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* "Sri Lankan protesters demand justice for 2019 Easter attacks:" https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2022-04-17/sri-lankan-protesters-demand-justice-for-2019-attack-victims

* "Sri Lanka president expands cabinet amid economic crisis protests:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/18/sri-lanka-president-expands-cabinet-amid-economic-crisis-protests

* "LGBT+ Rwandans face bogus arrests and violent abuse in terrifying detention centre:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/rwanda-lgbt-rights-tom-pursglove/

This is where the Tories want to illegally deport queer refugees.

“The plan “will result in genuine gay refugees being deported to death. Rwanda’s human rights record includes forced disappearances and killings, and even today’s UK [Foreign Office] travel advice warns LGBT+ travelers of state-sanctioned abuse and discrimination,” Chelvan said.“

* "With war next door, Moldova faces a dilemma as Eastern Europe's most vulnerable state:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15/1091998660/ukraine-russia-war-moldova-security-transdniester

* "Russians Are Fleeing to the Country Putin Invaded Before Ukraine:"

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* "2 months after Brittney Griner’s arrest, mystery surrounds her case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/21/brittney-griner-arrest-russia-00027045

* "Brazilian president puts records of Moscow trip under seal for five years:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/brazilian-president-puts-records-of-moscow-trip-under-seal-for-five-years-138200133889

* "Poland builds a border wall, even as it welcomes Ukrainian refugees:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/13/poland-refugees-wall-belarus/

* "Europe fears possible Le Pen presidency in France as a threat from within:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/19/marine-le-pen-russia-nato/

* "Macron and Le Pen go head-to-head in French presidential debate:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/macron-and-le-pen-go-head-to-head-in-french-presidential-debate

* "A Marine Le Pen presidency would be a dark, chilling time for LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/21/france-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen-lgbt/

* "Why Hong Kong’s prisoners of conscience deserve the Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/19/imprisoned-hong-kong-activists-deserve-nobel-prize/

* "The Maroons New Chief Richard Currie Says No Mining in Cockpit Country:" https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/caribbean-breaking-news-featured/the-maroons-new-chief-richard-currie-says-no-mining-in-cockpit-country/

* "This burning train is a symbol of the anger of India's out-of-work youth:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/16/1084139074/this-burning-train-is-a-symbol-of-the-anger-of-indias-out-of-work-youth

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* "This powerful Covid-19 mitigation measure is invisible:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/10/health/covid-19-ventilation-matters-wellness/index.html

I hope we get to keep good ventilation built into new architectural designs post pandemic. It will be so much better for everyone health wise. I fucking hated when they started doing things like no windows that open. I hate that windowless dorm design that is being pushed in California. We need good ventilation/filtration fans and lots of openable windows.

* "How long covid is accelerating a revolution in medical research:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/03/long-covid-research/

* "FDA authorizes first Covid-19 breath test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/14/health/covid-breath-test/index.html

* "Shanghai’s covid siege: Food shortages, talking robots, starving animals:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/china-shanghai-covid-lockdown-food-shortage/

* "It's not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-infectious-diseases-4b298e5339d399572e8f70bec118bde0

* "TSA won't enforce mask mandate for travel, following Florida ruling:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/18/judge-strikes-cdc-mask-mandate-travel-00025900

The judge's ruling is full of lies about face masks propagated by right wing disinformation sites.

* "Trump judge's override of CDC on masks raises concerns for future public health measures:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-judge-s-override-of-cdc-on-masks-raises-concerns-for-future-public-health-measures-138106437550

* "Dr. Gupta: You should still wear a mask on public transportation as of now:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-gupta-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-on-public-transportation-as-of-now-138090565774

* "Trump-appointed judge voiding travel mask mandate raises danger of Covid surge experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-appointed-judge-s-ruling-voiding-mask-mandate-on-planes-analyzed-by-experts-138095685652

* "Justice Dept. to appeal order voiding travel mask mandate:" https://apnews.com/article/health-travel-florida-public-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-918c37c5fc5e250f84f4f6cbf77bbcec

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* "Liberation Without Victory:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/04/zelensky-kyiv-russia-war-ukrainian-survival-interview/629570/

* "Zelensky says world should be prepared for possibility Putin could use nuclear weapons:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/tapper-zelensky-interview-cnntv/index.html

* "Russia's Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk 'nightmare':" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-health-europe-accidents-edcd5bc0e6bde3cbf6d7300bebc9343f

* "Heedless Russian military risks catastrophe with Ukraine nuclear plants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/heedless-russian-military-risks-catastrophe-with-ukraine-nuclear-plants-138199621509

* "Greece impounds Russian tanker as part of EU sanctions against Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-seizes-russian-tanker-part-eu-sanctions-2022-04-19/

* "Yellen, Ukraine official walk out of Russia's G-20 remarks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-europe-janet-yellen-g-20-summit-92c835b394325bae670e3d37d36594ec

* "Pentagon Press Sec. Kirby: We want Ukrainian sovereignty to be respected by Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-forces-appearing-to-control-key-city-of-mariupol-ukraine-discussed-by-pentagon-press-sec-john-kirby-138278981688

* "Biden announces heavy artillery, other weapons for Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-biden-announces-new-military-aid-e78a7db76215a84f86586bb56122cd04

* "U.S. to start training Ukrainians on howitzers in coming days:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-set-start-training-ukrainians-howitzers-coming-days-official-2022-04-18/

* "Explosions reported near Kyiv and Lviv; Mariupol’s fate in balance:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/16/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Lviv sees first wartime deaths amid strikes, Ukrainian officials say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/18/lviv-missile-strikes-ukraine-russia-war/

* "“I’m done talking”: Nance on fighting in Ukraine with International Legion of Territorial Defense:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-fight-against-russia-joined-by-malcolm-nance-of-international-legion-of-territorial-defense-of-ukraine-137997381811

* "Ukrainians defy Russian surrender demand in Mariupol on 'Easter of war':" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-tells-ukrainian-troops-mariupol-lay-down-arms-0300-gmt-2022-04-17/

* "Odessa is Putin’s next target. It desperately needs our help.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/17/odessa-putin-next-target-needs-help/

* "What life is like in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/16/1093212488/what-life-is-like-in-the-ukrainian-city-of-mykolaiv

* "Residents of a devastated Chernihiv ponder their future after a Russian siege ends:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092407304/chernihiv-ukraine-russia-siege

* "Minesweeping dog helps clear Russian explosives:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-61099213

* "Charred houses, cratered lawns and an epic clean-up on road to Chernihiv:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/chernihiv-ukrainians-territory-russia-occupation-kyiv

* "‘After Bucha, I’m afraid of Russian soldiers’: people in east Ukraine prepare for fresh assault:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/after-bucha-im-afraid-of-russian-soldiers-people-in-east-ukraine-prepare-for-fresh-assault

* "‘Very similar’: fears gateway city to Donbas will become another Bucha:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/bucha-izyum-fears-gateway-city-donbas-russia-ukraine

* "‘Thank You for Not Killing Us’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-occupation.html

* "Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Ukraine: ‘This is a genocide’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/vladimir-putin-s-invasion-of-ukraine-and-the-battle-over-the-donbas-analyzed-by-experts-138095173603

* "Another Russian General Has Been Killed In Ukraine:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2022/04/16/another-russian-general-has-been-killed-in-ukraine/?sh=2f162abb3d41

* "Ukraine’s past and present intertwine as a war historian seeks refuge:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-refugee-history/

* ""Where Should I Go?" Ukrainian Refugees Try to Find Their Way in Poland:" https://time.com/6167995/poland-ukraine-refugees/

* "Thousands Detained At Anti-War Protests Across Russia:" https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-1000-protesters-arrested-ukraine-invasion/31738786.html

* "Meet the activists who projected a giant Ukrainian flag on Russia's Embassy in D.C.:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092966576/ukraine-flag-projected-lights-protest-russian-embassy-washington-dc

* " History Summarized: Ukraine :"

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* "Russia’s ‘Satan 2’ missile changes little for U.S., scholars say:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/20/satan-2-icbm/

* "US Army using lessons from Ukraine war to aid own training:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-us-army-training-54e76eba46f9bf79542dd3f872456e67

* "'Eliminationist rhetoric,' a fascist tool, gains alarming foothold in Trump-era politics :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-eliminationist-rhetoric-a-fascist-tool-gains-alarming-foothold-in-trump-era-politics-138007621574

* "How Coups Are Derailing the US War on Terror in Africa:"

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* "How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens

* "Top Democrats call for investigation into Jared Kushner’s $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jared-kushner-s-two-billion-dollar-investment-from-saudi-arabia-sparks-calls-for-criminal-investigation-138189381539

* "Secret Service fatally shoots man at Peruvian ambassador’s home:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/20/secret-service-shooting-peruvian-embassy/

* "This Is What Happens When Globalization Breaks Down:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/business/supply-chain-small-business.html

* "Biden administration announces it will resume onshore oil and gas lease sales with higher royalty rate:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/politics/biden-interior-oil-and-gas/index.html

* How high was the court when they made this decision? "High Court upholds excluding Puerto Ricans from aid for disabled and blind:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/21/1094128297/high-court-upholds-excluding-puerto-ricans-from-aid-for-disabled-and-blind

* "The Supreme Court is broken. So is the system that confirms its justices.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/08/supreme-court-broken-jackson-kagan-bork/

* "The Dark-Money Group Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-slime-machine-targeting-dozens-of-biden-nominees

* "Republican smear operation exposed in new report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-smear-operation-exposed-in-new-report-138009157552

* "States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-nebraska-iowa-des-moines-4ff5e0d51f61e6704f44dfc31279376a

* "How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment:" https://www.propublica.org/article/how-your-shadow-credit-score-could-decide-whether-you-get-an-apartment

* "Bellingham renters grapple with health, safety risks:" https://www.cascadiadaily.com/news/2022/apr/13/bellingham-renters-grapple-with-health-safety-risks/

You know the terribly landlords I've had? I've rented from both of these. Landmark is the one that:

1. Tried to double cash my rent check, then charge me late and return fees because i didn't have enough money in my account to pay a second rent I didn't actually owe them on the grounds that "Once you give us a check there is no law stopping us from cashing it as often as we want. Luckily my bank was willing to fight them tooth and nail and in the end they had to pay my bank fees also. (Seriously I still do not understand how this is legal.)

2. Fought us over every repair then took our deposit because we had not paid an outside contractor to fix things like plumbing.

3. Never changed carpets on any units between tenets. They were nasty, torn, stained, and moldy. We noted this on move in sheets. They charged us to replace the carpets when we left, then didn't change them so they could pull the scam on the next tenets, which i discovered when i went to get a mis-delivered package from the second rental we had from them.

4. Black mold constantly bloomed on the walls, carpeting and ceiling.

5. The stairs were rotting wood and shaky. One day the railing came off in my hand. They reluctantly replaced it with naked, uncured wood. No weather coating or paint or shellac, just pine bits they bought at some hardware store. the same happened when my leg went through a rotted stair board.

6. a neighbor kid fell on some of the rusted rebar they had sticking up randomly in the front yard. A slightly different fall would have pierced something vital. They not only refused to pay medical bills, they refused to remove the rebar. Every time I tottered down the railing-less cement stairs where the kid fell I would look at the foot high rebar spike and wonder if my eye or neck or heart would be next.

7. The floor was spongy in the entry way when we moved in, something we expressed concern about and noted on the move in form. They said it was normal and nothing was wrong with it. The ceiling in the front wall leaked at that same second and last rental. We reported it and the electrical danger it was posing as the stair light out front was wired through it and it was a lot of water. This was because they improperly installed the balcony above, compromising the wall and ceiling. They insisted this was our responsibility to pay to fix even though it was preexisting and clearly nothing to do with us. They refused to fix it and threatened to charge us for it if we didn't fix the balcony in the upstairs unit, wall, leaks, and wiring for them. (I have no idea how this is legal, but here we are. We knew we weren't getting a penny of deposit back anyway.)

Remember the spongy floor? Right under the water rivulets coming through the ceiling. One day squirrel's leg went through. He could have died as it would have been an entire story drop onto the foundation if both legs went through. They refused responsibility for medical bills and tried to get us to pay to fix it, which we refused. The workmen came and were horrified. The reason the floor was spongy was there was no wood under it. I was impressed unsupported linoleum lasted the three or so years before it gave way. They said the entire underside of the building was rotting away similarly.

It took most of the week for them to replace the massive section of floor they had to remove, since they had to put in make shift pillars and such underneath and shore up the rotting floor, using our two man sized hole. we were terrified a cat would jump in there and get trapped. I couldn't get safely over the hole so I was trapped in the black mold riddled house with my failing lung patient lungs. Squirrel had to work, so he kept having to step carefully over it over and over. I am still amazed he survived.

Eventually, they put naked plywood over the hole and we never saw them again. We could lift the plywood plank with our fingers it not being nailed down. It would stake as I walked over it. They tried to charge us thousands of dollars to replace it even though we pointed out none of this was in anyway our fault. Odds are it's still dragging my credit store down.

8. They did replace the balcony eventually and plug the holes, but they never touched the wall with the wiring that was sodden through every time it rained until they did. I never trusted that light switch, so we simply had no porch light. Want to bet it is all black mold inside?

Families are still living there.

All of this is completely legal as there is no authority anywhere that stops it.

* "John Oliver Just Found A 'F**king Creepy' But Legal Way To Blackmail Lawmakers:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-oliver-data-brokers_n_6253db8ae4b066ecde08a5f8

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

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

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

* "Post Politics Now: On Tax Day, the White House takes aim at GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s tax plan:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/18/biden-rick-scott-easter-egg/

* He’s running openly on heavily taxing the poor. "Rick Scott tax plan bad news for retirees:" https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/2022/04/18/senator-rick-scott-plan-would-force-seniors-pay-more-taxes/7333900001/

* "Texas gov. candidate Beto O’Rourke slams Gov. Abbott for border truck inspections costing millions:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-candidate-for-governor-of-texas-beto-o-rourke-slams-gop-incumbent-for-truck-border-inspections-costing-millions-137843269545

* "Trump-endorsed candidate booted from ballot by state GOP amid cringey campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-endorsed-candidate-booted-from-ballot-by-state-gop-amid-cringey-campaign-138200133824

* "What Marjorie Taylor Greene will be asked when she testifies under oath:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-marjorie-taylor-greene-will-have-to-answer-when-she-testifies-under-oath-138181189954

* "Rep. Gallego: Democrats must use 'offensive strategy' to win midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-gallego-democrats-must-use-offensive-strategy-to-win-midterms-137996357712

* "Trump-Endorsed Candidate JD Vance Once Said Trump Might Be ‘America’s Hitler’:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn4b8/jd-vance-trump-messages

* "Mar-a-Lago Machine: Trump as a Modern-Day Party Boss:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago.html

* "How Trump became the GOP’s modern-day party boss:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nyt-how-trump-became-the-gop-s-modern-day-party-boss-137993285944

* The Republican War on democracy continues. "Trump Allies Continue Legal Drive to Erase His Loss, Stoking Election Doubts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/us/politics/trump-allies-election-decertify.html

* "New developments reported in criminal probe of Donald Trump in Georgia; subpoenas planned:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-developments-reported-in-criminal-probe-of-donald-trump-in-georgia-subpoenas-planned-138103877751

* "New book exposes duplicity of Republican leaders toward Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-book-exposes-duplicity-of-republican-leaders-toward-trump-138283077736

* "GOP Leader McCarthy wanted Twitter to suspend other Republican members of Congress: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-leader-mccarthy-wanted-twitter-to-suspend-other-republican-members-of-congress-report-138281029546

* "DOJ adds prosecutor to investigate January 6th beyond the Capitol attack: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-adds-prosecutor-to-investigate-january-6th-beyond-the-capitol-attack-nyt-138286661824

* "Lee worked hard to overturn election, keep Trump in power, texts show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/15/mike-lee-trump-2020-election/

* "Texts show Oath Keepers discussed protecting GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson on Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texts-show-oath-keepers-discussed-protecting-gop-rep-ronny-jackson-on-jan-6-138092613825

* "2 house parties, an Easter fete and a mall were among the sites of at least 10 weekend US mass shootings:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/us/us-shootings-easter-weekend/index.html

* "Who fired guns in Sacramento mass shooting? New documents detail gunfight, minute by minute:" https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article260465242.html

* "Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in U.S. court:" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-us-court-2022-04-18/

* "As Execution Looms, Mounting Evidence Points to Melissa Lucio’s Innocence:" https://theintercept.com/2022/04/17/melissa-lucio-clemency-execution/

* "Ed Buck jailed for 30 years for injecting gay men with fatal overdoses:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/ed-buck-donor-activist-gay-victims-sentence-prison/

* "Florida rejects math books with ‘references’ to critical race theory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/16/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-prohibited-topics/

I am having a hard time believing ANY Math books intended for K-12 contain second year law school legal theory let alone this many. Still Republicans are now basically banning Math for being too Woke.

* "Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over ‘prohibited topics’ including critical race theory:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/17/florida-rejects-math-textbooks-critical-race-theory

* "Woke math? Florida rejects math textbooks, citing critical race theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/woke-math-florida-rejects-math-textbooks-citing-critical-race-theory-137994821717

* "A look inside the math textbooks rejected by Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-look-inside-the-math-textbooks-rejected-by-florida-138274885664

* "Anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-CRT bills spreading sign of fascism, hyper-masculinity on rise:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-abortion-anti-trans-anti-crt-bills-sweep-country-as-right-wing-accuses-democrats-of-trying-to-feminize-america-137997893936

* CW: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault. "How American Apparel Fell From Grace:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Kevin Spacey Asks Judge to Toss Anthony Rapp's Sexual Abuse Lawsuit:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/11/kevin-spacey-asks-judge-toss-anthony-rapps-sexual-abuse-lawsuit

* "Red and blue states race to reshape abortion access:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/red-and-blue-states-race-to-reshape-abortion-access-137904197622

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* "NHS guidance for pregnant trans people is inclusive, fair and just common sense:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/18/nhs-trans-pregnant-sussex-brighton-daily-mail-vagina-piers-morgan/

* "Joy Reid on DeSantis: Baby MAGA is mad that Disney opposes his "Don’t Say Gay" law:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/desantis-moves-to-strip-disney-of-self-governing-status-as-it-opposes-his-don-t-say-gay-law-138188869556

* "Families and Doctors Sue Over Trans Health Care Ban in Alabama:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/4/12/families-and-doctors-sue-over-trans-health-care-ban-alabama

* "Alabama bans medical care to transgender youth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/alabama-bans-medical-care-to-transgender-youth-137904709507

* "'We will not let hate win:' Lawmaker’s viral takedown of right-wing culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-will-not-let-hate-win-lawmaker-s-viral-takedown-of-right-wing-culture-war-138183237659

* "Women's cycling race loses main sponsor over 'unacceptable' trans athlete suspension:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/15/womens-cicle-classic-emily-bridges-british-cycling/

* "Tucker Carlson's documentary is a bizarre, homoerotic fever dream nobody asked for:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/19/tucker-carlson-end-of-men-documentary-balls-tanning-gay-homoerotic/

* "Yes, trans women can get prostate cancer too – but they're being failed by doctors:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/18/trans-prostate-cancer-symptoms-heather-peto/

* "Meningococcal Disease Spikes in Florida:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2022/4/11/meningococcal-disease-spikes-among-gay-and-bi-men-florida

* "Does getting a mobility aid mean you’ve ‘given up’?:"

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* "She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter:" https://www.wired.com/story/she-was-missing-a-chunk-of-her-brain-it-didnt-matter/

* "DNA-spiked gel heals the skin wounds of ‘butterfly children’:" https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-spiked-gel-heals-skin-wounds-butterfly-children

* "What really happens when babies are left to cry it out?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220322-how-sleep-training-affects-babies

* "The secrets hidden in sewage:" https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/23006184/covid-wastewater-surveillance-opioids-tuberculosis

* "Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028

* "The Insidious Idea About “Safety” That Keeps Putting Us in Danger:" https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/risk-compensation-debunked-masks-rapid-tests-vaccines-safety.html

* "Communities are divided over Rhode Island's plan for safe drug injection sites:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092785414/communities-are-divided-over-rhode-islands-plan-for-safe-drug-injection-sites

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* "South Africa launches relief for Durban flooding; 448 dead:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-figure-vampire-blood.html

* "In a World on Fire, Stop Burning Things:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/in-a-world-on-fire-stop-burning-things

* "Video shows tornado damage in Kentucky after severe storms:" https://www.kentucky.com/news/weather/article260426152.html

* "Container ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay for more than a month is free:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/17/cargo-ship-ever-forward-chesapeake-bay-stuck/

* "The Missouri Ghost Town Poisoned By Toxic Waste:"

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* "How Japan Built Cities Where You Could Send Your Toddler on an Errand:" https://slate.com/business/2022/04/old-enough-netflix-do-japanese-parents-really-send-toddlers-on-errands.html

* "‘Everything’s going to pieces’: how a port took over a Black US neighborhood:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/port-freeport-texas-east-end-historically-black-neighborhood

* "How a Forgotten Bit of Infrastructure Became a Symbol of Civic Pride:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/how-a-forgotten-bit-of-infrastructure-became-a-symbol-of-civic-pride

* "How the Dorze in Ethiopia make ‘beehive’ houses from bamboo that last a lifetime:" https://aeon.co/videos/how-the-dorze-in-ethiopia-make-beehive-houses-from-bamboo-that-last-a-lifetime

* "6 Times We Tried to Extract Gold from Seawater:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/6-times-we-tried-to-extract-gold-from-seawater

* "2 monster black holes are headed toward a collision that will rock the fabric of space-time:" https://www.livescience.com/supermassive-black-hole-merger

* "Mysterious 'odd radio circles' seen in space, new image shows:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/world/odd-radio-circles-space-scn/index.html

* "Photographer Shoots 2 Million Photos to Show the Moon's 'Wobble':" https://petapixel.com/2022/03/31/photographer-shoots-2-million-photos-to-show-the-moons-wobble/

* "The Long Goodbye to Saturn’s Rings:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/saturn-losing-rings-nasa-moons/629391/

* "How tall will Mount Everest get before it stops growing?:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-how-tall-will-mount-everest-get-before-it-stops-growing

* "'Impossible' chemistry may reveal origins of life on Earth:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/impossible-chemistry-may-reveal-origins-of-life-on-earth

* "Why evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network:" https://aeon.co/essays/why-evolution-is-not-a-tree-of-life-but-a-fuzzy-network

* "For the first time, wild dolphin observed 'talking' with harbor porpoises:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dolphin-speaks-porpoise-communicates-with-other-species

* "Bear hibernation: More than a winter’s nap:" https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2022/bear-hibernation-more-winters-nap

* "‘It’s astonishing’: endangered bat not seen in 40 years found in Rwanda:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/bats-endangered-hills-horseshoe-bat-rwanda

* "Fungus-ravaged bat proposed for endangered species listing:" https://apnews.com/article/health-environment-wildlife-traverse-city-bats-7e6c05b5b291633c5bc80e608007de1d

* "Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-figure-vampire-blood.html

* "Meet the 10-armed, 325-million-year-old octopus fossil named after President Joe Biden:" https://phys.org/news/2022-03-armed-million-year-old-octopus-fossil-joe.html

* "Why Don’t All Lions Climb Trees?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/science/lions-trees.html

* "SpaceX launches 3 visitors to space station for $55M each:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-nasa-axiom-space-launch-f184f3c36fa10a969c7faadd6e25a4d2

* "NFTs: Scamming Art into the Digital Age:"

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* "Bored Ape Yacht Club: Monkey Business on the Open Sea:"

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* "Seat Belt History: The Patent That Was Given Away:" https://tedium.co/2022/03/18/seat-belt-history/

* "EU agrees on new digital rules to rein in Big Tech dominance:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-agrees-digital-rules-rein-big-tech-dominance-83667180

* " Why Elizabeth Holmes Was Convicted (and Also Acquitted) :"

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* "Tesla CEO Elon Musk won't join Twitter's board after all:" https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-elon-musk-board-of-directors-217a2c041b13e7f647c5275ef29a6394

* "Twitter investors sue Elon Musk for failing to promptly disclose the size of his stake:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/twitter-investors-sue-elon-musk-for-failing-to-promptly-disclose-stake.html

* "Elon Musk Should Have Been Stopped Long Before He Came for Twitter:" https://time.com/6168452/elon-musk-should-have-been-stopped-long-before-he-came-for-twitter/

* "Study Suggests Venus of Willendorf Originated in Italy:" https://www.archaeology.org/news/10387-220301-limestone-venus-willendorf

* "Largest Human Family Tree Identifies Nearly 27 Million Ancestors:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-human-genomic-family-tree-identifies-nealy-27-million-ancestors-180979657/

* "History Summarized: Minoan Greece:"

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* "The Empress of China: Wu Zetian:"

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* "Why a Medieval Woman Had Lapis Lazuli Hidden in Her Teeth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/the-woman-with-lapis-lazuli-in-her-teeth/579760/

* "A Manuscript Made From Sin: Codex Gigas:"

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* "Plague — History Hijinks:"

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* "The Drama of Point d'Alençon Needle Lace:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-drama-of-point-dalencon-needle-lace/

* "A Day in the Life of a Free Black Pepper Pot Woman in Philadelphia:"

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* My instinct is to wonder if it was a grad student. "2 missing Charles Darwin notebooks are mysteriously returned more than 20 years later:" https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091010338/charles-darwin-notebooks-cambridge-library

* "How America Became Enamoured with Octagon Houses:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/04/12/how-america-became-enamoured-with-octagon-houses/

* "The Myth of the Mad Hatter - Making a Victorian Top Hat:"

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* "The Women Behind the First Black Music Magazine:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-black-music-magazine

* "Rube Waddell: Literally One of the WEIRDEST Guys in History:"

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* CW: Genital Mutilation. "Siblings, Sugar, and Strikes: The Story of Kelloggs:"

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* Both my Gran (Great Grandmother) and Gran got caught up in the craze when it was new and were still doing them until almoat the end of their lives. "A Century Before Wordle Went Viral, Crossword Mania Swept the Country:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-century-before-wordle-went-viral-crossword-mania-swept-the-country-180979858/

* "How The Radium Girls Changed How We Work:"

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* "Troubling Stereotypes and False Narratives: The History of Hemp:"

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* "Why Tallulah Bankhead Never Became a Movie Star:"

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* "Marie Curie and Polish Resistance - JSTOR Daily:" https://daily.jstor.org/marie-curie-and-polish-resistance/

* "A Socialite’s Plot to Assassinate a Corrupt Official in Occupied Shanghai:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zheng-pingru-spy-shanghai

* "The Mitfords: Communism Vs Fascism In The English Aristocracy | Tale Of Two Sisters:"

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* "Tastefully Simple: The Modern Day Tupperware Party:"

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* "No One Even Watched Rudy Giuliani’s ‘The Masked Singer’ Abomination:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-one-even-watched-rudy-giulianis-the-masked-singer-abomination

* "Police Interrogations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Kyrsten Sinema: A Tragedy of Her Own Making:"

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* "The Sleep Wellness Industry Is Trying To Sell You The Weirdest Shit:"

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* "This Manipulative Midterm Email Scam Already Hit Your Inbox:"

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* "The Angsty History of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson:"

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* "Why Spock’s Sexuality is so Dang Controversial:"

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* "Trivia Game Show - SNL:"

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* "Food and YouTube ft. Lizzo - SNL:"

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* "Throne Room - SNL:"

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* Sunday, I made the mistake of absentmindedly lifting some things after the head Millennial went home. I realized what I was doing fairly early and started icing right away. I likely would have been okay if Tavy hadn't kept insisting he was allowed to sleep with his whole weight on my wound. I kept trying to discourage this and redirect him to less damaging positions. He kept pretending to comply and then creeping back onto the non-load bearing area of my body the moment I'd drift off. I'd catch him mid-creep and redirect him back to safe, bonier areas like my ribs.

Eventually, he "won." He landed with his whole weight on one paw directly to my wound. I woke up just early enough to anticipate the pain, but not prevent it. I yelled because it really fucking hurt, terrifying him, so it was a pyrrhic victory for the Emperor.

I iced it, but it was bad. I just managed to stay out of the ER and I'm a bit better, but still a mess.

* We are planning to use most of squirrel's tax rebate to get a working oven, but the dishwasher is also broken. (The dishwasher is a safety thing because I am medically fragile. Not having a working oven is playing havoc with my nutrition.) My share of the oven plus fixing the dishwasher will likely be in the $600-700 range.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* JK Rowling vs Gretchen Felker-Martin at the Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1516995869681209344

* Stripper Picketline where they dressed as the OSHA Violations they are protesting: https://twitter.com/janusrose/status/1516776595025018885

* D&D and Greek Myths: https://twitter.com/deathbybadger/status/1516712889800925187

* "I know the joke about Izzy is “human dropped into a muppets movie” but the tragedy is that he’s a queer-coded character from some 1940s or 50s popcorn flick dropped into a pride parade in a floating gayborhood & he flat out has no idea how to deal with it.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682208231414710272/i-know-the-joke-about-izzy-is-human-dropped-into

* Izzy Hands: Mascochist: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/swords-n-spindles/680892159977766912

* The Radical Diversity of Our Flag Means Death: https://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/682005575395115008

* "Hidden love of New Brunswick men documented in early 20th-century photographs:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/havelock-len-cub-exhibit-fredericton-1.6410583

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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.

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

* Ways to help Trans Youth resisting Transphobic laws in Texas: https://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/677204004210688000

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "NATO Conference Is Canceled After U.S. Ambassador Barred a Trump Critic:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/europe/carla-sands-trump-nato.html

* "What Andrew Johnson’s impeachment can tell us about Trump’s:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-impeachment-proceedings-vs-andrew-johnson-s-impeachment-75096645726

* "Christopher Steele told additional information about him will be made public with DOJ IG report:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/christopher-steele-doj-ig-report/

* "Trump Claims He’s Heard FBI ‘Lovers’ Had a ‘Restraining Order,’ Admits He Has No Evidence:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-claims-fbi-lovers-lisa-page-and-peter-strzok-had-a-restraining-order-admits-theres-no-evidence

* "4 takeaways from the Horowitz report on the Russia investigation:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/09/takeaways-horowitz-report-russia-investigation/

* "Fusion GPS co-founders on GOP wrongly blasting Steele dossier:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/fusion-gps-co-founders-on-steele-dossier-crime-in-progress-book-75113541736

* "Will the Senate trial be a sham? Experts fear the worst:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/mcconnell-i-am-coordinating-impeachment-trial-with-white-house-75098693830

* "Rep. Joaquin Castro: We can’t okay presidential abuse of power:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-vote-in-house-discussed-with-rep-joaquin-castro-75093573641

* "Rep. Ihan Omar: Republicans are making mockery of Constitution:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-and-senate-trial-discussed-with-rep-ihan-omar-75114053852

* "Rep. Maxine Waters: Lindsey Graham has thumbed nose at America:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-graham-mcconnell-discussed-by-maxine-waters-75117125635

* "GOP senators accused of bias heading into Trump impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-defended-by-gop-senators-ahead-of-impeachment-75117125903

* "Is GOP playing to FOX News crowd at Trump impeachment hearings?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-hearings-plagued-by-gop-spin-expert-says-75094597841

* "William Barr’s links to cover-ups revisited as he defends Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/barr-dismisses-inspector-general-finding-russia-probe-legitimate-75095621553

* "Betsy DeVos Overruled Education Dept. Findings On Defrauded Student Borrowers:" https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786367598/betsy-devos-overruled-education-dept-findings-on-defrauded-student-borrowers

* "Buttigieg to Reveal Consulting Firm Clients After McKinsey Lifts NDA:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/12/09/buttigieg-reveal-consulting-firm-clients-after-mckinsey-lifts-nda

* "This Gay Man Could Be the Next Mayor of San Diego:"https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/12/11/gay-man-could-be-next-mayor-san-diego

* "More U.S. children die in mass shootings at home than at school: study:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guncontrol-children/more-u-s-children-die-in-mass-shootings-at-home-than-at-school-study-idUSKBN1XV185

* "Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Restores Voting Rights To Felons:" https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/12/13/kentucky-felon-voting-rights

* "The Government Has Taken At Least 1,100 Children From Their Parents Since Family Separations Officially Ended:" https://theintercept.com/2019/12/09/family-separation-policy-lawsuit/

* "Federal judge blocks Trump plan to spend $3.6 billion in military funds on border wall:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/federal-judge-blocks-trump-plan-to-spend-36-billion-in-military-funds-on-border-wall/2019/12/10/e534468a-1b9f-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html

* "Trump accused of ‘dipping into a deep well of anti-Semitic tropes’ during speech to Jewish voters:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/09/trump-israeli-american-council-anti-semitic-claims/

* "Military Investigating Suspected ‘White Power’ Hand Gestures Flashed at Game:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/army-navy-game-white-supremacy.html

* "Supreme Court leaves in place Kentucky abortion restriction:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/09/supreme-court-leaves-in-place-kentucky-abortion-restriction-078843

* "Argentina President's Drag Queen Son Wore Rainbow Flag to Inauguration:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/12/13/argentina-presidents-drag-queen-son-wore-rainbow-flag-inauguration

* "German bishops declare that homosexuality is completely and utterly ‘normal’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/14/german-bishops-homosexuality-normal-berlin/

* "Transphobic and racist hate crime culprits “emboldened by Boris Johnson”, Labour politician claims:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/15/boris-johnson-conservative-party-general-election-sheffield-transphobic-hate-crime-rise/

* She shared Hentai. "A Trans Woman Is Being Sent to a Men's Prison for Sharing Erotica:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/12/15/trans-woman-being-sent-mens-prison-sharing-erotica

* "Asian Clergy, Religious Leaders Respond to GOP 'Fairness' Act:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/15/asian-clergy-religious-leaders-respond-gop-fairness-act

* "Two Dallas Men Plead Guilty in Grindr-Related Hate-Crime Spree:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/12/14/two-dallas-men-plead-guilty-grindr-related-hate-crime-spree

* "Vandalized Dallas Trans Mural Repaired:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/12/vandalized-dallas-trans-mural-repaired.html

* "Migration: Crash Course European History #29:"

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* "Brexit: What Is Democracy?:"

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* "HBO's Chernobyl & Personal Responsibility:"

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* "Climate Grief:"

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* "Athletes condemn ‘spineless’ Wada as Putin considers appeal:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/10/wada-committee-member-victoria-aggar-questions-role

* "Why Dead Brands Live on in Japan:" https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/12/japanese-shopping-mall-us-retail-brands-bankrupt-tokyo-osaka/602902/

* "Why every website wants you to accept its cookies:" https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/10/18656519/what-are-cookies-website-tracking-gdpr-privacy

* "She Reveals Solutions for the 'Hidden Homeless':" https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/she-is-building-a-chatbot-for-the-hidden-homeless/231922/

* "Human Ancestors May Have Evolved the Physical Ability to Speak More Than 25 Million Years Ago:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/human-ancestors-may-have-evolved-physical-ability-speak-more-25-million-years-ago-180973759/

* "A Conway Marriage Story - SNL:"

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* Saturday: We had a lovely lunch with really excellent handmade ice cream, hit the fish store for the new lights, and went to want turned out to be a really excellent concert. After we got back we had Russian dumplings at the place downtown. I was exhausted by this point, and went to bed early, though I did set up the twenty light I ended up buying after cleaning the far tank, sine it really needed it and I kind of want to do a test to see if these new fangled lights are goig to work. I still really need a glass cover for the thirty, Tavy having smashed it when he took out most of the 30 gallon's light array. (This is why 1. we can't have nice things. 2. I evacuated the 30 gallon a couple of years ago.) I'm going to see if I can solve that this week.

Reminder: I'm super busy Tuesday this week and won't be around on the 22nd for solstice activities.

* 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

* The Mandolorian is the Lone Wolf and Cub reboot I had no idea I needed.

* "Holly Jolly Gingerbread Houses:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2019/12/15/sunday-sweets-holly-jolly-gingerbread-houses

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

* 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

* 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

* 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 (less urgent) 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

* "Struggle for control of Venezuela returning to the streets:" https://www.apnews.com/f94da910f37240b8b9fc6d51f46ad7b0

* "Openly gay Polish politician launches progressive 'Spring' party:" https://www.france24.com/en/20190203-openly-gay-polish-politican-launches-progressive-spring-party

* "Women Who Dare To Bicycle In Pakistan:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/03/684438571/women-who-dare-to-bicycle-in-pakistan

* "First virtual museum of Kazakh women’s history educates and empowers:" https://astanatimes.com/2019/01/first-virtual-museum-of-kazakh-womens-history-educates-and-empowers/?fbclid=IwAR0Q0k3xp9_LDHIfhH-WV5zLCZBgjxBNblZpbSrO1Htv2JmTIVRjqOqTPn4

* "Iraqi president says Trump did not ask permission to 'watch Iran':" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-iraq-idUSKCN1PT0E4

* "Top US general says Trump did not consult him on Syria announcement:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/votel-trump-syria-withdrawal/index.html

* "Putin orders Russia to develop new missiles after leaving treaty, will deploy only if US does:" https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/International/putin-orders-russia-develop-missiles-leaving-treaty-deploy/story?id=60798394

* "Senators make a bipartisan push to limit Trump's trade powers:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/trump-trade-congress/index.html

* "Trump's early trips to Mar-a-Lago cost nearly $14 million:" https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/trumps-early-trips-mar-lago-cost-14-million/story?id=60853784

* "The plan to keep Trump’s taxes hidden:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/05/trump-tax-returns-congress-strategy-1145767

* "New York federal prosecutors seek interviews with Trump Organization executives:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/new-york-federal-prosecutors-trump-organization-executives/index.html

* "Federal prosecutors issue sweeping subpoena for documents from Trump inaugural committee, a sign of a deepening criminal probe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-prosecutors-issue-sweeping-subpoena-for-documents-from-trump-inaugural-committee-a-sign-of-a-deepening-criminal-probe/2019/02/04/b6382642-28e5-11e9-8eef-0d74f4bf0295_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8c80e4ac8487

* "Firms Recruited by Paul Manafort Are Investigated Over Foreign Payments:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/us/politics/paul-manafort-news-ukraine.html

* "Trump to nominate Bernhardt as Interior secretary:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/04/david-bernhardt-interior-secretary-1145523

* "Skeptic on radiation limits will head EPA radiation panel:" https://www.apnews.com/78752620f7124421b69a9bb80a9c3108

* "Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since cancer surgery:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/ruth-bader-ginsburg-makes-first-public-appearance-since-cancer-surgery/2019/02/04/251d59f4-28cf-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.11a33d46f8b1

* "A First: Women Take The Majority In Nevada Legislature And Colorado House:" https://www.npr.org/2019/02/04/691198416/a-first-women-take-the-majority-in-nevada-legislature-and-colorado-house?fbclid=IwAR0fPSLlmuv04W8IVm8uxbefqVeWJrcbNq5P_ISStWkEL1x4cA_luXuMYMk

* "Purge of undocumented workers by the president’s company spreads to at least 5 Trump golf courses:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/purge-of-undocumented-workers-by-the-presidents-company-spreads-to-at-least-5-trump-golf-courses/2019/02/04/99454e4a-2690-11e9-ba08-caf4ff5a3433_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.52912b2cf7ec

* "Trump met with contractors Monday to discuss building border wall:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/trump-contractors-border-wall-national-emergency/index.html

* "Trump: I ‘set the table beautifully’ for next border wall fight with Democrats:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/03/trump-next-border-wall-fight-with-democrats

* "Pentagon sending 3,750 extra U.S. forces to border with Mexico:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration/pentagon-to-deploy-3750-u-s-forces-to-border-with-mexico-idUSKCN1PS0M5

* They are saying the burden on them to return the thousands of children they decided to kidnap is too high, unlike the burden on the families they harmed and that somehow returning the kidnapped children to their parents who love them will somehow be more damaging than the massive psychological damage they did to the children by kidnapping, abusing them, and giving them away to strangers all without the parent's permission. "Trump Admin Says It's Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/report-trump-admin-does-not-plan-to-reunite-families-separated-before-zero-tolerance_us_5c55c3c4e4b087104753e468

* "Growing calls for Virginia governor to resign over racist yearbook photo:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/growing-calls-for-virginia-governor-to-resign-over-racist-yearbook-photo-1436270147714

* "Days of Protest Over Unheated Brooklyn Prison End After Power Is Restored:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/02/brooklyn-mdc-prison-heat-protest.html

* "Protests outside Brooklyn jail where there was no heat for days:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-discusses-protests-outside-brooklyn-jail-where-there-was-no-heat-for-days-1437293635608

* "Va. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax denies sex assault allegation from 2004:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-denies-sex-assault-allegation-from-2004/2019/02/04/05fb0f6c-272b-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ab0485427651

* "Gladys Bentley, Gender-Bending Blues Performer and ’20s Harlem Royalty:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/obituaries/gladys-bentley-overlooked.html

* "Genetics and The Modern Synthesis: Crash Course History of Science #35:"

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* "Broadway, Seriously: Crash Course Theater #46:"

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* "The Rooftop Solar Revolution Is Missing Communities of Color:" https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/01/solar-panel-pv-black-hispanic-environmental-justice-equality/581506/

* "Trump Gives Himself Credit in the 2019 State of the Union :" http://www.cc.com/episodes/9axuju/drunk-history-baseball-season-6-ep-602

* "Ralph Northam's Bizarre Blackface Defense:"

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* "Colbert Throws A Super Bowl Party:"

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* "Cory Booker's 2020 Announcement, Dissected:"

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* "Ralph Northam Can't Moonwalk His Way Out Of This:"

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* "Gwyneth Paltrow Is Being Sued For Reckless Skiing:"

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* The antibiotics do seem to be working, I got twelve hours of sleep without the coughing ruining it, and while my lungs are still lacey, I could feel them improving over the course of the evening.

A friend actually located a space heater that a friend of theirs no longer wanted, so LM and I spent a toasty evening despite the cold.

* "Death Masks Delivers :" https://www.thefandomentals.com/death-masks-delivers/

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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

* TW: Pedophilia. "U.S. Continues To Ignore Massive Pedophilia In Afghanistan:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/amitai-etzioni/us-continues-to-ignore-ma_b_11307442.html

* "White House pressing Pentagon for plan on North Korea attack:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/371976-white-house-wants-plan-from-pentagon-on-north-korea-military-attack

* "Trump plan calls for new nuclear weapons:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/02/trump-plan-nuclear-weapons-386087

* "Maxine Waters Drags Trump In The Classiest Way: "...He's Not Presidential":"

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* "Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/donald-trump-just-asked-congress-to-end-the-rule-of-law.html

* Every time they run footage of 45 bragging that him passing the dementia test proves some how he's smart and going on about how hard the last ten questions are, I sort of lose it. See, as part of the disability process you get accessed for mental competence a lot. I also had a lot of old fashioned IQ tests as a kid because of where I went to school. (I am not going to give y'all my long ass rant about IQ tests not actually testing intelligence, how they were normed and the ways they have been used and misused. I've done that periodically in writing over the years and i used to give a verbal version of it multiple times a day to my 8th graders when we did "Flowers for Algernon," as the only people in the room who'd taken one were me and the kids with disabilities and a rant from someone who routinely tested "genius," even though that really means very little, about why the test is a mess was apt to mean a lot more than it might from someone else, and I never ever wanted to single of the kids with disabilities especially in this context, though over the years I had several of the more popular ones volunteer because here was something they had expert knowledge about). Anyway, various types of intelligence and cognitive tests are something I've experienced, though I'm not an expert. (I've administered some specific, specialized tests for special ed assessments professionally, but not this kind of test). Consider me an interested amateur. I recognize components. I can list the most common words they generally have one repeat at regular intervals from the people I was tested by in the last decade and a half (In no particular order: horse, ball, tree, pencil, snow, grass). I was told last time that they are meant to change them up, so the fact that I expressed surprise at a different word set means that the the previous three testers were likely not doing it right. I know I'm not as sharp as I was as teen as I used to do strings of 8-10 numbers reversed instead of 5-6 like I do now. Obviously, I don't have dementia, but they like to check Medicare recipients periodically just in case and my youth just means I can tell them no if I don't want to be bothered. Anyway, I know that test they gave him, as it was the last one I had, several years ago. It is DEAD EASY. It is literally testing for serious brain damage and doesn't have as many of the elements scavenged from the old IQ tests of my youth, as the broader assessments they do with disability screening. As long as there isn't a serious language barrier between tester and test subject, and the subject's hands were all right for drawing a clock face (I had a lover once with no hands and the prosthetic he had for the part of an arm he had on the one side was no good for drawing or hand writing, though he could type with it. I've had friends with CP and benign tremor who might have had a hard time with the mechanics for physical reasons), the only other reason it would be difficult is if something were seriously wrong. Bragging about not having serious brain damage or advanced dementia seems... odd to me, especially since he's making claims about what it proves that one can't really make about the broader spectrum tests that are mostly testing the ability to memorize in various forms. It just doesn't at all match the test and what it's for, so I must wonder is he lying or is he unable to understand the explanation of what that test is for. If he thought a so simple a kindergartner could do it test hard and was unable to understand the explanation of what the test is for.... Let us hope he is just lying as is his custom.

I have been trying to hold my peace on this, but it seems to be dragging on and on and I feel like there is a lot of false information 45 and allies are putting out about the significance of him getting all the questions right.

* "The Nunes Memo Is a Complete Flop:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-nunes-memo-is-a-complete-flop.html

* "At Tillerson’s State Department, Seven of Nine Top Jobs Are Empty:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-state-department-vacancies/

* "Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump on the Nunes Memo, Because of Course He Has:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-has-been-advising-donald-trump-on-the-nunes-memo-because-of-course-he-has

* "McCain: Attacks on FBI 'serve no American interests':" http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/372019-mccain-attacks-on-fbi-serve-no-american-interests

* "Comey praises FBI for speaking up against 'weasels and liars':" http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/371919-comey-praises-fbi-for-speaking-up-against-weasels-and-liars

* "CIA chief met with sanctioned Russian spies, officials confirm:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/politics/pompeo-russian-spies-meeting/index.html

* "Trump pick K.T. McFarland withdraws nomination as envoy to Singapore:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mcfarland/trump-pick-k-t-mcfarland-withdraws-nomination-as-envoy-to-singapore-idUSKBN1FM2L8

* "Black Trans History Is Undeniably Black History:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/02/black-trans-history-is-undeniably-black.html

* Re: Rose McGowan. While I am glad she spoke up about Harvey Weinstein, I haven't forgotten that she's also a transmysogynist and so I must side eye her claims of being a feminist. My horror at the terrible things she went through at the hands of Weinstein and his minions doesn't erase the fact that she's never apologized to the trans community. These things can both be true: that she has survived real persecution from a man with power and mysogynistic harassment and threats for which she deserves empathy while at the same time she can be a shitty person who has used her own power to make trans women feel bad about themselves.

Which is why I've been mulling what to say as she makes the press rounds for her book. Is she as terrible as that shit, Seth Mcfarlane? No, but I'm always going to look at her and think about her willingness to shit on other women. It's why I can't wholly embrace Kate McKinnon despite her obvious talent, and why I'm uncomfortable with Gillian Anderson's resurgence for all she made an excellent Media. I feel like there's something fundamentally wrong with a person's feminism if it's not intersectional and that person is willing to self righteously harm the most vulnerable women in our society, and I feel like there is something fundamentally wrong with a person who, while oppressed can have no sympathy for someone else's oppression.

So it's complicated, and I don't know what the answer is. Something to think about, maybe.

* "Modern human brain organization emerged only recently:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180125105444.htm

* I remember the day we came across this in a primary source at my first college. It filled me with delight to discover that one culture at least shared my preference in this. "On Why Ancient Greek Male Statues Not Very Well Endowed:" https://www.thenationalherald.com/188243/ancient-greek-male-statues-not-well-endowed/

* "Skull found by dog walker is Iron Age:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-42772143

* "Archaeologists Reveal 3D Skulls Of Ancient Romans Killed By Eruption Of Vesuvius:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/01/22/archaeologists-reveal-3d-skulls-of-ancient-romans-killed-by-eruption-of-vesuvius/#68f56d814644

* "Priceless Byzantine Mosaic Found under Mosque in Turkey:" http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/11/26/priceless-byzantine-mosaic-found-under-mosque-in-turkey/

* "Incredible Roman mosaic discovered close to where Richard III's body was found:" http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/22/fascinating-mosaic-discovered-city-centre-team-found-richard-iiis-body-7248979/

* "Best News Bloopers of January 2018:"

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* I would like to thank the person who suggested The Magpie Lord by KJ Charles. I am a sucker for low magic Victorian mysteries involving gentlemen who prefer gentlemen. This one has a rather classic gothic romance premise: disgraced younger son returns from twenty years abroad to a decaying country seat after the death of his father and horrible older brother to find he is cursed and a tangle of mysteries and family secrets to be solved if he is to survive. Only, with a bit of quality m/m romance and erotica instead of a female lead and heterosexual romance and erotica. It is very well written, with likeable characters, and interesting magical system, and surprisingly complex given the slenderness of the volume. I guessed the end, but I nearly always guess the end, and read it with enjoyment in one evening. I am looking forward to reading the sequels. TW: suicidal ideation early in the book.

* Re: The Superb Owl:
Y’all know I actively avoid football as much as possible, but I’m rooting for the eagles, not because I’m from Philly originally (One was required to appear to root for all four teams if one liked one’s limbs attached, but I considered this lip service a chore), but because I hate liars and cheats, which is what the Patriots are.

My late Uncle was the gentlest of men, but he was vehement about about Tom Brady, second only to his fury at Paterno and Sandusky. (His fury at Paterno pre-dated my birth, as he played for Penn State and knew what went on behind the scenes. His friends and acquaintances in the Pro Football world had brought his rumors of Sandusky. The extent surprised him, but not the crimes themselves). I have always trusted my Uncle’s judgement on all things football and having been a quarter back himself, I trust that when he called bullshit on the Patriots he knew the fuck he was talking about.

I hate that cheaters keep prospering in the NFL; it is a microcosm of what it wrong with our country.

* "Bucky’s WW2 Uniform:" https://end-o-the-line.tumblr.com/post/170216061491/buckys-ww2-uniform

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Spanish PM dissolves Catalan parliament and calls fresh elections:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/spanish-pm-mariano-rajoy-asks-senate-powers-dismiss-catalonia-president

* "No deputy, but Julie Bishop to fill in for Israel-bound PM:" http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-to-have-no-deputy-prime-minister-while-barnaby-joyce-seeks-reelection-nationals-say-20171028-gza3xg.html

* "Kenya election: government accused of 'genocide' against ethnic minorities:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/kenya-election-less-than-half-of-those-eligible-thought-to-have-voted

* Things that make me go hmmmm.... "Tillerson eliminates key State Department sanctions office: report:" http://thehill.com/policy/international/357445-tillerson-eliminates-key-state-department-sanctions-office-report

* "Report: Trump backer sought to help with Russia-hacked documents:"

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* "GOP eyes end of Russia probes with Trump collusion unanswered:" https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/27/gop-russia-probes-trump-244217

* "Feinstein demands White House hand over details on Russia, Comey firing:" http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/357547-feinstein-demands-white-house-hand-over-details-on-russia-comey

* "First charges filed in Mueller investigation:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/first-charges-mueller-investigation/index.html

* If it isn't corrupt, why have that provision? "Whitefish Energy contract bars government from auditing deal:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/357473-whitefish-energy-contract-bars-government-from-auditing-deal

* "Republican lawmaker Doug Cox tricked legislature into exempting "Christian" forced-labor camps from regulation:" https://boingboing.net/2017/10/22/supply-side-jesus.html

* "Virginia gubernatorial race could be national bellwether:"

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* Geek Culture, Gamergate, and the Alt-Right: http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/166846218859/digitaldiscipline-lady-feral-robotlyra

* "White supremacy is "evil personified," faith leaders say condemning "White Lives Matter" rally in Tennessee:" http://www.newsweek.com/white-lives-matter-rally-planned-tennessee-695317

* "String of white supremacist violence across the country:"

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* "Dogs And People Have More In Common Than You Might Think:" http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/13/557166894/dogs-and-people-have-more-in-common-than-you-might-think?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2044

* "Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Others Remember Fats Domino:" http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/little-richard-jerry-lee-lewis-remember-fats-domino-w510393

* Snerk. "Vatican City Zoo Struggling To Breed First Angel In Captivity:" http://theonion.tumblr.com/post/166795653549/vatican-city-zoo-struggling-to-breed-first-angel

* Littlefinger's Agenda and Jon Arryn: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/166833386612/hi-turtle-ive-been-wondering-for-a-while-why#notes

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Residents critical of missile and nuclear development program:" http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=14656&cataId=nk01500

* "Regime attempts to raise birthrate ignore new social reality:" http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=14655&cataId=nk01500

* "Browder: My lawyer Magnitsky was murdered by Putin:"

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* "North Korea, Venezuela, and Trump’s war of words:"

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* "Trump wants to defund PBS. ‘Sesame Street’ brutally parodied him for decades.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/03/20/trump-wants-to-defund-pbs-sesame-street-brutally-parodied-him-for-decades/?utm_term=.b818e7d8c64f

* "Who is White House aide Sebastian Gorka?:"

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* "DOJ’s response to Charlottesville: Is it enough?:"

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* Just a reminder that Republicans in five states are trying to pass laws to make deadly terrorist acts like the one in Charlottesville Saturday legal.

* "Richard Painter: ‘This is the face of Fascism in the U.S.’:"

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* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* As a member of one of the other two minorities deemed not human enough to receive guaranteed emergency medical care in this country when we are dying, this is terrifying. "One way to end the opioid epidemic. Let them die:" http://www.newsweek.com/one-way-end-opioid-epidemic-let-them-die-639272

* "Eric Bolling sues reporter Yashar Ali for defamation:"

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* "The Power Of Inclusive Sex Education:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-power-of-inclusive-sex-education_us_59821b59e4b0b35d274c5f64?section=us_queer-voices

* "Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804100410.htm

* "On the early human's menu: Mammoth and plenty of raw vegetables:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804082912.htm

* "46 Prehistoric Sites with Paleolakes Discovered in 'Green Arabia':" https://www.livescience.com/59998-46-prehistoric-sites-saudi-arabia.html

* "Fit for a King: Tut's Camping Bed Was an Ancient Marvel:" https://www.livescience.com/59999-king-tut-camping-bed-ancient-marvel.html

* "Contents of 2,500-year-old sarcophagus discovered in Turkey's Balıkesir revealed:" https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/31/contents-of-2500-year-old-sarcophagus-discovered-in-turkeys-balikesir-revealed

* "Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world?:" https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-world

* The title is silly, but it's a nice little summary of what we know and don't know about the Colossus of Rhodes. "How The Colossus of Rhodes Inspired ‘Game of Thrones’:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-colossus-of-rhodes-inspired-game-of-thrones

* "A Kerfuffle About Diversity in the Roman Empire:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/dna-romans/535701/

* "Alt-right commentator gets 'schooled' by historian over diversity in Roman Britain:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/27/alt-right-commentator-gets-schooled-historian-diversity-roman/

* "This Ancient Mosaic Depicts a Thrilling Chariot Race:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-mosaic-cyprus-roman-chariot-race-archaeology-spd/

* "Archaeologists unearth 'little Pompeii' in southeast France:" http://www.france24.com/en/20170802-archaeologists-unearth-little-pompeii-southeast-france

* "Traces of ancient earthquake in Assos:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-ancient-earthquake-in-assos-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116328&NewsCatID=375

* "Great Ryburgh dig finds 81 'rare' Anglo-Saxon coffins:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-37940012

* "Kenya: Team Excavates Remains of People of Chinese Descent:" http://allafrica.com/stories/201707310840.html

* "Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street:" http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php

* "You Need to See These Hooded Grebes Perform Their Bonkers Mating Display:" http://www.audubon.org/news/you-need-see-these-hooded-grebes-perform-their-bonkers-mating-display

* Want to help replace dangerously bald front tires and dead wipers? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* It finally rained last night. Today I woke up to normal skies and a reasonable air temperature.

* Me watching Pompeii: That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. the people who made it are at least as confused and flat out wrong as the ones that made Braveheart. It was too much of a mess historically to ignore the problems and take as cheese.

* I am finding The Great Wall visually gorgeous, but incredibly frustrating as whoever picked the subtitle font decided to make the lettering so tiny that I literally cant read it without pressing my face up against the screen. I can make out the capital letters and the 't's', so can generally guess single words like "wait" or attack", but I have to guess all the sentences from context. Why would they do this? Most people are not going to be watching this on a massive, super expensive wall sized widescreen TV. There was no descriptive video option and no option to go fullscreen so no way to recover the Chinese dialog. (I prefer widescreen as a rule, but I also prefer having visible subtitles). I know they know how to do visible captioning, as the English for hearing impaired is in huge, easily visible letters, mostly printed on the black background under the picture. why couldn't they do that with the translated dialog as well? Accessibility is a thing, people. It's 2017.

* Leto vs. Clowns: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/164136602812/whats-your-favorite-obscure-greek-myth-fact-i

* "Killjoys, Season 3 Episode 7: The Wolf You Feed:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2017/08/killjoys-season-3-episode-7-wolf-you.html

* "The Paintings used in ‘Black Sails’ (Part 16):" http://sagestreet.tumblr.com/post/164032511222/the-paintings-used-in-black-sails-part-16

* "Sunday Sweets: Art Deco:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2017/8/13/sunday-sweets-art-deco.html

* TNG Rewatch, Season 6:

- Ship in a Bottle. Moriarty is back and grumpy about them dropping that plot thread for four years. I still have lots of questions about how people can be in multiple locations inside the same holodeck. I do like the using the simulation to steal command codes trick. I've seen it done clumsily in lots of shows since, but it is lovely in it's simplicity here. I do like the ethically quandaries around Moriarity and the Countess' personhood and what to do with them. I also think this is the first time they have had Barkley appear in which it hasn't been about his psychiatric issues. He's just there doing his job, which is kind of nice.

- Aquiel. A Mystery, an unreliable narrator, Klingon social friction, and Geordi's creepy thing where he builds an imaginary relationship with a woman he's never met and acts accordingly, brain sex, and the Star Trek version of The Thing.

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

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

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

* How to help the protesters and ordinary people in Venezuela: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/163738805241/softestjohn-fiftyeightminutes-softestjohn

* A list of links to Charlottesville charities if you want to give the NAZIs a financial fuck you: https://twitter.com/SaraJBenincasa/status/896260623905861633

* List of places to donate to help trans service members and fight the planned attack on active duty trans soldiers: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/163475550346/moonbian-hey-i-know-reblogging-posts-about-how

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

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

* "As 1,000 Refugees Drown Under European Policies, Meet the Volunteers Who Are Trying to Save Lives:" http://www.democracynow.org/2016/6/1/as_1_000_migrants_drown_under

* "White nationalists encouraged by Trump's message:"

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* "America a late arrival to choosing female leaders:"

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* "Warren: 'You, Donald Trump, are a total disgrace':"

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* "Prospective Jurors Refuse to Serve Under Aaron Persky, the Judge in Brock Turner Case :" http://jezebel.com/prospective-jurors-refuse-to-serve-under-aaron-persky-1781618871?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

* "5 LGBTQ Riots Before Stonewall:" http://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/video/clips/smnty-5-lgbtq-riots-before-stonewall-video/

* "Finding Love Again, This Time With a Man:" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/findinglove-again-this-time-with-a-man.html?_r=0

* "Early Mammals Began Their Diversification Long Before Demise of Dinosaurs:" http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/early-mammals-diversification-03931.html

* "Stripping, Twerking, and Feminism at the Miss Juggalette Beauty Pageant:" https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/juggalette-beauty-pageant-blurred-version/56311fa4202335567c6c9f08

* "Celebrities Perform Their Favorite Prince Songs:"

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* "We Deserve Our Heroes:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/145620477713/we-deserve-our-heroes

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

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

* Donate to help refugees: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

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

* "Republicans deploy the F-word on Donald Trump:"

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* "Ted Cruz Called A Hearing On The Mythical ‘War On Police’:" http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/18/3723447/ted-cruz-war-on-police/

* "Police department culture questioned where truth was elusive:"

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* "Cruz ducks questions about radical religious right endorsement:"

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* "Vietnam passes law protecting rights of transgender people:" http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/11/25/vietnam-passes-law-protecting-rights-of-transgender-people/?utm_source=PNFB&utm_medium=socialFB&utm_campaign=PNFacebook

* DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. "The Salvation Army's History of Anti-LGBT Discrimination:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zinnia-jones/the-salvation-armys-histo_b_4422938.html

* "Homo erectus footprints hint at ancient hunting party:" http://www.nature.com/news/homo-erectus-footprints-hint-at-ancient-hunting-party-1.17346

* "Why we have chins: Researchers contend chin comes from evolution, not mechanical forces:" http://phys.org/news/2015-04-chins-contend-chin-evolution-mechanical.html

* "Palaeolithic remains prove cannibalistic habits of human ancestors:" http://phys.org/news/2015-04-palaeolithic-cannibalistic-habits-human-ancestors.html

* "The Earliest Little Red Riding Hood Tale:" http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/10/the-earliest-little-red-riding-hood-tale/

* "Rosa May Billinghurst: Suffragette on Three Wheels:" http://www.sheilahanlon.com/?page_id=1314

* I got black and purple striped fingerless gloves for Gothmas!

* So here's the thing with my mobility. I mostly don't use the crutches in my apartment. I do use one or both on a bad mobility day, but my floor is flat and I don't allow obstructions. I have things I can lean on or grab onto in if my legs lose power briefly. I go barefoot without socks, so I'm not going to slip. I have the crutches or the wheelchair as an option if the pain renders the legs too painful or prone to failing, but mostly, I'm okay. I often don't bother when I'm visiting someone else's place if there are no stairs or obstructions or small children running about. I pick a spot and sit in it, and if I need to move, I quickly find a place to sit. I do hang on to the crutch if it's a large party, as I'm more likely to need it for safety or getting around complicated moving clumps of people.

When I'm outside (curbs, stairs, uneven pavement, random obstructions), I always have at least a crutch, becaue even if I have above average standing leg control, I fall really easily. I absolutely use it inside places like shops or the library, where small unattended children or adult assholes can run into me and knock me down, or places like the post office, where I may have to stand in long lines, which is incredibly painful and burns my steps for the day.

Foraging is the worst of all worlds. You get up to a couple hours of line, most of it with nowhere to sit if I couldn't park close enough for a chair. I often end up sitting on cold wet pavement in the rain if the parking is bad. There are often people smoking in or next to the line, which my scarred up slowly degenerating lungs can't handle which means I may not be able to breathe well and start trying to cough up a lung, smokers generally being to lazy and inconsiderate to move a safe distance away. (I'm not coughing to be an asshole, Smokers. I am coughing because I have a genetic condition that will likely eventually kill me. I'm not the asshole in this situation.) Add to this, that inside is a chaotic environment where people and small minimally supervised children randomly run into you.

So as when I go shopping, I put the crutch in the cart and use the cart as a walker. For the time I'm there, just as at the supermarket, that cart is a mobility devise. The way you can tell is there is a crutch sticking out of the cart. Being me, I try not to be in the way. I do keep the cart really close because I do not like being separated from my crutch in public places, even though often, the thing I'm going to grab if my legs randomly give out or someone knocks into me is likely a counter, a bin, a bit of shelving. When I am public, that crutch is basically an extra, more reliable leg. Yes, even when I'm not using it, because I worry about getting stranded, which was a thing that used to happen towards the end of my teaching career and is a thing that can happen in a chaotic warehouse type environment if you pull my cart and thus crutch away out of reach while I'm grabbing oranges.

So when the man grabbed my cart and pulled it away, I instinctively pulled it back to my hip without turning around. People bump your cart all the time, so I do this all the time without thinking about it because that's my legs and I need them approximate to my hips. Only it wasn't someone carelessly bumping my cart, it was a guy who worked there taking the cart over to where they want able bodied people to put them for the bread section so they are out of the way. Normally they wait until you are ready to enter breads, at which time I say, "I'm using it as a walker," and everything is fine. The guy had jumped the gun. A small tug of war ensued with him talking over me, "I'm just moving it out of the way. I'm not stealing your stuff. You can let go of it. It will be fine over here," and me in my startlement trying to get my phrase out in the gaps about it being a walker. I could see the moment he finally figured out what he was doing (stealing someone's leg). I could tell they'd had sensitivity training for disabilities, as he apologized mentioning he hadn't seen the crutch in a way that suggested he really did get it. I wasn't angry or anything and it was all good.

I am mentioning it because this is a thing that happens. You are sitting somewhere and someone "helps" by moving your crutch somewhere further away. I want to go to the bathroom, and it's gone. Which is alarming. I wouldn't be sitting with it if I didn't need it. I try to prop or tuck it out of the way, but depending on the set up, sometimes it needs moving. It's totally fine to ask me to move the thing. I will happily move the thing, but if you move it for me? I may not know where it is when I needed it, and it's disconcerting. That crutch (or cane or wheelchair) may not be quite as intimate as a prosthesis, but it's still functionally a leg or legs and it is freaky to discover someone's trying to walk off with one of your legs, or worse yet taken it and hidden it, or worse still as happens to wheelchair users all too often, stolen by some asshole able bodied person because they've decided that that person doesn't need it because they had to pee or whatever and left it unattended a few moments.

My little tug of war yesterday was not a big deal, but I thought it would be a good time to remind people to ask before you move a mobility devise. Use your words, or at least a polite gesture and let the person move it themselves. Keep in mind that it's not always obvious that you are looking at a mobility devise. When we took my Gran shopping, I'd go grab her a cart and bring it to the car, so she didn't need to get her walker out. Her being past 90 and not liking to let go the cart was a hint, but a fairly subtle one. Keep in mind that just because someone is not using a mobility devise right this second, doesn't mean they don't really need it. There are all sorts of reasons someone might not be in their chair. They may be able to stand and walk short distances, but have very little safe mobility. (Being able to walk the distance to use a non-wheelchair accessible rest room, doesn't mean they can safely walk to their car.) They may have a condition where every step is agony, but the office or person they need to visit is not wheelchair accessible. They might have crawled off to sit on the grass in the park, which is something wheelchairs are not good at. Those things are expensive. Stealing them is not cool or clever or teaching that person a lesson. It's a serious theft that they may not be able to afford to replace and you could strand someone. DON'T DO IT. If you see any mobility devise? Leave it alone unless you have permission to move it.

Yes, accidents happen, like the thing with my cart and crutch the other day, and if you make a mistake like that, apologize and try to be more careful. That's all I ask.

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* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

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* Wow! The President's speech in Kenya really blew me away. His plea for LGBTQA rights in Africa was so important. It’s a shame President Kenyatta wasn’t supportive of that.

* "President Obama visits Kenya without inciting birther freakout:"

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* "Woman kills attacker with his gun, unknowingly takes out a serial killer:" http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/serial-killer-attack-killed-virginia/?tw=dd

* "8 months later, the Cleveland PD admits it was wrong to ever hire the officer who killed Tamir Rice:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/20/1404016/-8-months-later-the-Cleveland-PD-admits-it-was-wrong-to-ever-hire-the-officer-who-killed-Tamir-Rice?detail=email#

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* This explains this better than anything else I've seen. "All Words Matter - Felonious Munk:"

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* "In most states you can be fired for being gay:"

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* "On This Day: Actor Rock Hudson shifted AIDS conversation:"

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* "Transgender life in Ukraine officially labeled as 'disorder':" http://www.kyivpost.com/guide/people/transgender-life-in-ukraine-officially-labeled-as-disorder-394156.html

* "How Ritual Baths Present Obstacles Of Inclusion For Transgender Jews:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-jews-mikvah_55b171eee4b0a13f9d17f78a

* "Snake fossil with four legs just wants a hug :" http://www.cnet.com/au/news/snake-fossil-with-four-legs-just-wants-a-hug/

* "Manhattan Slave Market - Mike Yard:"

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* "Mess Within Texas - Sandra Bland's Arrest:"

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* "When You Oppose Trigger Warnings, You're Really Saying These 8 Things:" http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/07/opposing-trigger-warnings/

* If I owe you money, speak now or forever hold your peace.

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

* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k

* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com