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* "Afghanistan women: 'I felt anxious going back to university':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60236826

* "Evidence police in Belfast colluded with loyalists in the Troubles, report finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/08/evidence-police-in-belfast-colluded-with-loyalists-in-the-troubles-report-finds

* It sure looks like a transparent ploy to whip up a lynch mob against the opposition in order to distract from his COVID Party scandal. "MPs blame Boris Johnson’s ‘poison’ after protesters mob Keir Starmer:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/07/police-rescue-keir-starmer-after-protesters-surround-him-near-parliament

* "Misogyny in Met played key role in downfall of Cressida Dick:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/11/misogyny-in-met-police-played-key-role-in-downfall-of-cressida-dick

* "Cressida Dick steps down as Met Police commissioner amid scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/10/cressida-dick-metropolitan-police-resign/

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* "An Omicron subvariant gains in Europe, but is unlikely to alter the picture very much, experts say.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/world/europe/omicron-subvariant-ba-2.html

* "New Zealand authorities deploy Barry Manilow against Covid protesters:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/new-zealand-authorities-deploy-barry-manilow-against-covid-protesters

* "As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/14/1077689734/as-state-medical-boards-try-to-stamp-out-covid-misinformation-some-in-gop-push-b

* "Alabama hospitals still battling Omicron COVID-19 surge:" https://www.wbrc.com/2022/02/07/alabama-hospitals-still-battling-omicron-covid-19-surge/

* "3 Alabama inmates die shortly after testing positive for COVID-19:" https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/3-alabama-inmates-die-shortly-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19/

* "New Jersey, Connecticut, others to lift statewide school mask mandates:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-governor-end-school-mask-mandate-rcna15168

* "Louisiana Covid-19 cases are trending down, while Mississippi is seeing significant challenges in the ICU.:" https://wgno.com/news/health/louisiana-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-while-mississippi-is-seeing-significant-challenges-in-the-icu/

* "COVID-19 challenges persist in minority, rural communities in Tennessee:" https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/covid-19-challenges-persist-in-minority-rural-communities-in-tennessee/

* "Rep. Joyce Beatty discusses Rep. Hal Rogers apologizing after "Kiss my a**" comment regarding mask request:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-joyce-beatty-says-rep-hal-rogers-poked-her-said-kiss-my-ass-over-mask-request-132819013797

* Why would someone go to a plague rat for dentistry? "Cranston dentist who defied RI COVID vaccine mandate sues for right to see patients again:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/02/04/dentist-defied-rhode-island-covid-1-vaccine-mandate-health-workers-lawsuit/6650356001/

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* "U.S. says 'no wiggle room' on Lebanon holding May elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-no-wiggle-room-lebanon-holding-may-elections-2022-02-07/

* "Iran timeline to nuclear weapon 'frighteningly short' after failed Trump policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iran-timeline-to-nuclear-weapon-frighteningly-short-after-failed-trump-policy-132831301974

* "Ottawa truckers' convoy galvanizes far-right worldwide:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/ottawa-truckers-convoy-galvanizes-far-right-worldwide-00006080

* "Ottawa declares a state of emergency over truckers' growing anti-government protests:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078861392/ottawa-protest-state-of-emergency

* "Ted Cruz gushes: Canadian truckers ‘defending America’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ted-cruz-gushes-canadian-truckers-defending-america-132652101735

* "Canada afflicted with right-wing American Covid conspiracy chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/canada-afflicted-with-right-wing-american-covid-conspiracy-chaos-132832325668

* "Joy Reid explains American right-wing co-optation of Canadian anti-Covid vaccine mandate trucker protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/canadian-anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-trucker-protest-co-optation-by-american-right-wing-explained-by-joy-reid-132821061640

* "COVID-19 protests threaten border trade between Canada, US:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ottawa-truckers-canada-protest-c49a25da25cd2f5e81f1eac5664e37ad

* "US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-detroit-canada-20f273b32bfa8ef695fdabcc7e11321e

* "Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-response-protests-spotlight-after-key-bridge-us-cleared-2022-02-14/

* "U.S.-Canada bridge reopens but protests persist in Ottawa:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080548576/u-s-canada-bridge-reopens-but-protests-persist-in-ottawa

* "Anger and fear among Ukrainians in Russia's crosshairs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anger-and-fear-among-ukrainians-in-russia-s-crosshairs-133178437580

* "Lesson of 'little green men' prompts U.S. strategy of radical transparency on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lesson-of-little-green-men-prompts-u-s-strategy-of-radical-transparency-on-russia-133177925806

* "Volunteers and veterans train for war in Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/ukraine-russia-volunteers-training/

* I admit, I downgrade my assessment of any pundit's expertise if they pronounce Kyiv the Russian instead of the Ukrainian way. It is heartening to see so many presenters flipping their own pronunciations. I know it may seem like a small thing, but it shows bias, I think, if not outright ignorance.

* "White House approves plan for US troops to help Americans leave Ukraine if Russia invades:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/white-house-plan-troops-help-americans-leave-ukraine/index.html

* "U.S. sending 3,000 more troops to Poland amid fresh Ukraine invasion warnings:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/11/us-sending-3000-more-troops-to-poland-00008357

* "US suspends Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-global-trade-agriculture-drug-cartels-7c6bb7ef83bada375692ba890c413ce5

* "U.S. unveils $5 bln plan to fund EV charging network:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-detail-5-bln-plan-fund-ev-charging-network-2022-02-10/

* "Michael S. Regan - Seeking Solutions as Head of the EPA :" https://www.cc.com/video/jsv3ed/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-michael-s-regan-seeking-solutions-as-head-of-the-epa

* "Brilliant gender-fluid nuclear expert and LGBT+ activist lands key energy job:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/sam-brinton-gender-fluid-joe-biden/

* "Biden’s top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/eric-lander-white-house-investigation-00006077

* "House passes short-term government funding bill that would prevent shutdown, sends it to Senate:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/government-shutdown-house-passes-funding-bill.html

* "Joy Reid: Prices will keep going higher and higher until the consumer says ‘enough!’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/inflation-caused-in-part-by-corporate-price-raising-and-profit-seeking-expert-says-132911173796

* "Jill Biden acknowledges free community college has fallen out of her husband’s Build Back Better agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/jill-biden-says-free-community-college-out-of-bbb/

* "House OKs bill easing budget strains on Postal Service:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/house-oks-bill-easing-budget-strains-postal-service-82756382

* "Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi sued the Biden administration for raising federal contractors' minimum wage to $15 an hour:" https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-federal-contractor-minimum-wage-texas-louisiana-mississippi-2022-lawsuit-paxton-2

* "Nurses Who Faced Lawsuits for Quitting Are Fighting Back:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-02/underpaid-contract-nurses-who-faced-fines-lawsuits-for-quitting-fight-back

* "‘This is a national movement’: union drives surge at US Starbucks stores:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/11/starbucks-union-organizing-drives-across-us

* "Why Congress is moving against sexual harassment, 4 years after #MeToo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/congress-sexual-harassment-metoo-00007493

* "Rep. Porter on Congress stock trading ban: We must earn back public trust:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-porter-on-congress-stock-trading-ban-we-must-earn-back-public-trust-132819525583

* They are planning to make the entire Internet Child Safe: https://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/675770052789862400

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

* Tuesday they nullified the Voting Rights Act and possibly the 14th Amendment on the Shadow Docket so as to allow racial gerrymandering for the Midterms. "Activists on Supreme Court declare open season on voting rights of people of color experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-ruling-validates-racist-gerrymander-in-alabama-132738117970

* "Supreme Court guts yet another provision of the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/supreme-court-guts-yet-another-provision-of-the-voting-rights-act-132735557936

* 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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* "The Push to Restrict Voting Rights Continues:" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/push-restrict-voting-rights-continues

* "North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/north-carolina-congressional-map-struck-down-00005974

* "Arizona panel votes to require excuse for early voting:" https://www.abc15.com/news/politics/arizona-panel-votes-to-require-excuse-for-early-voting

* "Supreme Court stops lower court order requiring Alabama to draw a new district voting map favorable to Black residents:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/supreme-court-alabama-racial-gerrymandering/

* "Supreme Court conservatives help Alabama GOP keep biased map for next election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-conservatives-help-alabama-gop-keep-biased-map-for-next-election-132660293929

* "Republicans see early success at damaging elections with new voting restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-see-early-success-at-damaging-elections-with-new-voting-restrictions-133179461628

* "As GOP seeks to usurp control of elections, Wisconsin Democrats are mobilizing locally:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-gop-seeks-to-usurp-control-of-elections-wisconsin-democrats-are-mobilizing-locally-132744773645

* "WWII Vet, 95, Says Mail-in Ballot Application Rejected Twice Under Texas Law: 'I've Never Missed a Vote':" https://people.com/politics/mail-in-ballot-application-rejected-veteran-95-texas-voting-law-sb1/

* "A judge has kept in place his ruling that says absentee ballot drop boxes can't be used in Wisconsin:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/21/wisconsin-judge-keeps-place-ruling-bars-ballot-drop-boxes/6584338001/

* "People Who Think Trump Won in 2020 Are Trying to Run Elections:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v57v/people-who-think-trump-won-in-2020-are-trying-to-run-elections

* Can we take a moment to appreciate that the only 'proof' Marjorie Taylor Greene has that Nancy Pelosi is somehow using cold tomato soup against Republicans is that after hours Capital police saw a congressman's door was a jar and checked to make sure there were no intruders before closing it? Like that's it. They didn't touch any of his stuff. It was exactly the sort of routine security check you'd want capital police to do if they spotted an open congress critters door. "Marjorie Taylor Greene says Nancy Pelosi leads ‘gazpacho police,’ causing collective spit take:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-gestapo/

* "GOP rep professes loyalty to Trump at his Tower after he endorses her opponent:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-professes-loyalty-to-trump-at-his-tower-after-he-endorses-her-opponent-132908101582

* "GOP candidate says her aides were among January 6 "heroes":" https://www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-lynne-torgerson-says-her-aides-were-among-jan-6-heroes-1678290

* "Meet the candidates running on 'explicitly pro-coup platforms':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-the-candidates-running-on-explicitly-pro-coup-platforms-132992581513

* "Republicans try to straddle the ‘pro-coup’ line after RNC censure:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-try-to-straddle-the-pro-coup-line-after-rnc-censure-132735557601

* "Gay Billionaire Peter Thiel Exits Meta Board to Fund Trump Candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/2/08/gay-billionaire-and-republican-donor-peter-thiel-leave-meta-board

* "How one small town fought off a QAnon invasion :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-small-town-fought-off-a-qanon-invasion-133166149895

* "With little evidence, felon tells Assembly committee there were thousands of illegal votes:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/02/10/with-little-evidence-felon-tells-assembly-committee-there-were-thousands-of-illegal-votes/

* "Republicans credulously present convicted fraudster to spin stolen election tale:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-credulously-present-convicted-fraudster-to-spin-stolen-election-tale-132921413827

* "Deputy Virginia Attorney General Resigns Over Posts Praising Capitol Rioters:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/deputy-virginia-attorney-general-resigns-over-posts-praising-capitol-rioters/2968067/

* "Trump backer, 4 others charged with voter fraud in Wisconsin:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-backer-charged-voter-fraud-wisconsin-82806728

* "Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/02/09/giuliani-antrim-prosecutor-voting-machines/

* "Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/trump-mazars/index.html

* "‘Big blow’: Accounting firm dumps Trump over dubious financial statements:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-blow-accounting-firm-dumps-trump-over-dubious-financial-statements-133163077859

* "Banker who tried to buy his way into Trump administration gets a year in prison :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/banker-who-tried-to-buy-his-way-into-trump-administration-gets-a-year-in-prison-132746309540

* "Stephen Calk: Banker sentenced to prison for bribery scheme in chase for Trump administration job:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/stephen-calk/index.html

* "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/trump-records-mar-a-lago/

* "Presidential Records Act: From Nixon’s Watergate tapes to Trump’s ‘burn bags’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/07/presidential-records-act-trump-nixon/

* "Trump flouting of Presidential Records Act leaves National Archives scrambling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-flouting-of-presidential-records-act-leaves-national-archives-scrambling-132663365612

* "Trump used ‘burn bags’ to destroy docs, took records to Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-used-burn-bags-to-destroy-docs-took-records-to-mar-a-lago-132651077571

* "Records retrieved from Trump by National Archives may include classified material: reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/records-retrieved-from-trump-by-national-archives-may-include-classified-material-reports-132828229549

* I bet if I’d stolen boxes of classified documents from the government they’d arrest me right away. Just saying. "New legal entanglement for Trump as DOJ, intel community assess mishandling of documents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-legal-entanglement-for-trump-as-doj-intel-community-assess-mishandling-of-documents-132919877762

* "Trump's odd toilet flushing fixation reconsidered after reports of document dumping:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-odd-toilet-flushing-fixation-reconsidered-after-reports-of-document-dumping-132920901985

* "Flush away the evidence?: The Trump toilet obsession takes a crooked turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/flush-away-the-evidence-the-trump-toilet-obsession-takes-a-crooked-turn-132905541770

* "Glenn Kirschner: Between Navarro and draft executive order this is like 'Sedition for Dummies':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/national-archives-asks-the-department-of-justice-to-investigate-donald-trump-for-handling-of-white-house-documents-132820037635

* "Steele: I don’t want to hear another word about Clinton’s emails after Trump doc eating allegation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-accused-of-eating-torn-up-documents-in-the-oval-office-according-to-former-white-house-aide-132910149987

* "New details on Trump’s reported document stealing, destroying, flushing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-trump-s-reported-document-stealing-destroying-flushing-132992581872

* "Trump denies flushing documents down White House toilet:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/trump-denies-flushing-documents-down-white-house-toilet-00007710

* "White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/trump-white-house-records/index.html

* "January 6 Committee adopts prosecutorial style in hope of prompting Garland to action: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6-committee-adopts-prosecutorial-style-in-hope-of-prompting-garland-to-action-nyt-132661829905

* "January 6th probe tracing chain of command despite resistance from Trump entourage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tracing-chain-of-command-despite-resistance-from-trump-entourage-133001797604

* "Federal judge orders John Eastman to detail legal work for Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/14/john-eastman-jan-6-investigation-00008560

* "Jan. 6 panel 'fully' expects Giuliani to cooperate with subpoena, Kinzinger says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-fully-expects-giuliani-cooperate-subpoena-kinzinger-says-rcna16059

* "January 6 committee subpoenas one-time Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/peter-navarro-january-6-subpoena/index.html

* "Prosecutor exposes another facet of Trump scheme to seize voting machines after 2020 loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prosecutor-exposes-another-facet-of-trump-scheme-to-seize-voting-machines-after-2020-loss-132832837738

* "Unifying power of January 6th for extremist groups being examined by congressional panel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unifying-power-of-january-6th-for-extremist-groups-being-examined-by-congressional-panel-132745285796

* "Capitol rioter gets prison as feds reach 100 sentencings:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-iraq-middle-east-elections-amy-berman-jackson-59d2550b3036ed48d8d4e41a84617d73

* "Anti-vax doctor Simone Gold reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/anti-vax-doctor-simone-gold-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-john-herbert-strand-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-americas-frontline/65-06593dc8-7f9a-47ec-93f0-f507e3c1b2a7

* "Anti-vax doctor reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anti-vax-doctor-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-132817989652

* "Amir Locke's family calls for a full ban on no-knock warrants as the Minneapolis mayor answers City Council questions about city's policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/us/no-knock-warrants-minneapolis-shooting/index.html

* "Amir Locke and the Second Amendment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/amir-locke-and-the-second-amendment-133066821537

* "School leaders say HBCUs are undeterred after a series of bomb threats:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079294424/hbcu-bomb-threats-black-colleges

* "FBI investigating HBCU bomb threats as a hate crime, suspects juveniles may be involved:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/02/fbi-hbcu-bomb-threats-investigation/

* "8 DC schools cleared following threats; police, FBI investigating:" https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/3-dc-high-schools-evacuated-after-threats/

* "Second gentleman Doug Emhoff evacuated from D.C. school following bomb threat:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-evacuated-dc-school-bomb-threat-rcna15403

* Anyone surprised Elon Musk is Henry ford level racist? "Tesla sued over alleged racial discrimination:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60330296

* "Elon Musk’s car company Tesla faces allegations of racist discrimination against Black employees:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elon-musk-s-car-company-tesla-faces-allegations-of-racist-discrimination-against-black-employees-133168709936

* "What about Black students’ ‘discomfort’?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/teaching-history-discomfort-black-students/

* "Nikole Hannah-Jones: These bills say we need to ensure White children are not uncomfortable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-desantis-proposes-stop-woke-act-132740677637

* "Parents organize to fight back against GOP's classroom culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/parents-organize-to-fight-back-against-gop-s-classroom-culture-war-133065797695

* "A Gay Man Burned a Bible in Protest at a Tennessee Book Burning:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/2/07/gay-man-burned-bible-protest-tennessee-book-burning

* "Super Bowl halftime show showcased Black artists yet NFL diversity issues persist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/super-bowl-lvi-halftime-show-sparks-right-wing-freak-out-133167685837

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "The Sheltered Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses:"

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* Tell me you get turned on by dead fish without telling me. "Ohio mayor concerned ice shanties could lead to prostitution:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-cleveland-bf6a9817a5d910411679a2781e23210c

* "Governor Glenn Youngkin accused of ‘toxic culture’ after aides attack teen on Twitter:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-aides-attack-teen-on-twitter

* "Fla. Republicans ditch Texas-style abortion law for what they call a ‘generous’ 15-week ban, drawing criticism from all sides:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/abortion-ban-florida-texas-roe-supreme-court/

* "Florida Republicans move toward abortion ban with new proposed restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/florida-republicans-move-toward-abortion-ban-with-new-proposed-restrictions-133003333930

* "Vermont moves forward on becoming first state to guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/08/abortion-roe-vermont/

* "BBC's 'transphobic reporting' called out in international human rights review:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/15/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/

* "Netherlands could be next country to ban 'medieval' conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/netherlands-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Staff quit UK's so-called equalities watchdog en masse over relentless 'transphobia':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/04/ehrc-baroness-falkner-staff-quit-transphobia/

* "Queer students feel ‘betrayed’ after Cambridge college bans Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/05/cambridge-college-pride-flag-gonville-caius/

* "The Importance of Seeking Social Security Survivor's Benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/04/importance-seeking-social-security-survivors-benefits

* "South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/2/03/south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-law

* I'm so happy for them both! "Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta Marries Fiancé Dr. Matthew Jordan-Miller:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/2/06/rep-malcolm-kenyatta-marries-fiance-dr-matthew-jordan-miller

* "Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60258620

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* "Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080302434/study-finds-western-megadrought-is-the-worst-in-1-200-years

* "Venezuela opens probe into table-top mountain 'party':" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220210-venezuela-opens-probe-into-table-top-mountain-party

* "Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60026748

* "The fast fashion graveyard in a desert:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-60249712

* "SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-space-launches-storms-science-business-4ac79ca2d9341f91f9c2897cb07363d4

* "Texas sues Meta's Facebook over facial-recognition practices:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/texas-sues-meta-over-facebooks-facial-recognition-practices-report-2022-02-14/

* CW: Animal Death. I really hope it works! "Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60222464

* "The Actual “Assassins” Were Not What You Think:"

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* "10 Facts: Black Patriots in the American Revolution:" https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-black-patriots-american-revolution?fbclid=IwAR23B3fedgZUszN1wcJgIypLZCIRumPBqPCxtKAKkNZBGJ-sgGp_eZwN6l4

* "Zora Neale Hurston: Crash Course Black American History #30:"

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* "Chernobyl, The Worst Nuclear Disaster in History:"

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* "432 Park Ave: Luxury Apartments From Your Worst Nightmares | Corporate Casket:"

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* "Why World’s Finest Chocolate Isn’t So Sweet :"

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* "Russian skater Kamila Valieva can compete, but medal ceremony won't be held | CBC Sports:" https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figure-skating/doping-hearing-russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-ruling-expected-mondady-1.6350402

* "Russian anti-doping agency allowed Kamila Valieva to compete in Olympics despite failed drug test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/sport/kamila-valieva-roc-drugs-test-olympics-spt-intl-hnk/index.html

They need a hard ban. Last time it was a slap on the wrist, so of course they are still doing it.

For the record, I don't blame an abused 15 year old for doing what her abuser told her to do. I blame every single adult involved.

* "U.S. Figure Skater Vincent Zhou Addresses COVID Diagnosis In Tearful Video:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vincent-zhou-covid-winter-olympics_n_6202353fe4b0500424322946

* Every time that piece of shit Dick Button would body shame Irina Slutskaya, I'd throw up in my mouth a little and think about stabbings. https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1492547898390708224

* We need to talk about Zhu Yi.

So here's the thing, in both the elite sports and the ballet world, people have been switching countries significantly longer than I've been alive. It a thing that happens. It's normal. There are a lot of reasons for it. sometimes, as during the Cold war, people outright defect(ed) because they think they will have a better life in the other country. This is an extremely familiar narrative even to people who don't follow figure skating (or ballet, or certain other sports), but it's not the only reason people do this.

In figure skating, it's incredibly common for people who are good, but live in a country with a large number of good skaters to, you know, move somewhere where they have more opportunities. People with duel citizenship will often pick the country with less competition for top slots because things like the Olympics max out a countries entries at three. If there are say four or even five of you vying for a limited number of slots at say Worlds or the Olympics, maybe it's worth staying, but what if you have an option to grab the one spot some other country has instead of fighting your way into those limited slots?

Keep in mind, a lot of those smaller countries very much want an elite skater to help build a program in their country and for the international prestige. They will welcome a duel citizen with open arms. Similarly, the child of emigres. Some of them will actively recruit athletes who've signaled an interest in leaving despite a lack of ties. (This happens in lots of Sports. Remember that Belarusian runner who defected in a Japanese airport who got taken in by a third country?) So if your country has no potential Olympians, or only very weak contenders, it really does make sense on both sides.

Last I checked eight Russian figure skaters were expected at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, five of them skating for other countries because the Russian women's single skate program is so incredibly dominant right now. If you are in the top four or five, might as well go be the best woman's single skater in some other nearby country.

You also get good skaters from smaller countries moving to live somewhere else without changing citizenship to be where the best coaches are. This is incredibly normal. you also get pairs and dance skaters who end up deciding to partner with someone from another country, who have to change citizenship so they can skate together. My point is, a lot of people live and train in one country and compete for another, or have moved between countries as they think is best for their development as skaters.

Would I want to pick China to switch to? No. Surveillance, genocide, concentration camps, rising anti-queer sentiment, etc., but I can see why the level of state support china gives their elite athletes might attract someone who was talented but not likely to get much support or exposure in the US. It's not the choice I would likely make, but I can understand someone who did, especially someone with her background. This really likely was her best option, possibly her only option besides skating here. Keep in mind, most athletes above a certain level have lived and dreamed and sacrificed most of their childhood and teen years to try to do this one thing very, very well. It's easy for people who never were that kind of choice to judge that choice harshly. I prefer exercising a little empathy.

Last winter Olympics, there was a Kazakhstani ladies single skater who was good enough to score two slots for her country. There were not two women at the right level to fill those slots and there was a controversy, because the second best Kazakhstani lady figure skater came anyway instead of that slot to the next eligible person from another country. and yes, it sucked that that other woman didn't get to go, but realistically, neither of these women were going to medal. So picture for a second if you were an amateur Kazakhstani skater and you had a once in a lifetime chance to travel to Korea to skate on televisions all over the world wearing your tiara. Realistically, I'd guess 99% of us would have been skating in our tiaras even if the world called us selfish. It's nice to say, oh, you'd cede that slot, but no one offered you one. I don't think any of us know we'd for sure say no.

Also, you know why Zhu Yi was skating for China in Beijing? They literally had no woman single skater better than her. No really. When I heard China was going to the team event, I thought, "Huh. Who's they get for the woman's single skate?" Because I could think of anyone this cycle at that level to take the slot. when I saw who it was, I was like, oh! I vaguely remember her from pre-pandemic. Which means she was good enough for me to have seen her and for to have made some sort of impression though not a strong one either way. If China had a woman with a 60+ short, she'd have been in that slot. Ask yourself seriously, in her place, given a chance for better coaching and a ticket to the Olympics, would you really say no? Because I think a whole lot of armchair skate fans would say yes, even with all the stuff going on in China.

And then there is the extreme cyber bullying which makes me furious. She was clearly doing her best in the short. I have been listening to Canadian skate commentators every year since I moved up here in '98 and I have never heard them as quietly furious as they were during the long program at the harm people on social media heave done to this young woman. She is nineteen. A teenager. her whole life has been about trying to do this one thing she loved. She's not a murderer, like Kyle Rittenhouse, or a monster. She is a teenager who wanted to skate more than anything in the world and now hate is pouring down on her from all sides with no thought at all to her humanity or her youth. The cruelty of it. I just have no fucking words.

Of course she couldn't skate well under those conditions. Could you? Could anyone?

I don't know her. I'll never meet her, but oh do I have empathy for her, because this is a terrible thing for anyone to have done to them, especially a young woman with all the pressures that the world piles on young women just in general.

Fuckssake, can we think before we pile on? Expend a little empathy like the Canadian Skate commentators, instead of being the gears of hate grinding up young athletes trying to do their best in one of the most high pressure situations is possible for an athlete to be in.

* "Kamila Valieva and Zhu Yi are victims in Winter Olympics’ puppet theatre of pain:" https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/11/kamila-valieva-zhu-yi-victims-winter-olympics-puppet-theatre-pain-beijing-2022

* "Vladimir Putin Blames the West & Inside the U.N.:" https://www.cc.com/video/jrahoy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vladimir-putin-blames-the-west-inside-the-u-n

* "The NFL's Black Coaching Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/nfqbdg/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-nfl-s-black-coaching-crisis

* "Tesla's Auto-Pilot Problem & Road Rage Ends in Gunfire:" https://www.cc.com/video/fx5bsb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tesla-s-auto-pilot-problem-road-rage-ends-in-gunfire

* "Sexual Harassment in the Metaverse & Pence vs. Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/9ztvhd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-sexual-harassment-in-the-metaverse-pence-vs-trump

* "Joe Rogan's N-Word Controversy:" https://www.cc.com/video/2kdhuy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-joe-rogan-s-n-word-controversy

* "Project Conspiracy - Sewer Tunnels:" https://www.cc.com/video/853gsx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-project-conspiracy-sewer-tunnels

* "Black in Business - Legacy Cereal Company's Nic King:" https://www.cc.com/video/qy6ri6/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-in-business-legacy-cereal-company-s-nic-king

* "‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Universalized the Trans Experience (& Why Its Great):"

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* "Why Gay Men Love WandaVision:"

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* "Andrew Lloyd Webber on Roller Skates!? | The Painful Spectacle of Starlight Express:"

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* "Drunken Ghost Hunters: Sydney Quarantine Station:"

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* "True Facts: Proboscis Monkey:"

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* I had one of my perennial plague dreams. (I'm a life long plague watcher. 1 was a 14th century specialist before I parted ways with academia. I was dreaming about epidemics since the mid-to late 70's. So no, it's neither an AIDS thing nor a Covid thing.) In this one there was an outbreak of a weaponized... okay, not really small pox, but best described as some sort of Anthrax/smallpox cross? But not really. It was sort of an Anthrax timeline on latency and infection, with both pox and lesions and a small pox like rash following the lesions by about 12 hours, and lung symptoms.

A High school was the target, so the authorities locked it down and were trying to do quarantine and triage, but given how infectious small pox is... yeah. which is why the small town also had perimeter quarantine, since people could be infectious before the fever started and airbourne pathogens are bad.

I was lucid dreaming as is often the case. so I took to the air on the theory that a couple stories up was safer, grabbed a bedroll, provisions, etc. and was setting up camp on a roof top with a structure that could provide an overhang, as is a thing I often do in zombie outbreaks and epidemic scenarios in my dreams.

So I'm up on this roof top watching a massive crowd of parents and families gather in the sports fields around the school, all breathing on each other without masks and trying to press up on the National Guard as they worked themselves into an angry frenzy and it suddenly dawned on me: Anti-vaxxers are panicky nonsense south Park parents.

Bear with me. I hate south Park. I used to watch it while I was teaching because the kids were watching it, and it's good practice to read, watch, and listen to what they are consuming. It was essential to watch south Park in particular because 1. They'd tried to get around you using stuff from there and catching them every time taught them you were hard to trick that way. the more pop culture one was up on, the more they assumed one was basically omniscient and it solved a lot of problems before they started, and 2. The middle Schoolers would come in Monday morning with serious questions and concerns about what they saw and if they knew you knew south Park they'd ask you and you could use it for teachable moments, and things like that were where I did some of my best work as far as media literacy and getting kids to really think about what they are consuming.

But I fucking hate South Park for all the ways it's regressive and toxic. It's fed antisemitism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and science denial and a whole host of toxic things in American culture. I hate it.

But, this connection I made in this dream has haunted me for two days. There's this thing the adults in South Park do where they hear something or something happens and they don't actually listen properly and they just panic and wildly over react and lose their shit and the next thing you know there's this mob of incensed nonsense spewing people who are violent or borderline violent.

I can't say one way or another if 25 years of this shitty regressive show being on the air and popular has caused this or merely reflects the shittiness always under the surface in American, but I saw that irrational nonsense and pathogen spewing crowd reacting exactly the wrong way in a pandemic and I thought of the anti-semetic South Park show with it's hysterical nonsense adults and the Neo-NAZIs making Ottawa unlivable right now and and Trumpist swastika waving anti-vaxxers beating up teachers and storming American state capitals and trying to overthrow the government and it just... felt like the same thing. idk. It's not deep, just an image stuck in my head from a dream.

* Classical Valentines: https://twitter.com/eduardo_garcmol/status/1492438829768269828

* Jorts and Jean, Please never change: https://twitter.com/JortsTheCat/status/1492226999360040960

* "Sunday Sweets: Be My Valentine:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/2/13/sunday-sweets-be-my-valentine

* "Reverse Plots:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/reverse-plots?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0ODc0ODkzOCwiXyI6IngwWHkwIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ0ODkwOTM2LCJleHAiOjE2NDQ4OTQ1MzYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rTPZ7J68L5ieYr9Zg329mFgOVZCx7LJN1XAL3eAyaRk&r=ykw2

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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.

* "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

* 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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* "UN condemns airstrike in Yemen that leaves more than 80 dead:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/un-condemns-deadly-airstrike-on-yemen-detention-centre

* "Kazakhstan's Shoot-to-Kill Policy Makes Its President Stronger than Ever:"

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* "Blurry Photos Are Getting Brazilians Jailed:"

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* "Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index:" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index

* "Liverpool bomber had asylum claim rejected six years before attack:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jan/24/liverpool-bomber-emad-al-swealmeen-asylum-claim-rejected-before-attack

* "The ugly truth about Tory Islamophobia: forget the assurances, it will happen again:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/ugly-truth-tory-islamophobia-nusrat-ghani-anti-muslim

* "UK state pension systems not fit for purpose – MPs’ report:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/21/uk-state-pension-systems-not-fit-for-purpose-mps-report

The plan is to hive the money the government stole back for only a years worth for a bunch of people and to deny the heirs of people who've died the money their family is owed.

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* "The kids are not alright: Data suggests 10% of children with COVID-19 become "long-haulers":" https://www.salon.com/2022/01/22/the-kids-are-not-alright-data-suggests-10-of-children-with-19-become-long-haulers/

* On Children and COVID related organ damage. "This is what I've been afraid of:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1820672.html

My sister had viral myocarditis at twelve. She spent most of a year in an ICU. She's been in and out of hospitals ever since. It changed her life forever and not in a good way.

Do not underestimate heart and organ damage. Vaccinate yourself and your kids. Seriously consider not sending your child anywhere congregate if ze's too young to vaccinate. Do Not fuck around with this sort of life altering disability if you don't have to.

* "Pfizer and BioNTech start trials of new Omicron-specific jab:" https://www.bbc.com/news/health-60131986

* "Moderna starts trial for Omicron-specific booster shot:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-starts-trial-testing-omicron-specific-booster-shot-2022-01-26/

* "How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not?:" https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

* "COVID cases reported on Australian aid vessel sailing to virus-free Tonga:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/covid-cases-reported-australian-aid-vessel-sailing-virus-free-tonga-2022-01-25/

* "COVID hits one of the last uninfected places on the planet:" https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/covid-hits-uninfected-places-planet-82523242

* "'A bridge too far': federal judge in Texas blocks Biden's vaccine mandate for federal workers:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/21/biden-vaccine-mandate-federal-workers-blocked-federal-judge/6610420001/

* "Vaccine Mandate to Kick in for First Wave of Health Workers:" https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-01-26/vaccine-mandate-to-kick-in-for-first-wave-of-health-workers

* "A Shrinking Band of Southern Nurses, Neck-Deep in Another Covid Wave:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/health/covid-mississippi-nurses.html

* "Crisis, what crisis? Florida Republicans deny Omicron is straining hospitals:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/06/florida-republicans-omicron-hospitals

* "Ron DeSantis keeps pushing Covid treatments that don’t work:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ron-desantis-keeps-pushing-covid-treatments-that-don-t-work-131694661845

* "Florida health official put on leave after encouraging staff to get Covid vaccine:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/19/florida-health-official-leave-encouraging-staff-covid-vaccine

"In the email, Pino wrote: “I have a hard time understanding how we can be in public health and not practice it.”"

* "DeSantis unable to adapt as Covid conditions change; clings to obsolete treatments:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-unable-to-adapt-as-covid-conditions-change-clings-to-obsolete-treatments-131893317633

* "DeSantis surgeon general pick stumbles through evasions instead of straight answers:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desantis-surgeon-general-pick-stumbles-through-evasions-instead-of-straight-answers-131891781723

* "Alabama tops 45% COVID positivity rate, among highest in nation:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/alabama-tops-45-covid-positivity-rate-among-highest-in-nation.html

* "Tennessee among states leading in COVID-19 deaths and cases, but plateau could come soon:" https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/tennessee-among-states-leading-in-covid-19-deaths-and-cases-but-plateau-could-come-soon/

* "Coronavirus: House passes vaccine mandate bill, Indiana eclipses 1.5 million COVID-19 cases:" https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/coronavirus-house-passes-vaccine-mandate-bill-indiana-eclipses-15-million-covid-19-cases

* "New Jersey 'On The Backside Of Omicron,' But New Concern Grows About Children Getting Severely Sick With COVID-19:" https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/01/24/coronavirus-covid-omicron-new-jersey-numbers-update/

* "Novak Djokovic: Doubts over timing of Covid test:" https://www.bbc.com/news/59999541

* "'I'm a Full Anti-Vaxxer Now': How the Conspiracists Are Winning Over Fresh Converts:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-vaccine-rfk-jr-rally-washington-dc-1289458/

* "Hayes on the ‘dangerous’ growth of the anti-vax movement:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-the-dangerous-growth-of-the-anti-vax-movement-131603013779

* "Levitz: ‘Fox News is literally killing its viewers’ with Covid lies:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/levitz-fox-news-is-literally-killing-its-viewers-with-covid-lies-131787333992

* "The worst part about the party of plague:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1821651.html

* Response to anti-vaxxers: https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1821859.html

* "Oklahoma pastor faces criticism for rubbing spit on parishioner’s face:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/18/oklahoma-pastor-faces-criticism-for-rubbing-spit-on-parishoners-face

* Did no one ask a disabled person? https://twitter.com/jennie_kermode/status/1486668186615529472

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* "‘Little ground for optimism’: Kremlin says U.S. document doesn’t meet Russian security demands:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/27/russia-conflict-us-written-response-00002668

* "U.S., NATO send written responses to Russia on its demands over Ukraine crisis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/26/ukraine-russia-sanctions-biden-putin/

* "Ukraine tension: US 'lethal aid' arrives in Kyiv amid border build-up:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60096261

* "US draws down Ukraine embassy presence as war fears mount:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-antony-blinken-europe-evacuations-45d1a477929caefe1f0626a5ca42afd0

* "Sen. Murphy on where America stands in growing Russia-Ukraine tension:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-murphy-on-where-america-stands-in-growing-russia-ukraine-tension-131604037953

* "Fishermen plan to peacefully disrupt Russian drills:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/fishermen-plan-to-peacefully-disrupt-russian-drills-1.4785336

* "Irish fishermen plan to disrupt Russian naval war games: 'Our presence is our protest':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/irish-fishermen-plan-to-disrupt-russian-naval-war-games-our-presence-is-our-protest-131711045715

* "Russians deny fishermen’s claims on naval drills ‘buffer zone’:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/russians-deny-fishermen-s-claims-on-naval-drills-buffer-zone-1.4787859?localLinksEnabled=false

* "Belarus: US charges four government officials with piracy over Ryanair plane diversion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/belarus-us-charges-four-government-officials-with-piracy-over-ryanair-plane-diversion

* "Stalwart Irish fishermen uncowed by Russian threats and diplomatic games:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/stalwart-irish-fishermen-uncowed-by-russian-threats-and-diplomatic-games-131892293711

* "For Irish fishermen, confrontation with Russia is a matter of protecting their livelihood:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/for-irish-fishermen-confrontation-with-russia-is-a-matter-of-protecting-their-livelihood-131983941610

* "Why Ukraine matters more than just Ukraine:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1821422.html

* "Florida man charged after 4 found dead at Canada-US border:" https://apnews.com/article/florida-canada-manitoba-winnipeg-minnesota-b219733df8c735d9778b8637bd99a15e

* "Biden administration cancels two mining leases near Minnesota wilderness, in reversal of Trump-era decision:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/26/biden-boundary-waters-canoe-mine/

* "Biden outpaces Trump in issuing drilling permits on public lands:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/27/oil-gas-leasing-biden-climate/

* "Biden vows to nominate Black woman to succeed Breyer on Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/27/stephen-breyer-supreme-court-retire-live-updates/

* "Breyer retirement hands Biden open Supreme Court seat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/26/stephen-breyer-retirement-00002393

* "Democrats aim for quick confirmation of Biden nominee; alert to McConnell dirty tricks:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-aim-for-quick-confirmation-of-biden-nominee-alert-to-mcconnell-dirty-tricks-131801157875

* "Despite his best efforts, Breyer unable to avoid politics of his retirement:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/despite-his-best-efforts-breyer-unable-to-avoid-politics-of-his-retirement-131801157986

* "Breyer Supreme Court retirement puts spotlight on Biden campaign promise:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/breyer-supreme-court-retirement-puts-spotlight-on-biden-campaign-promise-131800133792

* "Joy Reid: Now President Biden will make his mark on the Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-will-make-his-mark-on-the-supreme-court-with-black-woman-nominee-experts-say-131792453599

* "Vow to nominate Black woman to Court spurs ‘spiral of racist and sexist tirades’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/vow-to-nominate-black-woman-to-court-spurs-spiral-of-racist-and-sexist-tirades-131877445966

* "The Fed is getting ready to raise interest rates:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/26/economy/federal-reserve-powell-policy-update/index.html

* "U.S. economy grew 5.7 percent in 2021 in rebound from 2020 recession:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/27/u-s-economy-grew-2021-2020-recession-00002678

* "Biden delivered fastest economic growth since Reagan. So why don't voters feel it?" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/biden-delivered-fastest-economic-growth-since-reagan-so-why-don-t-voters-feel-it-131971653920

* "Pittsburgh bridge collapses hours before Biden’s infrastructure speech in city:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse-biden-infrastructure-speech

* "Human chain formed to help after Pittsburgh bridge collapse:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/human-chain-formed-to-help-after-pittsburgh-bridge-collapse

* "Auditor general: Pa. fuel tax money meant for bridges and roads went to state police instead:" https://www.phillytrib.com/news/state_and_region/auditor-general-pa-fuel-tax-money-meant-for-bridges-and-roads-went-to-state-police/article_a2ee0190-0c45-523b-a871-eca9f8b588cd.html

* "Cash Aid to Poor Mothers Increases Brain Activity in Babies, Study Finds:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/child-tax-credit-brain-function.html

* "Ron Johnson’s message to parents: You are on your own:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ron-johnson-s-message-to-parents-you-are-on-your-own-131877445972

* "Sign-ups in Affordable Care Act marketplaces reach record 14.5 million:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/27/affordable-care-act-record-enrollment/

* "Arizona Democrats have censured Kyrsten Sinema over her pro-filibuster vote:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/22/1075088298/kyrsten-sinema-censure-arizona-democrats-filibuster-vote

* "Citing political betrayal, Voto Latino launches campaign to unseat Kyrsten Sinema:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/citing-political-betrayal-voto-latino-launches-campaign-to-unseat-kyrsten-sinema-131618373776

* "Bernice A. King - The King Center & "It Starts with Me":" https://www.cc.com/video/9fcsuh/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-bernice-a-king-the-king-center-it-starts-with-me

* 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/

* "We uncovered the impact of GOP voting restrictions in one key state. It's staggering.:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/gop-voting-law-disenfranshised-georgia-voters/

* "Before Elections, Georgia Republicans Again Consider Voting Restrictions:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/georgia-voting-laws-republicans.html

* "New ‘real world evidence’ that GOP voter suppression is already working:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-real-world-evidence-that-gop-voter-suppression-is-already-working-131971141798

* "‘Nakedly partisan.’ Explaining the lawsuit, objections to Ky. GOP’s redistricting maps:" https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article257595003.html

* "‘Everything was connected’: Why fake Trump electors could face criminal scrutiny:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-everything-was-connected-why-fake-trump-electors-could-face-criminal-scrutiny-131877957646

* "Fake Trump electors, Trump White House spokesman receive January 6th Committee subpoenas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-trump-electors-trump-white-house-spokesman-receive-january-6th-committee-subpoenas-131984965774

* "Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich turns a blind eye to fake Trump electors:" https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2022/01/24/arizona-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-ignores-fake-trump-electors/6633139001/

* "Fake Trump electors from Arizona under 'ongoing' investigation: Politico:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fake-trump-electors-from-arizona-under-ongoing-investigation-politico-131618373902

* "Arizona attorney general too busy kissing up to Trump to deal with fake elector referral:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arizona-attorney-general-too-busy-kissing-up-to-trump-to-deal-with-fake-elector-referral-131891781705

* "New Mexico AG believes seditious conspiracy charges ‘on the table’ for fake electors:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/fake-electors-who-submitted-falsified-documents-to-overturn-election-under-doj-scrutiny-131883077641

* "Sen. Larson: Open records regarding Wisconsin’s fake electors suggest Congressman Scott Fitzgerald played significant role in trying to overturn a free and fair election :" https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/sen-larson-open-records-regarding-wisconsins-fake-electors-suggest-congressman-scott-fitzgerald-played-significant-role-in-trying-to-overturn-a-free-and-fair-election/

* "Dem lawmakers to DA: Wisconsin must ‘prosecute sedition within its own borders’:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/01/11/dem-lawmakers-to-da-wisconsin-must-prosecute-sedition-within-its-own-borders/

* "Records request points to congressman's role in assisting fake elector meeting:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/records-request-points-to-congressman-s-role-in-assisting-fake-elector-meeting-131709509747

* "DOJ acknowledges investigation of fake Trump electors; clarifies scope of DOJ 1/6 probe:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doj-acknowledges-investigation-of-fake-trump-electors-clarifies-scope-of-doj-1-6-probe-131710021582

* "State Auditor opens inquiry of Otero County contract to audit 2020 election:" https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/community/2022/01/24/new-mexico-2020-election-state-opens-inquiry-otero-county-audit/6606403001/

* "Steve Schmidt: Madison Cawthorn one of many lawmakers implicated by own words:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/madison-cawthorn-s-candidacy-challenged-based-on-allegations-he-s-an-insurrectionist-131792965513

* "Dem U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers on his viral campaign ad featuring cannabis smoking:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-appears-willing-to-uphold-texas-abortion-ban-as-roe-vs-wade-reaches-49-131440709935

* "Republican Virginia attorney general fires Jan. 6 investigator from university post:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/24/republican-virginia-attorney-general-fires-january-6-investigator-from-university.html

* "Criminal investigation of Trump in Georgia continues with special grand jury approved:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/criminal-investigation-of-trump-in-georgia-continues-with-special-grand-jury-approved-131619909616

* "Georgia grand jury to probe Donald Trump’s attempts to ‘find votes’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-s-attempts-to-find-votes-to-be-probed-by-georgia-grand-jury-131698757800

* "Michael Cohen says Donald Trump told him if one of his kids had to go to prison to 'make sure' it was Donald Jr., not Ivanka:" https://www.businessinsider.com/cohen-trump-don-jr-prison-rather-than-ivanka-2022-1

* "Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/read-the-never-issued-trump-order-that-would-have-seized-voting-machines-527572

* "What Trump docs about late Capitol officers might tell the Jan. 6 committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/what-trump-docs-about-late-capitol-officers-might-tell-the-jan-6-committee-131696197713

* "Former Attorney General William Barr has spoken to Jan. 6 panel, chair says:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/23/william-barr-jan6-committee-thompson-00000605

* "‘They have everything:’ Alex Jones meets with Jan. 6 panel, pleads Fifth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-they-have-everything-alex-jones-meets-with-jan-6-panel-pleads-fifth-131694661525

* "My Dad Attacked Cops at the Capitol Riot. I Turned Him In.:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3n3m8/guy-reffitt-capitol-rioter-family-torn-apart

* "Conspiracy Conundrum: The Info Wars Story:"

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* "Supreme Court to consider landmark challenge to Harvard and UNC affirmative action policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/supreme-court-harvard-unc-affirmative-action/index.html

* "40 years of research shows race-conscious admissions benefits all students expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-to-hear-affirmative-action-challenge-131606597792

* "Mayor withholds $100,000 from libraries 'until homosexual materials removed':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/26/mayor-library-funds-homosexual-materials-lgbt/

* "After 10 days in office, Virginia Gov. Youngkin is facing blowback over new policies:" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/25/1075624841/after-10-days-in-office-virginia-gov-youngkin-is-facing-blowback-over-new-polici

* "‘Stop the censorship’: Texas students push back on school book ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-stop-the-censorship-texas-students-push-back-on-school-book-ban-131785797714

* "Hannah-Jones: Book bans, anti-CRT laws ‘not the sign of a healthy democracy’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hannah-jones-book-bans-anti-crt-laws-not-the-sign-of-a-healthy-democracy-131788357910

* "Creator of banned ‘Maus’ graphic novel: I just know the people that banned this are stupid:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/maus-graphic-novel-about-the-holocaust-banned-by-tennessee-school-board-131882053652

* "A Tennessee school district has voted to ban the Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus':" https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076180329/tennessee-school-district-ban-holocaust-graphic-novel-maus

* "Joy Reid asks GOP: Wokeness is communism, but book banning isn’t?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/more-than-70-bills-in-17-states-seek-to-regulate-how-teachers-teach-131975749746

* "Help fight Book Banning:" https://www.change.org/p/north-east-independent-school-district-remove-the-krause-list-from-all-neisd-schools?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=e64da7a0-7fc0-11ec-aa58-bd60e522749a

* "Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton Introduces Anti-Trans Prison Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/20/arkansas-sen-tom-cotton-introduces-anti-trans-prison-bill

* "Florida bill would bar businesses and schools from making anyone "feel discomfort" or "guilt" about race:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-whites-discomfort-critical-race-theory-desantis/

* "PragerU Isn't Teaching Anyone Anything:"

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* CW: Sexual Violence. "Israel's LGBT+ community faces up to its 'Me Too' moment as survivors break silence:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/21/israel-lgbt-me-too-sexual-violence-omri-feinstein/

* CW: Sex Trafficking. "The children groomed for the UK sex trade:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-60091717

* "Cleo Smith: Man pleads guilty to kidnapping Australian girl:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-60107053

* "Grace Tame and Scott Morrison’s frosty meeting sparks praise and condemnation:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/25/grace-tame-and-scott-morrisons-frosty-meeting-sparks-praise-condemnation-and-memes

* "Why young women aren’t smiling for you any more:" https://www.smh.com.au/national/why-young-women-aren-t-smiling-for-you-any-more-20220126-p59rd2.html

* "Young women like Grace Tame weren’t socialised to shut up when authority figures speak – and it feels like progress:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/25/young-women-like-grace-tame-werent-socialised-to-shut-up-when-authority-figures-speak-and-it-feels-like-progress

* "The Undoing of Joss Whedon:" https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.html

* "‘Buffy’ Star Charisma Carpenter Responds To Joss Whedon, Saying He Is Still Unable To “Just Apologize”:" https://deadline.com/2022/01/buffy-charisma-carpenter-joss-whedon-1234915732/

* "W. Kamau Bell - "We Need to Talk About Cosby":" https://www.cc.com/video/1zf3e1/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-w-kamau-bell-we-need-to-talk-about-cosby

* "We Can No Longer Ignore the Murders of LGBTQ+ People in Jamaica:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/1/21/we-can-no-longer-ignore-murders-lgbtq-people-jamaica

* "MP stands trial for hate speech after saying gays have 'developmental disorder':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/24/finland-mp-hate-speech-paivi-rasanen/

* "Cost of living crisis leaves LGBT Brits scared, lonely and back in the closet:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/cost-of-living-crisis-lgbt-uk/

* "UK's so-called equalities watchdog condemned for 'troubling attack on trans equality':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/ehrc-trans-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Queer Texas Couple Found Tortured, Shot, and Dismembered in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/1/20/queer-texas-couple-found-tortured-shot-dismembered-mexico

* "New NCAA Policy on Trans Athletes Raises Concerns:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/1/20/new-ncaa-policy-trans-athletes-raises-concerns

* "HRC Slams New NCAA Constitution for Lacking Nondiscrimination Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/sports/2022/1/21/hrc-slams-new-ncaa-constitution-lacking-nondiscrimination-policy

* "How the Sackler Family Contributed to the Opioid Crisis :"

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* "Looking at Johnson & Johnson and Their Asbestos Scandal:"

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* "Tonga struggles with ash, psychological trauma after eruption and tsunami:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tonga-struggles-with-ash-psychological-trauma-after-eruption-tsunami-2022-01-23/

* "Tonga volcano: drinking water is priority as aid begins to arrive for stricken nation:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/tonga-volcano-drinking-water-is-priority-as-aid-begins-to-arrive-for-stricken-nation

* "Storm Ana Kills at Least Three in Mozambique and Malawi:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-01-25/tropical-storm-kills-two-injures-66-in-mozambique

* "Tonga eruption: Peruvians are using their own hair to clean oil spilled in Pacific Ocean:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60127676

* "Explosion kills 13, flattens village in Ghana mining region:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-17-dead-after-explosion-ghana-mining-region-2022-01-21/

* CW: Child Death. "Parents of children killed in Arizona flood get probation:" https://apnews.com/article/floods-business-arizona-phoenix-child-abuse-10113b2fe339c40ca200d63a1c59ce15

* "California redwood forest to be returned to tribal group:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-25/california-redwood-forest-returned-native-tribal-group

* "False banana: Is Ethiopia's enset 'wondercrop' for climate change?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60074407

* "New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out:" https://apnews.com/article/nasa-james-webb-telescope-arrives-space-9ea15e4bddaead131d4fcb6b07c53529

* "Theranos: Fake it Until you Make a Lawsuit:"

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* "Peter the Great: Founder of the Russian Empire:"

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* "The History of Victorian Women in Sports:"

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* "Lucky Luciano: The Architect of the American Mafia:"

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* "Joy Reid on 1930s scheme by super-rich to allegedly topple U.S. government:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/plot-to-overthrow-u-s-government-from-1930s-shares-parallels-with-jan-6-expert-says-131698245743

* "What Happened to Flight 739?:"

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* "The History of Gay Panic:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digub0QVCho

* "World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-international-holocaust-remembrance-day-58c7a1864907d9a80762a20d3c960487

* CW: Torture "Nazis' heinous crimes against thousands of LGBT+ people must never, ever be forgotten:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/holocaust-memorial-day-lgbt-nazi-concentration-camps/

* "There are still important lessons to be learned from Nazi persecution of gay people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/27/holocaust-memorial-day-lgbt-gay-nazi/

* "6 of Thierry Mugler's most iconic collabs, from Bowie to Beyoncé:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/24/thierry-mugler-lady-gaga-david-bowie-beyonce/

* "SCOTUS Judge Stephen Breyer Announces Retirement:"

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* "Kyrsten Sinema: A Pain In The Butt For Years:"

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* "The Semi-Domestic Threat of Cat Misinformation Videos:"

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* "Dr. Fauci Rips Rand Paul Over "Fire Dr. Fauci" Fundraiser, Calls Sen. Marshall A Moron On Hot Mic:"

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* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - January 6: One Year Later:" https://www.cc.com/video/kj56ox/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse-january-6-one-year-later

* "Trump Accused of Fraud & Amazon Train Robberies:" https://www.cc.com/video/ejlld9/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-accused-of-fraud-amazon-train-robberies

* "Keep Calm and Party On - Boris Johnson in Hot Water:" https://www.cc.com/video/5z5p1u/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-keep-calm-and-party-on-boris-johnson-in-hot-water

* "Votegasm 2022 - Voting Rights and Wrongs:" https://www.cc.com/video/g24zzq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votegasm-2022-voting-rights-and-wrongs

* "Beefzuz:" https://www.cc.com/video/psb7kt/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-beefzuz

* "If You Don't Know, Now You Know - Stock Trading in Congress:" https://www.cc.com/video/k14t7w/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-if-you-don-t-know-now-you-know-stock-trading-in-congress

* "Justice Breyer Retiring & Peter Dinklage Slams "Snow White":" https://www.cc.com/video/dzwoda/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-justice-breyer-retiring-peter-dinklage-slams-snow-white

* "Backlash to Biden's Supreme Court Promise & "Maus" Banned:" https://www.cc.com/video/slvk35/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-backlash-to-biden-s-supreme-court-promise-maus-banned

* "Getting Back to Normal-ish - COVID-19 Chaos in Schools:" https://www.cc.com/video/kwzk0u/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-getting-back-to-normal-ish-covid-19-chaos-in-schools

* "How We Don't Talk About Bruno Works & Why It's Amazing:"

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* "The BinaxNow Home Idiocy Test:"

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* Monday was bureaucracy and errands, all frustrating and fruitless. Tuesday I did get an answer on some of my phone tag, which was helpful, but not germane to the big questions. Nearby Millenial has quit, so I'm going to see about adjusting the hours back for head Millenial.

Wednesday, my social worker checked back in. No luck on stoves, but she's continuing to look, superhero that she is. Head Millenial postponed to Thursday, so I foraged alone and burned the tail end of my EBT on vegan cup of soups. Don't judge me, the trader Joe ones taste good and I can make them with hot water and I don't have a lot of spoons and the not being able to use the oven is still super hard on meal planning.

Thursday, I got a bunch of bureaucracy call backs. City guy's kid got infected at school and was seriously ill, though recovering. They are all quarantined. Honest Contractor is also ill, but hasn't been checked yet, so he's quarantined. I hope he's okay and that City Guy's kid doesn't get long term health issues. They were all so careful about infection and they are good people.

So the electricity is on hold for obvious reasons.

Tavy was so excited to see Head Millennial here. he is so worn out from all the excitement that he didn't even come out for lung time. HM got a lot done and stayed very late. Obviously, we are not caught up from quarantine, but it's very much progress.

* "'Eternals' star Brian Tyree Henry thought Marvel was going to ask him to lose weight to play a superhero. He was shocked to hear the director say, 'We want you exactly as you are.':" https://www.insider.com/eternals-brian-tyree-henry-wasnt-asked-lose-weight-2021-11

* Skywalker Reputation on Tatooine: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/674689274487193600/whetstonefires-jumpingjacktrash-kyraneko

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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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