gwydion | Entries tagged with hacking

* "Resources for helping Gaza, Sudan and Congo:" https://www.tumblr.com/swallowedabug/758070860436439040?source=share

* "Gaza population down by 6% since start of war - Palestinian statistics bureau:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/

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* "Palestinian-American explains why he is suing the State Department over U.S. support for Israel:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/palestinian-american-explains-why-he-is-suing-the-state-department-over-u-s-support-for-israel-227711045998

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* "Two killed in Russian drone strike on Kyiv, Ukraine says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-launches-new-year-drone-strike-kyiv-officials-say-2025-01-01/

* "Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/russia-war-putin-economy-weapons-production-labor-shortage-demographics/

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* "U.S. strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after American warships attacked, CENTCOM says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-strikes-houthi-targets-yemen-warships-attacked/

* "Ceasefire between Turkey and US-backed SDF in northern Syria holding, Pentagon says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ceasefire-between-turkey-us-backed-sdf-northern-syria-holding-pentagon-says-2024-12-30/

* "How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad:" https://archive.ph/fT7tB#selection-504.0-504.1

* "An uneasy calm settles over Syrian city of Homs after outbreak of sectarian violence:" https://apnews.com/article/syria-homs-alawites-hts-assad-sectarian-6c8d534d9f93da13dc8629f2f2c49aae

* "Venezuela opposition urges protests against Maduro's inauguration:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241231-venezuela-opposition-urges-protests-against-maduro-s-inauguration

* "Some missing residential school students disappeared into arranged marriages, report says:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/arranged-marriages-residential-schools-1.7396200

* "China-backed election raises fears of 'negative peace' in Myanmar:" https://www.voanews.com/a/china-backed-election-raises-fears-of-negative-peace-in-myanmar/7921313.html

* "U.S. Treasury says its computers were hacked by a Chinese 'threat actor' in a 'major incident':" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/us-treasury-says-computers-hacked-chinese-threat-actor-rcna185809

* "Biden unveils final $2.5B security aid package for Ukraine:" https://www.politico.eu/article/joe-biden-announces-his-final-2-5-billion-security-aid-package-to-ukraine-war/

* "Biden honors Liz Cheney, Bennie Thompson with top civilian award:" https://www.npr.org/2025/01/02/g-s1-40817/biden-liz-cheney-presidential-citizens-medal

* It's to keep Trump from appointing extra partisan incompetents. "Biden vetoes bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge slots:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/23/biden-vetoes-bill-federal-judge-slots-00195981

* "Biden administration scraps rules to expand birth control access:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/23/biden-admin-birth-control-rule-00195979

* "US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-blocks-biden-administration-net-neutrality-rules-2025-01-02/

* "Senate Democrats blast Supreme Court's 'ethical crisis' as investigation concludes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-blast-supreme-courts-ethical-crisis-investigation-rcna184987

* "Yellen: US will hit debt ceiling in mid- or late-January:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/27/congress/yellen-sees-u-s-hitting-debt-ceiling-in-early-2025-00196091

* "How Much Tax Do America's Undocumented Immigrants Actually Pay? [Infographic]:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/10/06/how-much-tax-do-americas-undocumented-immigrants-actually-pay-infographic/

* "The Walmart Effect: New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/walmart-prices-poverty-economy/681122/

* "Strike Against Amazon Ends But Teamsters Warn "Stay Tuned":" https://www.nycclc.org/news/2024-12/strike-against-amazon-ends-teamsters-warn-stay-tuned

* "House ethics watchdog unfurls campaign finance allegations against two members:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/02/congress/house-ethics-violations-allegations-00196307

* "Trump endorses Johnson for speaker:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/30/congress/trump-endorses-johnson-for-speaker-00196113

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* Our job for the next two years 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.

We are trying to build a good list of resistance resources.

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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/
To get your Critters' numbers to call direct: https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

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

How to render emergency aid in a riot: https://riotmedicine.net/static/downloads/riot-medicine_a5.pdf

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

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* "Ohio changes election forms to protect transgender political candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-election-forms-transgender-candidates

* "Indiana Republicans target transgender people in one of new year’s first anti-LGBTQ+ bills:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/indiana-transgender-sports-ban

* "Florida Republican wants to ban Pride flags in public buildings:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-randy-fine-pride-flags

* "Will American democracy follow Joe Biden into the sunset in 2025?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/will-american-democracy-follow-joe-biden-into-the-sunset-in-2025

* ""This is Trump’s America now!": MAGA diehards jumpstart a new year of political violence:" https://www.salon.com/2024/12/30/this-is-trumps-america-now-maga-diehards-jumpstart-a-new-year-of-political-violence/

* ""President Musk" And The Dangers Of Plutocracy:"

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* "Why Does Elon Musk Want to Kill Wikipedia?:"

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* "Trump weighs in on H-1B visas amid legal immigration fight:" https://www.semafor.com/article/12/29/2024/trump-fails-to-clarify-stance-on-highly-sough-h-1b-visas-wanted-by-silicon-valley

* "Trump tech bros spar with MAGA loyalists online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-tech-bros-spar-with-maga-loyalists-online-228053573772

* "Elon Musk ‘melts down’ after underestimating wrath of MAGA trolls:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/elon-musk-melts-down-after-underestimating-wrath-of-maga-trolls-228186181734

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "Court rejects Trump appeal in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse and defamation case:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/nx-s1-5243228/federal-appeal-trump-e-jean-carroll

* "South Korea to inspect Boeing aircraft as it struggles to find cause of plane crash that killed 179:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-korea-to-inspect-boeing-aircraft-as-it-struggles-to-find-cause-of-plane-crash-that-killed-179/ar-AA1wH0UX

* "Chile's giant 'living fossil' frog faces threat from climate change and humans:" https://www.reuters.com/science/chiles-giant-living-fossil-frog-faces-threat-climate-change-humans-2024-12-18/

* "Bird flu has killed 20 big cats including cougars at a U.S. wildlife sanctuary:" https://www.npr.org/2024/12/26/nx-s1-5239841/bird-flu-kills-20-cats-washington-sanctuary

* "Hungry or horny? Whale makes record swim halfway across planet:" https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/record-humpback-whale-migration/

* "A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-homeowner-found-huge-fossil-teeth-while-mowing-the-lawn-then-excavations-revealed-a-complete-mastodon-jaw-180985703/

* "Archaeology news: New Polish Viking Sword!:"

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* "Vlad the Impaler | Extra History Complete | European History:"

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* "The Black Dinner - Scottish History - Extra History:"

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* "When the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade:" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/16/empire-of-purity-eva-payne-book-review

* "Disney's Animatronics: A Living History:"

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* "Tragedy Lingers Inside Chornobyl’s Abandoned City:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-chernobyl-disaster-ukraine

* "the Sham Legacy of Richard Feynman:"

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When I got to my first college to be a philosophy monk, guys were all abuzz about "Surely You're Joking."

I intended to read it eventually, but I kept shying away instinctively. I think I subconsciously picked up on what time of guys were into Feynman.

(There was an exception, who used to also tell his dad's Feynman stories from when they were working together. These stories were amusing in a way that the Feynman Bros quoting the book weren't. He wasn't a Feynman cultist, but rather someone with stories to contribute about Feynman in Feynman based conversations, if you get my meaning.)

This piece was illuminating and helpful to me.

* "Why we will never have another president like Jimmy Carter again:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/jimmy-carter-remembered

* "President Jimmy Carter dead at 100 — here's his history as an LGBTQ+ ally:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jimmy-carter-dead-100

* "Pete Buttigieg remembers warmth and kindness of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-praises-jimmy-carter

* "Stacey Abrams honors Jimmy Carter: He ‘remade Democratic politics’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/stacey-abrams-honors-jimmy-carter-he-remade-democratic-politics-228186693960

* "11 Rare Old Words for the Heinous and Villainous:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83472/11-rare-old-words-heinous-and-villainous

* At bedtime Monday morning I noticed some weird things with my vision in my right eye. I looked them up and it sure sounds like a retinal tear. (I know, don't trust Web M.D., but shit is sudden, extreme and weird. I thought of alternate explanations, but I liminiated all of the non-medical ones. Fuck! Of course when everyone's off for holidays.

I have a scheduled appointment, I think for Monday. I should likely wait up and hope they are open today because it's getting worse.

* I was so exhausted I completely missed the Mummer's this year. :(

For those following the Special Assessment Saga, it was a good thing I raised and paid rent on top of what they took. Assholes still charged me a hundred dollar late fee because they fucked up December accounting. If they had taken rent instead of the third special assessment chunk without my knowledge or consent causing overdraft fees, then everything would have been paid to them on time, but I didn't know they were doing it until it was too late to fix, so here we are down an extra hundred for January with car fees and things coming due later in the month.

It will likely be all right. I will need to talk to Squirrel about it, but it will probably be all right.

I hate how extreme the punishment for doing nothing wrong has been in 2024, and it just keeps happening.

* I had so much fun with the dead podcast the back half of December. I ran out of episodes and find myself craving more.

It's an anthology series via Bloody Disgusting and the George A. Romero Foundation, so zombies.Like any anthology, so are more to my taste than others, but they were all worth listening to. They are shared universe, and do occasionally reference each other, but they also jump in time between stories and you could pretty easily listen to each story in any order. (A story is four episodes). The cast is diverse as one would expect given who is making these. The sound design fills me with horror and delight as is expected from Bloody Disgusting. For real, the zombie eating people sounds are far more awful than seeing gore on screen would be, even knowing how they were made.

Something I wanted to mention is the zombie sounds. Walking Dead is such a big thing and has been since the first episode debuted that their rattling hiss zombie vocalizations tend to be what zombies sound like now. Older media did other things: Moans, silence, even words. I have even heard a roar in one fascinating low budget one. These days though? Rattling hiss tends to be what one hears even in a lot of non Walking Dead Properties.

I like how human they made their zombie vocalizations in The Dead. I like the slow transition from a human sounding sick and in pain getting less and less articulate to what sounds a lot like me levering myself out of bed on a bad pain day and hobbling around. I like that it reminds one how human the newly turned look and sound. I like that it sounds like they could start speaking again at any moment, that the sound design of the intro encourages one to strain to catch words that never come during the episodes proper.

This thing is beautifully done and addicting, even when I know exactly how things are going to go. (This isn't a dis. Most twists in anything I will see coming).

Anyway, if you like zombie stories, I suggest checking this out.

* "Video Games & the Sexy Gender Binary:"

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* "Horror Queers: Re-Animator (1985):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/re-animator-1985/id1449041559?i=1000643633533

* "The 25 Best Queer Films of the Century So Far :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/the-25-best-queer-films-of-the-century-so-far

* "19 LGBTQ+ movies & TV shows coming in January 2025 & where to watch them:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/lgbtq-movies-tv-shows-january-2025

* "Horror Queers: Strangers on a Train (1951):" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strangers-on-a-train-1951/id1449041559?i=1000649018428

* "39 Amazing And Thought-Provoking Sculptures You've Probably Never Seen Before:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/39-amazing-and-thought-provoking-sculptures-you-ve-probably-never-seen-before/ar-AA1tHmuz

* "Riding Through Time: Vintage Motorcycle Photos of People Posing with Pride, 1920s-1950s:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/people-with-motorcycles-vintage-photos/

* "Stunning Black-and-White Photos That Capture the Spirit of 1980s Hong Kong:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/hong-kong-photos-1980s/

* "“The Council Requires Snackies”: 50 Hilarious Pics Of Cats Grouping Together Interview With Expert:" https://www.boredpanda.com/council-of-cats-pics/

* "Sunday Sweets: Jen's Happy Cakes:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-jens-happy-cakes-2024

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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.

* "We have a right to safety, privacy, and protest. Say no to mask bans.:" https://www.stopmaskbans.com/

* Ethical Elephant sanctuary disaster relief: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/769847233453719552/emergency-flood-relief?source=share

* "Trans Kids Deserve Better:" https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support

* "Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-donald-trump-charities

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

* "LGBTQ+ Victory Fund:" https://victoryfund.org/

* "Buy Native List:" https://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

* Natural fiber fabric sources to buy from for sewing: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/768880596478984192?source=share

* "Palestine Children’s Relief Fund:" https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/gaza-recovery

* Disaster Preparedness stuff from the US Government: https://www.ready.gov/publications

* "My husky’s fren needs your help:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/74raKUtbCKI

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* "We Spoke to Queer People Hiding From the Taliban:"

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* "North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet:" https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/

* "A coconut seller and a day laborer reflect on life in astoundingly unequal India:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/12/23/1065267029/a-coconut-seller-and-a-day-laborer-reflect-on-life-in-astoundingly-unequal-india

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* "Omicron’s Radical Evolution:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/omicron-mutations-evolution.html

* "All of North Alabama remains in high or substantial risk of COVID-19 spread:" https://whnt.com/news/coronavirus/all-of-north-alabama-remains-in-high-or-substantial-risk-of-covid-19-spread/

* "Here’s Why Podcasts Are Ripe for Misinformation:"

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

* "NATO Response Force activated for first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/nato-ukraine-russia/index.html

* "Russia vetoes U.N. Security action on Ukraine as China abstains:" https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-vetoes-un-security-action-ukraine-china-abstains-2022-02-25/

* "Biden, Europe waiting on key SWIFT sanction against Russia:" https://apnews.com/article/what-is-swift-russia-financial-system-083a5935002c9d06ffd6ac39c13d3ce4

* "US to impose sanctions on Putin following Ukraine invasion:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/politics/us-putin-sanctions/index.html

* "Street fighting begins in Kyiv; people urged to seek shelter:" https://news.yahoo.com/russia-presses-invasion-outskirts-ukrainian-054136506.html

* "Kyiv residential tower hit by missile as fighting rages:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/26/kyiv-residential-tower-hit-by-missile-as-fighting-rages-mayor

* "Russia says it's not hitting Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Evidence suggests otherwise:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-videos-civilians-intl-cmd/index.html

* "Civilians take up arms in Ukraine, Russia’s attack on Kiyv continues:" https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/02/26/latest-from-ukraine-civilians-take-up-arms-to-defend-capital-from-russia/

* True Heroes. "Soldiers' defiant last words as Russian warship targets Snake Island:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/25/europe/ukraine-russia-snake-island-attack-intl-hnk-ml/index.html

* "Pro-Russia Ukrainians resent being used by Putin to justify war: Engel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pro-russia-ukrainians-resent-being-used-by-putin-to-justify-war-engel-134011461975

* "Putin's failure as a leader drives his resentment of Ukraine democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/putin-s-failure-as-a-leader-drives-his-resentment-of-ukraine-democracy-134010437899

* "Ukrainian government hands out guns to citizens, encourages people to make Molotov cocktails:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ukraine-s-people-take-up-arms-against-russia-or-flee-to-defend-their-families-as-invasion-continues-134095941736

* "'I don't think there is a safe place': Kyiv residents fearful as Russian invaders close in:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-i-don-t-think-there-is-a-safe-place-kyiv-residents-fearful-as-russian-invaders-close-in-134101061947

* "Anticipating repression under Putin, Ukrainians fight for their lives:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anticipating-repression-under-putin-ukrainians-fight-for-their-lives-134101061806

* "EU shuts airspace to Russian airlines, plans to fund weapons purchases to Ukraine:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/eu-shuts-airspace-to-russian-airlines-will-buy-ukraine-arms

* "Australia to help send weapons to Ukraine via NATO:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-27/australia-send-weapons-nato-ukraine-war-russia/100865712

* "Oil tank on fire, gas pipeline blown near Kyiv as Russia continues missile attacks in Ukraine :" https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-crisis-oil-tank-fire-gas-pipeline-kiyv-missile-attacks-1918392-2022-02-27

* "Russian convoy of ground forces, tanks moving toward Kyiv, Maxar says:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-convoy-ground-forces-fuel-tanks-moving-toward-kyiv-maxar-2022-02-27/

* "Putin's fears of a unified, stronger Europe are fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-02-27/putins-unified-stronger-europe-ukraine-invasion

* "Europe and the U.S. move to isolate Russia as Ukrainians fight to hold off invaders:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/27/1083380718/europe-and-the-u-s-move-to-isolate-russia-as-ukrainians-hold-off-invaders

* "Putin puts nuclear forces on high alert, escalating tensions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-2e4e1cf784f22b6afbe5a2f936725550

* "‘They were fooled by Putin’: Chinese historians speak out against Russian invasion:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/28/they-were-fooled-by-putin-chinese-historians-speak-out-against-russian-invasion

* "Ukrainians flee war, seeking safety across western borders:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-hungary-europe-slovakia-39a0abe9fcb9dd9e9fc7304aa2a9305b

* "At the Polish Border, Tens of Thousands of Ukrainian Refugees:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/world/europe/ukrainian-refugees-poland.html

* "At the Ukrainian border, a mother brings a stranger's children to safety:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-border-mother-brings-strangers-children-safety-2022-02-26/

* "Ukraine invasion: Kharkiv residents describe intense battle to defend city:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60543087

* "Eurovision bans Russia from 2022 contest after widespread outrage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/eurovision-russia-ukraine-ban/

* "‘Lot of determination’: Ukrainian Americans rally for their country:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/ukrainian-americans-solidarity-ukraine

* "Antiwar protesters take to the streets around the world in support of Ukraine:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/26/1083314709/protests-world-ukraine-russia

* "Prominent Russians join protests against Ukraine war amid 1,800 arrests:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/prominent-russians-join-protests-against-ukraine-war-amid-1800-arrests-putin

* "Russians hold anti-war rallies amid ominous threats by Putin:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-europe-arrests-moscow-cf5dda5528937de907f8916820cfab75

* "Anti-war protests in Russia test Putin's dictator privilege of disregarding public opinion:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-war-protests-in-russia-test-putin-s-dictator-privilege-of-disregarding-public-opinion-134011973534

* "‘No war’: High profile Russians speak out against Ukraine invasion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-no-war-high-profile-russians-speak-out-against-ukraine-invasion-134092357626

* "Russians reject Putin and his war on Ukraine:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russians-reject-putin-and-his-war-on-ukraine-134106693697

* "War via TikTok: Russia's new tool for propaganda machine:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-europe-media-nationalism-2186dbc533560cb666f59655ecf1ee8e

* Aka Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose. "Russian TV Uses Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard to Sell Putin’s War:" https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/russian-tv-uses-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-sell-putins-war/

* "How the Republican Party has evolved on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-the-republican-party-has-evolved-on-russia-134092357969

* "'I'm just so ashamed': Local Russians speak out against invasion of Ukraine:" https://www.kcra.com/article/russians-speak-out-against-invasion-ukraine/39244716#

* "Why the Republican Party just can't get enough of Vladimir Putin:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/why-the-republican-party-just-can-t-get-enough-of-vladimir-putin-134163013637

* "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

* "Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO:" https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/595853-russia-threatens-military-and-political-consequences-if-finland?rl=1

* "White House Press Secretary Talks Russia, State of the Union, Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/white-house-press-secretary-talks-russia-state-of-the-union-supreme-court-134164549579

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* "White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/24/white-house-science-office-hold-first-ever-event-countering-climate-change-denial-delay/

* "Biden nominates Jackson, first Black woman, to Supreme Court:" https://apnews.com/article/Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-biden-supreme-court-nominee-32f77fe08d7cf64af95591668a0aaa41

* "With Biden's nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, a strengthening of democracy: Ifill:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/with-biden-s-nomination-of-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-strengthening-of-democracy-ifill-134107205786

* "Republicans label Biden Supreme Court pick as "radical left":" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/republicans-label-biden-supreme-court-pick-as-radical-left-134161477962

* "Black Farmers Fear Foreclosure as Debt Relief Remains Frozen:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/us/politics/black-farmers-debt-relief.html

* "What happens when Americans stay in the same house forever?:" https://www.vox.com/22939038/rents-rising-home-prices-americans-moving-residential-stagnation-stuck-mobility-freedom

* "First They Got Long Covid. Then, It Made Them Homeless:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-covid-homeless-chronic-illness-gig-economy-1312460/

* "This Is How Big Pharma Wins:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/02/this-is-how-big-pharma-wins.html

* "Congressional Stock Trading Is Shady As Hell, But Will It Get Banned?:"

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* 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/

* "North Carolina Court Imposes New District Map, Eliminating G.O.P. Edge:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/us/politics/north-carolina-maps-democrats.html

* "Texas’s primaries are happening on a legally disputed congressional map:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/texas-congressional-district-map/

* "The Fall of Papa Johns Pizza:"

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* CW: Pedophilia "The Problems with the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts:"

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* "Medication abortion now makes up the majority of US abortions, study shows for the first time:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/politics/medication-abortion-use/index.html

* "Republican-led states rush to pass antiabortion bills before Supreme Court rules on Roe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/29/abortion-supreme-court-roe-texas-mississippi/

* "Alabama lawmakers advance bill to ban medication abortions:" https://www.al.com/news/2022/02/alabama-lawmakers-advance-bill-to-ban-medication-abortions.html

* "Oklahoma Advances Bill Banning Abortion 30 Days Into Pregnancy:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-abortion-ban-30-days_n_62154241e4b06e1cc5868284

* "At-home abortion medication requests soared after Texas restrictions:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/-home-abortion-medication-requests-soared-texas-restrictions-rcna17634

* "Florida’s 15-week abortion ban will have dramatic effects on patients and providers. Here’s what to expect.:" https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-florida-abortion-bill-what-to-expect-20220227-uxu27ozvwzcplhtzevjrdpille-story.html

* "The Met Police has more than 33,000 officers, and just four are openly trans:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/met-police-officers-transgender-gay-lgbt/

* "Former Pride in London staffer who resigned over inaction on ‘racism’ says ‘nothing’s changed’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/26/pride-in-london-rhammel-afflick/

* "Abbott orders Texas probe of medical procedures for transgender children:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/23/texas-governor-orders-probe-of-abusive-procedures-for-transgender-children-00011057

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

* "Florida House passes 'Don't Say Gay' bill:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-house-passes-dont-say-gay-bill-rcna17532

* "Capehart: Why the LGBTQ young people of Gen Z give me so much hope.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/capehart-why-the-lgbtq-young-people-of-gen-z-give-me-so-much-hope-134161477975

* "A record number of American adults identify as LGBTQ:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/a-record-number-of-american-adults-identify-as-lgbtq-134164549538

* "Breaking Down Texas & Florida Anti-Transgender Attacks:"

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* "The Strange Connection Between Mono and M.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/magazine/epstein-barr-virus-multiple-sclerosis.html

* "How medicine erased Black women from a 'white man's disease':" https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/21/ankylosing-spondylitis-diagnosis-black-women/

* "Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/19/1081263873/mental-health-art-therapy

* "Risking Their Lives, for Little Pay, to Guard India’s Forests:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/world/asia/india-forest-rangers.html

* "Farmers in Senegal learn to respect a scruffy shrub that gets no respect:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/20/1079777745/farmers-in-senegal-learn-to-respect-a-scruffy-shrub-that-gets-no-respect

* "Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/cobalt-clean-energy-climate-change-idaho/621321/

* "TurboTax Maker Intuit Faces Tens of Millions in Fees in a Groundbreaking Legal Battle Over Consumer Fraud:" https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-intuit-faces-tens-of-millions-in-fees-in-a-groundbreaking-legal-battle-over-consumer-fraud

* "Crypto Couple Steals $4 Billion Poorly:"

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* "It’s Been a Home for Decades, but Legal Only a Few Months:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/business/economy/california-housing.html

* "Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes:" https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-dutch-flock-to-floating-homes-embracing-a-wetter-future

* "How to fix the disaster of human roads to benefit wildlife:" https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-fix-the-disaster-of-human-roads-to-benefit-wildlife

* "The Incredibly Obvious Way to Reduce Road Deaths That Goes Ignored:" https://slate.com/business/2022/02/car-safety-department-of-transportation-transit-a-plea.html

* "Mechanics Ask Walmart, Major Bike Manufacturers to Stop Making and Selling ‘Built-to-Fail’ Bikes:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdgq9/mechanics-ask-walmart-major-bike-manufacturers-to-stop-making-and-selling-built-to-fail-bikes

* "Tiny robots made in Mexico to explore moon in scientific first:" https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/tiny-robots-made-mexico-explore-moon-scientific-first-2022-02-25/

* "Scientists are stunned by the discovery of the world's largest bacterium. It's the size of a fly:" https://www.zmescience.com/science/largest-giant-bacteria-3432/

* "Ticks survive for 27 years in entomologist’s lab:" https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3485/ticks-survive-for-27-years-in-entomologists-lab

* "Magpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devices:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458

* "Hums, honks and boops? That’s just fish chatting about sex and food:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/19/fish-acoustic-communication-sex-food-researchers

* "When Nazis Took Manhattan:" https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan

* "Voodoo Believers Explain What People Get Wrong About Their Faith:"

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* "MLMs & LDS: Why are so Many Mormon Women Involved in MLMs?:"

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* "Goodwill: Corporate Casket:"

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* "Jobfished: the con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324

* "HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dead at 89:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/10/hiv-discoverer-luc-montagnier-dead-89

* "Street life of Victorian London in rare historical photographs, 1873-1877:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/street-life-victorian-london/

* "Vintage photographs of Amsterdam streets taken by George Hendrik Breitner, 1890-1900:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/amsterdam-photographs-george-hendrik-breitner/

* "The Musical So Bad, They Sold the Theater to a Church.:"

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* "John Mulaney Stand-Up Monologue:"

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* "Subway Churro - SNL:"

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* "Cupid Shuffle - SNL:"

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* "Blue River - SNL:"

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* "Podcast Set - SNL:"

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* "I Am Not A Unisex | Pointlessly Gendered:"

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* "Florence + The Machine - King:"

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* Saturday, I taught Head Millennial a dish my family called Sauerkraut and Sweet Biscuits, but which is really more Sweet Dumplings in a glutinous sauerkraut stew. Me, warning the Millennial in advance: This is going to be extremely stinky, but delicious and full of Vitamin C. *Millennial sensibly turns the hood up fan up on high* This is something made on the stove top, so theoretically viable, but since the stove top is rapidly failing and heat is quite variable so things like boiling water and making pasta are still okay, but things like grilled cheese are right out, so I am not entirely sure this will work. Still we forge onward.

So explain how to set up the sauerkraut in water on medium heat while he mixes the batter. I give him the recipe. Me: You want to make this, but add an extra cup of sugar. Don't worry, the sour and sweet balance each other beautifully. Head Millennial: This says cold shortening? Me: It lies. It was written down in the '50's or '60's. Almost anything in this recipe set that says lard or shortening means butter or magazine unless there is an annotation that says no really use shortening. Use the same amount of butter. It will be fine. *Millennial gives me a skeptical look, but forges on.*

Millennial: What do I do with this batter? *Goes over there to help* Me: Okay, we turn up the heat now and stir the sauerkraut. Now we pour the batter on top. *Millennial gives me a concerned and skeptical look.* Okay, we let it heat for a bit, then put the lid on and put it on low. Come check it every ten minutes so so. Don't worry. It will be ugly. It is always ugly but very delicious. *I start wandering back to my sitting down project* I have no idea if this is German or Irish, but it is good, filling Winter food. Millennial: No wonder people think you are Polish. *I am amused*

As it turned out the Millennial did a bit of cleaning, but was tired. Me: want me to take you home? *Millenial casts a worried look back at the kitchen.* Me: It'll be fine. I'll cover it and turn it down. We could be gone half an hour and it would likely still be fine. If it burns a little on the bottom, no problem, but it likely won't.

Anyway, I took them home, which takes about fifteen minutes round trip that time of night. I adjusted the heat a little. Did a very careful stir to limit scorching at the bottom without damaging the dumplings to much. Covered it back up. Did a lung treatment. When I dished it out, it was perfect. Seriously. This is the best it's been in like three years. Neither over cooked or undercooked. Dumplings in the right size range and texture. Perfect mix of sweet and sour. Omnomnomnom!

* Thanks to incredibly kind donations, the immediate financial emergencies are at bay I should be able to cover the bill that is about to go critical and I think the housing tax. I will have a better idea how messed up March will be in about a week. I once again want to thank everyone for their support.

* Last Spring the head Millenial bought some hand sanitizer it turned out they didn't want, I'm assuming because of the offensively strong artificial smell. I can just tolerate it and it's otherwise good sanitizer, just really, really intense. I mostly only use sanitizer in the car, so this pump bottle doesn't get used that much. I did use it the other night and it finally hit me why it smells so familiar: It smells like priest. O.o

* Me, exclaiming to Head Millennial just how not heterosexual Word of Honor is: And then the guy who's been following the other one all over the countryside because of his "Beautiful Shoulders Blades" says the most heterosexual line ever spoken by one man to another in a Chinese homoerotic historical fantasy martial arts epic: "A Gentleman is willing to die for his soulmate."

Head Millennial: I don't think you understand what heterosexual means.

* "I was trying to translate two poems that make up a poetry battle between two sixth-century noblewomen, over their shared husband.:" https://twitter.com/kate_lingley/status/1494843033799434246

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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.

* "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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* "Netanyahu is leading Israel into civil war between Jews and Palestinians:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-netanyahu-is-leading-israel-into-civil-war-between-jews-and-palestinians-1.9797672

* "Israeli seriously injured from rocket debris; IDF hits Gaza with ground, air strikes:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-diverts-flights-rocket-barrage-palestinians-death-67-1.9796891

* "‘Morally shocking’: Inside the escalation between Israel and Gaza:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-morally-shocking-tension-between-israel-and-gaza-111920709846

* "Israel destroys Gaza tower housing AP and Al Jazeera offices:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-tower-housing-ap-al-jazeera-collapses-after-missile-strike-witness-2021-05-15/

* "Biden administration approved $735 million arms sale to Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/biden-administration-approved-735-million-arms-sale-israel-sources-2021-05-17/

* "Myanmar election: No evidence fraud in 2020 vote, observers say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57144397

* "Myanmar jails local journalist, to free Japanese reporter:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/14/myanmar-jails-local-journalist-to-free-japanese-reporter

* "Myanmar army battles anti-coup rebels in northwestern town:" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/myanmar-army-battles-anti-coup-rebels-northwestern-town-2021-05-15/

* "Russia charges 19-year-old over school shooting:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/russians-pay-tribute-victims-mass-shooting-kazan-school-2021-05-12/

* "African Union mission urges return to 'constitutional order' in Chad:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/african-union-mission-urges-return-constitutional-order-chad-2021-05-12/

* "Man Accused of Promoting Extermination of Gays Says He's Queer Himself:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/5/11/man-accused-promoting-extermination-gays-says-hes-queer-himself

* "Colombia protesters: We're not scared anymore:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57105000

* "Ugandan Security Forces Deployed Ahead of Museveni Inauguration:" https://www.voanews.com/africa/ugandan-security-forces-deployed-ahead-museveni-inauguration

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* "Can't Get an Erection — This Could Be Why:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/5/17/research-reveals-link-between-covid-and-erectile-dysfunction

* "The Last Mile: Uganda’s Covid-19 vaccine struggle:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/uganda-covid-vaccine-struggle/

* "Brazil braces for renewed Covid surge as Bolsonaro faces parliamentary inquiry over pandemic response:" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/14/brazil-fears-third-covid-wave-as-bolsonaro-faces-parliamentary-inquiry.html

* "How India's vaccine drive went horribly wrong:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57007004

* "The volunteer network sending oxygen to India's Covid patients:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/06/india/india-covid-srinivas-iyc-delhi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

* "Misinformation surges amid India's COVID-19 calamity:" https://apnews.com/article/india-coronavirus-pandemic-misinformation-business-technology-c52d04de1c3b2332d572736ee069a495

* 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

* "Biden announces US will share more vaccines globally:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/17/politics/vaccines-global-sharing-biden-administration/index.html

* "People vaccinated against Covid-19 can go without masks indoors and outdoors, CDC says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/health/cdc-mask-guidance-vaccinated/index.html

* "Everything you need to know about the new CDC mask guidance for fully vaccinated people:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-on-what-fully-vaccinated-people-need-to-know-about-mask-guidance-111921733671

* "A Gay Doctor on Convincing Doubters to Get Vaccinated:" https://www.advocate.com/2021/5/11/gay-doctor-convincing-doubters-get-vaccinated

* "Without Including LGBTQI+ People, the Pandemic Will Not End:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/16/without-including-lgbtqi-people-pandemic-will-not-end

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* "USPS fills leadership ranks with new deputy postmaster general, 2 board members:" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2021/05/usps-fills-leadership-ranks-with-new-deputy-postmaster-general-board-member/

* "Hope for repairing Trump, DeJoy damage to post office as new board members are seated:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hope-for-repairing-trump-dejoy-damage-to-post-office-as-new-board-members-are-seated-111995973820

* "Piggy bank-filling payments for nearly 90 percent of kids will start July 15:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/child-tax-credit-payments-488969

* "John Podesta and other progressive leaders want Biden to drop the GOP's 'small-minded' infrastructure plans:" https://news.yahoo.com/john-podesta-other-progressive-leaders-161202273.html

* "Progressive groups caution Biden on weakening infrastructure bill for GOP bait and switch:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/progressive-groups-caution-biden-on-weakening-infrastructure-bill-for-gop-bait-and-switch-111927365847

* The Republican War on the Poor continues. "More than a dozen GOP-led states are ending federal unemployment benefits early:" https://www.axios.com/states-federal-unemployment-benefits-end-5ec90d27-4b43-4399-abaa-3a57925df671.html

* "Why stocks soared while America struggled:" https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/22421417/stock-market-pandemic-economy

* "Rising commodities costs hit Americans at home and on road:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-3af1bc787f3333bf89f5e9e91b92161a

* "Pulse nightclub could become national memorial to 49 'angels' murdered:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/13/pulse-nightclub-orlando-us-house-vote-memorial/

* "Stefanik voted in as House GOP's new No. 3 leader:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/14/stefanik-voted-in-as-house-gops-new-no-3-leader-488312

* "Rep. Greene aggressively confronts Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, causing New York congresswoman to raise security concerns:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/greene-ocasio-cortez/2021/05/12/fd61d664-b37e-11eb-a3b5-f994536fe84a_story.html

* "Rep. Greene 'aggressively confronts' Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in halls of Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/marjorie-taylor-greene-aggressively-confronts-aoc-in-halls-of-congress-111919685641

* "Chris Hayes: GOP is moderating on policy, radicalizing against democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-how-republicans-are-moderating-on-policy-and-radicalizing-against-democracy-111991365660

* "America Needs a Sane and Functioning Republican Party:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/14/america-needs-sane-and-functioning-republican-party

* "Leaked video: Dark money group brags about writing GOP voter suppression bills across the country:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/

* "Leaked video shows right-wing group bragging about drafting GOP anti-voter bills:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mother-jones-leaked-video-show-conservative-group-bragging-about-writing-voter-restriction-bills-111919173785

* 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/

* "While Republicans Cry About Cancel Culture, They’re Canceling Democracy:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/gop-cancel-culture-ending-democracy.html

* "Arizona makes it easier to purge some from early voting list:" https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-arizona-race-and-ethnicity-bills-elections-f66f8b032bd081092715f55dc1195134

* "Youngkin seeks to reverse Virginia GOP's Trump-era carnage:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/11/youngkin-trump-virginia-reverse-487300

* "Strap in, Virginia — the 2021 governor’s race is suddenly at full speed:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/glenn-youngkin-virginia-governors-race/2021/05/15/65caa178-b356-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html

* "Caitlyn Jenner wants to bring the death penalty back to California:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/11/caitlyn-jenner-death-penalty-california/

* "POLITICO Playbook: How Palm Beach is preparing for a possible Trump indictment:" https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/05/13/how-palm-beach-is-preparing-for-a-possible-trump-indictment-492836?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318

* "Shielding Trump from extradition if he's indicted is an actual thing people are working on:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shielding-trump-from-extradition-if-he-s-indicted-is-an-actual-thing-people-are-working-on-111925829964

* "Activists and Ex-Spy Said to Have Plotted to Discredit Trump ‘Enemies’ in Government:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/us/politics/mcmaster-fbi-trump-project-veritas.html

* "Rudy Giuliani: I Am Being Treated Like ‘Head of Drug Cartel’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-says-he-is-being-treated-like-head-of-drug-cartel-after-raid-on-home-office

* "House Lawmakers Reach Bipartisan Deal On Panel To Investigate Jan. 6 Attack:" https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/996822835/house-lawmakers-reach-bipartisan-deal-on-panel-to-investigate-jan-6-attack

* "Fox News host confronted over election lies by defiant union boss live on air:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/fox-news-randi-weingarten-martha-maccullum-1619-project-misinformation/

* "‘Truth matters’: Rep. Cicilline moves to censure GOP reps ‘downplaying’ Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-truth-matters-rep-cicilline-moves-to-censure-gop-reps-downplaying-jan-6-111991365995

* "A Border Town Confronts the Reality of Police Surveillance:" https://www.wired.com/story/border-town-confronts-reality-police-surveillance/

* "Atlanta Spa Shootings Were Hate Crimes, Prosecutor Says:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/us/atlanta-spa-shootings-hate-crimes.html

* "How A Consent Decree Has Changed Policing In Newark, N.J.:" https://www.npr.org/2021/05/02/992846138/how-a-consent-decree-has-changed-policing-in-newark-n-j

* "LGBTQ+ People Receive More Scrutiny, Negativity From Police: Study:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/5/14/lgbtq-people-receive-more-scrutiny-negativity-police-study

* "Online trolls take anti-vaxx hate speech to new level, attacking Peter Hotez:" https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/health/article/Trolls-take-anti-vaxx-hate-speech-to-a-new-level-16160138.php

* "Gaetz associate agrees to cooperate in federal investigation:" https://apnews.com/article/greenberg-gaetz-investigation-sex-trafficking-596299907a6a4db09554cdf4a59d8ef7

* CW: Rape. "4 Women Say Matt Gaetz’s Wingman Pressured Them to Have Sex:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/4-women-say-matt-gaetzs-wingman-pressured-them-to-have-sex

* "'It's not just Greenberg.': Prosecutors building thorough case around Gaetz associate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-it-s-not-just-greenberg-prosecutors-building-thorough-case-around-gaetz-associate-111998533715

* "Good news and bad news for Gaetz as associate takes plea deal (and the good news is bad):" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/good-news-and-bad-news-for-gaetz-as-associate-takes-plea-deal-and-the-good-news-is-bad-111996997667

* "Shocking new allegations about how Matt Gaetz used campaign funds:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-allegations-about-gaetz-use-of-campaign-funds-after-a-gop-fundraiser-111990853746

* "Supreme Court will hear direct challenge to Roe v. Wade:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/17/supreme-court-abortion-case-roe-challenge-488983

* "They Told Her Women Couldn’t Join the Ambulance Corps. So She Started Her Own.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/ezras-nashim-womens-EMT.html

* "Cameroonian transgender women convicted of 'attempted homosexuality':" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cameroonian-transgender-women-convicted-attempted-homosexuality-2021-05-11/

* "Ugandan LGBT+ activist urges world to speak out against brutal homophobic regime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/pride-uganda-lgbt-yoweri-museveni-gay-queer-africa-same-sex/

* "UK slides even further down rankings of most LGBT-friendly nations in Europe:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/uk-europe-rainbow-map-ranking-ilga-idahobit-lgbt-rights/

* "Bishops urge lawmakers to ban ‘abusive and traumatising’ conversion therapy in Wales:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/17/bench-bishops-conversion-therapy-wales-uk-ban/

* "Conversion therapy survivor told to 'vomit up the evil inside her' during Christian 'exorcism':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/conversion-therapy-ban-christian-religious-jayne-ozanne/

* "'Notorious homophobe' Edwin Poots wins DUP leadership:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/dup-leadership-edwin-poots-new-leader/

* "Life-changing penis surgery for trans men currently unavailable on NHS:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/nhs-bottom-surgery-trans-men-penis-phalloplasty-st-peters-andrology-centre/

* "Serial killer to marry prison fiancée who gave her a ‘no more murders’ ultimatum:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/joanna-dennehy-serial-killer-wedding-fiancee-prison/

* "First non-binary mayor 'of any city, anywhere' wins landslide election aged 22:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/non-binary-mayor-bangor-wales-owen-hurcum-genderqueer-agender/

* "Thug denies rape after beating man and fleeing with his £700 cardigan:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/11/luke-burling-reading-crown-court-rape-robbery-cashmere-cardigan/

* "NCAA Allows Games in States With Anti-Trans Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/5/17/ncaa-allows-games-states-anti-trans-laws

* "Unequal Access to Puberty Blockers Is Producing Two Classes of Trans Kids:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/puberty-blocker-access-trans-youth.html

* "2021 now worst year for anti-LGBT+ legislation in US history – we're not even half-way:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/11/anti-lgbt-laws-passed-2021-any-other-us-history-trans-hrc/

* "Alaska launches its own cruel, 'horrific' attack on trans girls playing sports:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/alaska-trans-school-sports-ban-girls-shelley-hughes/

* "Ban on abhorrent gay and trans panic defence unanimously passed by Oregon:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/14/oregon-house-representatives-lgbt-gay-trans-panic-defence/

* "Tennessee Governor Signs Anti-Trans School 'Bathroom Bill' Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/5/14/tennessee-governor-signs-anti-trans-school-bathroom-bill-law

* "Nonbinary Indigenous Person Killed During Robbery in Pennsylvania:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/5/11/nonbinary-indigenous-person-killed-during-robbery-pennsylvania

* "Two More Trans Women of Color Reportedly Killed:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/5/12/two-more-trans-women-color-reportedly-killed

* "University condemns 'horrific incident' after student mob 'broke into' LGBT+ safe space:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/15/bucknell-university-frans-house-break-in-lgbt-safe-space-fraternity/

* "Transphobia is Not Equality | Reacting to Transphobic Ad:"

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* "Judge: Man Convicted of Sodomy Shouldn't Be on Sex Offender Registry:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/5/13/judge-man-convicted-sodomy-shouldnt-be-sex-offender-registry

* "A Gay Man Says He Was Tormented at Liberty University. Now He's Suing:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/13/gay-man-says-he-was-tormented-liberty-university-now-hes-suing

* "Evangelical Lutheran Church Elects First Transgender Bishop:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2021/5/10/evangelical-lutheran-church-elects-first-transgender-bishop

* "Christian School Reportedly Tells Teachers: Expel Gay Kids or Leave:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2021/5/10/christian-school-reportedly-tells-teachers-expel-gay-kids-or-leave

* "Legalization of MDMA as PTSD Treatment Speeds Ahead:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/5/11/legalization-mdma-ptsd-treatment-speeds-ahead

* "Paralysed man uses ‘mindwriting’ brain computer to compose sentences:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/12/paralysed-man-mindwriting-brain-computer-compose-sentences

* "They Told Their Therapists Everything. Hackers Leaked It All:" https://www.wired.com/story/vastaamo-psychotherapy-patients-hack-data-breach/

* "The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth:" https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth

* "People of Color Breathe More Hazardous Air. The Sources Are Everywhere.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/climate/air-pollution-minorities.html

* "A story of slavery — and space:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/brazil-alcantara-launch-center-quilombo/

* "When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked:" https://daily.jstor.org/when-the-push-button-was-new-people-were-freaked/

* "The Mysterious Murder of The Atlanta Math Teacher:"

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* "How ACT UP Shook the Straight Power Structure:" https://www.advocate.com/books/2021/5/10/Sarah-schulman-act-up-hiv-book

* "New designs unveiled for Marsha P Johnson State Park after controversial plans ditched:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/15/marsha-p-johnson-state-park-new-design-brooklyn-plan-complaints/

* "Fleeing a Modern War, Syrians Seek Refuge in Ancient Ruins:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/world/middleeast/fleeing-a-modern-war-syrians-seek-refuge-in-ancient-ruins.html

* "James Williams, American Gay Activist Working in India, Dies of COVID:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/5/05/james-williams-american-gay-activist-working-india-dies-covid

* "Lesbian penguins are this mating season’s hot new couple:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/12/lesbian-penguin-gentoo-couple-sea-life-london-aquarium/

* "The Most Frivolous Lawsuits Ever:"

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* "How Superhero Films Misunderstand Revolutionaries:"

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* "The Utopian's Code is BROKEN! (Jupiter's Legacy Netflix):"

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* "How Slash Fiction Saved Star Trek (Ft. Mary Chieffo):"

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* "IT'S BETTER BUT ALSO WORSE? Bonding Season 2 Review:"

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* "Rap Diss - SNL:"

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* "The Muppet Show - SNL:"

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* So here's what's going on: I can't remember if I told y'all they had an opening at the hospital, so they moved my exploratory procedure up to next week. This is a good thing, given how quickly I'm deteriorating. It is quite possible in two weeks I'll be properly medicated and feeling better, assuming I don't also have cancer. I'm going to have a bunch of medic al stuff next week just generally, just like this week.

In other news, my glasses were ready a week early, so I am adjusting to bifocals again. These lack the line and are disconcerting if I move my head wrong, but are a dramatic improvement over the emergency non-bifocals I've been wearing and today was easier than yesterday, so I've hopes of being adjusted soon. These are by far the nicest glasses I've owned ever.

In other news, three of the millennials came over for an outdoor chargen picnic, held in accordance with current CDC guidelines. At some point in June my local friends will all be out of COVID jail. (Currently Squirrel, one of the Millennials, and I are all completely done. The others are half vax).

* I kept getting awakened Friday. Except for another beg from the Police Union, they were all important calls, but having long conversations, fetching my calendar etc., is not good for quality sleep.

Saturday I was too uncomfortable to sleep much. We did go and buy way too much juice and restricted diet/sick people foods for me to eat. I'm already in restriction, but I go up a level Monday and it gets worse from there. I need to sort out transport to the hospital, which is meant to be free and easy on my health plan, but the 24/7 number didn't connect. Like no error beep or message. No Ringing. Just dead line. Mmmmm... thanks? I spent like an hour looking for the direction sheet to get the number that went nowhere. I then tried typing in the title from the direction sheet which led me to another non-working number. O.o I added more search terms, found more directions. The first number it listed tried to sell me direct TV. WTF!?! The second number sounded correct, but says they are only Monday through Friday which is clearly not correct. My options are now call them Monday and see if they can give me the correct number or call my Social Worker and see if she has it. I don't understand why they would send me a directiion sheet with the wrong number and why my health plan site also lists a fake number.

squirrel will collect me after the proceedure and is trying to get off work. Caregiver Millennial has agreed to come and look after me in the evening. We plan to make good lemonade and sweet tea to store in the fridge on sunday, amoung other things.

I apparently have two different medical appointments at opposite ends of the day Monday. Fun!

* Monday was a nightmare. a scammer woke me at 7:59, fifteen minutes before the alarm. I spent a stupid amount of time trying to straighten out medical stuff on the phone. I spent the morning on medical stuff and other errands, all involving long waits, most of it standing up in stunning pain. I do not resent the lady with the baby taking one of two waiting room seats. I do resent the other six able bodied people who monopolized them during my 45 minute wait to drop off my specimen. I am visibly disabled, with a crutch and was obviously in massive pain, but I guess those able bodied people needed those two chairs more.

I went home to eat and lung and the like, then went out again for more medical stuff. Luckily the pre-proceedure COVID testing was drive through and very efficient. I am exhausted and in terrible pain. I get to do more medical stuff tomorrow. Sigh.

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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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* "Human remains pulled from the Indonesian Sriwijaya Air crash site:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/asia/indonesia-sriwijaya-air-crash-search-intl-hnk/index.html

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* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 1/12/21 are 22,785,000. The official death toll is 380,000. The real number is likely much higher.

* "Democrats demand plan from Trump to fix ‘failed’ vaccine rollout:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/democrats-trump-vaccine-rollout-457607

* "Trump to prioritize older adults for Covid vaccines, release all doses:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/trump-vaccine-covid-older-adults-458114

* "Lawmakers may have been exposed to the coronavirus in Capitol lockdown, attending physician says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/10/lawmakers-may-have-been-exposed-coronavirus-capitol-lockdown-attending-physician-says/

"Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Michael Cloud (Tex.), Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) and Scott Perry (Pa.) — refusing masks offered by Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (Del.) while in the room."

If any of these are your reps and you would like to gtell them what you think?

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/

* Republicans did this on purpose. They knew she was in fragile health. They knew she couldn't leave. They were offered masks. They smugly chose to risk her life for fun. "Congresswoman tests positive for coronavirus after sheltering with some maskless lawmakers during siege of Capitol:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mob-attack-capitol-coronavirus-congresswoman/2021/01/11/edae7c5e-5438-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

* "Rep. Pramila Jayapal tests positive for coronavirus after being locked down with lawmakers who wouldn’t wear masks:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/rep-pramila-jayapal-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-after-being-locked-down-with-lawmakers-who-wouldnt-wear-masks/

“Too many Republicans have refused to take this pandemic and virus seriously, and in doing so, they endanger everyone around them,” Jayapal said Monday night. “Only hours after President Trump incited a deadly assault on our Capitol, our country, and our democracy, many Republicans still refused to take the bare minimum COVID-19 precaution and simply wear a damn mask in a crowded room during a pandemic — creating a superspreader event on top of a domestic terrorist attack.”

* And another new infection Tuesday. "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55631079

* It's not enough. They need to be removed from the floor if they take off their masks. "House to fine members who don't wear masks on House floor:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/house-to-fine-members-who-don-t-wear-masks-on-house-floor-99359301806

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* "‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-call-georgia-investigator/2021/01/09/7a55c7fa-51cf-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html

* "White House pushed top federal prosecutor in Atlanta to resign: WSJ:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-prosecutor-trump/white-house-pushed-top-federal-prosecutor-in-atlanta-to-resign-wsj-idUSKBN29E0RX

* Stay inside this weekend, folks, if you reasonably can. "FBI warns 'armed protests' being planned at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/fbi-bulletin-armed-protests-state-us-capitol/index.html

* "New terror threat points to plot to surround Capitol, lawmaker says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/congress-briefing-us-capitol-threats/index.html

* "Giuliani left voicemail for senator after riot asking for help to overturn election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/giuliani-left-voicemail-for-senator-after-riot-asking-for-help-to-overturn-election-99304005849

* "Trump tries to defend his pre-riot speech as ‘totally appropriate’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/trump-defends-pre-riot-speech-458129

* "Trump falsely blames Antifa for Capitol riot:" https://www.axios.com/trump-falsely-blames-antifa-for-capitol-riot-bab4943c-d465-4d05-ae36-1e8d1437f168.html

* "Maddow to Trump: "What did you think was going to happen?":" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-to-trump-what-did-you-think-was-going-to-happen-99366469675

* "Remember when Vice President Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face?:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1786419.html

* "Trump Jr. Incited Capitol Mob With Anti-Transgender Rant:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/08/trump-jr-incited-capitol-mob-anti-transgender-rant

* "How Republicans fanned the flames before the Capitol Hill insurrection:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/how-republicans-fanned-the-flames-before-the-capitol-hill-insurrection-99358277893

* "Trump Mob Chases Lindsey Graham From Airport Terminal: 'Traitor!':" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/1/08/trump-mob-chases-lindsey-graham-airport-terminal-traitor

* "At least 25 domestic terrorism cases have been opened after US Capitol breach, congressman says Army secretary told him:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/politics/jason-crow-army-inauguration/index.html

* "You know, now seems like a good idea to talk about the 2009 DHS report on far right terrorism. Let’s start at the beginning.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/639988929995653120/aspiringwarriorlibrarian-you-know-now-seems-like

* "How the pro-Trump mob fits in the U.S. history of lynching:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/how-the-pro-trump-mob-fits-in-the-u-s-history-of-lynching-99302981786

* "Lonnie Coffman, Alabama man arrested at DC riot, had homemade napalm in Mason jars, feds say:" https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2021/01/lonnie-coffman-alabama-man-arrested-at-dc-riot-had-homemade-napalm-in-mason-jars-feds-say.html

* "Retired Air Force officer pictured with zip ties inside U.S. Capitol arrested in Texas:" https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/01/11/retired-air-force-officer-pictured-with-zip-ties-inside-us-capitol-arrested-in-texas/

* If they won't go through the detector, they shouldn't be allowed on the floor. Same with masks. "Rep. Bush to GOP reps who protested metal detectors: Find another job:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-bush-to-gop-reps-who-protested-metal-detectors-find-another-job-99360837675

* "Rep. McGovern: Capitol rioters had ‘hate in their eyes’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-mcgovern-capitol-rioters-had-hate-in-their-eyes-99359814002

* "Anti-gay Republican resigns in disgrace after gleefully streaming himself breaking into the Capitol:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/11/derrick-evans-resigns-republican-capitol-riots/

* "Video shows Trump mob brutalizing police; investigators make progress on arrests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/video-shows-trump-mob-brutalizing-police-investigators-make-progress-on-arrests-99313221752

* "Oregon lawmaker under investigation for letting demonstrators into state Capitol:" https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-capitol-representative-accused-letting-protesters-in/283-f6025d52-9441-47f5-aa6c-49d2cfbb920d

* "Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

* "Several Capitol police officers suspended, more than a dozen under investigation over actions related to rally, riot:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-police-officers-suspended/2021/01/11/0ee0e422-545f-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html

* "Congress’s Sergeants-at-Arms Face Scrutiny After Siege:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/politics/congress-sergeants-at-arms.html

* "FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-fbi-intelligence/2021/01/12/30d12748-546b-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html

* "Federal prosecutor suggests public officials being looked at in Trump riot investigations:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-prosecutor-suggests-public-officials-being-looked-at-in-trump-riot-investigations-99370053893

* "Donald Trump Jr claims his dad shouldn’t have been booted from Twitter as he hasn’t ‘killed homosexuals’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/09/donald-trump-jr-twitter-ban-killing-homosexuals-etc-capitol-riots/

* "Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqbex/parler-is-gone-but-hackers-say-they-downloaded-everything-first

* "Stripe Stops Processing Payments for Trump Campaign Website:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payments-for-trump-campaign-website-11610319116

* "New York City to consider ending contracts with Trump that bring his company $17 million a year:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-york-trump-cancel/2021/01/11/3527257e-545a-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

* "As GOP Dithers, Corporate America Delivers Some Justice to Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/1/12/gop-dithers-corporate-america-delivers-some-justice-trump

* "White House counsel and former Attorney General Barr warned Trump not to self-pardon:" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-news-01-11-21/h_4884b12b23992b8a11f8d7bb185c685a

* "In Wake Of Capitol Attack, House Begins Moves To Impeach Trump — Again:" https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/11/954907652/in-wake-of-capitol-attack-house-will-seek-to-impeach-trump-again

* "McConnell is said to be pleased about impeachment, believing it will be easier to purge Trump from the G.O.P.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment.html

* "McConnell believes impeachment push will help rid Trump from the GOP, but has not said if he will vote to convict:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/12/politics/mcconnell-impeachment-trump-capitol-riot/index.html

* "Pence not inclined toward 25th Amendment despite Trump turning riotous mob on him:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/pence-not-inclined-toward-25th-amendment-despite-trump-turning-riotous-mob-on-him-99310149939

* "D.C. mayor pushes for enhanced security surrounding Inauguration Day:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/10/dc-mayor-inauguration-day-457111

* "Pentagon authorizes up to 15,000 National Guardsmen to support inauguration:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/national-guardsmen-inauguration-457629

* "'Sedition and insurrection': military chiefs use key term to characterize Trump mob attack:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-sedition-and-insurrection-military-chiefs-use-key-term-to-characterize-trump-mob-attack-99371589605

* "The GOP continue to demand surrender in the name of "unity":" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1786360.html

* "Voice of America reassigns White House reporter after she sought to question Mike Pompeo:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/voice-of-america-reporter-demoted-pompeo/2021/01/12/caa1b22c-5496-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

* "Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf resigns:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/chad-wolf-homeland-security/index.html

* "Court blocks Trump’s sad assault on LGBT+ asylum seekers as administration’s death rattle rings out:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/13/donald-trump-lgbt-asylum-seekers-rules-court-blocks-homeland-security/

* But not ordination. "Pope Francis backs women's roles in Catholic services:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55617851

* "Bigoted police officers fired after secret tapes revealed enough homophobic, racist and sexist slurs ‘to last a lifetime’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/08/hampshire-police-homophobia-sexism-racism/

* "Reading attack terrorist who stabbed three gay men to death jailed for whole life:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/11/reading-terror-attack-khairi-saadallah-sentenced-murder/

* "Greece’s first out gay minister was warned never to run for elected office because of his sexuality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/12/greece-first-gay-culture-minister-nicholas-yatromanolakis-sexuality-mitsotakis/

* "Women’s pool faces searing backlash after banning trans women unless they’ve ‘undergone surgery’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/12/mcivers-ladies-baths-sydney-pool-transgender-women-ban-surgery-backlash/

* "Lesbian couple forced to take legal action after sperm donor tries to claim parental rights:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/13/lesbian-parents-sperm-donor-child-parental-rights-court-challenge-south-africa/

* "Judge throws out ‘unarguable’ case alleging Stonewall’s ‘pro-trans bias’ influenced Crown Prosecution Service:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/13/stonewall-cps-crown-prosecution-service-high-court-case-trans/

* "EU sends Poland thinly-veiled warning it will crack down on LGBT+ abuse by pulling crucial funding:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/11/poland-european-union-funding-rulebook-respect-eu-values-lgbt-free-zones/

* "Catholic School District Removes LGBTQ+ Resources:" https://www.advocate.com/youth/2021/1/12/catholic-school-district-removes-lgbtq-resources

* "Court rules trans woman’s kids can be moved 4,000 miles away to another country – and she has to pay the costs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/08/trans-woman-darcy-children-ontario-canada-washington-us-pays-microsoft/

* "North Carolina Town Adopts LGBTQ-Inclusive Law After State Ban Lifts:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2021/1/12/north-carolina-town-adopts-lgbtq-inclusive-law-after-state-ban-lifts

* "Trans Americans Shot to Death in Chicago, Puerto Rico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/1/12/trans-americans-shot-death-chicago-puerto-rico

* "Donald Trump axes discrimination protections in ‘parting assault on LGBT+ community’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/09/donald-trump-lgbt-discrimination-protections-health-human-services/

"While the change allow discrimination under the guise of “religious liberty” in healthcare services like HIV and STI prevention programs, opioid programs and youth homelessness services, adoption and fostering services also come under the HSS department.

If faith-based adoption and fostering services are funded by the government, they will be able to refuse to place children with families based on sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status, a change that religious conservatives have been pushing for."

* "The U.S. Could Make New Cars a Lot Less Deadly:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/u-s-new-car-safety-ratings-are-overdue-for-update

* "The Chef Recreating 18th-Century Recipes From a Thrift-Shop Find:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/historical-english-cake-recipes

* "Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson dies:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/sheldon-adelson-republican-megadonor-obituary-031924

"After that election, he gave $5 million to Donald Trump's inaugural committee, another record-setting sum. In May 2018, he cut a $30 million check to the GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund, and the donations continued through the election season. He spent election night in November 2018 watching returns at the White House, though the two had a falling-out during the 2020 campaign."

* "Hacker took control of men’s electronic chastity cages and held their penises to ransom:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/01/12/cellmate-chastity-cage-hacker-bluetooth-security-penis-ransom-bitcoin-bdsm/

* "Lex Luthor Joins Republicans In Calling For Unity:"

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* "The Terrorists Who Attacked Congress At The President's Direction Came Prepared To Kill:"

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* "50 Funny Examples Of Cat Beds And Cat Logic:" https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-cat-logic-beds/

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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.

* I can't swear to these, but they fit with everything I've heard. "HOW TO FIGHT COVID AT HOME when you are not hospitalized.:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/639454183045644288/fighting-covid-when-kept-home

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Salem Witch Trials- NEW Revelations:"

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

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

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* "Morbid Mystery: The Franklin Expedition:"

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

* "THE FROZEN BODIES OF MOUNT EVEREST:"

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* "CAVE DIVING CORPSES:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "The Problem with Cop Shows:"

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* "Brandy Clark: Bigger Boat:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Coronavirus latest: WHO officially names disease COVID-19:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w

* "China's Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout:" https://www.wired.com/story/china-equifax-anthem-marriott-opm-hacks-data/

* "Trump’s First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama’s Last 3:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-obama-jobs-created_n_5e419dc0c5b6bb0ffc169993

* "Trump takes post-impeachment reckoning to next level:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/11/justice-department-backs-away-stiff-sentence-roger-stone-114006

* "Prosecutors quit amid escalating Justice Dept. fight over Roger Stone’s prison term:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-to-reduce-sentencing-recommendation-for-trump-associate-roger-stone-official-says-after-president-calls-it-unfair/2020/02/11/ad81fd36-4cf0-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html

* "A.G. Barr interfering in legal cases tied to Trump: NBC News:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/a-g-barr-interfering-in-legal-cases-tied-to-trump-nbc-news-78591045652

* "Trump attacks on criminal cases may be setting stage for pardons:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-attacks-on-criminal-cases-may-be-setting-stage-for-pardons-78596165652

* 45 is even more aggressively obstructing justice because all but one Republican Senators agree that the President is so far above the law that he can do anything he likes without fear of repercussions as long as it's for his own personal benefit.

* "Exclusive: Justice Department anti-human trafficking grants prompt whistleblower complaint:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-grants-exclusive-idUSKBN20425G

* "Trump looks to kill student loan forgiveness program:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/10/trump-proposes-end-to-student-loan-forgiveness-program.html

* "Senate GOP blocks three election security bills:" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/482569-senate-gop-blocks-three-election-security-bills

Angry about Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) taking astrong stance in favour of the right of hostile foreign countries to hack our elections? If you can't proest in person, you can contact Blackburn’s office at (202) 224-3344 or send a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* New Hampshire Primary:

Bernie Sanders 9 25.7% 71,759
Pete Buttigieg 9 24.4% 68,141
Amy Klobuchar 6 19.8% 55,164
Elizabeth Warren0 9.3% 25,899

* "Bernie Sanders Wins New Hampshire; Pete Buttigieg a Close Second:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/2/11/bernie-sanders-wins-new-hampshire-pete-buttigieg-close-second

* "What Homophobic Hell Will the GOP Unleash on a Gay Frontrunner?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/2/11/what-homophobic-hell-will-gop-unleash-gay-frontrunner

* "Andrew Yang Is Dropping Out. Here’s Why.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/andrew-yang-drops-out/606352/

* "Michael Bennet ends 2020 presidential campaign:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/11/politics/michael-bennet-ends-2020-campaign/index.html

* "Gay refugee is suing Trump administration for sending him to Guatemala where he’ll be ‘homophobically harassed’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/gay-refugee-donald-trump-lawsuit-guatemala-safe-third-country-agreement-aclu-lawsuit/

* "Slavery reparations seem impossible. In many places, they’re already happening.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/31/slavery-reparations-seem-impossible-many-places-theyre-already-happening/?arc404=true

* "Lesbians Make History With Northern Ireland's First Same-Sex Marriage:" https://www.advocate.com/lesbian/2020/2/11/lesbians-make-history-northern-irelands-first-same-sex-marriage

* "Beloved Glasgow queer club desecrated with homophobic graffiti by hateful vandals:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/12/polo-lounge-glasgow-queer-club-homophobic-graffiti-police-angela-crawley/

* "Labour Campaign for Trans Rights launches to challenge transphobic rhetoric within party:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/labour-campaign-trans-rights-launch-transphobia-anti-trans-angela-rayner/

* TW: Suicide. "Ohio Bill Would Criminalize Doctors for Treating Transgender Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/11/ohio-bill-would-criminalize-doctors-treating-transgender-youth

“As this legislation advances, young people in Ohio could hear political discourse on television, around the dinner table, and at school that framed them and their lived experience in language that can only be described as bullying. The mere public debate over whether trans youth deserve to live their identities is harmful. As a mother who lost her son to suicide after he was bullied for being gay, I know that what LGBTQ kids hear matters a great deal. I urge Ohio’s political leaders to ensure that they hear words that affirm them, their lived experience and their rights.”

* "Failed Republican politician and Christian rent-a-mouth says Trump is ‘too masculine’ for gay people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/republican-politician-ew-jackson-christian-donald-trump-masculine-lgbt-gay/

* TW: Hate Speech "Christian activist blames the Pope for cancellation of his ‘F****ts Are Maggots’ tour inspired by Donald Trump:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/02/11/michael-heath-christian-religion-50-states-us-tour-cancelled/

* "Bishop Who Did Exorcism for Marriage Equality Now Targets Trans People:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2020/2/11/bishop-who-did-exorcism-marriage-equality-now-targets-trans-people

* "Climate Change Predictions Have Suddenly Gone Catastrophic. This Is Why:" https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/9393jd/climate-change-predictions-have-suddenly-gone-catastrophic-this-is-why

* "The Africans Who Called Tudor England Home:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/black-african-tudors-england

* "Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable (1745-1818):" https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dusable-jean-baptiste-point-1745-1818/

* "This NC man was one of the most important Civil War leaders, but he was erased from history for 100 years:" https://abc11.com/society/meet-the-most-important-civil-war-leader-youve-never-heard-of/5907992/

* "The Forgotten Trans History of the Wild West:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trans-history-wild-west

* "Maryland unveils statues of Tubman, Douglass in Capitol:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/maryland-unveil-statues-tubman-douglass-capitol-68878494

* "Black History Month Includes Black Queer History, Too:" https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2019/2/01/black-history-month-includes-black-queer-history-too

* "Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/arts/design/banksy-legacy.html

* "China Hacks America, Disney Bills an Elementary School & Valentine's Day Cockroaches at the Zoo:"

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* "Democratic Primaries: New Hampshire's Big Day:"

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* "Everything Is Stupid - Misinformation About the Coronavirus:"

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* "Joe Biden's Poor Performance In Iowa Signals Opportunity For Mike Bloomberg's Campaign:"

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* "Introducing The President Trump Foundation Line:"

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* "A Vengeful Trump Strikes Out At His Enemies, Fires Vindman & Sondland During "Friday Night Massac…:"

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* ""Trump's Anatomy," Coming This Fall To CBS:"

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* "Trump's New Hampshire Rally: Ivanka Is Beautiful, Coronavirus Will Go Away By Itself:"

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* It looks like I can buy the special girl cat food OR I can pay for car registration. Fuckfuckfuck! Big bill is worse than average, and after that and cat food I only have about half of medium bill left.

Want to help me keep my car legal? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* I got a call mid sleep cycle from the city liaison guy because he wanted to come over for a meeting. They've worked out the electrical estimates and are now submitting my bathtub etc. to the council that decides these things. It leaves abut $580 contingency with the floor repair. i told him to just fill in the triangle with an edging strip in something a couple shades darker so it looks deliberate, because ripping up the floor is way more expensive and the floor pattern is discontinued. He thinks that'll work budget wise. I made super clear I haven't more money to put into the renovation. he submitted the changes this afternoon.

*fingers crossed*

* ""Fugitive of the Judoon" Shakes Up the Whoniverse:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s12-e5/

* "Characters Are in Focus in "Praxeus":" https://www.thefandomentals.com/doctor-who-s12-e6/

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

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

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

* "Emotional support animals could be banned from planes under DOT rule:" https://www.rollcall.com/news/emotional-support-animals-banned-planes-dot

Want to complain? https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-department-transportation-seeks-comment-proposed-amendments-regulation-service

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

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

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

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Refugee Children:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Photos: Climate-Change Protests Around the World:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/04/photos-climate-change-protests-around-world/588016/

* "Sri Lanka Calls Bombers ‘Well Educated’ and Warns of Ongoing Threat:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/world/asia/sri-lanka-bombings.html

* "Trump says military incident at border was ‘probably’ a diversion for drug smugglers. The Pentagon sees it differently.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/04/24/without-evidence-trump-says-border-incident-between-us-mexican-soldiers-was-probably-diversion-drug-smugglers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2aab67954280

* "North Korea issued $2 million bill for comatose Otto Warmbier’s care:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-korea-issued-2-million-bill-for-comatose-otto-warmbiers-care/2019/04/25/0e8022a0-66ad-11e9-a698-2a8f808c9cfb_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.75070ae14dc0

* "Trump campaign won’t commit to staying away from hacked material:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-campaign-won-t-commit-staying-away-hacked-material-n998156

* "Trump’s defiance puts pressure on Congress’s ability to check the president:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-defiance-puts-pressure-on-congresss-ability-to-check-the-president/2019/04/24/eb98e9b6-65df-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.482671965b2d

* "House Democrats to investigate Miller's role in DHS dismissals:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/25/stephen-miller-testify-house-1289871

* "Mueller Report Reveals Trump’s Fixation on Targeting Hillary Clinton:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/us/politics/jeff-sessions-hillary-clinton-donald-trump.html

* "Sarah Sanders’s 2019 briefings: 82 minutes for reporters, 28 minutes for young children:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/25/sarah-sanderss-briefings-minutes-reporters-minutes-small-children/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e7435a890ed4

* "Former vice president Joe Biden jumps into White House race:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-vice-president-joe-biden-jumps-into-white-house-race/2019/04/25/093ff596-0aef-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ea40c03c860d

* "Franklin Graham to Buttigieg: Being Gay Is a Sin, Not to Be 'Flaunted':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/4/24/franklin-graham-buttigieg-being-gay-sin-not-be-flaunted

* "Buttigieg versus graham:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/buttigieg-versus-graham-1508012099944

* This was easily foreseeable and why I opposed them from the start. "'They think they are above the law': the firms that own America's voting system:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machine-private-companies-voter-registration

* "Federal judges rule Michigan gerrymandering unconstitutional, order maps redrawn by 2020:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/25/federal-judges-rule-michigan-gerrymandering-unconstitutional-order-maps-redrawn-by/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7ee4b06726e

* "GOP Gerrymandering in Michigan struck down:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-gerrymandering-in-michigan-struck-down-1508018755991

* "The fight against partisan gerrymandering:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-fight-against-partisan-gerrymandering-1508024387995

* "What the FBI raids on Baltimore Mayor Pugh and associates mean — and what they don't:" https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0426-fbi-raids-20190425-story.html

* "Chris Christie’s future likely affected by Bridgegate scandal:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/chris-christie-s-future-likely-affected-by-bridgegate-scandal-1508068931659

* "Fmr. Christie Aide was offered representation from dubious source:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fmr-christie-aide-was-offered-representation-from-dubious-source-1508065859809

* "Fmr. Christie Aide: The truth will be heard:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/fmr-christie-aide-the-truth-will-be-heard-1508068419536

* "Trump administration proposed housing migrant children at Guantánamo Bay: report:" https://www.salon.com/2019/04/24/trump-administration-proposed-housing-migrant-children-at-guantanamo-bay-report/

* "Africa pilots world's first malaria vaccine:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-48046055/malaria-africa-pilots-world-s-first-vaccine-in-major-trial

* "Measles Outbreak Infects 695, Highest Number Since 2000:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/health/measles-outbreaks-us.html

* "Getting to Know Dem - Joe Biden:"

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* "Lawsuit Against Jussie Smollett, GITMO for Migrant Children & A Killer Bird Auction in Florida:"

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* "Back in Black - New York's Subways Are About to Get Way Worse:"

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* ""Just To Be Clear, Everyone Was A Little Bit Of A Lesbian Then": Contextualizing 19th-Century Lesbianism:" https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/just-to-be-clear-contextualizing?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MTgyNCwiXyI6Ikg2bGdXIiwiaWF0IjoxNTU2MTc4ODg5LCJleHAiOjE1NTYxODI0ODksImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.NCIpJSQFvGeKPjRox4F57-qVKS8zNP-GMZCBWFUEm3A

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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

* "Paris police use tear gas against 'yellow vest' protesters:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/20/world/paris-protests-tear-gas/index.html

* "The 'womanspreading' placard that caused fury in Pakistan:" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47832236

* "Erik Prince financed effort to find Clinton's emails, Mueller report says:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/erik-prince-clinton-emails-mueller/index.html

* "FBI suspects Russians hacked 'at least one' Florida county, Mueller report says:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/fbi-russians-hacked-florida-vote-mueller-report-1281159

* "Mueller’s report paints a portrait of a campaign intrigued by Russian overtures:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/muellers-report-paints-a-portrait-of-a-campaign-intrigued-by-russian-overtures/2019/04/18/e814fe84-571a-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b6a049d4532

* "Mueller report ropes in Senate GOP:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/burr-mueller-probe-white-house-1282098

* "Paranoia, lies and fear: Trump’s presidency laid bare by Mueller report:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paranoia-lies-and-fear-trumps-presidency-laid-bare-by-mueller-report/2019/04/18/3379c49a-571b-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b944f9b51d8f

* "Mueller paints damning portrait of dysfunctional Trump White House:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/mueller-report-trump-administration-1282651

* "A Portrait of the White House and Its Culture of Dishonesty:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/white-house-mueller-report.html

* "The key unanswered questions from the Mueller report:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/18/mueller-report-key-unanswered-questions

* "What Attorney General Barr said vs. what the Mueller report said:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/19/what-attorney-general-barr-said-vs-what-mueller-report-said/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.391715d6d3df

* "Mueller: Sen. Burr Briefed, White House on Russia Investigation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-sen-burr-briefed-white-house-on-russia-investigation-1500227651749

* "Mueller Report: Outline for Prosecution:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-report-outline-for-prosecution-1500227139994

* "Sarah Sanders told Mueller team she misled the press about Comey's firing:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/mueller-report-sarah-sanders-comey-1282275

* "Sarah Sanders caught lying. So she lies again.:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sarah-sanders-caught-lying-so-she-lies-again-1500164163989

* "Senator Warren First 2020 Candidate to Call for Impeachment:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-warren-first-2020-candidate-to-call-for-impeachment-1500225603989

* "Swalwell Calls for Full Report and Mueller to Testify:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/swalwell-calls-for-full-report-and-mueller-to-testify-1500228163829

* "This April 15, Don’t Fall for the Right’s Favorite Lie About Taxes:" https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/tax-day-taxes-statistics/

* "Trump’s Budget Is Full of Cuts Aimed at People With Disabilities:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/disability-budget-cuts-trump.html

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/

* "Federal judge: Residents' EPA suit in Flint crisis can move forward:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2019/04/19/ruling-epa-flint-water-crisis-lawsuit/3516388002/

* "McDermott: The struggling NRA doesn't represent average gun owners. It represents mayhem.:" https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/mcdermott-the-struggling-nra-doesn-t-represent-average-gun-owners/article_f7ade191-0650-5fd8-8c22-3f9e0c69972a.html

* "GOP congressman hops fake border to prove how easy it is to cross border:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-congressman-hops-fake-border-to-prove-how-easy-it-is-to-cross-border-1500173379595

* "Videos appear to show armed militia detaining migrants at US-Mexico border:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/18/new-mexico-migrants-armed-militia-detained

* "Muslims and Jews Face a Common Threat From White Supremacists. We Must Fight It Together.:" https://theintercept.com/2019/04/03/muslims-and-jews-face-a-common-threat-from-white-supremacists-we-must-fight-it-together/

* "A Few More Black Students Are Offered Spots at Stuyvesant, Fanning Fresh Uproar:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/nyregion/nyc-specialized-schools.html

* "Took a Plea? Brooklyn's District Attorney Will Support Your Parole:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/04/17/took-a-plea-brooklyn-s-district-attorney-will-support-your-parole

* "Psychiatrist Who Argued That Being Gay Is Not a Disorder Dies at 82:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/18/psychiatrist-who-argued-being-gay-not-disorder-dies-82?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news&fbclid=IwAR1DxmbndgKgFHuIMOALalHoJdwL7lQSPsTA0juMqD3TBYFELUAwtRuv1lA

* "15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook:" https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/

* "FDA OKs 1st generic nasal spray of Narcan:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/life/wellness/2019/04/19/first-generic-narcan-spray-approved/39369099/

* "Color Code Your Own Mueller Report:"

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* I friend came over to help me clean for inspection. Inevitably it was too much dust for my lungs, I am exhausted, and I am covered in spider bites, but things are in better shape for Wednesday.

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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

* "The resignation of three Tory MPs is a dire warning to the party:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/20/resignation-three-tory-mps-dire-warning

* "India demands Pakistan take action and 'stop misleading' on Kashmir attack:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/asia/imran-khan-kashmir-attack-intl/index.html

* "Spain's PM calls snap general election for 28 April:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/15/spains-pm-calls-snap-general-election-for-28-april

* "Haitians seek water, food as businesses reopen after protest:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/haitians-seek-water-food-as-businesses-reopen-after-protest/2019/02/18/faac31e6-3390-11e9-8375-e3dcf6b68558_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6097c385cbb5

* "Putin: We’ll Target U.S. if Trump Deploys Missiles in Europe:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-well-target-us-if-trump-deploys-missiles-in-europe

* "AP source: FBI had backup plan to save Russia probe evidence:" https://apnews.com/eda560d7427e4840bd988b0c194ed240

* "Justice Department preparing for Mueller report in coming days:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-preparing-for-mueller-report-in-coming-days/2019/02/20/c472691c-354b-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.55eaef97e364

* "Michael Cohen granted delay in reporting to prison:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/michael-cohen-jail/index.html

* "A.G. change may test steps taken to protect Trump investigations:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/a-g-change-may-test-steps-taken-to-protect-trump-investigations-1445890627805

* "Andrew McCabe: Mueller report should be made public:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/andrew-mccabe-tells-chris-hayes-the-mueller-report-should-be-public-1445820483717

* "Andrew McCabe tells Chris Hayes the president may be compromised:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/andrew-mccabe-tells-chris-hayes-the-president-may-be-compromised-1445824579513

* "Andrew McCabe Had Robert Mueller As A Boss:"

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* "Andrew McCabe: There Was No 'Coup' To Remove Trump:"

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* Meanwhile in autocracy news. "Justice Clarence Thomas Calls for Reconsideration of Landmark Libel Ruling:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/clarence-thomas-first-amendment-libel.html

* "Trump Attacks The Times, in a Week of Unease for the American Press:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/new-york-times-trump.html

* "Hill Democrats say Education Dept. tried to interfere in probe, remove investigator:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hill-democrats-say-education-dept-tried-interfere-probe-remove-investigator-n973256

* "Facing ethics violation, Wilbur Ross says he didn’t mean to file inaccurate financial disclosures:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/20/facing-ethics-violation-wilbur-ross-says-he-didnt-mean-file-inaccurate-financial-disclosures/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5d38532a77d1

* "U.S. agency to cancel $929 million in California high-speed rail funds:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rail-idUSKCN1Q82TH

* "White House prepares to scrutinize intelligence agencies’ finding that climate change threatens national security:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat/2019/02/19/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e194932e11ba

“We’re doing our best to try and counter this myth that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant,” he said. “It’s not a pollutant at all. . . . We should be telling the scientific truth, that more CO2 is actually a benefit to the earth.”

* "‘Sustained and ongoing’ disinformation assault targets Dem presidential candidates:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/2020-candidates-social-media-attack-1176018

* "Democrats see return of divisive social media manipulation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-see-return-of-divisive-social-media-manipulation-1445893699603

* "Kamala Harris - Seeking the Presidency to Preserve "The Truths We Hold" - Extended Interview:"

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* "Ex-Sessions spokeswoman to join CNN as political editor:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/19/sessions-sarah-isgur-cnn-political-editor-1174527

* "CNN’s hiring of a GOP operative as political editor is even worse than it looks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/cnns-hiring-of-a-gop-operative-as-political-editor-is-even-worse-than-it-looks/2019/02/20/93d03fa4-350b-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.97b5708a0cde

* "White House moves forward with wall funding despite lawsuits:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/politics/trump-wall-funding-emergency-lawsuits/index.html

* "Pelosi urges members to back resolution terminating national emergency:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/pelosi-resolution-national-emergency/index.html

* "Help wanted: Rural America needs immigrants:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/12/help-wanted-rural-america-needs-immigrants/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9e94cd055c11

* "‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/self-proclaimed-white-nationalist-planned-mass-terror-attack-government-says-i-am-dreaming-of-a-way-to-kill-almost-every-last-person-on-earth/2019/02/20/61daf6b8-3544-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d9131fcb7b83

* " Martina Navratilova Comes Out As A Transphobe :" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/02/martina-navratilova-comes-out-as.html

* "Proposed testosterone limit ’flawed’ and ‘hurtful’, say Caster Semenya’s lawyers:" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/19/caster-semenya-lawyers-testosterone-limit-flawed-hurtful-iaaf

* "'The story of a weird world I was warned never to tell':" https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42951788

* Yes this is a tumblr thread, but it sums up the Measles data really well and has sources: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/182948117320/washington-state-is-in-a-state-of-emergency-due-to

* "Rubella gave me a disability. This is my message to anti-vaxxers:" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/19/opinions/measles-outbreak-anti-vaccine-movement-disability-sjunneson-henry/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

* "For nearly 2 decades, Grand Canyon tourists were exposed to radiation beyond the federal limit, safety manager says:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/health/grand-canyon-radiation-museum-trnd/index.html

* "Hacker Breaks Down 26 Hacking Scenes From Movies & TV:"

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* "Brexit III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Invasion Of The Presidential Candidates:"

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* "The Most 'Bernie' Way To Kick Off A Campaign:"

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* "Trump Asked A Favor Of Matthew Whitaker:"

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* "America's Homegrown Opioid Crisis:"

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* "Drunk History - Drugs:" http://www.cc.com/episodes/5ws81b/drunk-history-drugs-season-6-ep-606

* "Late Late Live Tinder w/ Fan-Favorite Trevor:"

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* "Danielle Brooks - Black Woman:"

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* I did manage to forage Wednesday, which was good because we needed the perishables. The line was huge and I had to park far away.

We went out to do the thing where he tries to drive the car to the mechanic, but it sure sounded like engine and nor starter or alternator, so it had to be towed. This may be it for his truck and his car needs about $2000.00 of work to be drivable, so idk what happens next.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "U. S. charges Chinese hackers in alleged theft of vast trove of confidential data in 12 countries:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-and-more-than-a-dozen-allies-to-condemn-china-for-economic-espionage/2018/12/20/cdfd0338-0455-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.926859b84d99

* "N. Korea insists US act first before it gives up nukes:" https://apnews.com/9ad490e00ff5458daa98edb9745aa27e

* "Putin Welcomes U.S. Withdrawal From Syria as ‘Correct’:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/world/europe/putin-trump-syria.html

* "U.S. to Withdraw About 7,000 Troops From Afghanistan, Officials Say:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/politics/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal.html

* "Trump administration to lift sanctions on Russian oligarch’s companies, benefiting a Putin-linked bank:" https://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-putin-deripaska-paul-manafort-vtb-bank-glencore-1266018

* "President Trump signs $867 billion farm bill into law:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/20/president-trump-signs-billion-farm-bill-into-law/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb40ebf0df2d

* "Trump administration puts squeeze on food stamp recipients:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/20/trump-administration-food-stamps-snap-regulations

* "Trump goal of undercutting Mueller exposed in A.G. picks:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-goal-of-undercutting-mueller-exposed-in-a-g-picks-1403775043556

* "Nadler: Deeply un-American to think president cannot be indicted:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nadler-deeply-un-american-to-think-president-cannot-be-indicted-1403772995941

* "Jim Mattis, Defense Secretary, Resigns in Rebuke of Trump’s Worldview:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/us/politics/jim-mattis-defense-secretary-trump.html

* "Trump infidelity to allies drives Mattis to resign in protest:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-infidelity-to-allies-drives-mattis-to-resign-in-protest-1403773507510

* "Sen. Hirono on the chaos in Washington:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-hirono-on-the-chaos-in-washington-1403654211782

* "Whitaker rejected advice to recuse from Russia probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/matthew-whitaker-recusal-russia-investigation-1071488

* "Attorney general nominee wrote memo criticizing Mueller obstruction probe:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/attorney-general-nominee-wrote-memo-criticizing-mueller-obstruction-probe/2018/12/20/72a01304-044b-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4616b7391529

* "Rosenstein: AG nominee's memo had 'no impact' on Mueller probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/rosenstein-barr-memo-mueller-probe-1071029

* "House appears to send Roger Stone testimony to Mueller:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/house-roger-stone-testimony-mueller-1071601

* "Trump 2020 campaign used a shell company to pay ad buyers at the center of alleged illegal coordination scheme with NRA:" https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/trump-2020-campaign-coordination/

* "Mick Mulvaney as chief of staff: Let Trump be Trump:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/mick-mulvaney-trump-white-house-chief-of-staff-1070785

* "Judge blocks restrictions on who can apply for asylum:" https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article223312600.html

* I don't understand how this can be legal. "Migrants must wait in Mexico during immigration proceedings under Trump policy:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/trump-migrants-mexico-wait-1071030

* I'm going to miss him so much! "Rep. Gutierrez: Republicans 'want to end immigration':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-gutierrez-republicans-want-to-end-immigration-1403656259662

* "House and Senate on collision course as shutdown nears:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/20/border-wall-funding-house-1070940

* "GoFundMe campaign for border wall aims for a billion (at least):" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/19/trump-border-wall-gofundme-campaign-1070788

* "Trump says he won’t sign Senate deal to avert shutdown, demands funds for border security:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-continues-retreat-on-government-shutdown-threat-pledges-to-renew-border-control-battle-in-2019/2018/12/20/3143a752-0457-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a8d46f096ce8

* It's looking like the Republicans are deciding to vindictively shut down the government over the nonsensical border wall tht's not needed or wanted and which they insist Mexico will pay for which somehow means United States Taxpayers. IDK. I say Republicans because they voted for him; they chose to protect him rather than impeach him no matter how many high crimes and misdemeanors he flauntingly commits in public; and they are fleeing rather than putting together a veto proof package to keep the government open even though they know have Unified Control of our whole government.

Republicans did this. 45's been loudly bragging that he is laying off all those workers just before Christmas and it's all on him in his own words.

* TW: Pedophilia. "Ridiculously lenient Acosta/Epstein plea deal demands a federal investigation:" https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article223089740.html

* "Medical Detectives: The Last Hope For Families Coping With Rare Diseases:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/17/673066806/medical-detectives-the-last-hope-for-families-coping-with-rare-diseases

* "Girl, 7, takes dad to police over toilet:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46534681

* "The Trump Foundation Needs Your Help:"

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* "The Trumps And Charity Don't Seem To Mix:"

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* "Tucker Carlson's New Target: Gingerbread People:"

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* "James Recaps 2018 - Another Insane Year:"

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* My lungs went bad on me again today and the headache is back though not in force. These are normal fluctuations when I'm dealing with a pathogen. I improve, I relapse, I improve, I relapse. I did manage to rope Squirrel in for sheet change and his minute of bureaucracy help. I have done laundry and fed everyone, but little else. I only managed one necessary phone bureaucracy before bed because I was simply to tired to talk bureaucracy with people. Sigh. I did have a fascinating Sailpunk Ocean's 8/Harlots/Black Sails crossover pirate heist dream, which was fun, but had stunningly high death tol. Luckily, Harlots Nancy, Jack Rackham, and the pirate version of Cate Blanchett's Ocean's 8 character all survived.

As of Yesterday, LM has entirely resumed her nap migration pattern from back when the 4 originals were all together, where she naps in various places around the house instead of big constrained. She also whaps Tavy every time he jumps over her which is frankly deserved. Livia Sweetie simply goes around instead of hassling an old lady at nap time. LM: You kids get off my lawn!

* CW: graphic depiction of injuries. I stand by our decision to walk out of this when it was a second feature at the two dollar 4th run theater. "Diagnosing the Home Alone Burglars' Injuries: A Professional Weighs In:" http://mentalfloss.com/article/88380/diagnosing-home-alone-burglars-injuries-professional-weighs

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

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

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

* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html

They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001

* 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/

* 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* TW: Rape. "Spanish court again refuses gang rape conviction over attack:" https://nz.news.yahoo.com/spanish-court-again-refuses-gang-rape-conviction-over-111641372.html

* "New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/north-korea-satellite-images-missile-base/index.html

* "Istanbul prosecutor seeks arrest of Saudi officials over Khashoggi...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-turkey/istanbul-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-of-saudi-officials-over-khashoggi-killing-idUSKBN1O40W7

* "Mattis and Pompeo were 'misleading' in Khashoggi briefing, Murphy says:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/05/mattis-pompeo-khashoggi-briefing-murphy-1045365

* "Saudi-funded lobbyist paid for 500 rooms at Trump’s hotel after 2016 election:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/saudi-funded-lobbyist-paid-for-500-rooms-at-trumps-hotel-after-2016-election/2018/12/05/29603a64-f417-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5dc9e83087a9

* "Saudis spend big on Trump Hotel:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/saudis-spend-big-on-trump-hotel-1389915203662

* "Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up

* "Trump Awkwardly Sat With All The Living Ex-Presidents And First Ladies At George H.W. Bush's Funeral:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/trump-bush-funeral-presidents-awkward

* "Prosecutors ramp up foreign lobbying probe in New York:" https://apnews.com/756f95038fd14fa580ea43283f68dfcd

* "Feds Target Butina’s GOP Boyfriend as Foreign Agent:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-target-butinas-gop-boyfriend-as-foreign-agent

* "Desire to lift Russia sanctions common with Trump scandal players:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/desire-to-lift-russia-sanctions-common-with-trump-scandal-players-1390058051759

* "Mueller gives new details on Flynn’s secretive work for Turkey:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mueller-gives-new-details-flynn-s-secretive-work-turkey-n943926

* "Top FBI official Bill Priestap to retire:" https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/419768-top-fbi-official-bill-priestap-to-retire

* "Rudy Giuliani Says Twitter Sabotaged His Tweet. Actually, He Did It Himself.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-twitter-links.html

* "Hack of Republican e-mails kept secret, even from Republicans:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hack-of-republican-e-mails-kept-secret-even-from-republicans-1390052931886

* "Wisconsin Democrats look at legal options on lame-duck bills:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/wisconsin-democratic-lawsuits/index.html

* "Michigan Republicans Aim To Pass Bill To Limit Powers Of State Democrats:" https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673397918/michigan-republicans-aim-to-pass-bill-to-limit-powers-of-state-democrats

* "The Republicans' midwest power grab extends to Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-republicans-midwest-power-grab-extends-to-michigan-1389936195701

* "Why the case for election fraud in North Carolina is strong:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/politics/north-carolina-election-fraud/index.html

* "North Carolina Republicans Targeted Voter Fraud. Did They Look at the Wrong Kind?:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/politics/north-carolina-vote-fraud-absentee.html

* "North Carolina elections board issues subpoenas:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/north-carolina-elections-board-issues-subpoenas-1389936195956

* "National Republicans mum on apparent NC election fraud scheme:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/national-republicans-mum-on-apparent-nc-election-fraud-scheme-1390054979779

* "‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/12/05/we-are-trouble-global-carbon-emissions-reached-new-record-high/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0b5b3d2ecf2f

* "Mueller? Mueller?:"

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* "White Collar Crime:"

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* "Michael Flynn's Sentencing, Kevin Hart's Academy Awards Hosting Job & Trump's Awkward Funeral Moment:"

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* "Bill Gates Wants to Reinvent the Toilet:"

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* If Discworlders visited Hogwarts: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/180827786328/gallusrostromegalus-splinteredstar

* An interesting musing on cross cultural idea of friends: https://amaebi.dreamwidth.org/1580659.html

* Ends tonight; no bids. BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302973983569?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

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

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

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

* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html

They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001

* 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/

* 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

* 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? 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

* "Inside the secret killing house:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-46428073/burundi-inside-the-secret-killing-house

* "Gilets jaunes protests in France to continue despite fuel tax U-turn:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/04/french-government-to-suspend-fuel-tax-increase-say-reports

* "Qatar pulls out of Opec to focus on gas production:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/03/qatar-pulls-out-of-opec-to-focus-on-gas-production

* "The Guardian view on Brexit: the beginning of the end:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/04/the-guardian-view-on-brexit-the-beginning-of-the-end

* "Here’s what 4 Indigenous Leaders had to say about Brazil’s President-elect:" https://grist.org/article/4-indigenous-leaders-on-what-bolsonaro-means-for-brazil/

* "Bolsonaro’s election is catastrophic news for Brazil’s indigenous tribes:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-indigenous-tribes-mining-logging

* "What the Election of Bolsonaro Could Mean for the Future of Brazilian Rainforests and Indigenous…:" https://medium.com/the-climate-reporter/what-the-election-of-bolsonaro-could-mean-for-the-future-of-brazilian-rainforests-and-indigenous-d5d56a2b15dd

* "Russia breaching missile treaty:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46443672

* Looks to me like 45′s handler told him to change policy when they met “unofficially” at the G20. "Trump complains about cost of 'uncontrollable' arms race:" https://apnews.com/6d4ef944abd54aea9ad21d57a1d0bcd2

* "US senators: we're certain Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi's murder:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/04/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-crown-prince-senators-cia-briefing

* "US stock markets slide after Trump warns China: 'I am a Tariff Man':" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/04/us-stocks-plummet-unraveling-us-china-trade-truce-rattles-investors

* "Manafort Discussed Deal With Ecuador to Hand Assange Over to U.S.:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/04/the-guardian-view-on-brexit-the-beginning-of-the-end

* "Flying Trump to midterm rallies to stump for Republicans cost US taxpayers millions:" https://qz.com/1476502/flying-trump-to-midterm-rallies-for-republicans-cost-us-taxpayers-millions/

* "Judge green-lights subpoenas in Trump Hotel lawsuit:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/subpoenas-trump-hotel-emoluments-1041324

* "Stone pleads the Fifth to snub Senate document request:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/04/roger-stone-fifth-amendment-1044597

* "Michael Flynn: Mueller recommends no prison time for ex-Trump adviser:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/04/michael-flynn-sentence-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-latest

* "Mueller memo on Flynn shows cooperation on three investigations:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-memo-on-flynn-shows-cooperation-on-three-investigations-1388939843870

* "Another FBI official overseeing Trump Russia investigation exits:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/another-fbi-official-overseeing-trump-russia-investigation-exits-1388942403991

* "White House seeks to end subsidies for electric cars, renewables:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-autos/white-house-seeks-to-end-subsidies-for-electric-cars-renewables-idUSKBN1O22D4

* "Exclusive: Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/04/exclusive-emails-of-top-nrcc-officials-stolen-in-major-2018-hack-1043309

* "Man at center of North Carolina election fraud probe turned in hundreds of absentee ballot requests:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/politics/north-carolina-house-race-mccrae-dowless-absentee-ballots/index.html

* "Republican wins Ga. secretary of state election seen as voter suppression referendum:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/georgia-secretary-state-runoff-framed-proxy-gubernatorial-rematch/story?id=59483556

* "Homeland Security chief Nielsen has saved her job — for now:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/nielsen-trump-migrant-caravan-1041327

* "Two Minneapolis officers were put on leave after decorating their precinct with a 'racist' Christmas tree:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/03/us/minneapolis-racist-christmas-tree-trnd/index.html

* They shot him in the back for saving lives while black. "Emantic Bradford Was Shot By Police From Behind At Alabama Mall, Autopsy Shows:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/emantic-bradford-was-shot-by-police-from-behind-at-alabama-mall-autopsy-shows_us_5c06adf1e4b07aec575345cc

* "The Mind/Brain: Crash Course History of Science #30:"

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* "Planet Earth's Climate Change Episode:"

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* "Michael Cohen Doesn't Want To Go To Jail:"

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* "The Adventures Of Tariff Man:"

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* "Tariff Man May Have Spoken Too Soon:"

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* "Door-To-Door Voter Fraud In North Carolina:"

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* I had intended Tuesday as a day of rest. No. I spent most of the evening doing necessary and time consuming chores. I then spent most of the wee hours getting a Marsilikos alt ready to submit when I really should have been working on other things. I also had a record of two different friends talking to me on the phone in one evening for non-scheduling purposes. O.o

In other news, LM snuck into the bathroom cupboard in the approximately 30 seconds my back was turned to put bleach into the washing machine for the liner load. I only discovered this when I came to move the liner to the dryer because she heard me and started scratching. She’s been so feisty lately. She is old and dislikes jumping, but the night before made the leap from sofa to table so she could have a look around. I did not own that table when last she was willing to jump on stuff.o

* 1ish day; no bids. BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302973983569?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

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

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

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

* "Trump’s New Wall to Keep Out the Disabled:" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/opinion/trumps-disability-public-charge.html

They are soliciting public comment on these draconian regulations until December 10th here: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=USCIS-2010-0012-0001

* 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/

* 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

* 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? 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

* "Amazon and Apple data equipment hacked by China with super small chips, says Bloomberg:" https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/10/04/amazon-apple-data-equipment-hacked-china-chips-bloomberg.html

* "UK accuses Russian spies of cyber-attacks:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45741520

* "Russian Official Tied to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Trump Tower Lawyer, Is Dead:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-official-linked-to-natalia-veselnitskaya-the-trump-tower-lawyer-is-dead

* "U.S. indicts Russians in hacking of nuclear company Westinghouse:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-cyber/u-s-indicts-russians-in-hacking-of-nuclear-company-westinghouse-idUSKCN1ME1U6

* "US Navy proposing major show of force to warn China:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/us-navy-show-of-force-china/index.htmlv

* "Pence accuses China of trying to undermine Trump:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/04/pence-china-undermining-trump-868240

* "Melania Trump was greeted with a "not a shithole" sign as a "welcome to Malawi":" https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-greeted-shithole-sign-malawi-1152619

* "EPA left key official out of 'secret science' rule:" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/409777-epa-left-key-official-out-of-secret-science-rule

* "Special counsel's office has radio interviews between Roger Stone and alleged WikiLeaks 'back channel':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/kfile-roger-stone-randy-credico-special-counsel/index.htmlv

* "FBI confidential Kavanaugh report handed to White House, Senate:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mcconnell-sets-vote-friday-move-kavanaugh-confirmation-forward-n916491

* "More than 2,400 law professors urge senators to reject Kavanaugh:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/03/kavanaugh-confirmation-temperament-law-professors-868125

* "Key red state Democratic senator to vote no on Kavanaugh:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/heidi-heitkamp-kavanaugh-nomination-senate-democrat/index.html

* "GOP Sen. Daines out on Saturday; Kavanaugh vote could be held open overnight:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/kavanaugh-vote-steve-daines-senate/index.html

* "Kavanaugh does not belong on Supreme Court, retired Justice Stevens...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-stevens/kavanaugh-does-not-belong-on-supreme-court-retired-justice-stevens-says-idUSKCN1ME2P8

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren Casts Doubt On Thoroughness Of FBI Investigation Into Brett Kavanaugh:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/national-news/2018/10/04/senator-elizabeth-warren-casts-doubt-on-thoroughness-of-fbi-investigation-into-brett-kavanaugh

* "The single copy of the FBI's Kavanaugh report is behind closed doors. Here's what senators have to do to see it:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/senator-fbi-report-review/index.html

* "Menendez calls FBI's new probe of Kavanaugh a 'bullshit investigation':" https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/10/menendez_calls_fbis_new_probe_of_kavanaugh_a_bulls.html

* "Some undecided GOP senators on Kavanaugh call FBI report 'reassuring' and 'thorough':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/grassley-says-new-fbi-report-kavanaugh-includes-no-new-info-n916601

* "100,000 U.S. Christian Churches Demand Withdrawal of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Nomination:" http://fortune.com/2018/10/03/national-council-of-churches-demands-kavanaugh-withdraw/

* "Yale roommate says Kavanaugh lied under oath about drinking and yearbook:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/03/politics/yale-roommate-kavanaugh-cnntv/index.html

* "More than 300 protesters arrested as Kavanaugh demonstrations pack Capitol Hill:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/kavanaugh-protests-us-capitol/index.htmlv

* "Kavanaugh vote looms as GOP pushes and voices of protest rise:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-vote-looms-as-gop-pushes-and-voices-of-protest-rise-1337286211607?v=railb&

* "Meager FBI report no help to senators conflicted over Kavanaugh:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/meager-fbi-report-no-help-to-senators-conflicted-over-kavanaugh-1337268291877?v=railb&

* "Women rush to Washington to make objections to Kavanaugh heard:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/women-rush-to-washington-to-make-objections-to-kavanaugh-heard-1337266243696?v=railb&

* "Booker: FBI Kavanaugh report not a sincere effort to find truth:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/booker-fbi-kavanaugh-report-not-a-sincere-effort-to-find-truth-1337265731990?v=railb&

* "Chris Hayes on the presumption of innocence:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-presumption-of-innocence-1337169475819?v=railb&

* "Sen. Blumenthal: FBI's Kavanaugh report is a "cover-up":" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-blumenthal-fbi-s-kavanaugh-report-is-a-cover-up-1337173571900?v=railb&

* This tumblr thread has a whole bunch of sourcing links at the bottom for issues around Sexual Assault Accusations, memory of trauma, etc.. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/178754043117/tbc-since-tumblrs-posting-methods-changed-linked

* Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have Joe Manchin, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, or Lisa Murkowski. You may want to contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. Please keep the pressure on them!

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* "Judge blocks Trump from ending protections for 300,000 immigrants:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/03/immigrants-protections-trump-legal-868126

* "NC Trans Feminine Student Denied Run For Homecoming Queen:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/10/nc-trans-feminine-student-denied-run.html

* "Undercover Girl Scout - Extended:"

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* "Trump Takes A Stand For The Real Victims: Men:"

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* "Kavanaugh's Drinking Buddy Speaks Out:"

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* So the Imperial Couple get crunchy treat from me of an evening, but LM gets soft treats from Squirrel separately. I want to be clear that they all get treats. LM still has her teeth and will nibble at kibbles, but won't eat anywhere near enough for her to survive on. She hates senior kittie dental treats and prefers the type I used to give the cats when she and her brother first came to live with us, so that's what squirrel gives her. She also really doesn't like to eat with the rambunctious youngsters. This is accommodation; not cruelty. Still, she does like the occasional crunchy treat too and we try to encourage her to eat hrd things when she's willing to do it, so I like to slip her one when I give mine treats if she's visible without be encroaching on Squirrel's room, since I only cross his threshold in emergencies. If she's not around, I'll hide one where Livia isn't likely to sniff it out and give it to LM next i notice her wandering past.

Last night, I was doing this, and was making a small scale fuss like cats enjoy, and livia got all excited. "The Hu-mon said 'Good Girl!' I'm Good Girl! That must mean something for me!" She came barrelling over, but LM had already gnoshed the treat, so all poor Livia got was Pettins and a Good Girl fuss of her own, as she had had her share earlier. The Heartbreak! The Cruelty!

I am for real sick, which is very annoying. This week, for the first time, Livia stopped running away in terror when I cough. She' a cat; she emphatically doesn't like it. She will wake from her nap and peer worriedly at me. If i keep coughing, she makes a rather plaintive meep. If I still inexplicably continue coughing she wanders off to the other room to continue her nap. Progress. I'm not ill enough yet for cough until I pass out, or wake up because I'm suffocating, both of which are notoriously unnerving to cats, but this is for sure progress, what with me having a serious degenerative lung disease that will likely kill me one day.

I still haven't got the flat decorations up, and I can't handle oils, so I can't do sale prep for another round of BPALs. Puttering is all I can really manage, and I'm pasted together with a lot of medication.

* "fuck it until you make it:" http://sodiumflare.tumblr.com/post/178748023675/fuck-it-until-you-make-it

* A Delightfully nerdy debate about Legolas' dialect of Sindarin vs. Frodo's version.: http://sodiumflare.tumblr.com/post/178748054535/musicalhell-penny-anna-sainatsukino

* "Killjoys: Season 4, Episode 9: The Kids Are Alright:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/10/killjoys-season-4-episode-9-kids-are.html

"Instead they settle into a kind of fun dynamic where Turin is the grumpy father figure and they’re all his wise-cracking kids who respect him and love him but don’t necessarily do as they’re told. Especially Pree and Dutch who are the Problem Children."

* From Bucky Barnes' perspective: http://sodiumflare.tumblr.com/post/178715506595/shaylogic-one-of-my-first-thoughts-when-i-woke

* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $150.00 behind on bills. 2ish Days; no bids. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

The all items for sale link is here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302887410358

BPAL: Regina Erebi (2011) (Halloween : An Evening in Hades (LE)): The Queen of Hell: pomegranate, spear mint, black mulberry, and myrrh. 1/2 Full & Scorpio (2007) (Celestials (LE)). 1-2 Imps worth. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Regina-Erebi-2011-Halloween-An-Evening-in-Hades-Scorpio-2007/302887503915?hash=item468580882b:g:rlMAAOSwb2JboFtP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Indonesia tsunami deaths pass 1,300:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45716915

* "U.S. would destroy banned Russian warheads if necessary: NATO envoy:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-russia/u-s-would-destroy-banned-russian-warheads-if-necessary-nato-envoy-idUSKCN1MC1J6

* "Suspected ricin detected in mail sent to Trump, Pentagon:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/02/politics/pentagon-ricin-mail/index.html

* "Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

* "Trumps could face legal liability for newly exposed schemes:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trumps-could-face-legal-liability-for-newly-exposed-schemes-1335423043833?v=railb&

* "Federal judge: Democrats in Congress can sue Trump in emoluments case:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/09/29/federal-judge-democrats-congress-can-sue-trump-emoluments-case/1470694002/

* O.o "‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team:" https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

* "Experts say Trump's EPA moving to loosen radiation limitsExperts say Trump's EPA moving to loosen radiation limits:" https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57

* "White House corrects Trump's insult in press conference transcript:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/02/white-house-trump-transcript-reporter-860406

* "Manafort meets with Mueller prosecutors:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/01/paul-manafort-meets-mueller-prosecutors-855388

* "Roger Stone associate to plead 5th before Senate panel:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/01/roger-stone-associate-senate-panel-855644

* "Trump Directed Legal Action to Enforce Stormy Daniels’s Hush Agreement:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-directed-legal-action-to-enforce-stormy-danielss-hush-agreement-1538478000v

* "New hacking case referred to Robert Mueller investigation:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-hacking-case-referred-to-robert-mueller-investigation-1335450691692?v=railb&

* Regardless of the results, of course. "McConnell: Senate will hold Kavanaugh vote 'this week':" https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/409340-mcconnell-senate-will-hold-kavanaugh-vote-this-week

* "Amid Kavanaugh allegations, Trump says it's 'very scary time for young men' in US:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-donald-trump-scary-time-young-men-america/story?id=58236516

* "Here’s where Kavanaugh’s sworn testimony was misleading or wrong:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2018/09/28/heres-where-kavanaughs-sworn-testimony-was-misleading-or-wrong/?utm_term=.0ed39fe7d4c3&__twitter_impression=true&noredirect=on

* "Opinion | If we want to protect the Supreme Court’s legitimacy, Kavanaugh should not be on it:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/09/29/if-we-want-to-protect-the-supreme-courts-legitimacy-kavanaugh-should-not-be-on-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.49b3f8bb3a6c

* "FBI investigation of Kavanaugh leads to fresh acrimony as McConnell pushes for vote - Los Angeles Times:" http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-kavanaugh-court-investigation-20181002-story.html

* "Deborah Ramirez’s attorney: FBI has not contacted witnesses who may have information about Boulder woman’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh:" https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/02/deborah-ramirez-fbi-brett-kavanaugh-investigation/

* "Ford demands interview in FBI probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/02/when-will-senate-vote-brett-kavanaugh-861232

* "Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick speaks out on sexual abuse allegations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/kavanaugh-accuser-julie-swetnick-speaks-out-sexual-abuse-allegations-n915641

* "Sen. Collins calls for FBI to investigate 3rd woman’s accusation in broader Kavanaugh probe:" https://www.pressherald.com/2018/10/01/sen-collins-wants-swetnick-interviewed-as-part-of-broader-investigation-into-kavanaugh/

* "Brett Kavanaugh Slapped With Two Official Ethics Complaints in Merrick Garland’s Jurisdiction:" https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/brett-kavanaugh-slapped-with-two-official-ethics-complaints-in-d-c-circuit-court/

* "Kavanaugh investigation reportedly near end despite loose ends:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-investigation-reportedly-near-end-despite-loose-ends-1335459907972?v=railb&

* "Confidence shaky in restricted FBI investigation of Kavanaugh:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/confidence-shaky-in-restricted-fbi-investigation-of-kavanaugh-1335418435588?v=railb&

* "The political power of women's anger:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-political-power-of-women-s-anger-1335318083818?v=railb&

* Why women don't report and why Kavanaugh shouldn't be on the Court: https://marahmarie.dreamwidth.org/412522.html

* Me responding to a Tumblr troll re Sexual Assault on the Democratic side:

Which is why I voted for Tsongas in the Democratic primary back in 1992 and voted for... I think it was Nader in ‘96. (Not 2000, obviously because I am not an idiot. Not coincidentally, I believe the President shouldn’t be one either). I’ve been against Bill Clinton for literally decades. However, last I checked 45 has bragged about sexually assaulting women, 30 some odd have accused him, and that one rape case was going to trial and would have if he hadn’t won the electoral college, escalating the death threats, etc.. He also liked looking at underage girls while they were naked, which is eww.

I also have been quite vocal about predators on the left and support them losing their jobs and public offices. If you’d read any of my stuff you’d know that. Ex: Weinstein and Franken. You can do a search under my tagged entries and I know you’d find my posts against Al Franken. My money IS where my mouth is; is yours? I do not thing sexual predators should be in Any Office, whether the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the Congress, or any other office. I don’t think they should be in charge of things like the local supermarket or Burger King either.

I say Investigate them ALL, and fire and wherever possible indict as many as possible.

Right now though? There is already one Sexual Predator too many on the Supreme Court. Let’s not have two.

I would like to point out that Kavanaugh has also recieved and used stolen information and has repeatedly committed perjury in his first confirmation hearing for the judgeship and in this set of confirmation hearings both around his work with Ken Starr and regarding his drinking. He’s also screamed Conspiracy theories, threatened a host of organizations and an entire political party, which shows extreme bias, displayed misogyny in his behavior towards women senators, and just generally showed that he hasn’t got judicial temperament. Even without the Attempted Rape, he should be disbarred for the perjury alone and is clearly not fit to judge a pie eating contest let alone cases that will decide the law of the land for generations to come.

So stop concern trolling, and join me in demanding that all sexual predators lose their jobs and offices regardless of the politics.

* "Women are mad as hell, for sure. But if they want to see how powerful white men (and the women who enable them) leverage anger to dominate the rest of us, we've just had a potent demonstration of how that works.:" https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/daddys-on-warpath-so-what.html

* Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp. You may want to contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. If you have Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, or Lisa Murkowski, please keep calling to ask them to vote no. Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski remain the best bets, so please keep the pressure on them!

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* "Why Amazon Really Raised Its Minimum Wage to $15:" https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-really-raised-minimum-wage/

* "Hunter tries to link Democratic opponent to 'radical Islamists':" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/01/duncan-hunter-radical-islam-855384

* "Republicans are deploying staggeringly racist ads in upstate New York:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/republicans-anthony-delgado-big-city-rapper/

* "DHS falsely claimed a database tracked separated families, watchdog says :" http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-tns-bc-immigration-families-20181002-story.html

* "Scathing report on Trump admin. child separation policy:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/scathing-report-on-trump-admin-child-separation-policy-1335324739885?v=railb&

* "Former Trump Staffer Jason Miller Accused of Slipping Mistress an 'Abortion Pill':" https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/26/former-trump-staffer-jason-miller-accused-slipping-mistress-abortion-pill/

* "US begins denying visas for same-sex domestic partners of diplomats:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/02/us-visas-same-sex-domestic-partners-diplomats-un-staff-denied

* "Brazilian Trans People Running For Office:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/10/brazilian-trans-people-running-for.html

* "Gender-Reveal Party Accident Leaves Border Agent Bearing Guilt For Wildfire:" https://www.npr.org/2018/10/01/653394132/gender-reveal-party-accident-leaves-border-agent-bearing-guilt-for-wildfire

* "Monkeys’ cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication:" https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27675-monkeys-cosy-alliance-with-wolves-looks-like-domestication/

* "The U.S. Prepares to Test Nationwide Text Alerts & Amazon Raises Its Minimum Wage:"

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* "Brett Kavanaugh's 1985 Bar Brawl:"

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* "Back in Black - Electric Scooter Sharing Apps:"

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* "Kim Jong-Un Responds To Trump Using The L-Word:"

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* "Kavanaugh May Have Boofed The Truth During His Testimony:"

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* "Eric Idle Partied With The Original 'Star Wars' Cast:"

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* Livia keeps kidnapping Halloweentown Citizens to play with. So far she's stolen a zombie, Death, and Frankenstein's monster, as far as I can tell. My guess is she's carrying them away in her mouth, as none of them were broken. I dis find a broken skeleton when I unpacked them, but it was the one Tavy broke last year knocking it off the window seat and it just looks like the glue unstuck, which happens. I got Halloweentown entirely up and running, which just leaves exterior flat decorations. Pics here of inside: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/178685801297/gothmas-interior

I took the string to Fix It. It was a blown fuse. Unfortunately, when I replaced it, it blew another, so I really need a new string. Sigh.

* Sometimes doing this work of documenting what may be the Series finale of the United States of America feels like screaming into the void. (I hope not still, though I am frightened since it looks like we are nearly out of exit ramps). I want to thank all of you who me every day that that's not the case. It matters to me that people do find some of this useful, that it is in fact helping someone.

So thank you all for the kind words and thoughts, and for my tumblr folk, the likes and reblogs. At times like this it is good to have reminders that we aren't alone.

Be decent to each other, please, and most of all keep fighting.

* Hairy Palms: masturbation and lycanthropy: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/178697067187/shetanshadowwolf-prokopetz

* It's ebay time again. I am now I am about $120.00 behind on bills. 4ish Days; no bids. If you'd like to chip in directly towards helping me pay my bills Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

The all items for sale link is here: https://www.ebay.com/sch/lethran/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

BPAL: Krampus (2012) (Yule (LE)): Sinister red musk, black leather, dusty rags, and wooden switches. Just Below shoulder. https://www.ebay.com/itm/302887410358

BPAL: Regina Erebi (2011) (Halloween : An Evening in Hades (LE)): The Queen of Hell: pomegranate, spear mint, black mulberry, and myrrh. 1/2 Full & Scorpio (2007) (Celestials (LE)). 1-2 Imps worth. https://www.ebay.com/itm/BPAL-Regina-Erebi-2011-Halloween-An-Evening-in-Hades-Scorpio-2007/302887503915?hash=item468580882b:g:rlMAAOSwb2JboFtP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Adultery no longer a crime in India:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45404927

* "Court Lifts Ban on Women in Prominent Hindu Temple in India:" https://www.voanews.com/a/india-court-lifts-ban-women-prominent-hindu-temple/4591637.html

* "A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/

* "Farmers Say Aid Won’t Cover Tariff Damage:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/farmers-say-aid-wont-cover-tariff-damage-1537974178

* "Trump administration argues that Earth will inevitably be ruined by climate change, so we might as well keep using fossil fuels:" http://theweek.com/speedreads/798874/trump-administration-argues-that-earth-inevitably-ruined-by-climate-change-might-well-keep-using-fossil-fuels

* "EPA makes changes at research, child health offices:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/politics/epa-research-changes/index.html

* "Big donor to Trump campaign made overture to top Russian official, boasting of connections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/big-donor-trump-campaign-made-overture-top-russian-official-boasting-n913791

* "U.S. House committee votes to release Trump-Russia transcripts:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-congress/u-s-house-committee-votes-to-release-trump-russia-transcripts-idUSKCN1M820J

* "House Judiciary panel subpoenas Andrew McCabe memos, Carter Page surveillance documents:" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-house-judiciary-andrew-mccabe-memos-carter-page-surveillance-documents-20180927-story.html

* "Mueller witness who testified against Russians fears for his life: Court filing:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mueller-witness-testified-russians-fears-life-court-filing/story?id=58127210

* "Two red state Democrats announce opposition to Kavanaugh:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/28/politics/joe-donnelly-kavanaugh-nomination/index.html

* "Trump’s Pentagon Quietly Made A Change To The Stated Mission It’s Had For Two Decades:" https://taskandpurpose.com/pentagon-mission/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&utm_content=tp-share

* "Under pressure, Trump orders FBI to investigate Kavanaugh amid sex misconduct allegations:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-judiciary-committee-postpones-kavanaugh-decision-friday-afternoon-n914676

* "Kavanaugh confirmation hits major snag after Flake seeks FBI probe:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/28/flake-will-vote-to-confirm-kavanaugh-to-the-supreme-court-851291

* "American Bar Association: Delay Kavanaugh until FBI investigates allegations:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/27/politics/kavanaugh-american-bar-association/index.html

* "Yale Law School Says Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination Should Be Delayed So The FBI Can Investigate:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/otilliasteadman/brett-kavanaugh-yale-law-school-delay-senate-fbi

* "The Latest: Biden hails Ford's 'courageous' testimony:" https://apnews.com/6cd0cc2774d94da68fc9b92b6f2dae42/The-Latest:-Judge-says-he'll-cooperate-with-investigation

* "Democratic Sen. Feinstein attacks Kavanaugh's temperament after his 'belligerent' testimony:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/28/sen-dianne-feinstein-rips-brett-kavanaughs-belligerent-testimony.html

* The Jesuits have turned on him. O.o "The Editors: It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn:" https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/09/27/editors-it-time-kavanaugh-nomination-be-withdrawn

* File under hypotheticals for next year. "House Judiciary Committee Democrats Ready To Investigate Brett Kavanaugh:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-judiciary-committee-kavanaugh_us_5bae3d5ee4b0b4d308d277d9

* "Booker: Hearing showed need for FBI investigation of Kavanaugh:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/booker-hearing-showed-need-for-fbi-investigation-of-kavanaugh-1332536899672?v=railb&

* "Concern for comity, collegiality moved Flake on FBI concession:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/concern-for-comity-collegiality-moved-flake-on-fbi-concession-1332536387717?v=railb&

* "Kavanaugh credibility questioned even before assault accusations:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-credibility-questioned-even-before-assault-accusations-1332536899991?v=railb&

* "Kavanaugh's partisan rage at hearing calls fitness into question:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-s-partisan-rage-at-hearing-calls-fitness-into-question-1332540995673?v=railb&

* "Kavanaugh rant raises questions about his political impartiality:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/kavanaugh-rant-raises-questions-about-his-political-impartiality-1332534851612?v=railb&

* "How Jeff Flake's turnaround on Kavanaugh went down:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-jeff-flake-s-turnaround-on-kavanaugh-went-down-1332454979741?v=railb&

* "Christine Blasey Ford's family speaks out:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/christine-blasey-ford-s-family-speaks-out-1332464195718?v=railb&

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* Me responding to someone on Tumblr who seemed to not know a really basic thing about how things work:

@champagnebeneaththestars "FBI has no jurisdiction over it...thats why they refused."

You are flat out wrong. The FBI does background checks for judicial nominees all the time. It is literally part of their job. On previous occasions, like the Tower and Thomas confirmation hearings, where more information emerged after the initial hearings, new more focused background investigation was ordered from the FBI to investigate the allegations, after which the hearings were reopened.

This is the normal procedure in cases like this. Either the President or the Congress can order the FBI to do more background checks. The judiciary committee could also hire an independent non-partisan investigator. Republicans are refusing to do allow of those things even though that is the normal precedent.

Every time you hear a Republican politician claim FBI doesn’t do background checks, they are lying. Chuck Grassley was on the Judiciary Committee during the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Hearings in which the FBI did exactly the sort of background check we are asking for. He is lying and he knows he is lying every time he says the FBI doesn’t do background checks.

UPDATE: Flake and Murkowski have joined the Democrats in wanting an FBI Background check, and the FBI now has a week to investigate the allegations.

Which is AGAIN literally part of their job.

* We are making progress! Please, please, please if you can manage it, contact your Senators to get them to fight the Kavanaugh nomination. This is geometrically more important if you have a centrist Democrat like Joe Manchin, Doug Jones, and Heidi Heitkamp (Donnelly and Tester are now no on Kavanaugh. If you are a constituent, consider thanking them for doing the right thing.); or Republicans like. You may want to contact Chuck Schumer and ask him to whip the Democrats so as to get them to stand in united opposition. If you have Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, or Lisa Murkowski, please keep calling to ask them to vote no. Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski remain the best bets, so please keep the pressure on them! Flake and Murkowski have joined the Democrats in demanding an FBI Background check, and the FBI now has a week to investigate the allegations, so there is still time to make your voice heard!

Protest in person if you can, but if you can’t, here are some other options:

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

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

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

* The descriptions of Kavanaugh in High School and college are all too painfully familiar to me. I'm going to talk about sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape under the cut.

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* "Zimbabwe court to hear opposition election challenge August 22:" https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/zimbabwe-court-to-hear-opposition-election-challenge-august-22-20180816

* "Australia battles winter bushfires:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45203946

* "Bali earthquake update: Death toll rises as Lombok STILL being hit by 4.5 tremors:" https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1004287/bali-earthquake-update-death-toll-lombok-indonesia-tremors

* "New fund unveiled to tackle rough sleeping:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45162892

* "'Miracle escape' stories emerge in Genoa:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45208420

* "The Guardian view on the Genoa bridge collapse: human disaster and Italian parable | Editorial:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/16/the-guardian-view-on-the-genoa-bridge-collapse-human-disaster-and-italian-parable

* "Brussels rejects Italy's claim bridge collapse linked to EU spending rules:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/brussels-rejects-italy-claim-genoa-bridge-collapse-linked-to-eu-spending-rules

* "Bridges across Europe are in a dangerous state, warn experts:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/bridges-across-europe-are-in-a-dangerous-state-warn-experts

* "Westminster crash terror suspect named:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45193781

* "French judge charges 2 German officials in campsite flood:" http://www.waff.com/2018/08/16/french-judge-charges-german-officials-campsite-flood/

* "Portugal fires finally extinguished after seven days:" https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/portugal-fires-algarve-travel-safe-monchique-smoke-a8486226.html

* "Argentine woman dies trying to induce miscarriage after Senate rejects abortion bill:" https://www.newsweek.com/woman-dies-after-using-parsley-induce-miscarriage-first-death-argentina-1073864

* TW: Pedophilia. "Report damns culture of acceptance of sexual abuse at two Catholic schools:" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/09/report-damns-culture-of-acceptance-of-sexual-abuse-at-two-catholic-schools

* "North Korea: US calls on Russia and China to tackle breaches of oil sanctions:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/20/north-korea-mike-pompeo-russia-china-oil-sanctions

* "Internet Shutdown: 2018 the Worst Year Already, Reveals RTI:" https://www.thequint.com/news/india/2018-internet-shutdowns-shot-up-says-rti

* "Lula registers for Brazil race from jail as thousands rally:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics-lula/brazils-lula-to-register-as-presidential-candidate-from-jail-idUSKBN1L01M8

* "Kim Jong-nam murder case to go to trial:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45204546

* *Facepalm* "Donald Trump: 'Our country was built on Tariffs':" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-country-built-tariffs-163232533.html

* "Trump's military parade is estimated to cost $92 million – $80 million more than earlier estimate:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/trump-military-parade-expected-to-cost-80-million-more-than-estimated.html

* "Senate adopts resolution declaring "the press is not the enemy of the people":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-unanimously-passes-resolution-declaring-the-press-is-not-the-enemy-of-the-people/

* "More than 300 newspapers to join editorial response to Trump's attack:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/300-newspapers-publish-editorials-response-trumps-attack-media/story?id=57194338

* "Boston Globe receives threats after Trump slams coordinated editorials:" https://boingboing.net/2018/08/16/boston-globe-receives-threats.html

* "Commander Of Bin Laden Raid: Revoke My Security Clearance Too, Trump:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/commander-bin-laden-raid-security-clearance_us_5b75ccf7e4b05906b4117dc5

* "Admiral who oversaw Bin Laden raid to Trump: 'Revoke my security clearance, as well':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/admiral-who-oversaw-bin-laden-raid-tells-trump-revoke-my-n901421

* "Trump cites Russia probe as motive for revoking ex-CIA director's clearance:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cites-russia-probe-motivation-revoking-cia-directors/story?id=57212696

* Well this is chilling. "Maddow: Trump isn't attacking critics, he's going after witnesses:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-trump-isn-t-attacking-critics-he-s-going-after-witnesses-1300799555807?v=railb

* "Witness Andrew Miller refuses to testify before Mueller grand jury:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/manhattan-madam-set-testify-mueller-grand-jury-friday-afternoon-n899571

* "Senate confirms the 25th and 26th appellate judges during Trump's tenure:" https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Senate-confirms-the-25th-and-26th-appellate-13161552.php

* "Tape hints Kavanaugh opposes marriage equality, abortion rights:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/tape-hints-kavanaugh-opposes-marriage-equality-abortion-rights-1300813379504?v=railb

* "Kavanaugh on Scalia: A 'role model' and a 'judicial hero':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/politics/brett-kavanaugh-antonin-scalia-role-model-supreme-court/index.html

* "Trump appoints Oklahoma professor to lead science policy office:" https://phys.org/news/2018-08-trump-oklahoma-professor-science-policy.html

* "Documents Reveal Successful Cyberattack in California Congressional Race:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/california-election-hacking-711202/

* "Republicans Don’t Just Want to Win—They Want to Rig the Game:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-dont-just-want-to-winthey-want-to-rig-the-game

* "Why Republicans Just Impeached the Entire West Virginia Supreme Court:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/west-virginia-supreme-court-why-republicans-just-impeached-all-four-sitting-justices.html

* "N.M. Compound Members Granted Bail In Child Abuse Case; Judge Gets Death Threats:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/15/638759921/new-mexico-compound-members-are-granted-bail-judge-receives-death-threats

* "John Carlos Frey: Deported Parents Say Trump Administration Is Still Separating Families at Border:" https://www.democracynow.org/2018/8/15/john_carlos_frey_deported_parents_say

* "Virginia Republicans just nominated an alt-right hero to run for Senate:" https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17458452/alt-right-corey-stewart-virginia-gopv

"Republican candidate with a birther past and connections to white nationalists and a virulent anti-Semite is the face of the Republican Party in Virginia this year."

* "A Holocaust denier is running for Congress. One of his constituents would be Auschwitz prisoner No. 27,276.:" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-mcqueary-holocaust-denier-illinois-election-20180814-story.html#

* "Washington state Republican official resigns after hosting white supremacist:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/washington-state-republican-official-resigns-after-hosting-white-supremacist/

* Can we take a moment to take in the fact that so many Republican candidates and officials are either openly NAZIs and NAZI sympathizers in this country that the Times of Israel is now covering state politics? Just saying.

* "Cuba may legalize marriage equality. That doesn’t mean it’s a gay paradise.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/cuba-may-legalize-marriage-equality-doesnt-mean-gay-paradise/

* "Christine Hallquist Becomes First Trans Candidate to Win Major Party Nomination for Governor:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/christine-hallquist-becomes-first-trans-candidate-to-win-major-party-nomination-for-governor-711320/

* "Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/entertainment/aretha-franklin-dead/index.html

* "Aretha Franklin - Think (feat. The Blues Brothers):"

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* "Aretha Franklin - Respect [1967] (Original Version):"

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* "Fascists to Watch 2018:"

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* "Undocumented Immigrants Make Your Food:"

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* "Trump Feuds with Omarosa Over His Alleged Racial Slur & A Hippo Gets Its Ass Slapped in L.A.:"

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* "Trump's Obvious Attempt to change the Subject:"

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* Today among other useful things I finished the Great Rough Sort and Consolidation of the Tal Memorial comic collection. I'm not convinced there isn't a lost box of comics somewhere, but I don't have it in me to look. I was helped greatly by Tavy sleeping through most of it in my bedroom, though alas, he turned up during my meal break and decided to Get Involved. Sigh. No permanent damage was done, though he managed to terrify Livia who was peacefully poking around the windowsill, Poor Sweetie Girl. Her idea of helping is to hang out in the vicinity for company, not take flying leaps onto piles of slippery bagged comics sending them and oneself sliding everywhere, then darting around panicking for maximum chaos. I still need to sample the limited runs I haven't got to yet to see if they are staying or going, go through everything again in case of misfiles, and fine sort into numerical order. Literally decades of comics. Then find someone willing to help me take the boxes I don't want Downtown and someone to help me take most of the rest back upstairs, dismantle the storage stacks, sort Those One more Time, and put everything back properly. *shudder* I need it to be over soon so I will have room for Gothmas decorating come September. I am not sanguine it will all be done even close to then. Still, I feel really accomplished and I'm not sharing the sofa with project segments anymore and a got a useful chunk of table back.

* As you can see by the news spam, I am close to catching up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Comoros row with France intensifies as turmoil brews at home:" http://africanarguments.org/2018/06/29/comoros-row-france-intensifies-mayotte-turmoil-brews-home/

* "Meet the girls who dream of being Gurkhas:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-44983991/gurkha-women-it-s-my-turn-to-prove-myself

* "A Japanese Medical University Lowered Female Students' Scores Because It Didn't Want Too Many Women Doctors:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kassycho/japan-tokyo-medical-university-lower-female-score-women

* TW: Pedophilia. "German couple who sold son to paedophiles on darknet jailed:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/german-couple-who-sold-son-to-paedophiles-on-darknet-jailed

* "Malta journalist 'threatened for years':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45129142

* "‘We don’t have a single friend’: Canada’s Saudi spat reveals country is alone:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/11/canada-saudi-arabia-support-us

* "How Iran is countering Trump’s new sanctions:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pawva8/how-iran-is-countering-trumps-new-sanctions

* "Lack of leadership leaves locals on front lines of cyber defense:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lack-of-leadership-leaves-locals-on-front-lines-of-cyber-defense-1300008515865?v=railb

* "Senate Intel Wants To Follow The Money In The Russia Probe. But Treasury Isn't Making That Easy.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/senate-intel-wants-to-follow-the-money-in-the-russia-probe

* "When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out." - 45 describing Omarosa Manigault Newman in words that with a change of pronoun would perfectly describe himself.

* "Sanders 'can't guarantee' Trump hasn't used the n-word:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-nword/index.html

* "Reporter wrecks Trump’s rationale for revoking Brennan’s clearance by pointing out they haven’t revoked Flynn’s:" https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/reporter-wrecks-trumps-rationale-revoking-brennans-clearance-pointing-havent-revoked-flynns/

* "Trump revokes former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/trump-revokes-former-cia-director-john-brennans-security-clearance.html

* "Trump is 'trying to get back at me' by revoking my security clearance: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/brennan-trump-is-trying-to-get-back-at-me-by-revoking-my-security-c.html

* "Treasury Department deletes a Trump election retweet that experts say violated an ethics law:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/15/treasury-department-retweets-post-touting-red-wave-which-experts-sa.html

* "White House wrongly claims Trump created more jobs for black Americans than Obama did:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/white-house-overstates-job-gains-for-black-americans-under-trump.html

45 claimed, with typical quality Republican math that 700,000 is 3x larger than 3 million. O.o

* "Trump signs McCain defense measure, doesn't thank McCain:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/politics/donald-trump-john-mccain-defense-spending/index.html

* "Unlike Nixon, Trump admin pursues enemies list in public:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unlike-nixon-trump-admin-pursues-enemies-list-in-public-1299998787928?v=railb

* "Brennan experience worth less than petty payback for Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/brennan-experience-worth-less-than-petty-payback-for-trump-1300005955723?v=railb

* "Swalwell: Revoking security clearances 'makes us less safe':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/swalwell-revoking-security-clearances-makes-us-less-safe-1299908163592?v=railb

* "Fmr. Acting CIA Dir.: Trump is attempting to 'muzzle free speech':" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fmr-acting-cia-dir-trump-is-attempting-to-muzzle-free-speech-1299928131878?v=railb

* "Peter Strzok fired from the FBI:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/13/politics/peter-strzok-fired-fbi/index.html

* "Manafort trial goes to jury with a bumpy conclusion:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manafort-trial-goes-to-jury-with-a-bumpy-conclusion-1300005955546?v=railb

* No. It's not. Not even a little. "White House: It’s in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-its-in-public-interest-for-staff-to-skirt-ethics-rules-to-meet-with-fox-news

* "Don't blame wildfires on climate change – it's environmentalists' fault, says Zinke:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/13/us-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-climate-change-environmentalists

* The Republican Vendetta against our Troops continues. "White House Takes Aim At Financial Protections For Military:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/13/637992389/white-house-takes-aim-at-financial-protections-for-military

* "Pentagon spokeswoman probed for misusing staff, retaliating against complaints:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/pentagon-white-spox-probe/index.html

* O.o "Roger Stone posts then deletes Nazi Space Force meme. He says he didn’t notice the swastikas.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/14/roger-stone-posts-then-deletes-nazi-space-force-meme-he-says-he-didnt-notice-the-swastikas/?utm_term=.59bb53833289

* "Conway struggles to name African-Americans in White House:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/12/politics/kellyanne-conway-white-house-staff/index.html

* "Omarosa: DeVos said black college students lack the ‘capacity to understand’ her agenda:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/14/omarosa-devos-black-college-students-777522

* "Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/13/trump-white-house-staff-golf-clubs-perks-776098

* "Documents Reveal Successful Cyberattack in California Congressional Race:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/california-election-hacking-711202/

* "Kris Kobach Ruined the Kansas GOP Primary Just Like He Ruins Everything Else:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/kris-kobach-ruined-the-2018-kansas-gop-primary-just-like-he-ruins-everything-else.html

* "After defeat of right to work, Missouri Democrats hope labor energy can flip seats:" https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article216627050.html

* "What Is QAnon? Here's What You Need To Know About The Baseless Mega-Conspiracy Theory:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/qanon-trump-rally-conspiracy-theory?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

* "NYC considers new pay rules for rideshare app drivers:" https://nypost.com/2018/07/02/nyc-considers-new-pay-rules-for-rideshare-app-drivers/

* "California police are facing backlash after publishing Antifa protesters' names and mugshots:" https://www.newsweek.com/antifa-names-and-mugshots-published-california-police-disturbing-move-1060272

* "Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.:" https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351

"I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses— the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants — been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom. The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the “America first” nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees. Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family likely would have been murdered by the Nazis along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol. I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him."

* TW: Domestic Violence. "Keith Ellison Wins Primary In Minnesota, As DNC Reviews Domestic Abuse Allegations:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14/638654866/dnc-reviewing-domestic-abuse-allegations-against-deputy-chair-ellison

* "The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course History of Science #16:"

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* "All Night Demon Dance Party - Kathakali: Crash Course Theater #24:"

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* "China, Zaju, and Beijing Opera: Crash Course Theater #25:"

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* "Newton and Leibniz: Crash Course History of Science #17:"

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* "The Trump Presidency Has No Rules:"

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* "The White House Sets New Parameters For Mueller:"

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* "Mike Pence Tries To Make Space Force Sound Less Dumb:"

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* "Trump Isn't Taking A Vacation From Lying:"

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* "Inside Kellyanne Conway's Brain:"

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* "Omarosa Is Starting To Think Trump Might Be Racist:"

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"Destiny's Child Reminds Trump to 'Say McCain'" (Watch on YouTube)

* "Geography 101: World Maps Trump Can Understand :"

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* "Destiny's Child Reminds Trump to 'Say McCain':"

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* "Omarosa Reveals Trump's Secret Staff Nicknames:"

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* "Trump's NDAs Are Completely Worthless:"

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* My torso muscles are finally healing to the point of constant dull ache instead of serious pain, but I am struggling with low air quality and the deep wet cough that comes with. I am making good progress on Domestic news, though I'm not caught up. The World news queue is massive and I will keep trying to catch up there also. I am sorry about not keeping up properly the last couple of weeks.

* Seanan McGuire's Sparrow Hill Road is an intricate thing. It looks like a series of loosely connected short stories about a particular character, but as one reads it gradually becomes clear that each story is like a beautifully glazed tile in a mosaic and one one stands back, the real picture appears. It remains one of the cleverest designs for a novel I've seen, special and irreplaceable.

The sequel, Girl in the Green Silk gown is not like that (I'm not sure anything else COULD be exactly like that, and Ms. McGuire had the wisdom not to try), being in a more standard novel format, but it is beautiful and intricate and does this really clever thing with the whole of the story being in a way a mirror reflection of the last, more traditionally mythic part. It is clever design in the same way as the first book was, just as intricate and the whole design only really being visible in retrospect without trying to mimic the specific way the first pulled it off. If Sparrow hill Road is a mosaic or a quilt, this is... recursion in a mirror perhaps? Or a fractal?

I love these characters. I love the world design. I want to clutch both these books to my heart and at the same time thrust copies at friends and strangers on the street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Johnson to be investigated over burka row:" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45130532

* "Senator Nelson: Russians have penetrated Florida election systems:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senator-nelson-russians-have-penetrated-florida-election-systems-1296957507555

* "Russian cyber-attacks on Florida in 2016 were especially focused:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/russian-cyber-attacks-on-florida-in-2016-were-especially-focused-1296953923797

* "Shift to cyber war mindset slows reaction to election hacks:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/shift-to-cyber-war-mindset-slows-reaction-to-election-hacks-1296952387749

* "Dow drops about 200 points as financial crisis in Turkey spooks global markets:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/10/us-markets-political-concerns-keep-investors-on-edge.html

* "Russia Threatens U.S. Space Program Over Fresh Sanctions:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-reacts-angrily-to-draconian-new-sanctions-from-us

* "Trump administration faces bipartisan pressure to end newsprint tariffs:" https://buffalonews.com/2018/07/25/trump-administration-faces-bipartisan-pressure-to-end-newsprint-tariffs/

* "Media boost security as Trump ramps up 'enemy' rhetoric:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/09/media-boosts-security-as-trump-ramps-up-enemy-rhetoric-768666

* That's certainly one way to thwart Federal Records Preservation law. "Omarosa Claims She Walked In On Trump Eating Paper In Oval Office:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/omarosa-claims-she-walked-in-on-trump-eating-paper-in-oval-office

* "Manafort trial Day 9: Witness suggests Trump role helped Manafort nab loans:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/manafort-trial-day-9-judge-ts-ellis-772518

* "Roger Stone aide held in contempt for defying grand jury subpoena:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/roger-stone-aide-held-in-contempt-for-defying-grand-jury-subpoena-1296954435647

* "Mueller request signals Gates may be cooperating:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/gates-manafort-mueller-cooperation/index.html

* "DeVos rolls back rules aimed at low-performing for-profit and career colleges:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/devos-low-performing-for-profit-colleges-772302

* "Court orders ban on harmful pesticide, says EPA violated law:" https://apnews.com/e87ad38befdc4a58b0778286404ee826

* "CIA cables reveal new details of waterboarding at prison run by Haspel:" http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/cia/401208-new-cables-reveal-details-of-waterboarding-at-cia-prison-run-by

* "Pence outlines US Space Force plan for 'next battlefield':" https://apnews.com/4df1085b19d54e9b864e857012fecbb6/Pence-outlines-plan-for-new-Space-Force-by-2020

* "Pence Announces Plans for Space Force:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/mike-pence-wants-to-create-a-space-force-1297118787753

* "Russian Embassy mocks Trump’s Space Force logos:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/russia-mocks-trump-space-force-771304

* "Trump administration cuts staff at financial markets watchdog: source:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ofr-cuts/trump-administration-cuts-dozens-of-staff-at-financial-markets-watchdog-source-idUSKBN1KT23O

* "Nunes suggests GOP must keep House to protect Trump:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/devin-nunes-trump-congress-republican-majority/index.html

* "Newly released documents illuminate little from Trump's Supreme Court nominee:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/politics/brett-kavanaugh-documents-released-senate-judiciary-bush-team/index.html

* About a month before they can get all the documents they need from the government to properly evaluate him. "Kavanaugh confirmation hearings set for Sept. 4:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings-set-for-sept-4-773344

* "2018 the Year of the Woman? Not so fast:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/midterms-women-female-candidates-766089

* "Kris Kobach's lead cut in half after mistake discovered in Kansas primary:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kris-kobachs-lead-cut-in-half-after-mistake-discovered-in-kansas-primary/

* "The first Muslim woman ever in Congress?:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-first-muslim-woman-ever-in-congress-1296869443839

* "Rep. Chris Collins to Suspend Campaign:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/rep-chris-collins-to-suspend-campaign-1297130051862

* "Charlottesville, one year later:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/charlottesville-one-year-later-1296870979862

* "One Year Since Charlottesville Clashes:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/one-year-since-charlottesville-clashes-1297140291997

* "Suing Unite The Right:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/suing-unite-the-right-1297151043924

* "Trump’s History of Racist Remarks:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-s-history-of-racist-remarks-1297128003656

* "Trump blasts NFL players for kneeling at preseason games:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/trump-nfl-national-anthem-protests-771427

* "Organic solar cells set 'remarkable' energy record:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45132427

* "You Know It's Spike Lee IF...:"

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* Friday we went to the lake and after I made dinner and there was socializing. I returned home to find chaos had erupted in my absence, which I am still putting to rights. I had not energy for internet and worked at the sorting project for a bit and went to bed. Today I did more sorting project and more trying to deal with the remaining chaos. The weather has turned pleasantly breezy at least, which makes things more manageable.

* The Ant Colony's growing magician problem: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/08/scenes-from-the-ant-colonys-growing-magician-problem/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "MH17 downed by Russian military missile system, say investigators:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/24/mh17-downed-by-russian-military-missile-system-say-investigators

* "Is Italy's government on a collision course with the EU?:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/24/italy-government-collision-course-eu-m5s-liga

* TW: Suicide. "The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014):" http://chuangcn.org/2014/10/the-poetry-and-brief-life-of-a-foxconn-worker-xu-lizhi-1990-2014/

* "Ireland abortion referendum: close result expected in historic vote:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/25/close-result-expected-in-irelands-abortion-referendum

* "FBI Seizes Control of Russian Botnet:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-fbi-seizes-control-of-russian-botnet

* Is anyone surprised? "Trump Cancels Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/613962300/north-korea-threatens-to-scuttle-summit-saying-it-wont-beg-the-u-s-for-dialogue

* "Trump says U.S. military 'ready if necessary' after cancellation of North Korea summit:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-cancels-june-summit-north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-n877061

* "Trump Cancels Summit, North Korean Leaders Leave Door Open For Talks:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/614082389/very-perplexed-international-confusion-concern-after-trump-cancels-summit

* "Stocks close lower after President Trump cancels North Korea summit:" https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/24/futures-point-to-a-mixed-open-amid-ongoing-us-china-trade-talks.html

* "Commemorative North Korea Summit Coin Now Selling at a Discount:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/commemorative-north-korea-summit-coin-now-selling-at-a-discount

* "Trump haphazard N.K. summit dump put journalists in wanton danger:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-haphazard-n-k-summit-dump-put-journalists-in-wanton-danger-1241549379719?playlist=associated

* "Trump Weighs Tariffs On Imported Cars:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613912574/trump-weighs-tariffs-on-imported-cars?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180524

* "Trump's ban on global abortion funding has led to more abortions:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/health/trump-mexico-city-policy-abortion-ban-kenya-asequals-intl/index.html

* Because revoking the 14th amendment guaranteed citizenship of people born in this country and deporting people to random countries is the right response to people excising their constitutionally protected first amendment rights according to Republicans. "Trump Praises NFL Decision, Questions If Protesting Players Should Be In The Country:" https://www.npr.org/2018/05/24/613976960/trump-praises-nfl-decision-questions-if-protesting-players-should-be-in-the-coun

* "Trump calls for sweeping changes to US immigration legal process:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/politics/donald-trump-immigration-courts/index.html

"Whoever heard of a system where you put people through trials? Where do these judges come from?" he said.

* "Trump says MS-13 is entering the country disguised as ‘unaccompanied alien minors’:" https://thinkprogress.org/trump-says-ms-13-acting-as-unaccompanied-minors-b1ed11471997/

* "Mueller probe's many threads are why details can't be public:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-probe-s-many-threads-are-why-details-can-t-be-public-1241534019983?playlist=associated

* "Trump undue pressure for peek at Russia probe is dangerous:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-undue-pressure-for-peek-at-russia-probe-is-dangerous-1241538115571?playlist=associated

* "Mueller's new court filing reads like a response to Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mueller-s-new-court-filing-reads-like-a-response-to-trump-1241460291768

* "Emails show Roger Stone sought Clinton info from Assange:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/emails-show-roger-stone-sought-clinton-info-from-assange-1241459779763

* "A top Trump fundraiser helped a congressman’s wife land State job:" http://www.newsweek.com/ed-royce-elliott-broidy-marie-royce-trump-administration-job-864214

* "Putin ally suggests Seychelles meeting more than chance encounter:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/putin-ally-seychelles-meeting-erik-prince-chance-encounter/story?id=55408942

* "U.S. House starts recess as immigration battle rages:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-congress/trump-rejects-push-for-moderate-immigration-deal-wants-whole-package-idUSKCN1IP24T

* "Congress moves to dismantle key post-crisis bank rules:" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-congress-dodd-frank-bank-regulations-20180522-story.html

* "Arpaio Claims Ward Campaign Tried To Lure Him Out Of Race With Speaking Gig:" https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-arpaio-claims-that-kelli-ward-campaign-tried-to-lure-him-out-of-republican-senate-primary-with-paid-speaking-gig

* "Senate primary splits Arizona conservatives between Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-primary-splits-arizona-conservatives-between-joe-arpaio-and-kelli-ward/

* "Garrett in turmoil, might quit Congress:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/23/tom-garrett-chief-of-staff-605668

* "Air Force Uncovered LSD Use Among Airmen Guarding Nuclear Missiles:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/24/614013988/air-force-uncovered-lsd-use-among-airmen-guarding-nuclear-missiles

* "Texas school shooting victims: Portraits of the fallen:" http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-texas-school-shooting-victims-2018-htmlstory.html

* "Cecile Richards Thinks Planned Parenthood Is Basically Winning The Abortion Fight :"

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* TW: Rape, Domestic Violence. "Southern Baptist Leader Removed Over Remarks On Rape, Abuse Of Women:" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613604818/head-of-southern-baptist-seminary-removed-over-remarks-on-rape-abuse-of-women

* TW: Sexual Harassment. "Morgan Freeman Dropped From Marketing Campaigns After Harassment Accusations:" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/morgan-freeman-sexual-harassment-sponsors-flee_us_5b078509e4b0802d69c99037

* TW: sexual Assault. "Harvey Weinstein will be charged with rape, source says:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/entertainment/harvey-weinstein-to-surrender/index.html

* "Nice Try Deep State, Trump Has You Figured Out:"

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* "A Judge Ruled Trump Can't Block People On Twitter Anymore:"

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* "Guess Who Rose From The Sinkhole Outside The White House:"

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* "The Fine Line Between Helicopter Parenting and Neglect:"

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* "How Garbage Pets Undermine Real Service Animals:"

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* "How Racial Profiling Turns Imagined Threats Into Real Dangers:"

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* "MARVEL || Glitter & Gold:"

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* Today my body was recalcitrant and not following orders particularly well. I finished "Loud Hands," which I wish my library had bought as it's full of things it is important to hear. (I then started a novel I need to finish quick ans send back as there's a line). The cats and I watched the last third or so of the heart wrenching Testament of Youth. Long time readers know I have thins thing about WWI and Memorial Day is nearly here. I am still recovering from the Fire Inspection and I didn't even try to push it today. I stuck to small things I could do between rests. I still very nearly crashed into a fish tank. There is a reason I try not to leave the apartment when my body is like this.

* "Into the Badlands, Season 3, Episode 5: Chapter XXI: Carry Tiger to Mountain:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/05/into-badlands-season-3-episode-5.html

* "Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4, Episode 5: Laura:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2018/05/fear-walking-dead-season-4-episode-5.html

* 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 $30 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.

* 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/

* 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

* This must be utterly terrifying for everyone living there. "Nearly 4,000 forces enter Rio favela amid wave of violence:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nearly-4000-forces-enter-rio-favela-amid-wave-of-violence/

* "Trump wants to get tougher on Russia without angering Putin:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-aides-not-talk-publicly-about-russia-policy-moves-n861256

* "Trump wants ‘out’ of Syria ‘very soon,’ contradicting top officials:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/29/trump-syria-military-isis-491856

* "Czechs extradite alleged Russian hacker to US:" https://apnews.com/679eafa69f744e13a40243063999cbfe

* "Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/paxkpb/paul-manafort-a-mysterious-russian-jet-and-a-secret-meeting

* "FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/30/fbi-questions-ted-malloch-trump-campaign-figure-and-farage-ally

* "Judge says lawsuit against Trump's DACA move can proceed:" http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/380882-judge-says-lawsuit-against-trumps-daca-move-can-proceed

* "US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/29/politics/immigrants-social-media-information/

* "What do you call a see through wall?:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/n-hayes-t1t2trumponeletter-180330-1199208515558

* "Office In Charge of Vetting Trump Appointees Is Inexperienced, Understaffed:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/office-in-charge-of-vetting-trump-appointees-is-inexperienced-understaffed-report

* "Trump EPA expected to roll back auto gas mileage standards:" https://phys.org/news/2018-03-trump-epa-auto-gas-mileage.html

* "Senator: Pruitt security included Disneyland, Rose Bowl trips:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/30/politics/epa-pruitt-travel-whitehouse-rose-bowl-disneyland/

* "EPA Chief’s $50-a-Night Rental Raises White House Angst:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-30/epa-chief-s-50-a-night-rental-said-to-raise-white-house-angst

* "Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-pruitts-epa-security-broke-door-lobbyist-condo/story?id=54129080

* "Trump's cabinet keeps on filling the swamp:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-s-cabinet-keeps-on-filling-the-swamp-1199185475841

* "John Podesta on Scott Pruitt and the Trump Swamp:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/john-podesta-on-scott-pruitt-and-the-trump-swamp-1199200323752

* "Texas woman gets 5 years in prison for voting illegally:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-woman-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-voting-illegally-1199199811938

* "I’m your kid’s teacher, and I would take a bullet for your child. But I wish you wouldn’t ask me to.:" http://satyrday.tumblr.com/post/170999590236/reachmouse-mia-cooper-valentiirose

* "Conservative attacks on March for Our Lives leaders are getting very personal:" https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/29/17176174/laura-ingraham-boycott-david-hogg-guns

* "Police officer who shot Alton Sterling fired from Baton Rouge Police Department:" http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-shot-alton-sterling-fired-baton-rouge/story?id=54134701

* TW: Pedophilia. "R Kelly accused of grooming 14-year-old girl as 'sex pet':" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/28/r-kelly-accused-of-grooming-14-year-old-girl-as-sex-pet-kitti-jones-bbc-documentary

* "18th Century Queer Cultures #1: the Macaroni & his Ancestors:" http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/out-in-the-museum/18th-century-queer-cultures-1-the-macaroni-and-his-ancestors

* "The Official Anti-Strong Black Woman Music Video Anthem | The Rundown With Robin Thede:"

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* "Ben Carson Has Us Shaking Our Heads... Again | The Rundown With Robin Thede:"

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* I had plans with a friend today, but it turns out my friend is injured. I didn't know about it until too late to do anything about it, alas. I did do some useful cleaning at least, even if I am headachey and foggy from lost sleep.

I also got two really good scenes on GoB.

* May your Passover/Easter/Ostara/Equinox celebration be wonderful! (Or whatever else you might celebrate.)

* Jamie Lannister's character development: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/172100650637/does-it-make-sense-from-jamies-point-of-view-to

* Someone thought of a way to make the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies idea actually good: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/171597805400/gretchensinister-consider-this-based-on-a#notes

* I used all my money on housing and insurance this month. I need to raise another $100-120 for the other bills. If you'd like to chip in: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

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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

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