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* As has been the case since January, the sort may be a little rough. News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

I am once again having to cut things off before I'm done. Apologies.

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* "Exclusive: Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities:" https://archive.ph/G1vWp

* "Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 50, Palestinian officials say:" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g28g02ng2o

* "Israeli bombardment of Gaza kills 92 in two days: Health Ministry:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/19/israeli-bombardment-kills-92-in-two-days-gaza-government

* "Gazans survive among unexploded bombs:" https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA-ORDNANCE/byvrxbenwve/

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* "Trump says he’s got his ‘own deadline’ for Ukraine talks as tensions flare:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-ukraine-deal-norwegian-leaders-00307891

* This is what Russian promises are worth.

* "'Russian peace in all its glory' — Mass Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 12, injures 87:" https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-heard-in-kyiv-amid-russian-missile-attack/

* "Russia intensifies push in Kursk, Sumy border areas as Ukraine holds line, Syrskyi says:" https://kyivindependent.com/russia-steps-up-assault-on-sumy-oblast-kursk-border-as-ukraine-holds-line-syrskyi-says/

* "Russian attacks during Easter ceasefire killed 3 in Ukraine's Kherson region:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-attacks-easter-ceasefire-declared-putin-killed-3-121004572

* "Russian forces stage mass drone attack on Ukraine's Odesa, governor says:" https://archive.ph/kXs2r

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* "Sudan - The Biggest Humanitarian Crisis In The World Today:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2025/04/19/sudanthe-biggest-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-world-today/

* "Haiti’s government adopts a ‘war budget’ as town after town falls to gangs:" https://apnews.com/article/haiti-gangs-violence-war-budget-mirebalais-saut-deau-daa19487d58e9ada1846ad674bca0e54

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* "EU to present roadmap in May to phase out all imports of Russian fossil fuels:" https://archive.ph/mDDq1

* "Witchcraft accusations putting hundreds at risk of "physical attacks or even death" in Ghana, Amnesty says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/witchcraft-accusations-hundreds-risks-ghana-amnesty-international/

* "Europe’s streets are alive with the sound of protests:" https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/04/16/europes-streets-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-protests

* "Nearly 200 students, journalists go on trial in Turkey over Istanbul protests:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250418-nearly-200-students-journalists-go-trial-in-turkey-over-istanbul-protests-erdogan-crackdown

* "Georgia fired 700 civil servants for supporting pro-EU protests, watchdog says:" https://archive.ph/OZcxV

* "Donald Trump's shadow looms large over Australian and Canadian elections:" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/donald-trump-affecting-opposition-in-canada-and-australia/105196740

* "Visions of Solidarity: Lesbian writers on how we save the world from fascism:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/visions-of-solidarity-schulman-vaid

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* "Syrian letter delivers response to US conditions for sanctions relief:" https://archive.ph/DIIEK

* "Trump may get a nuclear deal — on Iran’s terms:" https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-may-get-a-nuclear-deal-on-irans-terms/

It seems to me we had a really good deal with Iran that was working. Wouldn't it have been simpler to keep it in place and negotiate changes now instead of ripping it up in Trump's first term because a black man touched it? Because now there is zero trust in any agreement we might make.

Just saying.

* Who are we to demand reforms of anything while we are descending into kleptocracy? Are reforms a good idea? Yes, but not along fascism oligarch lines, but rather progressive ones. "Bessent says US will seek reforms of IMF, World Bank:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/bessent-says-us-will-seek-reforms-of-imf-world-bank-00305728

* "US and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says:" https://apnews.com/article/recession-imf-economy-tariffs-5ec37492c9fac499923c094776b87552

* "Sherrod Brown: What Worries Me Most About Trump’s Failing Economy:" https://archive.ph/AKKS5

* "Stocks, Bonds Sink in Broad Retreat From US Assets: Markets Wrap:" https://archive.ph/wGf6g

* "Why Trump Decided Not to Try to Fire Jerome Powell:" https://archive.ph/mO1eL

Jerome Powell is just about the last thread holding the Trump ravaged economy together.

* "Key House Republican defends Fed against Trump interference:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/trump-powell-fed-lucas

* "Conflicting US-China talks statements add to global trade confusion:" https://archive.ph/WXU0l

* "Trump’s fixation on a tariff battle win against China could cost him the trade war:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trumps-xi-trade-war-battle-wins-00309223

* "Gamers Nexus out there casually providing the best coverage of tariffs:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036344.html

* "Rubio unveils a massive overhaul of the State Department that would cut staff and bureaus:" https://apnews.com/article/state-department-rubio-reorganization-trump-usaid-3fc186fefddaaa72c3040db9fb380af4

These are essential experts that will be hard to replace.

* "Trump administration denies draft executive order outlining State Department changes:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-draft-executive-order-sweeping-changes-state-department-rcna202047

Notice the racism and the complete lack of understanding of why we need embassies and linguists and diplomats and people who are experts in a particular country.

* "A jungle route once carried hundreds of thousands of migrants. Now the local economy has crashed:" https://apnews.com/article/migration-darien-gap-trump-panama-colombia-ba393b4cf8caecdcf24556f7f84be508?

* "ACLU says Trump officials not complying with Supreme Court in deportation case:" https://archive.ph/YODZ6

* "Trump admin must seek return of another man who was improperly deported to El Salvador, judge rules :" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-el-salvador-deportation-venezuelan-minor-judge-00307336

* "Gay asylum-seeker's lawyer worries for the makeup artist's safety in Salvadoran ‘hellhole’ prison :" https://www.advocate.com/news/andry-romero-attorney-cecot

* "Robert Garcia demands answers in case of gay Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador prison:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-cecot-ice-demand

* "Rep. Garcia on Trump deportations: 'Everyone has a right to due process':" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/rep-garcia-on-trump-deportations-everyone-has-a-right-to-due-process-238412357851

* "Democratic lawmakers fly to El Salvador and demand action on gay man Trump sent to CECOT prison:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-andry-hernadez

* "He disappeared after detention. Now ICE is silent on the fate of Venezuelan man:" https://archive.ph/XGkmh

* "Administration ordered to more fully respond to discovery requests from Abrego Garcia's lawyers:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/abrego-garcias-attorneys-decry-administrations-failure-comply-court/story?id=121046788

* Doxxing her is state terrorism. "Abrego Garcia’s Wife Moved To Safe House After DHS Exposed Her Address On X:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wife-dhs-doxx_n_68094822e4b047d19264e2d7

* "Mahmoud Khalil misses son's birth after ICE official denies his request to be there:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371757/mahmoud-khalil-misses-sons-birth-after-ice-official-denies-his-request-to-be-there

* "Lawmakers visit Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at Louisiana ICE facilities:" https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-04-22/lawmakers-visit-mahmoud-khalil-and-rumeysa-ozturk-at-louisiana-ice-facilities

* "Palestinian student remains detained in Vermont with a hearing set for next week:" https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-detained-ice-vermont-2078326229e424b722e837595a03a042

* "Detained Palestinian activist in Vermont prison says he's 'in good hands':" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detained-palestinian-activist-vermont-prison-good-hands-focused-121053604

* "New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180

* "Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/activist-who-took-sanctuary-in-a-church-during-first-trump-term-detained/83197570007/

* Stay Noisy. It can work. "Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-admin-reverses-termination-foreign-student-visa-registrations-00309407

* "German Teens Try to Visit Hawaii, End Up Deported :" https://ground.news/article/german-teens-try-to-visit-hawaii-end-up-deported

* "Activist who took sanctuary in a church during first Trump term detained:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/21/activist-who-took-sanctuary-in-a-church-during-first-trump-term-detained/83197570007/

* "Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant:" https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant

Republicans claim the 4th Amendment doesn't apply if they don't want it to. They are attacking the most vulnerable now, but no one is safe if they can do this.

Stand up now.

* "Tents could soon house more immigrants at Krome Detention Center:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/tents-could-soon-house-more-immigrants-at-krome-detention-center/

* "‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ with Peter Beinart:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-jewish-after-the-destruction-of-gaza/id1382983397?i=1000703563937

* "How the weaponization of antisemitism is becoming a grave threat to freedom of speech in America:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/how-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism-is-becoming-a-grave-threat-to-freedom-of-speech-in-america-238415941640

* I can't cover all the protests, but here is a small sample.

* "ICE activity at Rhode Island Hospital draws protesters. What we know.:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/24/ice-officers-at-rhode-island-hospital-attract-protesters/83254959007/

* "Rally outside New Orleans ICE office draws over 100:" https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/protest-ice-detention-mahmoud-khalil-new-orleans-rally/289-6a6c842a-c15e-433f-8912-2da50e2834bf

* "Protests call for ICE to leave Washington:" https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/protests-call-for-ice-to-leave-washington/article_7f4158f8-b34d-4bbc-b968-2efd8903499b.html

* "Federal raid and arrests in Pomona spark concern, outrage in community:" https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-raid-and-arrests-in-pomona-sparks-concern-outrage-in-community/

* "Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data:" https://archive.ph/pum5L

* At least a judge is intervening here. "Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities that limit immigration cooperation:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-sanctuary-cities-immigrants-san-francisco-b20f3c9f44e81e2c2cbc248236762ac4

They have started illegally deporting American citizens with no due process, as they promised to do.

* "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation:" https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation

They were denied access to a lawyer, presumably because a preschooler with cancer is such a danger to society that ICE had to throw out the entire constitution.

* Bet they ignored all evidence, them lied when they got caught. "U.S. citizen DHS detained for 10 days has intellectual disabilities, family claims:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citizen-detained-border-nogales-arizona-dhs-10-days-intellectual-disabilities/

* "U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false:" https://popular.info/p/us-citizen-wrongly-detained-by-border

* "Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-wisconsin-congress

* "Arrest of judge triggers public outrage as Trump escalates his war on the judiciary:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/arrest-of-judge-triggers-public-outrage-as-trump-escalates-his-war-on-the-judiciary-238387781902

* "‘We will find you’: Trump FBI arrests judge in Wisconsin, AG warns more to come:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-we-will-find-you-trump-fbi-arrests-judge-in-wisconsin-ag-warns-more-to-come-238380101651

* "Trump Is Arresting Judges To Send A Message:"

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* "Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5340753/trump-democracy-authoritarianism-competive-survey-political-scientist

* "‘It Sucks!!!’ Trump Bitterly Rages Against Fox News and Calls for Heads to Roll at The Wall Street Journal in Truth Social Tirade:" https://www.mediaite.com/news/it-sucks-trump-bitterly-rages-against-fox-news-and-calls-for-heads-to-roll-at-the-wall-street-journal-in-truth-social-tirade/

* "Trump's second term already falling apart less than 100 days in, polls show:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-second-term-already-falling-apart-less-than-100-days-in-polls-show-238312517562

* "‘Unpopular’: Trump whines about Fox News poll showing his approval rating cratering:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unpopular-trump-whines-about-fox-news-poll-showing-his-approval-rating-cratering-238296645722

* "Thousands of protesters rally against Trump across US:" https://archive.ph/KK2kF

* "PHOTOS: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities and towns across the country:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/photos-anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-cities-and-towns-across-the-country

* "Anti-Trump protests sweep the nation, crossing the threshold of mainstream media attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-trump-protests-sweep-the-nation-crossing-the-threshold-of-mainstream-media-attention-238047301545

* "Oops!: Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw-ups and frantic walk backs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/oops-trump-s-first-100-days-marked-by-incompetent-screw-ups-and-frantic-walk-backs-238218821744

* "'Unadulterated disaster': Trump spends first 100 days sabotaging what makes America great:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-unadulterated-disaster-trump-spends-first-100-days-sabotaging-what-makes-america-great-238224453805

* "Trump facing impotence as courts hand him loss after loss; court of public opinion no less harsh:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-facing-impotence-as-courts-hand-him-loss-after-loss-court-of-public-opinion-no-less-harsh-238316101946

* "Trump gets reckless as his agenda tanks and pushback intensifies:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-gets-reckless-as-his-agenda-tanks-and-pushback-intensifies-238390853787

* "Sen. Warren Extended Interview:

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* "Jon Lovett warns Democrats that ‘every inch Trump gets is an inch we don’t get back’:" https://www.advocate.com/news/jon-lovett-warns-trump-authoritarianism

* "'Anyone with a working brain is outraged': Dems react to Trump's first 100 days:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/-anyone-with-a-working-brain-is-outraged-dems-react-to-trump-s-first-100-days-238435909774

* "Rep. Raskin: Trump's first 100 days were 'a horror show,' but Americans are standing up:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/rep-raskin-trump-s-first-100-days-were-a-horror-show-but-americans-are-standing-up-238440517796

* WTF?!? "Trump really showed kids 'assassination trading card' at White House Easter event:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-easter-assasination-card/

* "Trump’s made-for-TV cabinet is backfiring:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-made-for-tv-cabinet-is-backfiring-238442053542

* "Judge blocks Trump administration from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-blocks-trump-administration-requiring-proof-citizenship-register/story?id=121134512

* The bribery is completely in the open now. "Dinner with the president: Trump meme coin surges on offer to top buyers:" https://archive.ph/RiOyC

* "Trump dinner for meme coin buyers prompts senators to demand ethics probe:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/trump-dinner-for-meme-coin-prompts-senators-to-demand-ethics-probe.html

* "Scoop: Musk vs. Bessent dispute erupted into West Wing shouting match:" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/musk-bessent-trump-white-house-irs

* "Tesla Stock Dives 6% Ahead Of Possible ‘Code Red’ Earnings For Elon Musk’s Firm:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/04/21/tesla-stock-dives-7-ahead-of-possible-code-red-earnings-for-elon-musks-firm/

* "As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he'll spend less time on DOGE:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5371552/tesla-earnings-april-2025-elon-musk-doge

Who could have guessed that a mostly left electric car buying demographic would not want to associate them selves with NAZI salutes and the Autocratic horrors of DOGE, except everyone with a working brain?

* "Why Elon Musk is the new Mike 'MyPillow' Lindell:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/elon-musk-new-mike-lindell

* "Polling debunks Musk excuse that his unpopularity, collapse of Tesla, is because of paid protesters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/polling-debunks-musk-excuse-that-his-unpopularity-collapse-of-tesla-is-because-of-paid-protesters-238140485802

* "Musk eyes the exit after humiliating turn in politics: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-eyes-the-exit-after-humiliating-turn-in-politics-report-238048325643

* "Trump replaces acting IRS commissioner just days after appointing him:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-replaces-acting-irs-commissioner-days-after-appointing/story?id=120959980

* "Judge blocks mass layoffs at CFPB in the latest twist over the fate of the agency:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/nx-s1-5368206/cfpb-layoffs-rif

* "Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program :" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system?

* We warned them and warned them, but most Republican Senators decided to betray their country by putting him in charge of our military.

* "Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer:" https://archive.ph/1HA2P

* "'Mindblowing': Hegseth's phone number found all over web, posing massive security risk:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-mindblowing-hegseth-s-phone-number-found-all-over-web-posing-massive-security-risk-238380613558

* "White House backs Hegseth, Leavitt says ‘entire Pentagon’ is resisting him:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/leavitt-trump-stands-strongly-behind-embattled-hegseth-00300749

* "Controversial Hegseth chief of staff to leave Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

* "Former Pete Hegseth aide in op-ed: 'Total chaos at the Pentagon':" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/john-ullyot-op-ed-pete-hegseth-rcna202071

* "Hegseth says staffers found leaking ‘will be prosecuted’ amid Pentagon chaos:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/pete-hegseth-leaks-investigation-00302506

* "Third top Pentagon official suspended in leak investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/16/pentagon-official-suspended-leak-investigation-00293473

* "'Purely personal pettiness': Inside the ‘vicious rivalries’ roiling Hegseth’s Pentagon:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-purely-personal-pettiness-inside-the-vicious-rivalries-roiling-hegseth-s-pentagon-238213189802

* "‘Plainly unraveling’: New reporting on chaos at Pentagon under Hegseth:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-plainly-unraveling-new-reporting-on-chaos-at-pentagon-under-hegseth-238125637882

* "Sen. Tammy Duckworth - Veterans Deserve Better than Trump, Hegseth, & DOGE | The Daily Show:"

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* "Veterans Affairs secretary tells employees to report 'anti-Christian discrimination':" https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/04/23/veterans-affairs-tells-phoenix-workers-to-report-anti-christian-bias/83220624007/

* ""Do Something Group" rallies in downtown Kalamazoo to protest cuts to veterans' benefits:" https://wwmt.com/news/local/do-something-group-rallies-downtown-kalamazoo-protest-cuts-veterans-benefits-trump-doge-va

* "Trump's DOJ struggles defending trans military ban during D.C. appeals court hearing:" https://www.advocate.com/news/dc-circuit-trans-military-ban

* "Is Pete Hegseth violating judges’ orders blocking the Pentagon’s trans military ban? Senators demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/senators-hegseth-trans-ban-answers

* "Defense Department reinstates gender-affirming care for trans troops:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-troops-care-reinstated

* "Trump AG Pam Bondi falsely compares gender-affirming care for minors as the same as female genital mutilation:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pam-bondi-targets-transgender-care

* "Trump Retaliates by Taking Kids' Lunch Money (Literally) ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children:" https://archive.ph/9MfDh

* "Why the White House wanting women to have more kids will lead to outlawing same-sex relations:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-assaults-bodily-autonom

* "Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

* "Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More :" https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality?

* "A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

* Censoring facts while promoting conspiracy theories. "'Lab Leak,' a flashy page on the virus' origins, replaces government COVID sites:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/18/g-s1-61324/lab-leak-white-house-covid-origins

* "Health on Wheels van and COVID-19 programs to see reduced services amid grant loss:" https://krcgtv.com/news/local/health-on-wheels-van-and-covid-19-programs-to-see-reduced-services-amid-grant-loss

* "Trump Cuts Threaten Meals and Services for People With Disabilities and the Aging:" https://archive.ph/hOZtg

* "RFK Jr.’s Wish Is Coming True: Everybody’s Getting Measles:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jrs-wish-is-coming-true-everybodys-getting-measles/

* "CDC Reports 800 Confirmed Measles Cases Across the US, 624 Being in Texas:" https://www.contagionlive.com/view/800-confirmed-measles-cases-in-the-us-by-april-18-2025-across-25-states

* "More Americans exposed to false claims about measles and its vaccines, KFF poll shows:" https://archive.ph/PzOHp

* "Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline:" https://archive.ph/Zk7fq

* "Why ‘Everything is Tuberculosis’ with John Green:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-everything-is-tuberculosis-with-john-green/id1382983397?i=1000701696135

* "US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts:" https://archive.ph/df2sT

* "FDA head falsely claims no scientists laid off, as agency shutters food safety labs:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-head-falsely-claims-no-scientists-laid-off-as-agency-shutters-food-safety-labs/

* "I Know It Seems Impossible to Remember, but There Is Actually a Reason We Had an FDA:" https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64555033/us-fda-quality-testing-milk-fired-workforce/

* "In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study:" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5376473/hhs-restores-funding-for-womens-health-initiative

* Why it's important plus some other things. "‘Who voted for this?’: Trump guts first and largest women’s health study:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-who-voted-for-this-trump-guts-first-and-largest-women-s-health-study-238208581957

* But they were. "Health agencies "not creating an autism registry," official says, contradicting NIH director:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-agencies-not-creating-autism-registry-hhs-nih/

* CW: Suicide "HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

* People will die. "Trump Budget Draft Ends Narcan Program and Other Addiction Measures:" https://archive.ph/L4bRd

* "RFK Jr. Is Set to Cut Synthetic Food Dyes From US Food Supply:" https://archive.ph/bX9h5

* "Interior secretary gives DOGE aide sweeping powers to remake department:" https://archive.ph/Bgo1z

* "National Weather Service to resume translating its products for non-English speakers :" https://www.kait8.com/2025/04/25/national-weather-service-resume-translating-its-products-non-english-speakers/

* "Trump’s Most Unhinged Policy May Be Starving MAGA Arkansas of Disaster Relief Snuffing out FEMA is causing some collateral damage.:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-huckabee-sanders-fema-arkansas-disaster-relief-denial.html

* "After Arkansas: The Future Of FEMA And U.S. Disaster Relief:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderpuutio/2025/04/25/after-arkansas-the-future-of-fema-and-disaster-relief-in-america/

* "EPA starts layoffs of environmental justice employees:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/epa-starts-layoffs-environmental-justice-employees-rcna202287

* "NWLC Statement on Trump’s Executive Order Seeking to Repeal Core Tenet of Civil Rights Act:" https://nwlc.org/press-release/nwlc-statement-on-trumps-executive-order-seeking-to-repeal-core-tenet-of-civil-rights-act/

* "Trump to target ActBlue in presidential memorandum:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/trump-to-target-actblue-in-presidential-memorandum-00307251

This is the main fundraising vehicle of the Democratic Party. He has no proof. Meanwhile he's using his crypto scam to take direct bribes.

For Republicans, every accusation is a confession.

* "MAGA Is Aiming to Take Over the D.C. Bar. Be Afraid.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/pam-bondi-legal-news-maga-dc-bar.html

* "DOJ Reverses Grant Cancellations For Crime Victim Support:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/doj-reverses-grant-cancelations-for-crime-victim-support/

* "Trump orders revamp of school discipline policies, college accreditation and funding:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/trump-orders-schools-colleges-funding-accreditors-00307055

* "Harvard sues Trump administration over threats to cut funding if demands go unmet:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration-threats-cut-funding/story?id=121030309

* "Harvard sues federal government after Trump administration slashed billions in funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-rcna202276

* "As Harvard fights Trump, one campus quietly prepares for the worst:" https://archive.ph/3UXOo

If you are going to George Washington University, know anyone who is or has gone, or are an Alumni, now is the time to take action to stiffen their spines.

* ""Shocked and Disgusted." UA Democrats respond to news of President Trump at UA:" https://abc3340.com/news/local/shocked-and-disgusted-ua-democrats-respond-to-news-of-president-trump-at-ua-national-news-politics

* "Trump administration to resume collections on student loan borrowers in default:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371723/trump-administration-collections-on-defaulted-student-loans

* "Judges blocks Trump push to cut funding to public schools over diversity programs:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-public-schools-diversity-equality-inclusion-dei-7d7ad707d91565753263a19ebde044e0

* "Two major law firms urge judges to permanently block Trump’s executive orders:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firms-perkins-coie-wilmerhale-7dba5f0c38ac547bf3f2bb1f31a2ef38

* "Are Law Firms Breaking the Law by Caving to Trump?:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/are-law-firms-breaking-the-law-trump-deal.html

* "Federal judge blocks Trump administration from dismantling Voice of America:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-f30c48df0c16de622ec5fd99ee6c627c

* "'60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised:" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372733/60-minutes-bill-owens-cbs-trump-paramount

* "In unintended filing, federal attorneys poke holes in Trump administration’s effort to end NYC toll:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyc-toll-congestion-pricing-6a0a3306f8625474d63c39d75b571521

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* "BREAKING: Trump Justice Department asks Supreme Court to reinstate trans military ban blocked by courts:" https://www.advocate.com/news/doj-scotus-trans-military-ban

* "Obamacare returns to SCOTUS, with preventive care on the line:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/obamacare-scotus-preventive-care-aca-00296631

* "After oral argument, court calls for new briefs in HHS task force case:" https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/after-oral-argument-court-calls-for-new-briefs-in-hhs-task-force-case/

* "The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit:" https://apnews.com/article/georgia-fbi-raid-supreme-court-lawsuit-9cb55aa6f45bbf02c29d84363c7c9e6f

* "Supreme Court conservatives sympathize with parents objecting to LGBTQ-inclusive books:" https://www.advocate.com/news/conservative-justices-sympathize-religious-objections

* "Compilation of Protests and Actions Against the Supreme Court:" https://whatthetrans.com/compilation-of-protests-against-the-supreme-court/

* "Economic insecurity linked to LGBTQ+ youth mental health issues: Trevor Project report:" https://www.advocate.com/news/economic-insecurity-lgbtq-youth

* The Boycott is working! Keep at it! "Target foot traffic down for 10th consecutive week amid boycott over DEI abandonment:" https://www.advocate.com/news/target-foot-traffic-down-dei

* "Trump, Johnson squelch talk of tax hike for wealthiest Americans:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/johnson-doesnt-expect-tax-hike-on-wealthy-in-gop-budget-plan-00306708

* RE: SAVE ACT "Do This Today: Call Senators:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2036106.html

If these are your Senators, please stop what you are doing and call now:

KELLY (AZ)
WARNOCK (GA)
PETERS (MI)
SHAHEEN (NH)
HASSAN (NH)
CORTEZ MASTO (NV)
ROSEN (NV)

* This one is a super dangerous attack on the judiciary's ability to protect citizen's rights. "H.R. 1526: NORRA of 2025:" https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1526

* "A tax on credit unions is a tax on me.:" https://www.donttaxmycreditunion.org/

* "Nancy Mace calls transgender student a transphobic slur at University of South Carolina event:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nancy-mace-usc-trans-slur

* "12 batsh*t things Nancy Mace has done in her anti-transgender attention grab :" https://www.advocate.com/voices/nancy-mace-south-carolina-transgender#rebelltitem13

* "Sarah McBride says she won’t let Republicans make her the main character in their anti-trans crusade:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sarah-mcbride-pod-save-america

* "'Welcome to the team': Chris Murphy, Maxwell Frost hold town halls where Republicans won't:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-welcome-to-the-team-chris-murphy-maxwell-frost-hold-town-halls-where-republicans-won-t-238300741912

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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.

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

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

* "Democracy 2025:" https://www.democracy2025.org/?utm_source=df-ad&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=21912407002&utm_content=721373734297&source=df-ad-gs&gad_source=1

* "Resisting Fascism in 2025 and Beyond:" https://www.prideandpagesbookclub.com/resisting-fascism-in-2025-and-beyond

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

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

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

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

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

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

Script to complain about Elon Musk/DOGE. I also suggest contacting your AG about data privacy. "Introducing Red State Scripts, Vol. 1:" https://homewiththearmadillo.blog/2025/02/10/introducing-red-state-scripts-vol-1/

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

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

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

* Useful organizing links and resources: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/771859083592613888/hater-of-terfs-ive-already-reblogged-a-link-to?source=share

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

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

* 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

* Avoiding Activist Burnout: https://www.tumblr.com/veluigi/771755723969478656/on-twitter-im-seeing-dozens-of-threads-from-black?source=share

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

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

* Free Bystander training amoung other useful things. "Right to Be Training:" https://righttobe.org/upcoming-free-trainings/

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* "Long-running legal saga over N.C. Supreme Court race could pave way for future election challenges, critics warn:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/legal-saga-north-carolina-supreme-court-future-election-challenges-rcna202634

* "Military and overseas voters at center of challenges in Riggs-Griffin NC Supreme Court race:" https://abc7chicago.com/post/military-overseas-voters-center-challenges-north-carolina-supreme-court-race-between-allison-riggs-jefferson-griffin/16209562/

* "How Process is Killing Progress with Ezra Klein:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-process-is-killing-progress-with-ezra-klein/id1382983397?i=1000702661938

* "In unprecedented move, DNC official to spend big to take down fellow Democrats:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/david-hogg-dnc-vice-chair-to-spend-big-to-take-down-safe-democratic-incumbents-00292535

* "Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, won’t seek reelection to a sixth term in 2026:" https://apnews.com/article/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-majority-02ff2de634c0e6b62842f80eef01f72e

* "The Democract Doing Trump's Dirty Work:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7fv8fZXjsrA

Coloradans! Pressure him not to veto. Unionization is essential.

* "Tennessee pauses bill targeting right to education regardless of immigration status:" https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-immigration-students-bill-9dfe0022df01d5756384cd5a4a942a24

* Stopped clocks. "North Dakota’s GOP governor vetoes library restrictions, school voucher program:" https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-governor-vetoes-book-bans-vouchers-a5a52e027a37b14acb55ffae7ec828e3

* "Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety:" https://archive.ph/vsdFG

* "George Santos sentenced to prison:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-sentenced-prison

* "Countering DeSantis, $10M Hope Florida donation came from Medicaid, draft shows:" https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/04/22/desantis-casey-medicaid-settlement-hope-charity-andrade/

* Because of course. "George Santos begs Trump for pardon after judge handed down 7-year sentence:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/george-santos-trump-pardon-cameo

* "Senate staffer accused of having sex in Capitol building recounts 'horrific' backlash:" https://www.advocate.com/news/senate-staffer-sex-speaks-out

* CW: Mass Murder. "Car plows through Vancouver Filipino festival, killing at least 11:" https://archive.ph/npHP0

* "What is Lapu-Lapu Day? Filipinos shocked by festival tragedy in Vancouver:" https://archive.ph/jUC0y

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* "Thailand Plastic Waste Law Challenges Developed Nations’ Waste Practices:" https://happyeconews.com/thailand-plastic-waste-law/

* "Behind Closed Doors: The Secret World of Molly Houses in 18th-Century England:" https://gaylifetoday.com/2025/04/21/behind-closed-doors-the-secret-world-of-molly-houses-in-18th-century-england/

* "Weaponization of the FBI from Hoover to Trump 2.0 with Beverly Gage:" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weaponization-of-the-fbi-from-hoover-to-trump-2/id1382983397?i=1000700716486

* "Pope Francis dead at 88: Looking back on his LGBTQ+ rights legacy:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pope-francis-dead-lgbtq-rights

* "Pope Francis changed the conversation on LGBTQ+ Catholics—will the next Pontiff hit mute?:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/pope-francis-lgbtq

As a trans person who is not a Christian, I was not a fan and I side eye a bunch of things that happened under his watch as far as cover ups and corruption. That said, he was better than I had any hope of him being and so much better than predecessors in so many ways and on so many issues. He DID represent progress, even though he didn't go as far as one would wish. His anti-authoritarian moves were important.

I am really worried about what comes next.

So many things are getting so much worse. I would love for the catholic Church to keep moving forward, even if not as quickly as I would wish, instead of back sliding into horror.

* "'Evil is being defeated': Marjorie Taylor Greene sparks outrage after Pope Francis' death:" https://www.yahoo.com/news/evil-being-defeated-marjorie-taylor-130338336.html

* "Maddow on Pope Francis, advocate for migrants: 'He changed the world, he changed the church':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-on-pope-francis-advocate-for-migrants-he-changed-the-world-he-changed-the-church-238046789972

* "Pope Francis’ Legacy of Compassion for Palestinians:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/pope-francis-legacy-of-compassion-for-palestinians-238414917852

* " Blasphemy is coming to St. Peter’s Square as Trump tries to hijack Pope Francis’s funeral to feed his ego:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/donald-trump-pope-funeral-blasphemy

* "Frito-Lay recall: What to know about the Tostitos tortilla chips pulled from shelves:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/04/09/frito-lay-tostitos-chips-recall/83012547007/

* "Tri-Union Seafoods Issues Recall of Select Genova®, Van Camp’s®, H-E-B and Trader Joe’s® Tuna Cans Due to Clostridium Botulinum Risk:" https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/tri-union-seafoods-issues-recall-select-genovar-van-campsr-h-e-b-and-trader-joesr-tuna-cans-due

* Wednesday, on my way out the door to collect Millennials for group errands, I found a bureaucracy packet. Worryingly, it was not the standard bureaucracy packet. O.o It takes the same documents I already had assembled for the late April or early May bureaucracy, which helps, but also suggests a second, more complicated bureaucracy will arrive soon.

I worked on it the whole time Millennials were here, and finished it, except for the one piece I need someone to print off the computer. Last time I circled and labelled the relevant items on the bank statements and it worked out. It would be better to belt and suspenders it, but in any case I hope to drive the packet and documents up there for copying, stamping, and filing.

I like to turn them in as early as I can just generally, but speed is extra important now, given the givens.

Bonus I have all the items ID number marked so when I have to take them back to the same office within the month that will speed things up a bit on my end. *eye roll*

I did not sort the things assorted people dumped on the floor and shoveled back in the wrong place repeatedly last Summer and Autumn, but I need to. I keep a year of documents out in case there is random surprise bureaucracy in the off season (Which really does happen). I just need to go through them now before boxing them for seven year storage, in case something got in there that shouldn't.

So that's a couple hours, but less urgent.

It did eat my whole evening, alas.

* …And despite the Millennials being told they were cleared to work, they for some reason haven't been reinstated and are not getting paid. Fuckssake!

So phone bureaucracy tomorrow, I guess.

Bonus: I managed to really fuck up my hand about 7 minutes after they left for the night checking if Tavy's pads were dry. Sigh.

* "Jon Stewart on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation and How Trump Fails to Deliver | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump’s Tariffs Ruined America’s Reputation. Does Anyone Still Respect Us? | The Daily Show:"

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* "Meet the Scientists Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth to Fight Climate Change | The Daily Show:"

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* "Harvey Fierstein to Receive Lifetime Achievement Tony Award:" https://www.theatermania.com/news/harvey-fierstein-to-receive-a-lifetime-achievement-tony-award_1773609/

* "Must-see LGBTQ+ films every straight ally should watch :" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/gay-movies-for-straight-allies-watch#rebelltitem12

* "Bernie Rocks Coachella:"

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* "Elmo Drops A Trump Diss Track:"

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* Cool Person in need of help. "So, due to a combination of things hitting at once we're overdue on both the electric and gas bills:" https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3618944.html

* There's this Evangelical sect that makes creepy ass recruitment ads. They have one that uses Depecge Mode's "Personal Jesus."

Me: do they know?

So every time it comes on, my head snaps up, and then I remember it's an evangelical ad and I chuckle to myself.

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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.

* "United States Disappeared Tracker:" https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

* "Nationwide Economic Blackout: Boycott Dates for Target, Amazon, Others:" https://www.newsweek.com/nationwide-economic-blackout-boycott-dates-target-amazon-others-2037986

* "Introducing Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network:" https://aflcio.org/2025/4/16/introducing-rise-federal-workers-legal-defense-network

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* I'm cutting the aggregate off here, despite not finishing. Some of the sort may be rough because it's a horrible fucking week and I'm burning spoons I don't have endlessly moving things around the kitchen if i want to eat.

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* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to Palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

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* "UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza:" https://apnews.com/article/un-us-security-council-israel-hamas-ceasefire-834734f606a5245cc46a2487a70ae3fa

* "Benny Gantz resigns as Israeli war cabinet member:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/g-s1-3634/benny-gantz-israeli-war-cabinet-steps-down

* "Two journalists harassed, assaulted and detained during Flag March in Jerusalem:" https://cpj.org/2024/06/two-journalists-harassed-assaulted-and-detained-during-flag-march-in-jerusalem/

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* "Jordan Bardella: where does Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National protégé stand on LGBTQ+ rights?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/10/jordan-bardella-lgbtq-rassemblement-national-marine-le-pen/

* "Starmer vs Sunak: How Britain's parties are addressing immigration concerns:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/why-immigration-is-major-issue-britains-election-2024-06-05/

* "What does the Conservative manifesto say on LGBTQ+ issues?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/conservative-manifesto-lgbtq-issues/

* "What does the Green Party manifesto say on LGBTQ+ issues?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/green-party-manifesto-2024-lgbt/

* "Under the Biden administration, family separations and other atrocities continue:" https://prismreports.org/2024/02/29/biden-family-separations-atrocities-continue/

* "Questions grow about how Biden’s border action will work without new funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/questions-grow-bidens-border-action-will-work-new-funding-rcna155750

* "Biden visits a military cemetery that Trump reportedly said was 'filled with losers':" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4993699/biden-trump-aisne-marne-cemetery-losers-suckers

* "Will President Biden Pardon America's First Corporate Political Prisoner?:" https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/will-president-biden-pardon-americas

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* "US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ANNOUNCES FINAL RULE ON CLASSIFYING WORKERS AS EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS UNDER THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT:" https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20240109-1

* "Trump-appointed judge blocks expansion of Title IX rights for LGBTQ+ students:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/title-ix-blocked-joe-biden/

* "Supreme Court preserves access to abortion pill mifepristone:" https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-mifepristone-ruling-abortion-pill-updates

* "How the Supreme Court is setting the U.S. up for a major transformation this month:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/how-the-supreme-court-is-setting-the-u-s-up-for-a-major-transformation-this-month-213045317614

* "Supreme Court says marketer is not entitled to a trademark for 'Trump too small' T-shirts:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/13/g-s1-2532/supreme-court-trump-t-shirts

* "New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethics:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-recording-propublica-windsor-1235037796/

* "Alito and his wife are captured in audio recordings talking about abortion leak, flag controversy :" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610

* "Alito’s ‘Godliness’ Comment Echoes a Broader Christian Movement:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/samuel-alito-christianity-law-democracy.html

* "Exclusive: Hear new, secret audio exposing Justice Alito's media gripes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/exclusive-hear-new-secret-audio-exposing-justice-alito-s-media-gripes-212781125507

* "Exposed: How Justice Alito was caught on tape making unguarded remarks:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/exposed-how-justice-alito-was-caught-on-tape-making-unguarded-remarks-212782149955

* "'MAGA pilled': As mask slips on Supreme Court bias, radical Christian agenda comes into focus:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/as-mask-slips-on-supreme-court-bias-radical-christian-agenda-comes-into-focus-212876869688

* "Supreme Court justice’s wife wants to swap Pride flags for shame flags – that she’s already invented:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/supreme-court-samuel-alito-wife-pride-flag-vergogna/

* "Neighbor who clashed with Justice Alito's wife reacts to undercover audio of her ranting about flags:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/neighbor-who-clashed-with-justice-alito-s-wife-reacts-to-undercover-audio-of-her-ranting-about-flags-212878405673

* This isn't a repeat; it's a different one from earlier in the week. "Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds:" https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus

* "Retired judge David Tatel issues a stark warning about the Supreme Court:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/07/judge-david-tatel-supreme-court-memoir/

* "AOC: Supreme Court is ‘paving the path to authoritarianism’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-supreme-court-is-paving-the-path-to-authoritarianism-212779589821

* "Federal Reserve sees some progress on inflation but envisions just one rate cut this year:" https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-inflation-prices-interest-rates-cuts-4384e6b128915458aba2d178bf31ee1b

* "Eugene passes renter protection rules with compensation for some evictions:" https://www.klcc.org/politics-government/2023-07-25/eugene-passes-renter-protection-rules-with-compensation-for-some-evictions

* "70 per cent of LGBTQ+ employees still feel marginalised at work:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/70-per-cent-of-lgbtq-still-feel-marginalised-at-work/

* "Garland defends DOJ against attacks: ‘This must stop’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/11/merrick-garland-doj-attacks-00162674

* "House GOP holds Garland in contempt of Congress, escalating Justice Department feud:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/12/congress/house-gop-clears-garland-contempt-00163046

For those who haven't been following, Garland promptly turned the transcripts over when asked, but the Republicans need the audio to cut up for political attack ads. Garland points out that they don't turn over audio for closed investigations and the transcripts contain the same words as the audio. Releasing the audio would set a new precedent.

* "Trump’s F-Bomb Rant to Mike Johnson Sparks Desperate GOP Moves:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182669/trump-hush-money-conviction-mike-johnson-desperate

* "AOC rips GOP for targeting Manhattan DA: ‘Outright abuse of power’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/aoc-rips-gop-for-targeting-manhattan-da-outright-abuse-of-power-212780613527

* "Like a baby on a plane: Republicans sidetracked by efforts to mollify cantankerous Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/like-a-baby-on-a-plane-republicans-sidetracked-by-efforts-to-mollify-cantankerous-trump-212967493519

* "Lindsey Graham Vows to Keep Supreme Court Corrupt:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182610/lindsey-graham-supreme-court-ethics-legislation

* "Six GOP senators vow to slow down Biden nominees to protest Trump's guilty verdict:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/six-gop-senators-vow-slow-biden-nominees-protest-trumps-guilty-verdict-rcna157009

* "Republicans jam up government business with tantrum over Trump's felony conviction:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-jam-up-government-business-with-tantrum-over-trump-s-felony-conviction-212966981767

* "GOP blocks IVF bill as Senate Dems plan to keep hammering reproductive rights:" https://www.dreamwidth.org/update

* "Rep. Robert Garcia: 'The Army that defeated Hitler and saved the world included drag queens':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/robert-garcia-drag-ban-military

* "House Democrats launch group to respond to possible second Trump term:" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/11/congress/new-democratic-trump-task-force-huffman-house-00162560

* Stop the government censoring queer and other minority voices off the Internet in the US : https://www.stopkosa.com/

* 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

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

* "Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws:" https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1251289736/voter-registration-drive-state-restrictions

* "1 in 10 eligible U.S. voters say they can’t easily show proof of their citizenship:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/11/nx-s1-4991903/voter-registration-proof-of-citizenship-requirement

* "Ron DeSantis’s Voter Suppression Machine Is Working:" https://newrepublic.com/article/180930/florida-voter-registration-suppression-desantis

* "Florida just got its first LGBTQ+ Latino state senator:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/carlos-guillermo-smith-florida-senate-2668531648

* "Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Calling for a Permanent Ceasefire, AIPAC Attacks, Reparations & Reelection:"

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* "Phonebank for Jamaal with Protect Our Power!:" https://www.mobilize.us/jamaalbowman/event/628179/

* "Sarah McBride on course to become first trans person in US congress:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/sarah-mcbride-on-course-to-become-first-trans-person-in-us-congress/

* "Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will always 'fight like hell' to protect LGBTQ+ rights (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/politics/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-governor-pride-ivf

* Primaries are Ongoing:
Important! Remember to vote in all primaries!!!

NOTE: Important non-Presidential Primaries are also ongoing! Remember to vote in all the races, not just the top of the ticket. Who runs congress, your state, and your local government really matters. In some states this is a separate primary. Check the rules for your state. This is how you push the party and the government left.

Georgia (State Primary Run off), Oklahoma (Congressional), Virginia (Congressional): 6/18/24

Colorado (House), New York (Senate and House), South Carolina (Run Off), Utah (Several important primaries): 6/25/24

Arizona (Congress), South Dakota (Run off): 7/30/24

Tennessee (Congress): 8/1/24

Know your state's schedule and where to vote. Make sure you and your friends are registered. If you are voting in person, plan how to get there.

Never, ever sleep on a chance to vote.

It is always better to vote for someone who will listen to us than to let someone who is actively trying to kill us.

* "Baltimore Sun republishes reports from new owner’s TV station:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/11/baltimore-sun-sinclair-fox-45-union-complaint/

* "Watch: Local Sinclair Anchors Read Same Shady Script on Biden’s Age:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182567/sinclair-right-wing-script-biden-age-local-news

* "The most important sentence you will read about the 2024 election:" https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/the-most-important-sentence-you-will-read-about-the-2024-election/

* "‘We Didn’t Get All The Way There On Jan 6’: Trump Booster Pledges to End Democracy in CPAC Rant as Bannon Cheers On:" https://www.mediaite.com/trump/welcome-to-the-end-of-democracy-trump-booster-jack-posobiec-vows-to-finish-what-began-on-jan-6-as-steve-bannon-cheers-on/

* "In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/10/trump-military-draft-mandatory-service/

* "Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/trump-all-tariff-policy-to-replace-income-tax.html

This will dramatically raise taxes on ordinary people while massively increasing prices, but would mean the rich will pay hardly anything compared to income.

The Rich continue to win their class war on the rest of us.

* "Chris Hayes: The Trump campaign’s ‘better off’ con game:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-the-trump-campaign-s-better-off-con-game-212867141736

* "Kamala Harris: Supreme Court mifepristone ruling doesn’t mean abortion is safe under Trump:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kamala-harris-mifepristone-caution

* "Trump calls Jan. 6 rioters 'warriors' during scorching Las Vegas rally:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scorching-heat-trump-rally-las-vegas-sends-6/story?id=110974299

* "All Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump:" https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/jun/12/all-donald-trump-cares-about-is-donald-trump/

"In former President Donald Trump’s speech Sunday at Sunset Park in Las Vegas, he sent a chilling message to everyone: “I don’t care about you? I just want your vote, I don’t care.”

* "Wisconsin Dems tear into Trump after he reportedly called Milwaukee ‘a horrible city’ :" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/trump-milwaukee-horrible-wisconsin-democrats-00163243

* "Republicans Have No Idea What Happened in That Trump Meeting Either:" https://newrepublic.com/post/182700/house-republicans-reaction-trump-meeting

* "Trump says Brittney Griner’s release from prison in Russia was ‘not the greatest trade’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/trump-says-brittney-griners-release-from-prison-in-russia-was-not-the-greatest-trade/

* "Trump’s Bizarre Moments With Dr. Phil and Hannity Should Alarm Us All:" https://newrepublic.com/article/182480/trump-dr-phil-hannity-bizarre-moments-alarm

* "Trump’s Shark-Phobia Gets the Best of Him During Meandering Rally Rant:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-shark-phobia-re-emerges-during-meandering-rant-at-las-vegas-campaign-rally

* "Trump Rails Against Broken Rally Teleprompters, Threatens to Stiff Contractors:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/unscripted-trump-broken-teleprompters-stiff-contractors-1235036263/

* "Trump cognitive decline increasingly difficult to conceal despite setting low bar:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-cognitive-decline-increasingly-difficult-to-conceal-despite-setting-low-bar-213045317515

* "‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projections:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/metro/millionaires-tax-massachusetts-generated-18-billion/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results

* "A welcome victory for more information during election season:" https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/a-welcome-victory-for-more-information-during-election-season/

* "New York’s Nassau County relentlessly advances more legislation to ban trans athletes:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/nassau-county/

* "My Breakfast Club Interview with Eric Adams: RECEIPTS:"

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* "Republicans call for Colorado GOP chair to resign after abhorrent Pride Month email:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/colorado-gop-chair-resign-pride-email

* "Republican says ‘unpatriotic lesbian’ Brittney Griner should be ‘rotting in a Russian prison’ :" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/brittney-griner-anti-american-valentina-gomez/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked after comparing Trump to Jesus: ‘Did Jesus pay off a porn star?’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-mocked-after-comparing-trump-to-jesus-did-jesus-pay-off-a-porn-star/

* "Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/nx-s1-5001231/hunter-biden-guilty

* "Republicans stick to attacking criminal justice system, echoing Trump, after Hunter Biden conviction:" https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-conviction-republicans-reaction-trump-eb7fe08832905f14dd8c5bd48ef9c716

* "Former SDNY prosecutor speaks out after Hunter Biden, Trump convictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/former-sdny-prosecutor-speaks-out-after-hunter-biden-trump-convictions-212776517761

* "Trump's campaign was rooting for Hunter Biden to be acquitted. Now, it's changing tactics.:" https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-political-allies-hunter-biden-acquittal-report-2024-6

* "Hunter Biden Conviction Undercuts a Trump Narrative, and a Fund-Raising Pitch:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html

* "Fox News Suddenly Loves the Justice System After Hunter Biden’s Conviction:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/fox-news-suddenly-loves-the-justice-system-after-hunter-bidens-conviction/

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* "Judge Aileen Cannon denies another Trump motion to dismiss classified documents case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-cannon-denies-another-motion-trump-dismiss-classified-documents-rcna156482

* "Trump attends probation interview as legal team prepares to fight hush money verdict:" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/10/trump-probation-interview-hush-money-trial-verdict.html

* "Why Trump Is Guilty of 34 Felony Counts ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Faith-Based Groups That Assist Migrants Become Targets of Extremists:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/us/migrants-charities-shelters-threats.html

* "Federal authorities are investigating attacks on transgender and Latino students in Virginia:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-latino-targeted-norfolk-school

* "Pulse shooting remains a grim moment in LGBTQ+ history 8 years later:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/pulse-shooting-8-years-ago

* "Remembering the 49 lives violently stolen in the Pulse nightclub shooting, eight years on:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/pulse-nightclub-shooting-anniversary-victims/

* "Christian group uses Pulse shooting anniversary to promote conversion therapy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/14/pulse-nightclub-shooting-christian-group/

* "A neighborhood approach to combating hate crimes in Los Angeles:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/combating-hate-crimes-in-la

* "Used paperbacks change lives behind bars, even with growing prison book bans:" https://archive.ph/535Pa#selection-454.0-454.1

* "‘They Slave Us’: Prison Workers on Life Behind Bars:" https://archive.ph/UXM9L#selection-1296.0-1296.1

* "For some incarcerated women, getting ahold of menstrual products is a nightmare:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-02/for-some-incarcerated-women-getting-ahold-of-menstrual-products-isnt-easy

* Justice Denied: This is a national shame. "Oklahoma Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit of last Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seeking reparations:" https://apnews.com/article/1921-race-massacre-tulsa-black-survivors-b7a4c83514ce79640a8490d49efb9006

* "Indiana’s school censorship law threatens a small bookstore's future:" https://www.advocate.com/news/brain-lair-books-indiana-threatened

* "If your kid just told you they’re trans, here’s what you should know:" https://www.advocate.com/health/supporting-your-trans-kid

* "A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge:" https://apnews.com/article/transgender-rights-children-florida-592b24b28e365ded336ca841f2ac90ac

* "Bogus Doctors Group Pushed By Elon Musk, Fox News Against Trans Care:" https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/bogus-doctors-group-pushed-by-elon

* "Why the Southern Baptists’ vote opposing IVF could change national politics:" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/ivf-southern-baptist-convention-evangelical-00162994

* "This list shows most inclusive EU countries for LGBTQ+ professionals, and Ireland makes the top 10:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/13/most-inclusive-countries-to-work-in-europe/

* "A trans girl was assaulted at a Minnesota high school. Her family is demanding justice (exclusive):" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-trans-girl-assaulted-school

* "School district ordered to pay trans former student $4 million after barring him from male restroom:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/05/missouri-trans-rights/

* "Influencers promote raw milk despite FDA health warnings as bird flu spreads in dairy cows:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-raw-milk-influencers-fda-warning/

* "New study finds most maternal-related deaths in the US happen after birth:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-study-finds-maternal-related-deaths-us-happen/story?id=110831141

* "Black Maternal Health Week shines light on alarming disparities, as CDC reports rising death rates:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/

* "New drug to regenerate lost teeth:" https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2021-03-31

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* "New study finds Earth warming at record rate, but no evidence of climate change accelerating:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-accelerating-record-hot-deadly-434881547b4585a32fa906cf5495d3f0

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* "The Floating Traffic Jam That Freaked Us All Out:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/business/economy/covid-pandemic-global-supply-chains.html

* "The carbon impact of artificial intelligence:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9

* "Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

* "AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions:" https://theconversation.com/ais-excessive-water-consumption-threatens-to-drown-out-its-environmental-contributions-225854

* "Tickle vs Giggle: in a world where transgender people are under attack, this is a test case for Australia:" https://theconversation.com/tickle-vs-giggle-in-a-world-where-transgender-people-are-under-attack-this-is-a-test-case-for-australia-227702

* "Apple iOS 18 to introduce hidden apps, and everyone is saying the same thing:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/11/ios-18-features/

* "Elon Musk accused of selling $7.5 billion of Tesla stock before releasing disappointing sales data that plunged the share price to two-year low:" https://fortune.com/2024/06/03/elon-musk-tesla-insider-trading-lawsuit-board-directors/

* "Elon Musk says X hiding likes is to stop people being ‘attacked’ for what they engage with:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/13/x-hide-likes/

* "The Internet’s Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/americas/starlink-internet-elon-musk-brazil-amazon.html

* "Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect:" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00779-1

* "Duolingo removes LGBTQ+ references from app in Russia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/05/duolingo-removes-lgbtq-references-from-app-in-russia/

* "HER founder denounces ‘opportunistic’ new trans-exclusionary lesbian dating app:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/07/her-robyn-exton-lesbian-dating-app-trans/

* "The Collapse of the Roman Empire, or, Why were medieval people more primitive than the Romans?:"

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* "The Scandalous True History Behind "Mary & George":"

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I've never seen the show, but I've read quite a bit on this including a very well done book on the poisoning scandal. In other words, this tracks,

* "New ‘Rainbow Revolutionaries’ tour reveals Boston’s LGBTQ+ history:" https://www.advocate.com/news/rainbow-revolutionaires-boston-history

* "The Flapper Story - Roaring '20s Documentary:"

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* "Remembering Alan Turing, the gay British war hero who died after being persecuted by his country:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/07/alan-turing-gay-who-was-did-eingma-die-death-facts/

* "About 100,000 people are missing in Mexico. These mothers are trying to find them:" https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4977451/will-mexicos-president-elect-help-relatives-looking-for-missing-loved-ones

* "The Scottie Scheffler Arrest (But It's a True Crime Documentary):"

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* "Lynn Conway, trailblazing trans computer scientist, dies at 86:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/

* Refridgerator repair man came. It turned out buying an entire new lower end fridge would cost about a hundred less than fixing this one. Fuck! So we are going to have to buy a new fridge. It's just under $900 with installation. Fuck sake! If it could have gone another 18 months we could have got a free one from the city. Apparently modern refrigerators, like modern water heaters only last a decade. I am used to the ones from my childhood with the 20-40 year life spans.

UPDATE: It turns out we also need a housecall from a plumber for another 300.00. Fuckssake!

Want to chip in? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* It's been an incredibly rough week. My arm is just terrible to the point where at Wednesday physio, he tried to start me on a new exercise after warm up, looked at what my arm was doing and his face fell. He scrapped the day's plans and we spent the rest of the session with him slowly, gently stretching my arm. So we're pulling back on expectations this week.

The dramatic barometer changes and extreme pollen situation are noticeably messing me up on a variety of levels. I get sicker when I leave my room with it's heavy filtration and outside is even worse. Standing and walking is a nightmare. I've gotten trapped on the ground three times in the last week unable to rise and there are so many problems I could solve if I could just lift things and move them instead of having to work around the blockages.

Then there is all the extra kitchen drama. It's really hard to make anything in there with the ongoing refrigerator situation and everything we have is going to deal with that both physically and financially.

It's just too many things right now on top of all the bureaucratic nightmare going on with the Millennials.

* Friday there was no real sleep. After I got back from helping with bureaucracy inflicted on Millennials. I kept having to get up to deal with things and answer phones. I am bad at sleeping in my clothes at the best of times and the bedroom air conditioner is not what it was. I am worse at getting back to sleep after being awakened over and over. Sigh. It took an hour to move enough things around in the kitchen to make a meal I could only half eat and I STILL had to attempt physio which is at a terrible and disappointing place. I don't really have spoons for the physio; all the extra spoons needed for just trying to eat and hydrate aren't helping at all.

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

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* "Jon Stewart Tackles The Trump Conviction Fallout & Puts The Media on Trial | The Daily Show:"

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* "Should We Separate Art from the Artist?: Crash Course Art History #5:"

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* "Armand called Lestat a clown in the most round about way:" https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/751769521007771648?source=share

* This Makes so much sense! "‘Interview With the Vampire’: Luke Brandon Field Reveals His & Eric Bogosian’s Shared Inspiration for Daniel:" https://www.tvinsider.com/1139840/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-episode-5-daniel-molloy-luke-brandon-field-eric-bogosian/

* Me: Every pride I learn new words. This is not a complaint, just a statement that I am an Old.
Me: Oh look! New gender just dropped!
Friend 1: Listen, bigots, every time you complain about gender, a new gender drops.
Friend 2: Every time!
Friend 3: We got more genders than you got complaints, guaranteed!
Me grinning: You get me. you always get me!
Friend 3: Heck I have three in reserve just in case!"

* "Sunday Sweets In Summer:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-in-summer-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.

* "Support a Global Plastics Treaty:" https://act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/support-global-plastics-treaty

* "Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards:" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

* "Black Alliance for Peace’s Atlanta Citywide Alliance:" https://linktr.ee/bapatlanta

* Map of Cop Cities planned or being built: https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/

* "if you are struggling with choosing which fundraisers to support, please consider donating to the following places providing medical aid, food, and other supplies to palestine at this time:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750500230956564480?source=share

* Links for various Palestinian Aid Organizations: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/750151174318112768?source=share

* "World Central Kitchen:" https://wck.org/

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

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* Some of this is very likely out of date. I'm sorry. My arms mostly been in a sling since I dislocated it a couple weeks ago and Halloween really took everything out of me.

I lost a massive whole night's work, Saturday. It's impossible to recreate all of it at this point, which is heart breaking. Apparently trying to capitalize a 'W" and hitting the wrong button is enough to destroy Everything.

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* It's Raining Trolls and Disinformation

The Internet is blowing up with disinformation, much of it Antisemetic and/or Islamophobic. I beg of you, please check sources on things you see, particularly if the claims are extreme or too close to a stereotype, or an image that could be misattributed or AI. A whole lot of people are invested in making things somehow even worse than they already are. Check me. Check everything.

If you spot me posting or reblogging something that might be troll farm or AI propaganda on this or any other topic let me know.

* "Is Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system ironclad?:" https://apnews.com/article/iron-dome-missile-defense-israel-palestinians-rockets-hamas-f57508d0e53945d1071d4582fcdae8d2

* "Hamas operatives used phone lines installed in tunnels under Gaza to plan Israel attack over 2 years, sources familiar with intelligence say:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/24/politics/intelligence-hamas-israel-attack-tunnels-phone-lines/index.html

* "Israel deepens military assault in the northern Gaza Strip:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-10-30-2023-d33ac65b49723b9715ebf47041ac5f66

* "The ‘Devil’s Playground’ of Urban Combat That Israel Is Preparing to Enter:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-invasion.html

* "Israel steps up air and ground attacks in Gaza and cuts off the territory’s communications:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-airstrikes-region-e41b5b12e8cdf9db62395314d9a782b6

* "Fearing airstrikes and crowded shelters, Palestinians in north Gaza defy Israeli evacuation orders:" https://apnews.com/article/northern-gaza-palestinians-israel-hamas-war-36109635f7bc90f403f0383d53a352e9

* "A Close Look at Some Key Evidence in the Gaza Hospital Blast:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-israel-hamas-video.html

* "IDF confirms strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-gaza-egypt-russia-airport/idf-confirms-strike-on-jabaliya-refugee-camp-in-gaza-104513270?id=104468652

* "Thirst and Hunger Grow in Besieged Gaza Amid Israeli Bombardment:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-food-water-siege.html

* "Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza’s hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-hamas-babies-crisis-9ec2e404e16a132821dac644af110ef6

* "Another wave of Israeli strikes hit Gaza refugee camp as crossing opens for foreigners and wounded :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/gaza-refugee-camp-israeli-strikes-00124706

* "Israel strikes ambulance near Gaza hospital, 15 reported killed:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/health-ministry-gaza-says-israel-targeted-convoy-ambulances-leaving-al-shifa-2023-11-03/

* "RSF initial report: Reuters journalist was killed in Lebanon in 'targeted' strike:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rsf-says-killing-reuters-journalist-lebanon-targeted-strike-2023-10-29/

* "Gaza looks like a wasteland from space in these before-and-after photos:" https://apnews.com/article/satellite-images-israeli-airstrike-destruction-gaza-4477db1cfc39f38ac6cfff55330a7635

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* I haven't read this yet, so can't vouch for it's contents. "Is the Two-State Solution Dead?:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/two-state-solution-dead-one-state-reality-yousef-munayyer/

* "Broken Lebanon cannot afford war between Hezbollah and Israel:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/broken-lebanon-cannot-afford-war-hezbollah-knows-it-2023-10-26/

* "Lebanon’s Hezbollah weighs dueling appeals: ease attacks or escalate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/29/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-gaza-war/

* "Biden condemns retaliatory attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank:" https://apnews.com/article/biden-west-bank-settlers-israel-hamas-war-0a2f38878720c962a20d9286315cde94

* "Israel resists US pressure to pause the war to allow more aid to Gaza, wants hostages back first:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israels-encirclement-gaza-city-tightens-top-us-diplomat-104597626

* "Biden and Netanyahu Look Headed for a Breakup on Unqualified U.S. Support for the Gaza War:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-and-netanyahu-look-headed-for-a-breakup-on-us-support-for-gaza-war

* I fear he failed. "Let's talk about US advisors heading over....:"

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* "Yemen hasn’t declared war on Israel, contrary to online claims. Houthi rebels have launched missiles:" https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-israel-hamas-war-yemen-houthis-363471853927

* "Secret U.S. Military Presence in Yemen Adds a Twist to Houthi Attack on Israel :" https://theintercept.com/2023/11/02/yemen-israel-us-troops/

* "Fact Check: Turkish ships from centenary parade shared as response to Israel-Hamas conflict:" https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/turkish-ships-centenary-parade-shared-response-israel-hamas-conflict-2023-11-01/

* "Turkey recalling ambassador; Erdogan: We’ve written Netanyahu off:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/erdogan-says-netanyahu-no-longer-someone-turkey-can-talk-to-we-have-written-him-off/

* "What Palestinians Really Think of Hamas:" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/what-palestinians-really-think-hamas

* "Flight from Israel to Russia’s Dagestan diverts as pro-Palestinian mob storms terminal:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/flight-from-israel-to-russias-dagestan-diverts-as-pro-palestinian-mob-storms-terminal/

* "The Senate Condemns Student Groups as Backlash to Pro-Palestinian Speech Grows :" https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/palestine-israel-free-speech-retaliation-senate/

* "Israel-Hamas War Protest Leads to Tense Scene at Cooper Union Library:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/nyregion/cooper-union-protest-israel-hamas.html

* "Florida orders state universities to disband pro-Palestinian student group, saying it backs Hamas:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestine-desantis-florida-education-sjp-12b4d4f2bdd8618c12b8a29cc852be25

* "A lot of things are true. The refusal to grasp this is a non-trivial amount of the problem:" https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-things-are-true

* "Some Israeli Journalists Express Fear About Conveying Dissenting Views:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/business/media/israel-journalists-hamas-war.html

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

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* "Middle East War Adds to Surge in International Arms Sales:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/us/politics/israel-gaza-global-arms-sales.html

* "Developing World Sees Double Standard in West’s Actions in Gaza and Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/us/ukraine-gaza-global-south-hypocrisy.html

* "In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/health/gaza-ukraine-hospitals-doctors.html

* "At least 24 killed, including at least 12 police officers, in attacks in Mexico:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-attacks-mexico-guerrero-michoacan-24-killed/

* "Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died, state media says:" https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-injured-teen-armita-geravand-dies-16c4f49e15dd774121e7498f34bd6622

* "Extremist attacks escalate in Niger after coup topples American ally :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/30/niger-coup-islamist-militant-extremism/

* "Labour MPs call for ‘kindness and common sense’ at heart of UK’s immigration policy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/23/labour-mps-kindnesscommon-uk-immigration/

* "Suella Braverman called out in House of Lords over ‘migrants pretend to be gay’ comments:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/suella-braverman-lgbtq-asylum-seekers-house-of-lords/

* "Just one per cent of UK voters say trans people will matter in 2024 general election:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/03/trans-culture-wars-politics-uk-research/

* "Saudi Arabia hosting 2034 World Cup leaves LGBTQ+ football fans horrified:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/saudi-arabia-world-cup-2034-lgbtq/

* "Let's talk about Ukraine and Russia's stocks going down....:"

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* "Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-shadow-war-russia/

* "Let's talk about rumor about Ukrainian aid....:"

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* "A Small Country Far From Ukraine Is Sending Hundreds to War, on Both Sides:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/world/asia/ukraine-russia-nepal.html

* "Friends From Childhood. Brothers in War.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/world/europe/ukraine-war-friends.html

* "Russia prison population plummets as convicts are sent to war:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/26/russia-prison-population-convicts-war/

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* "US fighter jets strike Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on US troops:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us-military-steps-up-middle-east-surveillance-threats-troops-grow-2023-10-24/

* "US to terminate economic ties with Uganda over ‘gross violations’ of human rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/uganda-us-joe-biden/

* "As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the US border to seek asylum:" https://apnews.com/article/chinese-emigration-us-mexico-border-darien-381c215ff30f0f2349c2ea118aa280c6

* "Jeff Wilson, Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for having gun in carry-on, gets charge dismissed:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-wilson-senator-washington-state-firearms-charge-dismissed-hong-kong/

* I'm not sure how feasible this is. "Biden administration revamps its student debt forgiveness plan:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-administration-revamps-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-rcna122935

* "Biden plans to step up government oversight of AI with new 'pressure tests':" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/30/1209343819/ai-biden-oversight-executive-order

* Pete Buttigieg Extended Interview:"

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* "Ron DeSantis is taking his fight against drag all the way to the US Supreme Court:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/florida-ron-de-santis-drag-ban-legal-case-supreme-court/

* "New Clarence Thomas ethics questions about forgiveness on luxury RV loan:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208600160/new-clarence-thomas-ethics-questions-about-forgiveness-on-luxury-rv-loan

* "The case of Clarence Thomas’s motor home gets curiouser and curiouser:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/26/clarence-thomas-rv-motor-home-taxes/

* "Senate Democrats plan to subpoena Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo over Supreme Court justices’ travel:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-thomas-ethics-senate-democrats-subpoenas-ed0bc398a8a407ef5b4c64a2d56af5a1

* "'Something to hide': Dems to subpoena megadonors at center of Supreme Court scandals:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-something-to-hide-dems-to-subpoena-megadonors-at-center-of-supreme-court-scandals-196822085619

* "UAW-Ford deal nets union big wins on wages, benefits, investments:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uaw-leaders-push-ahead-with-ford-contract-gm-talks-drag-2023-10-29/

* "Ford strikers, laid off UAW members get extra money in strike settlement: Here’s how much:" https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2023/11/03/ford-strike-laid-off-uaw-extra-pay-deal/71426913007/

There is power in the union.

* "Starbucks threatened to deny abortion travel benefits for workers seeking to unionize, judge says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-abortion-travel-benefit-union-workers/

* "The Secret Memo That Ruined Democracy:"

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* "Dairy Workers on Wisconsin’s Small Farms Are Dying. Many of Those Deaths Are Never Investigated. :" https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farms-osha-safety-death-investigation-immigrant-workers

* "To tackle homelessness faster, LA has a kind of real estate agency for the unhoused:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1207461308/homelessness-housing-losangeles-la-real-estate-unhoused

* "House Republicans aim to pay for Israel aid with cuts to IRS funds:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/31/1209670609/house-republicans-israel-funding-bill-irs

Cuts to the IRS dramatically decreases revenue to the government by letting rich tax cheats get away with not paying their share. Cutting revenues won't "pay for" anything.

This doesn't even get into why refusing to pay for aid to Ukraine is a terrible idea, which it is. There is nothing good about this bill.

* "US House Republicans' Israel-only aid bill opposed in Senate, by Biden:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-republicans-israel-only-aid-bill-faces-opposition-senate-2023-10-31/

* "Republicans' plan to fund Israel by cutting IRS spending would cost taxpayers billions and add to the national deficit:" https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-war-funding-irs-cuts-cost-taxpayers-worsen-deficit-cbo-2023-11

* "Hayes: GOP speaker 'laser-focused' on helping yacht owners cheat on taxes:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-gop-speaker-laser-focused-on-helping-yacht-owners-cheat-on-taxes-196820037528

* "Republican disarray unabated by election of speaker; party mired in infighting, time-wasting stunts:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republican-disarray-unabated-by-election-of-speaker-party-mired-in-infighting-time-wasting-stunts-197002309838

* "Let's talk about getting around Tuberville....:"

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* "Elizabeth Warren condemns Republican plan to take free school meals away from LGBTQ+ kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/02/elizabeth-warren-republicans-free-school-meals/

* "Mike Johnson and his extremism ascend to the speaker's chair:" https://www.lawdork.com/p/a-virtual-unknown-mike-johnson-and

* "How Mike Johnson’s main strength will become his biggest liability:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/how-mike-johnson-won-an-impossible-speakership-00123529

* "New House speaker played leading role in effort to overturn 2020 election :" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/new-house-speaker-played-leading-role-in-effort-to-overturn-2020-election/

* "Johnson brings pro-oil, climate-skeptical record to speakership :" https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4275210-mike-johnson-speaker-gop-pro-oil-climate-skeptical-record/

* "Here’s where Speaker Mike Johnson stands on the issues:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-on-the-issues-00123627

* "Mike Johnson's 20-year paper trail is an opposition researcher's dream:" https://www.axios.com/2023/10/26/mike-johnson-abortion-gay-marriage-transgender

* "Mike Johnson's Campaign Contributions From Company Tied to Russia:" https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501

* "The Christian Nationalism of Speaker Mike Johnson:" https://time.com/6329207/speaker-mike-johnson-christian-nationalism/

* "Mike Johnson tries to back-pedal on anti-gay comments:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-anti-gay-comments/

* "Mike Johnson’s wife runs counselling service comparing homosexuality to incest:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/mike-johnson-kelly-johnson-house-speaker/

* "Almost No One Knows Who Speaker Mike Johnson Is, But Many Disagree With His Views: Poll:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/nobody-knows-speaker-mike-johnson

* "Mike Johnson once blamed homosexuality for the fall of the Roman Empire:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/02/mike-johnson-roman-empire-homosexuality/

* "George Santos 'easily' survives vote to expel him from Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/george-santos-easily-survives-vote-to-expel-him-from-congress-196908101673

* "Santos, 'emblem of the chaos that is the Republican-led House,' allowed to stay and lie another day:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/santos-emblem-of-the-chaos-that-is-the-republican-led-house-allowed-to-stay-and-lie-another-day-196916805514

* "Gay democrat Becca Balint moves to censure Marjorie Taylor Greene over ‘hate speech’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/democrat-becca-balint-censure-marjorie-taylor-greene/

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

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

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

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

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

* Early voting is already happening in a lot of places. Squirrel and I voted Friday.

Voting early allows you more time to fight disenfranchisement if you live in a voter suppression state where you were removed from the voter rolls without warning. It is often a way to avoid massive voting day lines that Republicans hope will discourage you from voting.

Please vote early if that's an option for you. It is better and safer.

If you can't early vote, please, please, please vote.

And remember, vote the whole ticket. Things like sheriffs and school board make a massive difference in quality of life.

* "Let's talk about Georgia maps changing....:"

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* "How Lobbying is Ruining Democracy:"

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* "Will Abortion Dominate the 2024 Elections? Tuesday Will Offer Clues.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/us/politics/abortion-ohio-kentucky-virginia-election.html

* "Ohio Democrats Demand Voter Purge Reversal, Truthful Answers from Secretary LaRose:" https://ohiosenate.gov/members/william-p-demora/news/ohio-democrats-demand-voter-purge-reversal-truthful-answers-from-secretary-larose

* "With Abortion Rights on the Line, Ohio Lawmaker Says Those Purged Unlawfully Must Be Allowed to Vote :" https://www.commondreams.org/news/with-abortion-rights-on-the-line-ohio-lawmaker-says-those-purged-unlawfully-must-be-allowed-to-vote

* Ohioans, please, please vote! "Republicans resort to lies and deception ahead of vote on popular abortion rights amendment in Ohio:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-resort-to-lies-and-deception-ahead-of-vote-on-popular-abortion-rights-amendment-in-ohio-197091909969

* "Drag Ban Won't Go on Ohio City's Ballot, State Supreme Court Rules:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ohio-drag-ban-off-ballot

* "Sunshine State Senate:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/sunshine-state-senate-showdown-197107781664

* "Many Kentucky counties are consolidating polling sites, raising concerns about access:" https://www.npr.org/2023/11/05/1210195486/kentucky-election-vote-centers-polling-places

* "Ky. governor’s race tests Democrat’s ability to survive in Trump country:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/kentucky-governors-race-andy-beshear-daniel-cameron/

* "Tuesday’s Election Will Determine if Virginia Becomes the Next Florida:" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/virginia-elections-democrats-2/

* "Danica Roem Is Letting Her Record Speak for Itself as She Runs for Virginia Senate :" https://www.advocate.com/politics/danica-roem-virginia-senate-transgender

* Please, please, please vote! "Pennsylvania’s election will be headlined by races for statewide courts, including a high court seat:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-supreme-court-election-campaign-0c517ed69436d8271fec7b7f04ae025e

* "What’s at Stake in Pennsylvania’s State Supreme Court Race?:" https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/whats-at-stake-in-pennsylvanias-state-supreme-court-race/

* "The real threat Dean Phillips poses to Biden :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/28/dean-philips-joe-biden-threat-00124082

I follow a lot more politics than even I show here. When I saw he announced, I too was like: Who? So don't feel bad if you don't know who this is.

* Ya think? "Pence ends White House campaign after struggling to gain traction. ‘This is not my time,’ he says:" https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-2024-president-campaign-republican-trump-0ec44fc2a5b8683f34883e0ea72b2ab2

* "Courts consider possible disqualification of Trump for role in Jan. 6 insurrection:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/courts-consider-possible-disqualification-of-trump-for-role-in-jan-6-insurrection-197091909549

* "Lawyers argue whether the Constitution’s ‘insurrection’ clause blocks Trump from the 2024 ballot:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-ballot-14th-amendment-colorado-f5d6c6174476ec414208323785df6e15

* "Donald Trump pledges to defund schools teaching critical race theory and ‘transgender insanity’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/donald-trump-defund-schools-tcritical-race-theory-transgender/

* "Team Trump looking for 'different type of lawyer' to serve a second term with more loyalty: report:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/team-trump-looking-for-different-type-of-lawyer-to-serve-a-second-term-with-more-loyalty-report-196916293562

* "Sarah Huckabee Sanders Clamps Down on Gender-Neutral Language in Official Arkansas Documents:" https://www.advocate.com/news/sarah-huckabee-sanders

* "Republican lawmakers join Gays Against Groomers march:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/wisconsin-republican-lawmakers-gays-against-groomers-march/

* "‘Craven’: Leaked staff handbook reveals GOP rep’s thirst for attention:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-craven-leaked-staff-handbook-reveals-gop-rep-s-thirst-for-attention-197084229751

* "Gay Jewish Lawmaker's Apartment Targeted With Anti-Semitic Graffiti:" https://www.advocate.com/news/joe-vogel-maryland-swastikas

* "Scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos pleads not guilty to latest charges:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1208478307/george-santos-charges-theft

* "Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Author Sentenced on Fraud Charges:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/dont-say-gay-author-sentenced

* "Donald Trump Ally and Gay Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Was FBI Informant:" https://www.advocate.com/news/peter-thiel-fbi-informant

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* "Daughter Ivanka Trump must testify at Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, New York judge rules:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/27/ivanka-trump-must-testify-trial-00123992

* "Trump takes the stand and is fined $10,000 for violating a gag order in fraud case:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208444786/trump-new-york-fraud-case

* "Judge in Trump NY fraud trial extends gag order to lawyers, says office has received ‘hundreds’ of threats since trial started:" https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/03/judge-in-trump-ny-fraud-trial-extends-gag-order-to-lawyers-says-office-has-received-hundreds-of-threats-since-trial-started.html

* "Judge drops hammer on Trump: Gags entire legal team:" https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/judge-drops-hammer-on-trump-gags-entire-legal-team-197075525979

* "Judge reinstates gag order against Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/29/trump-gag-order-reinstated-00124147

* "Trump Gagged; Immediately Violates Gag Order:"

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* "'Maybe they haven't been paying attention': Court agrees to hear Trump objections to gag order:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-maybe-they-haven-t-been-paying-attention-court-agrees-to-hear-trump-objections-to-gag-order-197091909870

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* "Why Conservatives Hate George Soros:"

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* "An increase in harassment against Jewish and Muslim Americans has been reported since Hamas attacks:" https://apnews.com/article/jewish-muslim-harassment-increase-f5a3e969f5a213625c224f8ac25538e1

* "Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik Threatens Anti-Defamation League Over Extremist Label :" https://www.advocate.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-adl-extremists

* "Man on ‘week-long anti-LGBTQ+ crime spree’ in Idaho tried to hit people with car:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/04/idaho-matthew-alan-lehigh-anti-lgbtq-crime-spree/

* "Arson Suspected After San Diego Queer Women's Bar Set on Fire:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbian-bars-fire-san-diego

* CW: Suicide. "Suspect in the Maine mass shooting has been found dead, police say:" https://www.npr.org/2023/10/27/1209015872/maine-lewiston-shooting-robert-card-river

* "Suspected Maine shooter had history of liking far-right, anti-trans content online:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/maine-shooter-robert-card-twitter-likes-right-wing-tucker-carlson/

* "Why Conservatives Hate Immigrants:"

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* "Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice?:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2023-10-20/killings-in-the-u-s-are-dropping-at-an-historic-rate-will-anyone-notice-essential-politics

* "How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.:" https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/10/24/california-corcoran-prison-climate-change-flood

* "Watch Candace Owens Call Native Americans ‘High’ and ‘Cannibals’ While Denying Two-Spirit Existence:" https://www.advocate.com/news/candace-owens-native-americans-cannibals

* CW: Rape "Veteran gay Tory MP Crispin Blunt arrested on suspicion of rape:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/tory-mp-crispin-blunt-arrested/

* "Indian school for wrestling helps girls chase better life and glory:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/india-women-wrestling/

* "Pockets" https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/

* "Wales government to redefine women to include trans women in landmark gender laws:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/wales-government-redefinie-women-trans/

* "West Virginia teen appears in court in bid to overturn state trans sports ban:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/west-virginia-teen-trans-sports-ban/

* "Abortion restrictions in Russia spark outrage as the country takes a conservative turn:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-russia-women-rights-feminism-fc5eab75b5e3d028aeb1f70ec8a9a2b1

* "Nigeria: Mass LGBTQ+ arrests ‘based on assumptions, not investigation’, activists say:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/01/nigeria-lgbtq-arrests-assumptions-activists/

* "South Korea upholds military’s archaic anti-gay law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/south-korea-military-anti-gay-law/

* "LGBTQ+ Groups Denied Registration Even After Supreme Court Decision in Eswatini:" https://www.advocate.com/world/eswatini-officials-defy-supreme-court

* "Turkey’s Erdoğan claims LGBTQ+ people threaten the family:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/turkey-erdogan-lgbtq-people-family/

* "Johannesburg Pride marches for LGBTQ+ Ugandans in wake of Anti-Homosexuality Bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/johannesburg-pride-uganda-lgbtq/

* "Posie Parker tomato juice protester to face trial for New Zealand incident:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/posie-parker-tomato-juice-protester-to-face-trial-for-new-zealand-incident/

* "Sydney all-girls school bans same-sex couples from attending prom with their partners:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/sydney-catholic-girls-school-prom-same-sex-ban/

* "Glasgow woman pleads guilty after gay club assault:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/01/glasgow-woman-pleads-guilty-gay-club/

* "DUP councillor condemned for claiming ‘LGBTQIA alphabet soup mafia’ support Hamas:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/dup-councillor-colin-kennedy-claim-lgbtq-hamas/

* "Government’s trans school guidance promised by Christmas:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/gillian-keegan-trans-school-guidance-publication/

* "Trans conversion therapy survivor begs Rishi Sunak to push on with ban: ‘Some would call it torture’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/30/conversion-therapy-survivor-rishi-sunak-ban/

* "Suzy Eddie Izzard says trans rights and women’s rights ‘shouldn’t be fought against each other’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/26/suzy-eddie-izzard-trans-womens-rights/

* "The wildest claims LGB Alliance makes in its report against the word ‘queer’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/lgb-alliance-queer-lgbtq-report/

* "Anti-trans campaigner Marion Millar arrested and charged in connection with alleged fraud:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/marion-millar-fraud-charges-arrest/

* "‘Lesbian Nana’ police officer investigation after viral video of pepper spray incident:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/25/lesbian-nana-pepper-spray-clip/

* "Where have all the lesbian bars gone?:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/where-have-all-the-lesbian-bars-gone/

* "Man arrested for murder of openly gay journalist Josh Kruger:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/31/man-arrested-murder-josh-kruger/

* "Man pleads guilty to obstructing justice in 2019 murder of trans woman:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/29/pebbles-ladime-dime-doe-trans-murder-guilty-south-carolina-us/

* "Bisexual New York Woman Assaulted When Mistaken for Trans:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/bi-woman-mistaken-trans-attacked

* "Michigan finally bans archaic ‘gay panic defence’ laws:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/24/michigan-gay-trans-panic-defence/

* "New York man pleads guilty for involvement in gay bar robbery scheme that left two dead:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/gay-bar-robbery-scheme/

* "Kansas honours trans ‘trailblazers’ after transphobic backlash to homecoming queen wins:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/kansas-honours-homecoming-queens-after-transphobic-backlash-trailblazers/

* "The US infant mortality rate rose last year. The CDC says it’s the largest increase in two decades:" https://apnews.com/article/infant-deaths-us-cdc-mortality-c808796da0415b6ecc0629938421e1b5

* "New Patch Inspired by Octopus Suckers Could Deliver Drugs Without Needles:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-patch-inspired-by-octopus-suckers-could-deliver-drugs-without-needles-180982986/

* "Diving Deep into the Mouth's Microbial Dark Matter:" https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/diving-deep-into-the-mouths-microbial-dark-matter

* "Mosquito-borne illnesses are picking up speed. Experts say Americans are unprepared:" https://www.salon.com/2023/10/21/mosquito-borne-illnesses-are-picking-up-speed-experts-say-americans-are-unprepared/

* "How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/health/hernia-surgery-component-separation.html

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* "The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" :" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/

* "New study warns climate is warming even faster than some think:" https://www.axios.com/2023/11/02/climate-change-warming-james-hansen

* "Amazon River falls to lowest in over a century amid Brazil drought:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/amazon-rainforest-port-records-lowest-water-level-121-years-amid-drought-2023-10-16/

* "Hurricane Otis: How a tropical storm turned into a 'nightmare scenario' overnight:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hurricane-otis-rapid-intensification-climate-change-rcna122090

* "Credible missing persons list drops to 5 people unaccounted for from Lahaina fire:" https://mauinow.com/2023/10/27/credible-missing-persons-list-drops-to-5-people-unaccounted-for-from-lahaina-fire/

* "Deadly explosion off Nigeria points to threat posed by aging oil ships around the world:" https://apnews.com/article/oil-exploration-gasoline-environment-nigeria-1d4cc4791cbfc28e6ccf942075510a60

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* "Let's talk about the Colorado River deal....:"

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* Golf courses should be illegal. "Abandoned golf courses are being reclaimed by nature:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/world/abandoned-golf-courses-reclaimed-by-nature-c2e-spc-scn-intl

* "What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections:" https://theconversation.com/what-are-roundabouts-a-transportation-engineer-explains-the-safety-benefits-of-these-circular-intersections-215412

* "Here's What Ethical AI Really Means:"

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* "Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia:" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-wikipedia-twitter-x-encyclopedia-1234861220/

* "Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty in FTX crypto fraud case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-trial-verdict/

* "Fallen crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all counts:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/fallen-crypto-king-sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-counts-196993605915

* "China’s youngest-ever astronauts blast off to space station:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/chinas-youngest-ever-astronauts-blast-off-to-space-station

* "US zoo saving endangered red wolf, one dental checkup at a time:" https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-zoo-saving-endangered-red-wolf-one-dental-checkup-time-2023-10-25/

* "Runaway zebras delighted the nation — and exposed their owner’s dark past:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/maryland-zebras-jerry-holly/

* "How Scientists Tracked the Movements of a 17,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-tracked-movements-17000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-180983064/

* "The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Men:" https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2022/12/01/the-ancient-greek-woman-who-dressed-as-a-man-to-seduce-men/

* "The London History Show: Anne Boleyn:"

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* "The Chevalier d'Eon: the Trans 18th Century Spy:"

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* "How To Convince People To Volunteer: Joining Up In WWI:"

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* "15 Years After Pres. Obama's Historic Election:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/15-years-after-pres-obama-s-historic-election-197108293787

* "The Fight Between Cataphiles and Underground Police in the Paris Catacombs:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-maps-paris-catacombs

I will never see the catacombs in person but I am horrified. Destroying them would be a desecration.

* "Illegal Body Trade: Modern-Day Corpse Theft:"

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* "Something Wicked This Way Paddles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/witches-paddle-halloween.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Uw.qR51.sbD-6BoYNu4_&smid=url-share

* "A Professional Pumpkin Carver Spills His Guts:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/style/halloween-professional-pumpkin-carver.html

* "New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth:" https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nyc-alligator-sewer-statue-trnd/index.html

* Thursday a week ago dentist and hygienist were very astonished by my relaxed state during dentistry. I hadn't had time to warn them that sometimes I fall asleep before the dental dam went in ending my ability to explain. Luckily they didn't get scared as had happened before. I wasn't asleep, just meditating as is my usual practice when I'm not exhausted. Apparently even very chill patients don't normally relax at this level. I have no dental trauma or phobias. It's not that I enjoy dentistry, it's just I have no more emotion about it than I do around oil change. It's just maintenance.

No cleaner Friday, which is fine. So many people clocked out slightly late, they snatched 15 minutes here and 15 minutes there, so I am left with six visits at most to cover November and December instead of the surplus Math last summer suggested I should have. I am a bit grumpy as I generally let them off three to six minutes early.

Saturday, Goth Millennial exhausted the Tiny Terror with one of their Gothmas presents. Livia had her third oops in two weeks. I am pretty sure it's stress.

Sunday: Millennial pumpkin carving!

Monday I did a bunch of prep for the big day.

* Gothmas Phase 2 exterior decorations:
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/732745508530061312/halloween-2023?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/732746862485028864/the-millennials-did-some-pumpkin-carving-sunday?source=share
https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/732748177031249920/halloween-2023?source=share

* I lost the first version of this in the crash. The Management chased all the families with kids out and most of the grad students, replacing them mostly with retirees. I hardly even got adults raiding my table this year, and one of them stole a bowl. Sigh. This is why I use cheap Dollar Store bowls. The Millennials got big candy gift bags this year.

I love the pumpkins the Millennials carved so much. I'm going to be so sad when I take them down in a day or two.

A cheerful Gen Z person turned up to Clean Saturday, and we got most of the outside display down. I really liked them. Goth millennial got the things too high to reach Saturday. We are mostly focused on the Tuesday inspection right now.

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. They are an old RL friend and my roommate. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Squirrelmh

* My car broke yet again in late October. As I feared it was the hose that keeps the engine cool. Why feared? It's in the middle of all the gear under the hood. Hose and fluid replacements are cheap. an hour and a half of labor to take it all apart then put it back in is incredibly expensive. $280 worth in total. I have paid Squirrel back for the gas for the week and a halfish, I was borrowing his car, thanks to a donor. The repairs ate most of my bill money for the month. Yes, this is the forth repair this year. My car is about 25ish years old. I can't afford to replace it, nor can I do without it, being disabled: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion

* Squirrel has lost his job and needs about $800.00 for bills, meds and food for a month. They have lost their health insurance which provides essential medication. We can float bills a bit if we must, but it's extremely dangerous if they skip any of their meds. They have already had a ton of interviews, and it is likely they will be offered a very good job if they can hold out until December when it starts. They are an old RL friend and my roommate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-rosies-dental-bills

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

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* "Meanwhile… Taylor Swift is a Billionaire | Doordash Tips | Florida’s Fake Cops:"

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* "World’s Longest Zucchini | Trump Kids Take the Stand | George Santos Survives Expulsion Attempt:"

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* "Why is Ron DeSantis Wearing Lifts? | Donald Trump v. The People | Biden’s Chilling AI Warning:"

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* "Barbie is Halloween’s Top Costume | Speaker Johnson’s Wife Runs Anti-LGBTQ Counseling Company:"

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* "Why Are Conservatives So Media Illiterate?:"

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* "Doctor Who vs Women:"

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* "Exploring the Emotions: Black Trauma vs. Black Horror:"

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* "From Protagonist to Romantic Prop: Mina Murray's Transformation:"

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* "The Gay Horror Manga You Should Be Reading:"

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* "True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories:"

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* "The Trump Kids in America:"

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* "See the Cutest Costumed Pups from New York City's Halloween Dog Parade:" https://people.com/dogs-costumes-2023-nyc-halloween-dog-parade-photos-8374321

* "Father and son make Halloween accessible to kids with disabilities one custom costume at a time:" https://www.cnn.com/us/walkin-rollin-costumes-halloween-iyw/index.html

* "Quirky Vintage Japanese Playgrounds Photographed at Night:" https://mossandfog.com/quirky-vintage-japanese-playgrounds-photographed-at-night/

* "Proposed: Counter-Halloween:" https://www.thestopgap.net/proposed/

* Ankh-Morpork Pride: https://www.tumblr.com/jamyesterday/732666837755691008?source=share

* A friend of Bertie Wooster transitions: https://www.tumblr.com/brigdh/732533098457268224?source=share

* "You work as the minor villain every new hero has to beat for their first battle.:" https://www.tumblr.com/seananmcguire/718085841933795328?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: A Chip off the old Block:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/732631414044049408/midnight-pals-a-chip-off-the-old-block?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Imaginarium:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/732810170427752448/midnight-pals-imaginarium?source=share

* "Sunday Sweets: Drama Queens:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-drama-queens-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: It's Fall, Y'all!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-its-fall-yall-2023

* "Sunday Sweets Gets SPOOPY:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-gets-spoopy-2023

* "Sunday Sweets: 10 Halloween Cuties:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-10-halloween-cuties-2023

* "Love Inks: 11 Tattoo Sweets!:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/love-inks-11-tattoo-sweets-2023

* "10 Enchanted Garden Cakes That Are Pure Magic:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/10-enchanted-garden-cakes-that-are-pure-magic-2023

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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.

* Where to donate for non-violent causes in Gaza and Israel: https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/867894.html

* "Games for Gaza:" https://soc-puppet.dreamwidth.org/868099.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to help the people of Maui?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Supporters of Niger's coup march, waving Russian flags and denouncing France:" https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190969703/supporters-of-nigers-coup-march-waving-russian-flags-and-denouncing-france

* "West African leaders meet over Niger coup, junta warns against intervention:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-leaders-meet-over-niger-coup-junta-warns-against-intervention-2023-07-30/

* "As regional bloc threatens intervention in Niger, neighboring juntas vow mutual defense:" https://apnews.com/article/niger-coup-west-africa-use-of-force-mali-burkina-faso-0b951ec77a89033c84e6f0972cc21b5f

* "Tens of Thousands of Israelis Protest Netanyahu Government's Judicial Overhaul:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-29/ty-article/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-netanyahu-governments-judicial-overhaul/00000189-a306-d00f-a7db-b39f9dbf0000

* "Masked, Unidentifiable Cops Beat Israeli Civilians With Impunity – How Long Can It Go On?:" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-07-30/ty-article-magazine/.premium/masked-unidentifiable-cops-beat-israeli-civilians-with-impunity-how-long-can-it-go-on/00000189-a835-d00f-a7db-b9bfb10c0000

* "Spain election repeat more likely after expat vote count:" https://www.politico.eu/article/election-repeat-spain-likely-expat-vote-tie-parliament/

* "Parish council denies homophobia after rejecting seats for two people with LGBTQ+ links:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/parish-council-denies-homophobia-after-rejecting-seats-for-two-people-with-lgbtq-links/

* "New Barbie-themed anti-Tory ads spotted in London: ‘This Barbie is gagging to deport your grandma’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/01/barbie-tory-mps-liz-truss-jacob-rees-mogg-kemi-badenoch-suella-braverman/

* "Saudi football ‘sportswashing’ and using multi-million-pound deals to distract from human rights issues:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/saudi-arabia-lgbtq-jordan-henderson-allyship/

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* "Let's talk about Putin, Russia, and Africa....:"

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* "How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride:" https://www.salon.com/2023/07/29/how-russian-colonialism-took-the-western-anti-imperialist-left-for-a-ride/

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* "'Kill the gays' law in Uganda tests Biden admin with huge amounts of aid money at stake:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-kill-the-gays-law-in-uganda-tests-biden-admin-with-huge-amounts-of-aid-money-at-stake-189679685964

* "Kamala Harris Gives Fiery Speech About Florida Whitewashing History of Slavery:" https://www.advocate.com/history/kamala-harris-fiery-slavery-speech

* "Biden names CIA Director William Burns to his cabinet:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-william-burns-biden-cabinet/

* "Let's talk about Hunter, Archer, and an old video....:"

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* "Woman Who Brought Anti-LGBTQ+ SCOTUS Case Did Make a Wedding Website:" https://www.advocate.com/news/303-creative-website-previous

* "GOP's New MAGA: Make America Go Ass-Backward:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gop-new-maga-america-backward

* "Ro Khanna: Democratic Lawmakers Must Take a Stand for Transgender Rights:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ro-khanna-democrats-trans-rights

* "House of Representatives debate on trans healthcare descends into pure transphobia:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/house-of-representatives-debate-trans-healthcare/

* "Republican Lawmakers Look to Ban Pride Flags at Stonewall, Other National Sites:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pride-flag-ban-stonewall-republicans

* "The Kids Online Safety Act Would Harm LGBTQ+ Youth, Restrict Access to Information and Community:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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

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

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

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

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

* Ohioans! Have you voted? If not, why not do it now? "Top 5 reasons to Vote NO on Issue 1 on August 8th:" https://www.acluohio.org/en/news/top-5-reasons-vote-no-issue-1-august-8th-0

* "From home rule to the initiative itself, Ohio would have never won many reforms under a 60% rule:" https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/07/31/from-home-rule-to-the-initiative-itself-ohio-would-have-never-won-many-reforms-under-a-60-rule/

* "Deacon: 'No' on Issue 1 to protect Ohio from greed, stop 1 county from blocking will of majority:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2023/07/29/reverand-ohio-issue-1-august-special-election-8-will-let-one-county-to-decide-for-all-others-vote-no/70440467007/

* "Tensions flare as California GOP gives Trump a boost by overhauling state primary rules:" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-07-29/california-republican-primary-delegates-trump-desantis-presidential-election-2024

* "Let's talk about the Michigan elector claims getting strange....:"

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* "Let's talk about Rudy, truth, and the law....:"

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* "Arizona’s GOP Went All In on Trump’s Big Lie—Now It’s Broke:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizonas-gop-went-all-in-on-trumps-big-lienow-its-broke

* "Michigan Republican Party's bank accounts down to $93K, recording reveals:" https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/07/14/michigan-republican-party-bankruptcy-kristina-karamo-financial-problems-debt-clare-meeting-fight/70414759007/

* "'Exciting, blustering nutjobs': Money problems, chaos seen in state Republican Parties:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-exciting-blustering-nutjobs-money-problems-chaos-seen-in-state-republican-parties-189681221719

* "Julie Johnson Running to Be Texas's First Out Member of Congress:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/julie-johnson-texas-lgbtq

* "California Voters to Decide Fate of State's Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Ban in 2024:" https://www.advocate.com/law/prop-8-california-voters-2024

* "Let's talk about Christie vs Trump....:"

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* "DeSantis's DiSastrous Campaign: Burning Cash, Firing Staff:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-disastrous-campaign

* "Ron DeSantis Attacks Trump for Promising to Protect LGBTQ+ People From Terrorists:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-donald-trump-ad

* "Ron DeSantis Campaign Staff, Supporters Allegedly Assault LGBTQ+ Activists:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ron-desantis-staff-assault-activists

* "Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-legal-bills-pac-defense-fund-campaign-filing-2024-36fe10e4988a56de34f120cff38e1552

* "Louisiana Republicans Overturn Veto on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Ban:" https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-louisiana-veto

* "Ohio Republicans Seek to Criminalize Drag Performers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/ohio-tries-criminalize-drag

* "Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Outlaws Conversion Therapy on Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/law/michigan-conversion-therapy-ban

* "Inside the Party Switch That Blew Up North Carolina Politics:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/us/inside-the-party-switch-that-blew-up-north-carolina-politics.html

* "'Betrayal:' North Carolina lawmaker who switched parties was courted by GOP before election:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-betrayal-north-carolina-lawmaker-who-switched-parties-was-courted-by-gop-before-election-189670981895

* "Minnesota Mayor Told to Resign by LGBTQ+ Group Over ‘Sin and Brokenness’ Comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/minnesota-mayor-resignation-homophobia

* "North Carolina School Board Member Censured for Anti-LGBTQ+ Facebook Post:" https://www.advocate.com/news/censured-board-member-nc-airy

* "Ken Paxton doesn’t get to pick his jury:" https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2023/07/25/ken-paxton-doesnt-get-to-pick-his-jury/

* "Pro-Paxton group gives $3 million to impeachment trial judge Dan Patrick:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/18/ken-paxton-impeachment-dan-patrick/

* "Ken Paxton, impeached and suspended from office, raised $1.7 million in less than 2 weeks:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/17/ken-paxton-fundraising-impeachment/

* "Ken Paxton’s far-right billionaire backers are fighting hard to save him:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/ken-paxton-impeachment-dunn-wilks/

* "Ken Paxton will not testify at impeachment trial, defense attorney says:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/04/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-impeachment/

* "Gag order issued ahead of Texas AG Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial after ‘inflammatory’ remarks:" https://apnews.com/article/texas-paxton-impeachment-c264530978d369c9a0fb4b7cbdc65305

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* "Judge dismisses Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/judge-dismisses-trump-defamation-lawsuit-00108871

* "Georgia judge skewers Trump’s bid to derail potential charges:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/31/georgia-judge-trump-charges-fulton-county-00108968

* "Georgia Prosecutor to Give Donald Trump the Label He’s Deserved for Years: Racketeer:" https://newrepublic.com/post/174504/georgia-prosecutor-preps-devastating-racketeering-indictment-trump

* "Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-indicted-jan-6-investigation-special-counsel-debb59bb7a4d9f93f7e2dace01feccdc

* "Rep. Zoe Lofgren of January 6 Committee on Donald Trump’s Indictment:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-indictment-zoe-lofgren

* "Maddow: History's judgment looms as citizen Trump faces accountability:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-history-s-judgment-looms-as-citizen-trump-faces-accountability-189771333594

* "Ex-NYPD Boss Handing Over Trump Records to Jack Smith:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-nypd-boss-bernie-kerik-handing-over-trump-records-to-jack-smith?ref=home

* "'They knew to count on violence': Trump indictment shows willingness to seize power by force:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-they-knew-to-count-on-violence-trump-indictment-shows-willingness-to-seize-power-by-force-189773893815

* "'Have your ducks in a row': What to know about the judge in the Trump 2020 case:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-have-your-ducks-in-a-row-what-to-know-about-the-judge-in-the-trump-2020-case-189777477796

* This is the last week ones, but I couldn't remember if I posted them here. "Trump charged with new crimes in classified documents case :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/27/feds-add-new-charges-against-trump-in-classified-documents-case-00108667

* "Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump’s election claims:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/mark-meadows-georgia-election-results-2020-fraud-claims/

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* "Mike Lindell’s Pillow Talk With Trump Ends in a Bad Dream:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-lindell-pillow-talk-trump

* "Patriot Front members to serve just three days in jail for plan to storm Idaho Pride event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/23/patriot-front-sentenced-days-jail-lgbtq-pride-idaho/

* "United States tops 400 mass shootings in 2023:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/politics/us-400-mass-shootings/index.html

* "Lesbian Couple Gunned Down in Washington State Mass Shooting:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/lesbians-killed-washington-shooting

* "Translating the Language of the Border:" https://thebaffler.com/latest/translating-the-language-of-the-border-del-valle

* "‘I can’t die like this’: Video shows trans man beaten by deputy during stop:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/video-trans-man-beaten-la-county-sheriff-deputy

* "Tennessee Radio Station Owner Makes Racist Remark About Karine Jean-Pierre:" https://www.advocate.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-tennessee-radio

* "Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/tamu-president-resign-journalism/

* "Judge temporarily blocks Montana’s vaguely worded anti-drag bill:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/judge-temporarily-blocks-montanas-vaguely-worded-anti-drag-bill/

* CW: Antisemitism, Holocaust "Fox News Host: 'You Had to Be Useful' in Holocaust Death Camps :" https://advocatechannel.com/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-holocaust

* Remember to vote in all school board elections. "School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution:" https://apnews.com/article/missouri-school-board-drops-antiracism-resolution-9d857b0e316950b600684e0050b85229

* Republicans are winning their War on Education. "HISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at NES schools:" https://abc13.com/hisd-libraries-librarians-media-specialists-houston-isd/13548483/

* "Let's talk about Texas libraries....:"

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* They were going to round up librarians and charge them with felonies for having any books the fascist extremists in Arkansas did not like. "Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/29/arkansas-law-librarian-criminal-charges-00108883

* "Montana Libraries Divorce National Organization Over 'Marxist Lesbian' President:" https://advocatechannel.com/montana-libraries-marxist-lesbian-president

* "ACLU Warns New Jersey Library Not to Censor LGBTQ+ Book:" https://www.advocate.com/books/new-jersey-library-censoring-book

* CW: Rape. "Nonbinary Activist Says They Were Drugged and Sexually Assaulted:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/deni-todorovic-victim-sexual-assault

* CW: CSA. "Child rape charge for Alabama state employee who ran anti-abortion committee:" https://boingboing.net/2023/07/24/child-rape-charge-for-alabama-official-who-ran-anti-abortion-committee.html

* CW: Suicide, Domestic Violence. "Pregnant trans man killed by partner in ‘horrific’ murder-suicide in Florida:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/pregnant-trans-man-killed-by-partner-in-murder-suicide-in-florida/

* "More than 80 per cent of women working in football have experienced discrimination, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/28/women-football-discrimination-study/

* "Disabled lesbian explains why we all must come together to fight common enemy:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/31/disability-pride-month-lgbtq-fight-future/

* "Police called after boy with autism used cinema toilet with mum, because manager thought he was trans:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/cinemark-trans-toilet-police-called/

* "Ohio Man Has Epic Meltdown at Petco Over Gender-Neutral Bathroom:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gender-neutral-bathroom-ohio-petco

* "Abortion providers sue Alabama to block prosecution over out-of-state travel:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/abortion-providers-sue-alabama-block-prosecution-over-out-of-state-travel-2023-07-31/

* "Why does Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor think your health information is his business?:" https://www.adn.com/opinions/editorials/2023/07/22/editorial-why-does-alaska-attorney-general-treg-taylor-think-your-health-information-is-his-business/

* "Kenya could follow Uganda as East African nations wage war on LGBT rights:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenya-could-follow-uganda-east-african-nations-wage-war-lgbt-rights-2023-06-22/

* "Anti-LGBTQ crackdown worsens in Tanzania:" https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/07/11/anti-lgbtq-crackdown-worsens-in-tanzania/

* "Russia: Putin’s sweeping new trans ban is latest attack in global war on LGBTQ+ rights:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/russia-trans-gender-affirming-healthcare-ban-lgbtq-rights-global/

* "Ghana High Court Tosses Challenge to Draconian Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill:" https://www.advocate.com/law/ghana-anti-lgbtq-bill

* "Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov accused of ordering torture and murder of missing gay man:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/zelimkhan-bakaev-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya/

* "Trans men entering Miss Italy in protest demand apology amid ‘continuous transphobia’ across country:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/trans-miss-italy-protestors-fight-against-trasphobia/

* "‘Unapologetically trans-inclusive’ Belfast Pride Parade set to be city’s biggest to date:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/unapologetically-trans-inclusive-belfast-pride-parade-set-to-be-citys-biggest-to-date/

* "Canadian couple win case against right-wing party that used photo of their newborn son in an anti-LGBTQ+ campaign:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/canadian-couple-win-case-against-right-wing-party-that-used-photo-of-their-newborn-son-in-an-anti-lgbtq-campaign/

* "Canada’s Unions are Organizing to Defend Workers From Far-Right Anti-2SLGBTQ+ Hate Groups:" https://pressprogress.ca/canadas-unions-are-organizing-to-defend-workers-from-far-right-anti-2slgbtq-hate-groups/

* "Investigation launched after two men stabbed by machete-wielding man in Australia’s LGBTQ+ mecca:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/investigation-launched-after-two-men-stabbed-by-machete-wielding-man-in-australias-lgbtq-mecca/

* "Labour attack on Scottish gender reform is ‘dishonest’ and ‘shameful’, say Scots politicians:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/25/labour-anneliese-dodds-gender-recognition-reform-scotland/

* "Rishi Sunak warned that trans schools guidance would put teachers in impossible bind and endanger children:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/rishi-sunak-trans-schools-guidance-psychologist/

* "Teacher and parent warn government must not ‘out’ trans pupils to unsupportive parents:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/30/teacher-and-parent-warn-government-must-not-out-trans-pupils-to-unsupportive-parents/

* "Estate agent jailed for vicious Birmingham attack on gay men with glass bottle and metal pipe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/24/birmingham-usman-murtza-attack-gay/

* CW: Suicide. "Grimsby teacher’s inquest hears he took his own life after ‘vile homophobic abuse’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/29/inquest-finds-teacher-took-his-life-after-homophobic-abuse/

* CW: Suicide. "Helen Joyce Misquotes Bible, Suggests Rachel Levine Kill Herself:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/helen-joyce-misquotes-bible-to-say-rachel-levine-should-kill-herself

* "Kansas Republican AG Sues Democrat Governor Over Trans Drivers Licenses:" https://www.advocate.com/law/drivers-license-transgender-kansas

* "Tennessee Attorney General Obtains Confidential Medical Records of Trans Patients:" https://www.advocate.com/news/tennessee-ag-medical-records-transgender

* "Missouri Families Sue to Block Ban on Gender-Affirming Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/missouri-transgender-lawsuit

* "Idaho Families Scramble to Stop Ban on Trans Health Care:" https://www.advocate.com/law/idaho-trans-youth-lawsuit

* "School Board Boots California Schools Chief From Meeting on Trans Policies:" https://www.advocate.com/news/california-superintendent-ousted-school-meeting

* "Texas Ag Dept. Shocked That Antidiscrimination Training Included Gender Identity:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/texas-anti-trans-discrimination-training

* "Puerto Rican Afro-Latina Trans Woman Chanell Perez Ortiz Fatally Shot:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/trans-woman-killed-puerto-rico

* "Florida Gay Man Brutally Attacked by Two Men Yelling Antigay Slurs:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/antigay-attack-miami-florida

* "Florida Reverends, Rabbi Slam DeSantis, Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/florida-reverends-rabbi-slam-desantis

* "Christian College Fires Gay Soccer Coach Over Instagram Stories:" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-coach-fired-christian-college

* "Indiana Catholic School OK to Fire Staffer in Same-Sex Marriage: Appeals Court:" https://www.advocate.com/law/catholic-school-firing-upheld

* Neo-NAZI group continues its War on Children. "Moms for Liberty Outnumbered by LGBTQ+ Supporters Outside Youth Center:" https://www.advocate.com/news/moms-for-liberty-youth-center

* "TWIBS: The Transgenders Are Ruining… Military Enlistment Rates?!:" https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/fox-military-story-doesnt-add-up

* "No, Inclusive Church Was Not Hosting Same-Sex Wedding When It Caught Fire:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/church-destruction-claim-debunked

* "First Transgender NFL Cheerleader Stands Proud in Face of Hateful Trolls:" https://www.advocate.com/people/nfl-cheerleader-transgender-first

* "Coming out… again:"

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* "How ADHD affects me:"

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* "Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes:" https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/12/ehlers-danlos-syndrome-patients-turned-researchers/

* "Some Humans Create This Temporary, Alien Organ Which Has Baffled Scientists Until Now:" https://www.inverse.com/health/humans-create-temporary-alien-organ-baffled-scientists-until-now

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* "We are in an 'era of global boiling' as nearly half of all Americans are under heat advisories:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/we-are-in-an-era-of-global-boiling-as-nearly-half-of-all-americans-are-under-heat-advisories-189546053685

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* "Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/empty-office-buildings-are-being-turned-into-vertical-farms-180982502/

* "Why pedestrian deaths in the US are at a 40-year high :" https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safety-fatalities-governors-association

* "The ‘Darting Children’ That Helped Japan Win Its War on Traffic Accidents:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tobita-kun-japanese-road-safety-signs

* "Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction:" https://www.reuters.com/science/self-healing-metal-its-not-just-stuff-science-fiction-2023-07-19/

* "Elon Musk took x Twitter handle from its original owner without asking:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/elon-musk-twitter-x-username-gene-x-hwang/

* "Rare ‘Trojan’ world may share the same orbit as another planet :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/world/exoplanet-trojan-sibling-pds-70-scn/index.html

* "‘Zombifying’ worms are evolutionary oddballs, missing genes all other animals have :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/world/horsehair-worms-parasites-missing-genes-scn/index.html

* "An extraordinary fossil captures the struggle for existence during the Mesozoic:" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-37545-8

* "Kitchen shrine serpents and more fascinating new Pompeii discoveries:" https://news.yahoo.com/kitchen-shrine-serpents-other-fascinating-234506478.html

* "How Homophobia Impacted the NYPD's Search for a Serial Killer:" https://www.advocate.com/television/last-call-serial-killer-gay

* "Gay Serial Killer Suspect's Estate Turns Up Two More DNA Samples:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/herbert-baumeister-new-dna-victims

* "Jonathan D. Lewis, Gay Activist Against Prop. 8 and DADT, Dead at 64:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/activist-jonathan-lewis-obituary

* "Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer :" https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

* "Pee-wee Herman Actor Paul Reubens Dead at 70:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/paul-reubens-pee-wee-herman

* "Meet a new generation of Black American ‘cowboys’:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/for-freedoms-american-history-black-equestrians

* "When is Dinner, By State:" https://flowingdata.com/2023/07/25/when-is-dinner-by-state/

* "True Facts: Elephants:"

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* It was a little cooler Sunday, so we went to the Waterfall park instead to wade and have a picnic, and then came back for proper dinner and cake for Nearby Millennial's birthday. I was really fun watching goth Millennial messing about in the water and Newest Millennial continuing to fall in love with the PNW, much as I did when I first came west.

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

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

* Contains Dracula Spoilers to the end of the book. "Four Times Jack Fakes a Death Certificate and One Time he Doesn't :" https://www.tumblr.com/animate-mush/724191083716820992/four-times-jack-fakes-a-death-certificate-and-one?source=share

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

* Want to help queer folk in Russia?

Queer Svit - https://queersvit.taplink.ws/ Helping LGBTQ+ and BIPOC аffected by the war and political repressions
Center-T - https://centre-t.com/english Helping transgender people in Russia
КилькоТ-Действие - https://boosty.to/kilkota
Delo LGBT+ - https://www.delo.lgbt/ || https://boosty.to/delolgbt

* BPAL Charity Fundraiser "TRIUMPH IN MY SONG:" https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/triumph-in-my-song/

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

* "DIY Box Fan Air Filter Directions:" https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk261/files/inline-files/DIY%20Air%20Purifier%20Directions_English.Spanish_0.pdf

* Useful state of trans links for making an arguement that we are real and nead human and civil rights: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/722268284819570688/you-are-a-great-source-of-news-and-information-and?source=share

* Fundraiser to help some friends of a friend survive: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-tara-candice-survive-unemployment

* Minoan miss needs funds to get around for training: https://minoanmiss.dreamwidth.org/1232423.html#cutid1

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

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

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