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* "Israelis rally against Netanyahu’s judicial plan for 22nd week:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/4/israelis-rally-against-netanyahus-judicial-plan-for-22nd-week

* "Thai PM frontrunner vows to legalise same-sex marriage: ‘Love must win’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/thailand-prime-minister-pita-limjaroenrat-same-sex-marriage/

* "Latvia elects Edgars Rinkevics as president – the first openly gay head of state in Europe:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/31/latvia-gay-president-edgars-rinkevics/

* "Ireland Has Been Giving Creative Workers $1,400 a Month in an Economic Experiment That Will Soon Shape National Policy:" https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ireland-artists-basic-income-results-2278099

* "Senior Tory peer thinks plan to fight next election on ‘trans debate’ is ‘really, really dumb’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/ian-duncan-conservative-lord-general-election-trans/

* "Met Police apologises for past homophobia and acknowledges ‘racists and misogynists’ in force:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/met-police-apology-homophobia/

* "Meet the Robin Hood-Style Activists ‘Shoplifting’ for Food Banks:" https://novaramedia.com/2023/06/06/meet-the-robin-hood-style-activists-shoplifting-for-food-banks/

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* "Blasts at major dam in southern Ukraine unleash floodwaters" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-blows-up-major-nova-kakhovka-dam-southern-ukraine-2023-06-06/

* CW: Animal Death. "Hundreds of Animals Killed After Dam Attack Floods Ukraine Zoo:" https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-animals-killed-after-dam-attack-floods-ukraine-zoo-1804856

I have a particular horror of things like floods hitting zoos.

* "Liverpool to host KyivPride march on behalf of Ukraine:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/02/liverpool-kyiv-pride-march/

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* "China seeking to spy on the U.S. from a base in Cuba:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/china-spy-on-us-cuba-00100990

* "Joe Biden pledges urgent support for LGBTQ+ Americans as ‘state of emergency’ declared by charity:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/white-house-joe-biden-lgbtq-pledge-book-bans/

* This is an important win. SCOTUS was expected to open the floodgates for unlimited gerrymandering, but instead sided with Democracy for once. "Voting Rights Act dodges bullet at Supreme Court :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/voting-rights-act-dodges-bullet-at-supreme-court-00101004

* "The Supreme Court Has a New Bold Lone Dissenter:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/supreme-court-glacier-northwest-unions-strike.html

* "Unions Can Still Strike—Don't Let the Supreme Court Tell You Otherwise:" https://www.labornotes.org/2023/06/unions-can-still-strike-dont-let-supreme-court-tell-you-otherwise

* "Supreme Court Ruling on Trans Immigrant Celebrated for Correct Pronoun Use:" https://www.advocate.com/law/supreme-court-transgender-pronouns

* "Justice Clarence Thomas delays filing financial disclosure amid increased ethics scrutiny:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/new-supreme-court-financial-reports-set-release-increased-ethics-scrut-rcna87752

* "Biden signs bipartisan debt ceiling bill to avert government default:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-signs-bipartisan-debt-ceiling-bill-avert-government-default-rcna87516

* "Here are the 6 must-know provisions of the new debt ceiling deal :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/28/6-pillars-of-the-debt-ceiling-deal-00099108

* "The Winners and Losers of the New Debt Ceiling Law:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/the-winners-and-losers-of-the-new-debt-ceiling-law-179923013748

* "Lauren Boebert Running Late For Debt Ceiling Vote Video Viewed 12m Times:" https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-running-late-debt-ceiling-vote-viral-video-1804441

* "How to Save a Community College :" https://newrepublic.com/article/172967/cuny-budget-battle-eric-adams

* "Conservatives surprise McCarthy with floor rebellion over debt deal anger :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/06/conservatives-mccarthy-rebellion-debt-deal-00100538

* "Senate votes to torpedo Biden’s student debt relief plan amid veto threat:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/01/senate-repeals-bidens-student-debt-relief-00099682

* "Death by Debt:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/student-loan-debt-cancellation-supreme-court-jessica-madison-collective/

* "GOP Senator Admits Republicans Don’t Care if Accusations Against Joe Biden Are “Accurate”:" https://newrepublic.com/post/173162/grassley-admits-republicans-dont-care-accusations-joe-biden-accurate

* "GOP House Oversight chairman moves to hold FBI director Wray in contempt of Congress:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-house-oversight-chairman-moves-to-hold-fbi-director-wray-in-contempt-of-congress

* "Congress threatens to block Space Command headquarters funding as abortion politics affect location decision:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/congress-threatens-block-funding-space-force-headquarters-abortion-pol-rcna86500

* "Republicans pick a bad time to go to war against breathable air:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republicans-pick-a-bad-time-to-go-to-war-against-breathable-air-181009477995

* 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

* They came so close last time. "Colorado Democrats unveil full court press to unseat Rep. Lauren Boebert in 2024:" https://www.cpr.org/2023/06/05/colorado-democrats-unveil-full-court-press-to-unseat-rep-lauren-boebert-in-2024/

* "Justice Department will not seek criminal charges in Pence classified document probe :" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/politics/mike-pence-justice-department-documents/

* "Ex-vice president Mike Pence, enemy of LGBTQ+ rights, joins White House race:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/06/mike-pence-2024-presidential-race-us-donald-trump/

* "Pence Delivers Strong Rebuke to Trump in Campaign Announcement:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/us/politics/pence-trump-2024-announcement.html

* "Pence hits Trump during campaign launch: He ‘should never’ be president again:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/pence-hits-trump-during-campaign-launch-he-should-never-be-president-again-180962373662

To be clear, Mike Pence is a vile human being.

I should probably explain I feel a duty to make a note of who’s in the primary and what the relevant discourse is around that, in part because I think we are completely fucked if any Republican wins.

I am too old and ill to do well as a refugee on Canada. Odds are if the facists take over entirely, I die fast.

* "55 Things You Need to Know About Mike Pence:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/07/mike-pence-55-things-about-00100408

"As governor, he signed laws restricting abortions and allowing guns in parking lots of schools, dragged his feet during an HIV outbreak in the rural part of the state, deleted comments from his official Facebook page disagreeing with his views on gay marriage (and then apologized for it) and put together plans for a state-run news service he was going to call “Just IN” (which he scrapped due to criticism, including the Atlantic dubbing the idea “Pravda on the Plains”). But more than anything else, his tenure was marked by the furor surrounding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a bill that made it essentially legal for businesses in the state to discriminate against gay people. Battered by backlash from corporations, the NCAA and even the GOP establishment, then mocked for a disastrous appearance on TV, he backed off and signed into law a watered-down version of the bill. Liberals saw him as a bigot. Conservatives thought he had caved. His polling plunged. People thought he was done. “I bet he’d never get elected again in Indiana,” the owner of the Indianapolis Business Journal said in 2017. “But he went from being a likely loser as an incumbent governor to vice president of the United States.”"

* "Tara Reade, who accused Biden of sexual assault, will apply for Russian citizenship:" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179158199/tara-reade-biden-sexual-assault-russian-citizenship

* "Despite polling near zero, Christie wants another shot at Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/despite-polling-near-zero-christie-wants-another-shot-at-trump-180729413822

* CW: Suicide. "Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley blames teens suicide on trans girls using locker rooms:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/05/nikki-haley-presidential-election-trans-girls-teen-suicide/

Wouldn't Republican Christo-fascism, misogyny, dehumanization, the ripping away of civil and human rights, etc. be a more likely cause?

* "Donald Trump says he doesn’t like the word ‘woke’ in latest jibe at rival Ron DeSantis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/05/donald-trump-woke/

* "Ron DeSantis confronted by woman claiming murder cover-up at campaign event:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/04/ron-desantis-murder-cover-up-claim-florida/

* "Zooey Zephyr travels to Florida, roasts Ron DeSantis on his home turf: ‘You will not make us afraid’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/04/zooey-zephyr-ron-desantis-lgbtq-trans-pride/

* "North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announces a truly long-shot presidential bid :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/07/north-dakota-doug-burgum-presidential-bid-00100715

* "'Do not congratulate': Trump coziness with dictators tests GOP primary opponents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-do-not-congratulate-trump-coziness-with-dictators-tests-gop-primary-opponents-180423749793

* "Sadiq Khan slams ‘abhorrent’ anti-LGBTQ+ views of US presidential hopefuls like Ron DeSantis:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/sadiq-khan-ron-desantis-trans-bills/

* "Republican primary field struggles with personality shortage:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/republican-primary-field-struggles-with-personality-shortage-181021765864

* The Atlanta police want to remind you that exercising your first amendment rights is considered terrorism as is any political opposition. "Atlanta Is Trying to Crush the Opposition to “Cop City” by Any Means Necessary:" https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/cop-city-arrests-atlanta-repression/

* "Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizer speaks out after police raid, calls charges ‘backed by politics’:" https://www.wabe.org/atlanta-solidarity-fund-organizer-speaks-out-after-police-raid-calls-charges-backed-by-politics/

* "The Details of the Atlanta Bail Fund Arrest Are More Horrific Than First Described:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/cop-city-tortuguita-atlanta-bail-fund-arrest-horror.html

* "No One Believes in Cop City. So Why Did Atlanta’s City Council Fund It? :" https://theintercept.com/2023/06/06/cop-city-atlanta-funding-vote/

* Check your registration. Republicans like to summarily disenfranchise people. "Atlanta organizers unveil plan to stop ‘Cop City’ at the ballot box:" https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-police-training-cop-city-referendum-d605bfb043f2e24c5749f441458acf5a

* The Republican Pro-corruption agenda continues. "Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs bill limiting state taxpayer watchdog:" https://www.thegazette.com/state-government/iowa-gov-reynolds-signs-bill-limiting-state-taxpayer-watchdog/

* "Tallahassee My Texas:" https://www.texasobserver.org/ron-desantis-texas/

* "Minnesota legislature ends its session with major progressive wins:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/minnesota-legislature-ends-its-session-with-major-progressive-wins-181697605923

* "Judge who threw out Don’t Say Gay challenge to decide DeSantis vs Disney lawsuit:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/06/disney-desantis-florida-dont-say-gay-allen-winsor/

* I don't understand how this is constitutional, but here we are. "Oklahoma approves nation’s first public religious charter school:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/05/oklahoma-approves-public-religious-charter-school-00100269

* "This City Now Has the Most LGBTQ+ Council Members in US History:" https://advocatechannel.com/this-city-most-lgbtq-council-members-us-history

* "Gay Rep. George Santos Scammed His Fellow Republicans, Too:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/george-santos-scammed-republicans

* "Santos fights to conceal identities of people helping him remain free while under indictment:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/09/santos-conceal-identities-of-people-helping-him-remain-free-00101284

* "Jamie Raskin Opens Up About Cancer Recovery, Bravery, and Mental Health Awareness:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/jamie-raskin-maryland

* "California governor slams ‘ignorant’ school board president who called Harvey Milk a ‘paedophile’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/04/california-gavin-newsom-school-board-president-harvey-milk-book/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene embarrasses herself with transphobic Pride Month message:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-pride-month-tweet-transphobic/

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* "Georgia probe of Trump expands to activities in other states, Washington Post reports:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/georgia-probe-trump-expands-activities-other-states-washington-post-2023-06-02/

* "Trump attorneys haven’t found classified document former president referred to on tape following subpoena:" https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/politics/donald-trump-iran-subpoena/index.html

* "Of Course a Mar-a-Lago Worker Drained the Pool Into Room Where Surveillance Video Was Kept:" https://newrepublic.com/post/173256/mar-a-lago-worker-drained-pool-room-surveillance-video-kept

* "Trump charged over classified documents in 1st federal indictment of an ex-president:" https://wtop.com/national/2023/06/trump-braces-for-possible-federal-charges-after-being-warned-hes-a-target-of-documents-probe/

* "Read the full federal indictment in the Trump classified documents case:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/read-full-indictment-text-classified-document-probe-rcna88600

* "Trump indictment cheat sheet: What to know about the classified documents case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/trump-indictment-classified-documents-what-to-expect-00101159

* "Donald Trump stored, showed off and refused to return classified documents, indictment says:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-indictment-classified-documents-miami-8315a5b23c18f27083ed64eef21efff3

* "Why Donald Trump was indicted in Florida instead of Washington D.C:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-donald-trump-was-indicted-in-florida-instead-of-washington-d-c-181274181657

* "Why Biden's documents case is nothing like Trump's despite the GOP's effort to equate them:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/why-biden-s-documents-case-is-nothing-like-trump-s-despite-the-gop-s-effort-to-equate-them-181298245658

* Fuckksake! "Trump-appointed judge assigned to initially oversee the Florida case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/09/trump-appointed-judge-to-oversee-initial-florida-court-appearance-00101273

* "Trump judge with sketchy record could give DOJ cause for concern in Trump case:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-judge-with-sketchy-record-could-give-doj-cause-for-concern-in-trump-case-181573189553

* "Trump loses two lawyers just hours after being indicted:" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/09/trump-loses-two-lawyers-just-hours-after-being-indicted-00101263

* "Brennan: Intel community may never fully know what was compromised by Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/brennan-intel-community-may-never-fully-know-what-was-compromised-by-trump-181570629585

* "Donald Trump responds to second indictment with pathetic attack on Joe Biden’s garage door:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/donald-trump-classified-documents-charges-joe-biden/

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* "7 wounded in shooting after high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/7-wounded-in-shooting-after-high-school-graduation-ceremony-in-richmond-virginia

* "Asylum-seekers say joy over end of Title 42 turns to anguish induced by new US rules:" https://apnews.com/article/border-asylum-rules-immigration-title-42-biden-e77b4730682d889a2376b868c2fcac18

* "Migrants risk life and limb to jump Mexico trains in rush to border :" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-mexico-train/

* "Sheriff files criminal charges over Florida’s transport of migrants from San Antonio to Massachusetts:" https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/05/texas-san-antonio-migrant-flight-marthas-vineyard-criminal-charges/

* "California authorities say migrants flown to Sacramento have links to Florida :" https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/04/california-florida-migrants-marthas-vineyard-00100121

* "Suspect in murder of off-duty cop walks free after former top prosecutors committed ‘egregious’ misconduct, officials say:" https://www.inquirer.com/news/william-johnson-murder-dismissed-terence-flomo-lynne-abraham-carlos-vega-20230608.html

* "2 men wrongfully convicted of Oakland murder file lawsuit:" https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/2-men-wrongfully-convicted-of-oakland-murder-file-lawsuit/

* CW: Rape. "How a ‘Blue Wall’ Inside N.Y. State Prisons Protects Abusive Guards:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/nyregion/ny-state-prison-guards-abuse.html

* "Florida Transformers convention bans ‘cross-dressing cosplay’ under state’s anti-drag law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/florida-transformers-convention-tfcon-anti-drag-cross-dressing-cosplay/

* "Meet the L.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence:" https://www.advocate.com/activism/meet-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence

* "Under Ron DeSantis, Our Site Couldn't Exist:" https://advocatechannel.com/desantis-diversity-equity-inclusion-ban

* "Republican Attacks on LGBTQ+ Educators and Students Will Set Us Back 40 Years:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/mark-takano-republicans-educators

* "Librarians Now Face Prison For Distributing Banned Books:" https://advocatechannel.com/librarians-face-prison-distributing-banned-books

* "Texas Bans 'Marxist' Diversity Offices at State Universities:" https://advocatechannel.com/texas-bans-marxist-diversity-offices-state-universities

* Onion headline predicts reality. "Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools ‘due to vulgarity or violence’:" https://apnews.com/article/book-ban-school-library-bible-fc025c8ccf30e955aaf0b0ee1899608a

* "Georgia School's LGBTQ+ Book Purge Violated Students' Rights: DOE:" https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-book-ban-violates-rights

* "Gavin Newsom Slams 'Extremists' in Florida, Demands Investigation Into Textbook :" https://advocatechannel.com/gavin-newsom-slams-extremists-florida-investigation-textbook-rewrites

* "Florida teacher explains why he quit over LGBTQ+ book bans: ‘Protect us or lose us’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/florida-hernando-county-school-district-ron-desantis/

* "Grandad’s Pride publisher slams ‘offensive and homophobic’ attacks on LGBTQ+ kids’ book:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/grandads-pride-book-gender-critical-lgbtq-pride/

* CW: Rape. I'm not in agreement on everything in here, but this is very interesting. "Ending the Trauma of Antagonistic Masculinity:"

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* CW: Rape. "Florida Security Guard Allegedly Raped Trans Woman at the Bar Where He Worked:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/florida-guard-accused-rape-trans

* CW: Pedophilia. "Florida Christian School Teacher Accused of Sex Crimes Against Special Needs Student:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/christian-schools-arrest-sex-crimes

* CW: Domestic Violence "Two in five LGBTQ+ domestic violence victims have no support from family, study finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/06/lgbtq-domestic-violence-support-galop-study/

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* Women are dying. "Polish prosecutors and ombudsman investigate death of pregnant woman in hospital:" https://apnews.com/article/poland-pregnancy-death-abortion-law-b0d095dfd704e2b9e3534e6b07e4397c

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* "LGBTQ+ kids become unhappy adults if not supported by family and schools, research finds:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/01/just-like-us-positive-futures-report/

* "U.S. considers action to counter anti-gay hate stoked in Uganda by American evangelicals:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-considers-action-to-counter-anti-gay-hate-stoked-in-uganda-by-american-evangelicals-180428357953

* "Archbishop of Canterbury urges Ugandan church to reject deadly anti-gay law:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/archbishop-of-canterbury-uganda-anti-homosexuality-act/

* "‘Grave concerns’ after Tories refuse to help LGBTQ+ Ugandans facing death penalty:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/04/uk-government-uganda-refugees-lgbtq/

* "Lesbian couple brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight at Hong Kong mall:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/hong-kong-lesbian-couple-double-murder/

* "Trans women beaten, cut and ‘forcibly undressed’ in Kenyan refugee camp: ‘They see us as the devil’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/kakuma-refugee-camp-trans-lgbtq-amnesty/

* "Gay Men in Nigeria Targeted in Dating App Extortion Scheme:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/gay-nigerians-blackmailed

* "Beijing LGBT Center Latest Victim of China's Anti-LGBTQ+ Crackdown:" https://www.advocate.com/news/china-beijing-lgbt-center

* "Iceland passes historic conversion therapy ban and yes, it’s trans-inclusive:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/10/iceland-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Taiwan Grants Adoption Rights to Same-Sex Couples in Latest Step Toward Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/family/taiwan-lgbtq-adoption

* "Man jailed for pushing gay student Scott Johnson to his death from Sydney cruising spot:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/scott-johnson-manslaughter-sentenced-sydney/

* "UK named one of world’s least friendly countries for trans people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/06/great-britain-ipsos-pride-survey-trans/

* "Labour remains vague on Gender Recognition Act reforms as Greens and SNP call for change:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/labour-gender-recognition-act-reforms-greens-snp-trans/

* "Labour MP Nadia Whittome challenges Tories to ditch empty promises and protect LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/labour-nadia-whittome-conservative-demands-lgbtq-protection/

* "Labour MP Kate Osborne says sex ed review ‘undoubtedly’ being used to push anti-trans agenda:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/09/kate-osborne-sex-ed-review-lgbtq-trans/

* "Labour’s Anneliese Dodds blasts Kemi Badenoch over conversion therapy ban: ‘We need a ban now!’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/anneliese-dodds-kemi-badenoch-conversion-therapy-ban-lgbtq/

* "Coming out trans at school: Student stories show why Tory plans to out trans kids are so, so wrong:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/coming-out-trans-school/

* Children will die. "NHS to stop prescribing puberty blockers for children struggling with their gender identity:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/11/nhs-england-puberty-blockers-trans-youth/

* "School cancels Pride celebration to protect pupils after ‘fury’ stirred by right-wing press:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/school-cancels-pride-right-wing-press-backlash/

* "Andrew Moffat on Birmingham anti-LGBTQ+ school protests, four years on: ‘Hardest time in my life’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/06/andrew-moffat-no-outsiders-parkfield-protests/

* "Nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group declares state of emergency:" https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/nations-largest-lgbtq-advocacy-group-declares-state-emergency-rcna87938

* "Louisiana Senate passes Don’t Say Gay bill and ban on life-saving healthcare for trans kids:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/louisiana-lgbtq-dont-say-gay/

* "Jen Psaki points out ‘awkward’ hypocrisy behind Fox News’ anti-LGBTQ+ outrage:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/05/jen-psaki-fox-news-lgbtq-woke/

* "Judge blocks Florida ban on life-saving healthcare for trans kids: ‘Gender identity is real’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/florida-ron-desantis-gender-affirming-care-ban/

* "Maryland governor Wes Moore signs order protecting trans healthcare: ‘You deserve to live safely’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/maryland-governor-wes-moore-trans-healthcare/

* "Janelle Monáe vows to fight anti-LGBTQ+ legislation: ‘I will never sit back and be silent’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/janelle-monae-vows-to-fight-anti-lgbtq-legislation/

* "Man arrested over the death of Black trans woman Ashley Burton. She was just 37:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/ashley-burton-trans-murder-atlanta-arrest-darius-mills/

* "Man punches LGBTQ+ activist in head during violent brawl over school board’s Pride meeting:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/glendale-unified-school-district-protest-lgbtq-pride/

* "Violence breaks out at school board meeting over Pride Month: ‘Extremists attacked LGBTQ+ parents’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/07/school-board-meeting-pride-month-violence-glendale/

* "Pride Month Organizers Confident in Security Despite Far-Right Threats:" https://www.advocate.com/gay-pride-parade/pride-month-organizers-security-threats

* "Going sober at Pride: ‘We can actually celebrate the real meaning of Pride’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/sober-pride-alcohol-lgbtq/

* "NYC Pride’s first asexual grand marshal explains why including ace people at Pride is so important:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/01/yasmin-benoit-asexual-grand-marshal-nyc-pride/

* I'm not in 100% agreement, but I do think most of their points are good. "The Problem With Pride:"

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* "All the brands homophobes and transphobes have attempted to boycott, from Bud Light to Build-a-Bear:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/04/anti-lgbtq-bigots-boycott-brand-list/

* "Gareth Thomas explains why trans sports bans are so damaging: ‘It’s a purpose to be alive’:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/08/gareth-thomas-trans-inclusion-sport/

* "Navigating Mpox: How to Prepare for Pride Season:" https://www.advocate.com/health/mpox-prepare-for-pride

* "Fall’s COVID Shots May Be Different in One Key Way:" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/05/covid-vaccine-strain-xbb1/674208/

* "We’ve only just begun to examine the racial disparities of long covid:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/20/1059679/racial-disparities-of-long-covid/

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* "Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment :" https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-crisis-niche-migration-environment-population

* "‘How Could This Happen?’: Canadian Fires Burning Where They Rarely Have Before:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/world/canada/quebec-canada-wildfires-locations.html

* "International help rolls in to fight persistent Canadian wildfires:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/wildfires-burn-across-canada-with-little-relief-sight-2023-06-08/

* "A third day of smoky air gives millions in US East Coast, Canada a new view of wildfire threat:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-canada-quebec-smoke-new-york-washington-86eb7685c5330c548fd93891fffcfd65

* "Deadly Indian rail crash shifts focus from new trains to safety:" https://www.reuters.com/world/india/deadly-indian-rail-crash-shifts-focus-new-trains-safety-2023-06-03/

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* "What Wildfire Smoke, Gas Stoves and Covid Tell Us About Our Air:" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-viruses.html

* "How Corporate America's Toxic Waste Destroys Farms:"

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* "Debunking the Tech Hype Cycle with Dan Olson:"

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* "Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’:" https://archive.ph/CUd6G#selection-1585.14-1585.24

* "Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history:" https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/

* "Ten Juneteenth Myths:" https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2240/ten-juneteenth-myths/?utm_source=Tumblr&utm_medium=Pabbly&utm_campaign=whencyclopedia

* "Before Stonewall, this Kansas City activist helped unite the national gay rights movement:" https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-06-01/before-stonewall-this-kansas-city-activist-helped-unite-the-national-gay-rights-movement

* "Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for the Russians, dies in supermax prison:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-hanssen-fbi-agent-spied-russians-dies-supermax-prison-rcna87806

* Get out your dancing shoes! "Pat Robertson, Conservative Anti-LGBTQ+ Televangelist, Dies at 93:" https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/pat-robertson-dead

* "The hateful legacy of Pat Robertson, the televangelist who blamed 9/11 on gay people:" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/10/pat-robertson-dead-televangelist-gay-9-11/

* "Antisemitism and the Gothic:" https://shows.acast.com/re-dracula/episodes/bonus-3-antisemitism-and-the-gothic

* "When Hollywood Came Out of the Closet:"

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* Homoerotic and possibly NWS though their clothes stay on. "Arrow—The Irrepressibles唯美的性感男男钢圈舞Rim dance:"

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* I only got threeish hours of sleep for Monday, and spent all day out in heat and allergens or a waiting room. It was very worth it, given the results, but I am burnt and there is no real rest until Thursday.

I lost two hours of sleep to that thing where I wake up coughing and can't stop, plus pain and sensory stuff making it hard to get back to sleep once my body calmed the fuck down, plus a very long and distressing phone call from the doctor's office.

so I lost my incredibly cool superstar doctor in... was it February? The replacement turned out to be cool and we were going to do an appointment on a different topic every month until he caught up because my medical file is war and peace plus Moby Dick plus the whole of the Wheel of Time saga and takes ages to get a real handle on, and I very much need a Doctor who takes things like my lungs and joints seriously.

I liked him. He was charming and cheerful and well vouched for, but he's an older gentleman, and my may appointment got rescheduled as did the June appointment, and I got worried he might be having health issues. I don't know if the whatever I was led to him retiring or if something way more serious happened, but he's done and I'm to start from scratch with a new Doctor and no clue what if any prep they got before taking over the degenerative disease library that is me.

I hope he’s okay, wherever he is.

I am less worried about the trans stuff than i would normally be. Me and another trans person pioneered trans treatment at this clinic, and because the nearest trans services were down in Seattle back then, not counting the transphobe endocrinologist who rarely took new patients, they got a massive influx of trans people once we spread word of mouth that they would take us. back then it was really basic and we had to educate them, but once they realized how desperately they were needed, a second and better doctor started taking trans patients there, and then they started doing periodic how can we improve services and do serious training, and taking people on who were interested in learning.

They literally changed the clinic name because a lot of queer folk in poverty were afraid to go there. People who aren't comfortable with trans bodies, preferred names, and neo-pronouns don't work there and we are all incredibly lucky to have this clinic. I've been the first trans patient in a lot of specialist and surgical practices It is always a little nerve wracking and I had to do a lot of 101 for doctors and nurses over the years. I am pretty sure I am safe here.

It's the whole 'will they think I'm a hypochondriac or a drug seeker' thing that plagues all chronic illness/chronic pain patients that makes me wary.

* ...And no call and no cleaner Tuesday. I had to be up anyway for the medical social worker, but I'm becoming rather miffed.

* Management banned all flags in the complex this year to stop me putting pride flags in my windows. Our plan is to hang them inside the regulation white curtains instead of outside them and see if they send us a written notice to take them down. The white curtains are thin, but it's not clear how visible they will be at different times of day and night. They are up. The progress flagg is somewhat visible when backlit with the light still out. I'm not convinced the chevron Queer Flag will be. When I loop the curtain and not the flag, more of the flag is easily seen than not.

We thought of some other loopholes. I have a compliant white and blue chair on the porch. Head Millenial will be painting pink stripes hopefully next week if we can get the stuff that makes paint stick to fabric. The stripes won't be the right order, but we can at least have the colour.

We went to the Dollar store Wednesday in search of rainbow pinwheels, but all they had were red/white/blue. Sigh. A friend bought a big flower pinwheel with the correct number of petals and has undertaken to paint it pride flag colours.

We also plan to report every US flag we see when it gets close to July 4th as the wording bans those too. If you ban flags, you better not only enforce on minorities.

So here's the thing. We are all really poor, but we are also angry. If you have good cheap suggestions for how to make pride stuff without actual flags, please, please write in. Most of the Millennials are good at DIY and we are all very much in the mood for malicious compliance.

* As of Friday, the cleaners haven't turned up the last five times they've been scheduled. I spent an hour on the phone with they Asshole Agency, mostly on hold, getting cut off "accidentally" before the operator got an answer from management. The second lady double checked my phone number so she could call back if we got cut off. This too was a lie. Remember, every time they cut me off, I have to start over, waiting on hold for an operator, explaining from scratch, them trying to reach a supervisor.

Am I being blackballed? Inquiring minds want to know.

In any case I have to wait up for the imaginary cleaner, then call the Asshole Agency to ask if the cleaner has cancelled, because once again they didn’t bother to call, which means i lose nearly as much sleep only no dishes are washed.

PRIDE Loophole Update: The Progress shows up fine at night. I have to loop up the curtain to reveal the queer chevron.

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* "Midnight Pals: The Future is Now:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/719037361912201216/midnight-pals-the-future-is-now?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Oxfam fam:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/719498606294548480/midnight-pals-oxfam-fam?source=share

* "Midnight Pals: Cozy Horror:" https://www.tumblr.com/bitterkarella/719674079795380224/midnight-pals-cozy-horror?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.

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

* My oldest continuous friend is trying to raise money to buy games for a Cat Rescue fundraiser. This cat rescue is no kill and places most cats in foster homes until they can be adopted. They are good people there and it's a huge number of cats many needing basic or more serious healthcare.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/318lgf6fa0?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf%20share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR1smSQTz7deMSVUBsEg30AdhQ-zeAEHGXOcHXqVUILTlF2MqnIIW49SDVU

* 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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* "BLM 'not just a fleeting moment':" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-53406040

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* "One-third of COVID-19 patients who aren't hospitalized have long-term illness, CDC says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monumental-acknowledgment-cdc-reports-long-term-covid-19-patients-n1234814

* "Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/

* It’s so bad, folks. "The gravedigger’s truth: Hidden coronavirus deaths:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-53521563/the-gravedigger-s-truth-hidden-coronavirus-deaths

* "Alarm over Vietnam's first virus cases in months:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53549809

* "Iran's struggle to contain a coronavirus surge:" https://www.bbc.com/news/52959756

* This isn't what it looks like from the headline. They are saving lives and it might be a good idea for an NGO or the like to step in and do/pay for the extra training to turn them into the Indian equivalent of nurse practitioners if the government can’t or won’t. "The 'quacks' guarding villages against Covid-19:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53217323

* "Federal coronavirus "red zone" of severe outbreaks expands to 21 total states:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-coronavirus-red-zone-of-severe-outbreaks-expands-to-21-total-states/

* Oh look, it's going to be for profit, exactly as predicted if the trial goes well. "Fauci ‘cautiously optimistic’ as coronavirus vaccination marks milestone:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/coronavirus-covid-live-updates/#link-332RPZW5V5HQRBIEH4JNPPQV4I

* I stand by my opinion that soap and water is better if you have access to it. "FDA says at least 77 hand sanitizer products may be toxic:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/24/hand-sanitizer-recall/

* "Hakeem Jeffries: Trump does not care about the American people. He cares about himself.:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/hakeem-jeffries-trump-does-not-care-about-the-american-people-he-cares-about-himself-88358981982

* "U.S. Coronavirus Cases Soar as 18 States Set Single-Day Records This Week:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html

* "NM's 467 new cases shatters single-day record:" https://www.abqjournal.com/1479968/nm-covid-19-cases-hit-single-day-high-driven-by-detention-center-outbreak.html

* "Cleanup from Hanna spurs fear amid COVID-19 surge in Texas:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/cleanup-from-hanna-spurs-fear-amid-covid-19-surge-in-texas/2020/07/27/fa1f7288-d06a-11ea-826b-cc394d824e35_story.html

* "Hurricane makes disaster of already catastrophic COVID situation:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/hurricane-makes-disaster-of-already-catastrophic-covid-situation-88368709841

* "Chris Hayes puts the scale of coronavirus deaths in perspective:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-puts-the-scale-of-coronavirus-deaths-in-perspective-88363589991

* "Gov. Bill Lee ignores White House coronavirus expert’s recommendation:" https://www.localmemphis.com/article/opinion/gov-bill-lee-ignores-white-house-coronavirus-experts-recommendation/522-27a81bd7-6813-4c6b-9a35-801a5b432b41

* "'We’re still waiting at home for them to come back':" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-53521886/coronavirus-we-re-still-waiting-at-home-for-them-to-come-back

* "A harsh lesson in the reality of COVID-19:" https://dallasvoice.com/a-harsh-lesson-in-the-reality-of-covid-19/

* "Dark money and PAC's coordinated 'reopen' push are behind doctors' viral hydroxychloroquine video:" https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/dark-money-pac-s-coordinated-reopen-push-are-behind-doctors-n1235100

* "Bill Nye: ‘We should all wear masks, 'cause it works both ways’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/bill-nye-we-should-all-wear-masks-cause-it-works-both-ways-88360005994

* "Trump downplays national security adviser's coronavirus diagnosis:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/national-security-adviser-robert-obrien-tests-positive-for-covid-19-382347

* They need to shut it down. "Marlins’ coronavirus outbreak won’t derail MLB’s just-opened season — at least not yet:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/26/marlins-delay-return-miami-after-apparent-coronavirus-outbreak-among-players/?hpid=hp_hp-banner-main_marlins-1010am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

* “Sports are a reward for a functioning society.” "Hayes on baseball’s coronavirus crisis: You can’t play catch in the middle of a fire:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/hayes-on-baseball-s-coronavirus-crisis-you-can-t-play-catch-in-the-middle-of-a-fire-88364101656

* "Sinclair to delay segment featuring 'Plandemic' conspiracy theory:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/25/sinclair-to-delay-segment-on-plandemic-conspiracy-theories-381454

* "Grifters started the anti-mask movement:" https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/20/no-mask-no-service/#dorr-brothers

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* Good. "German ministers decline Washington G7 summit invite: Der Spiegel:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-g7-germany-trump/german-ministers-decline-washington-g7-summit-invite-der-spiegel-idUSKBN24A262

* "A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn’t pretty:" https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/25/nation/bipartisan-group-secretly-gathered-game-out-contested-trump-biden-election-it-wasnt-pretty/

* "Melania Trump Compared to Marie Antoinette Over Rose Garden Renovation" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/7/27/melania-trump-compared-marie-antoinette-over-rose-garden-renovation

* "The F.B.I. Pledged to Keep a Source Anonymous. Trump Allies Aided His Unmasking.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/politics/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier.html

* "Trump's pick to head Office of Personnel Management spread 'satanic' conspiracy theory, called Democrats party of 'Islam' and 'gender-bending':" https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/john-gibbs-opm-kfile/index.html

* "Five takeaways from Attorney General Barr’s contentious congressional hearing:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/28/four-early-takeaways-attorney-general-barrs-contentious-congressional-hearing/

* "Barr clashes with Dems over DOJ’s independence:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/barr-faces-democratic-barrage-382916https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/barr-faces-democratic-barrage-382916

* "AG Barr equivocates when asked about foreign interference:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ag-barr-equivocates-when-asked-about-foreign-interference-88457797782

* "Barr, confronted on Roger Stone commutation, offers pallid response:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/barr-confronted-on-roger-stone-commutation-offers-pallid-answer-88500293856

* "Rep. Jayapal: 'Bill Barr is the personal henchman for Donald Trump':" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/jayapal-bill-barr-is-the-personal-henchman-for-donald-trump-88499269639

* "Now We’ll Know What the Recession Feels Like:" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/now-well-know-what-recession-feels-like/614560/

* The Republican plan is to dramatically cut unemployment insurance, but give the well off a bunch of givaways. "Senate GOP releases Covid proposal amid internal divisions:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/senate-gop-coronavirus-relief-package-382502

* Republicans decided to slash all these programs to help ordinary Americans and small business because there is not enough money to keep people in there homes, but somehow we have so much money we can easily afford to throw away $1.75 billion to protect 45's person business interests. Even they can't explain why this doesn't make sense. "‘I Just Don’t Get It’: Republicans Balk at Funding F.B.I. Building in Virus Bill:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/politics/republicans-trump-fbi-building-virus-relief-bill.html

* Is it just me, or is the entire Republican Bill all poison pills? "Schumer calls GOP coronavirus rescue plan a ‘corporate lawyer wish list’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/schumer-calls-gop-coronavirus-rescue-plan-a-corporate-lawyer-wish-list-88485957653

* Republicans insist we can't afford to help unemployed people with the rent, but yet we are doing this. "Kodak to produce pharmaceutical ingredients with U.S. government loan:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/28/kodak-produce-pharmaceutical-ingredients/

* The eviction crisis that happens if Republicans get their way: https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1287828927378001922

* "Bernie rips GOP coronavirus relief proposal: ‘Pathetic would be too mild a word’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/bernie-rips-gop-coronavirus-relief-proposal-pathetic-would-be-too-mild-a-word-88364101556

* "Rep. Bass: Hoping U.S. can hang on until Biden wins presidency:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rep-bass-hoping-u-s-can-hang-on-until-biden-wins-presidency-88368197750

* "Chris Murphy: GOP coronavirus bill introduced ‘was not a serious bill’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/chris-murphy-gop-coronavirus-bill-introduced-was-not-a-serious-bill-88465477638

* "Stacey Abrams: Republicans intend to use voter suppression in the upcoming election:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/stacey-abrams-republicans-intend-to-use-voter-suppression-in-the-upcoming-election-88361029656

* "Teachers Union OKs Strikes If Schools Reopen Without Safety Measures In Place:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/28/896265783/teachers-union-oks-strikes-if-schools-reopen-without-safety-measures-in-place

* "Trump shares GOP tweets of support for defense bill he has threatened to veto:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-shares-gop-tweets-of-support-for-defense-bill-he-has-threatened-to-veto/2020/07/27/922948d0-d014-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html

* "National Guard officer calls treatment of Lafayette Square protesters 'deeply disturbing':" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/national-guard-white-house-lafayette-protest-382790

* "National Guard officer says police suddenly moved on Lafayette Square protesters, used ‘excessive force’ before Trump visit:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/national-guard-commander-says-police-suddenly-moved-lafayette-square-protesters-used-excessive-force-clear-path-trump/

* "Barr claimed 200 FBI arrests in 2 weeks in Kansas City. He was only off by 199.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/23/barr-claimed-200-fbi-arrests-kansas-city-we-just-saw-our-first/

* "Mayors urge Congress to pass legislation barring the deployment of federal troops to cities:" https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/509214-mayors-urge-congress-to-pass-legislation-against-deployment-of-federal

* "Judge blocks Seattle's ban on tear gas, other crowd control weapons:" https://crosscut.com/2020/07/judge-blocks-seattles-ban-tear-gas-other-crowd-control-weapons

* "More federal agents dispatched to Portland as protests rise in other cities:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-federal-agents-dispatched-to-portland-as-protests-rise-in-other-cities/2020/07/27/20a717be-d03c-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

* "Riot declared in Seattle as protests continue:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/riot-declared-in-seattle-as-protests-continue/

* "Seattle mayor: Looks like Trump is rehearsing for martial law:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/seattle-mayor-looks-like-trump-is-rehearsing-for-martial-law-88367685828

* "Federal encroachment on local police raises mission creep concern:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/federal-encroachment-on-local-police-raises-mission-creep-concern-88501317542

* "'That’s an illegal order': veterans challenge Trump's officers in Portland:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/24/portland-trump-order-federal-officers-veterans-protests

* "RS Reports: Progressive City, Brutal Police:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/portand-oregon-police-brutality-history-1027677/

* "Elijah McClain's death puts focus on ketamine injections during police calls:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elijah-mcclain-was-injected-ketamine-while-handcuffed-some-medical-experts-n1232697

So not only was the man they murdered completely innocent and there was zero reason to suspect him of any crimes before they brutally attacked and choked him to unconsciousness even though he wasn't resisting as he plead for his life, the paramedics agreed with the police that him telling them he couldn't breath constituted agitation, so even though he'd been choked they injected him with a dangerously massive dose of anesthetic despite him being in no condition to resist and had shown no signs of doing so up until that point.

They gave him a lethal injection to punish him for walking home from a store while black.

No reason to charge anyone my ass.

* "Police investigate shooting at Austin protest:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53548415

* "Opposing armed militias converge in Louisville, escalating tensions but avoiding violence:" https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/07/25/louisville-protests-nfac-three-percenters-expected-demonstrate/3288198001/

* "‘Men’s rights’ lawyer eyed in shooting of NJ judge’s family:" https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/son-of-us-district-judge-esther-salas-killed-husband-shot/

* "Minn. protest ‘Umbrella Man’ was white supremacist trying to incite riots, police say:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/minn-protest-umbrella-man-was-white-supremacist-trying-to-incite-riots-police-say-88491077920

* "‘Disgraceful, plain and simple’: Couple wearing Nazi flag masks at Walmart filmed in viral clash:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/walmart-mask-nazi-minnesota/

* "Open Letter from the Staff of the Seattle Children’s Museum to Our Community::" https://medium.com/@seattlechildrensmuseumstaff/open-letter-from-the-staff-of-the-seattle-childrens-museum-to-our-community-d3221aa61961

* "The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/books/review/how-you-say-it-katherine-kinzler.html

* "Poland pulls out of international treaty on ending violence against women, claiming it ‘justifies gay ideology’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/27/poland-treaty-violence-women-gay-ideology-istanbul-convention-homophobia-zbigniew-ziobro/

* "Couple bruised and battered in ‘transphobic, homophobic’ attack for the simple crime of going out to dinner:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/28/york-transphobic-homophobic-attack-hate-crime-couple-st-denys-dennis-road/

* "Convicted drug lord jailed after beating ‘petrified’ Grindr date and threatening to set him on fire:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/29/grindr-attack-liverpool-kirby-james-inglesby-death-threat-fire-shoot-drugs/

* "Trump administration memo explains how to spot a transgender woman:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/trump-administration-memo-explains-spot-transgender-woman/

* "Vile homophobes attempted to burn down a historic 62-year-old queer bar in a botched Molotov cocktail attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/28/main-street-bar-california-homophobia-molotov-cocktail-attack-police-wendy-nelson-lgbt/

* "25 Years After Returning, Yellowstone’s Wolves Are the Most Studied but Misunderstood Good Boys:" https://earther.gizmodo.com/25-years-after-returning-yellowstone-s-wolves-are-the-1844485767

* "Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/24/surveillance-tech-facial-recognition-terror-capitalism

* "Special Report: Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-riteaid-software-specialreport/special-report-rite-aid-deployed-facial-recognition-systems-in-hundreds-of-u-s-stores-idUSKCN24T1HL

* "The Fall of Communism: Crash Course European History #47:"

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* "Beloved gay doctor dies from coronavirus in his husband’s arms after months of battling the pandemic on the front line:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/07/28/gay-baltimore-doctor-joseph-costa-covid-19-coronavirus-death-tribute-mercy-medical-center/

* "Washington bids farewell to civil rights icon John Lewis:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/john-lewis-capitol-washington-arrival-382860

* "Tumblr's Failed Convention: The Story of Dashcon:"

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* "The Washington R*dsk*ns Drop Their Name & Trump Frees Roger Stone:"

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* "U.S. Coronavirus Cases Soar, Trump Dons a Mask & The White House Attacks Anthony Fauci:"

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* It's up and down with the arm thing. Typing really hurts, which is messing with my work flow in expected ways. Being able to isolate that as a co-factor with things like sleeping is helpful, as it means I can experiment with mitigation methods.

I was up at the right time to go for Library curbside pick up Monday, but it took a ridiculously long time to get my arm functional, and by the time I got medicated and dressed I'd missed my window. I did go Tuesday, despite it being almost as bad.

On the way home I had to go to the Dollar Store. There was nothing for it. Millenials could not find a substitute in the places they go and I haven't worked out a work around. I have been dreading this for weeks, having heard horror stories from other cities. It was surprisingly good. They had a sign up requiring masks. The employees were all wearing theirs correctly (I've heard reports from a locals that in a number of places grocery workers were rendering theirs useless by not covering their noses) as were the people I saw shopping. They were all keeping their distance and obeying the spacers. Checkout had the floor markers and a much bigger clear screen to protect the worker. I was in and out fast, since I know where they keep the thing I needed and no fucking way was I staying longer than I had to.

That's two high risk activities this week. I've mostly been able to avoid such since March, but here we are.

The pain was so bad just from this trip I lay on the sofa crying for half an hour before I could get it together to get water and emergency pain meds. (Note: My regular meds are safe to drive on; emergency meds aren't, hence me not taking them before i left. I don't want you thinking I drive on the PRNs.)

See, I need one arm for walking, which means carrying books and purchase in the other. This is no win when the arm is so damaged I spend half my evenings using that crappy emergency child sized sling that was the only one in stock several years ago when I needed one right then. I don't need the immobilization, but i do need the support, so I'm sticking my arm through crosswise to protect the shoulder. It hurts my other shoulder and is not comfortable for the arm, but it helps for the non-typing intensive things I do, like reading and link work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

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

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

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

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

* Want to help Doug Jones defend his seat against a Trumpist homophobe? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-doug?refcode=gaa1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8n4rdfT6gIVvxitBh0BfQmNEAAYASAAEgJSwfD_BwE

* Want to help Sara Gideon unseat Susan Collins? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/adopt-me-dem-susan-collins-seat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/01/trump-sanction-russia-chemical-weapons-1444845

* "White House Finally Acknowledges Trump-Putin Phone Call During Democratic Debate:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/white-house-acknowledges-trump-putin-phone-call-says-it-was-about-wildfires.html

* "Trump casts doubt on Russian interference in 2020 election:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-casts-doubt-russian-interference-2020-election-n1038636

* O.o "A Trump history lesson:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/a-trump-history-lesson-65210437633

* "Trump says he will impose new tariffs on $300 billion of imports from China starting next month, ending brief cease-fire in trade war:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-says-he-will-impose-new-tariffs-on-300-billion-in-chinese-imports-starting-next-month-ending-brief-cease-fire-in-trade-war/2019/08/01/d8d42c86-b482-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e118f2f1f8d5

* "Tariffs backfiring on US, says ex-Trump adviser:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49187126

* The Republican war on the U. S. Economy continues. "How Trump's latest China tariffs could squeeze US consumers:" https://apnews.com/bb149842a3d04f29a784824edd15db72

* "Senate passes massive 2-year budget deal:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/01/budget-deal-senate-vote-1444084

* "Pentagon puts $10B contract on hold after Trump swipe at Amazon:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/01/pentagon-amazon-contract-1630381

* "Trump orders lawyers’ achievement awards revoked in Navy SEAL murder case:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-orders-lawyers-achievement-awards-revoked-in-navy-seal-murder-case/2019/07/31/11a74d2c-b3cf-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.130245d89494

* "Trump warm-up speaker utters "QAnon" slogan:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-warm-up-speaker-utters-qanon-slogan-65212997585

* "Manhattan D.A. subpoenas Trump Org beyond Barr's protective reach:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/manhattan-d-a-subpoenas-trump-org-beyond-barr-s-protective-reach-65124933620

* "Gates, former Trump official, Mueller source, begins next phase:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/gates-former-trump-official-mueller-source-begins-next-phase-65225285850

* "Congress eyes potential corruption by Trump inaugural chairman:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/congress-eyes-potential-corruption-by-trump-inaugural-chairman-65224773515

* "Majority of House Democrats now support impeachment inquiry:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/01/majority-house-democrats-support-impeachment-1440799

* "Nearly half of all House Democrats support impeachment inquiry:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nearly-half-of-all-house-democrats-support-impeachment-inquiry-65129029545

* "Justice Dept. won't prosecute James Comey over handling of FBI memos, despite watchdog referral:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/politics/james-comey-justice-department-ig/index.html

* "I can't probe Kushner security clearance till Trump asks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/watchdog-tells-democrats-he-can-t-probe-white-house-security-n1037486

* "Manhattan D.A. Subpoenas Trump Organization Over Stormy Daniels Hush Money:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/nyregion/trump-cohen-stormy-daniels-vance.html

* Any suggestions how we stop this? It's terrifying. "Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest

* "White House Asks for List of Top Spies During Intelligence Shakeup:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-asks-for-list-of-top-intel-officials-amid-intelligence-shakeup

* "Trump dumps ill-considered intelligence pick after just five days:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-dumps-ill-considered-intelligence-pick-after-just-five-days-65226821506

* "New acting federal lands director opposes federal land ownership:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-acting-federal-lands-director-opposes-federal-land-ownership-65224773764

* "Meet your new U.N Ambassador, Kelly Knight Craft:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-your-new-u-n-ambassasor-kelly-knight-craft-65121349744

* "Cory Booker Isn’t Afraid to Talk About Racism and Reparations With White Voters:" https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3xg8/cory-booker-isnt-afraid-to-talk-about-racism-and-reparations-with-white-voters

* "Booker takes care to keep criticism of Biden apart from Obama:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/booker-takes-care-to-keep-criticism-of-biden-apart-from-obama-65122373808

* "Joe Biden and the choice facing Democratic voters:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/joe-biden-and-the-choice-facing-democratic-voters-65120837718

* "Biden's front-runner status makes him a target at second debate:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-s-front-runner-status-makes-him-a-target-at-second-debate-65130053515

* "Obama legacy takes friendly fire in debate attacks on Joe Biden:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/obama-legacy-takes-friendly-fire-in-debate-attacks-on-joe-biden-65126981602

* "Gillibrand, Inslee Make Only Mentions of LGBTQ Rights at Debate:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/8/01/gillibrand-inslee-make-only-mentions-lgbtq-rights-debate

* "Marianne Williamson told AIDS patients that sickness is 'an illusion':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/03/presidential-candidate-marianne-williamson-told-aids-patients-sickness-is-an-illusion/

* "Texas Rep. Hurd, lone black Republican in House, won’t seek reelection:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/texas-rep-hurd-lone-black-republican-in-house-wont-seek-reelection/2019/08/01/0927745c-b487-11e9-8949-5f36ff92706e_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.34204ff5478d

* "The Biggest Abuser of Forced Arbitration Is Amazon:" https://prospect.org/article/biggest-abuser-forced-arbitration-amazon

* "Democratic pushback on Trump-pleasing stunt puts Graham in a snit:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democratic-pushback-on-trump-pleasing-stunt-puts-graham-in-a-snit-65225285815

* "The Ronald Reagan tape:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-ronald-reagan-tape-65120325900

* "Ta-Nehisi Coates defends his hometown of Baltimore:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ta-nehisi-coates-defends-his-hometown-of-baltimore-65209413938

* "At STEM Competitions, Gender Norms Still Hold Girls Back:" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/07/16/stem-competitions-science-fair-olympiad-gender-disparities/

* "14 years after legalisation, one in four Canadians opposes equal marriage:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/02/14-years-legalisation-canada-opposes-equal-marriage/

* "Canada facing calls for federal ban on 'hateful and harmful' conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/02/canadian-officials-call-federal-ban-hateful-harmful-conversion-therapy/

* "Scottish Greens launch campaign to get more non-binary people into politics:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/02/scottish-greens-campaign-more-non-binary-people-politics/

* "Suspect arrested in murder of Russian LGBT rights activist:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/01/suspect-murder-russia-lgbt-activist-yelena-grigoryeva/

* "Trans woman in battle with bank who say she 'sounds like a man':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/01/trans-woman-battle-bank-she-sounds-like-man/

* "Male sex workers take over Amsterdam’s Red Light District windows for Pride:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/03/male-sex-workers-amsterdam-red-light-district-windows-pride/

* "Police officer sacked after ‘calling for parents of trans kids to be shot’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/03/police-officer-sacked-after-calling-for-parents-of-trans-kids-to-be-shot/

* "Outraged by the Catholic Church Firing LGBTQ People? Write a Letter:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/8/01/outraged-catholic-church-firing-lgbtq-people-write-letter

* "Washington to add non-binary X option to driving licenses:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/01/washington-add-non-binary-gender-driving-licenses/

* "North Carolina Governor Ends Funding of Conversion Therapy on Minors:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/8/02/north-carolina-governor-ends-funding-conversion-therapy-minors

* "Three arrested over alleged ‘hate-motivated’ murder of gay social worker:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/08/03/three-arrested-alleged-hate-motivated-murder-gay-social-worker-georgia/

* "Numbewr 13-Rest In Power and Peace Marquis 'Kiki' Fantroy:" https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2019/08/numbewr-13-rest-in-power-and-peace.html

* "Lyft Adopts New Policies After Drag Queens Refused Rides:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/8/02/lyft-adopts-new-policies-after-drag-queens-refused-rides

* "This is what billions of tons of melting Arctic ice looks like:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/this-is-what-billions-of-tons-of-melting-arctic-ice-looks-like-65223749653

* "Boris Johnson: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver :"

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* The pills are flavored, she said. Just hide it in a bit of butter and she’ll eat it right up, she said.
Me: side eyes the vet.
Livia: runs in terror from obviously Doctored butter even if I stick a treat on top.
Livia: This is an obvious trap. Do they think I’m an imbecile?

* Both girls are definitely eating the new goosh. Livia took a good piss on the sofa, so that's proof she's not blocked. We have a pee proof cover now so I'm not dealing with a week plus of cushion cleaning, just laundry. Do I want her peeing on the sofa? no, but it's better than cat literally dying. I figure ss long as she's eating the medicinal goosh and peeing every twelve hours or so, it's good. She is really scared we'll pill her and/or take her to the vet. she's not wrong about either really, but it means she is very wary and pettins are rare and in unusual locations where she is entirely in control.

Livia Addendum: She peed on the sofa three times Tonight. I know I said I was using all proceeds to buy cat food and vet care, but I think another pee cover just got urgent. On the upside, this means she’s probably not dying and is on the mend.

* Reviews of Aziraphale's Book Shop: https://itsclydebitches.tumblr.com/post/186055292445/hey-all-remember-when-i-said-id-never-do-another

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

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

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

* "More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps:" https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/201920.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

* This is a cool person and the clothes are being made from an ethical source. Looking for cool inclusive Pride themed merch? www.nerdykeppie.com

* HorrorMux is open for apping the next story, which is a 1994 Lost Boys type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr/Angel if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Invasion Of The Presidential Candidates:"

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

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* "Trump Asked A Favor Of Matthew Whitaker:"

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* "America's Homegrown Opioid Crisis:"

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

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

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* "Danielle Brooks - Black Woman:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Donald Trump's bizarre obsession with birds:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/donald-trump-s-bizarre-obsession-with-birds-1310961219572?v=railb

* "Manafort associate paid Trump inauguration $50,000 in Ukrainian cash:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/paul-manafort-sam-patten-charged-cambridge-analytica

* "Mueller gets another guilty plea flip following foreign money:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-gets-another-guilty-plea-flip-following-foreign-money-1311010371707?v=railb

* "Ohr says Steele told him Russian intel believed they had Trump 'over a barrel':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-donald-trump/index.html

* "Dems accuse Republicans of misusing 'sensitive' documents during Ohr hearing:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/31/dems-accuse-republicans-of-misusing-sensitive-documents-during-ohr-hearing-805565

* Re: Bruce Ohr. It looks an awful lot like the Republicans have decided en mass to side with the Russian Mafia against the interests of the United sates. Just saying.

* "When the president attacks a nonpolitical civil servant:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/when-the-president-attacks-a-nonpolitical-civil-servant-1310962755922?v=railb

* "Trump to rally for Cruz:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-to-rally-for-cruz-1310965315842?v=railb

* "Oklahoma Teachers Just Purged the Statehouse of Their Enemies:" http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/teachers-strikes-oklahoma-gop-primaries-house-2018-elections.html

* "Fla. governor candidate Gillum: Racist robocall targeting him 'deeply regrettable':" https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/02/politics/andrew-gillum-robocall-reaction-cnntv/index.html

* "Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason:" https://qz.com/1342757/everything-bad-about-facebook-is-bad-for-the-same-reason/

* "Facebook Removes Anne Frank Center’s Post Promoting Holocaust Education:" https://forward.com/fast-forward/409218/facebook-removes-anne-frank-centers-post-promoting-holocaust-education/

* "2 Men Sentenced To Prison For Beating Black Man During Charlottesville Rally:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641497630/two-men-sentenced-to-prison-for-beating-black-man-during-charlottesville-rally?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180824

* "South Fulton, Ga.’s Entire Criminal-Justice System Is Run by Black Women:" https://www.theroot.com/south-fulton-ga-s-entire-criminal-justice-system-run-1826710918

* "Some Of The Oldest Ice In The Arctic Is Now Breaking Apart:" https://www.npr.org/2018/08/23/641285739/some-of-the-oldest-ice-in-the-arctic-is-now-breaking-apart?utm_source=tumblr.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180824

* "Red tide may be ‘natural,’ but scientists believe coastal pollution is making it worse:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article216894990.html

* "Six Chinese who survived Titanic disaster finally have their story told :" https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2141549/how-six-chinese-men-survived-titanic-disaster-and-racist-us-federal

* "The Kelvin Family - The Gong Show:"

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* I am clearly not well, whether it is last week's thing re-surging or some new thing, I don't know, but Saturday's headache was particularly debilitating and I'm struggling to accomplish anything.

I used my usual arsenal of tricks to deal with pain, but they weren't nearly as effective as I'd hoped. It did not help that Sunday brought patches of rash up all over my body, which is a thing that just happens sometimes. I apologizes if I'm not up to my usual quality, but I am doing my best.

As I started out the month with an unpaid bill and mounting fees and a ridiculous number of prescriptions waiting for pick up, I project I'll be something like $150-200 behind as the month progresses. Sigh. And I keep not being well enough to manage setting up an Auction.

Want to chip in? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* "Sunday Sweets: Half And Half:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2018/9/2/sunday-sweets-half-and-half.html

* "Steve Rogers, who has recently woken up in the twenty-first century, googles “advice for the modern era” and accidentally discovers My Brother, My Brother and Me.:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/177684179282/a-concept

* The saga of the Smithsonian Curators vs. Steve Rogers keeps getting better as more RL museum staff chime in: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/177677029338/museum-curator-watching-steve-waltz-into-the

* "Bloodhound Gang's 'The Bad Touch' as a Heavy Metal Song:" http://www.tastefullyoffensive.com/2018/08/bloodhound-gangs-bad-touch-as-heavy.html

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

* "Fires in Greece: how to help:" https://medium.com/@theo.k/fires-in-greece-how-to-help-41ad32fc9232

* Practical ways to protest with scripts. "On the Helsinki summit, election integrity and Mueller:" https://medium.com/@Celeste_pewter/on-the-helsinki-summit-election-integrity-and-mueller-b8ed1acde2c0

* Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab is doing a fundraiser for legal defense of refugee children in ICE detention. https://blackphoenixalchemylab.com/product-category/activism/deliver-them-from-the-hands-of-the-wicked/

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

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

This has a call script to help you talk your Republican Senator into voting for the Keep Families Together Act: http://rockinhamburger.tumblr.com/post/175022988673/captacorn-marvelsmostwanted-heres-a-call

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

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

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Australia to apologise to sex abuse victims:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42984260

* "Deadly earthquake strikes Taiwan:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42966916

* "'Boko Haram wanted me to carry a bomb':" http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-35891811/escaping-boko-haram-they-wanted-me-to-carry-a-bomb

* "Violent protests as opposition leader is jailed in Bangladesh:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/08/violent-protests-opposition-leader-jailed-bangladesh-khaleda-zia

* "Trump reportedly doesn't read his daily intel briefing:" http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-reportedly-doesn-t-read-his-daily-intel-briefing-1158376516001

* "Trump wants to cap lifetime Medicaid benefits, even for disabled people, the chronically ill, and people with Alzheimer's:" https://boingboing.net/2018/02/07/are-there-no-workhouses-3.html

* "Tim Kaine demands release of secret Trump war powers memo:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/sen-tim-kaine-demands-release-secret-trump-war-powers-memo-n846176

* "Trump blocks release of Democratic Russia memo:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/09/trump-blocks-release-of-democratic-memo-402083

* "FBI surveillance of Carter Page might have picked up Bannon:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/carter-page-steve-bannon-fbi-communications-398992

* "Trump doesn't get the 'best people.' He gets the worst. Here's why.:" http://theweek.com/articles/753966/trump-doesnt-best-people-gets-worst-heres-why

* "Second White House staffer resigns amid abuse allegations:" https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/09/second-white-house-staffer-resigns-amid-abuse-allegations-402084

* "Rachel Brand to resign from Justice Dept.:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/rachel-brand-resigns/index.html

* "Trump closer to ending Russia probe as Rachel Brand quits DoJ:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-closer-to-ending-russia-probe-as-rachel-brand-quits-doj-1158335043931?playlist=associated

* "Chief of Staff John Kelly expressed to President Trump willingness to resign: Sources:" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sources-chief-staff-john-kelly-expressed-president-trump/story?id=52970133

* "WTF is going on with Jared Kushner’s security clearance:" https://thinkprogress.org/its-been-385-days-and-jared-kushner-still-doesnt-have-a-permanent-security-clearance-e58c4f7dfa8f/

* TW: Domestic Abuse "White House won't say when Kelly knew about alleged abuse:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/white-house-won-t-say-when-kelly-knew-about-alleged-abuse-1157234755726

* "Trump wishes disgraced aide well after domestic abuse allegations:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-porter/trump-wishes-disgraced-aide-well-after-domestic-abuse-allegations-idUSKBN1FT2MX

* "Trump frustrated with Hicks' role in Porter scandal:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/rob-porter-donald-trump-reince-priebus/index.html

* "Trump vetting failures seen in scandals, firings, security lapses:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-vetting-failures-seen-in-scandals-firings-security-lapses-1157371971590?playlist=associated

* "Congress votes to reopen government, passes massive budget deal:" https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/congress-budget-vote-1.16646015

* "Trump gets mocked for his parade idea:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-gets-mocked-for-his-parade-idea-1157250627786

* "Standing Up From My Wheelchair in Public:" http://taibhsearachd.tumblr.com/post/170709622053/standing-up-from-my-wheelchair-in-public

* "Number 4- Rest in Power and Peace Celine Walker:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2018/02/number-4-rest-in-power-and-peace-celine.html

* "An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness:" https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html

* "Tools near Mumbai beach trace human settlements to Middle Stone Age:" https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/tools-near-mumbai-beach-trace-human-settlements-to-middle-stone-age/story-B8EI1618lgZq9hvcsPH0GO.html

* The Pictures are Amazing! I've only seen one of them before. "The all-black WWI regiment renowned for courage despite prejudice:" https://mashable.com/2015/11/18/harlem-hellfighters/#ei5hNIhir8qJ

* "The Queer, Disabled and Women of Colour Suffragettes History Forgot:" https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/d3w8wy/the-queer-disabled-and-women-of-colour-suffragettes-history-forgot

* "Angela Davis On Violence:"

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* "In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-three-students-were-killed-police-today-few-remember-orangeburg-massacre-180968092/

* "The Trumps-Giving Day Military Parade:"

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* "Our Very Smart President Can Easily Handle Robert Mueller:"

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* "Global Warming Is Now Not ‘Necessarily A Bad Thing’:"

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* "The White House Got Rid Of A Bad Man (No, Not Trump):"

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* "Quincy Jones Dishes On JFK, MJ, And POTUS:"

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* Thing I learned today: Biathlete and Bi athlete sound pretty much the same.

* I know Librarians is meant to be silly and the last episode was pretty, but I am having some really big problems with their mythology. Humans had colour and creativity long before the Library of Alexandria was formed. I simply can't swallow that everything was dull, unimaginative and lifeless until a particular library was built in North Africa under a Macedonian Dynasty. It doesn't pass the smell test. There was a long history of art and literature in Meopotamia, Egypt, India, and China, before that first scroll went into it's cubbyhole at the Library. It's just... too big and patently false a nonsense to swallow. Also, I'd been side eyeing the Mediterranean civilization hegemony here. Shouldn't there be a counterweight library somewhere in, say, China or India, given the age and literacy of those civilizations? While travel from Western Europe to India was hard until relatively recently, there was thriving trade from Eastern Africa to Eastern Asia with the subcontinent as a hub. Could the library make doors to cities in countries not mentioned in it's tomes? How would librarians know to go there, wouldn't a second, waaaay older library make sense? What of the Americas? Would first Century north African or European Librarians be traveling to continents they had no idea existed? How could the Library have the level of influence alleged there? What of Australia, New Zealand, etc.? Again, completely unsuspected to the rest of the world until relatively recently. It is looking more and more like the oral tradition of the indigenous Australians may be alarmingly accurate further back than writing existed. How do oral traditions on that scale and civilizations that old with that much continuity fit into the world building.

I just... The library is too new and too geographically specific, and so much Art and literature and creativity existed before the Library of Alexandria was a thing, and it's gotten impossible to ignore this season what with the Librry's back story and effects on the world being too large and Universal. The Dark Ages were that super specific thing that happened in Greece when Mycenaean culture collapsed so thoroughly that they forgot how to write and suddenly the people trying to make ceramics clearly only vaguely knew how pots were made because nearly all the professional potters were dead. The European "Dark Ages" was a thing Early Modern Era historians did where they labelled everything they didn't like Medieval and Every thing they did like Renaissance and then labelled a big chunk of history the Dark Ages to contrast it with their own time which they labelled enlightenment. Yes, things got pretty chaotic for a while in particular spots in Europe, but even where things were pretty bad, people still wrote books, and civilization trundled on just fine in Ireland and the eastern Roman Empire, and pretty much the whole rest of the world. There was never any whole world dark ages, so that warring librarians catastrophe story makes zero sense from a World historical perspective. Occasionally a particular civilization or section of a civilization will crash and burn, but there has not yet been a world wide catastrophe. And again, take a look at how complex and colorful world art and literature are before the founding of the Library of Alexandria, so the causation does not make any sense and I couldn't stop worrying at it that whole last episode, which meant that it was hard to focus on what was on the screen.

It was better not knowing the larger show mythology, because everything crumbles when you do, like a meringue one has taken a hammer to. I get it, it's a silly show and not intended for thinking thoughts, but they've exceeded the suspension of disbelief, and I'm not sure I can get mine back after this season.

* "The Environment and Tolerance in Wolf Speaker:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/environment-tolerance/

* I won't be watching these. "Benioff and Weiss are Writing Star Wars Movies and Rebellions are Built on LIES:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/benioff-weiss-star-wars-announcement/

* "Once upon a time there was a city called Omelas...:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170685911452/shedoesnotcomprehend-once-upon-a-time-there-was

* Jyn Erso's last Words: gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/170683653612/ladytharen-i-personally-love-that-jyns-last

* "The sun is probably the closest thing we’ll ever have to a true Eldritch Abomination." http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/170625947241/ndiecity-the-sun-is-probably-the-closest-thing

* Tywin Lannister vs. Eddard Stark as Parents: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/170510636997/wasnt-there-anything-that-tywin-was-right-about

* Dany and Jorah's Role: http://turtle-paced.tumblr.com/post/170536435512/do-you-think-jorahs-role-is-a-sort-of-entry-level#notes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Russian propaganda engaged U.S. vets, troops on Twitter and Facebook, study finds:" http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article177744986.html

* "Mattis urges military 'to be ready' with options on North Korea:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/09/jim-mattis-north-korea-military-ready-243596

* "Facebook "embeds," Russia and the Trump campaign's secret weapon:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-embeds-russia-and-the-trump-campaigns-secret-weapon/

* Sigh. "Trump lists immigration demands that could derail 'Dreamers' deal:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/trump-immigration-plan-dreamers-243586

* "Environmental groups denounce Trump override of climate plan:" https://apnews.com/94c981eb440f43c3bbbfff84063a9ecc/Trump-administration-to-terminate-Obama's-climate-plan

* "Corker mocks Trump in escalating Twitter feud:" http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/08/trump-claims-corker-didnt-have-the-guts-to-run-for-reelection-243576

* "The 20-Week Abortion Ban is Designed to Hurt Poor Women:" http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a12560086/cost-of-abortion-ban-20-weeks/

* ""Stealthing" Should Be Classified As Rape And These Lawmakers Want Congress To Talk About It:" https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/lawmakers-call-for-stralthing-hearing?utm_term=.aaW12MAXE#.atnKavdDQ

* TW: Rape, pedophilia. There are not nearly enough expletives in the world for this. ( My rant here: ) "Michigan rapist gets joint custody:" http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/10/06/rape-victim-attacker-joint-child-custody/106374256/

* It is eating populated neighborhoods. "10 killed as major wildfires ignite overnight across northern California:" https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/western-wildfires/one-killed-major-wildfires-ignite-overnight-across-northern-california-n809206

* On Colin Kaepernik: https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/166233125571/venom1977-take-a-moment-to-read-this-so-you-can

* "Pregnant Mich. Mom, Walking Around Her Neighborhood to Help Induce Labor, Harassed, Called Racial Slurs :" https://www.theroot.com/pregnant-mich-mom-walking-around-her-neighborhood-to-1819113896

* "How to feed an invading army thousands of miles from home:" http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/956393-how-to-feed-an-invading-army-thousands-of-miles-from-home

* Fear the Walking Dead: I am angry that after keeping Ofelia in the plot box an unconscionably long time, they decided to fridge her. I am also strongly suspecting they are queer baiting us with Troy and nick. I don't like either of them and I have no prurient interest in this ship, but that doesn't make it okay giving the shitty quality of Queer Representation in this franchise (both shows) and the shortage of bisexual male characters in general. Don't toy with me unless you plan to deliver. It's the 21st fucking Century, teasing isn't enough. Do or don't do.

I miss Black Sails so much!

* Amusing version of Alexander the Great vs. Tyre: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/166245137702/morepopcornplease-systlin

* The Book of the Unnamed Midwife was brilliant! It was a really compelling story, and it was really good to see a post-apocolyptic setting where all the queer folk didn't mysteriously die so quick they were never mentioned. We get a bisexual protagonist, plenty of queer folk here and there, multiple poly relationships, and a strong feminist structural design. I do need to warn people that there is rape and a little pedophilia off screen, though not described in a prurient way, and it is made very clear that rapists are terrible people and decent people fight them.

* Doctor Who Rewatch (3rd Doctor): The Spearhead from Space episodes speak well of the NHS, I think. They found an unconscious, possibly indigent man in the woods and look at the quality of care they attempt to give him. no way would he be treated as well over here to our National shame. I had... not realize just how much of third Doctor we get to see in his second episode. Was that his body or did they use a body double for the shower scene, I wonder? I kind of love that it takes no modifications at all to make the ordinary process of industrial doll making look appropriately creepy.

* Look, I know nothing about the Inhumans except for the new show. I was DC growing up. I literally didn't know Inhumans was a thing until they started promos. I am not trolling here, and I'd love for someone familiar to the franchise to explain if the fleeing Royals are meant to be the good guys. The show is framing things as if we are meant to the heroes, but they are tyrant who have enslaved a large portion of the population in the mines. Their justification for this horrific (in)human rights abuse is that they have limited resources on the moon and therefore they can't afford not enslaving people, which is clearly a lie, as enslaved people on the moon are still taking up resources like food, water, and oxygen. It's a transparant attempt to justify the unjustifiable. If they were really resource poor and wanting to avoid contact between people with powers and Earth humans without, wouldn't it make sense to set up a colony on earth? I've seen abandoned towns for sale now and then here in the US. Private Islands are still a thing, and there are also options like a flottilla in international waters. The Amazon jungle still exists and they have stealth technology sufficient to make a secret domed settlement. They could use this as a way to culturally acclimate before gradually making themselves known if they want to do that later. So why don't they do that instead of slavery? Slavery is never the fuck okay and this is clearly a choice on the part of the royal family as part of a eugenicist genocide. Fuck that! Seriously.

I'm not saying what's his face the usurper is the good guy either what with the murder, attempted murder, etc.. It's just that so far, the only decent people we've seen are the people of Hawaii (which I do approve of).

Is everyone except Native Hawaiians evil in the comics, or did the show runners do that without noticing that they are glorifying slavery?

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

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

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

* "Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165470116342/congress-wants-to-change-the-americans-with

* How to help Flood victims in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165235609582/woke-up-on-derse-f-f-f-fight

"How to Help Puerto Rico from the outside:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165733774359/how-to-help-puerto-rico-from-the-outside

* How to help Caribbean victims of Irma: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/165240981876/hedaclara-hedaclara-hedaclara-guys-the

* "How to Help Hurricane Harvey Victims:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/27/how_to_help_hurricane_harvey_victims.html

* "Disaster Relief and Support for Libraries:" http://www.txla.org/news/2017/08/disaster-relief-and-support-for-libraries

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

* "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:" https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

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

* How white Protesters can weaponize their whiteness: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/164390645622/alvaroarbeloa-vaspider-okay-friends-lets

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

* Red Cross is taking donations for Western Wildfire Relief: http://www.redcross.org/local/oregon/ways-to-donate/wildfires

* (This is here as a reminder to me for later). "Can you recommend me some good books, essays, etc. about witches, witchcraft, witch trials in England?:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/164664427028/dear-pauline-can-you-recommend-me-some-good

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

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

* Trump's first major concession to Putin with nothing won back in return. "Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-ends-covert-cia-program-to-arm-anti-assad-rebels-in-syria-a-move-sought-by-moscow/2017/07/19/b6821a62-6beb-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.10a8789f2757

* "Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-20/mueller-is-said-to-expand-probe-to-trump-business-transactions

* "Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort scheduled to testify July 26:" http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/politics/paul-manafort-donald-trump-jr-jared-kushner-testify/index.html

* And he a Birther, so you can imagine how bad at judging evidence he will be. "The Senate Is About To Confirm A Federal Judge Who Compared Abortion To Slavery:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-bush-judge-trump-abortion_us_596f960be4b01696c6a239f6

* "Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It:" http://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-used-obamacare-money-to-run-ads-against-it

* "The Civil-Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard Of:" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/the-many-lives-of-pauli-murray

* "Home Video: Crash Course Film History #13:"

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* "Why Early Globalization Matters: Crash Course Big History #206:"

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* "Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds:" http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ravens-theory-of-mind

* TW: Suicide. "How Faith Bacon, Inventor of the Fan Dance, Leaped to Her Death:" https://travsd.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/how-faith-bacon-inventor-of-the-fan-dance-leaped-to-her-death/

* "The schoolgirl thrash metal band smashing stereotypes in Indonesia:" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jun/09/the-schoolgirl-thrash-metal-band-smashing-stereotypes-java-indonesia-voice-baceprot

* "The Dying God: Crash Course World Mythology #19 :"

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* "Bioshock Infinite Music - Shiny Happy People (1991) by R.E.M.:"

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* "All Star but it's Vintage Reggae Style - Smash Mouth Cover ft. Vonzell Solomon - Postmodern Jukebox :"

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

* Want to fight Climate Change? "Ready to Mobilize? Start Here!:" http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/start_here

* Distressed by the anti-gay genocide in Chechnya and the anti-gay laws in Russia? Donate here: https://lgbtnet.org/en

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

* This is a Real Life friend of mine. They do very much need the money and a number of people and beasts depend on him and his husband. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive of me. If you can kick in, it is a kindness.: https://www.youcaring.com/tod-788345

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

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

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

* On The Resurgence of Bolivian Indigenous Culture. "Cholita Fashion in Bolivia:" https://www.viceland.com/en_us/video/states-of-undress-cholita-fashion-in-bolivia/5963b75fc9dfdb891a719bc7

* "The Trump administration just pulled funding from a group that fights white extremism:" https://mic.com/articles/180733/the-trump-administration-just-pulled-funding-from-a-group-that-fights-white-extremism?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=main&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.6NHqDisbw

* We still need one more "no" on the tax bill designed to steal health care from the poor and middle class to give a massive tax break to the richest 1%. If one of these is your senator, please consider calling.

Senator Bob Corker - (202) 224-3344
Senator Lisa Murkowski - (202) 224-6665
Senator Rob Portman - (202) 224-3353
Senator Bill Cassidy - (202) 224-5824

Other options: This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* "Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt history lesson no one tells:" http://www.salon.com/2014/07/05/ronald_reagan_stuck_it_to_millennials_a_college_debt_history_lesson_no_one_tells/

* "California bans state-funded travel to Texas, 3 more states because of anti-LGBTQ laws:" https://mic.com/articles/180719/california-bans-state-funded-travel-to-texas-3-more-states-because-of-anti-lgbtq-laws?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=main&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.c28ECOBAz

* "Mercadera (c.1245-1300): the Farmer Who Caught a Knight:" http://rejectedprincesses.tumblr.com/post/162474730048/mercadera-c1245-1300-the-farmer-who-caught-a

* "Soldadera: The Tiny Things They Carried:" https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/soldadera-the-tiny-things-they-carried

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

* Want to fight Climate Change? "Ready to Mobilize? Start Here!:" http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/start_here

* Distressed by the anti-gay genocide in Chechnya and the anti-gay laws in Russia? Donate here: https://lgbtnet.org/en

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

* This is a Real Life friend of mine. They do very much need the money and a number of people and beasts depend on him and his husband. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive of me. If you can kick in, it is a kindness.: https://www.youcaring.com/tod-788345

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

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

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

* "China is building an incredibly cool "forest city" that will combat pollution
China is building an incredibly cool "forest city" that will combat pollution:" http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2s36Fw1&t=YzI2MzQxOWIxOTM2NzI5NzU3NmQyMjBlMjYzMGJjYTIyYjJkODdlMixHYnJ2eWZNVQ%3D%3D&b=t%3AlcQOOVLPUqU8b7tcAVYSvw&p=http%3A%2F%2Fbrigdh.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F162755800318%2Fthe-future-now-china-is-building-an-incredibly&m=1

* "Trump meeting 'Everything Putin could have asked for':"

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* "The rise to power of Vladimir Putin:"

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* "Putin regime marked by graft and corruption:"

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* "Despite crackdowns, political resistance to Putin grows in Russia:"

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* "Russia makes inroads with American right via guns, religion:"

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* "Firm commissioned by Tillerson recommends that DHS issue U.S. visas:" http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-visas-idUSKBN19Q324

* "Fearing for her life, Iowa Democrat abandons race to unseat GOP Rep. Steve King:" http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/161476053600/fearing-for-her-life-iowa-democrat-abandons-race

* "Oregon’s passes bill protecting reproductive rights:" https://mic.com/articles/181634/oregons-legislators-just-passed-a-bill-protecting-womens-reproductive-rights?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=main&utm_source=policymicTBLR#.puqw9cw2a

* "A major asthma drugmaker has been quietly investing in coal on the side.:" https://newrepublic.com/minutes/143447/major-asthma-drugmaker-quietly-investing-coal-side

* "How to covertly toss an apartment, Stasi style:" https://boingboing.net/2017/07/01/witchhunting-in-the-gdr.html

* "‘True Blood’ Star Nelsan Ellis Dies at 39:" http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/nelsan-ellis-dies-dead-true-blood-1202490405/

* This was legitimately beautiful. "Uprooted - The Gong Show:"

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* "The Hollywood Bug Guys – The Gong Show:"

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* "On the Palantír and Meddling in the Affairs of Wizards:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/palantir-meddling-affairs-wizards/

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

* "What can I do to help Syria?:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161385222607/what-can-i-do-to-help-syria

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

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

* "So, what can people do?*:" http://brigdh.tumblr.com/post/161640495373/so-what-can-people-do

* Want to fight Climate Change? "Ready to Mobilize? Start Here!:" http://www.theclimatemobilization.org/start_here

* Distressed by the anti-gay genocide in Chechnya and the anti-gay laws in Russia? Donate here: https://lgbtnet.org/en

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

* This is a Real Life friend of mine. They do very much need the money and a number of people and beasts depend on him and his husband. They have been incredibly helpful and supportive of me. If you can kick in, it is a kindness.: https://www.youcaring.com/tod-788345

* This is my oldest continuous Real Life friend. She is disabled and really needs the money for herself and beasts. To buy jewelry from her: https://www.etsy.com/shop/karjack

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

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