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* (I made a small start on the queer news, but it's tiny compared to the prepped link. Very little after that point went up. The backlog is daunting and this coming week turns out to also be a monster scheduling wise, plus the election coverage about to hit. We are in the midst of all hands on deck cleaning for an inspection, for example. See below.).

* "As unrest grips Iran’s schools, the government is going after children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/iran-protests-children-hijab-amini/

* "Cleric killed in restive Iranian city, protests rage on:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-human-rights-lawyers-criticise-clerical-leaders-amid-unrest-2022-11-03/

* CW: Child Murder "Children among 10 feared dead in Iran crackdown, Amnesty says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/middleeast/iran-protest-crackdown-amnesty-international-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Iranians defy crackdown with fresh protests, as president dismisses US vow to ‘free Iran’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/06/iranians-defy-crackdown-with-fresh-protests-as-president-dismisses-us-vow-to-free-iran

* "US and Saudi Arabia concerned that Iran may be planning attack on energy infrastructure in Middle East:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/us-saudi-arabia-iran-energy-infrastructure-middle-east/index.html

* Well, fuck! "Israel election final results: Netanyahu, Jewish far right win power, fiasco for left:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/2022-11-03/ty-article/israel-election-final-results-netanyahu-jewish-far-right-win-power-fiasco-for-left/00000184-3e80-daf1-abc4-7f9a53f40000

* Re: Netanyahu

I’ve stated some form of this over the years any number of times, but in the current climate, I should reiterate it.

My dislike of Netanyahu and his ultra-right positions is specific to Netanyahu because of his ultra-right positions, his corruption, his policies, etc.. His party and allies have policies I oppose, much in the way I oppose Trump and the Republicans, Rishi Sunak (and Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and every Tory PM back to the much hated Thatcher which was about when I started following UK Politics in real time), Viktor Orbán, Jair Bolsanaro, and a host of other horrible extreme right wing politicians the world over to numerous to list.

This does not and should not be taken for anger at the Israeli left or Jewish people the world over who did not vote for a right wing party in the recent Israeli election. There is a reason my coverage of Israeli politics mostly originates from left leaning Israeli news sources like Haaretz.

There is far too much violent antisemitism in the world right now, far to many politicians of every stripe happy to stoke antisemitism for personal power, far too many antisemitic movements and the like. In my country one of the two political parties with any power proudly embraces it.

This I am furious about and very much wish to fight against.

Please don’t take the recent election in Israel as an excuse to do or say something that harms real people who have nothing to do with it or were actively wanting a better outcome.

It is important to separate a dislike of a particular person for political reasons from a wider attack on a large group living in many countries famously holding a wide variety of beliefs and opinions.

I try very hard to do that in this space.

* A relief! "Denmark election result keeps Social Democrats at the helm:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/denmark-election-result-keeps-social-democrats-at-the-helm

* A massive relief!!! "Brazil election: Anti-LGBTQ+ tyrant Jair Bolsonaro beaten by leftist Lula:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/30/brazil-election-lula-beats-jair-bolsonaro-lgbtq/

* "Why Bolsonaro’s stunning loss should give humans a glimmer of hope:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/31/jair-bolsonaro-lula-brazilian-election-amazon-putin-ukraine/

* *digits cruciform* "We Might Finally Be Free From the Madness of Bolsonaro:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/opinion/brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro.html

* Let’s hope things go well for democracy. "Trucks, Protesters Block Brazil Highways After Bolsonaro Rout:" https://www.barrons.com/news/trucks-protesters-block-brazil-highways-after-bolsonaro-rout-01667224207

* "Steve Bannon says Bolsonaro can't concede as he rails against Biden and CIA:" https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-bolsonaro-brazil-election-lula-1755696

* "Brazil's Bolsonaro signals cooperation with transfer of power, but does not concede election defeat :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-protests-intl-latam/index.html

* "Bolsonaro backers call on Brazil military to intervene after Lula victory:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-backers-call-brazil-military-intervene-after-lula-victory-2022-11-02/

* "Rishi Sunak 'wants to gut trans rights from Equality Act':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/rishi-sunak-trans-equality-act/

* "New women's minister defends troubling voting record on women's rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/minister-for-women-maria-caulfield-abortion-clinic-vote/

* "Manston migrant centre like a zoo, says asylum seeker:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63481151

* "Dover petrol bomb attacker said he planned to ‘obliterate Muslim children’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/02/migrant-centre-attacker-planned-to-obliterate-muslim-children-in-final-tweet

* "Russia’s security service works to subvert Moldova’s pro-Western government:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/28/russia-fsb-moldova-manipulation/

* "Russia Expected to OK Stricter 'Gay Propaganda' Law This Fall:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/17/russia-expected-ok-stricter-gay-propaganda-law-fall

* "Bi OnlyFans Creator Sentenced to Prison Over Using the Site:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/bi-onlyfans-creator-sentenced-prison-over-using-site

* "How Halloween revelry turned to disaster in South Korea:" https://graphics.reuters.com/SOUTHKOREA-STAMPEDE/CHRONOLOGY/zjvqjqmmlpx/index.html

* "North Korea fired the highest number of short-range missiles in a day, says South Korea:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/asia/north-korea-missiles-wednesday-intl-hnk

* "North Korea ICBM may have failed in flight, officials say; residents in Japan told to shelter:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-south-koreas-military-2022-11-02/

* "How Spain looked on as dozens were crushed to death at its border:" https://www.bbc.com/news/extra/z8i55dsu8w/spain-morocco-border

* "Czechs rally against rising extremism and voice support for Ukraine:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czechs-rally-against-rising-extremism-voice-support-ukraine-2022-10-30/

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* "'Scrabble variants' now cause the majority of new Covid-19 infections in the US:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/health/covid-variants-dominant-bq/index.html

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* "For the first time, Iran acknowledges it sent drones to Russia:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/05/1134523148/ukraine-russia-war-iran-drones

* "Russia's hope for Ukraine win revealed in battle for Bakhmut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russias-hope-for-ukraine-win-revealed-in-battle-for-bakhmut/2022/10/28/d81ceb7e-5692-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html

* "Ukraine's 58th Brigade in the Heart of the Bakhmut Mire:" https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-s-58th-brigade-in-the-heart-of-the-bakhmut-mire-/6815660.html

* "Kyiv reels as 'massive' wave of missile strikes hit Ukrainian cities; wheat prices rise as grain deal stalls:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/31/ukraines-forces-repel-brutal-russian-offensive-in-donetsk-wheat-prices-rise-after-grain-export-deal-stumbles.html

* "Ukraine’s War Is Leading to a Nervous Breakdown:"

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* "Lions Rescued From Ukraine Find New Home:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/17/lions-rescued-ukraine-find-new-home

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* "US Announces New Sanctions on Iran for Bounty on Rushdie:" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-announces-new-sanctions-on-iran-for-bounty-on-rushdie-/6809948.html

* "Biden sends a stark warning about political violence ahead of midterms: 'We can't take democracy for granted any longer':" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/politics/biden-speech-democracy-dc/index.html

* "Seeing danger in GOP election-deniers, Biden appeals to Americans to support democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/seeing-danger-in-gop-election-deniers-biden-appeals-to-americans-to-support-democracy-152373317527

* "Dowd: Biden realized there isn't a sane GOP holding election deniers accountable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-addressing-threats-to-democracy-particularly-from-maga-republicans-praised-as-midterms-push-152353861727

* "Rep. Raskin: ‘Joe Biden was trying to strike that tone as the leader of the whole country’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/president-biden-s-speech-on-attacks-and-threats-to-democracy-responded-to-by-rep-raskin-152356421932

* "Biden administration to provide over $13 billion in aid to help American families lower energy bills:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/biden-administration-to-provide-over-13-billion-in-aid-to-help-american-families-lower-energy-bills.html

* "More LGBTQ+ Spouses to Receive Survivors' Benefits, VA Announces:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/more-lgbtq-spouses-receive-survivors-benefits-va-announces

* "Rachel Levine Elected to National Academy of Medicine:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/21/rachel-levine-elected-national-academy-medicine

* "Conservatives Spew Transphobia at Already Anti-Trans Federal Agency:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/18/conservatives-spew-transphobia-already-anti-trans-federal-agency

* "Elie Mystal: Supreme Court pretended arguments in favor of affirmative action didn’t exist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-weighs-race-based-college-admissions-don-t-seem-supportive-of-campus-diversity-152115269631

* "Supreme Court to Hear LGBTQ+ Rights Case Before End of Year:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/10/19/supreme-court-hear-lgbtq-rights-case-end-year

* "White House Press Secretary Sits Down for an Exclusive Interview:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-sits-down-for-an-exclusive-interview-151959621696

* I have concerns. "Fed hikes interest rates again, up 0.75 percentage points:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/11/02/fed-rate-hike/

* "'Ripped off': Katie Porter on how price-gouging companies are driving inflation:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-ripped-off-katie-porter-on-how-price-gouging-companies-are-driving-inflation-152360005651

* "Living Homeless in the Desert:"

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* "What I Learned Watching a Co-Worker Get Forced Out:" https://index.medium.com/what-i-learned-watching-a-co-worker-get-forced-out-2418ca86411

* "Pennsylvania court orders election officials to not count ‘undated’ ballots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/pennsylvania-court-undated-ballots-00064549

* "Arizona, Michigan GOP ask voters to mail in ballots and use drop boxes as candidates and officials blast the practice:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/29/politics/kfile-arizona-michigan-gop-encourage-mail-ballots/index.html

* "Kristina Karamo seeks court order that could impact thousands of Detroit voters:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/28/kristina-karamo-lawsuit-detroit-votes/69598090007/

* "Lawyer in Karamo lawsuit targeting Detroit yells at judge, cites debunked film:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/03/hearing-karamo-lawsuit-targeting-detroit-voters/69616706007/

* "DeSantis Voter Fraud Unit Defends Arresting Former Felons:"

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* If people like this turn up at your door, close and lock it. Do not interact. "In the hunt for voter fraud, Republican door knockers are intimidating residents: officials:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/republican-door-knockers-intimidate-voters-while-hunting-voter-fraud-say-2022-11-03/

* "Election Officials Say Efforts to Intimidate Voters Are Widening:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/voting-intimidation-democracy.html

* "Voter intimidation, election worker threats part of voting climate ahead of midterms:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/voter-intimidation-election-worker-threats-part-voting-climate/story?id=92505277

* "North Carolina reports possible voter intimidation, threats ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/north-carolina-reports-possible-voter-intimidation-threats-ahead-midterms-2022-11-04/

* "Stacey Abrams - Fighting for Voting Access in Georgia:" https://www.cc.com/video/2hwoe3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-stacey-abrams-fighting-for-voting-access-in-georgia

* "Justice Department says 'vigilante ballot security efforts' in Arizona are likely illegal:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/arizona-voter-intimidation-doj/index.html

* "Americans face voter intimidation at the polls:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/americans-face-voter-intimidation-at-the-polls-151960645695

* "Judge limits ballot drop box monitoring in Arizona after intimidation claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/arizona-ballot-clean-elections-liburdi/

* If Republicans actually cared about ending voter fraud they'd stop committing it instead of stealing people's right to vote. "Milwaukee Election Commission official Kimberly Zapata could face charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting military ballots:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/03/mayor-says-milwaukee-election-worker-fired-over-ballot-fraud/69616108007/

* "Obama says democracy ‘may not survive’ in Arizona if Republicans win:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/03/obama-says-democracy-may-not-survive-if-arizona-republicans-win/

* "‘Let's not pretend’ that Republicans and Democrats share equal blame for election denial, DCCC chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/sean-maloney-democrats-republicans-elections-00064138

* "The Five Scariest Statewide Republican Candidates You Haven’t Heard of:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168373/five-scariest-republican-candidates-statewide-office

* "In 5 key battlegrounds, most GOP state legislative nominees are election deniers, report finds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/in-5-key-battlegrounds-most-gop-nominees-are-election-deniers.html

If they win, Democracy dies in those states.

Please, please, please vote the whole ticket.

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

"And this guy wants to be in charge of Arizona's elections."

* I am terrified. Literally every governor and secretary of state race we lose in this election is likely a state that will lose the right to free and fair elections, probably for a generation, possibly forever.

I am terrified because not enough Millennials and Gen z are early voting. We can't save democracy without you. We pretty much need all of you. If we don't save democracy there is zero chance of fixing any thing else in this country.

Yes, things are terrible and most democratic politicians haven't enough spine, but they are legitimately trying to fix things. Republicans are out right promising to crash the world economy if they win the house of representatives to force an end to the social safety net. They are openly promising that if they win in the states, they will fix it so republicans can never lose there again. They are promising a national abortion ban and a repeal of civil and human rights for queer folks. Kiss any attempt to stop the planet burning goodbye.

Fuckssake get out there and vote! This may be your last chance for it to count if Republicans win in your state. Vote because our lives depend on it!

* "GOP floats Medicare changes while ducking details:" https://www.axios.com/2022/11/03/gop-floats-medicare-reform

* "Yes, some Republican senators really are talking openly about Social Security cuts:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yes-some-republican-senators-are-talking-openly-about-social-security-cuts/ar-AA13K0K4?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b2fd7a3baaf5485b89016d7bbdf50c32

* "GLAAD Ads Remind LGBTQ+ Voters What's at Stake in Midterm Election:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/12/glaad-ads-remind-lgbtq-voters-whats-stake-midterm-election

* "Forward thinking, playing offense are opportunities for Democrats as midterms approach:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/forward-thinking-playing-offense-are-opportunities-for-democrats-as-midterms-approach-152243269571

* "Can Republicans fulfill their role in a multi-party democracy?:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/can-republicans-fulfill-their-role-in-a-multi-party-democracy-152370757778

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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* "House GOP uses grade school trick to inflate pad report with 'filler and Fox News' :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/house-gop-uses-grade-school-trick-to-inflate-pad-report-with-filler-and-fox-news-152618053708

* "Chris Hayes: If Republicans win, Trump will be the ‘shadow Speaker of the House’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-if-republicans-win-trump-will-be-the-shadow-speaker-of-the-house-152597061618

* "Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House:" https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms

* "3 Lies Republicans Are Using This Election| Robert Reich:"

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* "Pro-LGBTQ+ PAC Targets Pa. Republican Candidates Oz and Mastriano:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/27/pro-lgbtq-pac-targets-penn-republican-candidates-oz-and-mastriano

* "Column: A speech-impaired John Fetterman is better than a fast-talking Mehmet Oz:" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-30/john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-aphasia-debate

* "Dr. Oz's Campaign Is Stocked With Jan. 6ers:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-jan6-john-fetterman-donald-trump-1234620315/

* He doesn't even know where Pennsylvania IS! O.o "Pennsylvania by the sea: Mehmet Oz implies state has Atlantic coastline:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/01/mehmet-oz-pennsylvania-republican-candidate

* "Doug Mastriano ally Toni Shuppe has a plan to ‘stop the steal of 2022.’ It’s full of misinformation.:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/toni-shuppe-doug-mastriano-election-steal-pennsylvania-20221030.html

* "Exclusive with Josh Shapiro: "Our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-with-josh-shapiro-our-fundamental-freedoms-are-on-the-ballot-151960645652

* "Mehmet Oz’s medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/01/oz-senate-doctor-research/

* "Oprah says if she lived in Pennsylvania, she’d vote for Fetterman over Oz in U.S. Senate race:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/oprah-winfrey-john-fetterman-mehmet-oz-pa-senate-race-20221103.html

* "GOP candidate Mark Finchem's lawyer proposed fake elector votes that "aren't legal.":" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/gop-candidate-mark-finchems-lawyer-proposed-fake-elector-votes-that-arent-legal/

* "How Democracy Is on the Line in 2022 & Beyond:"

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* CW: Rape "GOP candidate wants ‘community-level review’ on if rape victims can get abortions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-candidate-wants-community-level-review-on-if-rape-victims-can-get-abortions-152599109733

* "How Doug Mastriano ended up in a Holocaust film that troubles scholars:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/02/doug-mastriano-holocaust-film-agenda/

* "Endorsement: Please, don’t give your vote to Lauren Boebert:" https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/29/opinion-lauren-boebert-vote/

* "Lauren Boebert posts particularly vile Tweet and the backlash is brutal:" https://www.queerty.com/lauren-boebert-posts-particularly-vile-tweet-backlash-brutal-20221103

* "Indiana's Democratic Candidates Sign Contract to Protect Abortion Rights:" https://advocatechannel.com/indianas-democratic-candidates-sign-contract-to-protect-abortion-rights

* "Republican says party ‘will never lose another election’ in Wisconsin if he wins:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/02/wisconsin-republican-gubernatorial-candidate-tim-michels

* "Editorial: Vote for Tony Evers and Mandela Barnes to defend our democracy. Here's why.:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2022/11/02/wisconsin-vote-for-mandela-barnes-and-tony-evers-to-defend-democracy/69588162007/

* "Ron DeSantis uses 'non-binary student' photo to push pathetic election campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/03/ron-desantis-anti-lgbtq-non-binary-stock-photo/

* "Rep. Val Demings: Marco Rubio only likes to talk about crime when it is politically advantageous:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-u-s-senate-candidate-rep-val-demings-demolishes-marco-rubio-s-attempts-to-campaign-on-crime-152489541804

* "Midterms candidates Chris Jones in Arkansas, Charles Booker in Kentucky have impressive ground game:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/midterms-candidates-chris-jones-in-arkansas-charles-booker-in-kentucky-winning-voters-by-focusing-on-forgotten-152605765559

* "Charles Booker touts abortion rights in Kentucky Senate bid:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/charles-booker-touts-abortion-rights-kentucky-senate-bid-92607940

* "Leading election denier is on the verge of leading Nevada's election system:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/01/trump-aligned-jim-marchant-midterm-election-00064357

* "Nevada's MAGA secretary of state candidate appears to be blatantly ignoring campaign finance law:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/jim-marchant-nevada-secretary-state-maga-trump-citizens-united-campaign-finance/

* "This Bisexual Kansas Legislator Wants to Get Stuff Done:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/10/18/bisexual-kansas-legislator-wants-get-stuff-done

* "‘Emasculating Vance Is Actually Part of Tim’s Effectiveness’:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/03/tim-ryan-senate-ohio-00064670

* "Tim Ryan on finding "gettable voters" in his quest for a Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/tim-ryan-on-finding-gettable-voters-in-his-quest-for-a-senate-seat-152240709776

* "Abortion Is on the Ballot. Will It Help the Dems?:"

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* "Chris Hayes: The stakes of the New York governor's race between Zeldin and Hochul:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-stakes-of-the-new-york-governor-s-race-between-zeldin-and-hochul-152107077663

* "Raphael Warnock - The Georgia Senator on His Midterm Race:" https://www.cc.com/video/8rlhtb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-raphael-warnock-the-georgia-senator-on-his-midterm-race

* "What makes Virginia’s most competitive congressional race so close?:" https://wtop.com/virginia/2022/11/what-makes-virginias-most-competitive-race-so-competitive/

* "Luria makes final case for democracy, vies for Black voters:" https://apnews.com/article/elaine-luria-2022-midterms-strategy-a36ffe96b8d1ec2654ed67cb93639a16

* "Democratic star Katie Porter fights against a conservative resurgence in O.C.:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-01/katie-porter-scott-baugh-california-congress-midterm-elections

* "Election Conspiracies Are Disrupting the Midterms:"

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* "N.J. Democrat once thought safe now in a close congressional race at campaign’s final week:" https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/11/nj-democrat-once-thought-safe-now-in-a-competitive-congressional-race-at-campaigns-final-week.html

* "GOP Candidate Said Elites Drink Blood, Sell ‘Baby Body Parts’ After Abortion:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzkdp/kristina-karamo-qanon-blood-body-parts

* "GOP rejection of democracy leaves force and violence as remaining governing option:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-rejection-of-democracy-leaves-force-and-violence-as-remaining-governing-option-152124997513

* "Paul Pelosi's alleged attacker charged with attempted kidnapping:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/31/justice-department-charges-depape-following-paul-pelosi-assault-00064282

* "Fears of Political Violence Following Attack on Paul Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/fears-of-political-violence-following-attack-on-paul-pelosi-151959621741

* "What we know about David DePape, the man accused in the Pelosi home invasion, attack:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/what-we-know-about-david-depape-the-man-accused-in-the-pelosi-home-invasion-attack.html

* An elderly man was beaten with a hammer in an act of political terrorism. They are LYING when they say they are Law and Order candidates. Cruelty is the point. "Arizona GOP nominee Kari Lake mocks attack on Paul Pelosi at campaign event:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/arizona-gop-nominee-kari-lake-mocks-attack-paul-pelosi-campaign-event-rcna54960

* "Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching/

* "Fresh finger-pointing over Capitol Police's future after Pelosi home invasion:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/fresh-finger-pointing-over-capitol-polices-future-after-pelosi-home-invasion-00065064

* "Swalwell: Pelosi suspect’s social media looks like that of Ted Cruz, MTG:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-pelosi-suspect-s-social-media-looks-like-that-of-ted-cruz-mtg-152105029931

* "The Facts About the Attack on Paul Pelosi, According to Prosecutors:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/pelosi-paul-nancy-attack-facts.html

* "Joy Reid: There’s a long history of gaslighting and toxic politics regarding Speaker Pelosi:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/paul-pelosi-assault-spawning-far-right-conspiracies-about-attack-decried-as-deplorable-152113733729

* "‘This is not normal, moral, human behavior’: Psaki on GOP response to Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-this-is-not-normal-moral-human-behavior-psaki-on-gop-response-to-pelosi-attack-152228933737

* "Right-wing resists facts about extremist violence to preserve identity of victimhood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/right-wing-resists-facts-about-extremist-violence-to-preserve-identity-of-victimhood-152128069582

* "Trump joins growing GOP effort to whitewash, lie about Pelosi attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-joins-growing-gop-effort-to-whitewash-lie-about-pelosi-attack-152227909623

* "Elon Musk tweets anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-conspiracy-theory-gay-lgbtq/

* "Hate speech increased on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover, study finds:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/hate-speech-increased-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-study/story?id=92445797

* "Twitter reportedly limits content moderation ahead of midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/twitter-reportedly-limits-content-moderation-ahead-of-midterm-elections-152243269649

* Do not trust twitter. "Elon Musk appears in over his head with purchase of Twitter:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/elon-musk-appears-in-over-his-head-with-purchase-of-twitter-152617541762

* "Musk's attempt at trolling AOC backfires | Boing Boing:" https://boingboing.net/2022/11/03/musks-attempt-at-trolling-aoc-backfires.html

* "Elon Musk to the Rescue: Big Lie Fanatic Escapes Twitter Ban:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-election-denier-mark-finchem-credits-elon-musk-for-overturning-twitter-ban

* "What changes has Elon Musk made at Twitter and what might he do next?:" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/mass-sackings-monetisation-elon-musk-twitter-changing

* "Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell and staffers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/swalwell-threat-plea/index.html

* "Adams County investigates white powder found on ballot as officials reassure voters the election is safe:" https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/adams-county-investigates-white-powder-found-on-ballot-as-officials-reassure-voters-the-election-is-safe

* "Barrack acquittal another blow to DOJ’s foreign influence crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2022/11/04/barrack-acquittal-another-blow-to-dojs-foreign-influence-crackdown-00065258

* "Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

* "Trump files a suit against New York attorney general, and against advice:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-files-a-suit-against-new-york-attorney-general-and-against-advice/

* "Judge rules in favor of assigning monitor to oversee Trump Organization:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/03/judge-rules-favor-assigning-monitor-oversee-trump-organization/

* "Key Trump insider given immunity to testify in Mar-a-Lago documents investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/key-trump-insider-given-immunity-to-testify-in-mar-a-lago-documents-investigation-152373829657

* "Litany of Trump legal entanglements grows ever longer as Trump Org criminal trial begins:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/litany-of-trump-legal-entanglements-grows-ever-longer-as-trump-org-criminal-trial-begins-152127557527

* "Trump asks Supreme Court to stop IRS from turning over his tax returns to the House:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/trump-supreme-court-appeal/index.html

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as 'only chance' to stop 2020 election certification:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-only-chance-to-stop-2020-election-certification-00064592

* "Trump lawyers saw Justice Thomas as ‘key’ to post-election plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-trump-lawyers-saw-justice-thomas-as-key-to-post-election-plan-152356421588

* "Trump loyalist Kash Patel questioned before Mar-a-Lago grand jury:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/03/kash-patel-grand-jury-trump/

* "Despite Eastman appeal, Jan. 6 committee accesses 8 disputed emails:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/30/eastman-appeals-jan6-committee-disputed-00064166

* "House January 6 committee gives Trump more time to turn over subpoenaed documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/politics/trump-january-6-subpoena-deadline/index.html

* "Capitol Police officer disputes claims that Oath Keepers were seen protecting him during Jan. 6 attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/capitol-police-officer-disputes-claims-oath-keepers-protecting/story?id=92432188

* "Oath Keepers spent over $400 at post-US Capitol riot feast at the Olive Garden, prosecutors say:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/oath-keepers-olive-garden-january-6/index.html

* "New Report Sheds Light on Gun Violence in LGBTQ+ Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/11/new-report-sheds-light-gun-violence-lgbtq-lives

* "Chris Hayes: The myth of crime as a big-city, blue-state problem:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-myth-of-crime-as-a-big-city-blue-state-problem-152230981820

* "Polly Klaas’s murder fueled the 90s crime panic. Her sisters fear ‘we’re repeating history’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/22/polly-klaas-sisters-criminal-justice-mass-incarceration

* "Detectives in Breonna Taylor Killing Confess to Falsifying Warrant Evidence:" https://advocatechannel.com/detectives-in-breonna-taylor-killing-admit-to-falsifying-warrant-evidence-based-on-gut-feeling

* "Police Killed a Boy. His Friend Was Charged With Murder:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFjFze39Dcc

* "Video Shows Sheriffs Choking, Tasing Unarmed Transgender Woman:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/24/video-shows-sheriffs-choking-tasing-unarmed-transgender-woman

* "Comedian Eric André Files Lawsuit Against Atlanta Airport Police:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/20/two-black-comedians-file-lawsuit-against-atlanta-airport-police

* "I Spent Over 40 Years Working in Corrections. I Wasn’t Ready for Rikers.:" https://mailchi.mp/themarshallproject/i-spent-over-40-years-working-in-corrections-i-wasnt-ready-for-rikers

* "Ezra Miller Pleads Not Guilty to Burglary Charges in Vermont:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/17/ezra-miller-pleads-not-guilty-burglary-charges-vermont

* "Bi Actor Andy Dick Arrested on Felony Burglary Charge:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/21/bi-actor-andy-dick-arrested-felony-burglary-charge

* "Sheriff's office says antisemitic messages in Jacksonville were not crimes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/us/florida-georgia-game-kanye-west/index.html

* "Pa. School District Allegedly Discriminated Against LGBTQ+ Students:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/09/penn-school-district-allegedly-discriminated-against-lgbtq-students

* "How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level:"

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When this was passed teachers called it things like “children Left behind” because we could see it was designed to starve neighborhood schools so Republicans could close them, forcing busing to other schools and shifting funding even further away from the schools that need it into charter schools that can bar students who are poor, or not white, or who have limited English, or who have special needs.

This is about de facto segregation. It’s about starving public schools of funds. it’s about excuses to deprive the students with the biggest needs of an education.

All “Back to Basics” school “reforms” are about defending music, art, social studies, and sciences, because Republicans hate anything that keeps children from dropping out and/or teaches critical thinking. Science and social studies teach things like applying logic to real world problems, evaluating evidence, and thinking for yourself. The last thing they want is accurate history or modern science taught to children.

All Republicans want is to create an ignorant easily manipulable permanent underclass that votes for them. Quality Public education in anathema to them.

Republicans keep saying, “you can’t just through money at the problem,” yet never once in the history of this country have we tried funding the schools for the poor at the level we fund schools for the well off. we know objectively that 15-18 students is the sweet spot for class size at all grades. why not for once try paying teachers a living wage and hire enough of them to give every class room the same student/teacher ratios private schools have. How about instead of pennies per student per day we actually buy enough equipment and supplies so that all students get to do hands on science instead of only students who already have all the advantages? How about paying for proper maintenance on schools so the heating works and the pipes don’t bang and the roof doesn’t leak? How about money for computers and library books? How about desks and chairs so every student in every class gets one as well as a locker that closes and locks?

Can’t we try that just once?

Teaching pays about as well as Burger King and teachers owe student loans and need to pay for continuing ed and certification re-upping. They need supplies for themselves and students and a professional wardrobe and money for transportation and to pay off massive student loans, plus food, housing, medical stuff, etc.. out of what amounts to minimum wage.

Nobody goes into teaching expecting to get rich; they do it because they want to teach. Punishing them because the schools are falling apart and the textbooks are as old as they are is counter-productive. Actually funding the schools properly would let them do their jobs.

But no one ever ask teachers when they do “school reform.” It is nearly always imposed by people who’ve never taught based on ignorance and a deep refusal to look at the research.

* CW: Rape, Human Trafficking "Smooth Like Butter: The Slippery Underbelly of the Kpop Industry:"

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* "LGBTQ+ World Cup fans told hand-holding fine – but don't kiss:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/28/holding-hands-world-cup-no-public-affection-qatar-ambassador/

The World Cup should never have been held here. A whole lot of mostly guest workers literally died building that stadium, worked to death in the heat.

Their human rights record with LGBTQIA+ people is horrific and should be disqualifying.

* "Qatar journalist says LGBTQ+ people are ‘abnormal’ ahead of World Cup:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/qatar-journalist-lgbtq-abnormal-world-cup/

* "Wales footballers won’t be silenced when it comes to Qatar’s LGBTQ+ atrocities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/wales-footballers-wont-be-banned-from-addressing-qatars-lgbtq-rights-record-officials-confirm/

* "Gay Qatari man won't let World Cup 'bury' LGBTQ+ atrocities 'in the shadows':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/05/qatar-gay-nas-mohamed-world-cup/

* "Gay men shot outside LGBTQ+ bar laid to rest as thousands take to streets:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/gay-men-shot-outside-slovakian-lgbtq-bar-laid-to-rest-as-thousands-take-to-streets-in-protest/

* "Czech MP comes out as gay after horrific Slovakia LGBTQ+ bar shooting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/czech-mp-gay-jiri-navratil/

* "Malaysia police detain 20 people at LGBTQ+ Halloween party for 'cross-dressing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/malaysia-halloween-party-raid-religious-police-sharia-law/

* "Irish law protecting trans people from hate crime 'too little too late':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/ireland-trans-hate-crime-violence-law/

* "Gay Palestinian Man Beheaded After Receiving Death Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2022/10/07/gay-palestinian-man-beheaded-after-receiving-death-threats

* "Mexico celebrates as same-sex marriage becomes law of the land:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/same-sex-marriage-legalised-mexico/

* "Trevor Project Launches Services in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2022/10/11/trevor-project-launches-services-mexico

* "Former Cop Reveals Horrific Gay Bashings by Police:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/10/05/former-cop-reveals-horrific-gay-bashings-police

* "Gender law reforms pass first vote in Scotland with 'overwhelming' support:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/scotland-trans-gender-recognition-reform-vote/

* "Conversion therapy ban delayed by equalities minister Kemi Badenoch:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/conversion-therapy-ban-kemi-badenoch/

* "Grindr Faces Boycott After Gay CEO's Right-Wing Tweets Are Revealed:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/13/grindr-faces-boycott-after-gay-ceos-right-wing-tweets-are-revealed

* "Social Security Will Allow Users to Select Own Gender Marker:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/10/20/social-security-will-allow-users-select-own-gender-marker

* "South Carolina governor says he wants a statewide ban on same-sex marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/29/south-carolina-henry-mcmaster-same-sex-marriage-ban-supreme-court/

* "Men who violently attacked gay couple escape jail thanks to kindness of victims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/27/miami-homophobic-attack-avoid-jail/

* "2022 U.S. Trans Survey:" https://www.ustranssurvey.org/

* Why you should fill it out "The biggest transgender survey in the US is underway. Here's why it's important:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/us-trans-survey-2022-cec/index.html

* "If I say "the queer community", I am referring to the community of self identified queers. If you're not a self identified queer, then I wasn't talking about you!:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/699776198583238656

* Rightly so!!! CW: Rape, Murder, Cannibalism "Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes banned by LGBTQ+ bars:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/31/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costumes-lgbtq-bars-wisconsin/

* "Heartstopper fans react to star Kit Connor being forced to come out as bisexual:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/kit-connor-bisexual-coming-out-fan-reaction/

It is wrong to bully people. It is extra wrong to bully teenagers.

No one owes you their coming out. People deserve to work stuff out without pressure.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

This isn’t a closeted anti-queer politician out to hurt us. This is a literal teenager who is just trying to live his life.

* "Kit Connor's coming out proves bi-erasure is rife even in LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/02/kit-connor-biphobia-bi-erasure-bisexual/

* "The Outing of Kit Connor:"

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* "Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/11/watching-the-sun-not-the-clock-sleep-body-clocks-daylight-saving-time

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* "Philippine death toll from storm Nalgae rises to 98, disaster agency says:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/asia/philippines-tropical-storm-nalgae-paeng-deaths-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Photos: The aftermath of tropical storm Nalgae in Philippines:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/1/photos-the-aftermath-of-tropical-storm-nalgae-in-philippines

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* "Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-dozens-missing-after-boat-carrying-migrants-sinks/2022/11/01/52543176-59b9-11ed-bc40-b5a130f95ee7_story.html

* "What we know about India's deadly bridge collapse:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/india/india-gujarat-morbi-bridge-collapse-explainer-intl-hnk

* "We Need To Talk About The Latest SHEIN Scandal:"

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* "First wild bison born in UK for millennia after surprise pregnancy:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/first-wild-bison-born-in-uk-for-millennia-after-surprise-pregnancy

* "The Gruesome History of Real Life Vampire Hunting:"

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* "Ghosts Are Legally Real:"

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* "Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/10/14/recalling-lgbtq-stories-hispanic-heritage-month

* "Pioneering singer who recorded first gay country songs dies aged 78:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/11/01/patrick-haggerty-gay-country-singer-dies-aged-78/

* "Proud to be a Gay Icon: Angela Lansbury's Life & Legacy:"

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* "Bail Reform:"

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* "Stephen's Message To Young Voters | Dick Bigger, Jr. Is The Breakout Star Of This Election Season:"

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* "Dr. Oz Surfs PA's Coast | Taylor Swift Dominates The Charts | Elon Negotiates With Stephen King:"

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* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 1:" https://www.cc.com/video/q0462s/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-1

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 2 :" https://www.cc.com/video/rsdbd4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-2

* "Votedemic 2022: Atlanta - Day 3:" https://www.cc.com/video/9udze9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-atlanta-day-3

* "Kosta La Vista Baby - Atlanta:" https://www.cc.com/video/3yu223/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kosta-la-vista-baby-atlanta

* "Is Atlanta the Real-Life Wakanda?:" https://www.cc.com/video/ap288q/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-is-atlanta-the-real-life-wakanda

* CW: Self Harm, Eating Disorders. "The Harmful Drive for Queer Perfection:"

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* "DefunctTV: The History of the First Muppet Show, Sam and Friends:"

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* "5 Spooky Musicals That Are Totally UNHINGED:"

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* "Dr. Oz Is Surfin' PA:"

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* "Olive Garden Is The Perfect Place To Subvert Democracy:"

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* "This Is How Kari Lake's Comments Would Sound If They Were Actually Creatively Edited:"

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* "President Biden Midterms Address Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Tammy the Trucker on Gas Prices and Definitely Not Abortion - SNL:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler vs Count Dracula. Epic Rap Battles of History:"

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* More attempts at Gothmas Phase II pictures: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699602590803083264

* The emperor has been trying to break into one of the presents since it arrived, including an attempt to unwrap it the second I pulled it from the box. Turned out it was a massive bag of hand dried catnip. https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699682102668673024/gothmashalloween-2022-the-emperor-has-been-tryingfr.

* Since the Pandemic started, I put out bowls of candy. each bowl has a handful of things. Adults are welcome too, and I usually give out a lot of candy. This year one person stole the bowl itself, and no one else came. I think the three families with kids have moved out, since i haven't seen or heard them playing since summer. I've noticed that the other people that usually decorate in the complex didn't this year. It's sad.

I did get reverse trick or treated and Squirrel and I split the loot. Weirdly, it was not the bowl thief.

* October is always really hard on my body and particularly so in the back half. Halloween week takes everything I have really. Samhein is the most important holiday of my year and it takes everything.

Wednesday my body hard vetoed Wednesday errands. I called Head Millennial in time for them to get public transport and make evening arrangements. I could barely walk and had the pain shakes. One days like this, it's best to just take ones meds and go back to sleep and home a nap will reset things. This was correct. When I tried again later, I was a functional level of awful. We managed to take in the Halloween specific exterior stuff and box it all up. I'll need to tweek the "Harvest Display" and do a day time sweep to be sure we got everything before boxes go back into storage. Halloweentown is in chaos, but that's another day's problem.

Head Millennial went above and beyond today. I love how fundamentally kind and trustworthy they are. we had dinner together and watched a movie we'd started a week ago, geeking out together about the high quality lighting design and mourning the death of banter in modern romcoms as well as how few productions are willing to pay for really artistic lighting. (I sited Black Sails as proof the art isn't lost, even though we might think it was looking at the newest Halloween and Got/house of the dragon. Head Millennial is very grumpy about Halloween franchise in particular.)

It sounds like Visiting Millennial has decided to move up here, so at some point in the future they will be Newest Millennial. There is much rejoicing.

NOTE for newer readers: I like to use sobriquets to prevent people chain tracking through blogs. It was always my instinct and I got stricter after that reporter found me through the blog of a friend who wasn't as careful after Skye was murdered. It was fine. She was nice and professional and my friend changed the post in case of future accident. My point is that a determined swatter could find me, but I like to make them work for it if they want my friends.

* Another disabled Elder Goth friend suggested there should be a "Retired Goth Bat sanctuary" for people like us. This delights me.

There is talk of Tee shirts.

Possibly next week.

I already want one.

* Thursday was the blue beast's mechanic appointment. They are always booked for weeks out this time of year. This meant very little sleep, but the coolant situation is sorted and I should be okay on the engine not melting for a while. *Knock wood*

Friday I just wanted sleep, but of they woke me up trying to strong arm me into a home health assessment. Thing is, it's an excellent service and an important one. My mother used them in her last year of life when her health was failing. They assess the person; they assess the needs; they help organize complex meds schedules; they hook people up with services. I support the program and said so to the lady, but I do not want one.

Why? She wanted to know. I do not need what they are offering and I don't like strangers in my home it's invasive. I don't need a dementia test. I have a home health aid. My meds schedule is, indeed, complex, but it's logical. (Think of it as a logic puzzle. Pills needing to be taken on an empty stomach need to go first thing in the morning. Ppills needing to be taken with food need to be at least an hour after empty stomach pills, and need to work with meal scheduling. Some pills can't be taken within two hours of each other, etc.. Some pills need to be taken multiple times a day. For a while I had a pill that needed to go four times a day, at least two hours after eating and an hour before eating. It was a nightmare, but I did it.) I do not want people tampering with the schedule, because every adjustment is a hassle and a half, and I have it down. The point is, it's my body deteriorating, not my mind, and I handle things just fine within my physical limits and I hate all the invasive monitoring that comes with living in this complex and that comes with being disabled. I minimize it where I can.

So I go to the bathroom, give Livia a come for pettins offer, reset my pillow prop system, and settle back in to try to sleep.

The phone rings. It's the system that pay for my caregiver. Mandatory home inspection. *deep sigh* I managed to wiggle out of this one so far because of the pandemic. It's so intrusive and I fucking hate that I don't get to have privacy because I'm disabled. I can't manage without Head Millennial, so I guess we're doing that Monday, plus the already scheduled social worker call Tuesday.

* "Here are the Spookiest Cities in America:" https://www.outtraveler.com/best-travel/2022/10/21/spookiest-cities-america

* "America's 15 Most Haunted Hotels:" https://www.outtraveler.com/news/2022/10/22/americas-15-most-haunted-hotels#media-gallery-media-16

* Events towards the end of Dracula from the viewpoint of the locals: https://uri59.tumblr.com/post/699674996605403136/random-sailor-at-the-sereth-river-this-night-is

* Ed as Blackbeard: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699813146114818048/ok-i-just-have-to-ask-did-you-notice-ed-as

* Arden Powell at the The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1585317897785647105

* Clive Barker vs JK Rowling at The Midnight Society : https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1586397640186466304

* Goblin detecting sword: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/699816725716287488

* I feel this in my bones: https://xkcd.com/2692/

* "You’ve been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It’s been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous.:" https://www.tumblr.com/elidyce/688193708499320832/writing-prompt-s-youve-been-sentenced-to-400

* "God of Arepo:" https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/699776328566800384

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

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

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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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* "Nursing homes linked to up to half of coronavirus deaths in Europe, WHO says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nursing-homes-coronavirus-deaths-europe/2020/04/23/d635619c-8561-11ea-81a3-9690c9881111_story.html

* "Did Japan miss its chance to keep the coronavirus in check?:" https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/did-japan-miss-its-chance-keep-coronavirus-check#

* "Coronavirus Finds Fuel in a World of Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/world/asia/coronavirus-migrants.html

* "Japan Needs to Telework. Its Paper-Pushing Offices Make That Hard.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/business/japan-coronavirus-telework.html

* "‘Sadness’ and Disbelief From a World Missing American Leadership:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/world/europe/coronavirus-american-exceptionalism.html

* "The Science Is Clear on How to Beat This Pandemic:" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-endgame-consensus-experts/

* TW: Suicide "Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177

* "‘Another nail in an almost closed coffin’: Trump faces his next coronavirus test:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/trump-coronavirus-testing-197839

* "Special Report: Former Labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci-idUSKCN2243CE

* "Our Hospital Workers Need PPE...STAT!:"

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* "We Are Living in a Failed State:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/underlying-conditions/610261/

* "Trump’s strange claim about his CDC director being ‘misquoted’ reinforces his coronavirus alternate reality:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/22/trumps-strange-quibble-with-his-cdc-directors-quote-reinforces-danger-his-coronavirus-alternate-reality/

* "Trump awareness of U.S. COVID-19 death toll difficult to discern:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-awareness-of-u-s-covid-19-death-toll-difficult-to-discern-82500165822

* "11,000 deaths: Ravaged nursing homes plead for more testing:" https://apnews.com/e34b42d996968cf9fa0ef85697418b01

* "New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents have had the coronavirus, Gov. Cuomo says:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/new-york-antibody-study-estimates-13point9percent-of-residents-have-had-the-coronavirus-cuomo-says.html

* "Andrew Cuomo - Battling the COVID-19 Crisis in New York:"

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* "CDC issues recommendations for closed South Dakota Smithfield plant following coronavirus outbreak:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/us/cdc-report-smithfield-plant-south-dakota/index.html

* "After Six COVID-19 Deaths, Judge Orders Elkton Prison To Transfer At-Risk Inmates:" https://radio.wosu.org/post/after-six-covid-19-deaths-judge-orders-elkton-prison-transfer-risk-inmates#stream/0

* "Doctor whose prescience saved countless lives reflects on first stay-at-home order:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctor-whose-prescience-saved-countless-lives-reflects-on-first-stay-at-home-order-82501701587

* "Prison conditions key to controlling coronavirus spread in U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prison-conditions-key-to-controlling-coronavirus-spread-in-u-s-82500165786

* "Anderson Cooper Gobsmacked by Vegas Mayor's 'Ignorant' Claims:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2020/4/23/anderson-cooper-gobsmacked-vegas-mayors-ignorant-claims

* "‘The mayor doesn’t speak for the state of Nevada:’ Gov. Sisolak on mayor’s calls to open Las Vegas:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-the-mayor-doesn-t-speak-for-the-state-of-nevada-gov-sisolak-on-mayor-s-calls-to-open-las-vegas-82472517970

* "Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz Spew Quackery on Fox News:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/21/dr-phil-dr-oz-spew-quackery-fox-news

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* "Trump’s first openly gay cabinet member wants to stop sharing intelligence with countries where it’s illegal to be gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/donald-trump-richard-grenell-national-intelligence-gay-sex-homosexuality-illegal/

* "How a Trump administration official is quietly exploiting the pandemic to advance her family business — and right-wing agenda:" https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/how-a-trump-administration-official-is-quietly-exploiting-the-pandemic-to-advance-her-family-business-and-right-wing-agenda/

* "Dan Scavino Promoted as Meadows Shuffles White House Communications Team:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/dan-scavino-promotion.html

* "House passes $484 billion coronavirus aid package as U.S. jobless figures soar:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/22/coronavirus-latest-news-2/

* "Layoffs wreck the states that lifted Trump to the White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/states-that-helped-trump-win-see-biggest-job-losses-204072

* "The risk of a US double-dip depression is real :" https://www.ft.com/content/ecca2149-ddfc-47e0-983c-9bf0a6c3fae1

* "Unemployment claims top 26 million 5 weeks into pandemic:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/coronavirus-unemployment-claims-numbers-203455

* "Fresh $310 billion in loans for small businesses already gone, bankers say:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paycheck-protection-program-small-business-already-gone/

* "US issues new guidance for small business loans, pressures public companies to return funds:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/23/us-issues-new-guidance-for-small-business-loans-to-make-it-harder-for-public-companies-to-get-funds.html

* "Chris Hayes: The backstory of Florida's terrible unemployment system is way worse than simple incompetence:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-backstory-of-florida-s-terrible-unemployment-system-is-way-worse-than-simple-incompetence-82474053990

* "Opening up the economy won’t save the economy:" https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228651/opening-up-save-economy-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-shutdown

* "Trump says he told Kemp: ‘I totally disagree’ with move to reopen Georgia:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/22/trump-kemp-georgia-reopen-coronavirus-202117

* "Cleve Jones: Unions Have Our Backs and We Need to Return the Favor:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/23/cleve-jones-unions-have-our-backs-and-we-need-return-favor

* "Exploiting a Health Care Emergency to Restrict Reproductive Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/23/exploiting-health-care-emergency-restrict-reproductive-rights

* "Homophobic governor spends coronavirus lockdown celebrating a ban on abortions with an anti-LGBT+ group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/abortion-ban-homophobia-texas-governor-coronavirus-jeff-leach-greg-abbott-anti-lgbt/

* "Liz Truss reveals ‘shocking’ plan to remove healthcare for trans youth, slammed as an ‘extraordinary’ attack on equality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/liz-truss-trans-rights-gender-recognition-act-reform-healthcare-puberty-blockers-backlash/

* "Meet the UK’s first-ever openly HIV-positive mayor: ‘I hope I can show there’s no bar to what people with HIV can achieve’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/24/philip-normal-first-openly-hiv-positive-mayor-lambeth-albert-kennedy-trust-stigma-labour/

* "Trans man comes forward as the latest victim of a threatening nude Snapchat ‘blackmail’ campaign:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/21/snapchat-blackmail-trans-man-victim-nudes-explicit-pictures-dundee-scotland-virginia-police/

* "Bodies of two brutally murdered trans women found in a burned out car in Puetro Rico. Activists warn: ‘They’re hunting us’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/24/puerto-rico-trans-murder-layla-pelaez-sanchez-serena-angelique-velazquez-ramos/

* "Air pollution drops around the world amid coronavirus lockdowns:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/air-pollution-drops-around-the-world-amid-coronavirus-lockdowns-82475077908

* "Meet the bisexual war poet adored by Churchill and who WB Yeats called 'the handsomest young man in England':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/rupert-brooke-bisexual-first-world-war-poet-winston-churchill-bloomsbury-group-wb-yeats-death/

* This is so sad. "Award-winning photographer who fled Iran to live his life freely as a gay man has died from coronavirus:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/23/shahin-shahablou-iran-photographer-gay-lgbt-death-coronavirus-tribute-kevin-lismore/

* "Why We Need To Shut Down The Idea Of Reopening America:"

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* "President Trump, You're Going To Have To Do The Unthinkable: Your Job:"

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* "Las Vegas Mayor Rolls The Dice On Reopening, But Anderson Cooper Is Having None Of It:"

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* "Mitch McConnell's "Screw The States" Plan Riles Lawmakers From Both Parties:"

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* "Trump's Chaos Is the Only Constant During the Pandemic Crisis:"

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* "The Killers perform "Mr. Brightside" | One World: Together At Home:"

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* "John Legend Performs "Nothing Compares 2 U" | Let's Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute To Prince:"

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* "The Rolling Stones perform "You Can't Always Get What You Want" | | One World: Together At Home:"

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* " Usher and Sheila E. Honor Prince:"

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* "Hozier performs "Take Me To Church" | One World: Together At Home:"

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* "Lizzo performs "A Change Is Gonna Come" | One World: Together At Home:"

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* "John Legend & Sam Smith perform "Stand By Me" | One World: Together At Home:"

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* ""Waving Through a Window" (Virtual Chorus) by GMCW:"

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* I've been dealing with a tone of cat mess and sleep disruption. I'm too tired to write about it or explain properly, but that's why posting schedules are so weird.

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* 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

* "Bollywood backing grows for students in anti-Modi protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/bollywood-backing-grows-for-students-in-anti-modi-protests

* "Shooting in Ottawa leaves one dead, three in serious condition:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/shooting-in-ottawa-leaves-one-dead-three-in-serious-condition-1.4757908

* Y'all know I object to speculation in circumstances involving mass casualties whether in disasters like airplane crashes or events more intentional. This is why I didn't write my suspicion about what happened with that Ukrainian plane. It's looking lik my suspicion is correct, however. It’s a stupid and horrific thing to have happened with plenty of blame to go around. "Western powers suggest Iran missile downed jet;" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51055219

* "Iran plane crash apparently the consequence of stoked hostilities:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iran-plane-crash-apparently-the-consequence-of-stoked-hostilities-76395077612

* "‘I’ve never seen him like that’: Trump defends Iran briefing after GOP Sen. Lee lashes out:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/09/pence-mike-lee-iran-briefing-096652

* "House votes to rein in Trump on Iran:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/09/democrats-iran-house-war-powers-trump-096848

* "Navy veteran Rep. Sherrill on why she voted for war powers resolution:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/navy-veteran-rep-sherril-on-why-she-voted-for-war-powers-resolution-76390469558

* "‘Frustration and déjà vu:’ Butler on increasingly toxic rhetoric from Trump loyalists:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-frustration-and-deja-vu-butler-on-increasingly-toxic-rhetoric-from-trump-loyalists-76391493570

* "Pelosi not budging on impeachment articles:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/09/pelosi-not-budging-send-impeachment-articles-096698

* "McConnell and Trump talk impeachment at White House meeting:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/politics/mcconnell-meets-trump-impeachment/index.html

* "Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html

"A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything."

* "Another Clinton investigation championed by Trump comes up empty:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-clinton-investigation-championed-by-trump-comes-up-empty-76395589721

* "NYC Bar Association urges Congress to investigate AG Bill Barr for partisanship:" https://www.axios.com/bill-barr-new-york-city-bar-association-congress-06425654-8f0a-4db0-91b3-fe5840e2679e.html

* "Trump aims to weaken prime environmental law:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/09/donald-trump-national-environmental-policy-act-096679

“We live in a democracy, not a dictatorship. Americans deserve to have their voices heard before their families’ health and well-being are put at risk by projects that bring unwanted and unnecessary pollution and disruption into their communities," said Gina McCarthy, who was EPA administrator in the Obama administration and now runs the Natural Resources Defense Council. "While our world is burning, President Trump is adding fuel to the fire by taking away our right to be informed and to protect ourselves from irreparable harm."

* "Trump moves to gut landmark environmental law:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-moves-to-gut-landmark-environmental-law-76391493771

* "Hit by devastating earthquakes, Puerto Rico still waiting on billions for hurricane relief:"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/01/09/hit-by-devastating-earthquakes-puerto-rico-still-waiting-billions-hurricane-relief/

* "Chris Hayes on the nightmare in Puerto Rico:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-nightmare-in-puerto-rico-76391493604

* "Appeals court lifts block on $3.6 billion for Trump border wall plan:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/08/trump-border-wall-funds-block-096527

* "New Trump Adviser Jenna Ellis Is a Homophobe Who Said Gays Deserve HIV:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/1/09/new-trump-adviser-jenna-ellis-homophobe-who-said-gays-deserve-hiv

* "Trump-supporting Republican’s ‘cruel’ bill would sack teachers who let transgender kids play sport:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/09/republican-bill-teacher-trans-kids-sport-bruce-griffey-tennessee/

"It is unclear how exactly teachers would be expected to comply with the measure, as children are not typically expected to present an original copy of their birth certificate every time they want to play basketball.

However, under the plans teachers who are found to have permitted transgender people to take part in sports reflecting their actual gender will be immediately sacked and deemed “ineligible to hold public office or a position as a school administrator for five years”."

* "New Jersey Schools Begin LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2020/1/09/new-jersey-schools-begin-lgbtq-inclusive-curriculum

* She's a racist too. "Politician from a town called Snowflake – yes, really – is trying to ban schools from teaching about homosexuality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/09/snowflake-arizona-sylvia-allen-sex-education-bill-homosexuality/

* "Woman threatens to bomb Catholic school and kill kids over decision to celebrate same-sex marriages:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/01/10/sonia-tabizada-catholic-bomb-threats-same-sex-marriages-georgetown-visitation-preparatory/

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Australia's Catastrophic Wildfires:"

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* "United Swing States of America - Arizona in the Grip of Climate Change:"

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* "All Is Well! It's Not WWIII, But Meme Warfare Continues Between Iran And U.S.:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren's Dance Moves Fire Up Crowd At Brooklyn Rally:"

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* "Anna Shcherbakova - FS - GP Final 2019 - Turin:"

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* "Alena Kostornaia /1st place/ ISU GRAND PRIX 2019 Internationaux de France:"

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* There has been a massive political change here in the Cat Asylum over the last week or so. Elder Kitty has decided she is tired of Tavy's bullshit and has basically decided to give him the full force of her pre-depression personality. She has basically taken over the common areas and has not only colonized Livia's napping chair and the entire sofa, but has cleared a section of a side desk of my things so she can sleep in the corner.

It's the time of year when the Imperial couple spend a lot of time sleeping in my bed at night anyway, so I suspect Tavy will start pushing back when the whether warms, but for now the Imperial couple turn up at the feeding stations or to look for birds or in Tavy's case sit on me at lug time, but they are doing most of their napping in solidly imperial territory.

I more disgusting news, I thought my toilet had an intermittent leak and I was hoping the renovation would solve it. I keep cleaning it and cleaning it, but I couldn't trace the source, since the pattern wasn't consistent. Over the course of the last week, I had reason to suspect it wasn't a leak after all.

At bedtime last night I got definitive proof it wasn't a leak. It was elder kitty. %$^*! She's old and mildly demented. It's not her fault, but I really need her to not take a dump on my floor. I cleaned it and got squirrel to change her personal box. It's possible this is her making a statement of ownership aimed at Livia. She's been more excepting of Livia lately, but that's Livia's personal turf she's befowling.

Bonus I came out to find someone had blerped all over a bunch of essential paperwork and library books. Tavy's had the medicine finger. I'll need to find the least traumatic way to dose Livia. On the upside, today was an extra good pettin day for her and she's started letting me play string and/or wrigglers with her in the evenings, which is big, since she's often too nervous to play with others. She's also tarted telling Tavy no more clearly.

* If you are interested in helping with Livia's recovery, right now the Cat things we need are:
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

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

Alternately: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* "“I was responsible for the exorcism of a tree while in elementary school. I wrote letters in the voice of a demon and hid them in the tree, and convinced classmates they were real. My catholic school, unfortunately, also thought they were real and the dioceses got involved.:" https://twitter.com/NatalieZed/status/1215034978234449920

* "Trans People Are Magic:" https://twitter.com/TheoNicole/status/1209247447345745922?s=19

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

* Australia is on fire. Want to help? https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/190151259088
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/read-and-watch/news/bushfire-donations/11823676
Help Thirsty Koalas Devastated by Recent Fires: https://au.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires
Mogo Zoo Fire Recovery: https://au.gofundme.com/f/mogo-zoo-fire-recovery
WIRES-Emergency Fund for Wildlife: https://www.facebook.com/donate/1386120504919105/10158318179549750/
Victorian Bushfire Appeal: https://www.vic.gov.au/bushfireappeal

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

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

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

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

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

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

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* 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

* 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

* HorrorMux is currently running a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

* 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

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

* "Death toll in Bahamas rises to 20 after Hurricane Dorian leaves 'generational devastation':" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/us/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-death-toll-wxc/index.html

* "Brexit’s ‘Doomsday Politics’ Mean Voters May Be Last Chance to Resolve Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/world/europe/brexit-british-political-system.html

* "Boris Johnson Brexit push threatens to upend British democracy:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/boris-johnson-brexit-push-threatens-to-upend-british-democracy-68214341898

* "Boris Johnson accused of ‘homophobia’ after appearing to call Jeremy Corbyn a ‘big girl’s blouse’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/04/boris-johnson-called-jeremy-corbyn-big-girls-blouse/

* "Cathay Pacific’s Chairman Resigns as China Pressures Hong Kong Business:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/business/cathay-pacific-chairman-resigns.html

* "As the Amazon Burns, Indonesia Shows World How to Fight Forest Fires:" https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/as-the-amazon-burns-indonesia-shows-world-how-to-fight-forest-fires/96359

* "Hong Kong government's attempt to outflank protesters is doomed to fail:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/04/asia/hong-kong-protests-withdrawal-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Stars boycott South Africa over xenophobic attacks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49576397

* "Absolutely nobody turned up to support Mike Pence in Ireland:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/05/absolutely-nobody-turned-up-to-support-mike-pence-in-ireland/

* "China’s Spies Are on the Offensive:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/inside-us-china-espionage-war/595747/

* "Trump shares potentially revealing image of Iranian launch site on Twitter:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-shares-potentially-revealing-image-of-iranian-missile-site-on-twitter/2019/08/30/4820db10-cb5e-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html?noredirect=on

* "London mayor mocks Trump for dealing with hurricane ‘out on the golf course’:" https://www.politico.eu/article/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-mocks-donald-trump-for-dealing-with-hurricane-out-on-the-golf-course/

* "The secrecy of Russia's election interference:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-secrecy-of-russia-s-election-interference-68210245637

* 45 is insisting that his dementia is so advanced he can't remember the other Cat. 5 hurricanes during his Presidency including Maria. "Trump doesn't think he's 'ever even heard of a Category 5' hurricane. Four such storms have threatened the US since he took office:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/01/politics/donald-trump-category-5-hurricane-dorian/index.html

* "Trump claimed Dorian could hit Alabama -- even after weather service refuted it:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/02/politics/trump-hurricane-dorian-false-claims-alabama/index.html

* " President Trump showed a doctored hurricane chart. Was it to cover up for ‘Alabama’ Twitter flub? :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/04/president-trump-shows-doctored-hurricane-chart-was-it-cover-up-alabama-twitter-flub/?noredirect=on

* "Trump lies about storm harder to ignore than his usual nonsense:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-lies-about-storm-harder-to-ignore-than-his-usual-nonsense-68214341863

* "Trump cites out-of-date chart to justify alarming Alabama tweet:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-cites-out-of-date-chart-to-justify-alarming-alabama-tweet-68215365620

* "Trump allies want to raise $2 million to target reporters at top outlets ahead of 2020:" https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-campaign-trump-allies-journalists-6733432f-b008-45d3-99c2-9dca7931faff.html

* "Judge tells White House to reinstate reporter’s pass:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/judge-press-pass-brian-karem-1479990

* " Judiciary panel issues subpoena on Trump's alleged offer to pardon DHS officials :" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/04/judiciary-panel-issues-subpoena-on-trumps-alleged-offer-to-pardon-dhs-officials-1481317

* "Jury finds Greg Craig not guilty in loss for Mueller prosecutors:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/jury-finds-greg-craig-not-guilty-in-loss-for-mueller-prosecutors-68214853901

* "DeVos tightens rules for forgiving student loans:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/devos-forgiving-student-loans-1697959

* "Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/09/04/top-interior-official-who-pushed-expand-drilling-alaska-join-oil-company-there/?noredirect=on

* Do NOT sleep on your state level elections in 2020. We need fair district maps and a reasonable judiciary or we are fucked. "Why Democrats’ big gerrymandering win in North Carolina matters:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/04/how-democrats-win-north-carolinas-redistricting-battle-could-reverberate/?noredirect=on

* "Berman: NC GOP in ‘gerrymandering hall of fame’:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/berman-nc-gop-in-gerrymandering-hall-of-fame-68210245711

* "San Francisco just passed a resolution calling the NRA a ‘domestic terrorist organization’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/04/san-francisco-just-passed-resolution-calling-nra-domestic-terrorist-organization/?noredirect=on

* "McConnell vows to bring up gun legislation — as long as Trump backs it:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/mcconnell-guns-trump-senate-1479818

* Any one who didn’t apply before August 7 is fucked, however. "Trump admin walks back plan to end deportation protections for sick immigrants:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-admin-walks-back-plan-end-deportation-protections-sick-migrants-n1048851

* "Deported Harvard student Ismail Ajjawi arrives at university for start of classes:" https://nypost.com/2019/09/03/deported-harvard-student-ismail-ajjawi-arrives-at-university-for-start-of-classes/

* "Employers Struggle With Hiring Undocumented Workers: 'You Cannot Hire American Here':" https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/752336132/employers-struggle-with-hiring-undocumented-workers-you-cannot-hire-american-her

* "Trump administration raids military construction projects for border wall:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/trump-administration-prepares-to-raid-military-projects-for-border-wall-1479981

* "Mexico not paying for wall, Trump takes money from U.S. military:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mexico-not-paying-for-wall-trump-takes-money-from-u-s-military-68215365766

* "Trump diverts money for schools to build wall:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-diverts-money-for-schools-to-build-wall-68211269811

* "Document Reveals The FBI Is Tracking Border Protest Groups As Extremist Organizations:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-tracking-border-protest-groups_n_5d6ff5c2e4b09bbc9ef8ed2b?guccounter=1

* "She's black. She called 911 on her neighbor—and was threatened with eviction.:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/05/the-crime-of-being-black-in-a-city-that-doesnt-want-you-there/

* "A new survey shows what really interests 'pro-lifers': controlling women:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/22/a-new-poll-shows-what-really-interests-pro-lifers-controlling-women

* "French MPs begin push to criminalise conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/04/french-mps-begin-push-criminalise-conversion-therapy/

* "Majority of Brits back primary-school kids being taught about LGBT families:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/05/lgbt-families-inclusive-education-stonewall-research-olly-alexander/

* "Chasten Buttigieg makes the glaringly obvious point about Mike Pence’s lunch with gay Irish leader:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/03/chasten-buttigieg-makes-the-glaringly-obvious-point-about-mike-pences-lunch-with-gay-irish-leader/

* "What’s the best way to protest a Mike Pence visit? A big gay disco, obviously:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/05/mike-pence-gay-disco-ireland-amnesty-international-protest/

* "Iceland is rolling out the rainbow carpet for Mike Pence – literally:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/05/iceland-rolling-out-rainbow-carpet-mike-pence/

* "Judge refuses to dismiss charges against Straight Pride counter-protesters:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/04/charges-against-straight-pride-counter-protesters-wont-be-dropped/

* TW: Suicide "A trans boy died by suicide after being misgendered by hospital staff:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/04/katharine-prescott-kyler-trans-boy-suicide-rady-childrens-hospital/

* "Teenage girl is the 17th trans person to be killed in the US in 2019:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/09/05/teenage-girl-trans-murder-2019/

* "My life with face blindness: I spent decades unable to recognize people. Then I learned why.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/21/feature/my-life-with-face-blindness/?noredirect=on

* "One Scientist’s Quest to Bring DNA Sequencing to Every Sick Kid:" https://www.wired.com/story/one-scientists-quest-to-bring-dna-sequencing-to-every-sick-kid/

* "California Will Build the Largest Wildlife Crossing in the World:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/california-will-build-largest-wildlife-crossing-world-180972947/

* "Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo—here’s what went wrong:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/magazine/2018/01-02/why-napoleon-lost-battle-waterloo/

* "Remembering the Forgotten Chinese Railroad Workers:" https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/chinese-railroad-workers-utah/

* "The Disobedient Children of Monsters:" https://narratively.com/disobedient-children-monsters/

* "Brexit Chaos in the U.K., a Historic Space Crime & Trump's Doctored Hurricane Map:"

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* "Bernie Sanders Hits the Ballpark & Joe Biden Serves Up More Gaffes:"

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* "Pope Francis's Elevator Incident, Amped-Up Protests in Hong Kong & A Defiant Robbery Victim:"

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* They needed to clear the parking lot for maintenance, which means the closet Squirrel could park when he got home from work was several blocks away. Given I woke with the shakes and hip joints that were only marginally load bearing, there was zero chance of me walking that far and being able to forage. Forage with the car in the lot would have been right on the bubble as far as things I could maybe manage. Both was right out. This is why people who can technically still walk need disabled parking too. If I had a power chair, sure, I could have gone, but no way were my arms going that far up even a gentle slope in a manual and a manual is what I have. My right shoulder is still sort of fucked up. Even though the pain is at a level I can cope with on my AS meds and I have about 3/4 of my ROM back, it's still weak. Several blocks of me trying to wheel along is impossible. It sucks extra because I'm out of things like sandwich bread. Sigh.

I think something may be wrong. I've been getting I'm getting sick warning signs for several days now, so I'm mostly trying to rest up for the big push to get the apartment ready for Monday which will be eating all the weekend spoons.

In cat news, Livia is definitely peeing in the box like a good girl regardless of where I put it. Tavy is still peeing on the sofa despite me getting him to use the box last night and the night before. I can't full change and wash the box every other night. It's too much for me physically and burns resources I don't have. I can't do the having to wash everything all the time either because that's not sustainable. I'll keep chipping at it behaviorally, but this time he slipped in while I went to plate dinner and again while I was washing dishes. I can't guard the sofa 24/7. I used all the Livia money on food, vet, etc..

If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

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

* Angry at 45 for his plan to steal food from 3.1 million people who need it including stealing lunch from 500,000 children? Here is a big activism resource for fighting back. "USDA SNAP Rule Opposition Campaign - Comments Due September 23, 2019!:" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hGBajjsAwdueJFfXospFnUo89wAWR2HHPxNt8heUUIE/edit?fbclid=IwAR0GoYF521ASlr9Nwm6xfTxBsPVhyqLmVlkjbOjLCjnJ4Iblv6OI8Kzufao

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat things we need most are:
https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-Deterrent-Activated-Repellent-Environmentally/dp/B0721735K9

And: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J669H65/?coliid=I1EUR00IM1I3P&colid=1EVWGXWUM3YU7&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

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

* "Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/22/google-shutters-more-than-200-youtube-channels-amid-hong-kong-protests.html

* "Trump and senior aides discuss withdrawal from Afghanistan as talks with Taliban advance:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-plans-friday-meeting-to-make-arrangements-for-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/2019/08/16/cab8d6aa-c00e-11e9-a5c6-1e74f7ec4a93_story.html?noredirect=on

* "LGBTQ Officials Condemn Israel, Trump on Censoring Tlaib and Omar:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/8/16/elected-officials-rush-condemn-israel-censoring-tlaib-and-omar

* "Trump’s Interest in Buying Greenland Seemed Like a Joke. Then It Got Ugly.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/us/politics/trump-greenland-prime-minister.html

* Remember these are actually taxes on American consumers. "Trump announces tariffs increase on China after Dow dropped more than 600 points:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/china-announces-tariffs-75-billion-us-goods-trump/story?id=65147062

* "Trump retaliates in trade war by escalating tariffs on Chinese imports and demanding companies cut ties with China:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/23/china-hits-us-with-tariffs-billion-worth-goods-reinstates-auto-levies-state-media-report/?noredirect=on

* "S&P, Dow and Nasdaq Slide After China Tariff Threat and Trump Twitter Response:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/business/stocks-market-tariffs.html

* "Trump hits China with new tariffs in trade war escalation:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/23/navarro-not-worried-china-trade-war-1473382

* "In big non-surprise, Trump turns on labor unions:" https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/08/in-big-non-surprise-trump-turns-on-labor-unions/

* "Trump calls the Fed chair an ‘enemy’ after Powell said trade war is ‘turbulent’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/23/fed-chair-powell-vows-sustain-expansion-he-doesnt-commit-deep-interest-rate-cuts-trump-wants/?noredirect=on

* "What a week - again, always, in the Trump administration:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-a-week-again-always-in-the-trump-administration-67315269653

* I found these little highlight things on the candidates who are for sure going to be in the next debate useful:

* "Certainty when you wrote the bill; seeing humanity in the economy:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/certainty-when-you-wrote-the-bill-seeing-humanity-in-the-economy-67327045503

* "Calling out Republicans; celebrating Democrats; tragic prescience:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/calling-out-republicans-celebrating-democrats-tragic-prescience-67326533583

* "A case made on competence; presenting ideas worth fighting for:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/a-case-made-on-competence-presenting-ideas-worth-fighting-for-67326021737

* "Principles rooted in a personal story; knowing your opponents:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/principles-rooted-in-a-personal-story-knowing-your-opponents-67326533608

* "Booker harnesses eloquence to project the passion of his politics:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/booker-harnesses-eloquence-to-project-the-passion-of-his-politics-67324485803

* "Seth Moulton to drop out of 2020 race:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/23/seth-moulton-to-drop-out-of-2020-race-1472875

* "Trump still open to background checks?:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-still-open-to-background-checks-67313221955

* "Neo-Nazi accused of planning to bomb LGBT clubs wanted to 'recruit kids':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/16/neo-nazi-accused-planning-bomb-jewish-lgbt-clubs-recruit-kids/

* "Memo reveals a House Republican strategy on shootings: downplay white nationalism, blame left:" https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/08/16/memo-reveals-a-house-republican-strategy-on-shootings-downplay-white-nationalism-blame-left/

* There is some very scary dystopian stuff Republicans are proposing discussed towards the end of this. "Chris Hayes on the inception of white terrorism in America:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-inception-of-white-terrorism-in-america-67312709946

* "Court allows Trump admin asylum restrictions to take place along most of border:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/court-trump-admin-asylum-restrictions-place-border/story?id=65016549

* "AG William Barr promotes immigration judges with high asylum denial rates:" https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/AG-William-Barr-promotes-immigration-judges-with-14373344.php

* "Lyra McKee’s partner says she understands why people can be afraid to speak out against her murder:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/19/lyra-mckees-partner-sara-canning-murder-police/

* This is a new one. Last week's was the right to discriminate against trans folk. This one targets the whole queer community. "Trump Admin to Supreme Court: Allow Gay People to Be Fired:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/8/23/trump-admin-supreme-court-allow-gay-people-be-fired

* "Right-wing pastor Franklin Graham slams new law requiring schools to teach LGBT+ history:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/17/franklin-graham-christian-pastor-new-jersey-schools-lgbt-history/

* And massive damage to the environment, the economy, etc.. "David Koch, Whose Money Harmed LGBTQ People, Dead at 79:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/8/23/david-koch-whose-money-harmed-lgbtq-people-dead-79

* "The last words of the serial killer who was executed for murdering six gay men:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/23/last-words-serial-killer-gary-ray-bowles-execution-florida/

* "30 Queer-Friendly Books for Young Adults, Kids, and Familes:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/8/24/30-queer-friendly-books-young-adults-kids-and-familes

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

* Master Post For the summer of resistance: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108368.html

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Ship hijacked by migrants off Libya escorted to Malta:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/ship-hijacked-by-migrants-off-libya-escorted-to-malta

"Giorgia Linardi, a SeaWatch spokeswoman, told Italian radio: “We can’t just stare at the migrants from planes while they are dying at sea. We are committing odious crimes against asylum seekers.”"

"On Wednesday, the European Union said it would stop its sea patrols in the Mediterranean, which have rescued thousands of refugees and migrants, after the Italian government threatened to veto the EU’s entire operation in the waters."

* "Brexit has nearly broken British politics. Here’s how to fix it:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/30/brexit-broken-british-politics-withdrawal-agreement

* "‘Fighting for freedom’: inside the leave protest on what would have been Brexit day:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/29/fight-for-freedom-brexiters-mark-what-would-have-been-uk-independence-day-parliament-square-london

* "UK parliament mired on Brexit as streets fill with protest:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/uk-parliament-mired-on-brexit-as-streets-fill-with-protest-1468251715775

* "AG: Mueller report to be released 'by mid-April, if not sooner':" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/29/attorney-general-doj-to-release-mueller-report-by-mid-april-if-not-sooner-1243851

* "Barr improvises role on Mueller report despite clear regulations:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/barr-improvises-role-on-mueller-report-despite-clear-regulations-1468245571615

* "Schiff: Barr memo claim on need for obstruction decision 'flimsy':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schiff-barr-memo-claim-on-need-for-obstruction-decision-flimsy-1468240963679

* "House Intel yet to be briefed on counterintel side of Trump probe:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-intel-yet-to-be-briefed-on-counterintel-side-of-trump-probe-1468239427512

* "Rep. Ocasio Cortez on Green New Deal: 'We need to do something.':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-ocasio-cortez-on-green-new-deal-we-need-to-do-something-1467989059698

* "Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. knew climate change was real in 1989:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ocasio-cortez-insists-green-new-deal-won-t-restructure-government-1468087875889

* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains why the Green New Deal is about more than climate:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-explains-why-the-green-new-deal-is-about-more-than-climate-1468164675990

* "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it’s about the 'future of fossil fuel workers':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-it-s-about-the-future-of-fossil-fuel-workers-1468176451692

* "AOC on what makes her different from Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-on-what-makes-her-different-from-trump-1468181571902

* "$23 Billion Education Funding Report Reveals Less Money for City Kids:" https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/education-nonwhite-urban-school-districts-funding-tax/585691/

* "Seattle suspect said he's a blackout alcoholic, doesn’t remember rampage that killed 2:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seattle-suspect-said-he-s-blackout-alcoholic-doesn-t-remember-n989126

* "A fifth-grader was injured in a classroom fight with another student. Days later, she died.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/03/28/th-grader-was-injured-classroom-fight-with-another-student-days-later-she-died/?utm_term=.851e8c1be2ce

* "Four Nations Lead the World With 100 Percent Green Energy. But...:" https://www.ozy.com/acumen/four-nations-lead-the-world-with-100-percent-green-energy-but/92891


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

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

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

* "Pictures From Youth Climate Strikes Around the World:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/climate/climate-school-strikes.html

* "Kellyanne Conway dismisses her husband’s concerns that Trump’s mental health is deteriorating:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kellyanne-conway-dismisses-her-husbands-concerns-that-trumps-mental-health-is-deteriorating/2019/03/18/5d80369a-4972-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c38881c28f26

* "Trump Rebukes General Motors and Union Over Idling of Lordstown Plant:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/general-motors-donald-trump.html

* "Rod Rosenstein staying at Justice Department 'a little longer':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/rod-rosenstein-staying-justice-department-little-longer-n984791

* "Another prosecutor leaving Mueller’s team:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/18/another-prosecutor-leaving-muellers-team-1226464

* "Mueller's office began investigating Michael Cohen as early as July 2017:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/mueller-investigation-michael-cohen-1226983

* "Legal battle between Michael Flynn and former business partner heats up:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/18/michael-flynn-business-partner-lawsuit-1225760

* "Trial of Trump transition official may expose new Flynn details:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trial-of-trump-transition-official-may-expose-new-flynn-details-1461396547702

* "Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe:" https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-authorities-raided-trump-fundraisers-office-in-money-laundering-probe

* "Democrats target massage parlor proprietor linked to Trump:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-massageparlors-idUSKCN1QZ2MV

* "Federal judges grill lawyers who claim Trump violating emoluments clause:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/appeals-court-hear-arguments-trump-emoluments-lawsuit-n984586

* "GOP: Few targets met House deadline on Trump corruption probe docs:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/nadler-probe-trump-1227671

* "Trump officials prepared to stonewall Democratic oversight demands:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/trump-democrat-oversight-investigation-congress-1225761

* "Nadler encouraged by document response; thousands from Bannon:"http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nadler-encouraged-by-document-response-thousands-from-bannon-1460668995656

* "House document responses pose challenge in processing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-document-responses-pose-challenge-in-processing-1461393475913

* "CLEAN WATER ACT: EPA won't extend WOTUS comment period:" https://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2019/03/19/stories/1060127629

* So the plan is to saddle poor people with crushing debt without letting them get a degree instead of at least getting people get a college degree in exachange for crushing debt, while stealing access to subsidized loans. How is this better? Because it sure looks worse for me. They are really ramping up their class warfare. "White House proposes caps on student loan borrowing:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-proposes-caps-student-loan-borrowing-n984496

* "Inside Ben Carson's light work schedule: Not much work on Fridays:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/ben-carson-s-schedule-shows-friday-trips-florida-lunch-my-n983526

* "Rep. Devin Nunes sues Twitter for $250 million:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/18/devin-nunes-twitter-lawsuit-1226467

* "GOP strategist: Nunes "trying to use litigation to stifle free speech":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-strategist-nunes-trying-to-use-litigation-to-stifle-free-speech-1461319235994

* "Warren calls for eliminating the Electoral College:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/elizabeth-warren-eliminate-electoral-college-1226686

* "Democratic candidates want to get rid of the Electoral College:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/democratic-candidates-want-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college-1461329987533

* "Fundraising cranks up as Democratic primary campaigns get in gear:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fundraising-cranks-up-as-democratic-primary-campaigns-get-in-gear-1460667459792

* "Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan joins board of Fox Corporation:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/media/paul-ryan-fox-corporation/index.html

* "How Sen. Gillibrand proposes to fund national paid leave:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-gillibrand-s-proposal-on-national-paid-leave-1460581955962

* "Sen. Gillibrand: Expand GI bill to make college free with public service:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-gillibrand-expand-gi-bill-to-make-college-free-with-public-service-1460577859607

* ”Gillibrand: 'On guns, I should have done more':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gillibrand-on-guns-i-should-have-done-more-1460547139982

* "Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on immigration and border security:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-on-immigration-and-border-security-1460571715971

* "Sen. Gillibrand addresses Al Franken controversy:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-gillibrand-addresses-al-franken-controversy-1460588099758

* "Gillibrand: 'You do not defeat terrorism by being hateful':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-kirsten-gillibrand-tackles-anti-muslim-rhetoric-and-why-she-want-to-run-against-pres-trump-1460590659690

* "Supreme Court rules for Trump on detaining immigrants:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/19/supreme-court-immigrants-detained-past-crimes-1281117

* "Wajahat Ali: "Donald Trump is a racist":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/wajahat-ali-donald-trump-is-a-racist-1461315651999

* TW: Pedophilia. "How Cardinal George Pell Became the Highest-Ranking Catholic Official to Be Convicted of Child Abuse:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/george-pell-cardinal-australia-sexual-abuse-children-rape-807780/

* TW: Pedophilia. "Age of victim in prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, long a source of confusion, eased his obligations to register as a sex offender:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/age-of-victim-in-prosecution-of-jeffrey-epstein-long-a-source-of-confusion-eased-his-obligations-to-register-as-a-sex-offender/2019/03/17/57063cd8-4035-11e9-a44b-42f4df262a4c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c590c5534a6d

* TW: Pedophilia "Age of victim in Epstein deal eased sex offender penalties: WaPo:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/age-of-victim-in-epstein-deal-eased-sex-offender-penalties-wapo-1460664899809

* "Robert Kraft offered plea deal in prostitution solicitation case:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/03/19/robert-kraft-offered-plea-deal-prostitution-solicitation-case/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cee16f602601

* "Timetable for Deer Park chemical blaze indefinite as fire grows:" https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Timetable-for-Deer-Park-chemical-blaze-indefinite-13701585.php

* "Australia's Border Fence:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Upset about the abuse of big cats by people who shouldn't be allowed to keep them? Big cat rescue is trying to change laws to protect wild animals. "Cat Laws:" https://bigcatrescue.org/cat-laws/

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

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

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

* "Philippines: Muslims vote in referendum on autonomous region:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/21/philippines-muslims-vote-in-referendum-on-new-autonomous-region

* "May axes Brexit fee for EU citizens:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46950719

* "Zimbabwe troops 'used systematic torture':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46968142

* "Fear of Mueller probe leads Russian pop star linked to Trump family to cancel tour:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/emin-agalarov-russian-singer-linked-trump-family-cancels-upcoming-tour-n960981

* Wow! Just...wow. "“Even If He Did Do It, It Wouldn’t Be a Crime”: Rudy Giuliani on President Trump:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/even-if-he-did-do-it-it-wouldnt-be-a-crime-rudy-giuliani-donald-trump-robert-mueller-moscow-buzzfeed

* ""We don't know anything about it": Donald Trump Jr. blames Michael Cohen for Moscow project:" https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-jr-michael-cohen-moscow-project-33686697-84af-4470-975c-506075607fb2.html

* "Supreme Court lets mystery foreign company file sealed appeal papers in possible Mueller case:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/22/supreme-court-will-let-possible-mueller-company-file-papers-in-secret.html

* "Top diplomat for European affairs resigns from State Department:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-diplomat-for-european-affairs-resigns-from-state-department/2019/01/22/ada80048-1e3f-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9c0ae825dfcc

* Meanwhile on Autocracy watch. "Trump says he told Sarah Sanders 'not to bother' with press briefings:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/trump-press-briefings-1117946

* "Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Debunks Myths About A 70% Marginal Tax:"

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* "Los Angeles Teachers’ Strike to End as Deal Is Reached:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/la-teacher-strike-deal.html

* The provisions are entirely unacceptable and Draconian. "G.O.P. Bill to End Shutdown Draws Protests Over Asylum Restrictions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/politics/shutdown-trump-asylum.html

* "Senate Leaders Plan Competing Bills to End Shutdown:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/politics/government-shutdown-senate.html

* I support this. "Letter: Federal workers should stay home Jan. 23:" https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2019/01/21/letter-federal-workers/

* "Anonymous FBI agents air shutdown grievances in association's report:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/fbi-shutdown-report-1119526

* "Federal work at Superfund sites suspended during shutdown:" https://www.apnews.com/550bec0c92024124893c97abc4ccf707

* "Workers, services begin to fray as shutdown enters second month:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/workers-services-begin-to-fray-as-shutdown-enters-second-month-1430345283517

* "Sen. Brown on shutdown: 'Mitch McConnell's gotta do his job.':" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sen-brown-on-shutdown-mitch-mcconnell-s-gotta-do-his-job-1430341699976

* "Sen. Brown: Trump long-term betrayal of workers seen in shutdown:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sen-brown-trump-long-term-betrayal-of-workers-seen-in-shutdown-1430345283584

* "Sen. Tim Kaine on why you can't negotiate with Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-tim-kaine-on-why-you-can-t-negotiate-with-trump-1430267971552

* "Chef Jose Andres on feeding workers hurt by shutdown:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chef-jose-andres-on-feeding-workers-hurt-by-shutdown-1430271555976

* If you have a Republican senator, especially one up for re-election in 2020, now is a good time to protest. If you have a Democratic Representative in the House or Senate, please let them know they should stand firm.

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/

* "The Supreme Court Is Preparing to Make Every State’s Gun Laws Look Like Texas’:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/supreme-court-new-york-gun-case-heller.html

* "DACA program that protects young undocumented immigrants not likely to get Supreme Court review this term:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/daca-program-that-protects-young-undocumented-immigrants-not-likely-to-get-supreme-court-review-this-term/2019/01/22/dd3ac11a-1db3-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7c63ea468c19

* "The Rev. William Barber delivers a fiery call to action during Nashville's MLK Day event:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/01/21/rev-william-barber-mlk-day-speech-nashville-gov-bill-lee/2607922002/

* "Rev. Barber blasts politicians for hypocrisy about MLK:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rev-barber-blasts-politicians-for-hypocrisy-about-mlk-1430264899907

* "Rep. Lori Saine says blacks, whites lynched in ‘nearly equal numbers’ for being Republican:" https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/on-mlk-day-weld-county-legislator-says-blacks-whites-lynched-in-nearly-equal-numbers-for-being-republican/

* "Planned Attack On Muslim Community In Upstate New York Disrupted, Police Say:" https://www.npr.org/2019/01/22/687560197/attack-on-muslim-community-in-upstate-new-york-disrupted-police-say

* "“Leave No Soldier Behind”: The Unsolved Mystery of the Soldier Who Died in the Watchtower:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-soldier-who-died-in-the-watchtower

* "Supreme Court allows Trump restrictions on transgender troops in military to go into effect as legal battle continues:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-allows-trump-restrictions-on-transgender-troops-in-military-to-go-into-effect-as-legal-battle-continues/2019/01/22/e68a7284-1763-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.36f90d6b5350

* "Transgender advocates optimistic in fighting Trump's military ban:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/transgender-advocates-optimistic-in-fighting-trump-s-military-ban-1430344259930

* "Crystal Healing: Toxic Crystals and Stones List:" https://sacredhealingnyc.com/toxic-crystal-list/

* The Senate's Plans to End the Shutdown, The U.S.'s Absence in Davos, & Japan's Unemployed Robots":"

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* "The Democratic Apology Tour:"

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* "Fox News Can't Stop Misreporting Deaths:"

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* "Pence's Trump-MLK Comparison Doesn't Add Up:"

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* "Rudy Giuliani Has Out-Giuliani'ed Himself:"

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* I cleverly remembered that it was MLK Day before going to bed, so ddn't set an alarm. My lung infection ramped back up on me, so I've been going gentle in hopes of being able to forage on Wednesday as we are running low of some staples. The Pain situation continues to improve to a much more bearable level. I'm going gentle Tuesday too. We'll see how it goes.

* I feel like the people making Deadly Class went to a school like mine. Also? That music is on point.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

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

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

* "For Karachi's Water Mafia, Stolen H2O Is A 'Lucrative Business':" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/10/645525392/for-karachis-water-mafia-stolen-h20-is-a-lucrative-business

* "“[The] camera should be in my hand.” That’s what...:" http://npr.tumblr.com/post/177977978289/the-camera-should-be-in-my-hand-thats-what

* "Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign:" http://prospect.org/article/trump-launches-aggressive-poverty-disinformation-campaign

* "Manafort uniquely positioned to offer insight on Russia and Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-uniquely-positioned-to-offer-insight-on-russia-and-trump-1321026627948?v=railb&

* "Letter accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault roils confirmation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/letter-accusing-kavanaugh-of-sexual-assault-roils-confirmation-1321024579758?v=railb&

* There is still time to protest before Thursday! Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joseph Manchin, Joe Donnelly, and Heidi Heitkamp; or Republicans like Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski. (For Scott and Rubio emphasize Kavanaugh's racism and support for racial profiling, for Collins and Murkowski emphasize the right to chose and the Jane Doe case where he tried to force a raped immigrant teen to carry against her will, With Murowski, you might also mention his opposition to programs benefiting Alaska Natives). Contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition.

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, 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/

* "Texas Conservafools Snatching Beto Yard Signs:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/texas-conservafools-snatching-beto-yard.html

* Note: Texas is a major market for history textbooks, so American textbook publishers tend to cater to their standards. Basically, they have the biggest say in what goes into the newest textbooks, so it matters to the quality of everyone's education.

* "After public outcry, Texas unlikely to ax references to 'heroism' of Alamo defenders from history curriculum:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/09/11/texas-probably-wont-ax-reference-heroic-alamo-defenders-history-class-moses-slavery

* "In Texas public schools, it’s out with Helen Keller, in with Dolores Huerta:" https://thinkprogress.org/in-texas-public-schools-its-out-with-helen-keller-in-with-dolores-huerta-4c9523e16c80/

* We need massive protests on this one. "Why You Should Actually Be Terrified Right Now:" https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a23010174/stripping-american-citizens-passports-genocide/

* I am furious about this. "These Cancer Patients Wanted to Get Rid of Their Breasts for Good. Their Doctors Had Other Ideas.:" https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a22984204/breast-cancer-survivors-mastectomy-sexism/

* "Trans, Muslim and Living In Malaysia:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/09/trans-muslim-and-living-in-malaysia.html

* "The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/whose-farm-is-this-anyway/569227/

* "Category 6? Climate change may cause more hurricanes to rapidly intensify.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/09/11/category-climate-change-may-cause-more-hurricanes-rapidly-intensify/?utm_term=.e879f89510cd

* "Tropical Storm Florence batters North and South Carolina; 12 deaths reported - live updates:" https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/tropical-storm-florence-path-power-outage-flooding-latest-weather-hurricane-rain-2018-09-15/

* "Yellowstone hit by global warming, increased visitation: report:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yellowstone-climate/yellowstone-hit-by-global-warming-increased-visitation-report-idUSKCN1LR04P

* "Secrets of early human ancestors could be unlocked by African rainforests:" https://phys.org/news/2018-09-secrets-early-human-ancestors-african.html

* Today I was super short sleeped as I had an afternoon guest. I made tea and we chattered and did a bit of Gothmas prep. After we went and looked at the Target display for fun, as they had put out the housewares since Monday. It was rather disappointing, to be honest. They usually have way more cool things. They did have some lights and filigree black pumpkins adored and would have bought if I were rich. (Look, as a poor person, I must take my pleasures where I can get them and looking at black skulls with purple bejeweling and pressing buttons on sample electronics is fun). Then I dropped them off at work.

Thanks to strong though sporadic rain I was able to solve the allergen vs. pathogen quandary in favour of allergens, as I woke up dramatically improved. no way could my sluggish immune system shrug of anything respiratory that fast. I'm not up to as good as it gets for me, but this is a level of for reasonable that noticeably improves with each passing hours. Rain tamps down allergens as I'm basically allergic to outside, but not inside things like mold, dust or cats.

I got my flu shot on the way home as a result. I think this may be one of the better ones, though odds are I'll be running a sporadic low grade fever soon enough. The vaccine is very, very worth it. I trade a sporadic low grade fever for a couple days to a week, plus maybe a wee bit of injection site itching depending on the shot make up for two weeks to a month of influenza which for someone with my set of genetic horrors is potentially dangerous. The partial immunity for similar strains in Spring is also very worth it. There is a reason my medical team is emphatic about me getting them and why I try to get them a early as I can each year.

Vaccinate yourself and your kids if you don't have medical contraindications such as allergiies to the injection or an illness precluding. It is safe and it HELPS.

Tavy let my friend pet hi again, a sign that they really do now count as adjunct clowder members in Tavy's mind. Today I wore one of the trousers I pulled out of storage. They fit as well as they did before I went on the medication that I went off to cause the subtle weight loss. This is actually better than expected. It looks like I need to do a repair to one of the chains, but other wise everything is good. Unfortunately, Livia is scared of the,. No really. The chains jingle softly when I walk. It is nowhere near as loud as the keys, but of a similar type. I am practicing walking softly and we'll see how that goes. She hid from the guest as usual, but I came home from dropping them off and knew she had been napping on the bed from the loud thump of her landing and a glimpse of her moving in the shadows. Tavy was still on the bed and being smaller, it's a lighter thump. She kept coming out when I wass doing plants/tank/food/lung, but whenever I started walking, she ran back to my room. The hope is she'll come out now I'm more still and I've worked out a way to minimize jingle. I don't plan to wear these trousers every day anyway, but only when I go out. The patched together silent ones, I'll use on days I stay home.

Update: Livia came out again while I was typing this entry. We'll see how she does.

Update 2: Even after I changed my trousers, Livia avoided me for hours. She eventually came around, luckily and is fine.

LM's been out and about since noon. This is not just the most social I've seen her since her cohort died, but this is the most physically active she's been since her brother and Mache went. Pretty good for a cranky old lady, I think. She even's been nibbling at the kibbles on her forays into the apartment proper, and tried one of the junior beasties crunchy treats, despite her having perfered to starve rather than eat kibbles anymore over a year ago, hence Squirrel switching her to an all goosh diet despite her still having her teeth. She still hisses at the junior beasties when they come to close, but I think she's finally accepted that the others are gone for real and these are the cats she has to hang out with. I am terribly proud of her. She came and got pettins on Mache's old pettin throne thrice! (The pettin throne is a footstool I found at a second hand store that is padded on top and was the exact right height for Mache to get on and off of herself easily even with her arthritis. It was perfect for her to nap on next to my desk, and whenever she woke, she'd get pettins on demand. The junior kitties mostly use it as a stepping stone for jumping on the desk, though both have used it now and then for things like short pettins or in Tavy's case, attempting to eat the arm of my chair.) Anyway, I have hopes that however many years LM has left will be better than the last few have been.

* I am about $200.00 behind on bills. If you'd like to chip in towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* Wow, this week's Killjoys was hardcore! O.o

* "Revisiting Chapters: Dany X, ADWD :" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/176906196017/revisiting-chapters-dany-x-adwd

* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:

- 7.1: Descent. We pick up with Picard, Geordi, and Deanna surrounded by Borg being lead by Lore and Date. Lore monologues about how he found Hugh's ship after the Enterprise rendered them individuals and "gave them a purpose," I.E: Serving Lore. I do like that he's not wrong about abandoning the new individuals to flail about was not okay, but that doesn't make Lore any better for having manipulated them into becoming his genocidal army. Meanwhile Dr. Crusher is commanding the Enterprise and Riker and Worf are searching the planet for Picard. The Borg ship comes back. They try to grab away teams before leaving, but they don't have time to get back 47, including Riker and Worf. Of course. Meanwhile they try to talk Data down, but all he feels is hatred and anger and he reasons back at them. He takes Geordi's visor. The Borg don't follow the ship; Riker orders the ones left on the planet to hide. Crusher and the B Team crewfolk come up with a risky plan to try to buy enough time to rescue the rest. Lore plans to experiment on humans. one of the Borg doesn't want to stay linked and prefers to think for himself, but Lore talks him out of it. Geordi could see a carrier wave comming from Lore before they took his visor and he thinks that's how he's manipulating Data. They decide to generate a pulse in hopes of reactivating Data's ethical sub-routine, but Data takes Geordi before they work out the details. Riker and Worf are taken to a cave of rebel rebel Borg who are Pissed. Hugh calls the Feds out on abandoning them to be used by Lore. He's not wrong. Anyway, when Lore started experimenting horribly on Borg to try to make them wholly artificial, that's when Hugh and the others fled. He asks after Geordi and on discovering he's being held by Lore, agrees to help with a rescue. meanwhile, Data is planning to replace Geordi's brain cells with an experimental neural net, a process that will likely kill him. Deanna and Picard try the old "he's sick" trick, which fools the guard, but Data turn's up with injured Geordi. Picard palmed a thingie from the guard they took down and Picard tries to make the pulse thingie with Geordi talking him through it. They beam as many up as they can in the time they have, but six are missing still. Crusher sets course towards the sun. They try an experimental shield Geordi designed. Geordi tries to get Data to be more Data by talking about shared memories. He gets data to delay killing all his brain cells by pointing out how data will likely see his actions if he ever is himself again. Data pretends he's not doing it for sciencey reasons. Lore victims blames; Data realizes if the humans die he will be responsible so looks like the pulse thingie works. Lore punishes Data by manipulating his emotions. The just out of the academy B Team crew woman saves the ship. Picard makes ethical arguments at Data to try to save Geordi. Lore orders Data to kill Picard; Data refuses. Lore monologues about he is making a sacrifice by killing Data. Hugh risks himself to save him and a Borg brawl breaks out with Riker and Worf sniping. Lore pretends he's going to give Data and emotion/Memory chip, but data sees through him, shooting nd deactivating him. Lore says he loves data just before he's deactivated. Hugh becomes the rebel Borg leader. Data's emotion chip was damaged. He says he is relieved as he doesn't want to risk hurting Geordi again. Geordi reaffirms their friendship, but also says "Someday when you're ready." This one had a lot of good ethical meat in it about unintended consequences. It was good to see Geordi's importance was repeatedly emphasized here. he's so often under utilized

- 7.2 Liaisons. Worf is procrastinating while insisting Klingons don't procrastinate, because he doesn't like diplomating. Riker teases him a bit. Apparently they are having a cultural exchange. Picard is going back with them while some exchange officers are paired up with enterprise crew. Riker's guy wants Worf instead so Worf is stuck with him. Deanna corrupts hers with Chocolate; Worf's is an asshole who orders him about. Data tells Worf to "build on your similarities." Ouch. Meanwhile Picard is on a really long trip with a man who doesn't small talk, but there is an emergency forcing them to land on a random planet. Picard's guy is injured and there is too much interference to get help from enterprise. Picard goes out to see if there is help at a nearby structure and gets electrocuted and dragged off. Back on the enterprise Worf is still being insulted. Deanna's diplomat is not completely obsessed with sweets, he's also fascinated by the existence of children since they wake from the pod fully grown. They take the child for dessert, Deanna's patience wearing thin. Picard wakes in a shelter with a mystery woman who says the pilot's dead. Mystery lady feeds him. She says she was a passenger on the ship they are sheltering in. She' been here seven years in turns out to her horror. Three of his ribs are broken. Her speech is halting from the years of not using her voice. He gets her to get stuff from the other ship. Worf is struggling not to kill asshole diplomat. Deanna admits the pleasure loving diplomat is getting a bit too much for her. Riker suggests poker, because of course he does. Picard discovers he's locked in; she claims it's to protect him from wild animals. He has only her word for what's really happening and it looks like the equipment's been phasored. He has only her word for anything. She is already claiming she loves him. Picard keeps working on his escpe and tries to explain to her she doesn't really love him. She is not best pleased to be rebuffed. The Ambassador steals Worf's chips during poker. They end up yelling and then fighting physically. Riker restrains Worf; the Ambassador thanks Worf and goes off to document the experience. Anna tries to stop Picard going back to the ship. he takes off the restricter and the ribs turn out not to be broken after all. He calls her on a whole list of lies. She sexually assaults him while demanding "Love me!" She sys she failed and leaves, locking him in. he hears the pilot calling and calls to him for help. The ilot claims to have been in a deathlike state and to have come looking for Picard when he woke. He claims he saw "Anna running" for the precipice. We only have his word for any of this. They split up to look for her at which point Picard conveniently finds her on the ledge, necklace that was broken fixed. She says she'll kill herself if Picard doesn't love her; Picard calls bullshit and she transforms back into the pilot. Apparently the first they knew of humans was Anna's logs in the crashed freighter. The pilot is the real Ambassador. The real Anna found the survivor of another crash and nursed him back to health, falling in love. They wanted to experience human emotions. Deanna's was to experience pleasure; Worf's was for anger and antagonism; Picard's was for love. They set up the conditions under which love had occurred previously. Picard explains that what the Ambassador has done is considered a crime in Picard's culture. Worf and his guy spent eleven hours sparring on the holodeck. Picard forgives the Ambassador.

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

* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232

* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0

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

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

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

This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

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

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

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