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/21/pennsylvania-mountaindew-theft-joseph-sobolewski/

* "Texas Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/george-floyd-pardon-texas.html

* "FBI raids New York's police sergeants union offices and the union president resigns:" https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043567201/fbi-raid-new-york-police-sergeants-union-ed-mullins

* "A look at track record of NYPD union head who resigned after FBI raid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-at-track-record-of-nypd-union-head-who-resigned-after-fbi-raid-123042373581

* "Derecka Purnell - "Becoming Abolitionists":" https://www.cc.com/video/0w8kcq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists

* "How the nation's Chinese American communities grapple with systemic racism and gentrification:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-the-nation-s-chinese-american-communities-grapple-with-systemic-racism-and-gentrification-123205189953

* "The Latest in Jussie Smollett's Ongoing Alleged Hoax Attack Case:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/06/heres-latest-jussie-smolletts-ongoing-hoax-attack-case

* "Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/us/politics/maryland-superintendent-racism-black-lives-matter.html

* "Texas school official says classrooms with books on Holocaust must offer ‘opposing’ views:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/14/texas-school-holocaust-books-race-southlake

* "Islamophobia: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube:"

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* CW: Pedophila, Rape. "French clergy sexually abused over 200,000 children since 1950, report finds:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/

* CW: Rape. "UK police won't act against Prince Andrew over abuse claim:" https://apnews.com/article/prince-andrew-sexual-assault-allegations-jeffrey-epstein-f0e955fd2345884173ba1321bb105048

* "NFL players attack ‘fraud’ Jon Gruden after racist and homophobic emails:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/oct/12/nfl-players-reaction-jon-gruden-emails-racist-homophobic

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'Toxic culture': NFL cheerleaders demand release of full workplace inquiry:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-toxic-culture-nfl-cheerleaders-demand-release-of-full-workplace-inquiry-123494469775

* CW: Sexual Harassment "'We feel invisible': Washington Football Team employees experienced decades of abuse, sexual harassment:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/10/14/jon-gruden-washington-football-team-owner/8450505002/

* "California Outlaws 'Stealthing,' Mandates Gender-Neutral Toy Sections:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/california-outlaws-stealthing-mandates-gender-neutral-toy-sections

* "Appeals court puts temporary hold on judge's order blocking Texas 6-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/texas-abortion-appeal/index.html

* "Biden administration: Texas abortion ban, in place despite constitutional questions, offers road map for other states:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-ban-appeal/2021/10/12/fd649804-2b60-11ec-baf4-d7a4e075eb90_story.html

* "Justice Department to ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion ban:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/15/biden-justice-department-supreme-court-texas-abortion-516093

* "DOJ rips Texas abortion ban in new appeals court filing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-rips-texas-abortion-ban-in-new-appeals-court-filing-123312197593

* "DOJ will ask Supreme Court to halt Texas abortion law:" https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-texas-aeedf9630e395f9115909ce5fb63eea5

* "Attacks on abortion rights already forcing women to dangerous 'back alley' alternatives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/attacks-on-abortion-rights-already-forcing-women-to-dangerous-back-alley-alternatives-123409477923

* "Fact check: Pennsylvania bill proposing restrictions on male reproductive rights is satirical:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/07/fact-check-legislation-male-reproductive-rights-parody-bill/6032780001/

* "A Botched Circumcision and Its Aftermath:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/a-botched-circumcision-and-its-aftermath

* "Justice secretary Dominic Raab thinks misogyny can be a 'woman against a man':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/06/dominic-raab-tory-misogyny/

* "Daddy Issues, Misogyny, and the Pinnacle of Male Privilege:"

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* "Gay couple’s son finally granted citizenship in landmark Namibian ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/16/namibia-gay-couple-children-citizenship-win/

* "Evangelist who backed death penalty for gays wants to run the National Trust:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/national-trust-christian-voice-stephen-green/

* "Genderfluid Person in Dress and Heels Attacked, Left Black and Blue:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/08/genderfluid-person-dress-and-heels-attacked-left-black-and-blue

* "Thug beats man with wine bottle for ‘holding another man’s hand’ near gay village:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/11/birmingham-homophobic-attack-kesseler/

* "Birmingham announces major steps to combat spike of anti-LGBT+ violence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/birmingham-homophobic-attacks-lgbt/

* "Protesters demand the Guardian 'stop platforming transphobia' at newspaper's HQ:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/08/guardian-transphobia-protest-london/

* "LGBT+ students demand university fire anti-trans professor: 'We've had enough':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/kathleen-stock-university-sussex/

* "Biden Calls Out Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation on National Coming Out Day:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/11/biden-calls-out-anti-lgbtq-legislation-national-coming-out-day

* "Black Trans Man Mel Groves Shot to Death in Mississippi:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/13/black-trans-man-mel-groves-shot-death-mississippi

* "The Queer Tax on LGBTQ+ Women Who Partner With Women:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/10/07/queer-tax-lgbtq-women-who-partner-women

* "Trans writer cuts ties with Netflix over 'transphobic' Dave Chappelle special:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/07/dave-chapelle-netflix-the-closer-criticism/

* "The Complex Transphobia of Dave Chappelle:"

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* They used her name without her consent, the bastards. "Hannah Gadsby slams Netflix boss over Dave Chappelle: ‘F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/15/hannah-gadsby-netflix-dave-chappelle-the-closer/

* "Trans Worker Who Criticized Netflix's Chappelle Special Is Suspended:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2021/10/11/trans-worker-who-criticized-netflixs-chappelle-special-suspended

* "The Bye Line: Jonathan Capehart calls out Tucker Carlson's homophobia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-jonathan-capehart-calls-out-tucker-carlson-s-homophobia-123784773952

* "Sally Ride and Nina Otero-Warren to Be 1st LGBTQ+ Faces on U.S. Coins:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/10/12/sally-ride-and-nina-otero-warren-be-1st-lgbtq-faces-us-coins

* CW: Suicide. "Texas Removes Access to Youth LGBTQ+ Suicide Hotline, Resource Page:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/10/13/texas-removes-access-youth-lgbtq-suicide-hotline-resource-page

* "Trans-inclusive cervical screenings aren't a debate. They can be life-saving:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/09/trans-cervical-cancer-screenings/

* "Why Do We Have Fewer Outbreaks? Epidemiological Transition: Crash Course Outbreak Science #3:"

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* "The Weaponization of Outbreaks: Crash Course Outbreak Science #5:"

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* "The Spanish Flu: The Greatest Pandemic of the 20th Century:"

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* "BSE: Britain’s Deadly Disease Scandal:"

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* "NHS England to offer breakthrough treatment for sickle cell disease:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/05/nhs-england-breakthrough-treatment-sickle-cell-disease

* "WHO backs malaria vaccine rollout for Africa's children in major breakthrough:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-experts-back-using-malaria-vaccine-african-children-2021-10-06/

* "COVID is changing medical fly-in missions — and it might be for the better:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/07/1041862629/covid-is-changing-medical-fly-in-missions-and-it-might-be-for-the-better

* "Maddow: Look past conspiracy nonsense and weirdos to appreciate modern medical science:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-look-past-conspiracy-nonsense-and-weirdos-to-appreciate-modern-medical-science-123411013592

* "‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-a-crisis-tens-of-thousands-of-children-affected-by-pandemic-related-deaths-of-parents/ar-AAPdH5o?ocid=msedgntp

* "Valley Fever Is Spreading Through a Hotter, Drier Western US:" https://www.wired.com/story/valley-fever-is-spreading-through-a-hotter-drier-western-us/

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* "Pope, other religious leaders issue pre-COP26 appeal on climate change:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-world-religious-leaders-issue-pre-cop26-appeal-climate-change-2021-10-04/

* "Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly in 2021:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805

* "At least 15 dead after heavy rainfall and flooding in northern China:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/china/flooding-china-shanxi-ntl-hnk/index.html

* "China floods: Nearly 2 million displaced in Shanxi province:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58866854

* "Torrential rain follows summer wildfires, flooding homes across Greece:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/torrential-rain-follows-summer-wildfires-flooding-homes-across-greece-2021-10-15/

* "Flash flooding in parts of Alabama kills at least four, prompts dozens of rescues:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/rescues-underway-after-flash-flooding-parts-alabama-2021-10-07/

* "Elite Firefighters Have a Secret Skill:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/smokejumpers-wildfires-sew-their-own-gear/620323/

* "More flee as Canary Island eruption continues, creates 'lava tsunami':" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/more-flee-canary-island-eruption-continues-creates-lava-tsunami-n1281690

* "'Catastrophic' California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/major-oil-spill-washes-ashore-california-killing-wildlife-2021-10-03/

* "At least 2 dead in California plane crash that torched homes:" https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-california-plane-crashes-fires-suburbs-44a0451856e261b5314fb9528d9fa644

* "Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 23:" https://apnews.com/article/science-pakistan-earthquakes-bd2be7e2982a44a0f02ecb4f12e9d0e3

* "City in Michigan urged to use bottled water due to lead risk:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/city-michigan-urged-bottled-water-due-lead-risk-80444860

* "Majority Black city in Michigan faces water lead levels higher than Flint’s at height:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/michigan-tells-majority-black-city-of-benton-harbor-not-to-drink-lead-laced-water-123401797648

* "How economists helped Big Oil obstruct climate action for decades:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/10/economists-helped-big-oil-companies-obstruct-climate-action-benjamin-franta-stanford-university/

* "Masai Woman Builds Beautiful Off-Grid Homestead in the African Bush:"

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* "In Kenya, An Inspiring Maasai Man Creates Change Through Permaculture:"

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* "How Dying Gas Wells Are Making One Company Rich:"

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* "Climate change is killing the world's coral reefs as oceans warm, study shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-change-is-killing-worlds-coral-reefs-oceans-warm-study-2021-10-05/

* "Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save the Amazon:"

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* "Fast fashion: The dumping ground for unwanted clothes:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58836618

* "What It's Like to Document the Death of Ecosystems:"

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* "Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-melting-ice-stays-smooth-20211006/

* "A Centuries-Old Physics Mystery? Solved:" https://scitechdaily.com/a-centuries-old-physics-mystery-solved/

* "Planet with iron rainfall is even more extreme than scientists thought:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/iron-rain-exoplanet-scn/index.html

* "Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

* "If Social Media Can Be Unsafe for Kids, What Happens in VR?:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-virtual-reality-metaverse-safety-children-jakki-bailey.html

* "The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along:" https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along

* "Scientists solve the mystery of the Etruscans’ origins:" https://www.livescience.com/origins-of-etruscans-discovered

* CW: Lynching, Sexual Assault "Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20:"

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* "Jailbreak! The International King of Escapes:"

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* I was angry about what happened to Monika Lewinsky while it was happening. Everyone else in the scandal was absolutely vile. The media and the comics decided to completely destroy her life. It was very there but for the grace and I had huge empathy for her. I love the person she grew up to be, and every time I see her out and about doing activism it makes be happy. She not only survived the terrible thing our whole society did to her; she took that trauma and made something beautiful and powerful out of it.

"Monica Lewinsky - "15 Minutes of Shame":" https://www.cc.com/video/6of5s5/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-monica-lewinsky-15-minutes-of-shame

* "‘Do right by Henrietta Lacks’ family attorney of Black woman whose cells are commercialized by pharmaceutical company asks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/henrietta-lacks-family-member-discusses-suit-filed-over-black-woman-s-cells-sold-to-advance-medicine-science-122849861560

* CW: Suicide mention. "The Disappearance of Elisa Lam:"

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* "Gentrification Is Erasing Philly’s Black Horse Stables:"

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* "Two men arrested for alleged illegal smuggling of Kentucky Fried Chicken:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/two-men-arrested-alleged-illegal-171700302.html

* "Thank Me Later - Crusade for Clitoral Awareness:" https://www.cc.com/video/6bwz5l/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-thank-me-later-crusade-for-clitoral-awareness

* "Facebook Hearings Cold Open - SNL:"

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

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

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* "TikTok Challenge Incites School Vandalism:" https://www.cc.com/video/l5foji/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tiktok-challenge-incites-school-vandalism

* "Coronavirus Deaths Surpass Spanish Flu:" https://www.cc.com/video/hk1pbh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-coronavirus-deaths-surpass-spanish-flu

* "The Rise of Water Witches in California:" https://www.cc.com/video/qr1e8g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-rise-of-water-witches-in-california

* "New Zealanders Smuggle KFC & Man Faces Prison Over 43 Cents:" https://www.cc.com/video/biv64w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-new-zealanders-smuggle-kfc-man-faces-prison-over-43-cents

* "Climate Week - Trickle-Down Effects of the Global Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/3a9x5k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-climate-week-trickle-down-effects-of-the-global-crisis

* "Ongoing Crisis at the U.S. Border:" https://www.cc.com/video/jshkgv/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-ongoing-crisis-at-the-u-s-border

* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Anti-Mask Rally:" https://www.cc.com/video/dxm2d3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-anti-mask-rally

* "Booster Shots Approved & 46% of Americans Believe in Ghosts:" https://www.cc.com/video/53kjvm/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-booster-shots-approved-46-of-americans-believe-in-ghosts

* "Switzerland OKs Same-Sex Marriage & Kids Face Climate Woes:" https://www.cc.com/video/6ig1jw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-switzerland-oks-same-sex-marriage-kids-face-climate-woes

* "CP Time - Black Fashion Models:" https://www.cc.com/video/2vcs6m/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-black-fashion-models

* "Can We Convo? - Reporting on Missing White Women:" https://www.cc.com/video/sp35bc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-can-we-convo-reporting-on-missing-white-women

* "Keeping Up with the Congressians - Capitol Hill Crunch Time :" https://www.cc.com/video/2on71h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keeping-up-with-the-congressians-capitol-hill-crunch-time

* "Amazon Unveils $1K Robot & Man Traps Alligator in Trash Can :" https://www.cc.com/video/ghjlcw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-amazon-unveils-titlek-robot-man-traps-alligator-in-trash-can

* "Pandora Papers Expose Wealthy Tax Dodgers:" https://www.cc.com/video/52gnv2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-pandora-papers-expose-wealthy-tax-dodgers

* "Black Family vs. Racist Neighbor & Meghan Trainor's Toilets:" https://www.cc.com/video/vyqduj/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-family-vs-racist-neighbor-meghan-trainor-s-toilets

* "Red, White and Broken - Religious Exemptions for Vaccines :" https://www.cc.com/video/05hv1g/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-red-white-and-broken-religious-exemptions-for-vaccines

* "Remotely Educational - How Hollywood Works:" https://www.cc.com/video/2o4rhr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-remotely-educational-how-hollywood-works

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Right to Repair:" https://www.cc.com/video/iv0hvu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-right-to-repair

* "Freedom of Speech Battle in New Jersey:" https://www.cc.com/video/fpz5ow/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-freedom-of-speech-battle-in-new-jersey

* "Back in Black - Hollywood's De-Aging Problem :" https://www.cc.com/video/wr6ipp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-back-in-black-hollywood-s-de-aging-problem

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - America's Great Resignation:" https://www.cc.com/video/26ld3k/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-america-s-great-resignation

* "Ladies Night Song - SNL:"

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* "End Of Iris - El Tango De Roxanne (Moulin Rouge Cover):"

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* Wednesday I spaced a Doctor's appointment. (In my defense, I was very aware of it Monday and planning to go, but they never sent a reminder call and scheduling on Tuesday and Wednesday was tight, so it just fell out of my head with all the other stuff I needed to remember). I remembered it about an hour too late. Sigh. The reschedule and the long wait times between nurse and doctor because they were squeezing me into cracks meant I only got a few hours of sleep.

Add to this that all the gimping about Wednesday led to my dicey left hip joint trying to dislocate itself later that night, which is a thing it just sort of does periodically, but hadn't for several years. The pain of even a failed dislocation is stunningly painful and means the leg stops being load bearing sporadically. Luckily, Thursday it waited until I was parked at home to make another series of attempts to escape it's socket. (This has to do with my AS made worse by things like the distance running and ballet in my youth. My cartilage is under constant attack by my immune system. Yes, I know this isn't a problem most people have. It was always the left hip joint that used to pop out. I think I must have done extra damage to it in my teens somehow). The weather being changeable enough to ramp my arthritis pain level way up is not helping either and is likely contributing though I can't prove it. I just know when I dislocate, it tends to be in autumn or Winter.

Also, I needed head Millennial for an essential project, which meant I needed to bail the tanks myself (Nearby Millennial is the best at all the other tank cleaning components, which I flat out can't do since the AS started gnawing that shoulder joint which sent the fragile right shoulder joint. Normally Head Millennial does the bailing when things are running smoothly, as it's something Nearby Millennial absolutely can't do), into it's own exciting pain Wednesday night. Luckily this is more remediable than the hip joint thing, and the measures I took Wednesday night moved it make into the unpleasanter end of functional, which is really all I could ask for given the givens.

So I've been a serious mess physically for a couple of days, add in the lack of sleep and the way the need to get to the appointment on short notice threw my meds schedule into chaos and basically, I'm just trying to stay up late enough that Friday will still work and doing stuff that doesn't require too much eye focus.

* Over the weekend we managed to nearly finish decorating for Phase II, and on Sunday a friend came to visit. Livia is still full of complaints about the lack of live mice in food deliveries, but there is nothing to be done.

* I've been having a particularly bad chronic pain week, made worse by the nobody will let me sleep thing. I'm getting Police union auto-dialers from at least three different zip codes and as between them they have about twenty and I can only block 25 numbers, every time I block one another one wakes me up later. I wish there were a do not call list for police unions, but... America. they called twice today. It was so bad Thursday and Friday that after call five Friday, Tavy stood on my hip and complained angrily until I hung up. There were four more calls to come in the next couple hours including two separate calls from my dentist reminding me of the same appointment, one live and one robo.

I'm also getting daily harassment from a robot claiming to be a pharmacy, which insists on calling me every morning between 9-9:30AM wanting me to get up, find pen and paper and in the short time it takes for the robot to read the number, and write down their number and call them back, you know, exactly the way scammers trying to steal your social security or credit card numbers like to do. I haven't blocked them on the grounds that I haven't heard from lung ampule people for a while and it's just possible they subcontracted out. Medicare advantage does the same thing some times, you see. They like to wake me up once or twice a day with a rambling generic robot message that doesn't properly identify themselves and what they want in the thirty seconds before I hang up. Eventually they give up and have a live person call and properly identify themselves. So I tend not to block medical type things that behave like that on the off it actually is Medicare being too lazy to properly contact me. I hoping if that's what's going on here, do that before I have to start a game of phone tag with the wildly incompetent folks at lung medicine head office. which took most of a month last time my machine died.

* I voted Saturday. Yes, it's election season again. I know people have trouble caring about off year elections, but state and local elections have a massive effect on your quality of life. My ballot had a ton of initiatives and common sense tax stuff needing affirming. Turn out matters. My ballot had a ton of local and county offices that very much mattered for issues like affordable housing and environmental measures.

Don't sleep on this election. Republicans are pushing hard most places to take over state election positions with partisan extremists who want to end democracy. They are packing school boards with people who want to censor history and thing that you need to teach "The other side of the holocaust." Who your sheriff is can make the difference between mental health and drug diversion vs. Stop and frisk.

Don't sleep on this, I beg you. People sleeping on state level elections is why so many states are getting extreme racial gerrymandering next year.

* I am worried about Tavy. He slipped past Squirrel when he came home from work a few days ago, and I didn't notice until after lung time. Late Saturday, he got diarrhea. He slept most of Sunday and was still ill. He's drinking lots of water and is behaving normally while awake, but not eating much and is low energy for him. I'm worried he ate something he shouldn't while he was lose in the pre-dawn or caught a paracite from one of the complex dogs, since a lot of the owners are too lazy to toss their feces in the receptacle.

I'll see how how is tomorrow. I definitely can't afford the vet and squirrel is skint this month. *digits cruciform*

* "AI improves your Halloween costumes!:" https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/665293325032669184

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.5: Is There in Truth No Beauty?

They are escorting the Medusan ambassador to the Federation home. Humans can't talk to the Medusans face to face as sight of the Medusan driving them insane. Spock must wear a visors, though there is concern about his human half. The Medusan is traveling in a future tech cat carrier apparently with Larry and Miranda. The cat carrier opens. Spock flinches, but gazes on the entity for a while. He tells Miranda, the woman assisting the Ambassador that he envies her assignment. The Assistant tries to touch his mind. She seems to project her envy on Spock. Clue number one. Apparently he telepathy is why he studies on Vulcan. She wishes she could see the Medusan.

They have a dinner party where they discuss Vulcan telepathy and the need to block out other's thoughts. Miranda takes a badge he wore in honor of her as a taunt. Clue number 2. Bones argues that Vulcan is boring and that the Medusans must be evil because they are ugly. Spock keeps gently rebuking McCoy instead of slapping him. Spock is a better man than I. Kirk calls beauty the last prejudice, but then toasts Miranda's beauty. Bones is racist and paternalistic. Miranda rebukes him on the racism. Miranda says she senses someone thinking about murder, but can't say who. She rebuffs Bones' attempt to escort her to her room. Scotty invites the other guy that came with the Medusan to go drinking, but he too turns down the offer. Bones says she's 'disturbing' possibly because she doesn't want to fuck. *side eye*

Larry has a deep crush on Miranda and is losing his shit because she's going to live with the Medusa instead of having sex with him. He kisses her. she is not into it and tells him to leave. She now knows the murdery feelings and envy are from Larry. The Creep. He goes to murder the Medusa out of sexual jealousy, thus seeing the Medusa and going violently mad. He runs around attacking people. Miranda tells the feds about Larry.

Larry the Incel turns up at engineering. Scotty gives him the controls before the announcement of Larry's homicidal insanity comes over. He knocks out Scotty and starts driving the Enterprise dangerously fast. He sends them beyond the galaxy boundaries before they subdue him. He is raving about dreams. Only Miranda can calm him. He thinks about the Medusa, they calls her a liar and tries to kill her, but he dies instead. Everything just stopped.

So now they are lost in space. (Danger Will Robinson). It's a void. they can't recross the barrier in sub-light and the sensory distortion in warp makes navigating impossible. The only solution is a mindlink with the Medusan which Spock suspects Dr. Miranda Jones won't allow. Kirk volunteers to distract her with a date to the arboretum. *side eye* Kirk tries to talk her out of her asexuality. *side eye* She doesn't enjoy other people's violent emotions and finds the Medusans restful. Kirk keeps trying to seduce her anyway, insulting her Medusan friend. Asshole.

Miranda works out what Spock is planning and tries to take his place. he points out she doesn't know how to pilot the ship. Bones points out a blind person can't fly the ship. (He'd been keeping her blindness private because ethics, but he couldn't let her endanger the ship). Her dress contains a sensor web. Kirk works out she hides her blindness to avoid pity. She insists. Kirk says to ask the Medusan, who says no.

Spock mind melds with the Medusan and the two become one. The blend quotes Byron at Uhura and the Tempest at Miranda. They navigate back to entry point, at which point the Medusan waxes poetic about the wonder of being embodied but also the intense loneliness of it. Spock goes to put the entity back in the cat carrier, but forgets his visor. He goes berserk and Kirk has to stun him. Nimoy's performance in this scene is really beautiful, with all the switches back and forth in both personality and emotion.

Miranda is Spock's only hope, via Mind Meld. Kirk gets impatient and finds her in there without her net. Kirk thinks she should wake him with a kiss then accuses her of trying to kill Spock. She goes all the way down, risking them both. Spock recovers. Kirk gives Miranda a rose and she goes off to live with the aliens. She and Spock respect each other now.

The men (except Spock are just really gross in this one.

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/796848.html

* Even more Organizations working for reproductive rights in Texas: https://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/788132.html

* Want a say in Washington redistricting? "Draw Your WA | Washington State 2021 Redistricting Commission:" https://www.redistricting.wa.gov/

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* "New Zealand parliament drops tie requirement after Māori lawmaker ejected for refusing to wear one:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/asia/new-zealand-maori-necktie-intl-scli/index.html

* "Farmers across India have been protesting for months. Here's why:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/asia/india-farmers-protest-explainer-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

* "The ‘spiralling crisis’ pushing Hondurans to flee north:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/26/the-spiralling-crisis-pushing-hondurans-to-flee-north

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* "What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/magazine/covid-smell-science.html

* "New diabetes diagnoses are linked to COVID-19, researchers say:" https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2021/02/01/new-diabetes-diagnoses-are-linked-to-covid-19-researchers-say/

* "BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine should work against virus variants: Study:" https://www.politico.eu/article/biontech-pfizer-vaccine-should-work-against-virus-variants-study/

* "After Wuhan mission on pandemic origins, WHO team dismisses lab leak theory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-who-china-investigation-wuhan/2021/02/09/2af3c44c-6a79-11eb-a66e-e27046e9e898_story.html

* This is what I was suspecting since last March. "J&J CEO says people may need annual Covid vaccine shots for the next several years:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/covid-vaccine-jj-ceo-says-people-may-get-annual-shots-for-the-next-several-years.html

* "CDC: Double-masking helps reduce exposure to the coronavirus:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/10/cdc-coronavirus-double-masking-468319

* "C.D.C. Report: Gay and Bi People at Greater Risk for Severe COVID-19:" https://www.advocate.com/health/2021/2/10/cdc-report-gay-and-bi-people-greater-risk-severe-covid-19

* "Photos: Vaccine Centers in Cathedrals, Stadiums, and Parking Lots:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/02/photos-vaccine-centers-cathedrals-stadiums-and-parking-lots/617915/

* "BBC with Report on Europe's Roma during Covid-19 Pandemic from Bulgaria:" https://www.novinite.com/articles/207924/BBC+with+Report+on+Europe%27s+Roma+during+Covid-19+Pandemic+from+Bulgaria

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 2/9/21 are 27,161,000. The official death toll is 467,000. Vaccination rate: 10%.

* "Biden administration boosting vaccine supply to states, community health centers:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-boosting-vaccine-supply-states-community-health-centers-n1257154

* "Atul Gawande - America's Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout:" https://www.cc.com/video/ixwucf/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-atul-gawande-america-s-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout

* "Biden admin on track to meet goal of 100M coronavirus shots in first 100 days:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-admin-track-meet-goal-100m-coronavirus-shots-first-100-n1257284

* "Psaki defends Biden administration's school reopening goal as 'not the ceiling':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/politics/school-reopening-white-house-psaki/

* "Supreme Court says California worship restrictions violate religious rights:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-california-covid-restrictions/2021/02/06/68aea492-687f-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html

* "Rep. Ron Wright of Arlington dies after 18-day battle with COVID-19:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/02/08/rep-ron-wright-dies-after-battle-with-covid-19/

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* "U.S. Adds Sanctions Over Internment of Muslims in China:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/us/politics/sanctions-china-xinjiang-uighurs.html

* "Declaring Democracy Won’t Be Subverted, Biden Demands Russia and Myanmar Reverse Course:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/politics/biden-myanmar-russia.html

* "U.S. to reengage with U.N. Human Rights Council as ‘observer’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/08/us-un-human-rights-council-467138

* "Biden announces sanctions on Myanmar after coup:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/10/biden-myanmar-sanctions-468401

* "Report: TikTok sale pushed by Trump is shelved:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/report-tiktok-sale-pushed-trump-shelved-75807283

* "US deploying B-1 bombers to Norway to send a message to Russia:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/us-b-1-bombers-norway/index.html

* "DOJ asks Trump-appointed US attorneys to resign:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/politics/leftover-trump-us-attorneys/index.html

* As predicted and shown on a smaller scale repeatedly, Supply Side is completely debunked. "50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

* "Minimum wage increase could work under Biden’s stimulus, CBO report suggests:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/08/cbo-minimum-wage-increase-467281

* I wish they’d do an extra thousand for people with disabilities too, but otherwise, I’m for it. "Senior Democrats to unveil $3,000-per-child benefit as Biden stimulus gains steam:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/07/child-benefit-democrats-biden/

* "House Progressives make sure they're heard in negotiations on Covid relief package:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-progressives-make-sure-they-re-heard-in-negotiations-on-covid-relief-package-100727877679

* "'It will lift millions out of low wages, poverty': Rev. Barber makes the case for $15 minimum wage:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-it-will-lift-millions-out-of-low-wages-poverty-rev-barber-makes-the-case-for-15-minimum-wage-100720709687

**** Impeachment ****

* "Senate votes Trump trial is constitutional after emotional first day:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/house-managers-trump-impeachment-2021-467858

* "Trump lawyers rip impeachment case as Senate clinches trial pact:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/08/trumps-legal-team-says-impeachment-is-constitutionally-flawed-senate-cant-convict-467210

* "Hayes: Trump’s 2016 win, two impeachments center on his opposition to democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-trump-s-2016-win-both-impeachments-center-on-his-opposition-to-democracy-100719685655

* "144 Constitutional Lawyers Call Trump’s First Amendment Defense ‘Legally Frivolous’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/politics/trump-impeachment-defense.html

* "‘Legally frivolous:’ Famed free speech attorney Floyd Abrams on Trump defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-legally-frivolous-famed-free-speech-attorney-floyd-abrams-on-trump-defense-100721733595

* "Trump trial video shows vast scope, danger of Capitol riot:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-impeachment-trial-update-2-10-2021-4f49705a5f92bd4129941ec409642ecd

* "Impeachment managers unveil dramatic footage of Capitol attack:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/10/trump-impeachment-trial-day-2-468291

* "77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html

* "Legal scholar: Trump lawyers cherry-picked points from my writing:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/legal-scholar-trump-lawyers-cherry-picked-points-from-my-writing-100783685518

* "Harrowing new audio reveals panic as Trump mob overran Capitol police:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/harrowing-new-audio-reveals-panic-as-trump-mob-overran-capitol-police-100841029682

* "New permit evidence shows Trump White House role in sending mob to Capitol:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-permit-evidence-shows-trump-white-house-role-in-sending-mob-to-capitol-100841029677

* "Local Trump-inspired election violence now recognized as harbinger of Capitol riot:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/local-trump-inspired-election-violence-now-recognized-as-harbinger-of-capitol-riot-100840005746

* "Schiff: House managers anticipated Trump defense, showed this isn’t just one speech:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/schiff-house-managers-anticipated-trump-defense-showed-this-isn-t-just-one-speech-100836421531

* "Sen. Murphy: House managers laid out more than one impeachable offense from Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-murphy-house-managers-laid-out-more-than-one-impeachable-offense-from-trump-100834373734

* "After Flynn called for martial law, Trump wanted to put him in charge: NYTimes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/after-flynn-called-for-martial-law-trump-wanted-to-put-him-in-charge-nytimes-100728901536

* "Trump was quite displeased with his impeachment defense team:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/trump-impeachment-team-468112

* "One of Trump’s impeachment lawyers sued him last year — and accused him of making claims about fraud with ‘no evidence’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawyer-suit-fraud/2021/02/09/50f0769e-6ae3-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html

* "POLITICO Playbook: Trump is furious, and McConnell might vote to convict:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/02/10/trump-is-furious-and-mcconnell-might-vote-to-convict-491702?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318

* "Trump lawyer suggests arresting Trump instead of impeachment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-lawyer-suggests-arresting-trump-instead-of-impeachment-100781125961

* "Shambolic Trump impeachment defense loses another Republican in first vote:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shambolic-trump-impeachment-defense-loses-another-republican-in-first-vote-100784709990

* "Raskin recounts family's experience during the Capitol riot: 'They thought they were going to die':" https://www.nbcnews.com/video/rep-raskin-recounts-his-experiences-during-the-capitol-riot-at-senate-impeachment-trial-100761669753

* "Neal Katyal: Jamie Raskin gave ‘best oral argument I've ever heard’ in Trump impeachment trial:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/neal-katyal-jamie-raskin-gave-best-oral-argument-i-ve-ever-heard-in-trump-impeachment-trial-100776005595

* "Sen. Klobuchar: Facts were on ‘full, ugly, horrific display’ in impeachment video:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/amy-klobuchar-facts-were-on-full-ugly-horrific-display-in-impeachment-video-100778053880

* "Rep. Tlaib reacts to Trump lawyers using video of her calling for impeachment in 2019:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-tlaib-reacts-to-trump-lawyers-using-video-of-her-calling-for-impeachment-in-2019-100779077682

* "‘It was bad’: Sen. Coons calls Trump defense the ‘Four Seasons Landscaping of the legal profession’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-it-was-bad-sen-coons-calls-trump-defense-the-four-seasons-landscaping-of-the-legal-profession-100776517510

* "Joy on newly released insurrection footage: ‘My heart was pounding watching it’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-on-newly-released-insurrection-footage-my-heart-was-pounding-watching-it-100834885575

* Officer Goodman better get a damned promotion.

* "State Republican leader believes Capitol attack by Trump mob is a hoax:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/state-republican-leader-believes-capitol-attack-by-trump-mob-is-a-hoax-100786245568

**** End Impeachment ****

* "Trump plans a reemergence and some retribution after impeachment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/trump-impeachment-reputation-467825

* "Trump Shifted Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business After Losing The Election:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2021/02/05/trump-shifted-campaign-donor-money-into-his-private-business-after-losing-the-election/?sh=75c3f9b04418

* "Georgia Officials Review Trump Phone Call as Scrutiny Intensifies:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/politics/trump-georgia-election-investigation.html

* "Georgia prosecutor opens investigation into Trump’s call to ‘find’ ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/10/georgia-investigation-trump-ballots-468360

* "Trump election interference being investigated by Georgia officials:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-election-interference-being-investigated-by-georgia-officials-100727365902

* "Georgia opens investigation into Trump phone call seeking to overturn election results:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/georgia-opens-investigation-into-trump-phone-call-seeking-to-overturn-election-results-100718149788

* "Dominion & Smartmatic Sue Fox and Others for Billions:"

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* They wanted to jail election officials for following election law. "Arizona Senate fails in attempt to hold Maricopa County supervisors in contempt over election audit:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/02/08/arizona-senate-republicans-vote-contempt-maricopa-county-supervisors-election-audit/4435515001/

* "Arizona Republicans still waging Trump's war on democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arizona-republicans-still-waging-trump-s-war-on-democracy-100728901530

* "Feds charge over 200 in Capitol riot. We've learned a lot about why it happened.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-charge-over-200-capitol-riot-we-ve-learned-lot-n1256799

* "Manafort Can’t Be Prosecuted in New York After Trump Pardon, Court Rules:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/nyregion/manafort-vance-ny-indictment.html?referringSource=articleShare

* "Better policing begins with accountability and an end to qualified immunity:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2021/01/27/better-policing-begins-accountability-end-qualified-immunity-column/4251822001/

* "Asian Americans face rise in racist attacks amid pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/asian-americans-face-rise-in-racist-attacks-amid-pandemic-100720709765

* "'I am afraid to live here.' Thousands march in Poland against abortion curbs:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-abortion/i-am-afraid-to-live-here-thousands-march-in-poland-against-abortion-curbs-idUSKBN29Y2YV

* "Chipotle to Papa John's: 60 Corps That Improved LGBTQ Policies in 2020:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2021/1/29/chipotle-papa-johns-60-corps-improved-lgbtq-policies-2020

* "Alexus Braxton, Black trans woman and ‘beloved daughter’, found dead as transphobic violence spills into 2021:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/10/alexus-braxton-black-trans-woman-murdered-miami-florida/

* "Ryan J. Haddad Is Staging a Revolt Against Gay Ableism:" https://www.advocate.com/theater/2021/2/09/ryan-j-haddad-staging-revolt-against-gay-ableism

* "Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders:" https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uop-ftt012921.php

* "'Birthday Rule' Blindsides First-Time Parents With A Mammoth Medical Bill:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/27/961196647/birthday-rule-blindsides-first-time-parents-with-a-mammoth-medical-bill

* "Severe floods strike southwest France, Paris area on flood alert:" https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210208-severe-floods-strike-southwest-france-paris-area-on-flood-alert

* "Before Himalayan Flood, India Ignored Warnings of Development Risks:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/world/asia/india-flood-ignored-warnings.html

* "Three countries are due to reach Mars in the next two weeks:" https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/5/22266752/uae-china-nasa-mars-missions

* "The Curse of the Buried Treasure:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/the-curse-of-the-buried-treasure

* "9 Russian Adventurers Mysteriously Froze to Death. A New Theory Explains Why:" https://www.wired.com/story/dyatlov-pass-incident-slab-avalanche/

* "COVID-19 Fells Beloved LGBTQ+ Activist Carmen Vázquez:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/1/29/covid-19-fells-beloved-lgbtq-activist-carmen-vazquez

* "San Diego man's wallet lost in Antarctica turns up 53 years later:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/06/wallet-lost-in-antarctica-turns-up-in-california-53-years-later

* "In the Ozarks, the Pandemic Threatens a Fragile Musical Tradition:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/ozarks-mcclurg-jam.html

* "You Can Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Troop Of Girls In NYC Shelter System:" https://www.scarymommy.com/troop-6000-girl-scouts-nyc-shelters/

* "The Absurd Story Of How Some Genius Crashed Into The Same Home Three Times With Two Different Cars:" https://jalopnik.com/the-absurd-story-of-how-some-genius-crashed-into-the-sa-1842887511

* "Trump's Second Impeachment Trial Begins:" https://www.cc.com/video/yqjptf/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-s-second-impeachment-trial-begins

* "Woman Uses Gorilla Glue as Hair Spray:" https://www.cc.com/video/ofu6xx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-woman-uses-gorilla-glue-as-hair-spray

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - India's Farmer Protest:" https://www.cc.com/video/ql740u/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-india-s-farmer-protest

* "NBA Team Stops Playing National Anthem:" https://www.cc.com/video/v7bvyx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-nba-team-stops-playing-national-anthem

* "The Magical, Wonderful Road to Impeachment - Trump's Lawyers:" https://www.cc.com/video/ub27qw/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-magical-wonderful-road-to-impeachment-trump-s-lawyers

* "A Hacker Nearly Poisons Florida Water & New Zealand Tie Tiff :" https://www.cc.com/video/ca308n/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-a-hacker-nearly-poisons-florida-water-new-zealand-tie-tiff

* Tuesday: I did end up getting about three hours of sleep before the Millenials dropped off this week's perishables. I put them away, did physio, sorted laundry and pre-washed the few dishes I left to soak last night and started the dishwasher before the social services interview. Which went well, I think. Las time we did this a few years ago, we were just above the line, but it sounds like we are probably just below it this time. I need some extra documents from Squirrel,but heating assistance would really help. I then gnawed through a ton of paper and phone bureaucracy. The library reopened today, so I made an appointment for Friday curbside and took back the massive back up of returns.

It was a little chilly, but my shirt was long sleeved so I didn't bother with a coat. I found a bunch of new bureaucracy in the mail box when I got home, so I did that while food cooked. A I ate, Tavy and I watched snow flurries outside. I grew up in snow country, so I didn't expect them to stick. By the time Livia finished her nap the sun was out full force. I'm sad she missed it.

I am still having a massive amount of trouble with my body, but the temp lung meds did turn up yesterday evening and I am finally taking all the temp meds at the same time as I was meant to. I do think there is mild lung improvement already, but we'll see. (We think the current issue is inflammation again from the recent long infection, plus stuff to do with my current serious stomach issues. the idea is to tackle both at once and see if it helps. The new physio regime remains brutal chronic pain wise, though I think it's not chewing up my shoulder like last time we stepped me up. This is sort of a half step up, so not as rough as the one that damaged me so badly late October early Novemberish. Anyway, we'll see if my body can adjust.)

It's a lot to deal with at once. I do still have one more phone bureaucracy I should do, but I'm bureaucracied out, to be honest. This was A LOT of adulting.

* "The Midnight Society and Writing Advice:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1356325605504020481

* *Chef’s Kiss* "Joss Whedon at The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1359704780612923392

* "Angela Carter vs Joss Whedon at The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1357012555097538564

* "The Midnight Society and Stephen King:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1355629600957558788

* "Alexandra Rowland Visits The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1356743758188961795

* "An Intervention at The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1357445459946610689

* "Virginia Clemm Visits The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1357793525383847936

* "Thomas Disch at the The Midnight Society:" https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1359611824983797760

*****
* 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.

* "You Can Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Troop Of Girls In NYC Shelter System:" https://www.scarymommy.com/troop-6000-girl-scouts-nyc-shelters/

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* "Five policemen arrested over India custody deaths:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53260209

* "Singapore votes against backdrop of pandemic:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53358650

* "Philippines top broadcaster refused renewal license:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53360925

* "Safronov’s Arrest Is a New Low for Freedom of Speech in Russia:" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/08/safronovs-arrest-is-a-new-low-for-freedom-of-speech-in-russia-a70820

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* "Tearful WHO director calls for global unity to fight the virus following U.S. pullout:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/07/09/tearful-who-director-calls-global-unity-fight-virus-following-us-pullout/

* "Serbia Protests Meet Violent Response in Europe’s 1st Major Virus Unrest:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/world/europe/serbia-protests-coronavirus.html

"“We don’t mind staying home for another three days — that wasn’t the problem,” said Dragana Grncarski, 45, a fashion events manager who protested on both days. However, they’re playing with our minds and with the truth,” Ms. Grncarski added. “When it suits them to do elections, there is no corona. They organized football matches and tennis matches, and because of that we have a situation where the hospitals are full.”

* "Serbia scraps virus curfew plan after protests:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53353854

* "With nearly 300,000 COVID-19 cases, Chile overtakes Spain as 6th worst-hit country in the world:" https://santiagotimes.cl/2020/07/06/with-nearly-300000-covid-19-cases-chile-overtakes-spain-as-6th-worst-hit-country-in-the-world/

* "Bolivian president has COVID-19 as virus hits region's elite:" https://apnews.com/5f8260ba049a79f45fd96568370d3f3d

* "Venezuela socialist party boss announces he has COVID-19:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/venezuela-socialist-party-boss-announces-covid-19-71702747

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro Faces Suit For Unmasking As He Announced Coronavirus Diagnosis:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/889268503/brazils-bolsonaro-sued-for-unmasking-as-he-announced-positive-test-for-covid-19

* "Fighting on Yemen's Covid front line:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-53342668/coronavirus-the-doctors-on-yemen-s-front-line

* "U.S. coronavirus cases pass 3 million:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/us-coronavirus-cases-pass-3-million-352578

* "More than a fifth of Americans live in counties with new highs in coronavirus cases:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/08/more-than-fifth-americans-live-counties-with-new-highs-coronavirus-cases/

* "As coronavirus hospitalizations climb, Trump sidelines health advisers:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/09/coronavirus-live-updates-us/

* "A Spike in People Dying at Home Suggests Coronavirus Deaths in Houston May Be Higher Than Reported:" https://www.propublica.org/article/a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-in-houston-may-be-higher-than-reported

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* "Why Trump's trade war failed:" https://theweek.com/articles/923813/why-trumps-trade-war-failed

* "Coronavirus follows Trump on tour; Next stop: New Hampshire:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/coronavirus-follows-trump-on-tour-next-stop-new-hampshire-87355973678

* "Jacksonville attorneys file lawsuit to block city from hosting Republican National Convention amid pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/florida-lawyers-sue-republican-convention/index.html

* "Supreme Court splits on Trump tax cases, potentially shielding returns until after election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns-financial-records-353428

* "SCOTUS rejects presidential immunity; renders Trump regular:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scotus-rejects-presidential-immunity-renders-trump-regular-87354437977

* "Michael Cohen taken into custody for violating terms of his early release from prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/michael-cohen-in-custody/index.html

* "Trump scandals pass by, lose spotlight to new Trump scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-scandals-pass-by-lose-spotlight-to-new-trump-scandals-87355973702

* "Berman tells House panel that Barr's plans to replace him were 'unprecedented, unnecessary and unexplained':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/geoffrey-berman-house-testimony/index.html

* "Vindman to retire from military. His lawyer blames White House 'campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/vindman-retiring-alleged-white-house-retaliation/index.html

* "Chief Justice John Roberts was briefly hospitalized in June after a fall:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/john-roberts-hospitalized-after-fall-in-june/index.html

* "Unemployment claims are falling. But 1.3 million still applied for assistance last week:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/economy/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus/index.html

* "Televangelists, megachurches tied to Trump approved for millions in pandemic aid:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ppp-religious-idUSKBN2480CB

* "Sanders-Biden climate task force calls for carbon-free power by 2035:" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/506432-sanders-biden-climate-task-force-calls-for-carbon-free-electricity

* "Bernie: Joint task force policies will make Biden ‘most progressive president since FDR’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-joint-task-force-policies-will-make-biden-most-progressive-president-since-fdr-87244357520

* "GOP election lawyer explains how Trump’s war on mail-in voting could backfire:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-election-lawyer-explains-how-trump-s-war-on-mail-in-voting-could-backfire-87245893552

* "Trump threatens to cut federal funds from schools that don't reopen:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-schools-reopening-federal-funding-352311

* "Trump disavows his own administration’s guidance for reopening schools:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/trump-white-house-reopening-schools-352236

* "Hayes on Trump push to reopen schools: The last person we should trust with safety of kids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-trump-push-to-reopen-schools-the-last-person-we-should-trust-with-safety-of-kids-87243333568

* "States sue U.S. Department of Education over diverted virus relief funds for schools:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/states-sue-u-s-department-over-virus-relief-funds-for-schools

* "CDC director says no revised school guidelines despite Trump's push:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/cdc-guidelines-school-reopenings/index.html

* "Harvard, MIT file suit over Trump administration visa rule for international students:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/harvard-mit-visa-rule-international-students-352448

* "One million foreign students risk being frozen out of US colleges. Some might never come back:" https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/americas/international-student-visa-united-states-intl-hnk/index.html

* He also may be a pedophile. "Police officer charged with being a member of banned homophobic, racist, neo-Nazi terrorist organisation:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/met-metropolitan-police-officer-national-action-terrorist-nazi-group-charged-benjamin-hannam/

* Can we make this universal? "New law inspired by gay man’s ordeal will make fake, racist 911 calls a criminal offence. It’s called the CAREN Act:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/karen-caren-act-san-francisco-fake-racist-911-calls-lisa-alexander/

* "Man making racist comments caught on video identified as tech CEO Michael Lofthouse:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/07/07/tech-ceo-michael-lofthouse-video-racist-comments/5394122002/

* "Experts see no proof of child-abuse surge amid pandemic:" https://apnews.com/d7db9e073beb507bda0207408376cb87

* "Supreme Court upholds Trump's rollback of birth control coverage mandate:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/08/supreme-court-upholds-trumps-limits-on-birth-control-coverage-352385

* "Forced conversion therapy should be considered a form of torture, says UN violence expert:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/08/un-conversion-therapy-torture-ban-lgbt-rights-gay-trans-victor-madrigal-borloz/

* "Christian group kicked out of leafy south England village after trying to recruit Pride goers into hateful conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/bethel-christian-assembly-conversion-therapy-shalford-village-pride-in-surrey/

* "Police chief gives speech about respecting young people. Days later, his officer is filmed calling a gang 'little f****ts':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/jersey-police-investigation-homophobia-coronavirus-channel-islands-robin-smith/

* "Same-sex marriages are being 'blocked' in Northern Ireland. These trailblazing lesbians say the government is to blame:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/northern-ireland-secretary-brandon-lewis-same-sex-marriage-robyn-sharni-edwards-peoples/

* "Majority of women support trans people's right to self-identify despite relentless transphobia, eye-opening polling finds:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/trans-self-identify-liz-truss-gender-recognition-act-yougov-polling-women-dawn-butler/

* "Community rallies behind the last Black-owned queer bar in New York after threats from homophobes and a global pandemic:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/alibi-lounge-crowdfunder-coronavirus-pandemic-pride-gofundme-alexi-minko-black/

* "Politician sent threatening letter filled with homophobic, racist and misogynistic slurs admits he wrote it himself:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/09/jonathan-lopez-politician-received-racist-homophobic-letter-admits-he-actually-sent-it-to-himself-oregon/

* "Non-binary people gain legal recognition and birth certificate rights in historic Oregon ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/10/oregon-non-binary-legal-recognition-birth-certificate-jones-hollister-gender/

* "Holding Hands Is an Act of Resistance for Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/7/08/holding-hands-act-resistance-same-sex-couples

* "70 Nations Sound Alarm: We're Running Out of HIV Meds:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2020/7/08/70-nations-sound-alarm-were-running-out-hiv-meds

* "History made as first person ever is 'cured' of HIV using medication alone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/07/hiv-cure-cancer-aidsmap-aids-conference-nicotinamide-matthew-hodson-coronavirus/

“We need to know whether this finding will be replicated in other people, especially as it was not replicated in four other people on the trial."

* TW: Genocide. "History's Most Dangerous Toddler:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/simon-of-trent-historys-most-dangerous-toddler

* "Jolene (Bardcore | Medieval Style):"

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* "Alone Together Episode 1 - Alexander Siddig & Andrew Robinson:"

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* Little Miss Update: She's compensating really well for the mild issues with her right side. she has lots of comfy nap spots and the humans are giving her attention on demand. I'm noticed Tavy's been really good to both girls and taking out his boredom and the tress of being good in other ways. I can live with being occasionally bitten and doing extra laundry, so it is very worth it.

Neither Tavy nor Livia is sitting vigil, but they are starting to treat her the way LM treated hector his last year when he was failing. My feeling is they know she's not well, but they don't think death is immanent.

She is spending the evening with Squirrel, but she's very herself when I've seen her out and about. Her quality of life is still good; it's just once strokes start, it's best to prepare oneself, because it can be really sudden.

* During the Larry Kramer memorial stuff, people made mention of the homoerotic wrestling scene in Women in Love. You'd think I'd have seen it, given my admiration for Glenda Jackson, but I hadn't. It came out the year I was born and for obvious reasons wasn't on TV for me to see growing up. I want to be clear, I have never read Lawrence in a formal educational setting, and I've not read the scholarship either, so this is just my opinion with no clue where the discourse is, academic or other wise.

At my first college, I had a friend who read that set of novels and was utterly enamored of them, Women in love in particular. I tried. I really did, but I gave up around the drownings. The world is full of books; this one wasn't assigned, and when I read on my own time I pick things that don't simultaneously bore me and make me want to smack the characters and/or the author. My friend was a delight, but I couldn't with D.H Lawrence any of the times I attempted to read him.

I thought: I should see this movie. I could at least see what the rest of it was like without torturing myself with the novel. I've seen the movie referenced a lot over the years in assorted contexts. It has cinema and queer history cred. Two birds with one stone, right?

It was 1969, so there were strict limits on what they could get away with, and this thing really was riding the leading edge in a bunch of ways even though the more clear queer content turned out to be not good. (Creepy guy who was really assholish and pretentious and boorish with boy toy). Trust me main character nude wrestling in place of mlm sex with the men talking about love and being eternally bound to each other as they lay all sweaty in the aftermath? Seriously, this is as good as it gets for bisexual coded characters in film at this point in history. I think they may only have gotten away with it because of the kind of masculinity Oliver Reed projected, much the way only someone like warren Beatty could have played a male asexual at that point (Bonnie and Clyde 1967). So props for that in a late sixties movie based on a novel from 1920.

It is beautifully shot. It is so dull for long stretches I wanted to give up. It was a good adaptation of what I remember about the parts I got through when I was... I'm guessing 19? I say that because it annoyed me in exactly the ways I remember being annoyed. At this distance I can see exactly why that particular friend was obsessed with them at that point in his intellectual development. I couldn't articulate my issues with the book at that point, and wouldn't have because pissing on something that mattered to him in the particular way it did would have been dickish.

I've spent the three or so days it took me to drag myself;f through the movie in bites small enough to not throw things at the screen to figure out wording that would explain why it got my back up so much both then as a book and now as a movie. The men are infuriating in a way I was already far too familiar with at that age. Rupert thinks he's being modern and edgey, but he's just a boorish asshole who loves to hear himself philosophize. We've all met this guy, at parties and coffee shops and classrooms. He like to shock with his ideas and his theories. he loves the sound of his own voice. He thinks if he can persuade you to believe exactly what he does it will fix your life. Fuck that! Gerald is a crude and violent boor with no empathy. They just... Gah! Accurate, right? I'm not arguing with the art of it, I just wouldn't enjoy spending even a moment with any of the men in this book in real life, and I really didn't enjoy them in the movie any better despite the quality of the main cast acting.

Then there's the women. I remember how they were in the book because I'd seen in elsewhere in a lot of 20th century writing by men, although D. H. Lawrence must have been an early adopter. He writes his women exactly like a man who has a Theory about What Women are Like. Ugh. I have since studied history of feminism in enough depth to know how this particular view of women fits into various late Victorian/Edwardianish era debates. I also have the hindsight of knowing where that strand of thought was going to lead in the course of the 20th century. His women aren't real people; his women are expressions of an idea he has about women. I couldn't articulate my objection at 19 or 20, but I was instinctively grumpy about it.

So much of the characterization of the women was... not in the dialog, so I was trying to work out how they were going to manage it on screen. They clearly tried. The writer tried. The director tried. Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden tried. Really they did. They all tried so terribly hard, but often I was looking at cyphers, who would suddenly act or express opinions out of the blue.

So I really, really didn't like it. I can see why he was taken with it and why it's meant to be a classic, but I hate it even more than Catcher in the Rye, which I wouldn't have guessed was possible. (Yes, I know why catcher in the Rye is considered a classic and I've had explained to me what the author was clearly trying to do. They made me reread it for one of my re-certification continuing ed things and having the prof explain context and subtext in it did help, but there are books doing similar work with trauma that do not make me want to curse and throw the book across the room). I'm not sorry I watched the movie once, because it really did clarify why I reacted to the book like a cat reacts to water, I just never want to have to touch another Lawrence anything again.

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

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

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

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* "France's president says US and China back a world truce -- and he thinks Putin will 'definitely agree':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/world/macron-world-truce-putin-intl/index.html

* "South Korea's ruling party wins election landslide amid coronavirus outbreak:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/16/south-koreas-ruling-party-wins-election-landslide-amid-coronavirus-outbreak

* I'm sectioning off epidemic specific stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff. I'm putting secondary effects things in their usual slots.

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* "Some doctors moving away from ventilators for virus patients:" https://apnews.com/8ccd325c2be9bf454c2128dcb7bd616d

* "Dr. Jon LaPook Answers Your Questions About Covid-19:"

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* "South Korea Just Showed The World How To Hold An Election During The Coronavirus Pandemic:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matthewchampion/coronavirus-south-korea-election-national-assembly

* "India Extends 'Total' Lockdown By Nearly 3 Weeks:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/14/833879207/india-extends-total-lockdown-by-nearly-three-weeks

* "'We're afraid of the virus but we can't do anything':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-52234123/coronavirus-virus-deepens-struggle-for-migrants

* "Kids aren't coronavirus 'guinea pigs': Danish mums rebel as schools reopen:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark/kids-arent-coronavirus-guinea-pigs-danish-mums-rebel-as-schools-reopen-idUSKCN21X1PM

* "The Kenyan factory that transformed into a surgical mask assembly line overnight:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/the-kenyan-factory-that-transformed-into-a-surgical-mask-assembly-line-overnight/2020/04/08/fac04912-783e-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html

* "Iceland has tested more of its population for coronavirus than anywhere else. Here's what it learned:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/10/coronavirus-covid-19-small-nations-iceland-big-data/2959797001/

* "Ghosts' try to spook people off streets during coronavirus in Indonesia:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/asia/indonesia-ghost-volunteers-pocong-intl/index.html

* "Refugees in German centre fear lack of protection as Covid-19 cases soar:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/refugees-in-german-centre-fear-lack-of-protection-as-covid-19-cases-soar#maincontent

* "Counting Bodies and Pointing Fingers as Spain Tallies Coronavirus Dead:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/europe/coronoavirus-spain-death-toll.html

* "Brazil: Bolsonaro's defiance of distancing criticized by health minister:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/brazil-bolsonaro-coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing

* "Coronavirus takes a serious turn in Russia, and Putin no longer radiates confidence:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/europe/russia-coronavirus-putin-response-intl/index.html

* "China’s Export Restrictions Strand Medical Goods U.S. Needs to Fight Coronavirus, State Department Says:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-export-restrictions-strand-medical-goods-u-s-needs-to-fight-coronavirus-state-department-says-11587031203

* "Covid-19 is rapidly becoming America’s leading cause of death:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/16/coronavirus-leading-cause-death/?arc404=true

* "Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/coronavirus-testing-delays-186883

* "US may have to endure social distancing until 2022 if no vaccine is quickly found, scientists predict:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/health/social-distancing-research-coronavirus-2022-trnd/index.html

* "The 4 plans to end social distancing, explained:" https://www.vox.com/2020/4/14/21218074/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-end-reopen-economy

* "Trump told testing is key to reopening during business panel call:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/trump-business-council-calls/index.html

* "U.S. not remotely ready to re-open, according to WHO criteria:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-not-remotely-ready-to-re-open-according-to-who-criteria-82055237682

* "Chris Hayes: Trump admin. is remaking all the same mistakes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-trump-admin-is-remaking-all-the-same-mistakes-82051653583

* "‘He doesn’t care about you:’ Sen. Schatz says Trump is causing mass preventable deaths:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-he-doesn-t-care-about-you-sen-schatz-says-trump-is-causing-mass-preventable-deaths-82098245867

* "Widespread testing a barrier for reopening country as White House seeks plan:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/widespread-testing-barrier-reopening-country-white-house-seeks-plan-n1185516

* "‘You go first’: Conservative challenges Trump’s rich pals whining about workers not returning to work over virus fears:" https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/you-go-first-conservative-challenges-trumps-rich-pals-whining-about-workers-not-returning-to-work-over-virus-fears/

* "Harvard virus expert: Lack of nasal swabs is one reason economy is shut down:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/harvard-virus-expert-lack-of-nasal-swabs-is-one-reason-economy-is-shut-down-82182725777

* "Our Pandemic Summer:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/

* "Trump says ‘germ is so brilliant antibiotics can’t keep up with it’ in chaotic White House coronavirus meeting:" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antibiotics-coronavirus-white-house-briefing-brilliant-enemy-genius-idiot-a9460636.html

* "Aircraft Carrier Crews Launch Mask-Making Drive:" https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/aircraft-carrier-crews-launch-mask-making-drive

* "As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-us-discouraged-mask-use-for-public-white-house-team-raced-to-secure-face-coverings-from-taiwan-for-senior-staff/2020/04/15/27d815d2-7ac5-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html

* "Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/trump-coronavirus-meltdown-media-authority

* "Reporter grills Trump: What did you do for entire month?:" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/04/13/paula-reid-trump-coronavirus-tsr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/

* "Anti-malarial drug touted by Trump was subject of CIA warning to employees:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-cia/2020/04/13/54129d64-7dba-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

* Meanwhile on Autocracy Watch.... "Trump says his ‘authority is total.’ Constitutional experts have ‘no idea’ where he got that.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/14/trump-power-constitution-coronavirus/

* How is this his decision? "Trump says he will be "authorizing" governors to reopen states:" https://www.axios.com/trump-says-he-will-be-authorizing-governors-to-reopen-states-48763d92-537a-4cef-b241-6f5124be8ea3.html

* "Trump tells govs 'you are going to call your own shots' and distributes new guidelines:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/donald-trump-reopening-guidelines-coronavirus/index.html

* "Cuomo says he's not looking for a fight with Trump:" https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/04/14/cuomo-says-hes-not-looking-for-a-fight-with-trump-1275752

* "New York forms team to develop 'Trump-proof' economic reopening plan:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-governors-excl-idUSKCN21Y01V

* "7 Midwestern governors announce their states will coordinate on reopening:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/midwest-governors-reopening-pact/index.html

* "Veterans Affairs Hospitals Will Give Masks Only to Some Employees, Memos Show:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/veterans-affairs-hospitals-will-give-masks-only-to-some-employees-memos-show-11586628576

* "VA assurances on COVID contradicted by internal memos and alarming stats:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/va-assurances-on-covid-contradicted-by-internal-memos-and-alarming-stats-82055237796

* "Lack of leadership by Wilkie cited in VA shortcomings on COVID-19:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lack-of-leadership-by-wilkie-cited-in-va-shortcomings-on-covid-19-82055749660

* "New York City posts sharp spike in coronavirus deaths after untested victims added:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKCN21W20G

* "Columbus Junction pork processing plant hit hard by coronavirus with 186 positive cases:" https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/04/14/testing-rural-iowa-covid-19-coronavirus-tyson-food-pork-processing/2989203001/

* "Half Of Virginia's Coronavirus Outbreaks Are In Long-Term Care Facilities:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/14/834453156/half-of-virginias-coronavirus-outbreaks-are-in-long-term-care-facilities

* "Louisiana responds to coronavirus with rare bipartisanship:" https://apnews.com/a1d9cc0990e00df1b4bf219f8d057708

* "Pa. Health Dept. Announces 1,146 New Cases Of Coronavirus And 60 New Coronavirus-Related Deaths:" https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/04/14/pennsylvania-health-department-coronavirus-cases-total/

* "After Anonymous Tip, 17 Bodies Found at Nursing Home Hit by Virus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/nyregion/coronavirus-nj-andover-nursing-home-deaths.html

* "COVID-19 outbreaks in upper Midwest show virus is not just a New York problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-19-outbreaks-in-upper-midwest-show-virus-is-not-just-a-new-york-problem-82056261754

* "Nursing home deaths should be obvious target of COVID-19 response:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nursing-home-deaths-should-be-obvious-target-of-covid-19-response-82189381550

* "Long-term care facilities an unsung front line in COVID-19 fight:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/long-term-care-facilities-an-unsung-front-line-in-covid-19-fight-82189381547

* "Beaver County Ice Rink Refrozen For Contingency Morgue But Officials Say That Would Be 'Worst-Case Scenario':" https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/04/16/bradys-run-park-ice-arena-refrozen-coronavirus-bodies/

* "67 COVID-19 cases reported in Wayne County; 66 at nursing home:" https://www.wsaz.com/content/news/67-COVID-19-cases-reported-in-Wayne-County-569614411.html

* "Pennsylvania has 27,735 confirmed coronavirus cases:" https://www.wtae.com/article/coronavirus-cases-in-pennsylvania/31291493

* " Officials calling Spokane Veterans Home largest cluster of COVID-19 cases in one facility:" https://www.khq.com/coronavirus/officials-calling-spokane-veterans-home-largest-cluster-of-covid-19-cases-in-one-facility/article_a04372c6-7dd8-11ea-830b-8fb334613520.html

* "Coronavirus ravages storied New Orleans Mardi Gras group:" https://apnews.com/f13db59a8231b9dc34e685c56202de34

* "Louisiana See Sharpest One-Day Increase in Coronavirus Deaths as Toll Passes 1,000:" https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-04-14/louisiana-see-sharpest-one-day-increase-in-coronavirus-deaths-as-toll-passes-1-000

* "How One City Mayor Forced A Pork Giant To Close Its Virus-Stricken Plant:" https://www.npr.org/2020/04/14/834470141/how-one-city-mayor-forced-a-pork-giant-to-close-its-virus-stricken-plant

* "Inside Sinai-Grace ‘war zone’: ‘We started to run out of body bags’:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/04/09/inside-detroit-hospital-sinai-grace-war-zone/5122651002/

* "40 dead in coronavirus outbreak at Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center:" https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/40-dead-in-coronavirus-outbreak-at-canterbury-rehabilitation-healthcare-center/

* "Florida saw a pandemic coming and prepared. Then state leaders started to cut.:" https://www.tampabay.com/investigations/2020/04/04/florida-saw-a-pandemic-coming-and-prepared-then-state-leaders-started-to-cut/

* "How New York City’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the…:" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-new-york-city-emergency-ventilator-stockpile-ended-up-on-the-auction-block#182218

* "NYC Hospital Finds High COVID-19 Infection Rate, but Few Symptoms, in Pregnant Women:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-hospital-finds-high-covid-19-infection-rate-but-few-symptoms-in-pregnant-women/2372863/

* Lori Lightfoot - Taking on the Coronavirus in Chicago and Spreading Hope Through Humor":"

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* "US doctors go online to reveal 'bold, loud' coronavirus truths:" https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/doctors-online-reveal-bold-loud-coronavirus-truths-200401130420720.html

* "Trumpists Urging People to Leave Their Homes to Own the Libs:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-loyalists-and-allies-urge-defiance-of-coronavirus-safety-measures

* "Matt Bevin supporter spearheads COVID-19 protests against Gov. Andy Beshear:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/15/kentucky-coronavirus-bevin-supporter-leads-protests-against-beshear/5141931002/

"Asked about concerns that people at Wednesday's protest may have COVID-19 and spread it to others, Calihan said: "I don’t know. I can’t control what diseases people have and don’t have."

* "Michigan protesters turn out against Whitmer’s strict stay-at-home order:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/michigan-protest-whitmer-coronavirus-188579

* "Concerns of COVID-19 resurgence exacerbated by pro-Trump political rally:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/concerns-of-covid-19-resurgence-exacerbated-by-pro-trump-political-rally-82188357922

* "Whitmer too focused on coronavirus crisis to consider VP hypothetical:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/whitmer-too-focused-on-coronavirus-crisis-to-consider-vp-hypothetical-82189893564

* "During Easter, Some Religious Leaders Display Ungodliness:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/11/during-easter-some-religious-leaders-display-ungodliness

* "Ivanka Trump, Disregarding Federal Guidelines, Travels to N.J. for Passover:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/politics/coronavirus-ivanka-trump.html

* "WWE’s Reckless Approach to Covid-19:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wwe-mcmahon-florida-coronavirus/

* "‘Rancid case of quid pro quo:’ Florida governor under fire for declaring WWE ‘essential’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-rancid-case-of-quid-pro-quo-florida-governor-under-fire-for-declaring-wwe-essential-82101829539

* "Religious hate groups say the real ‘silent but deadly disease’ is the increase in people watching porn. Seriously:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/porn-anti-lgbt-religious-hate-group-family-reserch-council-disease-coronavirus-pandemic/

* O.o "David Hockney ‘seriously’ thinks smokers are immune to coronavirus, despite overwhelming evidence otherwise:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/david-hockney-smoking-cigarettes-coronavirus-pandemic-health-matt-hancock/

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* "Trump halts funding to World Health Organization:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/14/trump-world-health-organization-funding-186786

* "Trump halt to WHO funding violates same law as Ukraine aid freeze, House Democrats say:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/house-democrats-trump-who-funding-188124

* "Trump’s WHO cutoff sends officials, allies scrambling:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/world-health-organization-trump-funding-cuts-187615

* "Bill Gates, in rebuke of Trump, calls WHO funding cut during pandemic ‘as dangerous as it sounds’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/15/who-bill-gates-coronavirus-trump/

* "Trump Administration Officials Warned Against Halting Funding to WHO,…:" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-officials-warned-against-halting-funding-to-who-leaked-memo-shows

* "Fmr. Sec. of State Madeleine Albright on Trump threatening to defund WHO:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-sec-of-state-madeleine-albright-on-trump-threatening-to-defund-who-82182725882

* "WHO says it regrets Trump's decision to halt funding, but remains focused on coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/who-responds-trump-stop-funding/index.html

* "Trump Wanted a Radio Show, but He Didn’t Want to Compete With Limbaugh:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/trump-radio-show-rush-limbaugh.html

* "Navy Not Ruling Out Reinstating USS Roosevelt Skipper Who Complained About Coronavirus:" https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/836518097/navy-not-ruling-out-reinstating-uss-roosevelt-skipper-who-complained-about-coron

* "New York Times: Trump administration expected to roll back regulations on mercury and air pollutants:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/politics/epa-mercury-and-coal-roll-back

* "Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to get his nominees but likely would be impeded by Senate rules:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-threatens-to-adjourn-congress-to-get-his-nominees-through/2020/04/15/e3bfc4c6-7f6a-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html

* He somehow keeps finding worse people. "White House snubs Azar, installs Trump loyalist Michael Caputo as HHS spokesperson:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/michael-caputo-azar-hhs-189046

* "Stimulus Oversight Panel Has One Person Trying to Watch $2.2 Trillion Alone:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-14/virus-fund-cop-awaiting-help-watches-2-trillion-bailout-alone

* "Small-business program intended for quick grants is running weeks behind:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/15/another-sba-program-is-severely-backlogged-running-low-funds/

* They are delaying checks for the most needy because of 45′s vanity. "Trump's name will be added to stimulus checks:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/trump-name-checks-coronavirus/index.html

* "Tax change in coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires, congressional body finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/14/coronavirus-law-congress-tax-change/

* "LGBTQ Centers Band Together, Urge Congress For More Financial Support:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/4/15/lgbtq-centers-ban-together-urge-congress-more-financial-support

* "U.S. Food Supply Chain Is Strained as Virus Spreads:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/coronavirus-food-supply.html

* "Trump says negotiations underway to revive small business loan program, as firms impacted by virus grasp for new loans:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/04/16/congress-coronavirus-small-business-trump/

* I’m guessing this is why mine hasn’t deposited. "Glitches prevent $1,200 stimulus checks from reaching millions of Americans:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/16/coronavirus-cares-stimulus-check/

* "10 Years Of Spectacular U.S. Job Growth Nearly Wiped Out In 4 Weeks:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/16/835135924/10-years-of-spectacular-u-s-job-growth-nearly-wiped-out-in-4-weeks

* "Barack Obama Endorses Joe Biden for President:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/obama-endorses-biden.html

* "Elizabeth Warren Endorses Biden: 'When You Disagree, He'll Listen':" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/4/15/elizabeth-warren-endorses-biden-when-you-disagree-hell-listen

* "Warren would say yes if asked to be Biden's running mate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/warren-would-say-yes-if-asked-to-be-biden-s-running-mate-82102341524

* "Out Sen. Tammy Baldwin Endorses Biden: He'll 'Fight for the People':" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/4/15/out-sen-tammy-baldwin-endorses-biden-hell-fight-people

* "Why Dems won in Wisconsin despite GOP attempt to use pandemic to its advantage:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-dems-won-in-wisconsin-despite-gop-attempt-to-use-pandemic-to-its-advantage-82050629884

* "Speaker Pelosi on House meeting amid pandemic: ‘Not as easy as you would think’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/speaker-pelosi-on-house-meeting-amid-pandemic-not-as-easy-as-you-would-think-82050629845

* "Disgraced ex-congressman Aaron Schock appears to be quarantining in Mexico with a squad of shirtless men:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/aaron-schock-mexico-quarantine-photos/

* "College Made Them Feel Equal. The Virus Exposed How Unequal Their Lives Are.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/politics/coronavirus-zoom-college-classes.html

* "In the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, a virus hits home: 'Hunger is rampant':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/in-the-poorest-county-in-americas-poorest-state-a-virus-hits-home-hunger-is-rampant

* "This is how toxic masculinity is putting boys and men in danger during the coronavirus pandemic:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/16/coronavirus-covid-19-boys-men-toxic-masculinity-risky-behaviour-tes/

* "This guy thought the coronavirus crisis was the perfect time to be homophobic in a Morrisons supermarket:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/16/morrisons-supermarket-homophobic-hate-crime-north-yorkshire-police-coronavirus-frontline-workers/

* "Being attracted to chandeliers is not a protected sexual orientation, according to a landmark ruling:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/protected-sexual-orientation-objects-chandeliers-press-regulator-ipso-amanda-liberty-leeds/

* "Poland Considers Law Labeling Sex Educators, LGBTQ Folks as Pedophiles:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/16/poland-considers-law-labeling-sex-educators-lgbtq-folks-pedophiles

* TW: Suicidal Ideation. "Non-binary Ugandan asylum seeker viciously attacked by gang of thugs for simply wearing a dress:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/17/trans-non-binary-refugee-kakuma-camp-transphobia/

* "Teen boy hands himself into police after spitting on a gay couple while yelling vile homophobic slurs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/16/teenage-boy-police-amsterdam-homophobic-attack-hate-crime-gay-fabio-viana-daniel-schepers/

* "Bosnia takes first small step towards recognising same-sex relationships:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/bosnia-herzegovina-federation-same-sex-lgbt-couples-relationships-rights-sarajevo/

* "Gay aerospace engineer wins £175,000 payout after his ‘worst nightmares’ about coming out at work came true:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/14/gay-aerospace-engineer-worst-nightmares-coming-out-work-true/

* "The Trump administration is unlawfully stopping discrimination protections for LGBT+ people, lawsuit claims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/03/19/trump-administration-discrimination-protections-lgbt-people-lawsuit-department-health-human-services/

* "The Census Is Messy, But LGBTQ Lives Depend on It:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/16/census-messy-lgbtq-lives-depend-it

* "Unsurprisingly, Idaho is being sued over its horrendous and ‘hateful’ new transphobic laws:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/idaho-lawsuit-anti-trans-law-transgender-athletes-republican-governor-brad-little-aclu/

* "Franklin Graham desperately insists he can’t be homophobic because he’s ‘not going around bashing people’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/16/franklin-graham-homophobia-gay-sin-god-christianity-samritans-purse-laura-ingraham/

* "Masterpiece Cakeshop Back in Court for Refusing Service to Trans Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2020/4/16/masterpiece-cakeshop-back-court-refusing-service-trans-woman

* "Police arrest nine queer men in Grindr sex sting operation dubbed ‘cataclysmic failure’ of justice:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/11/grindr-georgia-atlanta-police-sting-operation-dawson-county/

* "Australia set to to relax blood donation rules for queer men. But, unsurprisingly, there’s still a major problem:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/australia-blood-donation-rules-gay-bisexual-queer-men-covid-19-coronavirus-red-cross/

* "Anak Krakatau erupts, loud rumble heard in virus-stricken Greater Jakarta:" https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/04/11/anak-krakatau-erupts-loud-rumble-heard-in-virus-stricken-greater-jakarta.html

* "2020 likely to be deadliest year for tornadoes in 8 years:" https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/natural-disasters/492897-2020-likely-to-be-deadliest-year-for-tornadoes

* "Little Village coal plant smokestack implosion sparks outrage, plans for class action lawsuit:" https://abc7chicago.com/6099365/

* "Little Village coal plant developer acknowledged not following its demolition plan, Mayor Lori Lightfoot says:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-little-village-hilco-dust-20200413-mcnvpun67fa6hftphonipdrmea-story.html

* "Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2240117-oldest-ever-piece-of-string-was-made-by-neanderthals-50000-years-ago/

* "Doctors have been whistleblowers throughout history. They’ve also been silenced:" https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/08/coronavirus-doctors-whistleblowers-history-silenced#maincontent

* "This vintage photo of two lifeguards in 1949 is the internet’s new favourite love story:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/15/buzz-tommy-photo-lifeguards-1949-internet-love-story/

* "Trump Finds a New Scapegoat in the World Health Organization:"

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* "Trump May Delay Relief Checks for the Sake of His Signature & America's Unemployment System Buckles:"

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* "This Week in “Things That Shouldn’t Surprise Us”: COVID-19 Is Extremely Racist:"

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* "The Elizabeth Warren Emergency Reassurance Zoom:"

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* "Michael Lewis Explains Why We Should Have Seen The Pandemic Coming:"

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* "Trump Can Lie About His Coronavirus Record, But People Remember His Early Inaction On The Threat:"

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* "Barack Obama Endorses His Former VP, Lays Out The Ways Joe Biden Outshines Donald Trump:"

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* "While Trump Plays The Blame Game, Governors Will Set The Pace On Reopening The States:"

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* Apparently I needed 14 hours of sleep. O.o I dreamed I started a labor action at a department store that was mistreating it's employees. In other news, i am pretty sure i just made the last of the flan.

I've have two nights of computer/connectivity issues.

* "Sheep enjoy themselves on empty playground in Wales:" https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/04/07/Sheep-enjoy-themselves-on-empty-playground-in-Wales/4381586282983/?sl=6

* "How 'What We Do in the Shadows' Became Cable's Queerest Comedy:" https://www.advocate.com/television/2020/4/15/how-what-we-do-shadows-became-cables-queerest-comedy

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

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* 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/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html