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 News keeps moving fast, so some items may be already out of date.

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* I think I need to say this again because of what is going on in my Tumblr notes. I am against the rape, torture, and murder of civilians, especially children REGARDLESS OF WHO IS DOING IT. Yes, that means Hamas. Yes, that means the IDF/Israeli government. It also means the US Military. It means ANYONE doing it.

I can be against it whoever is doing it.

Opposing Netanyahu for his horrific policies does not mean I hate Jewish people. Being against the things that were done to civilians on October 7 doesn't mean I hate all Palestinians, nor that I support genocide. I am very much against genocide whoever is doing it. See also my opinions on the Holocaust, what Russia is doing to Ukraine, the horrific shit my government and Canada's and Australia's did to indigenous people over centuries.

I can be against Netanyahu the way I am against Trump, Putin, and Viktor Orbán.

The Israeli government is a government. It is wrong and antisemitic to blame every Jewish person everywhere in the world for things they may not support and didn't have a say in unless they specifically support and/or voted for Likud or one of the right wing parties they coalition with. Jewish people inside and outside of Israel have been and are protesting war crimes the Israeli government has committed. It is possible to have a nuanced understanding of Israeli politics.

It strikes me as pretty weird to claim all Jewish people only have one opinion about everything and to call me antisemitic for opposing one particular politician for doing things that are harmful.

I do, in fact, want all hostages free, both the ones Hamas have and the ones the Israelis have. It sure looks to me and to a lot of people, including some rather vocal families of hostages, that Netanyahu has deliberately and repeatedly stood in the way of this happening for personal political gain and so that he can stay in power and out of jail for corruption he's credibly accused of.

My holding this opinion is very similar to my opinion of Donald Trump. Just saying.

I want Netanyahu out of power because that is the only way there is a chance of anything getting better in that part of West Asia. Which is the goal. I have been in favour of the two state solution since I was old enough to understand, which is longer than a lot of you have been alive, or at least longer than many of you have been old enough to follow the news. I have seen good and bad Israeli and Palestinian leaders come and go. I've seen Netanyahu break agreement after agreement over for decades whenever he's been in power. I don't trust him to make an agreement he will follow any more than I trust Trump to make one, especially when Netanyahu's personal agenda conflicts with that agreement, because that is how he has behaved over and over, including him not holding up his end of the ceasefire just recently.

My side is not that of one government, not even my own. My side is the greater good and the lets not murder children side. It pretty much always has been.

I'd love for the violence to be over. I'd love for everyone's kids to be safe. That's the side I'm on.

* "Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket attack in the heaviest exchange since the truce with Hezbollah:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-03-22-2025-32ca8fa2c5f6e887e1d51b9ffea6f836

* "Israel returns to war in Gaza with wider aims and almost no constraints:" https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-trump-iran-protests-bb504392b25e111e11a2ac1ecb8f4fc5

* "At least two people killed, 19 injured in Israeli strikes on Syria's Daraa:" https://archive.ph/u4Pr9

* "Al Jazeera journalist targeted in Gaza: 'If you're reading this, it means I've been killed':" https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/03/25/al-jazeera-journalist-targeted-in-gaza-if-you-re-reading-this-it-means-i-ve-been-killed_6739505_4.html

* "Israel Bombs Gaza’s Only Cancer Hospital as Genocide Continues to Escalate:" https://truthout.org/articles/israel-bombs-gazas-only-cancer-hospital-as-genocide-continues-to-escalate/

* "West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54280/west-bank-displaced-palestinians-israel-idf-military

* "Palestinians in Gaza protest against Hamas for a second day:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5340645/palestinians-protest-hamas-rule-in-gaza

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* "EU says 'unconditional withdrawal' of Russia from Ukraine is a precondition to amend sanctions:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-unconditional-withdrawal-russia-ukraine-is-precondition-amend-sanctions-2025-03-26/

* Of course there are more conditions. "Kremlin says various conditions must be met before Black Sea security deal can be activated:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-various-conditions-must-be-met-before-black-sea-security-deal-can-2025-03-26/

* Putin is playing Trump like a harp as usual and Trump continues to negotiate the cutting up Ukraine without involving Ukraine in the talks.

* "In Ukraine call, Putin furthers his goals and cedes little to Trump, say analysts:" https://archive.ph/KLtTB

* "Russia and US to discuss Black Sea shipping and Ukraine peace in Saudi Arabia:" https://archive.ph/caisN

* "Putin wants Trump to formally recognize all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports:" https://archive.ph/mFjIy

* "How Trump’s policies have helped Russia and furthered Putin’s goals:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-trump-s-policies-have-helped-russia-and-furthered-putin-s-goals/ar-AA1BHkRP

* "Trump administration halts program to track abducted Ukrainian children, lawmakers say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

* "As Trump cuts funding, Ukrainians wonder who will answer for kids abducted in war:" https://archive.ph/Ix1p2

* Things on Putin's wish list. "Musk Calls on US to Quit NATO, Stop Paying for Defense of Europe:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/musk-calls-on-us-to-quit-nato-stop-paying-for-defense-of-europe

* "Czech President Pavel was in Odesa as Russia pounded the city with drones:" https://archive.ph/pFgMa

* "3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite truce talks:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-ceasefire-drones-zaporizhzhia-84dab972755f90ad7592a2a13758ed9c

* "Russian missile attack wounds 88 in Ukraine's Sumy, officials say:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-attack-ukraines-sumy-injures-28-people-local-official-says-2025-03-24/

* "Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-europe-hybrid-campaign-d61887dd3ec6151adf354c5bd3e6273e

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* "In Syria, Being Wanted Went From Something to Fear to a Badge of Honor:" https://archive.ph/8PVpd

* "Can One Man Hold Syria Together?:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/03/syria-assad-downfall-sharaa/682135/

* "Russia ships its Arctic oil to Syria for first time as sanctions limit buyers:" https://archive.ph/ePJe8

* "Erdoğan's endgame: outlawing the Turkish opposition:" https://www.metafilter.com/208141/Erdoans-endgame-outlawing-the-Turkish-opposition

* "Thousands join march in Turkiye’s Istanbul to protest mayor’s arrest:" https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/21/thousands-join-march-in-turkiyes-istanbul-to-protest-mayors-arrest

* "Huge pro-democracy protests grip Turkey after Erdogan rival is imprisoned: The detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is widely viewed as politically motivated.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkey-erdogan-protests-ekrem-imamoglu-prison-istanbul-mayor-rcna197925

* "Ministers unanimously vote no confidence in AG, beginning formal process to dismiss her: Justice minister claims Gali Baharav-Miara caused rift with government by blocking its policies; she says it ‘seeks to be above the law,’ wants unlimited power; demonstrations grow:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/ministers-unanimously-vote-no-confidence-in-ag-beginning-formal-process-to-dismiss-her/

* "The ‘ghost reporters’ writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa:" https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/3/20/the-ghost-reporters-writing-pro-russian-propaganda-in-west-africa

* "Greenland Solves Political Crisis Hours Before JD Vance Visit:" https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-solves-crisis-before-vance-visit-2051938

* "The Tech CEOs Who Want a DOGE for Canada:" https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/28/Tech-CEOs-DOGE-Canada/

Canadians! Do not follow us into the dark. If you aren't yet registered: https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=reg&document=index&lang=e

* "Canada aims for free internal trade that can offset any US tariffs, Carney says:" https://archive.ph/cGDGZ

* "No One Wants to Work? The Real Reason Boomers Are Wrong:"

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* "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans:" https://archive.ph/xdRkf

* "As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/

* "Classified material laws and why experts say Signal chat raises concerns:" https://archive.ph/Tbe5c

* "Democrats call Trump intelligence officials' use of group chat "reckless, sloppy and stunning":" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-intelligence-committee-worldwide-threats-hearing/

* "Gabbard questioned on participating in Signal chat where war plans allegedly leaked:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-gabbard-questioned-on-participating-in-signal-chat-where-war-plans-allegedly-leaked

* "'Holy crap on steroids!': Top Trump officials exposed in shocking, sloppy military security blunder:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-holy-crap-on-steroids-top-trump-officials-exposed-in-shocking-sloppy-military-security-blunder-235260485849

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "'Unheard of': Slotkin says Trump war plans breach endangers 'human beings':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unheard-of-slotkin-says-trump-war-plans-breach-endangers-human-beings-235365957721

* "‘Sheer, unfettered, Olympian incompetence’: Hayes on the Trump war plans breach :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sheer-unfettered-olympian-incompetence-hayes-on-the-trump-war-plans-breach-235364421753

* "Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal:" https://archive.ph/vWtKn

* "Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-trump-signal-security

* "Trump & Co Blame Journalist For Major National Security Slip Up:"

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* "Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online:" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

* "‘Four-alarm fire’: Passwords for Hegseth, Gabbard and Waltz reportedly found online:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-four-alarm-fire-passwords-for-hegseth-gabbard-waltz-reportedly-found-online-235480133798

* "Israel Supplied Intelligence in Airstrike Discussed in Signal Chat, Officials Say:" https://archive.ph/YDDHo

* "Allies wary of Trump admin's incompetence after scandal over military plan group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/allies-wary-of-trump-admin-s-incompetence-after-scandal-over-military-plan-group-chat-235646533990

* "Judge orders government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56821/signal-houthi-strike-chat-judge

* "Mike Waltz Under Fire After Leaving Venmo List Public: What To Know:" https://www.newsweek.com/mike-waltz-venmo-list-public-2051249

* "Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/10-years-hillary-clinton-server-trump-officials-military-plans-rcna197880

Republicans keep claiming Hillary having recipes and social stuff plus some things later designated sensitive on a private server is so much worse than inviting a reporter to a text chat on their private phones using a commercial app instead of a SCIF or the situation room, endangering the lives of military pilots and revealing an information source on the ground in Yemen.

Like, yes, she shouldn't have done that, but this is running a stop sign versus driving drunk at high speed the wrong direction on a highway.

They definitely knew they were doing the wrong thing because several of them attacked Hillary back in 2016 over her server and Matt Walz himself sent out warnings about Signal and threats against leakers days previously.

Why are the recipes "Lock her up" worthy, but this Republican clusterfuck isn't even worth a slap on the wrist?

* "What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat:" https://archive.ph/GNe7C

* "Military plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/war-plans-group-chat-scandal-fits-pattern-of-trump-s-embarrassing-weakness-on-information-security-235386437800

* "‘Where was the president?’: Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-where-was-the-president-hayes-on-trump-s-alarming-absence-amid-war-plans-group-chat-235478085667

* "'F---ing liar': Sen. Duckworth rips Pete Hegseth; calls for his resignation over group chat scandal:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-f-ing-liar-sen-duckworth-rips-pete-hegseth-calls-for-his-resignation-over-group-chat-scandal-235500101599

* "‘Sound familiar?’: DHS staffer accidentally added reporter to email about ICE raids:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-sound-familiar-dhs-staffer-accidentally-added-reporter-to-email-about-ice-raids-235620421884

* "The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home:" https://theintercept.com/2025/03/26/signal-chat-yemen-strike/?

* "Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Signalgate, Trump’s tariffs, and defending the LGBTQ+ community:" https://www.advocate.com/news/elizabeth-warren-signalgate-trump-musk

* "Texting War Plans = Illegal:"

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* "Scoop: Senate Dems propose sprawling Signal chat probe:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/senate-democrats-signal-chat-probe

* "Sen. Mark Kelly shreds Hegseth for attack plans breach: ‘He crossed the line’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-mark-kelly-shreds-hegseth-for-attack-plans-breach-he-crossed-the-line-235747909799

* "Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials:" https://archive.ph/615Pj

* "Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen says U.S. Greenland visits meant to cause 'pressure':" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/03/25/Denmark-Greenland-denounce-Usha-Vance-visit/6201742904783/

* "VP Vance and his wife change up trip to Greenland amid protests:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5338629/vp-vance-and-his-wife-change-up-trip-to-greenland-amid-protests

* "Former Denmark Ambassador Rufus Gifford responds to VP Vance's 'not a good ally' comments:" https://www.advocate.com/news/denmark-rufus-gifford-jd-vance

* They made no friends and influenced people to despise us even more. "JD Vance blasts Denmark in visit to Greenland with wife Usha as Trump administration eyes territory:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-usha-vance-visit-greenland-most-greenlanders-dont-want-to-join-america/

* "'This is shameful': Trump sows animosity and mistrust abroad, degrading Americans in the process:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-this-is-shameful-trump-sows-animosity-and-mistrust-abroad-degrading-americans-in-the-process-235758149579

* "Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-00244832

How this will work with US companies using Venezuelan oil is a question.

* "Trump Says He Could Cut China Tariffs to Secure TikTok Deal:" https://archive.ph/DNx0x

* "Trump auto tariffs: President slaps 25% duties on car imports to US:" https://archive.ph/IWGvK

* "US decision to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library prompts outpouring of emotion:" https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-7c4851c705d18e0cc891c3ce085e15e4

* "US to end funding for childhood vaccines in poorest countries, document shows:" https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-end-funding-child-vaccines-developing-countries-new-york-2025-03-26/

So many people, particularly children will die.

* "Elon Musk won’t receive secret China briefings, Trump says:" https://archive.ph/zXhsc

This is why we need a robust media and why our out cry is helpful.

Stay Noisy.

* "Media reports prompt Trump to end plan to brief Musk on secret potential war plans for China:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/media-reports-prompt-trump-to-end-plan-to-brief-musk-on-secret-potential-war-plans-for-china-235108421909

* "How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China:" https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

* "Map Shows Countries With Visa Warnings About US:" https://www.newsweek.com/travel-visas-germany-uk-usa-denmark-finland-2048695

* "Trump's transgender rights rollbacks prompt allies to adjust travel warnings:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/allies-issue-usa-travel-guidlines-transgender

* "If Trump didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, who — or what — did?:" https://archive.ph/N1ATk#selection-772.0-772.1

* "Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-foreign-prison-threats-civil-rights-groups-027162

You know how I said sending Venezuela refugees to El Salvador for 'crimes' like having a soccer team tattoo and being gay by labeling them gang member terrorists was a trial balloon for summary deportation of anyone Trump wants to with zero due process?

It was.

It's the same tactic the right wing always uses to steal civil liberties. Trans people are a tiny percentage of the population, so a lot of people don't know any personally. Trans people = low hanging fruit for the right. So they demonize trans people accusing even our children of being sex predators for just existing, then use the hate they whipped up over lies to ban books and anyone LGBTQIA+ from public spaces and claim anyone who disagrees is a pedophile, so that the people who should be standing up to Christo-facists abandon principle by principle until it's to late and the Right comes for them.

This is the same sort of thing, Round up a bunch of Venezualan refugees and rendition them without legal justification or due process while demonizing them to whip up hate they can use to move the Overton window towards fascist autocracy so they can do this to anyone they want.

Poof all civil liberties are gone. Refugees = low hanging fruit to the right.

Stand up NOW while you still can.

* "US judge blocks Trump administration from fast-tracking deportations:" https://archive.ph/Kj8vX

* "Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Allow Deportations Under Wartime Law:" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations/

* "Judge smacks down Trump DOJ: This court will not be ‘gaslit’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-smacks-down-trump-doj-this-court-will-not-be-gaslit-235097157508

* "Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to resume deportations under Alien Enemies Act:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/alien-enemies-act-trump-denied-court-00252157

* "Why federal judges have few tools to rein in Trump:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/why-federal-judges-have-few-tools-to-rein-in-trump-235126341779

* "Judge rebukes Justice Dept., raises due process questions in Alien Enemies Act deportation case:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-rebukes-justice-dept-due-process-alien-enemies-act-deportation-case/

* "We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not :" https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69560/we-will-deport-you-if-we-have-evidence-against-you-and-if-we-do-not

* "Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-names/

* "What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced:" https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

* "Venezuelan migrant deported from U.S. to El Salvador has no criminal record, documents show:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-migrant-deported-el-salvador-no-criminal-record/

* "Deported soccer player wrongly accused of gang membership over tattoo, lawyer says:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/21/deported-soccer-player-venezuela-tattoo/82589688007/

* " Gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker ‘disappeared’ to Salvadoran mega-prison under Trump order, Maddow reveals :" https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-makeup-artist-deported-prison

I know I already posted the interview, but I want to remind people just how bullshit the Republican lies that these are all gang members are. This is WHY everyone needs do process. Yes, even people actually accused of crimes, because accusations aren't convictions. If he'd been allowed to go to his scheduled court hearing, he'd be here, not in mortal peril in a for profit prison with no over sight.

* "What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/venezuela-trump-deportation-el-salvador-prison-human-rights-cecot-due-process/

* "Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125

* "“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”: The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers. :" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/

* "'Incredible’: Trump admin reportedly deports man over autism awareness tattoo:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-incredible-trump-admin-reportedly-deports-man-over-autism-awareness-tattoo-235625029616

* It also looks like we are sending refugees back to Venezuela where they will be in danger: "Venezuela reaches deal to accept deportation flights from U.S.:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-reaches-deal-to-accept-deportation-flights-from-u-s/

* "IRS close to finalizing data-sharing agreement with ICE, sources say:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-close-finalizing-data-sharing-agreement-ice-sources/story?id=120063278

* "Rubio says U.S. may have pulled more than 300 visas:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/rubio-state-department-more-than-300-visas

* "Columbia University protester Khalil remains jailed while judge weighs case transfer:" https://archive.ph/4jD5z

* "Cornell student activist asked to surrender to ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/momodou-taal-cornell-student-activist-surrender-ice-rcna197604

* "Federal judge orders ICE not to remove immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra:" https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/federal-judge-orders-ice-not-remove-immigration-activist-jeanette-vizguerra/

* "Visa renewal leads to Arizona ICE detention for Canadian actress:" https://www.azfamily.com/2025/03/21/visa-renewal-leads-arizona-ice-detention-canadian-actress/

* "Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her:" https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

* "‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-flatly-authoritarian-new-video-shows-masked-agents-arresting-tufts-student-235484229584

The Secret police had their faces covered and grabbed her without identifying themselves. When challenged they eventually said what agency they were from but didn't show proof or give their names.

They did this terrible thing because of her political views in clear violation of her 1st Amendment rights.

* "US judge halts deportation of Turkish student at Tufts:" https://archive.ph/gzNXj

* "‘ICE kidnapped our neighbor’: Outrage at arrest of Tufts student spreads as lawmakers demand answers:" https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/28/ice-kidnapped-our-neighbor-outrage-at-arrest-of-tufts-student-spreads-as-lawmakers-demand-answers/

* "'Absolutely unconstitutional': attorney for abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk speaks out on her detainment:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/-absolutely-unconstitutional-attorney-for-abducted-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-speaks-out-on-her-detainment-235779653738

* Rubio's such a horrible person that he's proud of it. "Rubio confirms he revoked Tufts student's visa, says he pulls visas 'every day':" https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/03/27/tufts-student-deportation-court-order

* "Russian medical researcher at Harvard, who protested the Ukraine war, detained by ICE:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-medical-researcher-harvard-protested-ukraine-war-detained-ice-rcna198528

She broke no laws in the United States and will be in danger if returned to Russia because of her opposition to their invasion of Ukraine.

* "ICE detains University of Alabama doctoral student as government's college crackdown continues:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/university-alabama-doctoral-student-detained-ice-governments-college-c-rcna198320

* "Columbia student protester can’t be detained for now as she fights deportation, judge rules:" https://apnews.com/article/university-protests-palestinian-immigration-2d7bd689b013b8bb6300fd6ab54de933

* "A look at who has been detained or deported in a US crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters:" https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detainees-students-ozturk-khalil-78f544fb2c8b593c88a0c1f0e0ad9c5f

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

* Shameful that we are doing this. Shameful and Cruel. These are refugees. "They did things ‘the right way.’ Now Trump is turning them into undocumented migrants | Opinion:" https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article302686929.html

* "Judge orders release of Venezuelan couple caught up in Trump gang crackdown:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/venezuelan-couple-release-00258414

Another bullshit illegal deportation attempt based on Government lies.

* "Courts smack down Trump's signature program; Americans instantly outraged over street snatchings:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/courts-smack-down-trump-s-signature-program-americans-instantly-outraged-over-street-snatchings-235756101583

* "Trump Administration Aims to Bring Back Detention Centers for Immigrant Kids:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/trump-administration-plans-detention-centers-for-migrant-children

* "DHS shuts down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for immigrants:" https://archive.ph/q7CP9

* CW: CSA. Cruelty is the point. "Legal groups helping immigrant children who survived sex trafficking, abuse sue to regain federal funding:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/hhs-federal-funding-cuts-sex-abuse-child-trafficking-immigrants-rcna198602

* "Immigrant Children as Young as 2 Years Old Are Now Expected to Represent Themselves After Federal Funding Cut, Attorneys Say:" https://www.latintimes.com/immigrant-children-young-2-years-old-are-now-expected-represent-themselves-after-federal-funding-579387

* "Immigrant advocates protest inhumane conditions in Baltimore ICE detention facility:" https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-immigration-ice-detention-facility-conditions/

* "'Soul of democracy': Hundreds protest ICE detaining workers:" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/ice-arrests-spark-protest-at-tacoma-immigration-detention-center/

* "Liberals Have Been Waiting for This Moment Since Trump Took Office. They Need to Act Now.:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-rumeysa-ozturk-arrest-tufts-student-protest.html

* "'Felt like a kidnapping': Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5335524/wrong-turn-bridge-detention-ordeal

* "Trump Team Claims it Made Billions Off a Gold Card That Doesn’t Exist:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193160/donald-trump-commerce-howard-lutnick-us-residency-gold-cards

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* "Convicted of bilking investors, Nikola founder and Trump donor gets a presidential pardon:" https://apnews.com/article/nikola-trevor-milton-fraud-trump-pardon-3fcebb0a3820cecb205656f2dc3f6764

* "Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-espionage-doge-032d2eb798e4d9d97ea7c5d6dc2ecf93

* "Appeals court refuses to halt an order for the rehiring of thousands of fired federal workers:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-firings-probationary-workers-b96a01e7460321df8b9d500f922ba257

* "Indeed report: Job applications from agencies targeted by DOGE surge:" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/25/federal-work-DOGE-Trump-job/2641742910254/

* "Resistance is alive and well in the United States:" https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

* "47 signs spotted at anti-Trump/Musk protests:" https://www.reuters.com/pictures/47-signs-spotted-anti-trumpmusk-protests-2025-03-21/

* "Anti-Elon Musk protests held at Tesla dealerships:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/tesla-elon-musk-anti-trump-protests-rcna198708

* Do I smell desperation? "Musk deploys squandered credibility in desperate bid to hold ailing Tesla together:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/musk-deploys-squandered-credibility-in-desperate-bid-to-hold-ailing-tesla-together-235111493549

* "From Seattle to Miami, anti-Musk protesters gather at hundreds of Tesla locations:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/29/nx-s1-5343986/anti-musk-protests-planned-worldwide

* "Pam Bondi warns Jasmine Crockett to ‘tread very carefully’ in what she says about Elon Musk:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/bondi-jasmine-crockett-musk-tesla-protests-00244256

* "The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters:" https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-tesla-arson-domestic-terrorism-protests/

* Unlike protesting Tesla/Musk, this attack is actual terrorism. "Florida man accused of driving toward anti-Musk protesters at Tesla dealership is charged with assault:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-charged-assault-tesla-dealership-driving-car-protesters-rcna197746

* "Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk:" https://apnews.com/article/50501-protests-project-2025-trump-state-capitols-ddd341171a54ba9b498cbfe7530e18ab

* "Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters :" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-voting-elections-executive-order/

The details are scary and blatantly unconstitutional, but I don't trust we still have rule of law.

It over rides the constitutionally protected right of states to run their election, throws out millions of legally cast votes, and puts the entire election in the hands of the President.

Basically, it's a way to let Trump and Republican successors finally put an end to free and fair elections while still pretending to hold them, like the other autocrats generally do.

They win this, Democracy is likely finished in the United States for my lifetime.

* "DOGE’s Supposed Savings Are About to Cost the U.S. a Lot of Money:" https://newrepublic.com/post/193093/irs-revenue-elon-musk-doge-cuts

The IRS collects taxes. If you decimate the IRS, they can't go after rich tax cheats, since that takes lots of hours of work by skilled auditors.

To give an idea of how much not collecting taxes from billionaires is going to cost, one of the people recently laid off by billionaire Elon Musk in the name of "efficiency" personally won back more than 8 million dollars over the years. (This isn't from this article, but from Msnbc reporting... last week? Maybe the week before. Anyway, it stuck in my head as illustrative).

Basically, IRS auditors make back way more money than it costs to pay them. The more money we invest in auditors, the more money rich people refuse to pay that they owe goes back into the treasury.

Every time Republicans cut the IRS budget and clain it's for cost saving, they are lying. It is always about the rich, who are already not paying their share getting to illegally pay even less, while people who actually work and pay their taxes get more and more of the social safety net ripped away from them.

* "DOGE stimulus checks: Here's why Americans may not receive the full $5,000 amount:" https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2025/03/28/doge-stimulus-checks-not-full-5000-dollars-amount-musk-trump/82704076007/
The original plan was to only give them to middle class and higher income people, instead of the people who's services are being cut as a result of the cruel and often illegal cuts.

Now they are saying maybe they will have to be smaller because they aren't really saving much money.

I will believe these supposed stimulus checks when I see them. It sounds a lot like lies they told to make killing Social Security go down easier as if a small one time payment most people on social security won't even get will make of for all the people becoming homeless when their rent money doesn't arrive.

* "Exclusive: DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/?

* Originally, they announced they were shutting it because the judge told them they had to stop mining your private data. Stay noisy. It matters. "Acting Social Security chief now says he won't shut down agency after DOGE ruling:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-social-security-chief-now-shut-agency-after/story?id=120046608

* "Social Security rushing service cuts at White House request, sources say:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/social-security-cuts-doge

They have postponed smashing Social Security until Monday on the grounds they did zero trainings, fired the people that would be writing the program that doesn't exist yet, so... Yeah.

There is a rush to do it as, if the agency is still functional on April 2, they will have to actually send people their money and the Republicans absolutely don't want to do that, hence them aiming for the 1st of the month.

UPDATE: They were forced to postpone until the 14th. Keep complaining.

* "Why DOGE is struggling to find fraud in Social Security:" https://archive.ph/iAMdN

Hint: The fraud rate is less than one percent and the dead people collecting checks are imaginary.

* Ya Think? "The Social Security Administration's many proposed changes are worrying advocates:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office

* "10,000 Social Security Administration workers could accept buyout offer, former commissioner says:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-administration-voluntary-separation-incentive-payment/

* "Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/social-security-lutnick-doge-checks

So the argument is, if you complain because you need your social security money for rent, electricity, etc. and they stole it, you are a fraudster who doesn't deserve it, and if you are rich enough not to need it so you wait and don't complain you doesn't need it and shouldn't get it, therefore no one should get the social security payments they earned and need to survive.

Welcome to Catch 22.

see also, this is why people who have never been actually poor in their lives should be allowed into positions of power where they can do this kind of harm.

I am completely fucked if my check doesn't come. They start assessing late fees for housing after seven days. The Bank fee for this auto-withdraw will likely overdraw my account. No gas, no electricity. My insurance will try to auto-withdraw mid-month causing bank fees to continue to grow exponentially. I am contractually required to have insurance on my apartment. I can't cancel it. I can't drive without gas or car insurance and I am disabled with very limited mobility. A bus pass costs about a months gas an requires lots of walking I can't do or someone else doing a lot of walking pushing my in a chair because my arms are fucked too.

No supplemental food or medical supplies or cleaning stuff or toilet paper or things the cats absolutely need. No credit card or other bill payments.

Not paying any bills for one month would dig me into a hole I could never get out of. With all the staff cuts and closures, how many months would it take to get reinstated? Will I automatically be labelled a fraudster and be denied reinstatement for the crime of being to poor to float all my bills for months?

* "Missed Social Security checks no big deal to Trump commerce secretary as attacks on agency escalate:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/missed-social-security-checks-no-big-deal-to-trump-commerce-secretary-as-attacks-on-agency-escalate-235110981853

* "Trump official doubts seniors would mind if their Social Security checks stopped:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-official-doubts-seniors-would-mind-if-their-social-security-checks-stopped-235096133996

I beg of you complain and/or protest now. People will die.

* Keep complaining. It's slowing them down. "Social Security backs off plan to cut phone services after backlash:" https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/mar/26/social-security-backs-off-plan-to-cut-phone-servic/

* "New Social Security clawback policy starts this week: What to know:" https://thehill.com/homenews/5215878-new-social-security-clawback-policy-starts-this-week-what-to-know/

This is usually mistakes, not fraud, sometimes on the part of the agency. Taking 100% means some people will be homeless.

* "Trump's Social Security check change could affect half a million Americans:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-social-security-paper-checks-direct-deposit

The change in payment method is designed to harm the poorest and most vulnerable recipients, because of course it is.

* "‘It is wrong’: Warren sounds off on the Trump-Musk attack on Social Security:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-it-is-wrong-warren-sounds-off-on-the-trump-musk-attack-on-social-security-235367493850

* "Social Security official ended program for Maine newborns because he was ‘ticked’ at Mills:" https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/25/social-security-official-ended-program-for-maine-newborns-because-he-was-ticked-at-mills/

So he decided to not automatically register the social security numbers of newborns, forcing the exhausted parents to go through hoops for something that should be simple because he's a misogynist and transphobe

* ":" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-musk-dismantle-social-security

* "'Cycle of doom': Social Security degradation evident as Trump cuts and changes cause feedback loop:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cycle-of-doom-social-security-degradation-evident-as-trump-cuts-and-changes-cause-feedback-loop-235384901689

* "Demonstrators rally against plan to cut 7,000 Social Security workers:" https://pix11.com/news/local-news/demonstrators-rally-against-plan-to-cut-7000-social-security-workers/

* "New political leadership: Regular Americans show how to stand up to Trump as political leaders fail:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-political-leadership-regular-americans-show-how-to-stand-up-to-trump-as-political-leaders-fail-235651653560

* Presumably because Republicans feel that they aren't killing women fast enough by denying them life saving health care in some states. "Anti-abortion groups aim to end Planned Parenthood funding and suggest Musk’s DOGE to get it done:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-medicaid-trump-planned-parenthood-supreme-court-c512ec676b99d521d240bedeb7f85574

* "About 200 people rally against potential cuts to Medicaid in downtown Yakima:" https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/about-200-people-rally-against-potential-cuts-to-medicaid-in-downtown-yakima/article_3766b3da-00b7-4df7-ae18-d22d1dae519d.html

* "Federal judge prevents Trump administration from dismantling CFPB:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5315118/cfpb-shuttering-trump-doge

* "Elon Musk throws weight behind merging FTC and DOJ antitrust units:" https://archive.ph/nkuBj

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "Trump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires:" https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-mohyeldin/watch/trump-s-firing-of-ftc-commissioners-speaks-volumes-about-his-love-for-billionaires-235159621742

* "‘Elon Musk is playing with fire—but he’ll never get burned’: Michael Lewis:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-elon-musk-is-playing-with-fire-but-he-ll-never-get-burned-michael-lewis-234994245830

* "White House Reveals How Trump Could Buy More Bitcoin—Priming A Price Earthquake:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/03/22/white-house-reveals-how-trump-could-buy-more-bitcoin-priming-a-price-earthquake/

The goal is to drain the treasury of valuable assets to give Trump and a handful of his mega-donors by buying up their scam bitcoin. This will be a massive transfer of taxpayer money directly into the pockets of billionaires.

* This is NOT a coincidence: "Trump family crypto venture to launch a stablecoin:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/25/trump-family-crypto-venture-to-launch-a-stablecoin-00247455

* Now is a great time to tell your Senator's to oppose Cynthia Lummis' Crypto bill.

* Which was of course the goal. "Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-department-of-education-closure-civil-rights-4c5f4e8347dd3318d2f23ad8632d7b74

* "Trump administration transferring student loan, nutrition programs out of Education Dept:" https://archive.ph/iytkd

The SBA is a lot smaller than the education Department and is already swamped. They have zero experience doing any of this.

Students Loans and Grants are how nearly everyone not born so rich they can pay cash upfront goes to college. Clogging this system to uselessness stops a whole lot of talented and hard working people from getting degrees.

Kids can't learn very well if they are too hungry to con concentrate. starving them of essential nutrients causes long term learning delays and health issues. This is designed to keep the children of the poor sick and poor and combined with strangling the student loan program is a way to deny them a life time of opportunities.

This is the rich pulling up the ladder of success after them to prevent everyone else achieving a decent standard of living.

* Bonus they are dumping this on the SBA while slashing it to ribbons as part of their plan to crush small businesses to help the Billionaires who bought Trump:

"Small Business Administration plans to slash staff by over 40 percent amid agency-wide reorganization:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/small-business-administration-job-cuts-00003736

* How to in post. "hey it's probably a really good idea to download a copy of your Master Promissory Note:" https://www.tumblr.com/becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys/778806373433720832

* "So What Exactly Is Going On With Student Loans?:" https://slate.com/life/2025/03/trump-news-department-of-education-order-means-chaos-for-student-loans.html

* "Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/20/trump-order-library-museum-federal-employee-leave/82572108007/

* "'Deeply outraged': Mayor Justin Bibb slams Trump administration for cutting 553K pounds of food for Greater Cleveland Food Bank:" https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/greater-cleveland-food-bank-president-donald-trump-administration-cancel-order-mayor-justin-bibb-usda/95-fad2bf18-a66b-4c1f-8859-d3e22694e486

* They are obeying in advance. "Columbia bows to Trump administration, hoping to restore federal funding:" https://gothamist.com/news/columbia-bows-to-trump-administration-hoping-to-restore-federal-funding

* They are obeying in advance. "Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/legal-community-shaken-powerful-law-firm-paul-weiss-trump-rcna197490

* Perkins Coie is not and they are doing the right thing. If no one stands up now, no law firm is likely to ever stand up to Trump again. "Legal organizations alarmed over Trump’s targeting of Seattle law firm Perkins Coie:" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/16/seattle-legal-organizations-perkins-coie/

* "DOJ moves to boot federal judge from Perkins Coie case:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/doj-federal-judge-perkins-coie-case-00243928

* "One Firm Fights; One Firm Forfeits ft. Liz Dye:"

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* "Trump executive order targets law firm challenging anti-trans policies:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-targets-jenner-block

* This looks illegal on it's face. Apparently judges are agreeing "In back-to-back rulings, federal judges rule against Trump orders targeting law firms:" https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/g-s1-56890/law-firms-sue-trump

* "Major law firm strikes preemptive deal with White House:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/skadden-arps-trump-law-deal-028324

* ...And another law firm caves so that's 2 fought and won, one still fighting, and two caved in advance.

* "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State: For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

* "Judge says Justice Department attacked her character to ‘impugn the integrity’ of US judicial system:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-judiciary-executive-power-lawsuits-547ba740ad8689c8b8bd80291d2f4ad0

* "Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-appoints-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/story?id=120099632

* "USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

You realize that without this, there will be hardly any protein, right?

Reminder: We have so much extra money that we have wasted 18.2 million dollars on Trump's golf outing as of last week. Why is that a better use of taxpayer money then helping farmers and feeding people?

* "School Lunches Should Be Free:"

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* "Protests Break Out Across US Over Plans To Change Postal Service:" https://www.newsweek.com/protests-plans-change-postal-service-2049406

* "US Postmaster General DeJoy steps down:" https://archive.ph/AGasQ

* Republicans decided we should no longer "waste money" on weather balloons used to track hurricanes in Tornado alley amoung other things. "National Weather Service Suspends Critical Service Again Amid DOGE Cuts:" https://www.newsweek.com/national-weather-service-suspends-critical-service-again-amid-doge-cuts-2048313

* "Fired National Park Service Staff Will Be Reinstated, but Long-Term Threats Loom:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21032025/todays-climate-fired-national-parks-workers-reinstated/

* "Protesters descend on Yosemite, Channel Islands and 91 other national parks:" https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/protests-national-parks-budget-20234508.php

* "Mount Rainier rally part of nationwide push to protect parks, federal workers:" https://www.king5.com/article/news/national/mount-rainier-rally-nationwide-push-to-protect-parks-federal-workers-washington/281-9fd675cc-5907-4965-82f2-dda739c1bca2

* "Protesters gathered outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park amid federal cuts:" https://www.wate.com/news/smoky-mountains/protesters-gathered-outside-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-amid-federal-cuts/

* "As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated:" https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18032025/trump-administration-attacks-national-monuments-protests/

* "Kristi Noem to Trump’s Cabinet: I’m ‘Going to Eliminate’ FEMA:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-to-trumps-cabinet-im-going-to-eliminate-fema/

* "Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kristi-noem-fema-donald-trump-rcna198190

* "“This man is not our boss” — EPA workers rally against DOGE cuts:" https://www.theverge.com/news/635710/doge-musk-trump-environmental-protection-agency-epa

* "EPA employees rally in Denver against President Trump’s job and funding cuts:" https://www.cpr.org/2025/03/26/epa-employees-rally-in-denver-against-president-trumps-job-and-funding-cuts/

* Yet they are purging all these extremely competent people at the top based entirely on skin colour or gender to make room for mediocre or worse white men."Hegseth Brings in Emotional Support Brother as Pentagon Aide:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/hegseth-brings-in-emotional-support-brother-as-pentagon-aide/

* "Protestors outside Neal Dunn’s info session believe that Veterans Association cuts are unjust:" https://www.wjhg.com/2025/03/23/protestors-outside-neal-dunns-info-session-believe-that-verterans-association-cuts-are-unjust/

* "Veterans becoming face of Trump’s government cuts and Democrats’ resistance:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/veterans-becoming-face-of-trumps-government-cuts-and-democrats-resistance

* "Another judge blocks the Pentagon from implementing Trump's transgender military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-military-ban-injunction

* "BREAKING: Judge reinstates nationwide stop to Trump’s trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-military-ban-injunction-reinstated

* "​Internet drags Pete Hegseth after he mocked judge who blocked Trump's trans military ban:" https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-hegseth-dragged-mocking-judge#rebelltitem5

* "Congress members denounce VA's end to gender-affirming care, demand answers:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/congress-members-condemn-va

* "Opinion | The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military:" https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/19/dei-pentagon-hegseth-trump-00236799

* "DOD removed pages that referenced the Holocaust, then restored at least one:" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dod-pages-dei-holocaust/

* "Trump administration scrubs 'Golden Girls' star's Marine Corps contributions in latest DEI purge:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-bea-arthur-golden-girls-dei

* "These are the US military's diversity photos Trump doesn't want you to see:" https://www.aol.com/us-militarys-diversity-photos-trump-093001345.html

* Nearly all our Domestic Terrorists are Republican, so.... "Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism:" https://archive.ph/dArH6#selection-558.0-558.1

* Mine's up in threeish years. "Trump’s Gender Order Won’t Affect Existing Passports — Unless They’re Renewed:" https://www.notus.org/whitehouse/trump-gender-sex-order-passports

* "Trump vs. Maine: State refuses anti-trans sports policies as federal agencies push to cut funding:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/trump-vs-maine-explained

* "DO THIS: Oppose Trump administration move to ban trans health care coverage in the ACA:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2030901.html

Direct Link to Comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability

* NYU Obeyed in advance. "‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation:" https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/

* I may have missed this, so I'm posting it. "CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.:" https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

* "U.S. health department plans to slash 10,000 jobs as RFK Jr. upends agencies:" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-plans-10000-hhs-job-cuts.html

* I know I keep saying this, but so many people are going to die because of RFKJr's policies.

* "US pulls back $12 billion in funding to state health departments:" https://archive.ph/oLqwH

* "$160M in WA health funding axed by Trump administration:" https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/27/160m-in-wa-health-funding-axed-by-trump-administration-cuts/

* "CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-pulling-back-11b-covid-funding-sent-health-departments-us-rcna198006

* NOTE: not all the grants. "NIH restores some long COVID grants:" https://cen.acs.org/policy/research-funding/NIH-restores-long-COVID-grants/103/web/2025/03

* RFK Jr.'s disinformation campaign is doing a massive amount of damage. "Growing measles outbreak in Texas pushes U.S. cases above 520:" https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-grows-us-cases-rcna198557

Not vaccinating children who can be safely vaccinated is child abuse, in my opinion.

* "The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations:" https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report

* Because RFK Jr. lied about vitamin A, people are now damaging their children's livers rather than give the safe vaccines. "West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak:" https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-03-27/west-texas-children-treated-for-vitamin-a-toxicity-as-medical-disinformation-spreads-alongside-measles-outbreak

* "Why I left my job leading public health messaging for the CDC: Public health policy must be guided by facts and not fantasy.:" https://archive.ph/rx1KR

* "The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies':" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5344010/fda-peter-marks-rfk-jr

* "RFK Jr. to shut down HHS Office of Infectious Diseases & HIV Policy:" https://www.advocate.com/health/office-infectious-diseases-hiv-closing

* "The War on Poppers Started Long Before RFK Jr. Took Over HHS :" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/popper-drug-crackdown-rfk-lgbtq-1235299650/

* "POPPERS 101 and HIV/AIDS Dropped by CDC:"

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* And now for some bonus RFK Jr. body shaming and assholery: "RFK Jr. Tells Governor to His Face He Needs to Lose 30 Pounds:" https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-west-virginia-governor-patrick-morrisey-weight-2052287

* EBT/SNAP is not HHS, but the Agriculture Department/USDA. "RFK Jr.'s food stamp plan fuels tension with USDA:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/rfk-jr-food-stamps-soda-usda-tension-00252045

* "Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism:" https://archive.ph/4nc3I

There is no link. It's been proved over and over.

We are not only wasting time and money on this we could be spending vaccinating kids in the middle of a measles epidemic, but we aren't hiring a scientist to run it, but a propagandist.

* "Voice of America wins in court, for now, as judge blocks Trump administration from firing staff:" https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-a1ed0ad37917055a1565da5325bd4fd8

* "Radio Free Europe says Trump administration rescinded its grant termination order:" https://archive.ph/ccFBJ

* "Trump signs order to ‘remove improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums and zoo:" https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-27-2025

* "Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa

* "Trump directs JD Vance to go after ‘woke zoos’ :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-directs-jd-vance-to-go-after-woke-zoos-235744325555

* "Donald Trump's Spiritual Advisor Faces Christian Backlash:" https://www.newsweek.com/paula-white-cain-christians-donald-trump-2050102

* "Trump has big dreams for the Kennedy Center but doesn't seem to know what it does:" https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-kennedy-center-audience-rcna197179

* "Trump calls on Polis to remove ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado capitol:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-portrait-colorado-polis-00244561

* "Some underreported news and the return of Your Moment of Zen:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/2031467.html

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* "Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/trump-supreme-court-teacher-training-00251211

* "Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass firings of probationary workers:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-supreme-court-fired-probationary-workers-00244890

* "Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns:" https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-ghost-guns-bf404db1d4ece56203c8748b2544dc02

* "Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”: The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/

Once again Christians are claiming corporations are people have religious convictions and that their right to deny bodily autonomy for religious reasons are more important than mere human type people's right to bodily autonomy.

* "Is America a Kleptocracy?:" https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/25/america-kleptocracy-trump-musk-corruption/

* "Whipsawed by Trump’s tariffs, the US public is getting a lot more nervous about the economy:" https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-consumer-confidence-tariffs-inflation-849d658cbab7992590a5a3bb3449aa52

* "Everything Owned by Nestlé:" https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everything-Owned-by-Nestle

* "US likely to reach debt limit X-date in August or September, Congress’ scorekeeper predicts :" https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/26/congress/us-likely-to-reach-debt-limit-x-date-in-august-or-september-congress-scorekeeper-predicts-00250525

* Scary Shit. "US House Speaker Johnson says Congress can 'eliminate' district courts:" https://archive.ph/FUgTk

* "Elon Musk’s Space Business Partner Is Poised to Take Over NASA:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-jared-isaacman-nasa-spacex-business-partner-1235301236/

* "Who Is Frank Bisignano? Democrats Grill Trump’s Social Security Pick At Confirmation Amid DOGE Cuts To Service.:" https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/25/who-is-frank-bisignano-democrats-grill-trumps-social-security-pick-at-confirmation-amid-doge-cuts-to-service/

* "Fallout coming for House GOP over Trump's rug pull on Stefanik:" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-trump-un-ambassador

* "Trump yanks Elise Stefanik’s Cabinet nomination, citing ‘very tight’ GOP majority:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-yanks-elise-stefanik-s-cabinet-nomination-citing-very-tight-gop-majority-235623493907

* "Jasmine Crockett mocks sports bans: 'Find the little trans child that is ruining your life':" https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-transgender-sports-bans

* "Why anger has shifted from Trump's overreach to the Democrats' disunity and apathy:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/trump-overreach-democrats-disunity-opinion

* As always, these are representative samples. There are way more out there.

Pressure both sides. Ask hard questions. Complain. Embarrass them. Keep pushing because we deserve better.

Stay Noisy.

* "Bernie Sanders, AOC rally crowd of 30,000 in Denver’s Civic Center:" https://www.denverpost.com/2025/03/21/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-denver-civic-center-trump/

* "Fourth Protest outside Rep. Pete Stauber’s office Demanding answers:" https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/03/20/fourth-protest-outside-rep-pete-staubers-office-demanding-answers/

* "Republican Senator Faces Angry Protesters, Questions in Red State:" https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-faces-protestors-questions-red-state-2048906

* "Nevada voters pack town hall to voice concerns about Trump policies:" https://knpr.org/politics/2025-03-21/nevada-voters-pack-town-hall-to-voice-concerns-about-trump-policies

* "‘Do your job’: Voters voice frustration after Nancy Mace declines town hall invite:" https://www.counton2.com/news/local-news/do-your-job-voters-voice-frustration-after-nancy-mace-declines-town-hall-invite/

* "Protestors gather outside Rep. Buddy Carters’ office:" https://www.wsav.com/news/protestors-gather-outside-rep-buddy-carters-office/

* "Andy Barr knew Lexington town hall was locally organized. He still lied about attendees | Opinion:" https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/linda-blackford/article302754904.html

* "Democrat Confronted by Angry Protesters at Town Hall:" https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-confronted-angry-protesters-town-hall-2048388

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

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

Please add more below if you have them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Democrats take hope from upset win in a GOP-leaning Pennsylvania state Senate district:" https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-democratic-party-donald-trump-election-094e907bd9af0d55a3ac76bb5e22d17c

* Voting has started for the April 1 special Election. Republicans have a wafer thin majority in the House of Representatives. "Democrats raise millions for Florida special elections in Trump territory:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-raise-millions-florida-special-elections-trump-territory-rcna197311

* "Josh Weil shocks by raising more than $10M for CD 6 Special Election:" https://floridapolitics.com/archives/727090-josh-weil-shocks-by-raising-more-than-10m-for-cd-6-special-election/

* "Ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Elon Musk PAC offers cash for pledge: The group backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel is offering $100 to people who sign a petition against 'activist judges':" https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-elon-musk-cash-for-pledge

This was wildly illegal last time Musk did it, but he wasn't arrested and laws no longer apply to republicans, so here we are.

* "Wisconsin attorney general sues Elon Musk to block $1 million payment offers:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-d75807980ac311b87606fb4ec58cc466

* "Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues:" https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-musk-million-dollar-checks-43fa79215e16c333a1079a86cb9aab08

* "Special election to fill former Sen. Justin Eichorn’s seat set for April 29:" https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/25/special-election-to-fill-former-sen-justin-eichorns-seat-set-for-april-29

* "Have LGBTQ+ rights in Florida reached a turning point? Advocates have hope:" https://www.advocate.com/florida-lgbtq-hope

* "Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear vetoes anti-DEI bill:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/kentucky-beshear-vetoes-anti-dei-bill

* "NJ Democrats for governor want to amend the constitution for abortion. Legal experts call it ‘unnecessary’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/23/nj-democrats-for-governor-want-to-amend-the-constitution-for-abortion-legal-experts-call-it-unnecessary-00244111

* "How Republican State Lawmakers Are Trying to Have It Both Ways on Lifesaving Abortions:" https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/abortion-exceptions-republicans-kentucky-texas-fetal-personhood.html

* "After reported deaths, Texas lawmakers file bills to clear confusion over medical exceptions to state's near abortion ban:" https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/deaths-texas-lawmakers-file-bills-clear-confusion-medical-exceptions-near-abortion-ban/

* "How Texas Republicans plan to keep cracking down on abortion:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/texas-abortion-fight-pills-travel-fund/

* "Transgender Texans refuse to be erased as Republicans try to make their existence illegal:" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-transgender-community-under-attack

* "Texas Bill Would Require Photo ID to Buy Sex Toys Online, Calling Them 'Obscene Devices':" https://people.com/texas-bill-will-require-id-to-purchase-a-sex-toy-online-11703746

* "Florida bill to allow teens to work overnight hours on school days moves forward:" https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-senate-panel-advances-bill-to-further-roll-back-child-labor-restrictions/

* "Top Florida lawmaker has ‘personal concerns’ about a push to loosen child-labor laws:" https://archive.ph/hP1Wk

They want children to work all night on school nights to make up for all the people being deported.

Florida, please protest!

* "West Virginia lawmakers vote to overturn local protections for LGBTQ+ people:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/wv-gop-vote-overturn-lgbtq-protections

* "Utah becomes the first state to ban Pride and other flags on public schools and government buildings:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-bans-pride-flags-public-buildings

* We are headed to an even scarier place. "GOP lawmakers in 10 states introduce bills to treat abortion as homicide:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-lawmakers-in-10-states-introduce-bills-to-treat-abortion-as-homicide/ar-AA1BPSFB

* "Youngkin vetoes bills that would have raised minimum wage, given paid sick leave to all and more:" https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/youngkin-vetoes-minimum-wage-paid-sick-leave-bills/

* "Mayor Michelle Wu - Making Boston A Home For Everyone | The Daily Show:"

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* "Demonstrators rally at site of Patrick Henry’s ‘Liberty or Death’ speech:" https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/demonstrators-rally-at-site-of-patrick-henrys-liberty-or-death-speech/

* "Parents call out school board member for anti-LGBTQ+ posts:" https://www.advocate.com/news/kentucky-school-board-member-homophobia

* "3 killed, 15 injured in shootout at 'unsanctioned car show' in New Mexico park:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-killed-14-injured-new-mexico-mass-shooting-rcna197615

* " Texas officials demand answers after video shows Austin police slamming transgender woman to ground :" https://www.advocate.com/news/transgender-woman-manhandled-austin-police

* "Minneapolis to pay $600,000 to settle with woman who says Derek Chauvin knelt on her neck:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-pay-600000-settle-woman-says-derek-chauvin-knelt-neck-rcna190312

* "'Ridiculous': George Floyd's girlfriend reacts to far-right effort to pardon Derek Chauvin:" https://www.msnbc.com/jonathan-capehart/watch/ridiculous-george-floyd-s-girlfriend-reacts-to-far-right-effort-to-pardon-derek-chauvin-235151429763

* "I’m an Incarcerated Nurse — Women’s Health in Prison Is Hell and Will Only Get Worse Under Trump:" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/prison-health-incarcerated-nurse-trump-healthcare-america-1235299298/

* "The Succession Battle For A Prison Empire:" https://archive.ph/rkzWe#selection-736.0-736.1

* "'Nazis are not welcome in Austin' | UT students to protest controversial on-campus conference:" https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/natal-conference-ut-austin-campus-protest/269-26e25360-d2f7-4558-82e5-d2b7a6ef6e00

* "Texas A&M's drag ban blocked by federal court as judge cites free 'speech rights':" https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-am-drag-ban-blocked

* "Federal judge again blocks Iowa book ban; expected to rule on 'don't say gay' restrictions soon:" https://www.advocate.com/news/judge-blocks-iowa-book-ban

* CW: Rape. "Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia: East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.:" https://archive.ph/avdTi

* Every Republican against us accusation is a confession. CW: CSA "Minnesota anti-trans state senator, who touted Trump derangement syndrome, arrested for soliciting a minor:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested

* CW: Domestic Violence. "Rebecca Marodi murder: Wife accused of fatally stabbing fire captain detained in Mexico:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/rebecca-marodi-stabbing-wife-detained

* "Texas’ first abortion arrests stem from monthlong attorney general investigation:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/

* "Notes from a gender clinician:" https://www.advocate.com/voices/gender-clinician-affirming-care

* "Hungarians protest Pride ban; Budapest mayor promises LGBTQ+ support:" https://www.advocate.com/news/hungarians-protest-pride-ban

* "Missing gay Arizona yoga instructor, Marcus Freiberger, found dead after blind date:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/missing-gay-yoga-arizona-dead#toggle-gdpr

* "Gay men's chorus member killed in suspected Texas road rage attack — family and police seek help:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/road-rage-gay-killing-texas

* "Mississippi restaurant gets lambasted for straight-couples-only offer:" https://www.advocate.com/news/mississippi-restaurant-lambasted-for-homophobia

* Gender Policing and Transphobia harm everyone. "Walmart fires 6'4" cisgender woman threatened by man who thought she was trans:" https://www.advocate.com/news/walmart-fires-mistaken-trans-woman

* "Texas is poised to make measles a nationwide epidemic, public health experts say:" https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/21/texas-measles-vaccine-new-mexico-oklahoma-us/

* "2 more cases of measles confirmed in Maryland:" https://wtop.com/health-fitness/2025/03/2-more-cases-of-measles-confirmed-in-maryland/

* "New Mexico measles cases continue to rise in SE corner:" https://sourcenm.com/briefs/new-mexico-measles-cases-continue-to-rise-in-se-corner/

* "An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/als-outbreak-montchavin-mystery/682096/

* How to fight your insurance company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

* "Video: UW-led research links wildfire smoke exposure with increased dementia risk:" https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/11/25/video-uw-led-research-links-wildfire-smoke-exposure-with-increased-dementia-risk/

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* "Over 25 million remain under red flag warnings with heightened risk of wildfires:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wildfire-warnings-continue-parts-country-strong-winds-persist/story?id=120030148

* "Most Texas wildfires are contained Saturday despite elevated threats, forest service says:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/03/22/most-texas-wildfires-are-contained-saturday-despite-elevated-threats-forest-service-says/

* "Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wildfires-force-mandatory-evacuation-order-western-north-carolina-120068816

* "Firefighters battle four uncontained wildfires, evacuations in effect:" https://www.wyff4.com/article/polk-county-wnc-wildfires-high-fire-danger/64243054

* "Wildfires in North and South Carolina fueled by drought, wind and fallen trees from Hurricane Helene:" https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-north-south-carolina-evacuations-af970ce0551007bfa0a5940aed58d68a

* "Aid rushes into Myanmar after earthquake kills over 1,600, ravages cities:" https://archive.ph/jsXsV

* "Myanmar junta accused of air strike even after quake:" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250330-myanmar-junta-accused-of-air-strike-even-after-quake

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* "'Magnets for human connection': Why Japanese ‘micro-forests' are transforming our cities:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/17/the-japanese-micro-forest-method-is-transforming-cities

* "Debunking Garden Watering Myths:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JAeCFM8H9E

* "Scientists were in Antarctica when a giant iceberg broke free. Here’s what they found in its shadow:" https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/23/scientists-were-in-antarctica-when-a-giant-iceberg-broke-free-heres-what-they-found-in-its

* "This Fly Larva’s Butt Looks Like a Termite’s Head—and Termites Are Falling for It:" https://gizmodo.com/this-fly-larvas-butt-looks-like-a-termites-head-and-termites-are-falling-for-it-2000563456

* "This Apex Predator Was ‘King of the Ancient Egyptian Forest’ Then Mysteriously Went Extinct:" https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-apex-predator-was-king-of-the-ancient-egyptian-forest-then-mysteriously-went-extinct/

* "The Only Black Police Precinct in U.S. History: How Miami Was Policed During Segregation:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-police-precinct-history-miami

* "New photo from Pulse shooting shows exit blocked by refrigerator, which may have cost lives:" https://www.advocate.com/news/new-photo-pulse-exit-blocked

* "Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio: This Is the Way We Rise:" https://kcts9.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/identity-poetry-activism-video/this-is-the-way-we-rise-american-masters/

* "Scientist’s ‘disturbing’ behavior, death threats at Antarctic base prompts probe:" https://interestingengineering.com/culture/scientist-disturbing-behavior-antarctic-probe-begins

* "TSA stops man with live turtle in his pants:" https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/tsa-stops-man-with-live-turtle-in-his-pants/video_29a3b6d1-67d9-5dfc-a44e-765beb8ebc5d.html

* "Passenger Allegedly Swallowed Rosary Beads and Attacked Crew Members During Mid-Flight Meltdown:" https://people.com/plane-passenger-allegedly-swallowed-rosary-beads-and-attacked-crew-members-11695552

* Thursday a week ago, I had thought I was likely going to crash again 2AMish as I woke up exhausted, headachy, with all my joints screaming at me, but it got better about 2-3, so I soldiered on and got the aggregate out. Friday, I was well enough to do almost bare minimum physio, which I'm counting as a win.

My hopes of being super productive Friday night failed, alas, but for good reasons. The cats were doing Peaceable Kingdom in my bed, so I read most of Tidal Creatures while administering pettins on demand and cuddle naps for cats. I also had a bunch of small things needing doing I'd been in too much pain to handle around the Cat Asylum, which I spaced out in classic chronic pain fashion in between rests. Also I fell down a medieval history rabbit hole for about an hour. <.< >.>

Tonight was I was also migrating another function across to Killian laptop, and inevitably diving in and out of settings as I found things needing tweaking. This is why it generally takes several weeks to get a lap top going right, and this time having to use waterfox classic instead of standard waterfox meant I had to rethink job distributions, since a bunch of extensions don't work on classic. Limited utility means I need to switch some functions for other browsers. It's mostly sorted now, though I may need more tweaks.

Part of why Thursday worked out so well for me is I'm getting better at the new work flow pattern, so certain things can move a little faster.

So progress, basically, even though it feels like running on sand.

* Thursday this week, I had to stay up for painful x-rays and doctor prodding, as well as to have blood taken. The x-rays were incredibky painful as my hip joint are terrible right now and it's a lot of standing in fixed positions. My shoulder joint healed correctly. I have been released in the wild to do more at home physio. I am to focus particularly on inward motion, which means I will need to get creative. Sigh.

* So about a week and a half ago, a friend sent me NasalCrom to see if it could make a dent in my chronic sinus infection/sinusitis situation. It's really impressive, as it turns out. My sinuses have been slowly draining, which is not pleasant, but neither was several years of sinus headaches and the constant need to manually drain them 1-3 times a day depending on how much worse my allergies to Outside are making things. This, at least is progress towards an actual solution.

TMI after this point.
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* New Tavy pics: https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/778947425672019968/the-emperor-has-found-a-new-perch-from-which-to?source=share

* "DOGE Protestors Turn Their Focus on Tesla & Delayed NASA Astronauts Make It Home | The Daily Show:"

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* "GOP Pumps Tesla As Trump Admin Flubs JFK File Release & DEI Scrubbing | The Daily Show:"

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* "Jon Stewart on Which Speech Is Free and Which Will Cost You in Trump’s America | The Daily Show:"

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* "Trump's Kennedy Center Takeover | Kristi Noem Taunts Canada | Taking Greenland:"

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* "Signalgate: Trump Tries To Dodge Explosive National Security Scandal | All Of Them Should Be Fired:"

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* "Hegseth's Sloppy Security Breach | Mike Waltz: Goldberg's Number Got "Sucked In" To My Phone:"

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* "Blame Mike Waltz | Trump Team's Sloppy Digital Footprints | The Fertilization President:"

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* "How Many Dildos Is Too Many? Texas Offers An Answer:"

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* "Consumer Watch: Delete Your DNA | Toys For Kidults | Tax Prep For Kids:"

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* "Survive the Apocalypse in Luxury at this Doomsday Prepper Ranch | The Daily Show:"

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* "‘Why I’m Misogynistic’ | Are The Straights OK?:"

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* "the idea of odysseus as, like, a military propagandist/PR officer is really fun for me in a fucked up way, given that he Did Not Want To Go To War In The First Place.:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/779357773890732032/to-me-this-also-fits-with-him-taking-neoptolemus

* "Tumultuous 1066:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XdqjwPHWps

* "Worrisome War Wolves:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1o5nXucddGQ

* "Perilous Pazzis:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G0MaPqF_Cqs

* "Woeful WWI:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRR2rKDo1IM

* "White House Easter Egg Roll Sponsors:"

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* "Resurrecting The Wooly Mammoth:"

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* "Styling the Whole World:" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XDxRiYF-v8s

* "Take a look at the winning images from this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards:" https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/19/take-a-look-at-the-winning-images-from-this-years-british-wildlife-photography-awards

* "Sunday Sweets Springs In:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-springs-in-2025

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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.

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

* How to fight your insurace company when they insist you take meds that don't work instead of a more expensive one that does: https://steptherapy.com/step-therapy-legislation-by-state/

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* "A Prosperous China Says ‘Men Preferred,’ and Women Lose:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/asia/china-women-discrimination.html

* "U.S. to pay farmers up to $16 billion for trade war losses, South...:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-idUSKCN1UK2M7

* "U.S. Economy Slows, Denying Trump 3% Talking Point:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/business/economy/us-gdp-growth.html

* "Trump knocks Fox News after poll shows him losing to Biden by 10 points:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/trump-fox-news-biden-poll-1437265

* "Russians probably targeted election systems in all 50 states, Senate panel’s report says:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-panel-releases-first-chapter-of-bipartisan-report-into-russian-meddling/2019/07/25/63bce4f4-af0c-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fa802e941d80

* "Judiciary Committee asks a judge to share Mueller's secret grand jury evidence:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/mueller-report-secret-grand-jury-evidence-1436846

* "House Judiciary Committee Launches Official Impeachment Investigation:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/7/26/house-judiciary-committee-launches-official-impeachment-investigation

* "Democrats broach impeachment in bid for Mueller grand jury info:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-broach-impeachment-in-bid-for-mueller-grand-jury-info-64685125910

* "Context of Trump impeachment improves Democrats' legal case:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/context-of-trump-impeachment-improves-democrats-legal-case-64689733539

* "How Science Got Trampled in the Rush to Drill in the Arctic:" https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/trump-science-alaska-drilling-rush/

* "Trump distorts, ignores science in rush to drill Alaska refuge:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-distorts-ignores-science-in-rush-to-drill-alaska-refuge-64688197636

* "U.S. Approves T-Mobile-Sprint Merger, a Deal That Would Reshape the Industry:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/business/media/sprint-tmobile-merger.html

* "Dem Presidential Hopefuls Speak Out on Deaths of Black Trans Women:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/7/26/dem-presidential-hopefuls-speak-out-deaths-black-trans-women

* "Supreme Court gives Trump go-ahead on border wall:" https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/26/trump-border-wall-supreme-court-1437894

* "SCOTUS permits Trump to use $2.5 billion from Pentagon for wall:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scotus-permits-trump-to-use-2-5-billion-from-pentagon-for-wall-64689221530

* "Arrest of Marines Suspected of Smuggling Migrants Points to Lucrative Trade:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/us/marines-migrant-smuggling-pendleton.html

* "Active-duty U.S. troops are now just feet away from migrants in Texas:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/active-duty-u-s-troops-are-now-just-feet-away-n1034416

* "Judge blocks new Trump asylum rule...for now:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/judge-blocks-new-trump-asylum-rule-for-now-64650309924

* "Detained American teen speaks about his ordeal:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/detained-american-teen-speaks-about-his-ordeal-64681542001

* "Philadelphia to fire 13 police officers after series of racist, discriminatory Facebook posts:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/07/18/philadelphia-police-officers-face-firing-offensive-facebook-posts/1773445001/

* "What Do People in Solitary Confinement Want to See?:" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/photo-requests-from-solitary-confinement

* TW: Sexual Abuse "Female inmates were forced to expose their genitals in a ‘training exercise.’ It was legal, court rules.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/19/female-inmates-were-forced-expose-their-genitals-training-exercise-it-was-legal-court-rules/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f19219951157

* TW: Rape. "How Jeffrey Epstein Used the Billionaire Behind Victoria’s Secret for Wealth and Women:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html

* TW: Pedophilia. "Jeffrey Epstein found injured in jail cell with marks on his neck, sources say:" https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/jeffrey-epstein-injured-jail-cell/index.html

* "Detroit Billboard Declares 'Trans People Are Sacred':" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/7/26/detroit-billboard-declares-trans-people-are-sacred

* "The LGBTQ Health Clinic That Faced a Dark Truth About the AIDS Crisis:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/us-aids-policy-lingering-epidemic/594445/

* "Rabies Kills Tens of Thousands Yearly. Vaccinating Dogs Could Stop It.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/science/rabies-dogs-india.html

* "The U.S.’s Toxic Agent Orange Legacy:" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/07/agent-orange-cambodia-laos-vietnam/591412/

* "Twelve years to save Earth? Make that 18 months...:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48964736

* "New York just passed the most ambitious climate target in the country:" https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/20/18691058/new-york-green-new-deal-climate-change-cuomo

* "Gay Vietnamese-American Ballet Dancer John Lam Out to Inspire Others:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2019/7/25/gay-vietnamese-american-ballet-dancer-john-lam-out-inspire-others

* You may have noticed odd posting times. My lungs are bad even by my standards. I have an appointment on Monday morning. We'll see if anything can be done about the infection. So I have very little energy, I'm coughing constantly, and achieving anything, including sleep is difficult. It took what felt like forever to chew through the Mueller stuff and it ended up making sense to stay up Thursday to go to the library, instead of gambling that I could get it together after sleep fast enough to squeeze in there and the pharmacy before close. Which through the sleep cycle off. Friday I stayed up to forage as I hadn't been well enough to go in a week? More? Hence me not managing awake at a reasonable time.

Squirrel's sofa cover came. It is better than I feared. I was picturing the horrible plastic covers the neighbors across the street had when I was a kid. This one is quilted gray fabric on one side and rubberized plastic on the other. Not aesthetically pleasing, but I can sit on it comfortably. It's long enough, but designed for an entirely different type of sofa. I made it work, and it's far better than the alternative just now. Tavy fought a violent battle with it off and on for hours Friday.

I went to put the cushions back together, but found they weren't cleaned to my satisfaction after all. I intended to start over from scratch today, but my the time I'd full changed bathroom litter, did buckets from tank change earlier in the week, and had a bath, I simply couldn't face the level of hard manual labor involved. I frankensteined out and did some necessary night gardening instead, since I wasn't well enough to manage minimum maintenance Thursday, and they need daily water checks this time of year in this heat.

The triffid lilies are stunning this year. I'll post pics tomorrow, I think. I'm a bit concerned about the carnations, which after the first flurry of blooms are barely producing.

I am just exhausted, waking or sleeping. A serious lung infection will do that. This is the first bad one since the new vaccine came out fall before last. Given it's a partial coverage situation and things like this mutate, the fact I went this long is a minor miracle. I hate it and it's eating my summer, but it's not MRSA bad or bad like that thing that nearly took me out the winter before then new vaccine.

I'm like triple booked for Monday with too many things in the day time. I'm not going to even try to impose order on my body until I have antibiotics inside med and the Monday things conquered. Expect weird and possibly sporadic posting until mid-next week at minimum.

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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

* "India's first transgender school opens its doors:" http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/indias-first-transgender-school/#gs.xmADBvU

* "Donald Trump finally concedes that Russia was behind hacks:" https://mic.com/articles/165147/donald-trump-finally-concedes-that-russia-was-behind-hacks-but-minimizes-its-culpability?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social#.641aQUBLu

* "Exxon needs US policy change to cash in on big bet on Russia:"

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* "Unverified Trump, Russia blackmail allegations roil US politics:"

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* "Monica Crowley plagiarism scandal outpaces Trump camp denials:"

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* "Trump takes meeting with 'vaccine skeptic':"

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* I miss Coretta Scott King more every year. "Intense day of Senate hearings for Sessions:"

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* "Sen Booker: Jeff Sessions 'a clear threat' to many Americans:"

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* I am still mulling the fact that Donald Trump thinks the thing that was bad about NAZI Germany was that their news organizations dared to investigate Hitler instead of rubber stamping what Hitler said uncritically the way he thinks they should with him, and not, you know, the genocide. I am assuming he doesn't understand that in his analogy he cast himself as Hitler. O.o He just Godwined himself.

* "Republican-led Senate takes first step to repeal Obamacare:" http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-senate-obamacare-20170111-story.html

* "A Time for Treason:" http://thenewinquiry.com/features/a-time-for-treason/

* "A thing about encouraging the media to do better:" https://lettersfromtitan.com/2017/01/11/a-thing-about-encouraging-the-media-to-do-better/#comments

* On what was lost when the NAZIs burned the trans research. "This photo is usually divorced from its specific content.:" https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/155744525101/han-koehle-this-photo-is-usually-divorced-from

* "Trump's Nuclear Plan: It's Funny Because Nothing Matters Anymore:"

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* Impromptu shots of Tavy standing on my shoulder. http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/155702667182/impromptu-shots-of-tavy-standing-on-my-shoulder

* My plan last night was to stay up and do labs first thing in the morning. That meant water only after 11:45 PM. I turned out way too tired to do that.. I set an alarm and went to sleep after my rp commitments were done. I started my Wednesday with a half hour of phone bureaucracy. (Most of it on hold). The most important time dependent thing was solved to my satisfaction. I have a list of East coast business hours phone bureaucracy left, but I've achieved a ridiculous amount efficiently since the start of December. Then I went for my interview with the vampire. I know I keep saying this, but poverty clinic phlebotomists are the best because they routinely stick people with difficult veins. I have really hard to work with veins (tiny, deep, prone to wiggling and collapse). I've had serious trouble with hospitals, the Red Cross (back when I could legally give blood as a teen), normal lab techs over the years nailing them. My clinic nails the vein every time quickly. Five big vials generally leaves me ick the rest of the evening, so I moved the TV to the living room before I left. I still managed to do dishes, make diner, futz with the down TV (still can't get picture), sweep some key section of floors before lung time.

* Apparently to my ears, the BBC announcer saying "Motor industry" sounds remarkably like "murder industry." For a few brief moments I was paying waaaaay more attention to the business report than normal.

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* Suicide Crisis numbers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/153016816845/non-us-crisis-line-list

* Victim of a Hate Crime? Report to the police first, but also report here to help the SPLC track incidents: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate

* Trans Relief Project: http://transrelief.com/

* "Donate to the SPLC:" https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=463

* "A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations That Need Your Support:" http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078?rev=1478710019591&utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

* General Charities list to help groups being targeted in Trump's America: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/153111297079/charities-that-may-need-some-love-in-the-upcoming

* Where to donate to help Immigrants: http://colinfirth.tumblr.com/post/152963467726/carecen-la-center-for-community-change

* Ways to protest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

* More ways to protest "So here’s the deal:" http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/153516131819/so-heres-the-deal

* "10 ways we can help Standing Rock Indian Reservation.:" http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/153755459138/dooder-tooder-this-is-a-photo-my-friend-posted

* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

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

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

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

* "How To Help Indonesia Earthquake Victims: Guide On Donating Money Or Blood After Aceh Province Disaster:" http://www.ibtimes.com/how-help-indonesia-earthquake-victims-guide-donating-money-or-blood-after-aceh-2456400

* "What happened to China's arrested rights lawyers?:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38250590

* "Fake US Embassy shut down after ten years in business:"

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* "Lobbyists boast of manipulating Trump:"

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* "Sanders: Trump is a 'pathological liar':"

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* "Trump intends to keep a stake in his company:"

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* "$500 billion opportunity for Exxon, Russia in Trump cabinet pick:"

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* "Trump to pick EPA antagonist to lead EPA:"

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* "Will Trump put eccentricity over expertise in choice for FDA?:"

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* "Past physical abuse accusation haunts Trump labor pick:"

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* "Poll shows Trump voter gap with facts, rest of Americans' views:"

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* "100 days to save the Republic:" http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/17/13626514/trump-systemic-corruption

* On the Comet Ping-Pong Attack: http://seananmcguire.tumblr.com/post/154220918230/obscuritory-im-not-in-the-mood-to-post-today

* "Remembering Normal:" http://blog.bl00cyb.org/2016/12/remembering-normal/

* "Pat McCrory concedes; Roy Cooper next NC governor:" http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article118942758.html

* "Don't mess with California (they're ready to resist Donald Trump):"

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* "Carrier union leader responds to Trump attack:"

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* "Fake news breaks through:"

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* "Ohio House passes legislation to block raising CLE minimum wage to $15:" http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/cleveland/ohio-house-passes-legislation-to-block-raising-cle-minimum-wage-to-15/365371079

* How to Defend Against Someone Grabbing Your hijab: https://www.facebook.com/zee.abdulla/videos/10210260835014799/

* "State rep endures anti-Muslim harassment on trip to White House:"

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* "John Glenn, First US Astronaut to Orbit Earth, Has Died at 95:" https://www.wired.com/2016/12/john-glenn-first-american-orbit-earth-died-95/

* "Big Furry Hat: Make iPhones That Don't Break:"

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* "Trump Gears Up to Dismantle the Government:"

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* "Trump Fakes a Deal:"

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* "Domino's Pizza Hires Delivery Reindeer:"

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* "Austria Votes Against Nationalism:"

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* "President-Elect Trump Talks to Taiwan:"

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* "The Navy Goes Green:"

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* "The Mall of America's First Black Santa:"

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* "Profiles in Tremendousness - HUD Secretary Nominee Ben Carson:"

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* "Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse - Trump's "Thank You" Victory Tour:"

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* "Donald Trump Already Touched China's Most Sensitive Spot:"

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* "Family Meeting With Vice President Joe Biden:"

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* "Nothing Makes Trump Happier Than Being Angry:"

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* "Sigourney Weaver: We Didn't Vote For Dirty Air And Dirty Water:"

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* Yesterday's adventure was long and complicated. I got out of the apartment on schedule and while putting the bags in my trunk I spotted a moving box from Sunday's move. Luckily the eye appointment was right where the box's owner now lives, as in dropping it off would be a three block detour. I went and got my eyes poked as planned and dropped the box off after. (She was luckily home, I almost never go up there since I stopped teaching and it's the far end of town). The directions to the place that sells Medicare covered glasses were an adventure. The assistant did sensibly start drawing a map without me asking. (One of my brain little glitches is that I have trouble translating verbal directions into a map. Show me a physical map and I do really well. Give me a landmark and no more than one or two verbal direction strings and I can generally find it, but I just lose long direction strings because I can't map them quickly onto the visual and kinesthetic schema).

Unfortunately she didn't start by drawing in landmarks I knew except the name of one of the big important streets nearby. She's like, "It's right by the Burger King." Me: I've no idea where the Burger King is. Her: Do you know *Town I've lived in since '98* at all? Me: I don't eat fast food, so I don't generally know where they are. Is this near the Walgreens? Her: No. It's right by the Dennys. Me: I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat there either. Her: *makes a horribly exasperated face and draws in Home Depot* It's over here in a Mall like the one we're in. Me: I know where how Depot is. you mean the strip Mall with the good Thai Restaurant? Her: I don't eat Thai Food. *We stare at each other for several looooong moments* Her: *starts trying to sketch in more landmarks she knows* It's my the military recruiting center. Me: *gives a Gallic shrug worthy of my Dad's best French BFF* Her, now desperate: It's by the Pet ER. Me, wildly relieved: Oh! I know exactly where the Emergency Vet is!

So I dropped off the box and I knew exactly how to get to the glasses place, skipping most of the rush hour traffic. I got the stink eye from one of the recruiters who were leaving for the day. (I was in my Harkness coat, PRIDE buttons prominently displayed, and with my crutch). I was amused because the four of them looked like a perfect, diverse recruiting poster, so perfect that they could be clip art. The glasses people were delightful. I had, of course, forgotten that I can't get cheapy lenses because my eyes are so bad they won't fit them, which means I need to raise the $31.00 for the cheapest level of compressed on top of the hundredish I'm short on bills and will have to let ride. It's important to get the glasses before anyone changes my health plan on me, which happens periodically this time of year without my consent, and I've lost glasses coverage that way before.

Then there was stop and go rush hour traffic, a grocery run, and another attempt to track down my birth day present which my sister sent to two apartments ago. They were home, but they'd sent it back to the post office.

When I got up for the bathroom early in the day, Tavy was very agitated and kept going to look out the bedroom window. Snow! So much snow! I don't think we've had real snow here in half a decade what with global warning completely borking regional weather patterns. I thought we might have entirely lost Winter. While snow is aesthetically pleasing and environmentally important, it means I'm housebound until it melts. Given the noticeable melting by the time I got up for real, it likely won't be that long, which is normal for here. (The mountains protect us and the Sound keeps things warmer than they would otherwise be. That time we had two weeks of snow here in our little bay was also freakish. Normal snow here used to be a few days to a week at a time 1-3 times a Winter with cold-freezing rain in between. The snow in the mountains is absolutely crucial though for things like agriculture, so it's good to see some of that trying to rebuild, even though I doubt this year's normalish weather is anything more than a blip. The environment here is changing. Species migrating north as things heat up. It was good to get a normal year though. I missed normal). Anyway, I did not take a picture as the snow had meltd just enough to be less aesthetic.

Today I discovered one of you kind souls paid for the glasses and bills, so thank you.

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* Suicide Crisis numbers: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/153016816845/non-us-crisis-line-list

* Victim of a Hate Crime? Report to the police first, but also report here to help the SPLC track incidents: https://www.splcenter.org/reporthate

* Trans Relief Project: http://transrelief.com/

* "Donate to the SPLC:" https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=463

* "A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations That Need Your Support:" http://jezebel.com/a-list-of-pro-women-pro-immigrant-pro-earth-anti-big-1788752078?rev=1478710019591&utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

* General Charities list to help groups being targeted in Trump's America: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/153111297079/charities-that-may-need-some-love-in-the-upcoming

* Where to donate to help Immigrants: http://colinfirth.tumblr.com/post/152963467726/carecen-la-center-for-community-change

* Ways to protest: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174f0WBSVNSdcQ5_S6rWPGB3pNCsruyyM_ZRQ6QUhGmo/htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true#

* More ways to protest "So here’s the deal:" http://the-cimmerians.tumblr.com/post/153516131819/so-heres-the-deal

* "10 ways we can help Standing Rock Indian Reservation.:" http://browngurlwfro.tumblr.com/post/153755459138/dooder-tooder-this-is-a-photo-my-friend-posted

* "List of Standing Rock Resources:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/152671392633/list-of-standing-rock-resources

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

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

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

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

* "Bill Moyers Essay: The End Game for Democracy:" http://billmoyers.com/segment/bill-moyers-essay-the-end-game-for-democracy/

* "Oceans Turning Acid with C02 at Rate Unseen in 250 million Years, Threatening Further Warming:" http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/million-threatening-further.html

* "Ancient Fish Downsized But Still Largest Ever:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130827-paleontology-leedsichthys-problematicus-fish-oceans-science/

* "European hunter-gatherers owned pigs as early as 4600 BC:" http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/du-eho082713.php

* Glorious Anderson Cooper Snark in response to some appalling right wing lies! "RidicuList: Pat Robertson's AIDS theory doesn't "ring" true:"

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* "The 50th Anniversary Of The March On Washington And The Trans Community:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-50th-anniversary-of-march-on.html

* Greenwick found, "A State by State Map of America's Filthy Porn Searches:" http://gizmodo.com/heres-all-the-dirty-details-on-americas-thriving-porn-1208587525

* The more I think about it, the angrier I am. We put earnest money down last week and now this week, they randomly raised the price more than $5000 because the bank owning it has decided they shouldn't have to pay to cover the liens which is industry standard. After they took money on the lower price. I do not understand how that is legal. It smacks of bait and switch. None of the other options we looked at are remotely suitable. It seems to me bank of evil can better afford to pay the liens than I can with my limited nest egg and fixed income.

* I'm so damned tired. I'm the kind of sick where it's hard to sleep and hard to get back to sleep when awakened. This makes Hector anxious, so whenever I drift off, he wakes me up to see if I'm dead yet.

* " A Retreating Thunderstorm at Sunset:" http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130828.html

* Check out this frog:

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* Ebay. 3 Days left. 2 no bid.:

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* Dragon Cave: