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* "'Liberate Hong Kong' slogan banned as protesters lie low:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/02/hong-kong-protesters-laying-low-following-mass-arrests-china

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* "As world approaches 10 million coronavirus cases, doctors see hope in new treatments:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-lessons-special-re/special-report-as-world-approaches-10-million-coronavirus-cases-doctors-see-hope-in-new-treatments-idUSKBN23X1I5

* "Arizona GOP Rep. Calls For WH Coronavirus Task Force To Be Disbanded:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/andy-biggs-arizona-disband-white-house-coronavirus-task-force

* "Surge in state COVID-19 cases driven by eastern Washington:" https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Surge-in-state-COVID-19-cases-driven-by-eastern-15384897.php

* "COVID-19 spikes linked to GOP leaders Arizona congressman asserts:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/arizona-congressman-laments-gop-leadership-linked-covid-19-spikes-87024197686

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* "Former diplomat: U.S. looks ‘stupid’ on Russian bounties response:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-not-addressing-russian-bounties-analyzed-by-former-diplomat-87023173913

* "The Unraveling of the U.S.-South Korean Alliance:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/north-korea/2020-07-03/unraveling-us-south-korean-alliance

* "Trump Is Throwing a Mount Rushmore Fireworks Show. What Could Go Wrong?:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trumps-mount-rushmore-fireworks-show-what-could-go-wrong.html

* "At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech ahead of Independence Day:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mount-rushmore-fireworks/2020/07/03/af2e84f6-bd25-11ea-bdaf-a129f921026f_story.html

* "Trump’s Mount Rushmore trip decried by Native American activists:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-trip-to-mount-rushmore-protested-by-native-americans-87019077763

* "Trump Believes That He Is Losing Because He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-losing-2020-polls-racism-black-lives-matter.html

* "Manhattan prosecutor pick ducks questions about Barr's job offer:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/jay-clayton-sdny-bill-barr-339888

* "Barber slams ‘scarcity of will’ for economic issues plaguing U.S.:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-touts-4-8-million-new-jobs-despite-50-million-jobs-lost-87027269816

* "How the American Worker Got Fleeced:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-the-fleecing-of-the-american-worker/

* "For Maine Lobstermen, a Perfect Storm Threatens the Summer Season:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/maine-lobster-summer-virus.html

* "Colleges Face Rising Revolt by Professors:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/coronavirus-college-professors.html

* "The Latest Pandemic Shortage: Coins Are The New Toilet Paper:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880958665/the-latest-pandemic-shortage-coins-are-the-new-toilet-paper

* "White evangelical approval of Trump slips, but eight-in-ten say they would vote for him:" https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/01/white-evangelical-approval-of-trump-slips-but-eight-in-ten-say-they-would-vote-for-him/

* "GOP candidate is latest linked to QAnon conspiracy theory:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/gop-candidate-is-latest-linked-to-qanon-conspiracy-theory-2/

* "Mississippi could drop Jim Crow-era statewide voting process:" https://apnews.com/dc57e6e1b01c5a18af058d587daa2e11

* "The Voting Disaster Ahead:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/voter-suppression-novembers-looming-election-crisis/613408/

* "Mayor Muriel Bowser: Make D.C. a State!:"

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* "Police: 2 women hit by car on Seattle highway amid protest:" https://apnews.com/741b01da9ce010717df1afca30afe09e

* "WikiLeaks Founder Charged With Conspiring With LulzSec & Anonymous Hackers:" https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/wikileaks-lulzsec-anonymous-hackers.html

* "Fact check: Breaking down Trump's false claims about DACA and the Supreme Court's ruling:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/fact-check-trump-daca-supreme-court-tweets/index.html

* "The Immigration System Is Set To Come To A Near Halt, And No One Is Paying Attention:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/immigration-system-budget-cuts

* "He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/he-built-a-privately-funded-border-wall-its-already-at-risk-of-falling-down-if-not-fixed

* "Trump tweets about plan for BLM mural in front of his Tower:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/trump-tweets-about-plan-for-blm-mural-in-front-of-his-tower/

* "Fact-checking Trump's references to the anti-police chant 'pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/fact-check-trump-pigs-blanket-black-lives-matter/index.html

* "An Anti-Racist West Point:" https://medium.com/an-anti-racist-west-point/an-anti-racist-west-point-a26fa2f77bbe

* "A National Guardsman Sent To LA Protests Is Under Investigation For Ties To Proud Boys:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/national-guard-proud-boys-california-black-lives-matter_n_5efe44a5c5b612083c592f32

* ""Kill 'em": Houston GOP powerbroker Steve Hotze left Greg Abbott a voicemail requesting that National Guard "shoot to kill" rioters:" https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/03/steve-hotze-texas-greg-abbott-rioters/

* "Journalists are reexamining their reliance on a longtime source: The police:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/journalists-are-reexamining-their-reliance-on-a-longtime-source-the-police/2020/06/30/303c929c-b63a-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html

* "Latinx activist asks all impacted by police brutality to unite:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/police-shooting-death-of-andres-guardado-decried-by-activist-87025733956

* "Police clashes with Native Americans often ‘invisible’ activist laments:" https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/native-americans-disproportionately-impacted-by-police-violence-87026245691

* "Black Lives Matter protesters say they were attacked. Boise police investigate, speak out:" https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article243954757.html

* "South Dakota governor criticizes removal of statues as effort to 'discredit' nation's principles:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/505839-south-dakota-governor-criticizes-removal-of-statues-as-effort

* "Movement for Black Lives Confronts Tennessee’s Confederate Legacy:" https://theintercept.com/2020/06/21/black-lives-matter-tennessee-confederate/

* "The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/race-wage-gap.html

* "From soldier to worker; Police unions were born of resistance to discipline for brutality. Do they belong in the labor movement?:" https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/cops-union-history-fraternal-order-of-police/Content?oid=80542709

* "‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech:"

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* "Daveed Diggs asks: “What to My People is the Fourth of July?”:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE: The Exploitation of Julia Pastrana:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. "Lawsuit accuses GOP gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp of mishandling child sex-abuse investigation:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/lawsuit-accuses-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-loren-culp-of-mishandling-child-sex-abuse-investigation/

* "Arizona official brought women to the US to give birth and charged families to adopt the babies:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/us/marshall-islands-paul-petersen-adoption-scheme/index.html

* "Gender bias kept alive by people who think it's dead:" https://phys.org/news/2020-06-gender-bias-alive-people-dead.html

* "Vladimir Putin takes pathetic potshots at the US embassy because it defiantly flew a Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/04/vladimir-putin-russia-us-embassy-pride-flag-donald-trump-gay-queer-lgbt/

* "Poland’s homophobic barbarian – sorry, president – Andrzej Duda just vowed to ban same-sex couples from adopting children:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/04/andrzej-duda-poland-same-sex-adoption-ban-constitution-lgbt-gay/

* "J.K. Rowling likes tweet that supports conversion therapy:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/j-k-rowling-likes-tweet-supported-conversion-therapy/

* "Protesters take to the streets amid concerns over Tory government’s alleged rollback of trans rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/05/trans-rights-protest-london-parliament-square-gender-recognition-act-reform-conservative-boris-johnson-liz-truss/

* "Another Black trans woman killed after brutal shooting in Florida. Despite deadnaming from the media, her name was Bree Black:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/05/bree-black-transgender-killed-florida-pompano-beach-broward-sheriff/

* "Perkins: LGBTQ Rights Have Ruined The Fourth Of July - Joe.My.God.:" https://www.joemygod.com/2020/07/perkins-lgbtq-rights-have-ruined-the-fourth-of-july/

* "A Year In, 1st Patient To Get Gene Editing For Sickle Cell Disease Is Thriving:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/23/877543610/a-year-in-1st-patient-to-get-gene-editing-for-sickle-cell-disease-is-thriving

* You know how we people wih disabilities were concerned this would happen? Yeah. "Austin Hospital Withheld Treatment from Disabled Man Who Contracted Coronavirus:" https://thetexan.news/austin-hospital-withheld-treatment-from-disabled-man-who-contracted-coronavirus/

* "Visiting Hawaii's Tragic & Remote Leprosy Colony:"

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* "Salem Witch Trials- NEW Revelations:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE- Haydn's Head!:"

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* "ICONIC CORPSE: Charles Byrne the Irish Giant:"

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* "Morbid Mystery: The Franklin Expedition:"

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* "Almost 17,000 Protesters Had No Idea A Tech Company Was Tracing Their Location:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying

* "THE FROZEN BODIES OF MOUNT EVEREST:"

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* "CAVE DIVING CORPSES:"

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* "A water crisis looms for 270 million people as South Asia’s glaciers shrink:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/07/water-crisis-looms-for-270-million-people-south-asia-perpetual-feature/

* "How a decade of neglect and politics undermined the CDC’s fight against climate change:" https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/06/how-a-decade-of-neglect-and-politics-undermined-the-cdcs-fight-against-climate-change/

* "The Lion of Chaeronea:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lion-of-chaeronea

* "Was the Real Lone Ranger a Black Man?:" https://www.history.com/news/bass-reeves-real-lone-ranger-a-black-man

* "The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/magazine/6888th-battalion-charity-adams.html

* "The US Didn’t Bring Freedom to South Korea — Its People Did:" https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/gwangju-uprising-korean-war-seventieth-anniversary

* "Your Firework Smoke Could Be Tainted With Lead:" https://www.wired.com/story/your-firework-smoke-could-be-tainted-with-lead/

* "'The love letter that helped me flee my country':" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53077638

* "America is running out of fireworks:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/business/firework-industry-sales-2020/index.html

* "U.S. Coronavirus Cases Spike, the E.U. May Ban Americans & Clashes Over Mandatory Masks in Florida:"

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* "The Problem with Cop Shows:"

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* "Brandy Clark: Bigger Boat:"

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* Friday: Our HOA agreement allows seasonal decorations (within certain boundaries). So I was like, "Hey Squirrel, it occurs to me that PRIDE and particularly Stonewall Day are in fact holidays, so the HOA can't stop us. How would you feel about hanging a PRIDE flags up?" Because you don't cover your front window with a massive progress flag without consulting your roommate. He was really into it and wanted to get his own flag for his own window on top of the shared common space one. (I would love the chevrons, but flags are expensive so me getting a 45ish +shipping queer flag, yes I priced them and did the sourcing a monthish ago and it was hard ass things kept selling out or being sold out, on my own was too much money. Maybe next year). After some consultation we worked out which one he wanted and did the order. We did hang them in plenty of time for Stonewall day and they've been up a couple of weeks. My plan was to take them down on the 5th which is in margin by the letter of the rules, and damned if I don't want that thing up for the 4th for obvious fucking reasons. I generally don't rules lawyer, but i will for a good cause.

So when coming back from library curbside Monday I spotted the noticed the HOA had hung on the lobby door with passive aggressive highlighting on the sentence about not hanging political signs in the windows. I smiled, because I'd been waiting to see if they would give me an intent to fine notice, because my plan was to call them right up and point out that people are allowed to hang Christmas decorations, which given the whole bullshit war on Christmas rhetoric is a political issue. All we did was hang decorations celebrating Stonewall Day. Are you saying my identity is a political issue? Not a good look for the HOA in my deep blue college town.

Remember, I'm the person who put on clothes at 11:20PM on a Sunday night in the mid-90's to stomp a long block west to yell at a frat party to stop blasting 'Rockin Robin on repeat because some of us have jobs and need to sleep, with my terrified partner trailing after me, convinced I was a bout to get killed in a brawl with an entire frat and if I really was doing that, he should probably come have my back. They turned it off, chastened. More recently a few years ago I went and stood next to a Lady being screamed at by a mob anti-choicers and yelled back at them with her. I may pick my battles, but I'm all the fuck in when I fight.

So nothing happens and the days pass with no intent to fine notice. Squirrel's parking moves at the month change and he used that door coming home from work this morning and saw the notice. Him: This is definitely aimed at us. Nothing else has changed in the complex. Me: Oh yes. I spotted it Monday. If they want me to take it down they are going to have to explicitly tell me they don't consider PRIDE and Stonewall day real holidays. Him: They won't do that. Me: In which case I win. They either have to fight me over it or live with me ignoring their passive aggressive general notice.

The sign had to have gone up between last Monday afternoon and the Monday before, when I last used that door, which means I feel okay about taking my flag down on the 5th as planned. I'll still be within the HOA's own rules and nearly a week doesn't look like capitulation. Especially when they go back up next June. squirrel likes his so much It's going to be a wall hanging in his room and he's thinking about seeing if he can get a flag big enough to use as a door curtain for his room when there's more money, a project of which I approve. (We use shower curtains to create an airlock/privacy while leaving the doors ajar for cats.)

* Sunday: It will likely come as no surprise to you all that the Imperial couple do not react well to fireworks. Elder Kitty didn't mind them all that much before her hearing started to weaken and these days with her dementia, she only really responds to familiar stimulae that directly affects her in some way. Tavy and Livia though? A whole other story.

I fed the girls before it all started, which was a wise move. Livia had returned to the bed to hang out with me by the time of the first explosion. She clearly considered running, but I was calm and the bed room is generally invader free, so she decided to hang with me despite misgivings. Tavy came running in and jumped up on the bed to see iif we were scared and if this was a full on hide situation. He saw me lying there all calm and Livia nervous but holding it together and decided the "Hide on the bed in comfort as a group" plan was better than retreat to the secure hide. Her nerve nearly broke when the roman candle barrage happened on the other side of the gazebo, but they did really well, considering the both hate loud noises and unexpected happenings.

It's been rainy and cold for days, which I am grateful for since it discourages maskless idiots from congregating to breathe virus on each other. Bonus, it really cuts down on illegal firework related fires. It was still loud for a while, but it wasn't nearly as bad as usual when we get a week of explosions. We had a few on the third and then the usual nonsense in the complex, but it stopped early.

Taking the long silence for the end, I went and made dinner and did the usual chores. After I ate, I was just settling in for lungs and Tavy had just climbed on intending a pet and a cuddle nap. (He really likes lung time cuddle naps and he's especially big on them lately because he doesn't sleep on me as much with the machines going). His forth paw had landed when someone set off a massive mortar outside the window and he panicked all the way to his hide.

There followed another half hour or so, but they were done by midnight instead of going until dawn, so it's a huge win. They really did ride most of it out on the bed, and while they needed a lot of extra attention all night they had clearly recovered by dawn.

I've taken the PRIDE flag out of the front window and folded it away for next year. I even changed the 30. (Plus some MUSH Chargen). What I didn't do is much aggregate. Ooops.

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

* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us

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

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

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

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mcgrath2020-dd-om-gsearch?utm_source=g&utm_medium=om&utm_campaign=dd&utm_content=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&refcode=om_g_dd_20190709_g-dd-namenat-search_namedon-nat_amosdn&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5IL1uLKa6gIVcz2tBh1njwpEEAAYASAAEgLCYvD_BwE

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

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

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

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

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

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

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* "Keep Me Safe! Help me get a gate organized by Briel Moore:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-me-safe-help-me-get-a-gate?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet+expWdV

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

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

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

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* "Dr. Anthony Fauci says coronavirus turned 'out to be my worst nightmare' and it 'isn't over':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/dr-anthony-fauci-says-coronavirus-turned-out-to-be-my-worst-nightmare-and-it-isnt-over.html

* "Surging Coronavirus Cases Push Latin America ‘to the Limit’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/coronavirus-us-usa.html#link-1f302e21

* "White House goes quiet on coronavirus as outbreak spikes again across the U.S.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/white-house-stops-talking-about-coronavirus-309993

* "14 states and Puerto Rico hit highest seven-day average of new coronavirus infections:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/14-states-puerto-rico-hit-their-highest-seven-day-average-new-covid-19-infections-since-june/

* "Trump blames testing for spike in COVID-19 cases. Experts fault reopening of states.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fact-check-trump-blames-testing-spike-covid-19-cases-experts-n1228671

* "Montgomery COVID-19 cases ‘alarming’ to hospital association:" https://www.wsfa.com/2020/06/09/montgomery-covid-cases-alarming-hospital-association/

* Inslee opened us up into phase 2 and announced heavily expanded testing. I was pleased to discover they are doing a full screening of nursing home employees. really, all nursing home staff and residents need screening, same with staff and residents of jails and prisons on a regular basis. Fingers crossed that they do that. i have reasonable faith in my governor doing the right thing and following best practices to the best of his ability, so here's hoping this is just the iceberg's tip.

* "Migrants say they were forced to clean COVID-infected ICE facility:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/detained-migrants-say-they-were-forced-clean-covid-infected-ice-n1228831

* "20 LGBTQ+ People Working to Save Lives on the Frontline:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/6/04/20-stories-lgbtq-people-working-save-lives-frontline

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* "Donald Trump Jr.'s Mongolia Hunting Trip Cost Taxpayers $77,000:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-mongolia-hunting-trip-endangered-sheep_n_5edf126bc5b6948cbc5c971a

* Over the weekend, I saw an ad so strange I kept waiting for the punchline. For some reason we are getting Campaign ads for 45that are so utterly oblivious of the death and misery and carnage he'd wrought that they seem to have come from another planet. The ad was boasting about how he'd made America great Again, as if he hadn't killed so many people by hindering the Covid response, as if he hadn't put kids in cages, killed trans women and children in ICE detention by having his agents refuse them medical care, been more corrupt than the Grant and Harding administrations put together by an order of magnitude, betrayed this country on every level, pursued foreign policy in Russia's interests instead of our own egged on police violence, praised and encouraged NAZIs and loaded his cabinet with them, dismantled systems designed to protect civil and human rights, deliberately packed the courts with incompetence, summoned soldiers and secret police to put down democracy in the capital, shredded the constitution, ripped up environmental protections, broken more laws than I can count, and on and on and on. The only mention of the economy was to brag about it as if we weren't in a recession with small businesses permanently shuttered all over the country and worse to come. I just... Can Republicans hear themselves? Do they have working eyes or ears or some other way to absorb information from the world around them. How is this hellscape of mostly self created disaster better than what we had four years ago?

And they are showing this in a college town in a blue state. O.o I legitimately thought it was a parody.

* "Scottish bailout puts Trump's golf resorts in line for £1m tax rebate:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/scottish-bailout-means-trumps-golf-resorts-in-line-for-1m-tax-rebate

* "White House Tells Bolton His Book Still Contains Classified Information:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/us/politics/trump-john-bolton-book.html

* "'Everything about this is irregular': Ex-judge tapped to review Flynn case blasts Trump DOJ:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/gleeson-flynn-sullivan-barr-justice-department-311018

* "Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/10/interior-drilling-florida-waters-november-election-310595

* "The Real Economic Catastrophe Hasn’t Hit Yet. Just Wait For August.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/economy-recession-coronavirus

* "Trump campaign demands CNN apologize for poll that shows Biden leading:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/trump-campaign-cnn-poll/index.html

* "Joe Biden's LGBTQ Legacy, 10 Years After DADT Repeal:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/6/09/joe-bidens-lgbtq-legacy-10-years-after-dadt-repeal

* "Joe Biden - America's Policing Problem, Running Against Trump & Fighting Voter Suppression:"

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* "West Virginia Elects First Out Transgender Official:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/6/09/west-virginia-elects-first-out-transgender-official

* "Chris Hayes on why we should be worried that Trump is worried about reelection:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-why-we-should-be-worried-that-trump-is-worried-about-reelection-84800581943

* "Trump admin vote suppression plan seen in vote-by-mail hypocrisy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-vote-suppression-plan-seen-in-vote-by-mail-hypocrisy-84809285564

* "Iowa Senate Bill Could Limit Election Officials' Ability To Change Voting Process During Pandemic:" https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/iowa-senate-bill-could-limit-election-officials-ability-change-voting-process-during-pandemic#stream/0

* "Nevada polls close, long waits reported in Las Vegas:" https://news3lv.com/news/local/nevada-polls-close-long-waits-reported-in-las-vegas

* "‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/georgia-primary-election-voting-309066

* "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/atlanta-voting-georgia-primary.html

* "'It Was Very Chaotic': Long Lines, Voting Machine Issues Plague Georgia Primary:" https://www.npr.org/2020/06/09/873054620/long-lines-voting-machine-issues-plague-georgia-primary

* "Kemp admin seems intent on keeping Georgia voting broken for 2020:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kemp-admin-seems-intent-on-keeping-georgia-voting-broken-for-2020-84808261552

* "Record turnout moves Iowa GOP to attack successful voting system:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/record-turnout-moves-iowa-gop-to-attack-successful-voting-system-84809285716

* "GOP returns to voting suppression playbook as November looms:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-returns-to-voting-suppression-playbook-as-november-looms-84806725793

* "Stacey Abrams slams Georgia leaders for ‘incompetence’ and ‘malice’ in election disaster:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-slams-georgia-leaders-for-incompetence-and-malice-in-election-disaster-84853317609

* The Georgia Primary: Oh look! Most of the voting machines in black areas weren't working and at least one place they only had one worker to check people in and sanitize. Hours of waiting in long lines, but not in white areas! After all there's a pandemic on! They also didn't give poll workers passwords to operate the machines so it took a couple hours after open to start the voting in some plces.

Oh and they didn't bother sending out a whole lot of the requested absentee ballots. Fucking Wonder if the applications for those are in the same drawer as the one where Kemp kept all those voter registrations from black majority districts instead of processing them so he could fix the election last time.

Oh and the new voting machines that don't work? Kemp overrode the non-partisan choice to give it to his campaign manager's company even though they weren't remotely qualified for the job.

Meanwhile, Iowa had record June primary turnout last week because it was all mail in. Republicans are moving to ban it so they can force people to vote in person in a pndemic in November.

* "Army reverses course, will consider renaming bases named for Confederate leaders:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/army-reverses-course-will-consider-renaming-bases-named-for-confederate-leaders-307594

"The unrest sweeping the country over racial injustice comes as incidents of white nationalism within the ranks appear to be on the rise. A 2019 Military Times survey found that more than a third of troops who responded have seen evidence of white supremacist and racist ideologies in the military, a significant increase from the year before, when only 22 percent reported the same."

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* "Trump Wanted to Fire Esper Over Troops Dispute:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-wanted-to-fire-esper-over-troops-dispute-11591728235?mod=djemalertNEWS

* "Barr contradicts Trump: 'The Secret Service recommended that the President go down to the bunker' for safety:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/bill-barr-donald-trump-white-house-bunker/index.html

* "More than 1,250 former Justice Dept. workers call for internal watchdog to probe Barr role in clearing demonstrators from Lafayette Square:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/more-than-1250-former-justice-dept-workers-call-for-internal-watchdog-to-probe-barr-role-in-clearing-demonstrators-from-lafayette-square/2020/06/10/608827fe-aa73-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html

* "‘Disgusted’: Sen. Duckworth on unanswered questions about D.C. protest chain of command:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disgusted-sen-duckworth-on-unanswered-questions-about-d-c-protest-chain-of-command-84801605943

* "‘Ugh’: Republicans cringe after Trump's attack on 75-year-old protester:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/09/republicans-deflect-questions-after-trump-tweet-75-year-old-protester-309075

* "McEnany says Trump's baseless Buffalo protester tweet raised "questions that need to be asked":" https://www.axios.com/mcenany-trump-buffalo-protester-tweet-questions-asked-0cd06fc4-cf4f-4bbc-acf4-edfc6856cbe8.html

* The Fuck!?!?! "The Police Report on the Killing of Breonna Taylor Is Almost Entirely Blank:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/police-report-for-killing-of-breonna-taylor-is-nearly-blank.html

* "Police reform wasted without corresponding accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/police-reform-wasted-without-corresponding-accountability-84809797754

* "Panel Discussion on Radical Police Reform:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/te9mhf/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-june-9--2020---panel-discussion-on-radical-police-reform-season-25-ep-25113

* "D.C. toughens officer hiring and discipline, as wave of police reform sweeps the U.S.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-police-reform/2020/06/09/c77ae6b0-aa49-11ea-a9d9-a81c1a491c52_story.html

* "Denver police ban chokeholds, require officers to report when they point gun at someone:" https://www.denverpost.com/2020/06/07/denver-police-ban-chokeholds/

* "New York lawmakers pass anti-chokehold bill named for Eric Garner:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-york-lawmakers-pass-anti-chokehold-bill-named-for-eric-garner-2020-06-08/

* "Federal judge orders partial ban on tear gas in Portland:" https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/469724-380220-federal-judge-orders-partial-ban-on-tear-gas-in-portland

* "The judge approved a restraining order against the Minneapolis police:" https://pressinsiderdaily.com/2020/06/the-judge-approved-a-restraining-order-against-the-minneapolis-police/

* "Minneapolis police department pulls out of union contract negotiations:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/10/minneapolis-police-department-withdraws-from-union-contract-negotiations

* "Legislating Healing and Justice with Ayanna Pressley :"

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* "‘Lightning striking’: The swift shift of public in favor of Black Lives Matter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-lightning-striking-the-swift-shift-of-public-in-favor-of-black-lives-matter-84854853741

* "‘Welcome to Free Capitol Hill’ — Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone forms around emptied East Precinct:" https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2020/06/welcome-to-free-capitol-hill-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-forms-around-emptied-east-precinct/

* "KY Senate candidate: Mitch McConnell 'couldn’t care less if we die':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ky-senate-candidate-mitch-mcconnell-couldn-t-care-less-if-we-die-84701765960

* Wouldn't it be easier to get people to do that if they stop behaving like Animals and Thugs? "N.Y. Police Boss: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs':" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/6/09/ny-police-boss-stop-treating-us-animals-and-thugs

* "Trump Campaign Aide Shared Praise for Racist With Chainsaw Who Assaulted Protesters:" https://theintercept.com/2020/06/06/trump-campaign-aide-shared-praise-racist-chainsaw-assaulted-protesters/

* "The Black Lives Matter movement must do more for murdered Black trans women, says leading LGBT+ group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/09/black-trans-women-murder-lives-matter-movement-hrc-tony-mcdade-iyanna-dior-america-protests/

* "Adam Rippon Donates to Black Trans Cause in Anti-LGBTQ+ Skater's Name:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2020/6/09/adam-rippon-gives-1k-black-trans-charity-homophobes-name

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* "Anti-Asian Racism Is No Match for LGBTQ+ Activist Amazin LeThi:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2020/6/11/anti-asian-racism-no-match-lgbtq-activist-amazin-lethi

* TW: Sexual Assault, Torture. "Saudi authorities beat blogger, subject him to anal exam and demand he 'confess' being gay – all for supporting LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/10/saudia-arabia-mohamad-al-bokari-blogger-anal-exam-torture-lgbt-human-rights-watch/

* "This Japanese Region Just Made Outing LGBTQ+ People Illegal:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/6/09/japanese-region-first-make-outing-queer-people-illegal

* "Pose star Indya Moore says JK Rowling 'doesn't understand how much death and violence' are behind her 'stupid' opinions:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/11/pose-indya-moore-jk-rowling-trans-rights-dominque-jackson-mj-rodriguez/

* "54 Health Organizations: White Supremacy Fuels Black, Latinx HIV Rates:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/opinion/2020/6/08/54-health-organizations-white-supremacy-fuels-black-latinx-hiv-rates

* "The Love That Dared Not Speak Its Name, Of A Beetle For A Beer Bottle:" https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/06/19/193493225/the-love-that-dared-not-speak-its-name-of-a-beetle-for-a-beer-bottle?fbclid=IwAR3-RKvCTBUrNIUjU82RLYsI2v4XWPl51HNheKd1GBu8IkH-NrqE0cezs-0

* "China removes pangolin scales from traditional medicine list:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/asia/china-pangolin-protection-medicine-intl-hnk/index.html

* "The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-was-native-american-food-like-before-europeans

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

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* "America’s Long-Standing Tradition of Police Brutality:"

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* "It’s Time to Defund the Police:"

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* ""Cops" Gets Canceled, HBO Max Pulls "Gone with the Wind" & Updated Racism Definition:"

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* He’s legitimately one of the best Juliets I’ve ever seen. "You Made Me Love You - Matt Doyle:"

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* There's no fighting it. The battery is no good. He used the external charger and it seemed fine, until I tried to start it a second time and it was fully drained. I am pretty sure we replaced it a couple of years ago, but here we are.

Wednesday I had to stay up for some phone bureaucracy. Thursda I need to stay up for the mechanic and to all the HOA because they senta form letter complaint about the patio garden. As it's the same stuff that hasn't bothered them for years and I'm following the rules, I don't know what they want us to change, which means live humans on the phone in their shitty short business hours. Plus food shipment may be coming.

I'm so tired.

On the upside, the food card came.

Update: They are having construction, but it's half the price of the other option and I hardly ever leave the house, so we're dropping it off for Monday. I'd already paid first bill, but not second. The other option is twice as expensive and this is an ancient car and I am poor.

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

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

* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://omgthatdress.tumblr.com/post/619601461925625856

* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE

* "More on the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation and Reaffirmation Act:" https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1769250.html

* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities

* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html

* "NYSCI has a set of activities and resources up on their website:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2999942.html

* "How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/archives-to-browse-from-home

* "Free Meals:" https://www.schools.nyc.gov/school-life/food/free-meals

* "Learning Through Play: 101 Ways To Keep Young Minds Occupied At Home:" https://www.marksdailyapple.com/importance-of-play/

* Free lessons: https://www.mybluprint.com/

* CDC Foundation: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/give/ways-to-give

* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/

* "Make to Give - Support Our Medical Personnel:" https://www.joann.com/make-to-give-response/

* "Snopes on COVID-19 Fact-Checking:" https://www.snopes.com/2020/03/20/snopes-on-covid-19-fact-checking/

* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers

* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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

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

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Charles Booker: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-cb-dd-google?refcode=ads-dd-google-20200602-ad02&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIq6SGian06QIVkxatBh0bFQVPEAAYASAAEgIjnPD_BwE

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to help Ritchie Torres beat a homophobe in New York? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dkendorsestorres?refcode=20200605fpdn1mid

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

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

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

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

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

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* 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

* 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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* This would explain some of the dramatic increase of people found dead in their homes of presumed heart attacks in new York, for example. "Coronavirus infection may cause lasting damage throughout the body, doctors fear:" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-10/coronavirus-infection-can-do-lasting-damage-to-the-heart-liver

* "There’s Been a Spike in People Dying at Home in Several Cities. That Suggests Coronavirus Deaths Are Higher Than Reported.:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/theres-been-a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-in-several-cities-that-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-are-higher-than-reported

* "25,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html

* "The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their Own Immune Systems:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/health/coronavirus-cytokine-storm-immune-system.html

* "The Infection That’s Silently Killing Coronavirus Patients:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html

* "Morocco's government extends coronavirus lockdown to May 20:" https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200419-moroccos-government-extends-coronavirus-lockdown-to-may-20/

* "17 staff members of Kasr Al-Aini Hospital tested positive for COVID-19:" https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/84889/17-staff-members-of-Kasr-Al-Aini-Hospital-tested-positive

* "Security forces kill more Nigerians than coronavirus:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-52317196

* "Algeria declares nationwide lockdown as COVID-19 death toll hits 130 :" http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-04/05/c_138948039.htm

* "Indonesia bans end of Ramadan exodus amid coronavirus pandemic:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/indonesia-bans-ramadan-exodus-coronavirus-pandemic-200421094714939.html

* "Spain to allow children outside after six weeks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52341728

* "CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/21/coronavirus-secondwave-cdcdirector/

* "How New Jersey’s First Coronavirus Patient Survived:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/magazine/first-coronavirus-patient-new-jersey.html

* "Jennifer Nuzzo: “We’re Definitely Not Overreacting” to COVID-19:" https://daily.jstor.org/jennifer-nuzzo-were-definitely-not-overreacting-to-covid-19/

* "Experts say it may be time for grocery stores to ban customers from coming inside because of Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/business/grocery-stores-coronavirus-pickup-delivery/index.html

* "F.D.A. Authorizes First In-Home Test for Coronavirus:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/health/fda-in-home-test-coronavirus.html

* "S.C. Beaches Reopen — Or Not — Reflecting A Divide Over Coronavirus Shutdown:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/21/840546126/s-c-beaches-reopen-or-not-reflecting-a-divide-over-coronavirus-shutdown

* The snake oil 45 is pedaling raised the death rate from 11% to 28%. Both the drug and covid-19 tend to cause heart attacks, so combining them had foreseeable results. "More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study:" https://apnews.com/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2

* "NIH Panel Recommends Against Drug Combination Promoted By Trump For COVID-19:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/21/840341224/nih-panel-recommends-against-drug-combination-trump-has-promoted-for-covid-19

* "A Nurse Bought Protective Supplies for Her Colleagues Using GoFundMe.…:" https://www.propublica.org/article/a-nurse-bought-protective-supplies-for-her-colleagues-using-gofundme-the-hospital-suspended-her

* "Arkansas health care worker dies from virus; 348 positive cases reported at Cummins Unit:" https://katv.com/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases-up-to-1781-in-arkansas-348-positive-test-at-cummins-prison

* "AbiMar Foods Abilene plant to remain closed until all COVID-19 testing complete:" https://www.reporternews.com/story/money/business/2020/04/17/abimar-foods-abilene-cookie-factory-closed-employees-test-positive-covid-19-coronavirus/5155295002/

* "Tyson Worker: 'I'm putting my life on the line to make sure they get the chicken out.':" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tyson-worker-im-putting-my-life-on-the-line-to-make-sure-they-get-the-chicken-out

* "Cluster of COVID-19 cases found at JBS Packerland:" https://waow.com/2020/04/20/cluster-of-covid-19-cases-found-at-jbs-packerland/

* "‘Mortified and Appalled’: Atlanta Rages as Governor Eases Lockdown:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/atlanta-rages-as-georgia-gov-kemp-eases-covid-19-lockdown

* "More Nebraska meatpacking plants report COVID-19 cases:" https://journalstar.com/business/local/more-nebraska-meatpacking-plants-report-covid-19-cases/article_0c568fe3-4bc6-5a18-b1c1-d1e2aac3109a.html

* "Gov. won't close Waterloo Tyson plant; Black Hawk County records 2nd death:" https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/gov-wont-close-waterloo-tyson-plant-black-hawk-county-records-2nd-death/article_f93a9e8c-5407-5b8a-a2d7-23684a23583b.html

* "Second worker reportedly dead of coronavirus at South Dakota meat plant:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/second-worker-reportedly-dead-of-coronavirus-at-south-dakota-meat-plant-82371141644

* "Alabama senator on Georgia reopening economy: ‘It’s just crazy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alabama-senator-on-georgia-reopening-economy-it-s-just-crazy-82370629616

* "A School on Navajo Nation Stayed Open. Then People Started Showing…:" https://www.propublica.org/article/a-school-on-navajo-nation-stayed-open-then-people-started-showing-symptoms#182419

* This should lead to arrests. "VA Instructs Coronavirus-Exposed Staff to Continue Working, Places Those Who Don’t in AWOL Status:" https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/04/va-instructs-coronavirus-exposed-staff-continue-working-places-those-who-dont-awol-status/164693/

* "Internal V.A. memo shows some workers get only two masks per month:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/internal-v-a-memo-shows-some-workers-get-only-two-masks-per-month-82377285744

* "My Wild, Totally Surreal Experience Covering a Trump Coronavirus Briefing:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/16/coronavirus-briefing-lizza-191856

* "Pat Robertson Blames Health Crisis on Marriage Equality, Abortion:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2020/4/21/pat-robertson-blames-health-crisis-marriage-equality-abortion

* "Fundamentalist Christian says sin is deadlier than COVID-19 while bizarrely speculating on the death of PinkNews journalists:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/21/christian-sin-coronavirus-pinknews-genesis-ken-ham-ducktales-death-answers-genesis/

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* "Senate Intel report confirms Russia aimed to help Trump in 2016:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/senate-intel-report-confirms-russia-aimed-to-help-trump-in-2016-198171

* "White House readies push to slash regulations as major part of its coronavirus economic recovery plan:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/21/white-house-coronavirus-regulations/

* "‘Victory’: Outrage over plan to seize stimulus payments forces at least one bank to reverse course:" https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/victory-after-outrage-over-seizure-of-coronavirus-relief-payments-from-veterans-usaa-reverses-course/

* "Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/business/trump-hotel-coronavirus.html

* "Senate passes $484 billion coronavirus deal after weeks of deadlock:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/senate-coronavirus-relief-package-197983

* "With another rent bill looming, coronavirus economics become more dire:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-another-rent-bill-looming-coronavirus-economics-become-more-dire-82377285906

* "Ocasio-Cortez: Congress abdicating responsibility while people die:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ocasio-cortez-congress-abdicating-responsibility-while-people-die-82377797861

* "The Pandemic Will Cleave America in Two:" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/04/two-pandemics-us-coronavirus-inequality/609622/

* "Pandemic could cause famines of 'biblical proportions':" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronavirus-updates-warns-people-ready-living/story?id=70258498

* "U.S. Food Supply Chain Is Strained as Virus Spreads:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/business/coronavirus-food-supply.html

* "Thousands of acres of Florida fruits, veggies left to rot amid coronavirus pandemic:" https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/florida-fruits-vegetables-rot-business-coroanvirus/67-1a6cbf8d-2438-4bbf-9ece-21fd6117809d

* "In Trump's 'LIBERATE' tweets, extremists see a call to arms:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-s-liberate-tweets-extremists-see-call-arms-n1186561

* "Fox News promotes stay-at-home protests while staying at home:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fox-news-promotes-stay-at-home-protests-while-staying-at-home-82315333534

* "Inslee again blasts Trump for fomenting 'insubordination':" https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/inslee-again-blasts-trump-for-fomenting-insubordination

* "MAGA world finds its coronavirus scapegoats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/18/trump-coronavirus-who-bill-gates-fauci-193379

* "Gay Jewish governor accused of Nazism – yes, really – for trying to save lives during coronavirus crisis:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/20/jared-polis-nazi-colorado-gay-jewish-governor-nazism/

* Can we please have universal mail in elections now? "7 Wisconsin coronavirus infections linked to Election Day, health official says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/7-wisconsin-virus-cases-linked-person-voting-n1188606

* "19 Wisconsin coronavirus cases reportedly linked to Election Day:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/19-wisconsin-coronavirus-cases-reportedly-linked-to-election-day-82370117828

* "In a Pandemic, We're All 'Transit Dependent':" https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/04/coronavirus-public-transit-subway-bus-ridership-revenue/609556/

* I'm putting the whole Croden/Biden interview under the cut. Warnning: COVId-19 is amoung the topics:

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* "Trump's surprise immigration ban expected to include major exemption:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/20/trump-suspend-immigration-coronavirus-197755

* "Suspension of visa processing for Mexican seasonal workers hits U.S. farms, fisheries:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/18/seasonal-farmworkers-visas-food-supply-chain-coronavirus/

* "Trump ignores reality of coronavirus in US with focus on immigration:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-ignores-reality-of-coronavirus-in-us-with-focus-on-immigration-82378821709

* "LGBTQ People Must Condemn Violence Against Asian-Americans:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/4/21/lgbtq-people-must-condemn-violence-against-asian-americans

* "Teenage white supremacist who declared war on minorities in a neo-Nazi plot quietly released from jail:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/21/white-supremacy-richard-tobin-neo-nazi-war-minorities-fbi-jail-anti-semitism-racism-homophobia/

* "Amanda Nguyen - Combating Sexual Assault During the COVID-19 Crisis with Survivor Safe Haven:"

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* "Brexiteer Darren Grimes, a gay man who really should know better, thinks it’s funny to invalidate gender identities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/20/brexit-darren-grimes-gay-gender-identity-sex-trans-non-binary-tiktok-backlash/

* "Polish gay couple hand out hundreds of rainbow masks to fight both coronavirus and their country’s ‘LGBT-free’ zones:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/20/rainbow-masks-poland-lgbt-free-zones-gay-couple-coronavirus-homophobia-law-justice-party/

* "1 in 5 Russians Want to 'Eliminate' the LGBTQ Community:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2020/4/20/1-5-russians-want-eliminate-lgbtq-community

* "Peru is ‘responsible’ for rape and torture of trans woman while in custody, top human rights court rules:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/07/peru-rape-torture-trans-woman-police-custody-human-rights-court/

* "One of Turkmenistan’s top showmen and entertainers has been arrested for the crime of being gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/19/turkmenistan-gay-sex-actor-arrested-homosexuality-illegal-central-asia-crime/

* "Amid COVID-19, Could Sup. Court Rush a Ruling on LGBTQ Discrimination?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/3/19/amid-covid-19-could-sup-court-rush-ruling-lgbtq-discrimination

* "Man arrested as historic queer resort mourns ‘incredible’ staff member shot dead in one of its hotel rooms:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/20/parliament-house-florida-ricardo-filmore-dead-arrest-murder/

* "Teenager vandalises lesbian couple’s house and car with hateful homophobia and crude graffiti penises:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/20/graffiti-penis-teenager-vandalism-lesbian-couple-indiana-homophobia-crime-katrina-keri-sprinkle/

* "Idaho is being sued over its ‘hateful’ new transphobic laws, for the second time in one week:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/18/idaho-anti-trans-laws-republican-brad-little-sued-twice-week-aclu-lambda-legal/

* "Michael Moore's Question For Americans: How Do We Want To Live After This Pandemic?:"

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* "The deadly mix of Covid-19, air pollution, and inequality, explained:" https://www.vox.com/2020/4/11/21217040/coronavirus-in-us-air-pollution-asthma-black-americans

* "Chris Hayes on parallels between climate crisis and coronavirus:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-parallels-between-climate-change-and-coronavirus-82316357739

* "MI5 boss apologises for historic homophobic persecution of intelligence staff: ‘It must have caused all sorts of hurt’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/20/mi5-british-intelligence-apology-anti-gay-persecution-sir-andrew-parker-john-major/

* "Fearless Jamie Wildman – who came out as non-binary aged 69, proving it’s never too late – dies after cancer battle:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/04/21/jamie-wildman-death-cancer-tribute-non-binary-lgbt-activist-coming-out-outside-project/

* "Kim Jong-Un's Health Mystery, Kenyan Hennessy Remedy & Germany's Surprise COVID-19 Tests:"

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* "The Reopening Debate & Trump's Plan to Shut Down Immigration:"

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* "Trump Indulges His Penchant For Chanting Mobs By Tweeting Encouragement To Lockdown Protesters:"

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* "Trevor Noah: Trump's Response To Coronavirus Is Exposing His Lack Of Leadership:"

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* "Trump's Immigration Bombshell Came, As Always, Via Tweet:"

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* I've reached the point in the B5 rewatch where ISN falls. All these decades later, it gives me goose bumps.

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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

* "The snakebite squad: Saving lives on two wheels:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-49718818/the-snakebite-squad-saving-lives-on-two-wheels

* "Pompeo says Saudi attack an 'act of war' as Trump sounds more cautious note:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/politics/donald-trump-iran-sanctions-treasury/index.html

* "Trump says he plans to 'substantially increase' sanctions on Iran:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/trump-says-he-plans-to-substantially-increase-sanctions-on-iran-1501809

* "Military has spent nearly $200,000 at Trump’s Scottish resort since 2017:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/military-trumps-scottish-resort-1501877

* "The Fed cut rates for the second time this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/economy/federal-reserve-rate-jerome-powell/index.html

* "Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/dni-whistleblower-complaint.html

* "Trump’s communications with foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint that spurred standoff between spy chief and Congress, former officials say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-communications-with-foreign-leader-are-part-of-whistleblower-complaint-that-spurred-standoff-between-spy-chief-and-congress-former-officials-say/2019/09/18/df651aa2-da60-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html

* "White House also involved in advising DNI not to share whistleblower complaint:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/politics/white-house-justice-department-dni-whistleblower/index.html

* "Schiff threatens to sue over secret whistleblower complaint:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/trump-denies-comment-foreign-leader-whistleblower-1502945

* "Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/whistleblower-complaint-about-president-trump-involves-ukraine-according-to-two-people-familiar-with-the-matter/2019/09/19/07e33f0a-daf6-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html

* "Trump sues Manhattan prosecutor to block subpoenas for tax returns, his latest effort to halt investigations of his finances:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sues-manhattan-prosecutor-to-block-subpoenas-for-tax-returns-his-latest-effort-to-halt-investigations-into-his-finances/2019/09/19/e9d83bec-daea-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html

If it’s illegal to even investigate the President he can never be impeached. It also means that he can openly, say murder someone on national TV and they can collect any evidence.

We are in hard core autocracy country now. Let’s hope the courts see it that way.

* "Federal judge to suspend California law compelling Trump tax release:"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/09/19/federal-judge-to-suspend-california-law-compelling-trump-tax-release-9393766

* "In turnaround, McConnell backs $250 million in election security funding:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-turnaround-mcconnell-backs-250-million-in-election-security-funding/2019/09/19/b9f64462-daec-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html

* "The Electoral College Really Does Give Republicans a Massive Advantage in Close Elections, a New Paper Finds:" https://slate.com/business/2019/09/electoral-college-republican-advantage-texas-economics-paper.html

* "Gun violence costs the US $229 billion annually:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/gun-violence-costs-the-us-229-billion-annually-report.html

* "Barr Floats Gun Background Checks Plan; Says Trump Is Undecided:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-18/trump-administration-circulating-gun-background-checks-proposal

* "DHS walks back decision to halt medical deportation relief:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/19/dhs-halt-medical-deportation-relief-1755951

* "Meanwhile... Runaway Snake:"

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* "Trump To Rally Crowd: I'm Never Leaving Office:"

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* "Bigly Shop Of Horrors:"

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* Wednesday was a rest day.

Thursday I had a friend over we we spent all evening setting up interior Gothmas decorations. The window lights and balls are up, as re the trees and Halloween town. We will need to do the bigger decorations another time. They arrived early, so I missed food, second meds, and lungs. We worked five or six hours (me sitting down and doing the easy buts, like threading wires through the ball tops.) I didn't get to eat until eleven, and by the time lungs were done, my body threw a spasm fit for an hour. I didn't get to the computer until around 12:40ish AM. I'll do what I can, but I was already behind from Wednesday.

Livia let the guest see her, but panicked after a bit. Still this is a lot of progress for her.

* Interested in helping with Livia's new Goosh?
I'm looking at Natural Balance Ultra Premium Turkey & Giblets Formula Canned Cat Food, since it's cheaper thanperscription, but within specs: https://www.chewy.com/natural-balance-ultra-premium-turkey/dp/33214?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=f&utm_content=Natural%20Balance&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-uXqwqPK5AIVB9tkCh3a2wZmEAQYASABEgJuZvD_BwE

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

* "The Punniest Cosplays of Dragon Con 2019:" https://www.epbot.com/2019/09/the-punniest-cosplays-of-dragon-con-2019.html

* "Mortimer Lindquist Makes His Mark on Ghost Story:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/mortimer-makes-ghost-story/

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

* "How you can help Hurricane Dorian disaster relief:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/08/hurricane-dorian-disaster-relief-how-you-can-help

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

* 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

* Judging from the initial reports, the arrest sure looks fair to me. "Captain of boat involved in Danube crash arrested:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48468701

* "Philippines ships 69 containers of rubbish back to Canada:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/philippines-puts-69-containers-of-rubbish-on-boat-back-to-canada

* "Bus With Mexican Catholic Pilgrims Collides With Tractor-Trailer, Killing 21:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/world/americas/veracruz-bus-crash-mexico.html

* "How to move a mountain of radioactive soil:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-48449084/fukushima-how-to-move-a-mountain-of-radioactive-soil

* "Israel's Snap Election Is a Makeup Exam for Democracy:" https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/israel-s-snap-election-is-a-makeup-exam-for-democracy-1.7309293

* "Austria gets first woman chancellor after scandal:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48457549

* "Trump: Official who directed obscuring USS John S. McCain warship was ‘well-meaning’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-official-who-directed-obscuring-uss-john-s-mccain-warship-was-well-meaning/2019/05/30/b9a6ae4a-82de-11e9-bce7-40b4105f7ca0_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b88ea97e4808

* "Navy reviewing 'Make Aircrew Great Again' patches worn by sailors during Trump visit:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/politics/navy-review-trump-patches/index.html

* "Trump says he might meet with Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage during UK visit:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/30/trump-uk-boris-johnson-nigel-farage-1347574

* "North Korea 'executes envoy to US' after Trump summit failures:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/31/north-korea-executes-envoy-to-us-after-trump-summit-failures

* "China accuses US of 'economic terrorism' as trade war tensions escalate:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/asia/china-us-peoples-daily-trade-war-intl/index.html

* "The US slipped to third place in a ranking of most competitive economies:" https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/30/singapore-topples-us-to-become-worlds-most-competitive-economy-imd.html

* "Trump to sidestep Congress to clear arms deals benefiting Saudi Arabia, UAE:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-to-sidestep-congress-to-clear-arms-deals-benefitting-saudi-arabia-uae/2019/05/24/367f4990-7e4d-11e9-a5b3-34f3edf1351e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0b822159164b

* "Trump says he is not seeking ‘regime change’ in Iran:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-says-he-is-not-seeking-regime-change-in-iran/2019/05/27/94d3053a-808d-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d983e20d7775

* "Mike Pence tells West Point grads they should expect to see combat:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-west-point-graduation-vice-president-says-they-should-expect-to-see-combat-today-2019-05-25/

* "There’s Bipartisan Support for Election Security. Mitch McConnell Won’t Let It Happen.:" https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/muellers-comments-remind-us-that-russia-tried-to-interfere-in-our-elections.html

* The Republican War on our allies continues. "US intelligence partners wary of Barr's Russia review:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/politics/barr-intelligence-review-allies-reaction/index.html

* "Trump says Russia helped elect him – then quickly backtracks:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/30/trump-russia-2016-election-helped-elect-president

* "Federal prosecutors demand Cindy Yang records from Mar-a-Lago, Trump campaign:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article230946518.html

* "A hefty donation to Trump's inaugural comes under scrutiny:" https://www.apnews.com/aa6150f1deef49f3b090d9b7926f8aa9

* "Trump lawyers, House committees reach agreement to hold off on enforcing Deutsche Bank, Capital One subpoenas:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/25/politics/trump-house-committee-agreement-stay-subpoena/

* "House Leaders Push Mueller to Testify as More Democrats Clamor for Impeachment:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/politics/robert-mueller-testify-democrats.html

* "Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/black-voters-impeachment.html

* "Republicans’ successful campaign to protect Trump from Mueller’s report, in one quote:" https://www.vox.com/2019/5/30/18646048/republican-protect-trump-mueller-report-amash

* "Rep. Greg Stanton supports opening impeachment inquiry on Trump:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/05/30/rep-greg-stanton-supports-opening-impeachment-inquiry-donald-trump/1290053001/

* "Rep. Quigley joins calls for opening Trump impeachment inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rep-quigley-joins-calls-for-opening-trump-impeachment-inquiry-60602949863

* "Trump counterintel questions unresolved by narrow Mueller inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-counterintel-questions-unresolved-by-narrow-mueller-inquiry-60606021556

* "Republican disregard for democratic norms didn't start with Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-disregard-for-democratic-norms-didn-t-start-with-trump-60602437959

* "High stakes stoke energy of Democratic activism:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/high-stakes-stoke-energy-of-democratic-activism-60605509770

* "Barr continues to spin after Mueller speaks:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/barr-continues-to-spin-after-mueller-speaks-60600389655

* "Former Trump refugee director to depart HHS:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/29/scott-lloyd-leaves-hhs-1346421

* "Trump HUD Official: 'I Honestly Don't Care' If I'm Breaking Federal Law:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lynne-patton-hud-hatch-act_n_5ceb7136e4b0512156f46dae

* "'Molecules of freedom': US Energy Department tries rebranding natural gas:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/molecules-freedom-us-energy-department-rebranding-natural-gas/story?id=63366255

* "Elaine Chao still owns shares in stock she promised to divest:" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445710-report-elaine-chao-still-owns-shares-in-stock-she-promised-to-divest

* If you live in South Carolina and have time and/or money, you might consider donating and/or volunteering. "Former SC Democratic chairman Jaime Harrison launches Senate bid against Lindsey Graham:" https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/former-sc-democratic-chairman-jaime-harrison-to-launch-senate-bid/article_9910b2fa-81b9-11e9-ac1b-c3208d443ab9.html

* The Republican war on America continues. "Another GOP lawmaker blocks massive disaster aid package:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/28/another-gop-lawmaker-blocks-massive-disaster-aid-package-1345524

If either Alex Mooney or Thomas Massie is your Congress Critter, now is a good time to tell them what you think.

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/

* "Groups say U.S. census citizenship question was designed to...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-census-gerrymandering-idUSKCN1T01WN

* "Smoking gun evidence of Trump's push to rig the census:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/smoking-gun-evidence-of-trump-s-push-to-rig-the-census-60599877552

* "U.S. judge rejects Trump administration move to start wall...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-court-idUSKCN1T020S

* "Judge Blocks Trump Use Of Emergency Power To Build Border Barrier With Military Funds:"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/24/726884720/judge-blocks-trump-use-of-emergency-power-to-build-border-barrier-with-military-

* "Who are the Muslim patrols protecting US mosques?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48374911

* TW: Pedophilia. "R. Kelly faces new and more serious charges in sexual abuse case:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/entertainment/r-kelly-new-sexual-assault-charges/index.html

* "Disney C.E.O. Warns Georgia Abortion Law Would Make it ‘Very Difficult’ to Film in the State:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/business/media/disney-georgia-boycott-abortion.html

* "Louisiana’s Democratic governor just defied his party and signed an abortion ban into law:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/29/louisiana-passed-an-abortion-ban-its-democratic-governor-plans-defy-his-party-sign-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.71d7fe042b2e

* "Missouri could be first state without abortion clinic:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/missouri-could-be-first-state-without-abortion-clinic-60600901527

* "Supreme Court Sidesteps Abortion Question in Ruling on Indiana Law:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion-indiana.html

* "20 tornadoes hit Ohio Monday night into Tuesday morning, NWS says:" https://www.10tv.com/article/20-tornadoes-hit-ohio-monday-night-tuesday-morning-nws-says-2019-may

* "Storms roll into the DC area, with some bringing tornadoes:" https://wtop.com/local/2019/05/evening-thunderstorms-may-complicate-commute-but-cool-relief-is-on-the-way/

* "What's behind the extreme weather across the US over the past few weeks:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/us/tornadoes-flooding-heat-explainer-wxc/index.html

* "US Corn Crop Failure:" https://www.ianwelsh.net/us-corn-crop-failure/

* "Climate change: 'We've created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself – I'm terrified', writes Earth scientist:" https://theconversation.com/climate-change-weve-created-a-civilisation-hell-bent-on-destroying-itself-im-terrified-writes-earth-scientist-113055

* ""Freedom Gas," Drake's NBA Antics & Outrage Over a Doctored Video of Nancy Pelosi:"

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* "Democrats Need to Be as Relentless as Republicans:"

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* So here's the deal. I am doing better, though exhausted. The really bad pain incidents take a lot out of me. It's not serious, or a deterioration, just part of the illness. In an ideal world i could just rest for a week. I had a midsleep cycle social thing today, which was nice, but exhausting. Tomorrow I have trans lecture all morning. I haven't foraged all week, which is not great, and there is no EBT until Monday. I am not starving, but I'm running low on key ingredients like cheese and boca rolls. I'm suspecting I won't be able to manage forage tomorrow, but I need to go to the library at minimum since it was closed Monday for Memorial Day, and I was in no shape to go out Wednesday. It would be ideal to forage after library, but it's a lot of standing and crowds. Then I likely have another social thing Saturday, but that I can cancel depending on what degree of rough shape I am by end of lecture. The really bad pain incidents take a lot out of me.

I have eaten, including a lovely salad fresh from my garden. I spent the evening chewing through news as fast as I can, but I can't imagine I'll be even close to caught up until maybe Sunday or Monday if I'm lucky.

I am trying; this is what chronic illness is like.

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

* They are changing the HUD rules to allow discrimination against trans folk. Here is how/where to complain: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1643597.html

* Angry about the Republicans banning birth control and abortion inn several states? Consider protesting, donating, or volunteering:

Planned Parenthood
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/

The Center for Reproductive Rights
https://www.reproductiverights.org/

NARAL
https://www.prochoiceamerica.org/

The American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/

Access Reproductive Care: Southeast
https://www.arc-southeast.org

NNAF
https://abortionfunds.org/

the Yellowhammer Fund
https://yellowhammerfund.org/

Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund
https://msreprofreedomfund.org/

Women Have Options
http://www.womenhaveoptions.org/

* Want to help LGBTQIA+ folk escape repressive regimes? https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

* 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 clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? https://www.etsy.com/shop/NerdyKeppie?ref=l2-shopheader-name§ion_id=24021616

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a science Fiction eldritch horror 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