gwydion | Entries tagged with folklore

* I'm posting a partial again and early because of time critical Action Items.

* "No work, no school, no shopping: What to know about the Jan. 30 general strike:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/general-strike-nationwide-anti-ice

* "Israel demolishes UNRWA offices for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/israel-demolishes-unrwa-offices-for-palestinian-refugees-in-east-jerusalem

* "UNRWA Commissioner-General: The burning of UNRWA’s headquarters is an unprecedented attack on the United Nations:" https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-burning-unrwa%E2%80%99s-headquarters-unprecedented-attack

How to Help:
Revive Gaza's farmland: https://apnature.org/en/gaza
PCRF: https://www.pcrf.net/
HEAL Palestine: https://www.healpalestine.org/
The Sameer Project: https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject
Gaza Soup Kitchen: https://gazasoupkitchen.org/

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* "Threat of US-Iran war escalates as Trump warns time running out for deal:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/28/trump-threat-us-iran-war-armada-nuclear-programme

* "Why the Next “No Kings” Could Be the Biggest One Yet:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/no-kings-protests-minneapolis-march-28/

* "Health insurance costs are up. Women and LGBTQ+ people are paying the price:" https://www.advocate.com/health/health-insurance-costs-women-lgbtq

* "Senate moves toward Thursday shutdown vote:" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/27/2026/senate-moves-toward-thursday-shutdown-vote

* "Partial shutdown seems increasingly likely as Democrats demand ICE changes:" https://apnews.com/article/government-partial-shutdown-ice-funding-homeland-security-35abc94e6579e701f03d9c18ca5a7c44

* "In only a few minutes, you can make history with Farmworkers:" https://foodjustice.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=453&cid=23246&cs=e08eae05e5f533c437ac7580b4fdfe62_1769629088_168

* "Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/thom-tillis-lisa-murkowski-call-kristi-noem-resign-dhs-secretary-rcna256233

Please call to thank them and ask them to support impeachment.

Please contact your Congress Critters in general in support of Impeachment.

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

"Take action with Indivisible:" https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

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

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

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

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

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

Snail Mail Campaigns: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3622760.html

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

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

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

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

"The Public Comment Process (+ how to write effective public comments):" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/781844516804149248?source=share

"Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

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

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

Protests: "50501 Events:" https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

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

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

* "Minnesota House gains 2 DFL members after special election wins restore tie:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/27/specials-elections-for-minnesota-house-district-47a-and-64a-favor-dfl-could-restore-tie

* "LGBTQ+ ally Amy Klobuchar launches strong bid for Minnesota governor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/amy-klobushar-minnesota-governor-campaign

* "New High of 45% in U.S. Identify as Political Independents:" https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-political-independents.aspx

* "Gov. Mikie Sherrill - Affordability and Protection for New Jersey | The Daily Show:"

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* "Rep. Ilhan Omar rushed by man on stage and sprayed with liquid at town hall event:" https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/g-s1-107625/ilhan-omar-sprayed-town-hall

It turned out to be apple cider vinegar. This could have been so much worse.

* "Omar says Trump's 'hateful rhetoric' causes threats against her to 'skyrocket':" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/man-charges-rep-ilhan-omar-town-hall/story?id=129618409

* "Ilhan Omar speaks out after town hall attack: ‘I am not one to be intimidated’:" https://www.ms.now/all-in/watch/ilhan-omar-speaks-out-after-town-hall-attack-i-am-not-one-to-be-intimidated-2484052547540

* "Lawmakers condemn ‘disgusting’ attack on Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis town hall:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/ilhan-omar-attack-condemned

* "Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-on-cookie-list

* "NYC asks for 'patience' clearing snow. For the elderly and disabled, it’s a problem now.:" https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-asks-for-patience-clearing-snow-for-the-elderly-and-disabled-its-a-problem-now

* So the last week or two I've been harassed twice a day by a caller I was suspecting of being an insurance company pretending to be Medicare. They usually do this scam November - December, but I'm pretty good at spotting insurance companies doing this and they were being the right sort of subtle shady. Problem is, sometimes medicare doesn't bother properly stating who they are and why they are calling either, which means I couldn't block them without verifying and they kept talking over me or trying to forward me every time I tried to ask questions, which again suggested insurance company scammers, as they are technically legitimate companies, so they'd rather deflect, lie by omission, stonewall questions, and use carefully scripted deceptive phrasing than out right lying like regular scammers. Sigh.

So they call every day at too early in the morning and again in the afternoon or early evening. Sometimes, they'd hit right as I was leaving for, say, the dentist as they did on Monday or when I was on my way to the bathroom or too sleepy to fight. Sometimes they'd talk over me and or try to transfer.

The air quality's been bad whenever it's not raining. We think there must be a substrata burn somewhere and when there isn't enough airflow it pools in our little valley. I'm a lung patient and the air quality situation is just exhausting and makes everything harder including sleep.

It took ages to get to sleep and I was just slipping into REM when the assholes called again. Headachey and exhausted I snapped "Identify yourself" in the teacher command voice I used to use to stop middle school boys in their tracks in Spring, and it must have hit the caller right in the hind brain, because she instinctively obeyed. Some fucking insurance company I never heard of, which may or may not exist. I gave the do not call schpiel and hung up before she had time to recover.

At which point I realized I'd forgotten the call blocker code again, something that never could have happened before Biden improved the spam call situation in the US. I used to be limited to 20 blocked numbers, which I would cycle through as one of them was a time share auto-dialler bank with 15 or so numbers and the police Union charity scam had 8-12 at various points, plus the fireman scam, plus the your computer is hacker scam, plus the IRS is sending you to prison scam, plus the cancer charity scam, plus the burglars in your neighborhood scam, plus assorted Social Security and Medicare phishers, etc., etc..

Thanks to Biden I only need to block a number every couple of months and I'm no longer capped on how many scammers I can block at once.

So I try a few I think might be it. They aren't, which means bathroom trip then looking it up on line. By the time I blocked Asshole Archer Insurance Scammers I am very awake and angry, so they successfully stole about an hour and a half of sleep.

A few hours later I wake up to the smell of something burning. Not charcoal or wood fire, but the bad one you get when something with wiring is on fire. Fuck! So I'm up fast. I shut off the strip that run the air filter and fan. The smell is filling the room. Nothing is visibly on fire, but still. The smell is strongest by the fan, but it could also be leaking in from outside. I check the office space heater, which I know is unplugged, but the smell is barely there in the main area, so fan or outside. I poke my head outside and the air at ground level is a dingy yellow brown and the smell is Brutal. So either something big burning far away or something smaller, very, very close. I hope no one is hurt.

So no fan to sleep with, which added to smoke in my room makes me exhausted and hung over feeling. Plus everything hurts. It hurts so, so much, and even after lung treatment I'm snails' pace and not breathing well. Bonus: I had to lend Squirrel my sinus clearing thingie and the second one is now missing, so I can't even drain my sinuses. (It was an emergency. They got corn stuck up there. I have trained them to ask me first if they need a tool or have an non-ER grade medical situation, because I usually have a solution in a drawer somewhere). Squirrel, after recovering from the self waterboarding horror that is manual drainage: Wow! This feels amazing!

I gave myself a day off from physio, and I'm still struggling not to cry and/or throw up if I have to stand or move around more than a minute.

Today would be a great day not to be allergic to my emergency pain meds. Ugh.

* Squirrel's results came back, and it's way worse than previously thought. They have three rotator cuff tears, one quite large, plus that locked shoulder thing and some shoulder joint deterioration. All physio has stopped because everything is so fragile. They are going for a consult and we expect surgery for rotator cuff repair. Let us hope it is not even more dire.

If they hadn't paid out of pocket for a second opinion, they would be even more fucked right now. So very fucked.

I am worried about what happens when they are fully laid up after surgery, but that is likely a February or March problem.

Some of their back pay came, as it is work related and the hospital stopped fighting compensation. This is good as things were getting pretty desperate.

In other news, While sorting out call blocking from Asshole Archer Insurance, I found a missed call from last Friday with yet more Surprise Emergency paperwork. Luckily, it was some of the same documentation from Monday plus a thing from the special folder I keep handy for things like this. (The only time since it's institution 16ish years ago that I haven't known where the folder was to the inch was when it was boxed for the Great Living room/Office Migration.)

I still had to drag myself out into rush hour traffic Wednesday morning as it needed to be delivered before month's end and sooner is better than later. I used the tiny half secret satellite office I usually do so the delivery it's self took about 5 minutes total in the office including buzzing for reception, pleasantries and xeroxing, but the getting there was extra because not only rush hour, but a lane of the highway was closed and I couldn't get off at the ramp just before the sign. Stop and go to the next off just before the closure. Sigh. Back was fine of course, as south usually is in the morning.

Then I made a sandwich, did lungs, Checked a couple things online, closed things down for sleep, and bathed. Livia was not best pleased as she had wanted me to go to bed instead of doing bureaucracy, but I don't fuck around with threats against the benefits that only barely keep us afloat as it is. She was even more distressed by me not coming right to bed, but while the air was much improved, I don't want to carry allergens to bed in my hair.

This ate nearly all the Wednesday spoons, but I did eventually force the Wednesday physio with looooong rests. I was very lucky New Millennial was here to feed me. I don't have much special vegetarian soup cups left, and I definitely don't want soup cups and crackers twice in one day, it is bad for morale. (I am having soup cups for second meal). I already burned through the emergency bars, because physio plus all the other things besetting me really are using all the spoons every day on the regular.

I am worried because car tax didn't come. After all there was no warning on the other stuff this week. I should go in person, I know, I know. Not this week though. I really need there to be No More Things this week. Phone bureaucracy is piling up and I am exhausted.

Anyway, here is hoping they can schedule squirrel's shoulder surgery soon and that it is just a cuff repair and not a nightmare replacement situation like mine. They are enough older than me, that odds are recovery would be even worse. shudder It probably isn't, but you see how our shoulder luck has been, and how fast the Squirrel situation escalated.

* "Bothersome Bows:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ttRlQb5XO2Q

* "Mycenaean Mythos:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-d8n5sJmkRA

* "Senatorial Sitcoms:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BJaFl6745fU

* "Silly Vikings:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PktcR_dKm0U

* "Knaveish Kings:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XyqLFcvCn6g

* "Avaricious Avocados:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bVp91_q7F3o

* "Gruesome German Tales:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fv23VA-RyXw

* "Tolkien Treatise:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YuBPjU3LVI8

* "Kind-hearted Kids 5 (friends):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0S8LRSXC_mU

* "Kind-hearted Kids 6 (Playdates):" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qcWmsLMsuD8

* "Signs You're A Doctor In A Midcentury Novel:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/signs-youre-a-doctor-in-a-midcentury?publication_id=5&post_id=185883677&isFreemail=true&r=ykw2&triedRedirect=true

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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.

* "When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE :" https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

* "Swing Left:" https://swingleft.org/

* Contains link to trans girl sales pages. "Trans Girl Scouts On Cookie List Sell 71,000 Boxes Of Cookies And Growing:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-girl-scouts-on-cookie-list

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Regulations are written in blood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "IMF warns of higher recession risk and darker global outlook:" https://apnews.com/article/business-economic-growth-international-monetary-fund-government-and-politics-1c893f6ed1dee8360d6467c2fbd9c7fe

* CW: Child Murder. "Thailand massacre: ex-cop kills 24 children in knife and gun rampage:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/least-20-people-killed-mass-shooting-thailand-police-2022-10-06/

* "Around the world, protesters take to the streets in solidarity with Iranian women:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126603977/iran-mahsa-amini-solidarity-protests

* "Iran's Khamenei backs police over Mahsa Amini protests, may signal tougher crackdown:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-khamenei-says-protests-riots-were-planned-state-media-2022-10-03/

* "The Biggest Women-led Protest in Iran’s History:"

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* "‘Geniuses’ Versus the Guns: A Campus Crackdown Shocks Iran:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/middleeast/iran-protests-sharif-university-masha-amini.html

* "Burkina Faso coup fuels fears of growing Russian mercenary presence in Sahel:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/burkina-faso-coup-fears-growing-russian-mercenary-presence-sahel-north-africa

* "What you need to know about Brazil’s runoff election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/04/brazil-2022-election-runoff/

* "Lula, Bolsonaro seek new allies for tight Brazil runoff:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-bolsonaro-court-new-allies-competitive-brazil-runoff-2022-10-04/

* Terrifying. "Brazil election: ‘We'll vote for Bolsonaro because he is God’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62929581

* "Gay Tory MP Conor Burns sacked as a minister following misconduct complaints:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/conor-burns-sacked-as-trade-minister/

* "Nurses urged to strike for first time over pay:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63150632

* "Biggest rail strike in decades halts most trains in Britain:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/01/biggest-rail-strike-in-decades-halt-most-trains-britain

* "Met chief pledges to root out racists from police after further scandal:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/06/met-chief-pledges-to-root-out-racists-from-police-after-further-scandal

* "Belarus, Ukraine, Russia activists win Nobel Peace Prize:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63175334

* "UN body votes to establish Russia human rights investigator, Moscow protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/un-body-votes-establish-human-rights-investigator-russia-2022-10-07/

* "Russian ally cancels Russian-led military drill on its land:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/09/russian-ally-cancels-russian-led-military-drill-on-its-land-00061081

* "Many dead in two separate boat disasters off Greek coast:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/lesbos-boat-capsizes-greece-migrants-kythira

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* "COVID rebound after Pfizer treatment likely due to robust immune response, study finds:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/covid-rebound-after-pfizer-treatment-likely-due-robust-immune-response-study-2022-10-06/

* "How a Chinese Doctor Who Warned of Covid-19 Spent His Final Days:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/world/asia/covid-china-doctor-li-wenliang.html

* "Covid-19 boosters could prevent about 90,000 US deaths this winter, but only if more people get them, analysis suggests:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/health/covid-boosters-deaths-winter/index.html

* "Covid death rates are higher among Republicans than Democrats, mounting evidence shows:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-death-rates-higher-republicans-democrats-why-rcna50883

* Extended Fauci Interview:

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* "Biden compares nuclear risk from Russia in Ukraine to Cuban missile crisis:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/biden-compares-nuclear-risk-from-russia-in-ukraine-to-cuban-missile-crisis-150103621718

* "Head of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been released, IAEA chief says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/head-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-has-been-released-iaea-says-2022-10-03/

* "Putin asserts control over Ukraine nuclear plant, Kyiv disagrees:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zaporizhzhia-plant-operate-under-russian-supervision-after-annexation-ria-2022-10-05/

* "Russia appoints notorious general to lead Ukraine offensive:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/russia-appoints-notorious-general-sergei-surovikin-ukraine

* "Zelenskiy says Ukraine forces liberated Arkhanhelske, Myrolyubivka in Kherson region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-forces-liberated-arkhanhelske-myrolyubivka-kherson-region-2022-10-02/

* "Refuting annexation, Ukrainian forces push on from Lyman toward Luhansk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/03/lyman-luhansk-annexation-ukraine-offensive/

* "Ukraine reports rapid push back of Russian troops on two fronts:" https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-forces-break-through-russian-defences-south-advance-east-2022-10-03/

* "Russian Troops on the Run:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/briefing/russia-ukraine-war-advance.html

* "Ukraine reclaims even more territory; 2 Russians seek asylum after reaching Alaskan island:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/live-updates-latest-news-on-russia-and-the-war-in-ukraine.html

* "A rare glimpse of daily life in occupied Ukraine:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63076570

* The Russians did this last time too. "Ukraine war: Tortured for refusing to teach in Russian:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63037713

* "Ukrainian advance brings city of Sloviansk back to life:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/ukrainian-advance-brings-city-of-sloviansk-back-to-life-lyman

* "A more strategic Russian retreat signals long fight ahead in Kherson:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/05/more-strategic-russian-retreat-signals-long-fight-ahead-kherson/

* "Frustration with Ukraine war spills out on Russian state TV:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-state-media-4cae428dd9d30d994e109ffde6f2ece1

* "Russian woman behind on-air war protest reportedly escapes house arrest:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/russian-marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-war-protest-escape-house-arrest

* "Musk suggests Ukraine should cede Crimea, draws rebuke from Zelenskyy:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-suggests-ukraine-cede-crimea-draws-rebuke-zelenskyy-rcna50528

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* "‘Disaster:’ Connecting the dots between Brazil, Brexit and Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-disaster-connecting-the-dots-between-brazil-brexit-and-trump-149810245513

* "Why the Far-Right Is Fawning Over Strongmen:"

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* "North Korea fires 2 missiles toward sea as U.S. redeploys carrier near Korean Peninsula:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-fires-2-missiles-sea-us-redeploys-carrier-korean-peninsula-rcna50950

* "US warships, with South Korea and Japan, train to shoot down North Korean missiles:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-warships-south-korea-japan-train-shoot-north/story?id=91109679

* "What the OPEC oil cut could mean for the midterm elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-the-opec-oil-cut-could-mean-for-the-midterm-elections-150007877685

* "Biden offers mass pardon for those convicted of marijuana possession:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/06/biden-marijuana-decriminalization/

* "Pulse Survivor & VP Harris Speak Out Against Hate-Fueled Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/16/pulse-survivor-vp-harris-speak-out-against-hate-fueled-violence

* "A shaken Supreme Court returns to chambers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/02/damaged-supreme-court-returns-00059911

* Brace yourself for an end to voting rights, LGBTQIA+ Rights, affirmative Action, and environmental protection. "Supreme Court case selection suggests aggressive conservative agenda in new term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-case-selection-suggests-aggressive-conservative-agenda-in-new-term-149823045999

* "The Onion tells the Supreme Court -- seriously -- that satire is no laughing matter:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/the-onion-novak-supreme-court/index.html

* "Hear Ketanji Brown Jackson Use Progressive Originalism to Refute Alabama’s Attack on the Voting Rights Act:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/ketanji-brown-jackson-voting-rights-originalism.html

* "Opinion | The Roberts court should end its assault on the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/roberts-supreme-court-voting-rights-act-assault/

* "Voting rights faces 'existential' threat in new Supreme Court term:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/voting-rights-faces-existential-threat-in-new-supreme-court-term-149823557825

* "Supreme Court won't intervene in MyPillow CEO's defamation case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-mypillow-mike-lindell-defamation-case/

* "Trump goes to Supreme Court over Mar-a-Lago search and seizure of documents:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/politics/trump-supreme-court-mar-a-lago-appeal/index.html

* "What Trump's outreach to the Supreme Court is really all about:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/what-trump-s-outreach-to-the-supreme-court-is-really-all-about-149917765747

* "Why Black people feel Jackson's 'seat at the table' is ours, too:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-black-people-feel-jackson-s-seat-at-the-table-is-ours-too-150253637541

* "Justice Jackson begins work as the first Black Woman on the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/justice-jackson-begins-work-as-the-first-black-woman-on-the-supreme-court-149706309874

* "Gas prices are starting to take off again. More increases are on the way:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/energy/gas-prices/index.html

* If you do not vote for Democrats this year, you are voting for this. "Senate Republican bill would repeal Democratic drug pricing law:" https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3678314-senate-republican-bill-would-repeal-dem-drug-pricing-law/

* "Young and Homeless in Rural America:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/magazine/rural-homeless-students.html

* I still don't understand how stealing federal money earmarked to feed impoverished children to build sports facilities for the rich isn't an arrestable offense. "Brett Favre reportedly misused funds for yet another volleyball gym:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/brett-favre-reportedly-misused-funds-for-yet-another-volleyball-gym-149811269736

* 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/

* "They Legitimized the Myth of a Stolen Election — and Reaped the Rewards:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/republican-election-objectors.html

* "Challenges to U.S. democracy not unprecedented, but too big for quick fixes:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/challenges-to-u-s-democracy-not-unprecedented-but-too-big-for-quick-fixes-149823557688

* "Disturbing, hateful rhetoric from right sign of resurgence of fascism experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-saying-democrats-want-republicans-dad-slammed-as-hateful-rhetoric-149818437928

* "Eric Holder: Vote up and down the ballot for candidates who will be Democracy Defenders:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/voting-rights-under-assault-via-supreme-court-arguments-and-state-level-gerrymandering-slammed-by-eric-holder-149903429920

* "The GOP’s Hatred of Cities Has Hit an Ugly New Low:" https://slate.com/business/2022/10/republicans-cities-darren-bailey-jd-vance-tom-cotton-donald-trump.html

* "Kevin McCarthy's quest to become Speaker of the House:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/kevin-mccarthy-s-quest-to-become-speaker-of-the-house-149706821836

* "Republican support from this key voting group is in jeopardy. Abortion is to blame.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/06/abortion-gop-women-ads-00060507

* "Joy Reid: Perhaps the crime to the GOP is not so much abortion, but not being a man:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/herschel-walker-abortion-allegations-show-gop-has-contempt-for-women-not-abortion-joy-reid-says-150105669558

* "Rep. Swalwell on new ad exposing Kevin McCarthy's dismal record on crime:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democrats-fight-gop-midterm-scare-tactics-in-ad-exposing-kevin-mccarthy-s-dismal-record-on-crime-150103621791

* "Freedoms for LGBTQ+ Americans Are on the Ballot: Make A Plan to Vote:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/2022/9/20/freedoms-lgbtq-americans-are-ballot-make-plan-vote

* "DeSantis asked the feds for hurricane relief. But he’s long used their cash.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/desantis-federal-relief-cash-fund-priorities-00060020

* "Charlie Crist: DeSantis talks about freedom yet wants to attack women’s right to choose:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/democratic-florida-governor-nominee-charlie-crist-desantis-talks-about-freedom-yet-wants-to-attack-a-woman-s-right-to-choose-150007365839

* "Val Demings: Marco Rubio should pay a price for abstaining from vote on FEMA disaster aid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-democratic-nominee-for-u-s-senate-rep-val-demings-slams-marco-rubio-for-being-absent-from-vote-on-fema-disaster-aid-150008901980

* "Rep. Val Demings buckles down in Florida's Senate Race:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-val-demings-buckles-down-in-florida-s-senate-race-150252613699

* If we lose, odds are that ends democracy in these states. "Republicans gain ground in Senate races in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/johnson-oz-gain-in-senate-polling-00060326

* "As TV doctor, Mehmet Oz provided platform for questionable products and views:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/03/mehmet-oz-senate-television-show/

* "Senate rival accuses Dr Oz of killing over 300 dogs as medical researcher:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/dr-oz-dogs-us-senate-pennsylvania-john-fetterman

* "John Fetterman's tattoos, under GOP attack, are memorials to his battle as mayor against gun violence he says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/john-fetterman-s-tattoos-under-gop-attack-are-memorials-to-his-battle-as-mayor-against-gun-violence-149907525893

* CW: Animal Death "Dr. Oz Follows Up Dog-Killing Report With Speech in Same Room as Hitler’s Car:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/dr-oz-adolf-hitler-car

* "Mehmet Oz’s ad dismays TV anchor Jim Gardner, while Doug Mastriano’s vision shows ... Russia?:" https://www.inquirer.com/politics/clout/jim-gardner-mehmet-oz-campaign-commercial-doug-mastriano-ron-desantis-20221007.html

* "Moore “absolutely exhausted” by “getting lectured by Republicans on patriotism.”:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/moore-absolutely-exhausted-by-getting-lectured-by-republicans-on-patriotism-150252613738

* "Democrats Worry as G.O.P. Attack Ads Take a Toll in Wisconsin:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/mandela-barnes-wisconsin-senate.html

* "Ron Johnson, Tim Michels won't unconditionally commit to accepting 2022 election results:" https://madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ron-johnson-tim-michels-wont-unconditionally-commit-to-accepting-2022-election-results/article_9ec68ac2-bfd5-531b-b41b-8597ac43ccf8.html

* "Wisconsin Dem. U.S. Senate nominee, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, slams incumbent’s abortion stance:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/wisconsin-u-s-senate-race-analyzed-by-democratic-nominee-mandela-barnes-149644357825

* "Five Takeaways From the Wisconsin Senate Debate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/us/politics/wisconsin-senate-debate-johnson-barnes.html

* "Attorney general candidate Eric Toney doesn't rule out prosecuting abortion in cases of rape, incest:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/10/03/toney-wont-rule-out-abortion-prosecutions-rape-incest-cases/10389792002/

* "Abortion, economy electrify contest between Spanberger, Vega:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/09/28/spanberger-vega-virginia-abortion-economy/

* "Spanberger’s New Ad Attacks Her Opponent’s Abortion Stance:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/spanberger-abortion-ad.html

* "Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger runs to keep seat in Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/virginia-rep-abigail-spanberger-runs-to-keep-seat-in-congress-149706821741

* "Budd, Beasley deadlocked in US Senate race as economic concerns weigh NC voters, WRAL News poll sho:" https://www.wral.com/budd-beasley-deadlocked-in-us-senate-race-as-economic-concerns-weigh-nc-voters-wral-news-poll-shows/20505174/

* "Cheri Beasley on her bid to flip a North Carolina Senate seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/cheri-beasley-on-her-bid-to-flip-a-north-carolina-senate-seat-150109765984

* "Former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum backs Kelly over former aide Schmidt in KS governor race:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article266749341.html

* "Herschel Walker's gay son says he 'destroyed lives' amid abortion scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/04/herschel-walker-senate-trans-marriage-abortion-christian/

* "Walker’s team knew of an abortion allegation months before it surfaced:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/walker-campaign-abortion-midterm-election-00060312

* CW: Domestic Violence "Herschel Walker’s campaign in turmoil as adult son accuses him of violence, lying:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/herschel-walker-pledges-to-sue-over-abortion-claim/RLTO2CSSMJDS3MPG3SZEZLQAMM/

* CW: Domestic Abuse "New Attack Ad Targets Herschel Walker’s History of Domestic Abuse:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k84ze/herschel-walker-ex-wife-domestic-abuse-ad

* "Prospect of Senate control gives Walker special immunity from calamitous campaign:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/prospect-of-senate-control-gives-walker-special-immunity-from-calamitous-campaign-149916741923

* "Chris Hayes: Herschel Walker abortion report lays bare GOP hypocrisy :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-herschel-walker-abortion-report-lays-bare-gop-hypocrisy-149904965802

* "Reporter who broke Herschel Walker abortion story details his receipts :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/reporter-who-broke-herschel-walker-abortion-story-details-his-receipts-149907525876

* "Woman who said Herschel Walker paid for abortion also has child with him :" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/06/herschel-walker-abortion-mother-children

* "Herschel Walker Urged Woman to Have a 2nd Abortion, She Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/us/politics/herschel-walker-abortion.html

* "Christian Walker, Warrior for the Right, Now Battles His Father:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/herschel-walker-son-christian.html

* "The Herschel Walker story keeps getting worse for Herschel Walker.:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-collapse-of-the-republican-pro-life-charade-150096965617

* "'He was pro-choice, obviously,' new report quotes woman who says Walker paid for abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-he-was-pro-choice-obviously-new-report-quotes-woman-who-says-walker-paid-for-abortion-150013509642

* "Another day, another not great headline for Herschel Walker:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/another-day-another-not-great-headline-for-herschel-walker-150188613522

* "Racial context helps explain confounding aspects of Georgia Senate race :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/racial-context-helps-explain-confounding-aspects-of-georgia-senate-race-150112325845

* "Conservatives stuck in 'zero sum' mindset see equality as white punishment: Heather McGhee :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/conservatives-stuck-in-zero-sum-mindset-see-equality-as-white-punishment-heather-mcghee-150196293976

* "GOP rallies behind Herschel Walker after abortion bombshell:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/gop-rallies-behind-herschel-walker-after-abortion-bombshell-150253637538

* "This GOP Senate candidate just flip-flopped on election denialism. Again.:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/don-bolduc-election-denialism-flip-flop/index.html

* "This Gay Former Federal Prosecutor Could Unseat a Decades-Long GOP Rep:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/20/gay-former-federal-prosecutor-could-unseat-decades-long-gop-rep

* "Gay Democrat Seeks Congressional Seat in a Deep Red Kentucky District:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/09/gay-democrat-seeks-congressional-seat-deep-red-kentucky-district

* "O'Rourke "We need solutions, not stunts":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/exclusive-o-rourke-we-need-solutions-not-stunts-149706309867

* "Rep. Cori Bush on her new memoir ‘The Forerunner: A Story Of Pain And Perseverance In America’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-cori-bush-on-new-book-her-memoir-the-forerunner-a-story-of-pain-and-perseverance-in-america-150010437898

* "Cori Bush - "The Forerunner":" https://www.cc.com/video/dza056/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cori-bush-the-forerunner

* "Republican Co-Chair Spouts Blatant Homophobia Against Pete Buttigieg:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/11/republican-co-chair-spouts-blatant-homophobia-against-pete-buttigieg

* "Trump didn't trust the government he ran, and the government didn't trust him: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-didn-t-trust-the-government-he-ran-and-the-government-didn-t-trust-him-book-149917253778

* "Trump entitlement developed as rich kid, far from his new blue collar base: book:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-entitlement-developed-as-rich-kid-far-from-his-new-blue-collar-base-149918277802

* "The misguided rationale behind Trump’s lawsuit against CNN:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/misguided-rationale-trumps-lawsuit-cnn-rcna50824

* "Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN May Be Ridiculous, but It’s Not Doomed:" https://newrepublic.com/article/168023/trump-defamation-lawsuit-cnn-singhal

* "National Archives says it still doesn't have all Trump White House records:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/politics/national-archives-trump-records-house-oversight-committee/index.html

* "Mar-a-Lago documents inadvertently published online — and undercut Trump’s privilege claims:" https://www.salon.com/2022/10/05/mar-a-lago-documents-inadvertently-published-online--and-undercut-trumps-privilege-claims/

* "‘What else might be out there at other properties Trump owns?’: Former CIA director on DOJ fears:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/department-of-justice-believes-trump-still-has-documents-he-should-not-have-150189637990

* "DOJ official has told Trump lawyers Trump has more documents: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/doj-official-has-told-trump-lawyers-trump-has-more-documents-nyt-150106693857

* "Trump lawyers deploy slow-down tactics but Trump's case doesn't improve:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-lawyers-deploy-slow-down-tactics-but-trump-s-case-doesn-t-improve-150012997793

* "Trump's Beatdown in the 11th Circuit (Cannon Rebuked):"

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* "Oath Keepers trial begins in highest profile Jan. 6 case to date:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/03/oath-keepers-trial-begins-in-highest-profile-jan-6-case-to-date-00060002

* "Oath Keepers trial, with rare charge and novel defense, focuses on intent:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oath-keepers-trial-with-rare-charge-and-novel-defense-focuses-on-intent-149823045960

* "Oath Keepers caught on tape: Insurrection Act gave 'legal cover':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/oath-keepers-caught-on-tape-insurrection-act-gave-legal-cover-149806661747

* "Secret Service allegedly covered up details of Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade accident:" https://www.salon.com/2022/10/06/secret-allegedly-covered-up-details-of-vice-kamala-harris-motorcade-accident_partner/

* "Ex-Oath Keeper Testifies In Jan. 6 Trial That Group Had Secret Service Contact:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-secret-service_n_633f1957e4b0b7f89f49c761

* "Secret Service at center of several key unanswered Jan. 6 questions :" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/secret-service-at-center-of-several-key-unanswered-jan-6-questions-150110789905

* "High-level Proud Boys member pleads guilty to Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy charge:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/high-level-proud-boys-member-pleads-guilty-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-rcna51103

* "Rep. Jamie Raskin: This is what a violent insurrection looks like:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-jamie-raskin-this-is-what-a-violent-insurrection-looks-like-150187077635

* "Federal judge blocks key provisions of New York's new gun-control laws:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/06/new-york-gun-control-blocked-00060756

* "Infowars lawyer, manager barred from bankruptcy case over conflicts:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/infowars-lawyer-manager-barred-bankruptcy-case-over-conflicts-2022-09-21/

* "Sen. Chris Murphy: I'm furious that Alex Jones put these parents through misery:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/alex-jones-defamation-trial-sandy-hook-families-gun-safety-fundraiser-discussed-by-sen-chris-murphy-150189637832

* "These Migrants Face Violent Attacks and Can’t Escape:"

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* "Ex-US army medic allegedly lured migrants on to flights to Martha’s Vineyard:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/marthas-vineyard-migrant-flight-perla-huerta

* "Air charter company used to transport migrants has ties to DeSanits, Gaetz Florida official says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/identity-of-perla-who-recruited-migrants-for-martha-s-vineyard-flight-identified-by-new-york-times-149818949845

* "Migrants in U.S. struggle for survival despite added burden of GOP political stunts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/migrants-in-u-s-struggle-for-survival-despite-added-burden-of-gop-political-stunts-150192709935

* "Alabama prison strike enters second week: Here’s what we know:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/alabama-prison-strike-enters-second-week-heres-what-we-know.html

* "What an Alabama Prisoners’ Strike Tells Us About Prison Labor:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/10/01/what-an-alabama-prisoners-strike-tells-us-about-prison-labor

* "At Least 50 Groups in the U.S. Advocated Banning Books This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/20/least-50-groups-us-advocated-banning-books-year

* "Judge Accused of Homophobia, Racism Wants Her Job Back:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/13/judge-accused-homophobia-racism-wants-her-job-back

* CW: Sexual Harassment "Money Rich, Morally Poor: Elon Musk:"

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* CW: Rape, Pedophilia "The Devil Behind the Camera: Girls Gone Wild:"

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* CW: Child Sex Abuse "Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting:" https://apnews.com/article/sex-abuse-catholic-church-mormon-5d78129a2fe666159a22ce71323f6da3

* I believe Anthony Rapp. "Kevin Spacey's thinks he’s a 'victim' of 'resentful' Me Too accuser, court hears:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/kevin-spacey-thinks-hes-a-victim-of-me-too-and-a-resentful-accuser-court-hears/

* "This Teacher Lost Her Job After Starting an OnlyFans:"

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* "Thousands of Italians march to protect abortion rights after Giorgia Meloni's win:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/29/italy-abortion-protest-giorgia-meloni/

* "Judge who voided Minnesota abortion limits blocks appeal bid:" https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/judge-who-voided-minnesota-abortion-limits-blocks-appeal-bid/

* "Demand for abortions in Michigan doubles among out-of-state residents:" https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2022/10/05/abortion-michigan-out-of-state-residents-ohio-tennessee-texas-kentucky/69539316007/

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* "UN officials demand Iran halts its planned execution of LGBTQ+ activists:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/iran-lgbtq-activists-execution-united-nations/

* "Same-sex couples from China are getting married in Utah over Zoom:" https://restofworld.org/2022/chinese-same-sex-couples-married-zoom-utah/

* "Bulgaria told to urgently tackle anti-LGBTQ+ hate by European human rights group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/08/bulgaria-lgbtq-hatae/

* "Owner of Gun Used to Kill Queer Journalist Lyra McKee Jailed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/9/14/owner-gun-used-kill-queer-journalist-lyra-mckee-jailed

* "LGB employees more likely to be bullied in workplace, according to science:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/bullying-workplace-study-gay-lesbian-bisexual/

* "Tory Party conference LGBTQ+ party ends with 'disgusting' homophobic abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/05/tory-party-conference-lgbtq-homophobic-abuse/

* "Scotland puts Tories to shame with incredible plan to ban conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/conversion-therapy-ban-scotland-uk/

* "Nicola Sturgeon responds after JK Rowling called her a 'destroyer of women's rights':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/nicola-sturgeon-trans-rights-jk-rowling-bbc-today-show/

* "Police confirms supplying or wearing a chest binder is not child abuse:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/met-police-chest-binding-binder-child-abuse/

* "No, offering breast binders to trans kids isn't 'child abuse':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/28/breast-binders-child-abuse-telegraph/

* "Equalities watchdog admits asking trans people to prove their sex could break law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/ehrc-scottish-gra-legal-sex-trans/

* "Judge: Antigay N.Y. Adoption Agency Can Turn Away Same-Sex Couples:" https://www.advocate.com/family/2022/9/12/judge-antigay-ny-adoption-agency-can-turn-away-same-sex-couples

* "Baker who took anti-LGBTQ+ fight to Supreme Court in new court case:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/07/jack-phillips-masterpiece-baker-lgbt/

* "California Will Ease Benefit Process for Vets Discharged Under DADT:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/19/california-will-ease-benefit-process-vets-discharged-under-dadt

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* "Tropical Storm Julia, A Flooding Hurricane Danger To Central America :" https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-10-07-tropical-storm-julia-hurricane-forecast-central-america

* "Cuban protests after Hurricane Ian fade but anger over shortages simmers:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuban-protests-after-hurricane-ian-fade-anger-over-shortages-simmers-2022-10-03/

* "Ian left a trail of destruction stretching from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Here's a closer look:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/us/hurricane-ian-trail-destruction/index.html

* "Central Florida floodwaters rising after Hurricane Ian unleashed "unprecedented rainfall":" https://www.axios.com/2022/10/03/central-florida-floodwaters-rising-ian-record-rainfall

* "Nor’easter causes problems at Shore with more flooding and erosion expected through Wednesday:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey-philadelphia-noreaster-ian-flooding-shore-20221003.html

* "Death toll from Hurricane Ian surpasses 100 as the search for survivors continues in Florida:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/us/hurricane-ian-florida-recovery-monday/index.html

* "For flooded inland Florida, Hurricane Ian saved the worst for last:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/flooded-inland-florida-hurricane-ian-saved-worst-last-2022-10-06/

* "Why the Florida Fantasy Withstands Reality:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/hurricane-ian-florida-real-estate/671629/

* "Chile's Easter Island 'Moai' statues face irreparable damage after wildfire:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-easter-island-moai-statues-face-irreparable-damage-after-wildfire-2022-10-07/

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* "How food prices and the climate crisis brought famine to Somalia once more:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/first-edition-somalia-famine-climate-crisis

* "Where Protecting the Environment Gets You Killed:"

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* "Iraq's Dying Garden of Eden:"

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* "Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral as users flee, sales drop:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/facebook-scrambles-to-escape-death-spiral-as-users-flee-sales-drop.html

* "Musk Twitter purchase would see return of Trump tweets to no one's benefit:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/musk-twitter-purchase-would-see-return-of-trump-tweets-to-no-one-s-benefit-150019141742

* "The Navy Accused Him of Arson. Its Own Investigation Showed Widespread Safety Failures.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/bonhomme-richard-fire-safety-lapses

* "Sacheen Littlefeather, actor and activist who declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar, dies aged 75:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/03/sacheen-littlefeather-actor-and-activist-who-declined-marlon-brandos-oscar-dies-aged-75

* "Judy Tenuta, ‘Love Goddess’ comedian known for her brash routines, dies at 72:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/judy-tenuta-love-goddess-comedian-known-brash-routines-dies-72-rcna51097

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

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* "Biden's October Surprise: Marijuana Pardons | More Lies From Herschel Walker:"

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* "Weekend Update: Velma Comes Out as a Lesbian, Artist Sells Urine for $500 - SNL:"

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* CW: Animal Death "Weekend Update: Dr. Oz Experiments Killed 300 Dogs, Planned Parenthood Opens Mobile Clinic - SNL:"

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* ""No One F***s With A Biden" | Buttigieg Claps Back At MTG:"

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* "The Right Stuff Dating App & Introducing Hate F**k - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah :" https://www.cc.com/video/ma26un/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-right-stuff-dating-app-introducing-hate-f-k

* "Kim Kardashian's Crypto Fine & Putin's Ukraine Annexation:" https://www.cc.com/video/3y5zki/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-kim-kardashian-s-crypto-fine-putin-s-ukraine-annexation

* "Fringe-Watching - Herschel Walker:" https://www.cc.com/video/lmxs3o/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-fringe-watching-herschel-walker

* "GOP Pretends T**** Isn't Racist | Ukraine Takes Back Territory After Russia's Annexation:"

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* "Nicole Kidman AMC Ad - SNL:"

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* "Weekend Update: Mitch McConnell and Herschel Walker on 2022 Midterms:"

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* "Herschel Walker's Girlfriend Kept Receipts | Is Elon Musk Doing Russia's Bidding?:"

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* "Gators Take Over Florida, Iran Protests & Musk vs. Twitter:" https://www.cc.com/video/3jzdov/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-gators-take-over-florida-iran-protests-musk-vs-twitter

* "Aaron Judge Breaks Record, "Best Before" Backlash & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/w392h2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-aaron-judge-breaks-record-best-before-backlash-more

* "Herschel Walker's GOP-Backed Abortion Hypocrisy :" https://www.cc.com/video/bkfwvb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-herschel-walker-s-gop-backed-abortion-hypocrisy

* "So Much News, So Little Time - Biden Marijuana Pardon & More :" https://www.cc.com/video/5vlo8i/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-biden-marijuana-pardon-more

* "Tesla Has Revealed Its New AI-Powered Robot:"

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* "Hallmark Introduces: The Herschel Walker Collection:"

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* "Be A Man And Drive The New Pontiac Schvantz:"

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* "So You Think You Won't Snap Cold Open - SNL:"

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* "Herschel Walker: It Wasn't Me:"

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* Last Sunday, we went shopping. By we I mean Head Millennial, Techie Millennial, Techie's New Roommate, and me. It was insanely hot and muggy, which we had no way of guessing when planning the expodition the night before when it was a perfectly reasonable temperature for mid-September in this micro-climate. Yes, I know it's October. *shakes fist at the Koch brothers and every other rich person who bought climate denial during my life time to boost their profit margins*

But it had been early September sane temperatures for a week. We'd already ripped out the living room air-conditioning the previous weekend so we could start Gothmas Phase I. (All I've managed is most of the ornaments on one tree.) We were not expecting Surprise late July in Alabama. This means not only was the trip to the Good Grocery (Excellent Prices, Solid selection, Employee run) sticky hot, exhausting, and full of human obstacles, but the apartment common area was oven hot when we got home. It is supposed to be cool, windy, and sporadically rainy. Fucking Climate change.

Now it is Gothmas Phase II, of which I've managed the easy stuff not involving string lights and ladders, but it's enough to start lighting of an evening outside. head Millennial helped me get the gear out of the storage closest, then focused on hand making us lasagna to eat while watching our beloved resident Alien and sipping nice cold floats.

I have already spent two thirds of my food budget for the month and I have my birthday party to get food for mid October. Sigh. I did score eight dollars of fruit from the Market Garden before they closed for the season in the morning of their very last day right after open. I really miss the other fruit and veg stand as they generally stayed open through Halloween, but I really don't blame two people in their '70's for deciding that organizing produce from a bunch of small farms was too damned much.

For the record, the market garden is produce from one farm, super fresh, as it's harvested right there and placed on display throughout the day, but the selection is smaller than the one that was like a farmer's Market only every day and with one check out. Seriously, the Market garden is magical and really close to where I live now and they have a good selection given the size of their growing space. I just wish there were two options instead of one. It's not like there is any shortage of fresh fruit and produce in this place as we are a part off the country that supplies other areas with the same, so we are spoiled by good, reasonably cheap, fresh food. Also, the major artery for the west coast means more southerly fruit makes it up here quickly at reasonable prices.

I never forget we are incredibly lucky to be living were food is. I grew up in an area where the only biking distance food stores were a tiny corner store and a WaWa (convenience store). A real grocery store was an hour round trip not counting the actual shopping, and my Gran was living in a Germantown food desert because she wasn't willing to leave the neighborhood where she was born in 1889 and she had a bad arm, so my Mother and Grandmother took it in turn to take her grocery shopping once a week. I still measure food availibity in things like travel time and spoons and how much a person on foot could reasonably carry for how many miles, because those were the calculation of more than half my life and they still are for my Millennials.

Still, the tiny end of season selection and the last day sign made me sad.

Anyway, we have food. I've two meals worth of eggplant lasagna in my fridge and one in my stomach, and it's starting to look a bit Gothmasy around the Cat Asylum.

For those not used to the lingo, the Gothmas season starts September 1 and runs to Jan. 7. Phase one is interior Gothmas decorations like trees and Halloween Town. Phase 2 is exterior Halloween decorations, Phase 3: we leave everything up inside and pull the Halloween specific stuff from outside while leaving lights, gourds, etc.. Phase 4: yet more interior decorations and more lights everywhere. It is a disability friendly way to do things and is cheerful for the dark of the year. I got in the habit for my late longtime partner Skye as even though he was a happy atheist, the social bits of the winter holidays really mattered to him and he missed his family. It is all very, very Goth to look at since he only specifically theistic things were gifts from assorted relatives and these are black and purple Halloween trees decorated with things like science fiction and Halloween ornaments and Halloween Town stays up throughout. Phase 5: everything sorted and back in boxes, stowed away for next September.

We call it the Cat Asylum, because back just before the turn of the century, Skye and I took in two rescue cats with serious psychological and resulting behavioral problems. It is asylum both in the original sense of a safe place, a refuge; and in the sense that it could get pretty wild for the first few years. For the record, they both lived to their late teens despite health issues related to their abuse and abandonment. Mache recovered and was the best Queen I ever met and a wonderful, wonderful cat by every measure after the extremely rough first 2-3 years. hector suffered from nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks his whole life, but he got so much better and was loved his whole life after that first terrible year. his bad spells went from every day to only once in a while, and he had a really, really good life. It is still the cat asylum because the the current cats also have issues and this is a safe and supportive environment for them.

* Monday I was still exhausted and in pain from Sunday shopping and the weather changes. It was also still July in Alabama humid hot. Still we dropped of my car after squirrel's game so they'd have it Wednesday morning.

Tuesday, the temperature switched back to mid-September, which was much more manageable. The car... things were a lot worse than expected when they cracked the Beastie open. There is a small part that breaks about every half decade, one of many known design flaws for this make and model. So they did that and a few other small necessary things on top of the every ten month stuff that stops the engine from bricking itself. This car is in it's mid-twenties and was poorly designed to start with. Most of the important bits have been replaced over the years, but parts are harder and harder to find. Still we keep pasting it back together because I'll never likely have money for a replacement used car. This made the repair nearly twice as expensive as I expected.

Anyway, it turns out another system needs sorting out preferably in the next month or so before critical damage happens. This has been such an expensive year starting with last November car repairs and including things like the apartment electrical system, the oven dying, , other car repairs, my teeth, my surgery.... Sigh. I'll know how badly I'm fucked next week. I am sure I don't have 150 for replacing bits of the car's fluid system. I'm pretty sure I just spent the money for second Biggest bill on the extra bits and bobs today.

I really need this coming year to be both surgery free and less expensive. Could my body, my car, and my home stop falling apart for even a little while so I can catch my breath? I've had four surgeries in two years which i feel like is a lot.

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

Bonus: My body threw a whole ass four hour tantrum which left me wrung out like a wet dish towel, but spasm aftershocks all night long meant there was no point in going to bed. Sigh.

* The barometer has been swinging wildly back and forth. The hot and humid is the worst thing for my lungs and general functioning. I remain exhausted and in a stupid amount of pain. My sinuses are a nightmare and need mitigation every couple of hours, my As is screaming at me. everything I eat makes me sick, which is a thing that happens when it is muggy hot. The trees on my street are very confused. some of them haven't started to turn, others have a few patches of orange, others are in full orange or red autumn mode, others still have already lost their leaves. We need a good cleansing rain from Alaska.

On the upside, I discovered I'd only spent half rather than two thirds of my food allotment for the month, and the third store actually had my special crackers. I think the global supply issues must be pretty bad right now what with Putin being the monster he is. Two of the four grocery stores in the last week had tons of empty shelves, and the better of them looked like pre-disaster panic shoppers had swept through some of the sections despite the only disaster here being the fact that we're a month into the rainy season, but it's barely even drizzled in couple of months. Oh and the wildfire smoke still blowing in over the mountains from the inland fires. We are protected here from the kind of disasters that destroy towns, but not from climate change itself, which is so obvious to anyone who's lived here a reasonable length of time that it is hard to grasp why it's not obvious to everyone.

* The air quality and extreme humidity remain a serious problem not just for me, but even people with properly working lungs. It often smells like burning and the sky is assorted shades of wrong still from inland fires. I know it's that and not a pathogen, because I am dramatically better when I'm under filtration for a while, but when I come out I start to stuff up again and itch. I can see a really dramatic difference in my lung function too. Something must have been burning very badly Saturday night. By morning it smelled like a tire fire.

Techie Millennial came over Saturday to visit and decorate trees. It was a good visit. Head Millennial called out, and was exhausted when they came in Sunday. I honestly think the air quality is a lot of the problem. We did not finish outside. There is still lighting that needs to go up inside and Halloweentown is all over the place, but it is so much more cheerful now, and we are getting people slowing down to look already.

Unfortunately, some of these people are dog walkers, to the Imperial couple's dismay. Sunday morning a fairly new to the complex German Shepard took serious exception to Tavy and the owner just let the dog stand there barking for a while. Sigh. Most of the dogs in this complex are really well behaved. People know how hard it is to find pet friendly housing in this town, so make an effort, but i feel like if your dog is that agitated because cats live in an apartment, maybe keep walking instead of standing around staring while you dog barks for seven minutes at a now empty window, while the cats that live there hide in terror. just saying.

I do not blame the dogs in these situations; I blame the humans.

* "Creepy Vintage Halloween Costumes From the 1900s to 1950s:" https://www.vintag.es/2022/10/creepy-vintage-halloween-costumes-1900s-1950s.html

* A cute Gotham thing: https://allaboardthecolumboat.tumblr.com/post/697395857179459584/you-fill-up-the-little-cup-youve-been-using-on

* A Different Riding Hood: https://unrealityshadow.tumblr.com/post/697414961664770048/sewickedthread-writing-prompt-s-little-red

* Duel with Lucifer: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/697248814868856832

* "The Second-String Sacred Band of Thebes:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/the-second-string-sacred-band-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5&post_id=76457762&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

* "How to help Pakistan’s flood victims:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-to-help-pakistans-flood-victims

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd

* How to help Puerto Rico: https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/695979319094394880

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

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

* Fundraiser for final costs for a long time internet friend's mother: https://www.gofundme.com/f/annemarie-kergis

* Person in severe economic crisis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover-bills-and-pay-down-debts?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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* "Endless Exile: The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo:" https://thewalrus.ca/uyghur-exile/?src=longreads

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* "Death toll nears 6 million as pandemic enters its 3rd year:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-coronavirus-pandemic-science-business-health-69e8cbaebb653a0f1cb65ffe33d9afbd

* "The Pandemic Is Following a Very Predictable and Depressing Pattern:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/pandemic-global-south-disease-health-crisis/624179/

* "Photos show the first 2 years of a world transformed by COVID-19:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/photos-show-the-first-two-years-of-a-world-transformed-by-covid19

* "Hong Kong COVID-19 Death Rate Is Worst in World:" https://www.voanews.com/a/hong-kong-covid-19-death-rate-is-worst-in-world-/6475909.html

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* "Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-russia-what-you-need-know-right-now-2022-03-03/

* "Russia invades Ukraine:" http://graphics.reuters.com/UKRAINE-CRISIS/zdpxokdxzvx/

* "Why Israel is mediating between Russia, Ukraine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-iran-israel-syria-f9344bcaffbf69446c671400536a166d

* "Asia-Pacific leaders warn of nuclear risk as they condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/07/russia-invasion-ukraine-asia-pacific/

* "US assures nervous Baltics of NATO protection against Russia:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-assures-nervous-baltics-nato-protection-russia-83292642

* "Biden announces Russian oil import ban and warns gas prices could increase even more:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085089048/biden-ban-imports-russia-oil

* "EU diplomats green-light further sanctions against Russia:" https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-diplomats-to-green-light-further-sanctions-against-russia-ukraine-war/

* "Hit in the wallet: U.S. gas prices soar and NATO focuses sanctions on Russian oligarchs:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/hit-in-the-wallet-u-s-gas-prices-soar-and-nato-focuses-sanctions-on-russian-oligarchs-134709829835

* "Sanctions' economic bite tests Russian faith in Kremlin war narrative:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sanctions-economic-bite-tests-russian-faith-in-kremlin-war-narrative-134830661546

* "McDonald's, Starbucks, Coke, Pepsi join exodus out of Russia:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/mcdonalds-starbucks-coke-pepsi-join-exodus-russia-83328447

* "War in Ukraine: World Bank approves $723m financial package:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60657127

* "How sanctions are pinning down the Russian economy:" https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/08/1084280072/how-sanctions-are-pinning-down-the-russian-economy

* "Of Course Putin Is Being Canceled:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/russia-ukraine-war-cancel-putin-culture-war/626978/

* "Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid; Ukraine demands cease-fire for urgent repairs:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/09/chernobyl-ukraine-russia-iaea-nuclear-monitoring-lost/

* "'Surprise move': U.S. stunned by Poland's fighter jet offer:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/poland-transfers-mig-fighters-to-the-us-as-ukraine-asks-for-help-00015259

* "Why not planes? West's aid to Ukraine hits snag on fighter jets:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-not-planes-west-s-aid-to-ukraine-hits-snag-on-fighter-jets-134928453752

* "Vindman: Ukraine fighter jet hang-up 'pretty absurd':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/vindman-ukraine-fighter-jet-hang-up-pretty-absurd-134925893990

* "Foreign policy experts advocate 'limited no-fly zone' as humanitarian outcry grows:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/foreign-policy-experts-advocate-limited-no-fly-zone-as-humanitarian-outcry-grows-135012933934

* "Civilian toll mounts in Ukraine as world leaders raise question of war crimes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/06/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "Those who stayed behind:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/07/ukraine-bombs-civilians/

* "Odessa braces for Russian assault as humanitarian conditions deteriorate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/07/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/

* "As it happened: Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of bombing children’s hospital in Mariupol:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220308-live-zelensky-vows-ukraine-will-not-give-up-will-fight-to-the-end

* "Airstrike hits Ukraine maternity hospital, 17 reported hurt:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-2bed71c00916d44ea951c5809b446db3

* "Ukrainian cabinet member condemns hospital strike as ‘war crime’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ukrainian-cabinet-member-condemns-hospital-strike-as-war-crime-135002181509

* "Vitaly Gerasimov: second Russian general killed, Ukraine defence ministry claims:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/vitaly-gerasimov-second-russian-general-killed-ukraine-defence-ministry-claims

* "Crisis deepens, Ukraine accuses Moscow of 'medieval' tactics:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-europe-evacuations-kharkiv-01693b3373cf8bcf2400ae29af992bbe

* "Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States: “It's a full-fledged war.":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/ukrainian-ambassador-to-the-united-states-it-s-a-full-fledged-war-134709317888

* "Samantha Power - Putin's Ukraine Invasion Is a Reality Check:" https://www.cc.com/video/zgqyj3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-samantha-power-putin-s-ukraine-invasion-is-a-reality-check

* "'A family died... in front of my eyes': Civilians killed as Russian military strike hits evacuation route in Kyiv suburb:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/06/europe/ukraine-russia-invasion-sunday-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Evacuation of Mariupol fails again as civilians flee Sumy:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/8/ukraine-accuses-russia-shelling-mariupol-evacuation-corridor

* CW: Dead Bodies. "Devastation against Ukrainian civilians grows from Russian attacks:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/ukraine-civilian-deaths-putin-invasion/

* "As Fighting Gets Closer, a Kyiv Hospital Treats the War’s Atrocities:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-hospitals.html

* "Ukrainians will make a Russian occupation unsustainable: Yovanovitch:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ukrainians-will-make-a-russian-occupation-unsustainable-yovanovitch-135017029659

* "Besieged Ukraine city of Mariupol buries dead in mass grave:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-mariupol-mass-grave-af9477cd69d067c34e0e336c05d765cc

* "Mariupol bombing: before and after satellite images show destruction in Ukraine city:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/mariupol-bombing-ukraine-before-and-after-satellite-images-map-russian-attack-residential-maternity-childrens-hospital

* "Russian Troops Pounded The Town Of Irpin. Now They’re Moving Into Ukrainians’ Homes.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/ukrainians-fleeing-russian-bombing-irpin

* "Attack on Ukrainian hospital draws outrage as talks stall:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-boris-johnson-business-europe-united-nations-bf2bcfb3a499d688e3075f2d4cf54989

* "US VP Harris embraces call for war crimes probe of Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-duda-andrzej-duda-kamala-harris-europe-792555553cca39ef9e1b4f1e7f8cebe6

* "For foreign fighters, Ukraine offers purpose, camaraderie and a cause:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/foreign-fighters-ukraine-offers-purpose-camaraderie-cause-2022-03-07/

* "‘Putin is angry’: U.S. intel heads warn Russia could ‘double down’ in Ukraine:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/putin-is-angry-u-s-intel-heads-warn-russia-could-double-down-in-ukraine-00015177

* "As Russia’s Military Stumbles, Its Adversaries Take Note:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/politics/russia-ukraine-military.html

* "Russian Prisoners and Ukrainian Soldiers Describe Two Sides of the Conflict:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/europe/ukraine-russia-soldiers-war.html

* "Russian families turn to Ukrainian hotline in desperate search for lost soldiers:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/europe/ukraine-hotline-russian-soldiers-intl-cmd/index.html

* "U.S. and allies quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long insurgency:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/05/russia-ukraine-insurgency/

* "Ukrainian protesters take to the streets in occupied Kherson.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/europe/kherson-protests-ukraine.html

* "Russia arrests nearly 5,000 anti-war protesters this weekend:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/07/1084967986/russia-arrests-more-protesters

* "Protests against Russian invasion of Ukraine fill streets around the globe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/05/protests-russia-ukraine-photos/

* "Protests across Russia see thousands detained:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60640204

* "How Putin’s regime stifled anti-war protests in Russia:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/10/vladimir-putin-regime-anti-war-protests-russia-russian

* "'We are not co-operating': Life in occupied Ukraine:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60670173

* "Moscow says it will let Ukrainian civilians flee — to Russia:" https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/top-wrap-1-ukrainians-trapped-besieged-city-fighting-blocks-evacuation-efforts-2022-03-07/

* "Tens of thousands join rallies around the world in support of Ukraine:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/tens-of-thousands-join-rallies-around-the-world-in-support-of-ukraine

* "Anti-war protests intensify in Russia along with police crackdown:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/10/anti-war-protests-intensify-in-russia-along-with-police-crackdown

* " Ukrainian Refugees Say Goodbye to Home and Family Members:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/03/photos-ukrainian-refugees-say-goodbye-home-and-family-members/626964/

* "Terminally ill children flee war-torn Kharkiv on makeshift medical train:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/europe/ukraine-sick-children-train-evacuation-intl-cmd/index.html

* "International students went to Ukraine to study. Now many worry they can't escape:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/06/1084800770/ukraine-students-india-syria-sumy-state

* "'I love Berlin': Jewish refugee kids reach safety in Germany:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-lifestyle-religion-europe-64542e89118ff81183f3f3cf9cfac5bb

* "Ukrainians who fled Donbas conflict displaced yet again:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/7/russian-invasion-displaces-ukrainians-who-fled-donbas-conflict

* "On the run again: An Afghan family escapes war for second time six months apart:" https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2022/03/07/afghan-refugee-family-kyiv-flees-second-war-sixth-months/9405860002/

* "Foreigners who fled Ukraine team up to help others escape:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-africa-poland-nigeria-f19ac3c87645c69142b27a587dd8a796

* "At Hungarian border, Ukrainian refugees defy Russian invasion with hope:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/at-hungarian-border-ukrainian-refugees-defy-russian-invasion-with-hope-134823493745

* "Ukrainian MP: The world is watching execution of our children, women, civilians:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ukrainian-mp-the-world-is-watching-execution-of-our-children-women-civilians-134814277890

* "“Time is calculated in human lives lost”: Ukrainian MP on delays in aircraft assistance:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-seeks-aircraft-assistance-from-u-s-and-others-as-russian-forces-reportedly-target-civilians-134909509915

* "At Ukraine's largest art museum, a race to protect heritage:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-travel-europe-art-museums-museums-768ce266673b85965edc8367c2257370

* CW: Animal Death "A blast-stressed elephant and an abandoned lemur: The war within Kyiv’s zoo:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/06/ukraine-kyiv-russia-zoo/

* "These Ukrainians Are Stuck in Antarctica as War Rages at Home:" https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-antarctic-researchers/

* "What's happening in Poland right now - a life update:"

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* "Putin turning back clock on information age with journalism, social media crackdowns:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kremlin-cracks-down-on-social-and-traditional-media-as-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-continues-134816326001

* "The War That Russians Do Not See:" https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/03/14/the-war-that-russians-do-not-see

* "Hayes: Putin's biggest fear may be the one thing he can't lie about:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-putin-s-biggest-fear-may-be-the-one-thing-he-can-t-lie-about-134999109624

* "Ukraine's rejection of Russian corruption set context for Putin's invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ukraine-s-rejection-of-russian-corruption-set-context-for-putin-s-invasion-135018053650

* "What the war in Syria tells us about Russia's use of humanitarian corridors:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085097957/what-the-war-in-syria-tells-about-russias-use-of-humanitarian-corridors

* "Russia's war on Ukraine is dire for world hunger. But there are solutions:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/06/1083769798/russias-war-on-ukraine-is-dire-for-world-hunger-but-there-are-solutions

* "Chris Hayes: The cost of relying on corrupt regimes for energy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-cost-of-relying-on-corrupt-regimes-for-energy-134814277985

* "Sen. Merkley: U.S. should lead the world in ending dependence on Russian oil:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-merkley-u-s-should-lead-the-world-in-ending-dependence-on-russian-oil-134816325609

* "When Ukraine needed U.S. backing, all they got was Donald Trump's corruption:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/when-ukraine-needed-u-s-backing-all-they-got-was-donald-trump-s-corruption-134928965510

* "Putin’s full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump and right-wing media:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/03/06/putin-information-war-trump/

* "Trump muses about a really bad — and evidently illegal — idea to bomb Russia using Chinese flags:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/06/trump-muses-about-really-bad-quite-possibly-illegal-idea-bomb-russia-using-chinese-flags/

"“Using the flag of a neutral state or any other state that is not a party to the conflict is prohibited,” said Laurie R. Blank, an expert on international law at Emory University’s law school. “This idea would bring the U.S. into the conflict (because it would be actually engaging in military operations against Russia) and be in violation of the rule prohibiting the use of the flags, emblems or insignia of neutral states or states not party to the conflict."

* "Ukraine's refugee crisis lays bare a dangerous media bias:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/russia-s-ukraine-invasion-exposes-stark-media-bias-n1290914

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* "Georgia speeds up EU application in policy U-turn:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/georgia-expedites-eu-application-in-policy-u-turn-russia-ukraine

* "How the Great Resignation Shows the Power of Unions:"

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* "Senate passes $107 billion overhaul of USPS, lauding mail agency’s role in pandemic response:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/08/usps-senate-biden/?utm_source=reddit.com

* "Senate passes anti-lynching bill and sends federal hate crime legislation to Biden:" https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085094040/senate-passes-anti-lynching-bill-and-sends-federal-hate-crimes-legislation-to-bi

* "Court rejects GOP redistricting plans in NC, Pennsylvania:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-pennsylvania-north-carolina-elections-redistricting-c5b603afa8e492a7dd8925aafe8c527a

* "Proud Boys leader indicted for conspiracy related to Jan. 6 attack:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/enrique-tarrio-jan-6-attack-00015138

* "Texas militia member convicted on all charges in first Jan. 6 trial:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/jury-deliberations-trial-jan-6-capitol-00015083

* "6 Teenagers Are Charged With Murder After Iowa School Shooting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/east-high-school-shooting-des-moines.html

* "Her execution date looming, a mother maintains innocence in 2-year-old daughter’s death:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/10/melissa-lucio-death-row/

* "High court narrows reach of law targeting career criminals:" https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-crime-gun-politics-burglary-dfcc68baa0f181fc043e7809529df1ce

* "Apple Investors Urge Company to Undergo Civil Rights Audit:" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-03-04/apple-investors-urge-company-to-undergo-civil-rights-audit

* CW: Child Abuse, Child Death, Pedophilia "The Dozier School For Boys Nightmare: Corporate Casket:"

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* CW: Abuse "Synanon: The Cult That Inspired The Troubled Teen Industry:"

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* CW: Child Abuse "This "Christian" Camp is Hiding a Disturbing Secret:"

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* CW: Child Abuse "Yellow Deli: The Cafe Run by a Sinister Cult:"

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* "Missouri lawmaker seeks to stop residents from obtaining abortions out of state:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/08/missouri-abortion-ban-texas-supreme-court/

* "Six months in, “no end in sight” for Texas’ new abortion law:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/01/texas-abortion-law-supreme-court/

* "Most Women Denied Abortions by Texas Law Got Them Another Way:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/upshot/texas-abortion-women-data.html

* "Texas abortion ban forcing thousands to cross state lines for procedure – study:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/09/texas-abortion-ban-cross-state-lines-study

* "Florida approves controversial ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law in political win for DeSantis:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/08/florida-senate-approves-dont-say-gay-bill-00015120

* "Transgender teens and their families prepare to flee Texas:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/trans-teens-texas-medical-care-abbott-paxton-bigotry/

* "The Puzzling Virus That Infects Almost Everyone:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/epstein-barr-virus-mono-cancer-research/623881/

* "The end of inflammation? New approach could treat dozens of diseases.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-end-of-inflammation-new-approach-could-treat-dozens-of-diseases

* ""Drug factory" beads implanted in mice take out tumors within a week:" https://newatlas.com/medical/drug-factory-beads-tumors-cancer-week/

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* "Australia floods: PM Morrison to declare a national emergency:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60672065

* "What are conservative commentators saying about the floods and climate?:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/10/what-are-conservative-commentators-saying-about-the-floods-and-climate

* "Humpback whales removed from Australia’s threatened species list but feeding grounds still at risk:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/26/humpback-whales-removed-from-australias-threatened-species-list-but-feeding-grounds-still-at-risk

* "Millions of palm-sized, flying spiders could invade the east coast, scientists say:" https://www.livescience.com/joro-spider-invade-east-coast

* "Cathars: The Catholic Sect The Church Destroyed:"

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* "The Confederacy:"

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* CW: Real Dead Bodies. "Breaking the Spirits of the American People: Prohibition:"

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* Very worth the read. "How an Astonishing Holocaust Diary Resurfaced in America:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/astonishing-holocaust-diary-hidden-world-70-years-resurfaced-america-180970534/

* "Global Events (1980-1984)| Lexual Does The 80s #1:"

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* I feel like this is a very 2022 thing to happen. "Japan’s ‘killing stone’ splits in two, releasing superstitions amid the sulphur springs:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases

* "How to Sue God:"

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

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* "War in Ukraine: Vlad Gone Mad :" https://www.cc.com/video/f2pcn3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-vlad-gone-mad

* "War in Ukraine: Ukrainians Are Fighting Back:" https://www.cc.com/video/9px8d4/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-war-in-ukraine-ukrainians-are-fighting-back

* CW: Suicide "Disney's Sinister Silence on Gay Youth:"

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* "Florence + The Machine - My Love:"

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* "Bill Bailey - The Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz:"

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* I should explain what's going on. Long time readers may have noticed a shortage of personal posts. A few weeks ago I came down with one of my inevitable sinus infections. Technically I always have a sinus infection, but now and then the intractable remnants flare up and take over. It's definitely not COVID. Trust me, we checked. Sinus infections wear me the fuck out and lung clinic wants me to go a minimum of two weeks before we try anti-biotics, because there is no point until the secondary bacterial infection sets in. I get a viral infection first, then I wait for the dip when I almost get better, then we start the anti-biotics when I relapse. I have to wait my minimum two weeks and for the dip and relapse both, if you follow. Only my immune system is very focused on scoring own goals at the best of times and this is not the best of times.

It is exhausting and I don't really sleep properly, and my immune system really isn't making much of an attempt on this one. Not helping are things like Tavy clawing my nipple hard in a panic because he blerped on me and pretty much everywhere in the bed Monday. (Me: Why am I wet? Oh God! WHY AM I WET!!!!) And I kept trying to throw up during clean up and there went another two hours of sleep and them I had to wash a couple support pillows, which means my body was incorrectly positioned, which means extreme pain, which means even worse sleep and it took forever to do physio and I keep needing naps in the middle, and, and....

I have been putting most of my very limited spoons into basic survival stuff and trying to keep up with the War. I hit a hard limit Sunday and basically had to lie in bed finishing Word of honor between naps. Monday, it was finishing a Challion reread and watching the new west side story with cats. Even so the act of dressing and feeding myself at this level of pain and exhaustion was almost too much for me, and I didn't aggregate at all Monday. I am sorry.

I know full well I don't owe any taxes. I still haven't the spoons to fill out my tax forms. (SSI is non-taxable because duh, but it is a good idea to send in the form for a bunch of reasons.) I wish the AARP free tax preparation was still a thing, but I guess the pandemic killed it. As unpleasant as going and waiting three hours is, I'd rather sit and read and not have to deal with trying to work out the tax directions myself with a head full of cotton and mucus. I just stare at the forms every day, and realize I just can't.

I've spent the last two days trying to work out if Friday-Saturday was the dip and if I am now in rebound and sick enough for the antibiotics. Monday made clear I'm sick enough. If I don't wake up better I start the loooong antibiotic course. Which will also make me very sick. Fun!!!

* Tuesday I managed to get five mostly uninterrupted hours of sleep, which boded well. I noticeably improved over the course of the evening. We'll see how I survive the spoon sucking pressures of Wednesday, but I've hopes my immune system is finally going after the sinus infection, so I'm holding off on starting the antibiotics for now.

I have a massive number of ever multiplying prepped and unprepped links. For those reading this on Tumblr, I need to go lung and sleep. I will try to get more links up tonight, but I can't push my body any further right now.

* "Edward Gorey Centennial Postage Stamp Campaign:" https://edwardgorey.org/2022/02/22/edward-gorey-centennial-postage-stamp-campaign/

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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

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "How Humans Are Changing the Oceans:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Joan of Arc: The Maid of Orléans:"

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

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

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* "Stede Bonnet: The Gentleman Pirate:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "The First Soviet Five Year Plan:"

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Did Anyone Escape Alcatraz?:"

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

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* "The Villisca Axe Massacre:"

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

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

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

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* "The Unfortunate Case of Otto Warmbier :"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "The Problem With Asexual Representation:"

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

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

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

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* "Freaks Isn't a Horror Film:"

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* "The Darkest Fairytale Ever Written:"

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

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

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* "The Right Still Can't Meme:"

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

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* "Patton Oswalt - Christmas Shoes:"

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* "Jurassic Park but with a Cat:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

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

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

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

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

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

* I used all the bill money to fix my brakes. I need about 250.00-300 to cover bills for the month. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Fresh Violence in Darfur Adds to Sudan’s Crises:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/africa/sudan-darfur-violence-protests.html

* "Sudan's Burhan Dismisses Senior Intelligence Officers, Sources Say:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-11-28/sudans-burhan-dismisses-senior-intelligence-officers-sources-say

* CW: Child Death "Girl, 12, Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Kids at Christmas Light Show:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ava-white-allegedly-stabbed-to-death-by-kids-at-liverpool-christmas-light-show

* "Burkina Faso: Tear gas fired at protesters decrying Islamist attacks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59443521

* "No way out: The dangerous fields of India's impoverished sugar-cane cutters:" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-11-08/india-sugarcane-cutters

* "Contending With the Pandemic, Wealthy Nations Wage Global Battle for Migrants:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/world/asia/immigration-pandemic-labor-shortages.html

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* "COVID variant spreads to more countries as world on alert:" https://apnews.com/article/omicron-variant-covid-africa-uk-netherlands-1b344a86ff359a552aa5a64899a57ff7

* "How vaccine makers plan to address the new COVID-19 omicron variant:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/27/1059534796/covid-19-vaccine-makers-combat-omicron-variant

* "Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/health-care-workers-long-covid-are-being-dismissed/620801/

* "In Peru's Amazon, 'forgotten' tribes discover COVID-19 as vaccines arrive:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-amazon-forgotten-tribes-discover-covid-19-vaccines-arrive-2021-11-02/

* "‘It's Coming': NY Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Potential Omicron Spike:" https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/omicron-variant-ny-declares-state-of-emergency-ahead-of-potential-spike/3421297/

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* "U.S. Military Training in Mexico Increased as Human Rights Waned, New Database Reveals:" https://theintercept.com/2021/11/17/mexico-military-pentagon-support-human-rights/

* "The Infrastructure Bill in Action:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-infrastructure-bill-in-action-127353925939

* "Republican Leader Backtracks on LGBTQ+ Outreach After Backlash:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/18/republican-leader-backtracks-lgbtq-outreach-after-backlash-ronna-mcdaniel

* "Gay Asian-American Lawmaker Sacked From Business Committee:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/23/gay-asian-american-lawmaker-sacked-business-committee

* "Republican says LGBT+ people 'choose' to be beaten up:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/21/montana-senator-theresa-manzella-gay-choice/

* "Rep. Maxine Waters addresses extremism in the GOP:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-maxine-waters-addresses-extremism-in-the-gop-127354437798

* "Jury finds 'Unite the Right' organizers liable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/jury-finds-unite-the-right-organizers-liable-127355461568

* "How US gun culture stacks up with the world:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/world/us-gun-culture-world-comparison-intl-cmd/index.html

* "How Race Impacts the Self Defense Argument:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/how-race-impacts-the-self-defense-argument-127355461607

* "“If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records:" https://www.propublica.org/article/if-everybodys-white-there-cant-be-any-racial-bias-the-disappearance-of-hispanic-drivers-from-traffic-records

* "Student 'needs police escort' after horrific homophobic, racist 'hazing':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/21/southern-illinois-university-edwardsville-hazing-racist/

* "School Opens Hate Crime Probe After White Student Hits Black Classmate With Water Bottle:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/monroe-high-school-opens-hate-crime-probe-after-white-student-bashes-black-classmate-with-bottle

* CW: Pedophilia. "No phones, laptops allowed at Josh Duggar child porn trial:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/phones-laptops-allowed-josh-duggar-child-porn-trial-81373853

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Police Arrest Woman Over Fatal Stabbing of Her Girlfriend:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/11/20/police-arrest-woman-over-fatal-stabbing-her-girlfriend

* CW: Abuse. "Many Older Queer Adults Face Abuse Yet Rarely Report It, Study Says:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/26/many-older-queer-adults-face-abuse-yet-rarely-report-it-study-says-oregon

* Orly? "Tory MP ridiculed for saying female lead in Doctor Who pushes young men into crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/26/tory-mp-doctor-who-crime-nick-fletcher/

* "Tanzania to lift ban on teenage mothers returning to school:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/26/tanzania-to-lift-ban-on-teenage-mothers-returning-to-school

* "Why We Aren’t Monogamous…:"

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* "Russia to Consider Restricting Gay Love Scenes, 'As With Pornography':" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/11/24/russia-consider-restricting-gay-love-scenes-pornography

* "Australia wants to protect religious people from so-called 'cancel culture':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/28/australia-scott-morrison-cancel-culture-lgbt/

"In reality, the bill would allow religious Australians to legally discriminate against minorities, including LGBT+ people and people with disabilities, advocates have warned.

Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre explained in a release that it would “allow people to make derogatory, offensive and harmful statements of belief, including in workplaces, schools and health services, and that override federal, state and territory anti-discrimination laws, thereby denying victims an important avenue for justice”, and well as “grant unprecedented licence to religious bodies, including schools and charities, to discriminate against people of a different faith or no faith in a range of circumstances”."

* "Marriage Equality Rejected by Thailand's Constitutional Court:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/11/18/marriage-equality-rejected-thailands-constitutional-court

* "Teacher sacked from Christian school for 'being gay' issues grave warning:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/26/australia-teacher-gay-religious-discrimination-steph-lentz/

"The terrifying bill, the centre said, would “grant unprecedented licence to religious bodies, including schools and charities, to discriminate against people of a different faith or no faith in a range of circumstances”."

* "Thug terrifies staff with vile homophobic rant after being asked to wear a face mask:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/dublin-ireland-anti-face-mask-homophobic-rant/

* "Gay man 'thought he would bleed to death' after homophobic thug beat him at Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/leeds-pride-james-withers-homophobia-gay/

* "Saving Two Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/26/saving-two-spirit-and-indigenous-lgbtq-youth

* "Iowa Medicaid Program Must Cover Gender-Affirming Care, Judge Rules:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/11/24/iowa-medicaid-program-must-cover-gender-affirming-care-judge-rules

* "Straight People Are 'Superior,' Says N.C. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/11/22/straight-people-are-superior-says-nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson

* "Drag queen’s home stormed by police after troll files false report accusing them of murder:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/28/elix-drag-queen-police-murder-troll-twitch/

* "Trucks Took to the Texas Streets With Signs Supporting Trans Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/18/folx-health-trucks-took-texas-streets-support-trans-lives

* "Court Revives Lawsuit After Gay Teacher Fired From Catholic School:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/11/24/court-revives-lawsuit-after-gay-teacher-fired-catholic-school

* "Catholic Students Rally Around Schoolmate Punished for Pride Shirt:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/11/23/catholic-students-rally-around-schoolmate-punished-pride-shirt

* "For the Trump Family, LGBTQ+ People Are Nothing but a Joke:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/11/19/trump-family-lgbtq-people-are-nothing-joke

* "Dave Chappelle 'jokes about identifying as a woman' in new comedy show:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/dave-chappelle-trans-transphobia-madison-square-garden/

* "Trans Netflix Engineer Quits; Legal Case Against Company Withdrawn:" https://www.advocate.com/media/2021/11/22/trans-netflix-engineer-quits-legal-case-against-company-withdrawn

* "5 things to know about monkeypox after a new case appeared in U.S.:" https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/17/monkeypox-cdc-maryland-disease/

* "Egypt: Hundreds stung by scorpions after deadly floods in Aswan:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59274686

* "Peru's president pledges support for those affected by 7.5-magnitude earthquake:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/americas/peru-earthquake-intl/index.html

* "In fast-changing Dubai, once-isolated village to be razed:" https://apnews.com/article/business-middle-east-dubai-united-arab-emirates-4f4b5bbe9cf6ebf9695b74101cd4f7c2

* "A Tree That Was Once the Suburban Ideal Has Morphed Into an Unstoppable Villain:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/bradford-pear-tree-south-carolina.html

* "Michigan city on edge as lead water crisis persists:" https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-environment-and-nature-michigan-poverty-12586348a94d5d57de7de6e15df23421

* "This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/science/microbes-construction-bacteria.html

* "The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist:" https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-hacking-kytch-taylor-internal-emails/

* "The Early History of Human Excreta:" https://daily.jstor.org/the-early-history-of-human-excreta/?preview_id=279309

* "First they found a dead king's body. Now they've uncovered an ancient mosaic:" https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059341809/leicester-england-archaeologists-ancient-roman-mosaic

* "Looking at the Dark Side of Jamestown & John Smith | Prism of the Past:"

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* "Fabergé’s Secret Garden:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/24/faberges-secret-garden/

* "Karl I: The Last Emperor of Austria:"

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* CW: Pedophilia. "Seven Surprising Things You Probably Didn't Know about Josephine Baker:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/11/25/seven-surprising-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-josephine-baker/

* CW: Rape "Ivan Milat: Australia’s Most Notorious Serial Killer:"

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* "Close friend shares moving stories about 'force of nature' Freddie Mercury's final days:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/freddie-mercury-death-hiv-aids-mike-moran/

* "The cruel way newspapers treated Freddie Mercury's death will chill you to the bone:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/11/24/freddie-mercury-death-hiv-aids-newspapers/

* "Even Rainbows Have a Dark Side:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-at-rainbows-taboo

* "The Rwandan Genocide:"

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* "The Wounded Warrior Project: Corporate Casket:"

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* "He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/arts/design/toek-tik-cambodian-artifacts.html

* "Egypt restores ancient road linking temples of Luxor and Karnak:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/26/egypt-restores-ancient-road-linking-temples-of-luxor-and-karnak

* "Italian street artist battles racism by turning swastikas into cupcakes:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/italian-street-artist-battles-racism-by-turning-swastikas-into-cupcakes-2021-11-24/

* "End Times Preacher: A Reptile Alien Imitating My Husband Tried to Sleep with Me:" https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/23/end-times-preacher-a-reptile-alien-imitating-my-husband-tried-to-sleep-with-me/

* "A Bunch of People Just Rode Horses to a McDonald’s Drive-Thru:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjb8dm/mcdonalds-drive-thru-horses-malaysia

* "What Is the 'Birds Aren't Real' Movement?:" https://www.snopes.com/articles/381287/birds-arent-real-movement/

* "Flynn, Powell Pushed The Military To Seize Control After T**** Lost The Election:"

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* "The Q Files: Q Faithful Are Still Waiting For JFK In Dallas:"

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* "Pfizer's Covid Pill Can Save Lives | Jon Batiste Stands Up For Big Bird:"

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* "Michael Cohen Is Kanye's Fixer | Roger Stone, Alex Jones In Hot Water For Roles In Jan. 6th Attack:"

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* "Billionaires, They're Just Not Like Us: Elon Feuds With Bernie, Bezos Would Turn Earth Into A Park:"

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* "Urinewhile... Singer Pees On Fan At Florida Festival, The Rock Pees In Water Bottles During Workouts:"

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* "C-SPANIME Covers The Censure Of Paul Gosar:"

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* "Love Crypto? Move To Bitcoin City:"

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* "Oh Christmas Lamp:"

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* "Sunday Sweets: Wedding Cakes in Chocolate:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/11/28/sunday-sweets-wedding-cakes-in-chocolate

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* "Help Kevin Strickland After Wrongful Conviction:" https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction

* My Oldest Continuous friend's Elder Cat is getting up there and her special diet and health care for kidney failure is expensive. Gigi is a sweet, extremely cuddly girl and could use extra help. "Click here to show your support to Karrin Jackson's story *SupportGigiInHerOldAge:" https://www.spotfund.com/story/18393388-9914-4f6c-9f99-876aa019bdee

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Russian authorities open new criminal case against Alexei Navalny:" https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-authorities-open-new-case-against-kremlin-critic-navalny/

* "Jitender Maan Gogi: India gangster shot dead in Delhi court:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58674452

* "Mozambique militant attacks: 'So much destruction':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-58671942

* "Rwanda genocide 'kingpin' Théoneste Bagosora dies in prison:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58695094

* "Parties Vie for Power After Election Shakes Up German Politics:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/27/world/german-election-results

* "Freezing to death on the edge of the EU:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-58671941

* "China Declares All Cryptocurrency Transactions Illegal:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040381774/china-cryptocurrency-transactions-illegal-bitcoin

* "Hungarian PM aims to restore extra pension payment faster:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarian-pm-aims-restore-extra-pension-payment-faster-2021-09-24/

* "1.9m UK homes lose supplier after two more gas firms go bust:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/22/19m-uk-homes-left-without-supplier-after-two-more-gas-firms-go-bust

* "Tory equalities minister Kemi Badenoch: 'I don't care about colonialism':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/kemi-badenoch-colonialism-whatsapp-messages/

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* "Anti-Vaccine Protesters Clash With Police In Melbourne, Australia, For The 2nd Day:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039301977/anti-vaccine-protesters-clash-with-police-in-melbourne-for-the-second-straight-d

* "Unvaccinated and defiant, Bolsonaro pushes back against criticism in his U.N. speech.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/world/americas/bolsonaro-covid-vaccine-un.html

* "Covid-19: India health workers' families fight for compensation:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58621933

* "Desperation, misinformation: how the ivermectin craze spread across the world:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/24/ivermectin-covid-peru-misinformation

* "Singapore migrant workers are still living in Covid lockdown:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58580337

* CW: Domestic Violence. I hope they catch him. I'm worried about his wife's safety. "Man punches nurse in the face multiple times after his wife is vaccinated for Covid:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americas/covid-vaccine-assault-nurse-canada-trnd/index.html

* "Pfizer booster now available to older Americans and those at higher-risk, including on the job, as CDC chief partly overrules panel:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/23/covid-booster-shots-cdc/

* "Red Covid:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/briefing/covid-red-states-vaccinations.html

* "The anti-vaccine-mandate cult keeps putting lives at risk:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/21/magas-indefensible-anti-vaccine-mandate-cult-keeps-killing-people/

* "Joy Reid: There are two Americas, with vaccinated and unvaccinated spaces:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/pfizer-says-its-covid-vaccine-is-safe-for-children-5-11-amid-pandemic-culture-wars-121562181708

* "As racial disparities in vaccination rates even out, partisan gap remains glaring:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-racial-disparities-in-vaccination-rates-even-out-partisan-gap-remains-glaring-122254405636

* "Mobile military ICU training for use with beleaguered U.S. hospitals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mobile-military-icu-training-for-use-with-beleaguered-u-s-hospitals-121761349902

* "Florida's new surgeon general opposes mandates, calls COVID-19 vaccines "nothing special":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joseph-ladapo-florida-surgeon-general-covid-19-vaccine-desantis/

* "Florida’s new surgeon general ‘is a prop’ serving DeSantis’ interests doctor says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-s-new-surgeon-general-being-used-desantis-for-right-wing-agenda-doctor-says-121856581505

* Because the children aren’t dying fast enough for the pro-lifers, apparently. "Florida Students Are No Longer Required To Quarantine After Being Exposed To COVID:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/09/22/1039907024/florida-quarantine-optional-for-students-exposed-covid

* "Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths this summer, more Texans under 60 are dying:" https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/24/coronavirus-texas-deaths-under-60/

* "Doctors Say Texas Leaders Failed To Stop COVID-19 From Spreading:" https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/03/407791/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading/

* "Mississippi Governor Announces Bold Plan to Do Nothing to Stop COVID:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/09/mississippi-governor-announces-bold-plan-to-do-nothing-to-stop-covid

* "COVID deaths surge in Alabama, after state reports more deaths than births in 2020:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-deaths-surge-alabama-state-reports-deaths-births/story?id=80157191

* "‘It’s a tragedy’: State health officer responds to Alabama now leading the country in COVID-19 death rate:" https://www.cbs42.com/news/health/coronavirus/watch-live-state-health-officer-provides-update-on-covid-19-across-alabama/

* "Tennessee sees decrease in COVID cases, but deaths sharply rising; doctors say remain vigilant:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-sees-decrease-in-covid-cases-but-deaths-sharply-rising-doctors-say-remain-vigilant/

* "Physicians fire back at Tennessee governor's COVID policies:" https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2021/sep/28/physicians-fire-back-governors-covid-policies/555019/

* "As Oklahoma’s COVID-19 toll hits 10,000, 'it’s OK to ask for help,' grief experts say:" https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2021/09/24/oklahoma-covid-grief-experts-advice-coping-state-deaths-hit-10-000/5799837001/

* "“An Unprecedented Event In Modern Medicine”: What Happens When A State Fails To Flatten The COVID Curve:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/idaho-covid-crisis-standards-care

* "Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/25/idaho-funeral-homes-coronavirus/

* "1144 new COVID-19 cases in Montana:" https://nbcmontana.com/news/coronavirus/new-covid-19-cases-in-montana-09-23-2021

* As far as I'm concerned they killed those people on purpose. "9 vaccinated nursing home residents die after Montana lets healthcare workers go unvaccinated:" https://www.newsweek.com/9-vaccinated-nursing-home-residents-die-after-montana-lets-healthcare-workers-go-unvaccinated-1632673

* "A Montana VA medical center has opened beds to non-eligible patients to help relieve nearby hospitals during Covid-19 surge:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/25/us/montana-va-beds-hospitals-covid/index.html

* "Hospitals flooded by the unvaccinated forced to curb care even for some non-Covid patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/non-covid-patients-receiving-reduced-care-at-hospitals-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated-121764421871

* "Documents show influence of Trump White House adviser on bizarre Covid policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/exclusive-documents-show-influence-of-trump-white-house-adviser-on-bizarre-covid-policy-121865797681

* "Hayes: How GOP is making money off ‘morally obscene’ anti-vax grift:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-gop-is-making-money-off-morally-obscene-anti-vax-grift-122241093739

* "Anti-vaxx NBA players generate fallout for teams, fans as city-level mandates kick in:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anti-vaxx-nba-players-critiqued-by-journalists-jemele-hill-matt-sullivan-122145349901

* "Georgia Governor Touts AIDS 'Vaccine':" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/18/georgia-governor-touts-aids-vaccine

* "Knox County Cancels School After Anti-Mask Advocates Threaten Disruptive Protests:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/knoxville-school-canceled-anti-mask-protest_n_6151def0e4b01dff4b70c164

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* "Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-afghanistan-kabul-taliban-22f5107f1dbd19c8605b5b5435a9de54

* "Afghanistan: Taliban Abuses Cause Widespread Fear:" https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/23/afghanistan-taliban-abuses-cause-widespread-fear

* "The Women Burning Their Degree Certificates:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/09/afghanistan-brain-drain/619959/

* "Afghan Women Are Fighting Taliban Rule Despite Violent Suppression:"

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* "Return of the Taliban: A VICE Special Report:"

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* "The US Airlifted Over 100K Afghans as Kabul Fell, Now What?:"

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* "EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants:" https://apnews.com/article/epa-hydrofluorocarbon-rules-hfcs-greenhouse-gases-043715b9ee50d5a42ce0364ed28ffdff

* "U.S. mail service due to degrade further as DeJoy's tenure as postmaster general persists:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-mail-service-due-to-degrade-further-as-dejoy-s-tenure-as-postmaster-general-persists-122254405795

* "Dems may drop debt fight to avoid shutdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/republicans-block-bill-shutdown-debt-ceiling-514405

* "The Byeline: Don't let the U.S. government crash through the debt ceiling:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-byeline-don-t-let-the-u-s-government-crash-through-the-debt-ceiling-122026565798

* The Republican argument is that costing taxpayers trillions of dollars for no gain, destroying the ability of the government to do anything much for a generation or two, crashing the American and the world economy for fun are all a small price to pay to protest a democratic plan to get the rich to pay a small part of their share of taxes. Crashing the debt ceiling cost money the way not paying any of your bills costs money.

Tell your Democratic Senators the Filibuster needs to die now when it can do some good. Tell your Republican Senators to save the American economy by voting to raise. Tell both your senators to abolish the debt ceiling.

* "Pelosi steers Dems toward infrastructure vote, without spending bill in tow:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/27/pelosi-house-democrats-infrastructure-514359

* "'It can't be a pinkie promise': Progressives not falling for games; insist on Biden agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-can-t-be-a-pinkie-promise-progressives-not-falling-for-games-insist-on-biden-agenda-122159685720

* "Rep. Jones to those opposing lowering drug prices: who are you looking out for?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kyrsten-sinema-opposing-reconciliation-bill-s-drug-price-reforms-draws-scrutiny-121854533661

* "Sinema courts donors opposed to bill Democrats are trying to pass: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/sinema-courts-donors-opposed-to-bill-democrats-are-trying-to-pass-nyt-122159173560

* "Manchin, Sinema contradict constituents in obstructing Build Back Better bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manchin-sinema-contradict-constituents-in-obstructing-build-back-better-bill-122254917824

* "Sen. Sinema raising money from groups opposing Biden budget bill :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-sinema-raising-money-from-groups-opposing-biden-budget-bill-122240581828

* "American Gentry:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/trump-american-gentry-wyman-elites/620151/

* "This stark visualization proves it: You should be making a lot more money:" https://www.fastcompany.com/90671506/this-stark-visualization-proves-it-you-should-be-making-a-lot-more-money

* "COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff:" https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-education-california-b6c495eab9a2a8f1a3ca068582c9d3c7

It's almost as if the decision to make being a teacher more expensive every year while paying teachers about the same as we pay fast food workers and eroding their benefits while for decades there has been a serious teacher shortage has so hollowed out the system so badly that one disaster could completely collapse the system.

To be clear support staff are treated even worse.

You know how for decades we've been saying we need to properly fund schools while republicans have been slashing funding? Yeah.

* "Massachusetts Calls On The National Guard To Mitigate A School Bus Driver Shortage:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1037307027/massachusetts-calls-national-guard-school-bus-driver-shortage-baker

* "Amid driver shortage, students ride party bus with stripper poles on field trip:" https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/09/amid-bus-driver-shortage-boston-students-ride-party-bus-with-stripper-poles-and-neon-lights-on-field-trip.html

* "America Has a Healthcare Crisis, and It's Hurting Rural Towns:"

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* "How the US made affordable homes illegal:"

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* "Vienna's Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All:"

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* "These Single Moms Are Forced to Choose: Reveal Their Sexual Histories or Forfeit Welfare:" https://www.propublica.org/article/to-get-public-assistance-these-single-mothers-are-forced-to-share-intimate-details-about-their-families

* "‘We’re all fighting the giant’: Gig workers around the world are finally organizing:" https://restofworld.org/2021/gig-workers-around-the-world-are-finally-organizing/

* "“It’s Time to Turn This Tortilla Around”: El Milagro Workers Walk Out, Demanding Fair Treatment:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/el-milagro-walkout-lockout-chicago-labor-tortilla

* "Sweeping George Floyd police reform bill stalls as talks collapse:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/22/us-police-reform-bill-congress-bipartisan-talks

* "Rep. Karen Bass on police reform, possible mayoral run:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/rep-karen-bass-on-police-reform-possible-mayoral-run-122025029734

* "House passes bill to create statutory right to abortion as a battle over Texas law heats up:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/abortion-house-texas-supreme-court/2021/09/24/d5e731be-1ca2-11ec-a99a-5fea2b2da34b_story.html

* "Jennifer Rubin: Dems must get Manchin to realize ‘this is not ‘50s version of GOP’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gop-refusing-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-slammed-by-politics-experts-121750085964

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

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* "Stuart Stevens: The Republican Party is an anti-democratic, autocratic force:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/america-is-in-a-constitutional-crisis-right-now-due-to-republican-party-ploys-122150469650

* "Eric Holder on battling gerrymandering and GOP voter suppression laws:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/gerrymandering-and-how-it-could-lead-to-gop-minority-rule-nationwide-discussed-by-eric-holder-121218117592

* "Election law expert: How to prevent subversion of democracy in 2024:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/election-law-expert-how-to-prevent-subversion-of-democracy-in-2024-122144325710

* "Joy Reid: Democrats must protect free and fair elections to preserve our democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/big-lie-continuing-to-flourish-among-republicans-critiqued-by-joy-reid-in-the-absolute-worst-121563717586

* "What's The Status Of GOP-Backed Election Investigations In Wisconsin?:" https://www.wpr.org/whats-status-gop-backed-election-investigations-wisconsin

* "Arizona ballot review commissioned by Republicans reaffirms Biden’s victory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-ballot-review-draft-report/2021/09/24/7c19ac08-1562-11ec-b976-f4a43b740aeb_story.html

* "Arizona 'audit' flop fails Trump; furthers Republican degradation of democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arizona-audit-flop-fails-trump-furthers-republican-degradation-of-democracy-121954885665

* "Joy Reid calls Arizona vote audit one of many 'fake fraudit gaslighting exercises':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/partisan-arizona-vote-audit-of-2020-election-confirms-biden-won-121947717562

* "Pennsylvania A.G. moves to protect voter data from state Republican 'audit' stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pennsylvania-a-g-moves-to-protect-voter-data-from-state-republican-audit-stunt-121862725762

* "Hayes: Texas is latest in Trump's ‘50 state strategy’ to undermine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-texas-is-latest-in-trump-s-50-state-strategy-to-undermine-democracy-121847365718

* "'Texas is being run from Mar-a-Lago': Abbott drags Texas into 'audit' circus for Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-texas-is-being-run-from-mar-a-lago-abbott-drags-texas-into-audit-circus-for-trump-121952325811

* "Wave of Republican candidates endorsing Trump's Big Lie threatens future elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/wave-of-republican-candidates-endorsing-trump-s-big-lie-threatens-future-elections-121764933923

* "Schmidt: Republicans are driving chaos, promising order with easy scapegoats:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/schmidt-republicans-are-driving-chaos-promising-order-with-easy-scapegoats-121953861736

* "GOP congressman's bizarre rant embodies Republican Party's animating force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-congressman-s-bizarre-rant-embodies-republican-party-s-animating-force-122254917892

* "Bernice King, MLK’s daughter, called race profiteer by GOP senate candidate:" https://www.yahoo.com/now/bernice-king-mlk-daughter-called-193608734.html

* "Joy Reid critiques prominent GOP leaders using ‘Great Replacement’ theory rhetoric:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-lt-governor-patrick-spews-racist-great-replacement-theory-rant-on-fox-news-121217605781

* "Chris Hayes takes apart the racist right-wing immigration theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-takes-apart-the-racist-right-wing-immigration-theory-121943621608

* "Matt Gaetz openly embraces racist right-wing theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/matt-gaetz-openly-embraces-racist-right-wing-theory-122141765750

* "How Ted Cruz embarrassed himself at a hearing he didn’t even attend:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-ted-cruz-embarrassed-himself-at-a-hearing-he-didn-t-even-attend-122241605901

* "Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent, utilities with campaign funds, filing shows:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-lauren-boebert-paid-rent-utilities-with-campaign-funds-filing-shows-121852485509

* "Joy Reid critiques Lauren Boebert for using campaign funds to pay rent, utility bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/lauren-boebert-critiqued-for-using-campaign-funds-to-pay-rent-utility-bills-by-joy-reid-121919045895

* "Judge orders Trump Org. to address subpoenas by New York attorney general for company records:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/trump-organization-taxes-new-york/index.html

* "'Case-by-case basis': White House clarifies position on Trump records and Jan. 6 executive privilege:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/24/biden-privilege-trump-jan-6-514249

* "Jan. 6 committee subpoenas 4 from Trump’s inner circle:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/23/jan-6-committee-subpoenas-four-from-trumps-inner-circle-513989

* "Here's why the media is ignoring the violent Republican crime wave that no one is talking about:" https://www.rawstory.com/republican-crime-wave/

* "'They morphed into terrorists': Judges question meager charges against 1/6 rioters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-morphed-into-terrorists-judges-question-meager-charges-against-1-6-rioters-122254405575

* "Bannon, Meadows, other Trump insiders receive subpoenas from January 6th Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bannon-meadows-other-trump-insiders-receive-subpoenas-from-january-6th-committee-121861190001

* "FBI: Killings soared nearly 30 percent in 2020, with more slayings committed with guns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-murders-2020-data-homicides/2021/09/27/062a1e4e-1f9c-11ec-9309-b743b79abc59_story.html

* "Tennessee grocery store attack: 'He kept on shooting':" https://apnews.com/article/media-shootings-tennessee-memphis-961847d59e0befbbf814073116410fb8

* "U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns, says he will not be associated with ‘inhumane, counterproductive’ deportations of Haitians:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/haiti-biden-deportations-envoy/2021/09/23/c8304424-1c6c-11ec-8380-5fbadbc43ef8_story.html

* "Haiti Protests Mass U.S. Deportation of Migrants to Country in Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/world/americas/us-haitian-deportation.html

* "Mexico urges Haitians at US-Mexico border to give up and head south:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mexico-urges-haitians-us-mexico-border-give-up-head-south-2021-09-24/

* "Former ambassador ‘respectfully disagrees’ with DHS Sec. over repatriating Haitian migrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/haiti-is-not-capable-of-repatriating-migrants-former-ambassador-patrick-gaspard-says-121947205553

* "Rep. Omar: Atrocious images from border should make Americans’ skin crawl:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/haitian-immigrants-gathered-at-southern-border-advocated-for-by-rep-ilhan-omar-121562181571

* "DHS Sec. Mayorkas: I’m horrified at images of Border Control corralling migrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/border-control-corralling-haitian-migrants-on-horseback-under-investigation-dhs-sec-mayorkas-says-121652293503

* "The Sound Off: Haiti and the Right:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-sound-off-haiti-and-the-right-122026053743

* "Biden administration takes new steps to preserve DACA:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/politics/daca-biden-immigration/index.html

* "Louisiana state trooper charged in pummeling of Black man:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-race-and-ethnicity-civil-rights-violations-death-of-ronald-greene-a2f88ffbeea43c6acfc4e9f490ced8f8

* "US police departments clamoring for de-escalation training:" https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-police-new-york-new-york-city-maine-a85463f8955fcf4be53e7b66287c1a87

* "Gay Man Dies at Rikers While Held Under $1 Bail; Family Seeks Answers:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/22/gay-man-dies-rikers-while-held-under-1-bail-family-seeks-answers

They wouldn’t let him out without appearing before a judge, but refused to let him make any of his court dates because setting up teleconferencing would have taken a minimum of effort, then ignored an increasingly dire medical emergency until he died at which point they lied to cover it up.

* "Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Richmond two weeks after Robert E. Lee statue was removed:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/us/virginia-emancipation-statue-trnd/index.html

* "Famed cathedral names artist to replace Confederate windows:" https://apnews.com/article/religion-race-and-ethnicity-james-marshall-kerry-james-marshall-4f3ef320f410c9090acb540fa925bc2e

* "First Black principal at Texas school suspended after being accused of promoting critical race theory:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/critical-race-theory-promotion-accusation-made-against-first-black-principal-at-texas-high-school-before-his-suspension-121217093762

* "Jelani Cobb: Tulsa just one of many places race massacres targeted Black Americans:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/100-years-after-tulsa-race-massacre-survivors-make-case-for-justice-reparations-122244677823

* "Math Is Personal:" https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2021/09/bias-math-sexism-racism/620207/

* "Sabina Nessa killing suspect ‘tried to hide reflective red item’:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/25/sabina-nessa-killing-suspect-tried-to-hide-reflective-red-item

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Federal arrest warrant issued for Brian Laundrie, fiance of Gabby Petito, on fraud-related charge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/23/brian-laundrie-warrant/

* "Maybe Cops Shouldn’t Handle Domestic Violence Calls:" https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/gabby-petito-body-cam-cops-fail-domestic-violence-victims.html

* "As the Petito case grips the nation, families of color say their missing loved ones matter, too:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/22/missing-persons-families-seek-help-after-gabby-petito-death/?itid=lk_inline_manual_11

* "Daniel Robinson’s father calls for all missing persons cases to be treated equally:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/father-of-missing-black-man-daniel-robinson-asks-for-more-police-accountability-121948741621

* "AOC on Texas governor’s ‘disgusting’ abortion remarks: ‘He is not familiar with a female body’:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greg-abbott-texas-abortion-ban

* "'Architect' of reviled Texas abortion ban is now taking aim at crucial LGBT+ rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/21/jonathan-mitchell-texas-abortion-lgbt-rights-supreme-court/

* "How China’s Queer Youth Built an Underground Ballroom Scene:"

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* "Leo Varadkar hit with appalling homophobic abuse by 'intimidating' far-right mob:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/leo-varadkar-home-protect-homophobic/

* "Church of England candidates told to talk threesomes when grilled on inclusion:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/church-of-england-evangelicals-general-synod-candidates/

* "U.K. Appeals Court Overturns Puberty Blockers Ban for Youth Under 16:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/9/17/uk-appeals-court-overturns-puberty-blockers-youth-under-16

* "Not a single trans young person has been referred to a hormone specialist in 2021:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/trans-young-hormone-specialist-referral-nhs/

* "Government condemned over latest delay to conversion therapy ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/25/conversion-therapy-public-consultation/

* "Biden: We Must Defend Rights of LGBTQ+ Individuals to Love Openly:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/9/22/biden-we-must-defend-rights-lgbtq-individuals-love-openly

* "Trans Woman Brianna Ulmer Fatally Shot in Chicago:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/22/trans-woman-brianna-ulmer-fatally-shot-chicago

* "Gay Man Brutally Beaten, Left Unconscious in Alleged Hate Crime:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/20/gay-man-brutally-beaten-left-unconscious-alleged-hate-crime

* "Videos Show Florida Students Yelling Anti-LGBTQ+ Slurs:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/20/videos-show-florida-students-yelling-anti-lgbtq-slurs

* "Coach Fired for Being Gay Was Told He's a 'Danger' to Kids:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/17/coach-fired-being-gay-was-told-hes-danger-kids

* "Colorado governor weds longtime partner in first same-sex marriage for a sitting governor:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/us/jared-polis-colorado-governor-wedding/index.html

* If Simu Liu can’t tell the difference between pedophilia and consensual sex between adults, perhaps he shouldn’t be allowed near children. "Shang-Chi's Simu Liu: Pedophilia Is 'No Different Than Being Gay':" https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/9/17/shang-chis-simu-liu-pedophilia-no-different-being-gay

* "Chicago Winning Battle Against HIV Among Older People:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/20/chicago-winning-battle-against-hiv-among-older-people

* "Syphilis - The Great Imitator - Extra History:"

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* "Britney Spears court filing says conservatorship should end:" https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-conservatorship-7e627b77247844e0926429d4863fda3a

* CW: Abuse. "Beyond Britney: Abuse, Exploitation, And Death Inside America’s Guardianship Industry:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/heidiblake/conservatorship-investigation-free-britney-spears

* "One Mozart Song Calms The Brains of People With Epilepsy, And We May Finally Know Why:" https://www.sciencealert.com/listening-to-mozart-somehow-helped-people-with-epilepsy

* "Barnacle Glue Inspired MIT Scientists to Make a Paste that Can Stop Heavy Bleeding in Seconds:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/barnacle-glue-inspired-a-paste-that-can-stop-heavy-bleeding-in-seconds/

* "What Is the 20-Second Bladder Rule?:" https://www.wellandgood.com/20-second-bladder-rule/

* This surprises me not at all. "Fifteen years of research shows that sleep training for babies can cause them more distress:" https://inews.co.uk/opinion/sleep-training-babies-cause-distress-research-1199132

* "How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain:" https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-cure-for-pain/

* "The school that created a city for the blind:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210916-the-school-that-change-a-city-into-a-place-for-the-blind

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* "‘Tipping point’ for climate action: Time’s running out to avoid catastrophic heating:" https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1099992

* "Every season except summer is getting shorter, a sign of trouble for people and the environment:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/09/22/longer-northern-hemisphere-summer-climate/

* "How Record Rain and Officials’ Mistakes Led to Drownings on a Subway:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/25/world/asia/china-floods-subway-train.html

* "Fire breaks out near Sonoma, smoke cloud seen across Wine Country:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Fremont-Fire-California-wildfire-Sonoma-16480227.php

* "Woman arrested on suspicion of starting California blaze:" https://apnews.com/article/fires-california-wildfires-evacuations-redding-66a00bdfc6747392f7dfd1d4a6587281

* "PG&E Is Charged With Manslaughter In A California Wildfire That Killed 4:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040630538/pacific-gas-electric-manslaughter-charges-california-wildfire-zogg

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* "Spanish volcano activity in La Palma island intensifies, suspending flights and forcing more evacuations:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/la-palma-island-intensifies-suspending-flights-intl/index.html

* "Strong quake hits Greek island of Crete; 1 dead, 20 injured:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-greece-athens-earthquakes-crete-6627c212e4f69081ce67969574b24f84

* "Amtrak train that derailed was going just under speed limit:" https://apnews.com/article/business-montana-amtrak-d33d78d5aa0da2abf8124162ed6b678f

* "Chinese scientists complete starch synthesis from CO2, revolutionary for agricultural production and promoting carbon neutrality - Global Times:" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202109/1235013.shtml

* "This is the whitest paint on Earth and it could eliminate need for air conditioning:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-world/world-whitest-paint-climate-change/507-7bb294b8-f29b-40de-b7cc-5c435ba0cdc0

* "Ford to make huge electric car investment, challenging Washington to keep up:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/ford-to-make-huge-electric-car-investment-challenging-washington-to-keep-up-122159685637

* "Millions of iPhones, TVs and other devices could go offline next week — here's why:" https://www.tomsguide.com/news/internet-disconnect-sept-30

* "Facebook puts Instagram for kids on hold after pushback:" https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/instagram-pausing-instagram-kids-eyes-80257066

* "Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep:" https://apnews.com/article/china-oceans-overfishing-squid-294ff1e489589b2510cc806ec898c78f

* "New Zealand's Slow-Moving 'Living Fossils' Have the Fastest Sperm Among Reptiles:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tuatara-sperm

* "Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city:" https://apnews.com/article/oddities-elections-environment-and-nature-local-elections-rome-dfd52b91e75a6a7863cae244ee3c4bda

"Wild boars can weigh up to 100 kilos (220 pounds), reach 80 centimeters (2.6 feet) in height and measure 150 centimeters (5 feet) long, a not-insignificant threat especially to the elderly and young children."

* "'Exciting' Stone Age discoveries in the Cairngorms:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56661834

* "Ancient tablet acquired by Hobby Lobby going back to Iraq:" https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ancient-clay-tablet-assyrian-king-back-iraq-80185396

* "Unearthed at a British Golf Course: A Log Coffin From the Bronze Age:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/world/europe/bronze-age-coffin-golf-course.html

* "King John: How England's Horrible Monarch Ended Up Granting Human Rights to the Western World:"

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* "Jewish Pirates:" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5CKygjg_eqcqTdJBCx1KgiD

* "Buckingham Palace May Have Been Site of Gay Brothel in the 1600s:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/9/20/buckingham-palace-may-have-been-site-gay-brothel-1600s

* "Who was the Real Man in the Iron Mask?:"

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* "The Absolute Legend That was Lord Timothy Dexter:"

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* "Is Ring Around the Rosie Really About the Plague?:"

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* "Cholera: Love in the Time of Pandemic:"

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* "500 Years of Women's Hoops, Crinolines, Bustles, & Bums (aka the history of the skirt):"

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* "The Greatest Last Stand You've Never Heard Of:"

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* "Newly Digitized Freedmen's Bureau Records Help Black Americans Trace Their Ancestry:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-database-helps-descendants-enslaved-research-their-ancestors-180978522/

* "Trove of Unseen Photos Documents Indigenous Culture in 1920s Alaska:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-unseen-photos-documents-indigenous-culture-in-1920s-alaska-180978713/

* "Polio: The Disease that Paralyzed the World:"

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* CW: Eating Disorders, Torture, Medical Abuse. "The Doctor, the Mortician, and the Murder:"

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* "The Crazy Crystal Meth Adventure of a Finnish Soldier:" https://medium.com/exploring-history/the-crazy-crystal-meth-adventure-of-a-finnish-soldier-1cae54a1238f

* CW: Rape. "How Do the Japanese Teach About WWII?:"

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* "The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/may/25/chinese-merchant-seamen-liverpool-deportations

* "When Pepsi had 6th largest navy in the world:" https://medium.com/history-in-bytes/when-pepsi-had-6th-largest-navy-in-the-world-4612708b70d2

* "Birmingham Church Bombing survivor lived with rage at sister’s death in 1963 White supremacist attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/birmingham-bombing-survivor-sarah-collins-rudolph-commemorates-58th-anniversary-of-attack-by-white-supremacists-120983109532

* CW: Rape. "Little Red Riding Hood On Campus: Women & Public Space:" https://daily.jstor.org/little-red-riding-hood-on-campus-women-and-public-space/

* "Doris Duke: The Murder at Rough Point:"

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* CW: Rape. "Peter Sutcliffe: Fake Notes, Bad Assumptions, and the Yorkshire Ripper's Reign of Terror:"

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* "Joy Reid slams Tucker Carlson’s comparison of current COVID patients vs. '80s HIV patients:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/tucker-carlson-compares-treatment-of-people-with-covid-today-to-hiv-positive-people-in-the-80s-122243141991

* CW: Rape. "Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer:"

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* "LGBT+ troops discuss the 'hurtful' legacy of 'don't ask, don't tell' 10 years on:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-anniversary/

* "Biden on DADT Repeal Anniversary: 'A Tremendous Weight Was Lifted':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/9/20/biden-dadt-repeal-anniversary-tremendous-weight-was-lifted

* CW: Rape, Torture. "The Amazon Review Killer:"

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* "The Titanic PCP Incident:"

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* "Croatian police identify woman found with memory loss:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-ireland-croatia-slovakia-d7ea323234fcfc0fc6e42ec80ed9ffae

* "Tributes flood in for tireless defender of LGBT+ rights after his sudden death:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/20/jonathan-cooper-human-rights-lawyer-lgbt/

* "Beloved Sex and the City actor Willie Garson dies aged 57:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/22/willie-garson-dead-sex-and-the-city/

* "Melvin Van Peebles, godfather of Black cinema, dies at 89:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-movies-race-and-ethnicity-5c0a123a8238776ce96e0ea378e4dff5

* "Autopsy: Actor Michael K. Williams died of drug intoxication:" https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-tv-arts-and-entertainment-new-york-new-york-city-16cd9a96af9010ddcb2357e6d7b50a29

* "Mwazulu takes objects from French museums and live streams it to his followers:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-09/mwazulu-diyabanza-taking-africa-looted-treasures-france-museums/100441386

* "How Language Classes Are Moving Past the Gender Binary:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/crosswords/gender-language-nonbinary.html

* "What We Should Learn From the California Recall Election:"

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* "The Midterms are Only 411 Days Away: Holy Sh*&%$#!:"

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* "Climate Change’s Dirty Little Secret: Sewage:"

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* "Voting Rights:"

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* "Count on It with Dulcé - What's Behind the Sperm Recession?:" https://www.cc.com/video/llachu/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-count-on-it-with-dulce-what-s-behind-the-sperm-recession

* "Histhery with Desi Lydic - Men vs. Women Bearing Children:" https://www.cc.com/video/vhxhzi/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-histhery-with-desi-lydic-men-vs-women-bearing-children

* "Scientists Are Potty-Training Cows:" https://www.cc.com/video/pl7zwr/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-scientists-are-potty-training-cows

* "Instagram Is Damaging for Teens:" https://www.cc.com/video/49tuxn/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-instagram-is-damaging-for-teens

* "U.S. Drone Strike Kills Aid Worker:" https://www.cc.com/video/1fc6hn/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-u-s-drone-strike-kills-aid-worker

* "Nicki Minaj's Cousin's Friend's Swollen Testicles:" https://www.cc.com/video/ip63m3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-nicki-minaj-s-cousin-s-friend-s-swollen-testicles

* "Terrence Deyalsingh - Trinidad's Health Minister Speaks Out:" https://www.cc.com/video/udi869/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-terrence-deyalsingh-trinidad-s-health-minister-speaks-out

* "Black Men and Colorism on Screen:"

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* "Loki, the MCU, and Narcissism:"

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* I have often felt I was watching an entirely different movie than a big chunk of other viewers, especially when it comes to things like Fight Club and the Crow. I feel like this commentator was watching more the way I watch. "Edgelord Movies and the Men who Love Them:"

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* Wednesday I had an old Archer om in the background wile we were all working in the common area of the house. The Millennials were in the kitchen, I was in my office area. Malory Archer was claiming she could do everything the image consultants could do to market their company.

From the kitchen comes, "Okay, Boomer!"

I laughed my ass off.

* Saturday and Sunday assorted millennials and I worked on Gothmas phase one. Here are the results: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/663528395516346368/gothmas-phase-92621

Tavy and Livia: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/663541625688145920/livia-and-tavy-92126

* "John the Baptist, Melchizedek, and the Tom Bombadil Problem:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/john-the-baptist-melchizedek-and?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTg2OTM2MiwiXyI6InR5SGdyIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMyODIzNTU1LCJleHAiOjE2MzI4MjcxNTUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.C1Z47GItrHV2O2tiBp1GHYOFZ9VDQ6zTinxIQfVBNwk

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

* How to help Louisiana: https://auressea.tumblr.com/post/661189695761530880

* "How You Can Help LGBTQ+ Afghans in Crisis:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/8/17/how-you-can-help-lgbtq-afghans-crisis

* Hey! Want to propose Washington State geographical features to be renamed? "Committee on Geographic Names:" https://www.dnr.wa.gov/about/boards-and-councils/board-natural-resources/committee-geographic-names

* My oldest continuous friend's next project. "Goblingrief: A D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/goblingrief-a-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR0jBz9AdmIPSOk4KiCxiykxktX_ePCGTI0iCv9YFcnN2ENmdj5zna3LZnk

* Want to help Maxwell frost go to congress? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/119806

* Want to help Val Demings unseat Marco Rubio? https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/117824

* Want to contribute to Morgan Harper's campaign? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads_ms_mh_gs_202109_dd_launch?source=ads_ms_MH_20210903-DD-GS-Launch-National_mhkywrds-Natl-1865U-MF_a003-MH-ad3-gstxt-txt&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqKuKBhCxARIsACf4XuGuQ_qm_8NW3mAhIySgB61jwTijPejfpvU6Gkt_JHp3b5YG4E75aWAaAhwTEALw_wcB

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

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* "UN calls for restoration of democracy in Myanmar, end to violence:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/1/myanmar-risks-standstill-three-months-after-coup-un-envoy

* "Kachin rebels shoot down military helicopter as parcel bomb kills 5 in central Myanmar:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/04/asia/myanmar-military-helicopter-parcel-bomb-intl-hnk/index.html

* "Myanmar military bans satellite TV, charges Japanese journalist:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/5/myanmar-military-bans-satellite-tv-charges-japanese-journalist

* "What We Know About the Mexico City Train Crash:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/world/americas/mexico-city-train-derailment.html

* "Blinken Heads to Ukraine After Russia Sends 150K Troops to Border:" https://www.voanews.com/europe/blinken-heads-ukraine-after-russia-sends-150k-troops-border

* "Israel crush: Dozens killed at Lag B'Omer religious festival:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56938657

* " Mali: One year on, justice still needs to be done for victims of protests and coup :" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/04/mali-justice-still-needs-to-be-done-for-victims-of-protests-and-coup/

* "Dozens of militants killed in French-Malian army operation:" https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210427-dozens-of-militants-killed-in-french-malian-army-operation

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* "Children Now Account For 22% Of New U.S. COVID Cases. Why Is That?:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/05/03/993141036/children-now-account-for-22-of-new-u-s-covid-cases-why-is-that

* "Covid-19 caused one in three deaths in Brazil so far this year:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/americas/brazil-covid-deaths-2021-intl/index.html

* "Brazil's COVID-19 Deaths Top 400,000 Amid Fears Of Worsening Crisis:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/04/29/992243462/brazil-covid-19-deaths-top-400-000-amid-fears-of-worsening-crisis

* "Brazil Seeks to Hold Bolsonaro Accountable for More Than 400,000 Covid-19 Deaths:" https://theintercept.com/2021/05/01/covid-brazil-deaths-bolsonaro-investigation/

* "‘I warned Bolsonaro’, ex-Brazil minister testifies in COVID probe:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/4/i-warned-bolsonaro-ex-brazil-minister-testifies-in-covid-probe

* "Coronavirus: How India descended into Covid-19 chaos:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56977653

* "As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html

* "The Covid-19 hospital so bad patients want to get out:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/india/hospital-coronavirus-deaths-oxygen-delhi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

* "Modi could have prevented India's devastating Covid-19 crisis, critics say. He didn't:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/india/covid-second-wave-narendra-modi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* "US to restrict travel from India over COVID starting Tuesday:" https://apnews.com/article/india-coronavirus-travel-restriction-5e73dbbd0da45208af988d93c430e959

* "Biden shakes up vaccine strategy as he sets new goal:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/white-house-states-vaccines-485348

* "Biden aims to vaccinate 70% of American adults by July 4:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-government-and-politics-d6ee06383f123a4ef0941847200757df

* "Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-herd-immunity-vaccine.html

* "Examining the ‘herd immunity’ question: How the U.S. can get back to normal:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/examining-the-herd-immunity-question-how-the-u-s-can-get-back-to-normal-111286853763

* "FDA appears poised to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for adolescents by next week:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/05/03/pfizer-vaccine-for-adolescents/

* "Florida Gov. DeSantis suspends all remaining Covid restrictions: 'We are no longer in a state of emergency':" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/florida-governor-desantis-suspends-all-remaining-covid-restrictions.html

* "Los Angeles County reports no new COVID-19 deaths:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-02/los-angeles-county-reports-no-new-covid-19-deaths

* "Tucker Carlson slammed for saying children wearing masks outside warrants police intervention:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/tucker-carlson-slams-mask-wearing-for-children-outdoors-is-called-unhinged-by-media-experts-111215173874

* "Trans woman denied life-saving COVID vaccine due to ‘mismatched ID’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/21/trans-woman-denied-covid-vaccine-mismatched-id-oklahoma/

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* "Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes Outside War Zones Are Disclosed:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/us/politics/trump-drone-strike-rules.html

* "Joe Biden tells trans Americans 'the president has your back' in historic speech:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/joe-biden-congress-address-trans-americans-equality-act/

* "Joe Biden Is Giving the World a Lesson on Moving Forward:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/4/29/joe-biden-giving-world-lesson-moving-forward

* "10 times Joe Biden stood up for LGBT+ rights in his first 100 days:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/joe-biden-lgbt-rights-100-days/

* "Why President Biden's domestic agenda is also a foreign policy statement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/why-president-biden-s-domestic-agenda-is-also-a-foreign-policy-statement-111095877913

* "Joy Reid: Biden proposed ideas that will be very hard for Republicans to oppose:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-biden-proposed-ideas-that-will-be-very-hard-for-republicans-to-oppose-111027781553

* "Biden's advantage as political messenger is his political background, history suggests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-s-advantage-as-political-messenger-is-his-political-background-history-suggests-111098437781

* "Chris Hayes: Biden is ending the Reagan era with bold, progressive agenda:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-biden-is-ending-the-reagan-era-with-bold-progressive-agenda-111084613903

* "Chris Hayes: How Biden is succeeding where Trump failed:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-how-biden-is-succeeding-where-trump-failed-111284805823

* "Chief Spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris on her historic first 100 days:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/vice-president-kamala-harris-s-historic-first-100-days-discussed-by-symone-sanders-111213637598

* "Donald Trump’s cruel ban on trans people joining the military is officially over:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/trans-military-ban-over-pentagon-joe-biden-donald-trump/

* "Joe Biden to let embassies fly the Pride flag on the same pole as the US flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/us-embassy-lgbt-pride-flag-ban-joe-biden-anthony-blinken/

* "Biden Picks Lesbian Vet Gina Ortiz Jones for Air Force Undersecretary:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/28/biden-picks-lesbian-vet-gina-ortiz-jones-air-force-undersecretary

* "Biden administration to propose first rule requiring cut in climate pollutants:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/05/03/epa-climate-hfcs/

* "Consumer-fueled economy pushes GDP to 6.4% first-quarter gain:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/us-gdp-rose-6point4percent-in-the-first-quarter-vs-6point5percent-increase-expected.html

* "Democratic tax cuts, stimulus measures seen to be revving up economy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democratic-tax-cuts-stimulus-measures-seen-to-be-revving-up-economy-111295045787

* "Not rich? Good news: You’re probably getting a tax cut.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/25/dems-tax-cuts-biden-484476

* "Some Republicans look to have it both ways on popular Covid relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/some-republicans-look-to-have-it-both-ways-on-covid-relief-111159365885

* "Rep. Schiff says GOP’s ‘grasping at straws’ to slam Biden's popular economic plan:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-s-popular-economic-plan-under-attack-from-gop-grasping-at-straws-schiff-says-111211077981

* "‘Be bold, go big’: Sen. Bernie Sanders on how Democrats can hold onto power:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-be-bold-go-big-sen-bernie-sanders-on-how-democrats-can-hold-onto-power-111283781944

* "Democrats consider reforming immigration laws through infrastructure bill, reconciliation:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-consider-reforming-immigration-laws-through-infrastructure-bill-reconciliation-111359557561

* "McConnell Says ‘Zero’ Republicans Will Back Biden’s Infrastructure Package:" https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-says-zero-republicans-back-183602299.html

* Children learning accurate history for once being the most important threat to America right now according to Republicans, apparently, rather than Republicans literally trying to end Democracy forever. "POLITICO Playbook: McConnell takes on the 1619 Project:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/04/30/mcconnell-takes-on-the-1619-project-492664?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318

* "GOP state lawmakers: The Three-Fifths Compromise was actually good:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/04/gop-state-lawmakers-three-fifths-compromise-was-actually-good/

* "As schools expand racial equity work, conservatives see a new threat in critical race theory:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/03/critical-race-theory-backlash/

* "DNC Chair: GOP Obsessed With Mr. Potato Head, Not Real Issues:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/29/dnc-chair-gop-obsessed-mr-potato-head-not-real-issues

* CW: Rape "Senators announce proposed law removing commanders from military sexual assault cases.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/us/politics/military-sexual-assault-cases.html

* "‘Failure is not an option, voting is too sacred’: How Chuck Schumer plans to pass voting rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/-failure-is-not-an-option-voting-is-too-sacred-how-chuck-schumer-plans-to-pass-voting-rights-111020613651

* "Manchin says he doesn’t support D.C. statehood bill, dealing advocates a major blow:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/manchin-dc-statehood-amendment/2021/04/30/39fab2ae-a9dd-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html

* Have something you want to tell Manchin? 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.

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

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

* "Florida Legislature passes elections bill that adds restrictions to voting:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/politics/florida-passes-elections-bill-voting-restrictions/

* "Republican ‘power grab’: Florida rep on his state's new voter restriction law:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republican-power-grab-florida-rep-on-his-state-s-new-voter-restriction-law-111151173835

* "Republicans fear new voting restrictions could backfire on their own voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-fear-new-voting-restrictions-could-backfire-on-their-own-voters-111295557744

* "Texas leaders, corporations form coalitions to fight voting restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dozens-businesses-speak-out-against-voting-restrictions-texas-n1266287

* "Capehart remembers when Tim Scott once spoke sensitively about racial discrimination experiences:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/tim-scott-s-speech-on-his-racial-discrimination-experiences-remembered-by-capehart-in-bye-line-111214149691

* "Cheney calls out Trump's latest attempt to promote 'BIG LIE' amid criticism from within her own party:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/liz-cheney-criticism-trump-big-lie/

* "As McCarthy moves to boot Cheney, a favorite successor emerges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/04/mccarthy-gop-cheney-485316

* "Actual elections experts head to Arizona as Trump, GOP fixate on clumsy 'audit' stunt:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/actual-elections-experts-head-to-arizona-as-trump-gop-fixates-on-clumsy-audit-stunt-111096901907

* "Joy Reid: Trump and conspiracy theorists ‘defiling American democracy’ with audit of Arizona ballots:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-trump-and-conspiracy-theorists-defiling-american-democracy-with-audit-of-arizona-ballots-111150149564

* "Ex-state Rep. Anthony Kern, who was at Capitol riot, seen counting ballots in Arizona audit:" https://www.newsweek.com/ex-state-rep-anthony-kern-who-was-capitol-riot-seen-counting-ballots-arizona-audit-1588010

* "Murkowski Challenger Endorsed 'Ex-Gay' Therapy, Denounced 'Twilight':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/27/murkowski-challenger-endorsed-ex-gay-therapy-denounced-twilight

* "Former North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasley running for U.S Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/former-north-carolina-chief-justice-cheri-beasley-running-for-u-s-senate-111149637516

* "LGBTQ+, Asian-American Groups Oppose Andrew Yang for NYC Mayor:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/23/lgbtq-asian-american-groups-oppose-andrew-yang-nyc-mayor

* "Judge Accuses DOJ Of Misleading Her About Key Doc Related Mueller Report Release:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-olc-memo-mueller-report

* "Federal judge calls out Barr for lying, orders previously withheld documents released:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-judge-calls-out-barr-for-lying-orders-previously-withheld-documents-released-111358533515

* "Giuliani investigation seen to be heating up with execution of search warrants:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/giuliani-investigation-seen-to-be-heating-up-with-execution-of-search-warrants-111023685521

* "Rudy’s downfall: Giuliani being investigated by the same office he once ran:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rudy-s-downfall-giuliani-being-investigated-by-the-same-office-he-once-ran-111085637653

* "NYT: Firing of U.S. Ambassador is at the center of the Giuliani investigation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/nyt-firing-of-u-s-ambassador-is-at-the-center-of-the-giuliani-investigation-111080517821

* "Washington Post corrects report that Giuliani was warned he was target of Russian influence campaign:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/rudy-giuliani-russia-influence-campaign/

* "Biden admin treats Russian political intrusion with law enforcement and transparency:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-admin-treats-russian-political-intrusion-with-law-enforcement-and-transparency-111160389602

* "'Deliverables were delivered': Despite denials, much of the Giuliani case is on the record:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-deliverables-were-delivered-despite-denials-much-of-the-giuliani-case-is-on-the-record-111159877523

* "Former Trump attorney Cohen says Giuliani should start cooperating with federal authorities:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/giuliani-should-start-cooperating-with-federal-authorities-former-trump-attorney-cohen-says-111211077853

* "Facebook, burdened by timidity on right-wing misinformation, reconsiders Trump ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/facebook-burdened-by-timidity-on-right-wing-misinformation-reconsiders-trump-ban-111359557662

* "Capitol Police official who said to watch for ‘anti-Trump’ forces on Jan. 6 was deputy chief:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/capitol-police-trump-insurrection-485138

* "Tip from family member leads to arrest of Capitol riot suspect in Marion County, FBI says:" https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/04/23/tip-from-family-member-leads-to-arrest-of-capitol-riot-suspect-in-marion-county-fbi-says/

* "Pulse Survivor Brandon Wolf: Stop Accepting Gun Violence:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/20/pulse-survivor-brandon-wolf-stop-accepting-gun-violence

* "'One god-awful mess': Biden lays border crisis on Trump admin's refusal to cooperate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/one-god-awful-mess-biden-lays-border-crisis-trump-admin-n1265908

* "Biden terminating border wall construction contracts:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/30/biden-terminates-border-wall-construction-485123

* "Biden raises refugee cap to 62,500 after blowback:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/refugee-cap/

* "US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-mexico-border-biden-families-separation-fa9c179146c708840b1002eb4f534c30

* "Surge of DOJ actions on policing as Biden nominees settle in:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/surge-of-doj-actions-on-policing-as-biden-nominees-settle-in-111028293989

* "'Serious negotiations underway': Biden White House sees opportunity for police reform bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-serious-negotiations-underway-biden-white-house-sees-opportunity-for-police-reform-bill-111098437664

* "Rep. Ilhan Omar proposing new police accountability legislation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-ilhan-omar-proposing-new-police-accountability-legislation-111282245971

* "Alameda PD releases bodycam video showing moments leading up to in-custody death of 26-year-old man:" https://abc7news.com/mario-gonzalez-alameda-police-video-death-gonzales/10554683/

* "Demonstrators March In Alameda Neighborhood Where Mario Gonzalez Died In Police Custody Struggle:" https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/05/01/mario-gonzalez-in-custody-death-alameda-protest/

* "Brown family attorney responds to claim that Andrew Brown's car 'made contact' with police: Show the tape:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/brown-family-attorney-responds-to-claim-that-andrew-brown-s-car-made-contact-with-police-show-the-tape-111085125631

* "3 men charged with federal hate crimes in killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/3-men-charged-with-federal-hate-crimes-in-killing-of-ahmaud-arbery-in-georgia-111019077860

* "Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Condemns 'Homophobic' Attacks Post-Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/4/19/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-condemns-homophobic-attacks-post-shooting

* Rightly so. This was horrific and dehumanizing. "Oversight agency finds 'deficiencies' in Chicago police raid on Anjanette Young's home:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1266007

* CW: Torture, Sexual Assault "Trans woman locked up in men's prison victim of 'brutal, senseless violence':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/free-syiaah-skylit-trans-woman-clemency-abuse-prison-california-gavin-newsom/

* CW: Pedophilia "Boosie, Black Boys, and Rape Culture:"

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* "The Daily Beast: Gaetz associate wrote in letter that congressman paid for sex with minor:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/30/politics/matt-gaetz-joel-greenberg-letter/

* "Rep. Lieu: Gaetz should be removed 'immediately' from Judiciary Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-lieu-gaetz-should-be-removed-immediately-from-judiciary-committee-111150661902

* CW: Pedophilia "Anonymous Kevin Spacey accuser must reveal identity or drop £30 million lawsuit:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-lawsuit-anthony-rapp-cd/

* CW: Sexual Assault. "Accused of Assaulting Brendan Fraser, Ex-Globes Exec in New Scandal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/4/19/accused-assaulting-brendan-fraser-ex-globes-exec-new-scandal

* Can we please stop doing these? "‘Earth-shaking’ gender reveal party explosion triggers earthquake reports:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/gender-reveal-party-explosion-new-hampshire-earthquake-reports/

* "Young Catholics deserting church in droves to protest same-sex unions ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/catholic-church-lgbt-same-sex-blessings-ban-vatican-belgium-johan-bonny/

* "Gay Latvian paramedic dies after being burnt alive in horrific ‘homophobic attack’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/latvia-gay-paramedic-normunds-kindzulis-death-epoa/

* "Uganda passes reviled bill defining anal sex as an 'unnatural offence':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/uganda-parliament-sexual-offences-bill-queer-anal-sex-work/

* "Suspect arrested after ‘traumatised’ gay man ‘stabbed with bottle in South Africa bar’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/suspect-arrested-gay-man-stabbed-bottle-segakweng-kimora-magoma-south-africa/

* "Judge orders himself to speak to psychologist to 'understand same-sex relationships':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/india-lesbian-couple-chennai-madurai-madras-court-psychologist-lgbt-education/

* "Court could force Honduras to stop heinous 'social cleansing' of trans people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/honduras-transgender-trans-violence-inter-american-commission-human-rights/

* "Queer asylum seekers left facing isolation, hunger and mockery – right here in the UK:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/01/lgbt-asylum-seekers-uk-african-rainbow-family-donate-home-office-covid/

* "University staff given banned list of microaggressions they can't say to trans students:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/edinburgh-university-trans-transphobia-microaggressions-guidance-lecturers/

* "Scottish Green Party reveals plan to tackle 'resurgence of homophobia and transphobia':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/28/scottish-green-party-lgbt-manifesto-rainbow-greens-patrick-harvie/

* "Cost of applying to change legal sex cut to £5 – but process remains undignified:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/gender-recognition-certificate-fee-act-legal-sex-birth-certificate-liz-truss/

* "Police officer jailed for membership to hateful Neo-nazi terror group:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/30/met-police-officer-bejamin-hannam-neo-nazi-terror-group-national-action/

* "Street preacher, 71, arrested for ‘distressing’ public with ‘homophobic’ rants:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/28/pastor-john-sherwood-peter-simpson-conservative-woman-uxbridge-arrest/

* "Man who threatened gay couple walks free after gay friend comes to his defence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/alex-johnson-leek-steve-lanza-jason-smith-homophobic-abuse/

* "Cambridge university threatens to evict students over LGBT+ Pride flags:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/cambridge-jesus-college-evict-students-lgbt-pride-flags/

* I wish I could see the bag. It sounds amazing. "Gay man ‘humiliated and harassed’ for taking his Tom of Finland bag to the gym:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/23/tom-of-finland-gym-bag-jeff-trahair-arc-campbelltown-south-australia/

* "SCOTUS Kills Texas Lawsuit Against California Sparked by Antigay Law:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/4/27/scotus-kills-texas-lawsuit-against-california-sparked-antigay-law

* "West Virginia governor ‘proudly’ signs cruel anti-trans sports bill into law:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/west-virginia-anti-trans-sports-bill-jim-justice-governor-trevor-project-hrc/

* "Alabama Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/23/alabama-governor-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-law

* "Tennessee just passed two sinister laws putting safety of trans people at risk:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/tennessee-anti-trans-bill-transphobia-healthcare-bathrooms-ban-bill-lee/

* "Florida governor and Trump's potential running mate vows to sign cruel trans bill:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/florida-governor-ron-desantis-anti-trans-ban-sports-bill-trump-2024/

* "As Anti-Trans Bills Advance, Kansas Governor Implies Veto Likely:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/20/anti-trans-bills-advance-kansas-governor-implies-veto-likely

* "Hundreds rally against anti-trans bills erasing years of LGBT+ progress ‘with the swipe of a pen’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/03/north-carolina-asheville-protest-transgender-youth-legislation/

* "Brave trans girls receives death threats after shaming bigoted lawmakers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/22/kai-shappley-texas-trans-healthcare-law-death-threats-amber-briggle-bill-1646/

* "Father of trans teen arrested while testifying against cruel trans healthcare ban:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/29/chris-attig-arrested-trans-healthcare-ban-arkansas-house-speech/

* "From Andrew Sullivan to Terry Schilling: Framing Transition as Evil:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/4/28/andrew-sullivan-terry-schilling-framing-transition-evil

* "Elliot Page: 'Children Will Die' Due to Anti-Trans Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/29/elliot-page-children-will-die-due-anti-trans-laws

* And he's not wrong. Republicans are killing children. CW: Suicide. "Rash of Teen Suicide Attempts After Arkansas Adopts Trans Care Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/4/19/rash-teen-suicide-attempts-after-arkansas-adopts-trans-care-ban

* "Trans people under attack from GOP bills, fighting back discussed by LGBT leaders:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/biden-tells-trans-youth-he-has-their-back-as-gop-attacks-trans-rights-nationwide-111213637796

* "Two trans women killed in the US on the very same day as violence spills into 2021:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/iris-santos-natalia-smut-lopez-trans-women-killed-us-2021/

* "School official hurls beers at diners filming his wife’s vile transphobic rant:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/02/michael-smurro-vice-principal-neptune-threw-beer-transphobic-rant/

* "UN Chief on Why the World Failed Its HIV Targets for 2020:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/5/03/un-chief-why-world-failed-its-hiv-targets-2020

* "Ohio County Struggling With 700 Percent Increase in HIV Cases:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/4/29/ohio-county-struggling-700-percent-increase-hiv-cases

* "You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences:" https://theconversation.com/you-dont-have-a-male-or-female-brain-the-more-brains-scientists-study-the-weaker-the-evidence-for-sex-differences-158005

* "Flooding and mudslides add to St. Vincent's volcano woes:" https://phys.org/news/2021-04-mudslides-st-vincent-volcano-woes.html

* "FUNERAL FASHION:"

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* "Resources, Racism, & The Myth of Inferior Black Intelligence:"

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* I've been using 'scarper' most of my life and I had no idea it was Polari, though I knew what Polari was. I love learning new stuff. "The Secret LGBTQ+ Language // Polari :"

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* "Televangelism: The Rise, Fall, and Reincarnation:"

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* Spoiler: Decades of propaganda demonizing them. "Why We Hate Bi Men:"

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* "Remembering the lives lost in the horrific Admiral Duncan nail bomb attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/04/30/admiral-duncan-pub-soho-bombing/

* "AIDS activist and creator of the red ribbon, Patrick O’Connell, dies aged 67:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/04/patrick-oconnell-aids-red-ribbon-dies/

* "Covid Vaccines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Gay Superheroes: Queerbaiting And Camp:"

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* "Spider-Man, Class and Militarization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe:"

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* "Reacting to Trans Fails | Accidentally Coming Out:"

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* "Reacting to Trans Fails | Public Toilets:"

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* "President Biden Needs To End Trump-Era Immigration Policies:"

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* "Why Washington, D.C. Deserves To Be A State:"

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* The older I get the more things it didn't occur to me were kink that we just did back in the day turn out to be kink.

* Livia voluntarily sniffed Caregiver Millenial's fingers Suday. So I was like, do you want to feed her some treats? So Sunday, he fed her treats and she ate them right in front og him like she knew him. he mostly recovered from the changes, though she is still alarmed by some of the cleaning in her area. One day, she emerged after her standard two hour hide to find the desk book stack gone. She hated the desk book stack and it's removal is of material benefit to her, but it is a change. She she did this massive double take and went all wide eyed and then checked the two desks she's allowed on for changes, poor button. Most of the recent stuff doesn't effect her beyond routine stuff like poop stealing and sweeping which she's used to. mostly, she needed to adjust to the idea of the asylum being invaded three times a week. But she's almost back to normal between visits and after the initial obligatory hide, she generally comes out and does her normal activities.

* Me rewatching Being John Malkovich. Almost immediately: She needs Whole Man Disposal.

* A Walrus in Wales: https://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/650306043218427904

* NWS. "Stas Vokman and the Purity of the Naked Male:" https://www.advocate.com/photography/2021/4/23/stas-vokman-and-purity-naked-male#media-gallery-media-10

* "A trio of witches who live on the outskirts of town as outcasts befriend a neighbor child....:" https://dycefic.tumblr.com/post/647613085923803136/a-trio-of-witches-who-live-on-the-outskirts-of

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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.

* How to help India: https://www.khalsaaid.org/donate

* "How to Help India Amid the Covid Crisis:" https://www.nytimes.com/article/india-covid-how-to-help.html

* Mutual Aid Link Round Up: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/645696532415447040/popss-great-big-mutual-aid-masterpost

* Want to help the Asian Community?
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/stop-aapi-hate
https://www.advancingjustice-atlanta.org/

* What to help save bats, and essential part of our ecosystem? "Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation:" https://www.merlintuttle.org/

* My oldest continuous Real Life friend is doing this project. "Bed, Bath, & Behemoth: An Epic D&D 5e Adventure:" https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482738549/bed-bath-and-behemoth-an-epic-dandd-5e-adventure?fbclid=IwAR2pA1NFVGG7aZyrLDC5h9Q0a_g7yMh_rY5rWxrnpZ3sJRSe6yO8gAAEq4M

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* "Protests Spread Across Indonesia Over Jobs Law:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/world/asia/indonesia-protests-jobs.html

* "QAnon Is Thriving in Germany. The Extreme Right Is Delighted.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/11/world/europe/qanon-is-thriving-in-germany-the-extreme-right-is-delighted.html

* "Middle Eastern countries arrested, deported exiled Uighurs to China: report:" https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/10/2/arab-countries-arrested-deported-exiled-uighurs-to-china-report

* "Afghan-Taliban conflict: Families flee fresh fighting in Helmand:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-asia-54522304

* "SARS ban: Nigeria abolishes loathed federal special police unit:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54499497

* "How Greece’s democracy withstood a fascist threat:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/09/golden-dawn-verdict-greece-fascist-threat/

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* "Pain Relief Caused by SARS-CoV-2 Infection May Help Explain COVID-19 Spread:" https://uahs.arizona.edu/news/pain-relief-caused-sars-cov-2-infection-may-help-explain-covid-19-spread

* "Johnson & Johnson pauses Covid-19 vaccine trial after 'unexplained illness':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/health/johnson-coronavirus-vaccine-pause-bn/index.html

* "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/health/coronavirus-reinfection.html

* "Spain's PM defends Covid emergency lockdown in Madrid:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/11/spain-pm-sanchez-defends-covid-emergency-lockdown-in-madrid

* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 10/13/20 are 7,848,000. The official death toll is 216,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "New COVID-19 cases hit 2-month high in U.S., as 10 states report record one-day rise in infections:" https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-cases-hit-two-month-high-united-states-20201010-n6o5khrswvgava6ua4fpuoshh4-story.html

* "Coronavirus cases set new single-day records in 6 U.S. states:"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-cases-set-new-single-day-records-six-u-s-n1242828

* "Covid spike, looming flu season, staff shortages: Hospitals feel pressure in North Dakota:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/covid-spike-looming-flu-season-staff-shortages-hospitals-feel-pressure-in-north-dakota-93725253717

* "White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/health/coronavirus-covid-masks-cdc.html

* "Trump's doctor says the President has tested negative on consecutive days:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/trump-health-coronavirus/index.html

* "9 more dead, 56 hospitalized in Wisconsin due to COVID-19 since yesterday:" https://wkow.com/2020/10/12/covid-19-in-wisconsin-monday/

* "North Dakota has fewer than 20 staffed ICU beds available as Covid-19 cases surge, public health official says:" https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-10-12-20-intl/h_2bac44b4d0485a2c9b722e7219eaa5ec

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* "The Swamp That Trump Built:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-properties-swamp.html

* "Trump’s children brought Secret Service money to the family business with their visits, records show:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-spending-trump-kids/2020/10/12/ffc1c330-ff31-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html

* "Old grudges hang over first day of Barrett hearings:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/12/amy-coney-barrett-confirmation-hearing-428935

* "Trump team feigns ignorance of Amy Coney Barrett's stance on Roe v. Wade:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-team-feigns-ignorance-of-amy-coney-barrett-s-abortion-views-93724229848

* "Amy Coney Barrett fails to fully disclose some past anti-abortion activism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/amy-coney-barrett-fails-to-fully-disclose-some-past-anti-abortion-activism-93724229949

* What would Jesus do? Infect as many people as possible. "Sen. Mike Lee appears in person at Barrett hearing after Covid diagnosis:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/12/mike-lee-coronavirus-amy-coney-barrett-428937

* "Senator Joni Ernst calls for Judiciary Committee to get COVID tests, while Lindsey Graham refuses:" https://www.newsweek.com/senator-joni-ernst-calls-judiciary-committee-get-covid-tests-while-lindsey-graham-refuses-1538104

* "Chris: GOP doesn’t seem to care who gets Covid—so long as Barrett gets on the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-gop-doesn-t-seem-to-care-who-gets-covid-so-long-as-barrett-gets-on-the-supreme-court-93712965652

* "Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: If Supreme Court overturns ACA, we will ‘restore it bigger and stronger’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-if-supreme-court-overturns-aca-we-will-restore-it-bigger-and-stronger-93706821572

* "Jaime Harrison: Lindsey Graham ‘doesn’t have an urgency’ to pass pandemic relief:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/jaime-harrison-lindsey-graham-doesn-t-have-an-urgency-to-pass-pandemic-relief-93704773926

* "Trump Makes First Public Appearance Since Leaving Walter Reed:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/us/politics/trump-white-house-coronavirus.html

* "Trump taps U.S. Marine Band for White House event and raises questions about employing the military for political purposes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/marine-band-trump-politics/2020/10/11/cdee31ee-0bf3-11eb-bfcf-b1893e2c51b4_story.html

* "Trump Hits The Trail With Florida Rally, A Week After COVID-19 Hospital Stay:" https://www.npr.org/2020/10/12/923050101/trump-hits-the-trail-with-florida-rally-a-week-after-covid-19-hospital-stay

* "Trump takes his Covid misinformation machine back on the road:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-election-2020-joe-biden/index.html

* "MN health officials tie nearly two dozen COVID cases to presidential campaign events:" https://www.twincities.com/2020/10/12/minnesota-health-officials-tie-two-dozen-covid-19-cases-to-presidential-campaign-events/

* "Iowa tops 100,000 coronavirus cases as Trump plans rally:" https://www.kcrg.com/2020/10/12/iowa-tops-100000-coronavirus-cases-as-trump-plans-rally/

* "Fauci Calls Out Trump Campaign Ad That Used Him Without Permission:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/11/world/covid-coronavirus

* "‘Hypocrisy 101’: Ex-Covid Task Force aide on Trump ad using Fauci out of context:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-hypocrisy-101-ex-covid-task-force-official-on-trump-ad-using-fauci-out-of-context-93708869522

* "Masks optional: Packed Mike Pence retirement village rally risks becoming a superspreader event:" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/10/mike-pence-holds-packed-mask-optional-rally-florida-retirement/

* "Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/tech/microsoft-election-ransomware/index.html

* "Getting involved in the 2020 election? Time to hit the 'go' button!:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/getting-involved-this-election-time-to-hit-the-go-button-93721157976

* I want to thank all of you voting early, and especially those of you who have volunteered to be poll workers.

* "More than 6.6 million Americans have already voted, suggesting record turnout:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-early-vote/more-than-6-6-million-americans-have-already-voted-suggesting-record-turnout-idUSKBN26T3PC

* "The Case for Wearing a Mask and Voting Early In Person:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/vote-in-person-presidential-election-2020

* "Here are some of the people trying to help Trump sabotage the election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/here-are-some-of-the-people-trying-to-help-trump-sabotage-the-election-93713477522

* "Late night court decision rules Texans will only have one ballot drop box per county:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/texas-election-ballot-drop-box-ruling/index.html

* "Massive lines mar start of in-person early voting in Georgia:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/georgia-early-voting-lines-election-2020/index.html

* "After Complaining About Voter Fraud, the California GOP Commits Election Fraud:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/california-republicans-drop-boxes-ballot-harvesting-fraud.html

* "Volunteer lawyers will advise military personnel who question the legality of orders during protests, election disputes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/volunteer-lawyers-will-advise-military-personnel-who-question-the-legality-of-orders-during-protests-election-disputes/2020/10/09/f4a04682-0a64-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html

* "1 dead after gunfire erupts near dueling Denver protests:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-dead-after-gunfire-erupts-near-dueling-denver-protests-n1242838?cid=ed_npd_bn_tw_bn

* "Families seek new investigations into old police killings:" https://apnews.com/article/new-york-shootings-police-oklahoma-virginia-81848a05576f5f4f34e53e0271fad916

* "When Police Violence Is a Dog Bite:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/02/when-police-violence-is-a-dog-bite

* "She Was Afraid of Her Lawyer. Then the Text Messages Started.:" https://www.propublica.org/article/she-was-afraid-of-her-lawyer-then-the-text-messages-started

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Stalked for 11 years: one woman's fight for freedom from an abusive ex-boyfriend:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/29/stalked-11-years-abusive-ex-boyfriend

* "Killings of trans Americans reach all-time high, rights group says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/killings-transgender-americans-reach-all-time-high-rights-group-says-n1242417

* "Adam Rippon on Coming Out: "You Gain a Family":" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/10/09/adam-rippon-coming-out-you-gain-family

* "Nurses suffer burn-out, psychological distress in COVID fight:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-mentalhealth/nurses-suffer-burn-out-psychological-distress-in-covid-fight-association-idUSKBN26V0BJ

* "Babies' random choices become their preferences:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201002091027.htm

* "Choice blindness: Do you know yourself as well as you think?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-54349897

* "Can "Am I the Asshole?" Actually Help Make People Better?:" https://www.theringer.com/2020/10/7/21503068/am-i-the-asshole-reddit-2020

* Seriously, I want to be composted when I die after everything else useful is extracted. "The Newly Legal Process for Turning Human Corpses to Soil:" https://onezero.medium.com/the-newly-legal-process-for-turning-human-corpses-to-soil-d82ba1e4c05f

* "Inside the climate battle quietly raging about US homes:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/09/climate-change-building-code-emissions-us

* "Secretive national oil companies hold our climate in their hands:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/secretive-national-oil-companies-climate

* "Hurricane Delta leaves one dead in Louisiana and brings tornado threat to Carolinas:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/weather/hurricane-delta-sunday/index.html

* "Reconstruction and 1876: Crash Course US History #22:"

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* "Alaska's Unique Civil Rights Struggle :" https://daily.jstor.org/alaskas-unique-civil-rights-struggle/

* "We're in the Midst of a Mason Jar Shortage and the Culprit Is Shockingly Obvious:" https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/mason-jar-shortage

* "Fungi, Folklore, and Fairyland:" https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fungi-folklore-and-fairyland

* "With Americans anxious to go out, walking tours pick up pace:" https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-travel-mlb-air-travel-cincinnati-d075115340677f2a8b7e6566508f13f7

* "Why Sweden’s Ancient Tradition of Calling Home the Herds Is Women’s Work:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-swedens-ancient-tradition-calling-home-herds-womens-work-180975904/

* "This Artist Sculpts Animals and Flowers From Grains of Rice:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/making-art-with-rice-china

* "VP Fly Debate Cold Open - SNL:"

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* Tavy gave me an ouch: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/631941905745395712/the-emperor-was-rutching-around-climbing-around

* I had library curbside and another trip to the hardware store for a surprise light bulb emergency. (The big specialized light bulb in the bathroom burned out, which causes serious problems for me, and we ran out of regular ones early in the pandemic. Yes I should have got light bulbs when I went to get Tavy an emergency piss tarp, but I forgot). That's two high risk things in a month, but at least hardware store is super strict about masks and distancing. I saw one other customer total and no one crowded me. They have a way bigger check out sneeze guard than I see in pictures anywhere else, as it covers the while front of the counter with a pass through for items. If I have to be in a store for ten minutes this was not a bad choice. Anyway, I can read labels and the like in the bathroom again, which is helpful. Still I hate taking risks when other people are risking for me.

I'm having lung issues today, but the why is super obvious and a thing that happens with my level of lung damage. I really wanted to watch a few comedy specials because Jesus fuck the news! I know you mostly see doom and horror in here, but there is a reason I've been reading a lot of lighter stuff on my own time and I vary my tv/movie watching in the ways I do. Also a couple days ago I heard there was a Hari Kondabolu special on Netflix and righteously angry while being funny is kind of my jam. That wasn't the problem.

Last night I watched john Mulvaney and I had a laugh until I need medication moment, which is basically why I also have to limit laughter. Like, chuckle fine, small laugh fine, but a really big long laugh kicks up the endemic gunk in there and then I can't breathe. Annoying, but fine. It is entirely my fault that before getting up for errands, I put on a Trevor Noah special when looking for the Mulvaney. I'd heard about this special, but never seen because I only got on Squirrel's Netflix within the last year. So I'm medicated and dressed and have my body warmed up for moving around, and he hits the Bali section and the snake park end bit got me again. I had to hang my head over the bed side and struggle to breath, because if I cough too long bad stuff can happen that i don't want to clean up. So my throat's now sore from coughing and my lungs have been sandpapered, so I'm going to have to wait for more comedy for a while, but I figure I'm okay, I can do lungs after errands and the lungs will chill out.

The plan was fine, but I did not include raw fresh(ish)snacking peas from last week's food box. The treatment chilled out my lungs. I cleaned up the massive mess Tavy made over my long illness by his new hobby of throwing things off stuff in the living room, which needed to happen because hopeful the Millenials are coming to do the outside Gothmas display up. By which point Tavy had pissed on the sofa, which was fair, since literally the next thing on the to do was change the front box and check the others. He refuses to use any other box. So I did laundry and boxes and washed up.

I started trying to pull the tumblr links off the aggregate scaffold because I wanted to post Monday's aggregate right away, but it was a lot of links, since I had to get to bed early because I haven't had proper sleep since Thursday and I needed to hit my scheduled window at the library. Somewhere in there I discovered I was still hungry and was snacking on the peas while I worked. A rogue tip tried to escape up my sinuses. My lungs, already irritated from all the laugh coughing and still not recovered from the smoke even though it's been real autumn for about a week, completely fucking lost it. I couldn't stop. I nearly passed out, which is a thing that is also my kind of normal. And they kept not calming down. And they kept not calming down. I took the meds that usually sort that, which took it down a step, but my throat is shredded at this point and anything will set me off at this point because my lungs’re pissed.

I had to resort to the chloraseptic, which is a thing I hate. It was too close still to the previous lung treatment, so that was off the table. I did finally get it under control. Until Tavy deep clawed my neck and I couldn't get him off. (See bandaid pic above) Yelling in pain and surprise is not a good thing with the throat and barely under control lungs I'm dealing with. Which starts the cycle again....

Hence me posting the aggregate at nearly 5AM, with Tuesday's links all lined up because if I added them this was never going out and it already has three days in it. I promise, I read today mostly, but I just can't do it and this both.

* Someone reads Chuck Tingle's Harriet Porber:https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/631200382008328192

* The Dick of Death: https://laura-australis.tumblr.com/post/631369210435698688/did-i-ever-tell-u-guys-about-the-time-my-ex

* Magas at Salem: https://twitter.com/Mr_S_Crane/status/1314421359414579200

* "10 Sweet & Spooky Movie Cakes :" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2020/10/11/10-sweet-amp-spooky-movie-cakes

* The Midnight Society Presents Stephen King vs. J.K. Rowling: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1315077286714961920

* The Midnight Society Presents the Masque of the Red Death: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1312478266624602112

- 7.18 Eye of the Beholder. CW: Suicide. I'd forgotten this episode and it feels a little like stepping on a land mine. I started out trying to summarize it, but fuck that. the second and third scene are clumsy in an after school special way, and I reached the I want to punch somebody point during the third scene. (Not the actors, they are doing their best with the very special episode dialog they are given). I just... this is not the way to handle suicide in a TV show well, and yes, I get the mystery angle, but I just really don't think this is how to handle topics this complicated and sensitive, so I'm noping out of writing up the A plot of this one.

I will mention some arc things that matter longer term. Early on there is an awkward scene in which Worf is trying to work up to asking Riker if it's cool if he asks Deanna out, but chickens out. Later while working on the investigation together, Worf and Deanna make out and sex is implied as he's making her breakfast in bed next scene. They later have a conversation about last night, which he definitely does not regret. so this is the episode where deanna/Worf became a thing.

- 7.19 Genesis. this one starts in sickbay. Riker has a sex injury. Barkley's got a mild flu, but has googled symptoms and is sure he is dying of assorted rare diseases. Spot is pregnant. Another crew member is expecting. Data puts Barkley in charge of spot while he's on an away mission.

Meanwhile, Worf is testing a proton torpedo upgrade and it goes dreadfully wrong. He is trying to sort it all out and going extra Klingon in was not great for his new relationship. Worf missed their lunch date and is wolfing food down. He's obnoxious to her and furious at himself, she's eating caviar for lunch and off as well, though not as obviously, craving salt and fussing about the environmental system. He takes a nap and wakes up feral, ripping blanket and bed to make a mest on the floor.

Later, Barkley is a mile a minute and futzing with the power system. Riker is having trouble following their report which Barkley delivers like he's on coke. It turns out to be under attack from an organic solvent while Geordi is exhausted. Deanna and Worf have a fight on the bridge about the temperature and humidity controls. Riker is having trouble remembering what's going on with the weapons system. Worf is creepy at Deanna in private, and strikes Deanna, who is now freezing. Other crew are either too hot or cold. Worf is non-verbal and growing an acid sac on his neck and sprays Crusher when she looks in his mouth. It turns out Worf has been spraying all over the ship. Human crew are growing tired and forgetful. They are struggling to get the sensor to pick up Worf. Riker can't remember his password to call for help.

Picard and data return from dealing with the stray torpedo and find the ship adrift and silent with odd power and life signs readings. Main power's shut down. There are creepy sounds up ahead as they explore. They find a large humanoid shaped shed reptile skin. Deanna's underwater in the bath, devolved and breathing through gills. ad is now an amphibian. Worf has bitten her. They find a dead crewman with a broken spine on the bridge. Lifeforms are all over, but a bunch are in arboretum and aquatics for obvious reasons. Proto-human Riker attacks them and has to be stunned.

It's the synthetic t-cell from the opening scene causing them to devolve. The virus can cross species. Picard also has it now. Barkley's infected them all, except data of course. Data has a separate computer in his quarters that's undamaged. Spot's kittens are hungry, but she's devolved and can't care for them. The kittens seem immune. Data's going to look into using the pregnant ensign's amniotic fluid as a cure for the human's, but first they need to fix a problem with the engines. Picard runs into a partially arachnid Barkley. Picard is afraid and in early stages of the symptomatic phase.

Worf was trying to mate with Deanna and is now trying to break in where they are working on trying to find a cure. The award for most awkward way for your coworkers to find out you are fucking goes to Worf Son of Mogh and Deanna Troi! Picard leads him off with her concentrated pheromones. Picard has to shock him in a Jeffrey's tube to stop him. data releases the cure into the ship's air system.

They name the disease after Barkley. So. Much. Therapy.

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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.

* "2020 wildfires in California and the west: Everything we know and how you can help:" https://www.cnet.com/how-to/2020-wildfires-in-california-and-the-west-everything-we-know-and-how-to-help/

* Want a quick way to donate money to close senate races in hopes of flipping the senate? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ky_mcconnell_vid

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* I managed to spill cocoa on Rupert (It wasn't even Tavy's fault. My hand jerked. It wasn't a lot of cocoa and though some got in, I'm crossing my fingers. If he no longer can use all his keys, I'll sort that out tomorrow.) He's taking an upside down rice nap, along with a massive amount of links I'd read, but not posted. I have a ton of things I did before I went to bed Monday morning that I put on the scaffold, but didn't post on tumblr because tumblr was too slow on Rupert. I'm going to put some of them up, but basically, all work on Rupert stopped midnightish and Klaus is having to do both sets of work which is less efficient. Sorry.

* Oh look, rich people are using the explosion to gentrify people out of their homes. "Beirut explosion: The battle to save the city’s buildings:" https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200820-beirut-explosion-the-battle-to-save-the-citys-buildings

* "Mali coup: No deal on transitional government:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53896752

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* "This bisexual guy has an ingenious solution for convincing fragile anti-maskers to wear a face covering:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/anti-maskers-gay-bisexual-tiktok-spence-logan/

* "Global coronavirus deaths exceed 800,000:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-casualties/global-coronavirus-deaths-exceed-800000-idUSKBN25I0QS

* "Flu was all but eliminated in South Africa this year. Coronavirus is to thank.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/south-africa-coronavirus-flu-season/2020/08/17/bd8aaaca-e084-11ea-82d8-5e55d47e90ca_story.html

* US COVID-19 numbers for 8/24: Total confirmed cases: 5,735,000; Deaths: 178,000 Real numbers are likely dramatically higher.

* "US FDA announces emergency authorization for convalescent plasma to treat Covid-19:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/health/covid-19-convalescent-plasma-eua-white-house/index.html

* "Navarro’s push for plasma treatment goes further than FDA scientists:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/24/navarro-pushes-plasma-without-evidence-400761

* Forcing the FDA to put an unproven vaccine into mass distribution as an October surprise is a terrible idea and wildly unsafe. "Trump echoes Peter Navarro's "deep state" rhetoric about the FDA:" https://www.axios.com/trump-peter-navarro-fda-deep-state-12563e41-de4a-4635-9319-ff0eca41f126.html

* "Exclusive: Top FDA official says would resign if agency rubber-stamps an unproven COVID-19 vaccine:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-fda-exclu/exclusive-top-fda-official-says-would-resign-if-agency-rubber-stamps-an-unproven-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN25H03H

* "How starving public health fueled a COVID fire in Florida:" https://apnews.com/042528176366efe911484e39091b7cf2

* "COVID-19’s Toll on People of Color Is Worse Than We Knew:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/08/21/covid-19-s-toll-on-people-of-color-is-worse-than-we-knew

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* "The 8 most sensational quotes from secret recordings of Trump's sister:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/22/wapo-trumps-sister-said-he-has-no-morals-people-cant-trust-him-400224

* "Kellyanne Conway, one of Donald Trump’s most staunchly anti-LGBT+ advisers, has just resigned:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/kellyanne-conway-resignation-resigns-anti-lgbt-white-house-claudia-donald-trump/

* Elizabeth Warren Extended Interview:

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* Bernie Sanders extended interview:

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* Extended Susan Rice Interview:

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* "US House 18: Pam Keith wins Democratic primary over Oz Vazquez:" https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200818/us-house-18-pam-keith-wins-democratic-primary-over-oz-vazquez

* Retaliatory Arrest: https://twitter.com/fodderyfodder/status/1297405642848837633

* So creepy. "Keeping Up With the Millers: Stephen Miller and His Wife, Katie, Found Love in a Hateful Place:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/08/stephen-miller-and-his-wife-found-love-in-a-hateful-place?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=VF_CH_081320_Weekly&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bda40263f92a40f7d4e1769&cndid=209222&hasha=6a46201277c146b20ed1b6b047f76ae2&hashb=6c9d3420c599969b86f88c2d5ad7ac0d96e1b563&hashc=0f58e2e45d9cdafe75207260e221fdd4ee1af9da63898e127ec9f8efb54b5041&esrc=GAsweeps&utm_campaign=VF_CH_081320_Weekly&utm_term=VYF_Cocktail_Hour

* "States are calling racism a public health crisis. Here's what that means:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/health/states-racism-public-health-crisis-trnd/index.html

* "Gay artist uses helium balloons to fly a Pride flag over Moscow – and that sound you hear is Putin throwing a tantrum:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/20/artist-pride-rainbow-flag-moscow-russia-gay-propaganda-lgbt-alexander-donskoy/

* "Pathetic homophobe vandalises roads with obscene graffiti claiming ‘tight lycra’ wearing cyclists are gay:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/cycling-gay-homophobia-sheffield-peak-district-graffiti-lycra-south-yorkshire/

* "Cruel dad who whipped his son after finding out he was on Grindr sentenced to just 18 months in prison:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/grindr-prison-father-son-sexuality-bisexual-plymouth-actual-bodily-harm-assault-sentence/

* "Man handed 100-hour community service order for head-butting ‘racist homophobe’ at taxi rank:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/23/man-handed-100-hour-community-service-order-head-butting-racist-homophobe-taxi-rank-guernsey/

* "A wrestling commentator stood up to ‘anti-gay evangelical bullies’. They ‘purposefully broke his leg’ for his troubles:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/justin-morissette-vancouver-evangelical-gay-homophobic-broken-leg-sportsnet/

* "The Battle to Protect LGBTQ+ Homeless Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/8/23/battle-protect-lgbtq-homeless-youth

* "Sperm donor who performed secret DNA test on lesbian couple’s child told he has no parental rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/24/lesbian-couple-sperm-donor-arizona-court-case-paternity-dna/

* This is a disability rights issue. "Britney Spears' dad remains in charge of conservatorship, dealing a crushing blow to the Free Britney movement:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/20/free-britney-spears-conservatorship-jamie-los-angeles-court-hearing-jason-alexander/

* "The Life-Saving Car Technology No One Wants:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-12/why-are-cars-still-so-dangerous-to-pedestrians

* "In 14th-Century Florence, Some Residents Socially Distanced While Others Hit the Bars:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-people-social-distancing-during-bubonic-plague

* I've been thinkingabout her a lot this summer and last week in particular. ":" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie-lou-hamers-dauntless-fight-for-black-americans-right-vote-180975610/

* "On Black Power in the Pacific:" https://daily.jstor.org/on-black-power-in-the-pacific/

* "Quarantinewhile... The Space Force Tweet That Inspires And Confuses:"

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* "Stephen's LIVE Monologue Following Day 1 Of The Democratic National Convention:"

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* "You Owe Kevin Costner An Apology For "The Postman":"

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* "LIVE Monologue: Joe Got Confetti, Jill Biden Got A Nickname, And AOC Got One Minute On DNC Night 2:"

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* "Quarantinewhile... America's Pepperoni Crisis Requires A New Sub-Sub-Segment: Meatwhile...:"

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* "Barack Obama's Fiery, Emotional Speech Sets The Stage For Historic Kamala Harris VP Nomination:"

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* "Trump Courts Conspiracy Theorists From The White House Podium, Offering To "Save The World":"

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* "Joe Biden States His Purpose: To Be A Light And End The Darkness Of The Trump Administration:"

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* "Regina Spektor "Prisoners" feat. Caleb Teicher:"

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* "Sheryl Crow "Woman in the White House":"

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* "Why This Charming Gay Fairytale Has Been Lost For 200 Years:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiewareham/2020/08/21/why-this-charming-gay-fairytale-has-been-lost-for-200-years-stith-thompson/#2a2520146163

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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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* "Congo pastor likely sparked Ebola outbreak spread to Uganda:" https://www.apnews.com/54bbb0ec684e4453a1a635946b4277c7

* "Grief and rage mark second anniversary of Grenfell Tower fire:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/14/grief-rage-second-anniversary-grenfell-tower-fire

* "'Wages. Time. Respect': Swiss Women Go On Strike:" https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732710666/wages-time-respect-swiss-women-go-on-strike

* "My Feet, My Business: Yumi Ishikawa and the High-Heeled Rebellion:" https://www.ozy.com/need-to-know/my-feet-my-business-yumi-ishikawa-and-the-high-heel-rebellion/94782

* Remember my skepticism yesterday and on previous similar occasions and that time I listened to the whole of Colin Powell's Anthrax/Weapons of Mass Destruction speech and posted contemporaneously on live journal that he clearly had no evidence at all? Yeah. "Japanese Tanker Owner Says U.S. Is Wrong About Gulf Attack:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/japanese-oil-tanker-owner-says-us-is-wrong-about-gulf-attack

Tumblr initially tagged this as obscene, which is…not incorrect. US Government officials lying or trying to lie us into wars in Western Asia for fun and profit is always obscene, but not in the way they likely intend.

* "Trump admin confrontation of Iran raises concerns of escalation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-admin-confrontation-of-iran-raises-concerns-of-escalation-61979205718

* "Trump declines to give Pence his endorsement for a 2024 presidential run:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/14/trump-pence-2024-presidential-run-1364992

* "Trump still owes D.C. $7 million in inauguration costs as he plans July Fourth gala:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/trump-still-owes-dc-7-million-in-inauguration-costs-as-he-plans-july-fourth-gala/2019/06/13/c55565b6-8df5-11e9-8f69-a2795fca3343_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1786787221d5

* "Ivanka Trump Made $4 Million From President's D.C. Hotel:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-14/ivanka-trump-financial-disclosure

* O'rly? "Trump says Melania T is the new Jackie O:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/14/trump-melania-jackie-kennedy-1365041

* Snerk. They aren’t wrong. "Citing Trump’s ‘character,’ D.C. residents challenge city to revoke his hotel’s liquor license:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2019/06/14/citing-trumps-character-dc-residents-challenge-city-revoke-his-hotels-liquor-license/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ad0c29211271

* "‘Let me make something 100% clear’: FEC chair lays down the law on foreign help:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/13/fec-election-foreign-trump-1364598

* "Trump disregard for rule of law puts officials in awkward spot:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-disregard-for-rule-of-law-puts-officials-in-awkward-spot-61977669540

* "FEC Chair delivers stinging rebuke of Trump's call for foreign election interference:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fec-chair-delivers-stinging-rebuke-of-trump-s-call-for-foreign-election-interference-61972037682

* "Justice Dept. issues memo backing Mnuchin’s refusal to give Trump’s tax returns to Congress:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-dept-issues-memo-backing-mnuchins-refusal-to-provide-trumps-tax-returns-to-congress/2019/06/14/3c8b3376-8ee7-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.cc72707a1564

* "White House physicist sought aid of rightwing thinktank to challenge climate science:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/14/white-house-physicist-sought-aid-of-rightwing-thinktank-to-challenge-climate-science

* "The Democratic Debate Lineups Are Set. Here’s What to Expect.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/us/politics/democratic-debates-2020.html

* "Trump says he won’t fire Kellyanne Conway over Hatch Act violations:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-he-wont-fire-kellyanne-conway-over-hatch-act-violations/2019/06/14/76f31a94-8e9f-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1b7fe7ad66ec

* "5,200 people in ICE custody quarantined for exposure to mumps or chicken pox:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/mumps-chicken-pox-quarantine-ice/index.html

* "America's sprawling detention system for migrants:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/america-s-sprawling-detention-system-for-migrants-61971525565

* "Leaked details show 'Tubman 20' closer than Trump admin admits:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/leaked-details-show-tubman-20-closer-than-trump-admin-admits-61979717744

* "Appeals court says Trump admin cannot block unaccompanied migrant minors in custody from access to abortions:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/abortion-undocumented-migrant-minors-court-of-appeals/index.html

* "Judge rules against Trump admin on migrant girls' abortion rights:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/judge-rules-against-trump-admin-on-migrant-girls-abortion-rights-61978181948

* "London Murder, Rape Victims May Have Met Attacker on Grindr:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/6/14/london-murder-rape-victims-may-have-met-attacker-grindr

* "Trans Woman Murdered in D.C. Suburb Is Second This Year:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2019/6/14/trans-woman-murdered-dc-suburb-second-year

* "These Are the Trans People Killed in 2019:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/5/22/these-are-trans-people-killed-2019

* "Ex-gay gives bizarre tips to avoid gay 'temptation' during Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/14/ex-gay-activists-tips-not-going-back-being-gay-pride-month/

* "New York ends religious exemptions for vaccines:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/health/new-york-vaccine-exemption-law-bn/index.html

* "The Town That Lives with Rattlesnakes:" https://www.outsideonline.com/2397605/william-brown-rattlesnakes

* "Lesbian Titanic passenger's light-up walking stick to be auctioned:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/06/14/lesbian-titanic-passengers-light-up-walking-stick-to-be-auctioned/

* "Gender Gap:" https://thenib.com/gender-gap

* "Trump Sends A Signal To The Bad Guys:"

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* "Meanwhile... Protesters Use Horse Lubricant And Glitter:"

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* Different Versions of this turn up periodically. It's always worth a read. https://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/185597293669/dduane-cedrwydden-janeandthehivequeen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Oil Climbs Toward $75 in London After Trump Tightens Screws on Iran:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-22/oil-extends-gains-after-u-s-rules-out-waivers-beyond-may-expiry?srnd=premium-europe

* "Trump sues to block House subpoena of financial records:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/22/trump-sues-oversight-committee-chairman-finance-records-1284995

* "Giuliani: ‘Nothing Wrong’ With Getting Political Dirt From Russians:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/giuliani-nothing-wrong-with-getting-political-dirt-from-russians

* "House panel issues subpoena to former White House counsel:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/politics/don-mcgahn-subpoena-trump-white-house/index.html

* "Kushner: Mueller probe was 'more harmful' to U.S. than Russian election interference:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/kushner-mueller-probe-russian-election-interference-1287654

* "IRS blows deadline to hand over Trump tax returns:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/donald-trump-tax-returns-deadline-1288760

* "Dems move to hold former White House official in contempt:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/white-house-security-clearance-investigators-1287313

* "White House Orders Official Not to Comply With Dem Subpoena Over Security Clearances:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-orders-official-not-to-comply-with-dem-subpoena-over-security-clearances

* "Paul Manafort is now in federal prison:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/former-trump-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-now-federal-prison-n997511

* "Congressional Dems issue new subpoena as Trump sues:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congressional-dems-issue-new-subpoena-as-trump-sues-1502724163895

* "Mueller report raises questions about Trump’s intel chief:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-report-raises-questions-about-trump-s-intel-chief-1502803523864

* "Rashida Tlaib on her resolution to impeach Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rashida-tlaib-on-her-resolution-to-impeach-trump-1502592579601

* "Swalwell: only "one shot" at impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-only-one-shot-at-impeachment-1502632003883

* "Rep. Cummings: Trump deserves the mark of impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-cummings-trump-deserves-the-mark-of-impeachment-1504653891969

* "DNC's Perez: "This is about our democracy":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dnc-s-perez-this-is-about-our-democracy-1504692291533

* "Interior Department Launches Investigation of Potential Ethics Violations Among Staff:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/climate/interior-department-ethics-investigation.html

* "New Interior secretary, others subject of ethics investigations:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-interior-secretary-others-subject-of-ethics-investigations-1504905283883

* "Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton Joins Democratic Race For President:" https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/714145274/massachusetts-rep-seth-moulton-joins-democratic-race-for-president

* "Moulton: Dems should 'absolutely' open impeachment inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/moulton-dems-should-absolutely-open-impeachment-inquiry-1502745155694

* "Rep. Moulton on uniting Dems amid past battles with Pelosi:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rep-moulton-on-uniting-dems-amid-past-battles-with-pelosi-1502763075777

* "DNC pledges not to use hacked materials, presses RNC to do the same:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/dnc-hacked-emails-2020-election-1374444

* "Democratic candidates set to speak at She the People Summit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democratic-candidates-set-to-speak-at-she-the-people-summit-1504900163767

* "Supreme Court’s conservatives appear likely to let Trump add citizenship question to 2020 Census:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-takes-up-trump-administrations-census-citizenship-question/2019/04/22/ac1db7b8-653e-11e9-a1b6-b29b90efa879_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f19701e9af47

* "The Supreme Court Is Poised to Shred Its Credibility to Let Trump Rig the Census:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/supreme-court-census-case-citizenship-question.html

* "ACLU Attorney: Trump Plan Will Harm Voting Rights:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aclu-attorney-trump-plan-will-harm-voting-rights-1504683075783

* "Man arrested had gas, lighters at St. Patrick's Cathedral:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/us/st-patricks-cathedral-man-arrested-gas-lighters/index.html

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

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* Swimsuit found! I put them away with the shorts end of last summer apparently. Thank you to the friend who asked about tidying.

* So here is the deal. I was so exhausted that my brain was Done rather suddenly, which is why the Monday news digest didn't publish. I only got through an intended third of the Monday news on tumblr. I've been chipping away at the Tuesday news, but I'm dead exhausted and there is zero chance of all Tuesday posting before I have to crash. Tuesday I had the Doctor and she was more than an hour and fifteen behind when I went in, so that ate a lot more evening than planned, plus what sleep I had was endlessly interrupted by the phone. By the fifth autodialer I was just resigned. I need to be up 11ish Wednesday and will have to do All the Things. My body is all warning lights so no clue if I can actually do the necessary stuff. I flat out need Thursday off for real.

I suspect all of Wednesday and Thursday won't go up either. Odds are I won't catch up until the weekend. Sorry. I'm really not doing well physically. It's like that sometimes.

* "Mad Sweeney through the ages:" https://calamity-bean.tumblr.com/post/184400730417/mad-sweeney-through-the-ages

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

* "Books for low-income kids who don't have enough books Needed:" https://delight.dreamwidth.org/156856.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the 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

* "Afghans remain resilient amid Taliban attacks aimed at derailing upcoming election:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghanistan-elections-afghans-remain-resilient-amid-taliban-attacks-aimed-at-derailing-voting/

* "Happy there's now a Me Too movement in India: Maneka Gandhi:" https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/happy-there-s-now-a-me-too-movement-in-india-maneka-gandhi-1358427-2018-10-08

* "Khashoggi suspects: Turkish newspaper publishes fresh images:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/18/jamal-khashoggi-suspects-turkish-newspaper-sabah-fresh-images-saudi-arabia

* "Who's who in alleged Saudi 'hit squad':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45906396

* "U.S. spies ask how deeply Saudi prince was involved in Khashoggi death:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/u-s-intel-officials-inconceivable-saudi-prince-had-no-link-n921846

* "Khashoggi Crisis Widens Trump Rift With Congress on Saudi Arabia:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-18/khashoggi-crisis-widens-trump-rift-with-congress-on-saudi-arabia

* "Mnuchin says he won't go to Saudi conference amid tension over Khashoggi disappearance:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/mnuchin-says-he-wont-go-to-saudi-conference-amid-tension-over-khashoggi-disappearance-912685

* "Pompeo pushes to give Saudis more time for Khashoggi investigation:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/pompeo-trump-khashoggi-investigation-912530

* "Possible Saudi fall guy for Khashoggi also Trump camp middle man:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/possible-saudi-fall-guy-for-khashoggi-also-trump-camp-middle-man-1346970179602?v=railb&

* "Trump apparently helping Saudi Arabia on Khashoggi cover story:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-apparently-helping-saudi-arabia-on-khashoggi-cover-story-1346971203797?v=railb&

* "We finally know the full extent of Russia's Twitter trolling campaign:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/twitter-troll-data-russia-ira-iran

* "Why Trump's 'natural instinct for science' is so laughable:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-trumps-natural-instinct-science-so-laughable

* "Trump Organization sues dead man's estate for $90,000:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-organization-sues-dead-man-s-estate-90-000-n921586

* "Trump more involved in stopping FBI HQ move than previously known, emails show:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/trump-fbi-building/index.html

* "Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege:" https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658509261/trump-intervened-in-fbi-hq-project-to-protect-his-hotel-democrats-allege

* "E-mail revelation puts neat bow on Donald Trump FBI HQ scandal:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/e-mail-revelation-puts-neat-bow-on-donald-trump-fbi-hq-scandal-1347889731555?v=railb&

* "Trump, GSA head caught putting Trump business ahead of taxpayers:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-gsa-head-caught-putting-trump-business-ahead-of-taxpayers-1347888707900?v=railb&

* "Revealed: Russian billionaire set up US company before Trump Tower meeting:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/russian-billionaire-aras-agalarov-company-trump-tower-meeting

* "Trump lawyers fight lawsuit they call 'politically motivated' by sex-assault accuser:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-lawyers-court-fight-lawsuit-call-politically-motivated/story?id=58582252

* "Bolton and Kelly get into heated shouting match sparking resignation fears:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/politics/john-kelly-john-bolton-immigration/index.html

* "Don McGahn out as White House counsel, sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/17/politics/mcgahn-leaving-white-house-council/index.html

* "Interior accuses Ben Carson of sending 'false information' about watchdog:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/18/ben-carson-false-information-allegations-860755

* "Shame tempers shopping for friendlier inspector general for Zinke:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shame-tempers-shopping-for-friendlier-inspector-general-for-zinke-1347890243526?v=railb&

* "Former Scott Walker staffers to voters: pick someone else:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/former-scott-walker-staffers-to-voters-pick-someone-else-1347889731590?v=railb&

* "‘Veep’: An Indiana Democratic Senator Basically Recreated Jonah Ryan’s Campaign Ad:" https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/veep-joe-donnelly-woodchopping-ad-jonah-ryan-1202013189/

* "This midterm ad is straight out of an episode of "Veep":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-midterm-ad-is-straight-out-of-an-episode-of-veep-1347791427932?v=railb&

* "GOP Rep. Dave Brat Tells Addict in Jail: ‘Think You’re Having a Hard Time? I’ve Got $5M Worth of Negative Ads Coming at Me.’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-dave-brat-tells-addict-in-jail-think-youre-having-a-hard-time-ive-got-dollar5m-worth-of-negative-ads-coming-at-me

* "Indicted GOP Congressman Slings Racist Falsehoods In Effort To Save His Seat:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-congressman-duncan-hunter-ammar-campa-najjar_us_5bc4ab88e4b01a01d68d0109

* "How Do You Defeat a Bigot?:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/duncan-hunter-campa-najjar-congress-california-744324/

* "Ammar Campa-Najjar: Duncan Hunter is a coward:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ammar-campa-najjar-duncan-hunter-is-a-coward-1347791427686?v=railb&

* "How Native American Leaders Are Trying to Tackle Voter Suppression in North Dakota:" https://psmag.com/social-justice/native-american-activists-are-trying-to-tackle-voter-suppression-in-north-dakota

* "Native Americans stand up to targeting by Republican voter ID law:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/native-americans-stand-up-to-targeting-by-republican-voter-id-law-1346966595941?v=railb&

* "GOP steps up vote suppression as Democrats grow in determination:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gop-steps-up-vote-suppression-as-democrats-grow-in-determination-1346968643852?v=railb&

* "Voting rights groups sue Kemp, Georgia over rejection of ballots:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/voting-rights-groups-sue-kemp-georgia-over-rejection-of-ballots-1347889219827?v=railb&

* "Trump threatens to close US-Mexico border over Honduran migrant caravan:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/18/trump-threatens-to-close-us-mexico-border-over-migrant-caravan

* "Woman fired after video shows her blocking black man from entering his own apartment building:" https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/white-woman-blocks-black-man-apartment-building-video

* "Mekatilili wa Menza: The widow who beat the British through ecstatic dance:" https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/mekatilili-wa-menza

* I have finished season four of sons of Anarchy. The desensitization seems to be complete, the triggers worn down smooth enough, though of course that doesn't mean I don't have feelings about it. I have to say that the music stays really on point. This season was frustrating, in that the characters kept doing the politics wrong. *smile* I kept gaming things out and they kept making obviously wrong decisions instead of ones with plausible potential for reasonable outcomes.

I kept thinking of this Werewolf table top I was in during the mid '90's. My character was leader of the pack, very serious about honor. The GM had cleverly maneuvered her into a situation where two sets of vows conflicted. She paused for only a second or two, then made her choice. The GM looked shocked and pointed out the perfectly obvious betrayal my character was committing the pack to, and didn't I want to think about it some more? I looked him in the eyes and asked, "Would agonizing about it improve the situation?" Him: No, but... Me: Then we go into the Umbra and try to salvage what of our honor we can.

This is how I am and always was, when the raft hit the waterfall, when the boy was clutching the knife. I take the best path I can see and save the analysis for the aftermath. Generally fast is better when shit gets real.

I still am in this weird place watching the show. I can entirely empathize with why people choose this, particularly why War veterans were drawn to forming these clubs in the first place; at the same time, I can't imagine ever wanting to do this myself. I get the human psychology logic of it; it is a life I would have utterly rejected even if I hadn't accidentally tangled with the frigging Warlocks as a teen.

Watching Juice in his agonies, especially so close after the Kavanaugh Hearings, I kept thinking of the eighteen year old I was: back straight, chin up, utterly unashamed as I looked the only person in the room who's opinion actually mattered when the Warlocks tried me. He was clearly a Vietnam Vet come out in his full regalia to straighten out some mess the son and nephew of his brothers had gotten himself into. He was not expecting my calm, cold, fury and my unhesitating obviously truthful responses to the nonsense I'd been accused of. I was clearly not what he expected, and I think I was meant to be cowering instead of quietly outraged. The other two the Warlocks sent weren't that much older than us and not fully kitted out, so I made my case to the one sitting on my Mother's kitchen chair as if it were a throne.

The risk of the truth told straight and clear was worth it for me, though the price was high. I kept thinking that the truth would have been much simpler and more apt to serve in most of the story lines: with Juice, with Bobby, with the whole J.T. mess. Better to throw oneself forward into a messy situation with the truth told plain and to take the 50/50 odds than to mess about getting increasingly more compromised and worsening chances for a good outcome. The fact that they were mostly rescued by Deus ex CIA doesn't change the fact that without the last minute saved they'd all have been fucked by the lack of a little upfront social courage.

Which doesn't make it bad art, mind. Most people would much rather lie and hope than look judge and accusers in the eyes and talk it through. My accusers broke and betrayed themselves as a couple jealous teenagers who tried to get two of us killed because none of the three of us wanted to fuck them. My judge took a face saving compromise brokered by a weasel when he realized how easily he and his brothers had been manipulated into trying to big foot some high school dating drama. Most people don't figure the odds the way I do and tend to see through as the fastest road out. I get that, I do. Most people take what looks like the short term easy without thinking through the next series of steps an consequences. Juice took a situation where he had an even chance of nothing much happening vs. losing the club and exchanged it for pretty much dead either way short of a miracle. Bobby really fucked shit up because he couldn't bring himself to tell Otto a hard truth and live with the short term consequences. Frustrating to watch, though beautifully executed.

I plan to take another run at Hannibal at some point soon when time and spoons allow. It's been long enough I pretty much have to start at the beginning. I may skip over the section that is triggery at end of season one/early season 2. We'll see how I feel when I get there. I can't remember how many episodes into season two I quit because they kept dancing on my triggers, so even if I do skip some, I'll have to come back in the middle of a bad patch. With desensitization, going slow is crucial to success. I know doing this is long term good for me and I've been spoiled on enough things that I really want to make it to season three which looks very relevance to my interests.

* Corn wolves, Roggenwolves, and Feldgeisters: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/179161624901/hey-i-dont-think-ive-ever-talked-here-about-corn

* BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Krampus-2012-Yule-Limited-Edition/302924915668?hash=item4687bb63d4:g:KEQAAOSwGohboEuu:rk:2:pf:0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* I was asked for a list of important races one might donate money to if one had money to donate.

Beto O'Rourke, Senate Race, Texas: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/betofortexas-ads-ms-gl?refcode=ads_180705_dd_google_search_ad001_tc_kw&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3L3mh-3_3QIVgXp-Ch2FXAyoEAAYASAAEgL-zfD_BwE

Kyrsten Sinema, Senate Race, Arizona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ks-gen-search?refcode=gs_postpri_1808_ks&amount=25.00&recurring=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsP3yp-3_3QIVAqvsCh1U7AYTEAAYASAAEgKAUvD_BwE

Bill Nelson, Senate Race, Florida: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/nelson_search?refcode=ads_google_nat_search

Jacky Rosen, Senate Race, Nevada: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/jr-ads2?refcode=ads_google_d2d_nat&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2_L3zu3_3QIVgYd-Ch2JDQ_wEAAYASAAEgJAlvD_BwE

Heidi Heitkamp, Senate, is currently losing in North Dakota and can for sure use the money: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hh4nd?refcode=ads_google_nat_d2d&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwbHtxu7_3QIVBNbACh0RZQmNEAAYASAAEgLnrvD_BwE

Abigail Spanberger, House of Reps, Virginia: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/spanberger_website?refcode=landing

Ammar Campa-Najjar, House of Reps, California: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/campacampaign

Stacey Abrams, Governor Race, Georgia: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-stacey-searchdtd?refcode=ads-180625-gs-natl-sdtd-search-ad2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhZXw3e3_3QIViONkCh0XoguaEAAYASAAEgIdIfD_BwE

Andrew Gillum, Governor Race, Florida: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gillum-primary-win?refcode=website&_ga=2.10258421.1582336703.1539312722-966284395.1539312722

Tony Evers, Governor Race, Wisconsin: https://tonyevers.com/

If you have more close race Candidates you think should be on the master list, please let me know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Japan flooding disaster: Death toll hits 200; Building heat creates new dangers for survivors:" https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/japan-flooding-disaster-death-toll-hits-200-building-heat-creates-new-dangers-for-survivors/70005470

* "Trump Leaves Open Possibility of Recognizing Crimea's Annexation:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-12/trump-leaves-open-possibility-of-recognizing-crimea-s-annexation?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google

* "Russian hack of Victoria Nuland an early warning sign for 2016:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russian-hack-of-victoria-nuland-an-early-warning-sign-for-2016-1276091459953?playlist=associated

* "Nuland: Putin heads to Trump meeting with lots of wants:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nuland-putin-heads-to-trump-meeting-with-lots-of-wants-1276056643809?playlist=associated

* "Trump’s whiplash NATO summit:" https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-threatens-to-pull-out-of-nato/

* "Trump says leaving NATO is 'unnecessary,' claims allies anted up:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-says-leaving-nato-unnecessary-claims-allies-will-boost-funding-n890806

* "Trump's Nato victory claims in dispute:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44808077

* "MPs voice outrage at 'repulsive' Donald Trump broadside against Theresa May:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/13/mps-voice-outrage-at-repulsive-donald-trump-broadside-against-theresa-may

* "Full text: FBI agent Peter Strzok’s statement before Congress:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/full-text-peter-strzok-fbi-transcript-714981

* "FBI agent Peter Strzok, Republicans clash in fiery House hearing:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/politics/peter-strzok-hearing-congress/index.html

* "Strzok holds his own as Republicans try to put on show at hearing:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/strzok-holds-his-own-as-republicans-try-to-put-on-show-at-hearing-1276039235677?playlist=associated

* "Nadler: Republican hearings are shows intended to help Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nadler-republican-hearings-are-shows-intended-to-help-trump-1276048963552?playlist=associated

* "What happened at the Peter Strzok hearing:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-happened-at-the-peter-strzok-hearing-1275977283841

* "Nuland: FBI in 2016 was concerned about Russians visa seekers:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nuland-fbi-in-2016-was-concerned-about-russians-visa-seekers-1276069955602?playlist=associated

* "Charges against Stormy Daniels are dismissed after Ohio strip club arrest:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/12/politics/stormy-daniels-arrested-in-ohio/index.html

* "Bill Shine’s Wife Disputed Harassment At Fox, Spread Antivaxxer Theories On Twitter:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-shine-wife-tweeted_us_5b3e6c4be4b07b827cbe9a2c

* "Trump economic adviser to become his new top Hill aide:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/trump-shahira-knight-legislative-affairs-director-714982

* "Just Last Year, Brett Kavanaugh Suggested Roe v. Wade Was Wrongly Decided:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/just-last-year-brett-kavanaugh-suggested-roe-v-wade-was-wrongly-decided

* "Brett Kavanaugh Accrued ‘Tens of Thousands’ in Debt Over Baseball Tickets:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/brett-kavanaugh-accrued-tens-of-thousands-in-debt-over-baseball-tickets

* "Dozens of ‘eligible’ young migrant kids reunited, but many more still separated:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/migrant-children-family-separation-714979

* "Just over half of young immigrant kids back with parents:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/just-over-half-of-young-immigrant-kids-back-with-parents-1275988547580

* "Trump administration to turn away far more asylum seekers at the border under new guidance:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/11/politics/border-immigrants-asylum-restrictions/index.html

* "The Even More Disgraceful Trump Balloon:"

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* "Why Donald Trump Likes Brett Kavanaugh So Much:"

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* "Migrant Babies Are Making Appearances In Court:"

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* "The U.S. Threatens Ecuador Over... Breastfeeding?:"

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* "How German News Covered Trump's NATO Visit:"

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* "Man Controlled By Russia Says Germany Is Controlled By Russia:"

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* "White House Welcomes A Disgraced Fox News Boss And His Racist Wife:"

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* I know realistically I should be doing BPAL auctions and with car repairs and bills I'm likely 150.00 down again this month. (I'll know how bad it is Friday after they've made me a new grounding wire). Instead I'm chest deep in the sorting project because as messy as it is, it's more emotionally manageable and once started, can't be put away easily. (Auctions eat 5-6 hours, must be finished all I one sitting, and make me very sad. The heat is not helping as it's one more hurdle to surmount before starting). That's pretty much all I achieved Thursday, and it was a bit two steps forward and one step back, as Wednesday I noticed one of the boxes I already sorted didn't look quite right, and when I investigated, I discovered that I'd literally only half sorted it last February or March. Ooops. So I worked on that today. I've been reduced to eating on the floor with the visitor chair as a table.

Friday is Squirrel and I taking his truck and my car to honest mechanic as his truck has not been functional enough for him to use for a couple weeks, and the grounding wire situation has made mine unreliable. He needs my car to get his moving (he thinks spark plugs), and we were lucky enough to score tandem appointments. I plan to go wait in the forage line while I'm down there. It's two hours between car drop off and forage opening, so I expect to get quite a bit of reading done.

Saturday looks to be Social, though details are still being worked out.

* "Kel Commands in Squire, Pierce Prepares:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/kel-commands-pierce-prepares/

* "Scarlett Johansson, This Is A Trans Role You Appropriated, Not A Cis Feminine One:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/07/scarlett-johansson-this-is-trans-role.html

* "If You Want Trans TV Shows, Gotta Watch Them:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/07/if-you-want-trans-tv-shows-gotta-watch.html

* "‘Pose’ Renewed for Season 2 at FX:" https://www.thewrap.com/pose-renewed-season-2-fx/

* This Selkie Story gave me chills. http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/175610164275/lustfulpasiphae-dateagirlwhosweird-date-a#notes

* "What about Susan who got married and had a child while in Narnia, and then returned to England as a child, a whole life and family left behind?" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/175610241295/what-about-susan-who-got-married-and-had-a-child

* "Revisiting Chapters: Prologue, ACoK:" http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/175677910397/revisiting-chapters-prologue-acok

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Trump floats management changes instead of sanctions for China's ZTE:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/u-s-lawmakers-say-they-will-try-to-block-possible-zte-deal-with-china-idUSKCN1IN27O

* This is so much worse than what they want to persecute Hillary Clinton over. "‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903

* "Does Donald Trump write his own tweets? Sometimes:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/21/trump-tweets-include-grammatical-errors-and-some-them-are-purpose/JeL7AtKLPevJDIIOMG7TrN/story.html

* FTW. "Top trade assn. for porn industry trolls Trump on HPV/HIV:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/top-trade-assn-for-porn-industry-trolls-trump-on-hpv-hiv-1238839875895

* "Another Trump Tower meeting, another foreign offer to help Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-trump-tower-meeting-another-foreign-offer-to-help-trump-1238924355983?playlist=associated

* "Is Rosenstein allowing Trump to compromise the DoJ with requests?:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/is-rosenstein-allowing-trump-to-compromise-the-doj-with-requests-1238912579953?playlist=associated

* "Trump, GOP destroy U.S. credibility with covert sources:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-gop-destroy-u-s-credibility-with-covert-sources-1238955587578?playlist=associated

* "Sen. Murphy: DOJ beginning to crack:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-murphy-doj-beginning-to-crack-1238844995900

* "Clapper: FBI was not spying on Trump:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/fbi-spy-trump-james-clapper-responds-602723

* "Rudy Giuliani won deal for OxyContin maker to continue sales of drug behind opioid deaths:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/22/rudy-giuliani-opioid-epidemic-oxycontin-purdue-pharma

* "Elliott Broidy’s Company Got Its Biggest U.S. Government Contract Ever While He Pitched Trump Administration:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/elliott-broidys-company-got-its-biggest-us-government-contract-ever-while-he-pitched-trump-administration

* "U.S. Sen. Bob Corker turns down offer to become next U.S. ambassador to Australia:" https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/21/u-s-sen-bob-corker-turns-down-trump-administration-offer-become-next-u-s-ambassador-australia/629726002/

* "Interior Dept. moves to allow Alaska bear hunting with doughnuts, bacon:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/interior-dept-moves-allow-alaska-bear-hunting-doughnuts-bacon-n876306

* This is seriously concerning. "Guards "forcibly" prevent AP reporter from attending EPA summit:" https://www.axios.com/epa-summit-reporters-forcibly-barred-cnn-ap-scott-pruitt-fa9b313b-0d0a-4ea9-9087-d8ff4dffaf29.html

* Remember how Republican deregulation of the banking industry caused that massive world banking crisis towards the end of W.'s presidency? Well while it was disastrous for 99% of us it was massively good for the richest one percent, so the Republicans just voted to get rid of the financial regulations that were intended to stop it from happening again in hopes another one happening soon. "House sends bill loosening banking regulations to Trump:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/house-banking-bill-vote-dodd-frank/index.html

* Remember how critics of the Republican tax give away to corporations and the rich said this would happen and Republicans lied that it wouldn't? "Harley-Davidson took its tax cut, closed a factory, and rewarded shareholders:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/22/17350180/harley-davidson-tax-buyback-kansas-city-factory

* "Supreme Court rules employers can ban class action lawsuits in arbitration:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/supreme-court-upholds-employers-right-to-require-arbitration-to-settle-workplace-disputes-600923

* The Republican War on Children continues. "Trump spending cuts allowed to target kids’ health insurance:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/trump-spending-cuts-kids-health-insurance-559137

* "Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation's first black woman governor.:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/georgia-governor-race-stacey-abrams/index.html

* "Fighter pilot McGrath wins Kentucky House primary:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/amy-mcgrath-jim-gray-kentucky-house-democratic-primary/index.html

* "Three black people checked out of their Airbnb rental. Then someone called the police on them:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/us/airbnb-police-called-trnd/index.html

* "Too Many Men Can’t Handle Being Told No:" http://www.jimchines.com/2018/05/men-cant-handle-no/

* "Ireland’s darkest, oddest and weirdest secrets uncovered:" https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/ireland-s-darkest-oddest-and-weirdest-secrets-uncovered-1.3418059

* "The Mystery of the Killer Vacation:" https://www.gq.com/story/chris-smith-vacation-mystery

* "Alakhai Beki (c.1191-([post 1230]): Princess Who Runs the State:" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/173938188453/alakhai-beki-c1191-post-1230-princess-who#notes

* "Before 'Deadpool 2' Ryan Reynolds & Josh Brolin Did a Western -- Corden's Sketch of the Week:"

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* "Bill Gates Wasn't Impressed With Donald Trump:"

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* "Benedict Cumberbatch: Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars:"

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* The Fire Inspection cleaning has eaten me; today we sleep in our clothes.

* "'Deadpool 2' Plays With Us and Itself:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/deadpool-2-plays-with-us-and-itself/

* I used all my money on housing and insurance March, and April it all went to housing and car things. I need the car to get around as I am disabled. I need to raise about $80 to finish catching up. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

* Want to help people on the Big Island of Hawaii? https://www.gofundme.com/hawaiinaturaldisastersrelief

* 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

* 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 or paypal.me/Gwydion

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

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

* "Brazil tower block collapses after inferno:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-43960778

* "'Avengers: Infinity War' Cast Tours Los Angeles w/ James Corden:"

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* Me: Why does Vine keep sendingme emails? Do they still exist? I never used there service....
Next Day: Oh, it's VINE (Victim notification from the prison system), not Vine the thingie where people posted video short shorts.

I don't get them that often, but every now and then, they move him to a different prison, but it's usually years in between. I'm mostly signed up so I know when he gets out. They gave him the maximum of 15 years for a single premeditated murder, but we're getting into the early release with good behavior. He showed real remorse, and clearly his refusal to use words instead of bullets ruined his life too. It's not like I think he'd kill again. I just like to know where he is nevertheless. Every time I get a notification, I'm distressed all over again at the stupidity of it all, at the pain and loss and damage he caused so many. The grief they bring is worth it though, as not knowing would be so much worse. Not knowing is always worse than knowing, in my experience, no matter how horrible the things to be known are. That's how my brain works. I'd have looked at the crime scene photos if they'd let me. My imagination can't be worse than the reality must have been.

This time they weren't moving him or anything. It was notifications about system outages, not anything relevant to our case. He's still tucked away the last place they sent him after his stint out on one of the islands.

The cherry blossoms are in their full glory in our neighborhood. I wish we could see some from my window.

* I'm up to six hours of sleep in three batches out of two sleep cycles. The headache is down from head being drilled open, to mind dulling throb. I am stupid and annoyingly emotional. I figured out part of the problem was I accidentally switched two pillows when I put the bed back together after the grand blerpfest a few days ago. The rest is assorted chronic illness things, and the way my sleep broke during the period when I was for real dying. (I was always insomniac back to at least when I was two, which when I have my first memory of it. Some sort of switch got flipped in my head when I was down to the 2-4 month's to live without surgical intervention point and instead of hitting a crash point about three days in, My body started doing things like a whole week in which I could sleep no more than half an hour in twenty for. The natural end point seemed to disappear. After they removed Herberton, our name for the tumor colony, I stopped getting the scary extreme insomnia, which we theorized might be some weird atavistic evolutionary thing better designed to keep and injured hunter gatherer crawling towards help than for my, very modern situation.) Anyway, it improved, but I don't hit the crash point like I did before that particular brush with death, and when it's like this, I bring out the big guns meds wise and reset my sleep. Only I couldn't because of obligations like Monday forage, and the things I was scheduled for tonight. I needed to take supplies (frozen forage meat Squirrel decided was too much and too daunting) North to some friend in exchange for a mini-fridge they no longer needed, but which Squirrel wanted and some paperwork for squirrel's truck). It was also fix it night, and I took the ten in again, this time to great success. I am too tired to migrate functions tonight, but I hope to be up to speed properly by the weekend. When I'm properly wound down, I'll go to bed and do the sleep reset.

This means odds are I'll be behind on computer things for a few days, given I didn't finish Monday's news what with the exhaustion and the blinding headache, and that I've lost most of tonight and may lose a chunk of tomorrow depending on how much sleep I manage. My appologies for those of you looking to me for headlines.

*An interesting version of Tam Lin: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/173417508105/tam-lin-retelling#notes

* "The 9 Queerest Moments from Janelle Monáe's New Album 'Dirty Computer':" https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8423240/janelle-monae-new-album-dirty-computer-queerest-moments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Russia-linked hackers are trying to infiltrate the Senate, cyber firm says:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/russia-linked-hackers-senate-283591

* "White House mired in crisis as Russian hackers target U.S. Senate:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-mired-in-crisis-as-russian-hackers-target-u-s-senate-1136108099762?v=a

* "Africa calls Trump racist after 'shithole' remark:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-reaction/africa-calls-trump-racist-after-shithole-remark-idUSKBN1F11VC

* "U.N. rights office decries Trump's reported remarks as 'racist':" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-un/u-n-rights-office-decries-trumps-reported-remarks-as-racist-idUSKBN1F114A

* "Trump denies 'shithole countries' remark but senator asserts he said it:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/donald-trump-shithole-countries-tweet-denies-immigration-talks

* "Anderson Cooper: 'The sentiment the President expressed ... is racist':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/11/politics/cooper-trump-sentiment-racist-cnntv/index.html

* "Hillary Clinton: Trump's 'ignorant, racist views':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/durbin-trump-said-shithole-repeatedly-comments-were-vile-racist-n837116

* If 45 has "the best words" as he claims, why does he never use them?

* "Mike Pence shares ‘intimate’ dinner with right-wing pastor who prays for deaths of liberal justices:" https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/mike-pence-shares-intimate-dinner-with-right-wing-pastor-who-prays-for-deaths-of-liberal-justices/

* "Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/chelsea-manning-files-to-run-for-us-senate-in-maryland/2018/01/13/6439f0d0-f88c-11e7-beb6-c8d48830c54d_story.html?utm_term=.a913c81dd0af

* "Missile threat alert for Hawaii a false alarm:" http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/politics/hawaii-missile-threat-false-alarm/index.html

* "The Other People in Springfield:" https://longreads.com/2017/12/29/the-other-people-in-springfield/

* "Arrest Made In Viccky Gutierrez Case:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/01/arrest-made-in-viccky-gutierrez-case.html

* TW: Suicidal ideation. "Queens At Heart Documentary:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/01/queens-at-heart-documentary.html

* The Internet didn't create trans people; we were always here even if we hadn't the words. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/169683061597/fivefootfite-you-wouldnt-be-calling-yourself

* "Once a Forbidden Tradition, Mummering in Newfoundland Is Alive and Well:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mummers-costumes-2017-newfoundland?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=atlas-page

* "How An Oprah Presidency Would Look:"

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* "Donald Trump Is Like, Really Not Smart:"

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* "Stephen Miller Got Escorted Out Of CNN:"

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* "Weekend Update: Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham - SNL:"

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* "Tucci Gang - SNL:"

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* TW: Pedophilia "Captain Hook - SNL:"

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* Today, the imperial couple discovered birds were building a nest in the gazebo in front of the livingroom window. I have had a wonderful time watching Tavy and Livia watch the birds. Occasionally Tavy would run over and try to enlist me, or at least those peculiar wriggling things on the ends of my paws to let them out to go hunting, even though neither of them have lived outside and are afraid of the big blue room. For some reason the Hu-Mon refused to let them out. "There are birds! Right there! Birds!" Poor kittens, doomed to watch cat TV until it got to dark for birds to be gathering nesting materials, simply because the human values their health more than their impulses.

In other news, the bulbs have been sprouting a couple of weeks now, and I’ve moved things round to best distribute the light.

* Possibly the creepiest thing ever happened. So I’m just innocently reading an article at my desk while petting two cats, the third being in her room with Squirrel and their door closed. I want to emphasize I knew exactly where all the living creatures are in the apartment when this happened. Suddenly, right behind my right ear, I hear a loud exhalation, like a human giving a breathy sigh. I turn. Absolutely no one is there. My hands are literally on both cats. The door to Squirrel’s room is closed. The fish aren't escaping their tanks.

Shudder.

* Re: Mad Max: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/169239551825/thefingerfuckingfemalefury-iamthedukeofurl#notes

* "Dealing with Trauma and Characters Improves Wild Magic
Read more at https://www.thefandomentals.com/trauma-characters-wild-magic/#dVeZJWtXL1HACVdF.99:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/trauma-characters-wild-magic/

* Mermaids an coconuts: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/169266895205/otherwindow-mermaids-fucking-hate-coconuts#notes

* "A Fun Story About an Asshole in a Locker Room:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/169642831072/a-fun-story-about-an-asshole-in-a-locker-room

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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

* 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

* "Saudi Arabia to lift 35-year ban on cinemas:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/saudi-arabia-to-lift-35-year-ban-on-cinemas

* "RNC caught in lie on Roy Moore support:"

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* "After 20 years, researcher presents the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found:" https://phys.org/news/2017-12-years-australopithecus-fossil.html

* "Scientists in Siberia may have found mammoth remains with the spear that killed it inside:" http://www.newsweek.com/14-inch-tusk-spear-found-siberia-inside-woolly-mammoth-skeleton-742377

* "Neolithic Age ruins found in Sichuan:" http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/07/WS5a28b061a310fcb6fafd2bc7.html

* "Archaeologists revise chronology of the last hunter-gatherers in the Near East:" https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoc--arc120417.php

* "Earliest example of large hydraulic enterprise excavated in China:" https://phys.org/news/2017-12-earliest-large-hydraulic-enterprise-excavated.html

* "Excavations in Cyprus show Contact with Neighbours in Neolithic Times:" http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/12/05/excavations-in-cyprus-show-contact-with-neighbours-in-neolithic-times/

* "Patan Minara may have supported a civilisation similar to Harappa:" https://dailytimes.com.pk/153368/patan-minara-may-supported-civilisation-similar-harappa-another-harappa/

* "Navigation began in India: Indus Valley Indians used monsoon winds for sailing:" http://www.nerve.in/news%3A2535003973795

* "Archeologists discover 3,000-year-old Marquis' tomb in NW China:" http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/04/c_136799662.htm

* ""Thoughts and Prayers" in Greek Tragedy:" https://daily.jstor.org/thoughts-and-prayers-in-greek-tragedy/

* "Discoveries made at Iron Age house site:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-42250514

* "Detectorist's jewellery worth £145,000:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-42220033

* "Viking-Era Stone Carved with Runes Found in Norway:" https://www.livescience.com/61100-mysterious-rune-stone-norway.html

* "Medieval tomb found at Plovdiv’s Odeon site:" http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/12/08/archaeology-mediaeval-tomb-found-at-plovdivs-odeon-site/

* "Mystery of cathedral grave solved:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42255514

* "The shoes hidden in homes to ward off evil:" http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-41507752

* "Pub landlord stirs up a storm over festive pud called Santa’s Dick:" http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridgeshire-pub-santa-dick-pudding-13996865

* "Frosty The Snowman's New Hat:"

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* "Donald Trump Jr. Wants More Privilege?:"

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* "Michael Flynn Colluded During Trump's Inauguration:"

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* "American Voices & Also Faces: Jackson Hole, Wyoming:"

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* "Letters To Santa From The Trumps:"

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* TW: Pedophilia. "President Trump's Pedophile Stump:"

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* "Lost 'Star Wars' Footage Of Luke Skywalker At The Cantina:"

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* "An Epic Terrorist Fail Really Inconveniences New Yorkers :"

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* TW: Sexual Assault. "At This Point, Do Republicans Even Care About Sexual Assault?:"

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* "Today's Future Now - Crime-Fighting Technology:"

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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

* 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

* Republicans are trying to kill library funding. Help us save the libraries. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/fight-for-libraries

* Resistance links for the tax cuts for the rich: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166977878817/fullhalalalchemist-the-gop-is-aiming-for-a-65vc

* Scripts for resisting the Tax Bill: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/168175070608/the-tax-bill-just-passed-the-senate-heres-what

* 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

* "Putin's 'chef,' the man behind the troll factory:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/russian-oligarch-putin-chef-troll-factory/index.html

* "Sen. Hassan: Trump neglecting deadly opioid crisis:"

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* "What Trump really thinks about religion:"

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* "Trump ducks failure to address Green Beret deaths with Obama lie:"

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* "Duckworth: Trump using Gold Star Families as political ploys:"

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* "Obama aides slam Trump over claim about past presidents, fallen soldiers:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-obama/obama-aides-slam-trump-over-claim-about-past-presidents-fallen-soldiers-idUSKBN1CM1ZO

* "Sen. John McCain warns against 'spurious nationalism':" http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/politics/john-mccain-joe-biden-liberty-medal/

* "Trump warns 'I fight back' after McCain hits foreign policy:" https://apnews.com/cd337697c2f04726b69076627c014eb7/Trump-issues-warning-to-McCain-after-senator's-tough-speech

* "U.S. states sue to block Trump Obamacare subsidies cut:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare/u-s-states-sue-to-block-trump-obamacare-subsidies-cut-idUSKBN1CI0E4

* "Subpoena Orders Trump To Turn Over Documents From Assault Allegations:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/subpoena-orders-trump-to-turn-over-documents-from-assault?utm_term=.ihAeLq5oW#.egK683o5X

* "Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Third Travel Ban:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-17/trump-s-third-try-at-travel-ban-is-blocked-by-u-s-judge

* "Bannon promises 'season of war' against McConnell, GOP establishment:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/14/steve-bannon-trump-gop-mitch-mcconnell-243777

* "The Danger of President Pence:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/the-danger-of-president-pence?currentPage=all

* "Tom Marino out as Trump's drug czar nominee after "60 Minutes" report:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-marino-out-trump-drug-czar-nominee-60-minutes-report-live-updates/

* "EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose ‘No Harmful Health Effect’:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/epa-says-higher-radiation-levels-pose-no-harmful-health-effect

* "18 Dem AGs sue DeVos for blocking Obama for-profit college rule:" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/355885-18-dem-ags-sue-devos-for-blocking-obama-for-profit-college-rule

* "EPA head seeks to avoid settlements with green groups:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-epa-lawsuits/epa-head-seeks-to-avoid-settlements-with-green-groups-idUSKBN1CL2HK

* Spicer went to his Mueller interview; Carter Page is pleading the fifth with Senate Intelligence.

* "Manafort had $60M relationship with Russian oligarch:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/manafort-had-60m-relationship-russian-oligarch-n810541

* "Pence could face legal jeopardy for role in Trump scandals:"

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* "Trump picks leader of failed Bush Katrina response to lead DHS:"

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* "Senators reach deal to continue Obamacare health insurance subsidy payments:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senators-reach-deal-continue-obamacare-insurance-subsidy-payments/story?id=50539387

* "Arne Duncan & Curtis Toler - Giving Hope to Chicago's Youth Through CRED - Extended Interview:"

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* "John Oliver - Iran Nuclear Deal:"

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* "It's Stupid to Think People Like Harvey Weinstein Are Rare:"

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* "Trump & McConnell's BFF Presser:"

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* "Cook County Jail: The Best Pizzeria in Chicago:"

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* "The Husband Stitch:" https://granta.com/the-husband-stitch/

* Science Denial: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2017/10/16

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

* 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/

* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with

* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight

"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside

* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

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

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

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

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

* 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

* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires

* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good

* 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

* "Trump order could give immigration agents a foothold in US schools:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/22/trump-immigration-us-schools-education-undocumented-migrants

* "How to Recognize Russian Propaganda on Social Media:" http://lifehacker.com/how-to-recognize-russian-propaganda-on-social-media-1798503783

* Irma’s down to Cat 1, but the flooding is serious in Florida and there is extreme concern still about flooding/storm surges in South Georgia. The storm is slower, but still dangerous, so please, please, if you get an evacuation order, go.

* It’s looking like Hurricane Jose’s Cat 3 now and has veered to miss most of the islands, which, frankly, can’t take any more. They aren’t sure how Irma will continue to effect weather patterns, so it could circle out to see or it could hit the east Coast as of this writing.

* "Medieval London was the most violent place in England:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2145415-medieval-london-was-the-most-violent-place-in-england/

* Today I successfully adulted the bureaucracy. I had two packets, one expected to be easy, but requiring me to be up to double checking legalize, hence me getting it the day my Uncle's letter arrived and setting it aside for the series of emergencies until I was more up to that sort of attention. The other I expected to be a week long scavenger hunt under pressure, hence me wanting it started tonight so I could go get paperwork in a gas efficient way from various offices. It turned out not to be necessary, as the second packet was not the week long scavenger hunt, but something way simpler, so both are squared away and out of my hair.

Tomorrow will be rough, as I've crack of dawn Doctor's appointment and a list of things to be handled, including taking Squirrel on an excursion and some phone calls I don't want to make. I am not sure what the spoon count will be, so I've mentally sorted into things I can put off and things I can't. At least the weather is staying September reasonable.

* "YA authors asked to 'straighten' gay characters:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/14/ya-authors-gay-characters

* "Little Red and Bluebeard in Film:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/little-red-bluebeard-film/

* "Game of Thrones is Still Sexist: don't all gasp at once:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/sexism-and-s7/

* Want to donate to the windshield wiper fund? (32$ Needed). Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

*****
* 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/

* Authorities in Antigua & Barbuda want people to go through the Red Cross right now, as what is needed is centralized relief through a legitimate charity. https://www.redcross.org/donate/hurricane-irma-donations?scode=RSG00000E017&utm_campaign=irma&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwZr44KqX1gIVCIR-Ch0EXQQ0EAAYASAAEgJnBPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CJqzzvKql9YCFY2Tfgods-gBXQ

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

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

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

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

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

* 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

* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires

* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good

* 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

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