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* "Sri Lanka president declares state of emergency after day of protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/anti-government-protest-strike-sri-lanka-shuts-schools-businesses-2022-05-06/

* "‘I saw my son’s body on Facebook’:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-61327821

* "Path to victory: the seats that will decide the 2022 federal election:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/06/path-to-victory-the-seats-that-will-decide-the-2022-federal-election

* "Clive Palmer's Big Piss Billboards Are Copping A Very Deserved Facelift Across Australia RN:" https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/clive-palmer-uap-billboards-defaced/

* "French Greens, leftist Mélenchon form alliance ahead of parliamentary elections:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220502-french-greens-far-left-leader-m%C3%A9lenchon-form-an-alliance-ahead-of-parliamentary-elections

* "In the Philippines, grass-roots campaign takes on the Marcos juggernaut:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/06/philippines-election-leni-robredo-marcos/

* "Philippines election: 'Politicians hire me to spread fake stories':" https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61339293

* "Tiny Loans Were Going to Solve Global Poverty. Then Big Money Got Involved:" https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-microfinance-banks-profit-off-developing-world/

* "Powerful blast at Havana hotel kills at least 9, injures 40:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/strong-blast-havana-hotel-kills-people-injures-40-84548952

* Universal Basic Income Petition. "European Citizens' Initiative:" https://vaspider.tumblr.com/post/683566200335286272

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* "Here’s why people with allergic asthma are at lower COVID-19 risk:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-asthma-allergic-immune-response

* "Nearly 15 million deaths related to covid-19, WHO estimates:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/05/covid-excess-global-deaths-nearly-15-million/

* "Covid's toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covids-toll-us-reaches-1-million-deaths-unfathomable-number-rcna22105

* "Racial split on COVID-19 endures as restrictions ease in US:" https://apnews.com/article/covid-health-pandemics-public-race-and-ethnicity-6d512d62a6aadf9f1777bc4a4e0f29a9

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* "The AP Interview: Belarus admits Russia's war 'drags on':" https://apnews.com/article/belarus-alexander-lukashenko-ap-interview-9bc1f6524eb65841b924883705684b7f

* "EU takes major step toward Russian oil ban, new sanctions:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-global-trade-moscow-europe-c6c7a1960b88c363ce5f3eaf0ea07dcd

* "Russia accuses Israel of backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Kyiv as diplomatic row grows:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/03/russia-accuses-israel-backing-neo-nazis-kyiv-diplomatic-row-grows

* "Biden call with Zelenskyy says ‘America is not forgetting Ukraine’ expert explains:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/russian-forces-continue-brutal-assault-on-azovstal-steel-plant-in-mariupol-139492421741

* "U.S. provided intelligence that helped Ukraine sink Russian warship:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/05/05/us-intelligence-ukraine-moskva-sinking/

* "Why the battle for Mariupol is important for Vladimir Putin.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/putin-war-mariupol-ukraine.html

* "Evacuation operations continue from Mariupol with 40 civilians rescued on Friday – as it happened:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/may/06/russia-ukraine-war-rescue-operations-to-resume-in-mariupol-hellscape-un-says-amid-rumours-russia-wants-to-claim-city-for-victory-day-live

* "A grinding artillery war in Ukraine:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/briefing/a-grinding-artillery-war-in-ukraine.html

* "Britain says Russia deploys 22 battalion tactical groups near Izium:" https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-says-russia-deploys-22-battalion-tactical-groups-near-izium-2022-05-04/

* "Missiles hit power stations in Lviv and along crucial railways in central and western Ukraine.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/world/europe/lviv-ukraine-russia-missiles.html

* "Ukraine: Intense shelling as troops battle to regain Kharkiv region:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61364217

* "In battered Kharkiv, cold, dark basements are the last safe refuge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/07/ukraine-kharkiv-basement-refuge/

* "In Ukrainian villages, whispers of collaboration with the Russians:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/04/ukraine-collaborators-chernihiv-fear-paranoia-villages/

* "Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as Putin's bloodthirsty war rages on:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/gay-alliance-ukraine-russia-war-trans/

* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6

* "Odesa locks down over fears of Putin's saboteurs on painful anniversary:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/odesa-fears-russian-saboteurs-may-2-euromaidan-protests-anniversary-rcna26865

* "Wives of Mariupol soldiers dispersed by police at Kyiv protest:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/06/wives-mariupol-soldiers-dispersed-police-kyiv-protest-ukraine-russia

* "'They thought they were safe.' AP investigation reveals 600 likely died in Mariupol theater airstrike:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/they-thought-they-were-safe-ap-investigation-reveals-600-likely-died-in-mariupol-theater-airstrike

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* "White House names Karine Jean-Pierre as first Black and openly LGBTQ+ press secretary:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/karine-jean-pierre-white-house-press-secretary-lgbtq/

* "U.S. Supreme Court's Alito cancels conference appearance after abortion ruling leak:" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-courts-alito-cancels-conference-appearance-after-abortion-ruling-leak-2022-05-04/

* "'Inflation is much too high': Powell puts the hammer on price spikes:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/04/fed-inflation-new-era-economy-00029928

* "U.S. added 428,000 jobs in April despite surging inflation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/06/u-s-jobs-april-inflation-00030647

* "How the NCAA Avoided Paying its Players:"

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* Illegal lies employers tell: https://thewynne.tumblr.com/post/683722366774280192

* Have something you want to tell your Senators? If you can't safely protest in person, here are some other options:

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

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

* Republicans decided to ignore the ruling so as to run out the clock on the grounds that Republicans are by definition above the law. They are likely going to get away with it. "Ohio Redistricting Commission reconvenes with looming court-ordered deadline:" https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2022-05-04/ohio-redistricting-commission-reconvenes-with-looming-court-ordered-deadline

* "J.D. Vance, with a Trump boost, clinches Senate GOP primary in Ohio:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/03/ohioans-head-polls-senate-primary-tests-trumps-sway/

* "A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jd-vance-win-ohio-primary-00029881

* CW: Rape. "GOP candidate who told women to "enjoy" rape suffers surprise loss:" https://www.newsweek.com/robert-regan-gop-candidate-told-women-enjoy-rape-loses-race-michigan-1703331

* This is where I am on this. "Madison Cawthorn Thrusting His Naked Body on Another Man’s Face Doesn’t Tell Us Much About His “Gayness”:" https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/05/madison-cawthorn-video-leak-lingerie-election-republicans.html

* "In the Georgia governor’s race, Perdue tries to push Kemp on abortion.:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/05/us/midterms-primary-elections

* "The Jolt: Leaked audio reveals David Perdue’s post-Trump runoff strategy:" https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-leaked-audio-shows-david-perdues-post-trump-runoff-strategy/AF3WSBMB2BD4FDWJQTLT5KRW3I/

* "Marjorie Taylor Greene is qualified to run for re-election, Georgia official says:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/06/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-reelection-georgia-judge-raffensperger

* "Attorney reacts to judge approving Marjorie Taylor Greene’s re-election bid:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/attorney-reacts-to-judge-approving-marjorie-taylor-greene-s-re-election-bid-139486277645

* "A glaring omission from Trump’s Pennsylvania rally speech: Abortion:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/06/glaring-omission-trumps-pennsylvania-rally-speech-abortion/

* "Senate Candidate Praises Trump’s 'Awesome Idea' to Buy Greenland During Debate: 'He's a Deal Guy':" https://www.mediaite.com/politics/senate-candidate-praises-trumps-awesome-idea-to-buy-greenland-during-debate-hes-a-deal-guy/

* "Chris Hayes: What to do when the system isn’t working:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-to-do-when-the-system-isn-t-working-139398725599

* "DHS watchdog says Trump's agency appears to have altered report on Russian interference in 2020 election in part because of politics:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/donald-trump-russian-interference-election-politics/index.html

* "Donald Trump’s dangerous view of state violence:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/02/donald-trumps-dangerous-view-state-violence/

* "Former defense secretary says Trump proposed bombing Mexico:" https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/05/06/esper-new-book-trump-bomb-mexico-drugs-haberman-newday-vpx.cnn

* "Defense Secretary Esper: Trump wanted to ‘quietly’ bomb Mexico:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/defense-secretary-esper-trump-wanted-to-quietly-bomb-mexico-139483717813

* "Rep. Raskin: Esper revelations show Trump’s ‘fascination with violence’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-raskin-esper-revelations-show-trump-s-fascination-with-violence-139486277506

* "$750,000 settlement reached with DC attorney general in case involving funds used in 2017 Trump inauguration:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/trump-organization-inauguration-funds/index.html

* "Court denies Trump effort to pause $10,000 daily fine for contempt:" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-contempt-court-denies-halt-10000-dollar-daily-fine/

* "Donald Trump Jr. met with the House January 6 committee on Tuesday:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/04/politics/donald-trump-jr-january-6-committee/index.html

* "Rudy Giuliani backs out of interview with Capitol attack committee:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/rudy-giuliani-house-january-6-committee-interview-donald-trump

* "Jan. 6 was worse than you remember. It must define our politics.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/07/jan-6-was-worse-than-you-remember-it-must-define-our-politics/

* "Who was the Oath Keepers leader talking to from Trump’s inner circle on Jan. 6?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/who-was-the-oath-keepers-leader-talking-to-from-trump-s-inner-circle-on-jan-6-139397189634

* "New report says officials ignored social media companies' warnings about Jan. 6:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/facebook-parler-reportedly-gave-advance-warning-to-government-officials-about-jan-6-139404357583

* "Pacific Northwest court case endangers tribal rights nationwide:" https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/pacific-northwest-court-case-endangers-tribal-rights-nationwide

* "Texas governor says the state may contest a Supreme Court ruling on migrant education:" https://www.npr.org/2022/05/06/1097178468/texas-governor-says-the-state-may-contest-a-supreme-court-ruling-on-migrant-educ

* "How a Polarizing Best Seller Became Required Reading for Orthodox Jewish Women:" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/04/orthodox-judaism-laura-doyle-the-surrendered-wife/629663/

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* "Louisiana Republicans advance bill that would charge abortion as homicide:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/05/louisiana-republicans-advance-bill-that-would-charge-abortion-homicide/

* "The long, scary history of doctors reporting pregnant people to the cops:" https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/04/self-induced-abortion-herrera-texas-murder-hospital/

* "Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-health-south-dakota-07c1bcbcb3f6b466100acedb28723069

* "What the end of Roe v. Wade would mean for Texas’ past, current and future abortion laws:" https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/03/texas-abortion-law-roe/

* "Senate Republicans' circulate draft abortion talking points on Roe decision:" https://www.axios.com/2022/05/03/senate-republicans-abortion-talking-points

They are claiming that doing what a consistent clear majority of American voters want by keeping 50ish years of settled law is in place is "radical" while throwing out settled law, nullifying the ninth and fourteenth amendments of the Us Constitution, and stripping away the basic human rights to bodily autonomy and privacy from approximately half of the citizenry while vowing to use that to strip away human and citizen rights from other minority groups they don't like is somehow not radical in comparison to keeping the statis quo..

* "8 legal reasons to hate Justice Alito's draft opinion on abortion:" https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/roe-v-wade-overturned-supreme-court-abortion-draft-alitos-legal-analys-rcna27205

* "Crowds protest at Supreme Court after leak of Roe opinion draft:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/03/protests-roe-v-wade-supreme-court/

* "Harris on GOP’s anti-abortion push: ‘How dare they’:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/kamala-harris-supreme-court-abortion-00029813

* "VP Kamala Harris delivers remarks at gala hosted by abortion rights group Emily’s List:"

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* "See protests grow across the country as the Supreme Court deals with Roe v. Wade leak:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/05/04/1096525936/see-protests-grow-across-the-country-as-the-supreme-court-deals-with-roe-v-wade

* "LAPD, protesters clash downtown after rally against overturning of Roe vs. Wade:" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-03/downtown-los-angeles-roe-wade-protest

* "This is a giant step backwards for women as free people in America:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/draft-of-supreme-court-decision-that-would-overturn-roe-v-wade-slammed-by-planned-parenthood-ceo-139232325580

* "Joy Reid: McConnell’s stolen right-wing Supreme Court poised to rip away 50 years of rights:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-opinion-draft-showing-intent-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-sparks-calls-for-immediate-action-from-democrats-139232325805

* "Warren: Plan of GOP extremists was always to ‘blast Roe v. Wade to pieces’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-plan-of-gop-extremists-was-always-to-blast-roe-v-wade-to-pieces-139226693724

* "Traister: Democrats' stance on abortion is popular—they should talk about it. :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/traister-democrats-stance-on-abortion-is-popular-they-should-talk-about-it-139310661825

* "Why Stacey Abrams ‘converted’ to an unequivocal abortion rights supporter:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-stacey-abrams-converted-to-an-unequivocal-abortion-rights-supporter-139311685902

* "Why the right doesn’t want to talk about abortion:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-why-the-right-doesn-t-want-to-talk-about-abortion-139321413788

* "Experts depict the grim reality of a post-Roe America:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-overturning-roe-v-wade-would-criminalize-women-undermine-women-s-health-experts-say-139314245903

* "Women driving ‘a thousand miles’ to access reproductive rights decried by Sen. Duckworth:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/republicans-obsessing-over-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-decision-draft-leak-discussed-by-sen-duckworth-139316805670

* "Alito's draft opinion for overturning Roe v. Wade cites 17th century misogynist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-justice-alito-s-draft-opinion-for-overturning-roe-v-wade-cites-17th-century-misogynist-multiple-times-139401797952

* "Women who fought for US abortion rights in the 70s call for mass global protests:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/08/women-who-fought-for-us-abortion-rights-in-the-70s-call-for-mass-global-protests

* "Abortion Rally Draws Thousands in Houston:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us/abortion-rights-rally.html

* "Abortion-rights protesters rally in U.S., spurred by draft Supreme Court opinion:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/supreme-court-draft-abortion-opinion-sparks-protests-both-sides-debate-2022-05-03/

* "The Fight for Roe:" https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2022/05/photos-abortion-rights-supporters-protest-usa/629757/

* "Alexis McGill Johnson - Planned Parenthood's CEO on Abortion:" https://www.cc.com/video/60d2bb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-alexis-mcgill-johnson-planned-parenthood-s-ceo-on-abortion

* "Burn It All Down:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1832770.html?view=6950722&posted=1#cmt6950722

* "Oklahoma GOP governor signs 6-week abortion ban modeled after Texas law that allows civil enforcement:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/oklahoma-heartbeat-act-abortion-governor-stitt-signs/index.html

* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily

* "What Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Mean for Marriage Equality:" https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/5/03/what-scotus-overturning-roe-v-wade-could-mean-marriage-equality

* "Joe Biden warns LGBTQ+ kids will be next after Roe v Wade:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/joe-biden-roe-v-wade-lgbtq/

* "‘Roadmap to take away rights’: Plaintiff in case legalizing same-sex marriage on Roe draft opinion:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-draft-opinion-overturning-roe-v-wade-roadmap-to-take-away-rights-obergefell-says-139491397944

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* "Queer Nigerians stage defiant protest as government tries to ban ‘crossdressing’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/03/nigeria-lgbt-trans-crossdressing-bill/

* "19 States Plan to Offer Refuge to Trans Youth & Families:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/5/03/19-states-plan-offer-refuge-trans-youth-families

* "Tennessee governor signs cruel bill banning trans athletes from competing in collegiate athletics:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/07/tennessee-trans-sports-ban-college-bill-lee/

* "‘It’s Been a Nightmare’: Man Lived for Six Years With a Penis Grafted to His Arm:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/malcolm-macdonald-lived-for-six-years-with-a-penis-grafted-to-his-arm

* We had six hours of homework most nights starting from 2nd grade it was abusive and counter productive. "The Real History of Homework:"

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* "What Happened to Jilly Juice? (It's Not Good):"

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* CW: Sexual Assault"How The Cruise Industry Played Us All:"

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* "The Sad Truth About the Supplement Industry:"

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* "Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda:" https://www.wired.com/story/drones-have-transformed-blood-delivery-in-rwanda/

* "Garbology: How to spot patterns in people's waste:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-garbology-how-to-spot-patterns-in-peoples-waste

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* "Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/28/mass-marine-extinction-event-science/

* "‘We are living in hell’: Pakistan and India suffer extreme spring heatwaves:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/02/pakistan-india-heatwaves-water-electricity-shortages

* "Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India's coal usage:" https://apnews.com/article/science-business-environment-india-heat-waves-c55052c758ef86e1a51b709426594abe

* "Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/12/backed-up-pipes-stinky-yards-climate-change-is-wrecking-septic-tanks/

* "Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis:" https://www.theguardian.com/food/ng-interactive/2022/apr/14/climate-crisis-food-systems-not-ready-biodiversity

* "How New York City Plans to Soak Up the Rain:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/the-impossible-battle-to-flood-proof-new-york-city

* "Sinkholes: The Hidden Terror Beneath Your Feet:"

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* "Why Yellowstone is One of the Most Monitored Volcanoes:"

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* "Canopy Soil Is an Exciting Frontier in Forest Science:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/canopy-soil-pacific-northwest

* "Animal crossing: world’s biggest wildlife bridge comes to California highway:" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/09/wildlife-bridge-california-highway-mountain-lions

* "Cherokee Nation Members Can Now Gather Plants on National Park Land:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cherokee-nation-members-can-now-gather-plants-on-national-park-land-180979965/

* "The French town where the lighting is alive:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-the-living-lights-that-could-reduce-energy-use

* "The Centuries-Old Fish Ladder That Feeds Maine's Lobster Industry:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fish-ladder-maine-lobster-industry

* "Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media:" https://apnews.com/article/climate-spacex-technology-entertainment-business-62848dbcffc7df4892233414d359a025

* "Illegal loggers in Vietnam train as jungle tour guides:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/illegal-loggers-vietnam-train-jungle-tour-guides-2022-04-25/

* "How to resurrect a coral reef:" https://www.vox.com/recode/23016412/coral-reef-restoration-climate-change

* "Scientists Discover Method to Break Down Plastic in Days, Not Centuries:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvm5b/scientists-discover-method-to-break-down-plastic-in-one-week-not-centuries

* "How the Shipping Industry Sails through Legal Loopholes:" https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-the-shipping-industry-sails-through-legal-loopholes/

* "Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures:" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/muon-subatomic-particle-volcano-pyramid-physics

* "Jellyfish invade northern Italian port of Trieste:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jellyfish-invade-northern-italian-port-trieste-2022-04-28/

* "Program helps Congo families protect endangered gorillas:" https://apnews.com/article/science-travel-business-animals-wildlife-ebf52eb254f1dc867fe5d98288e5ff69

* "Grindr users' precise location data was sold to the highest bidder for years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/04/grindr-sold-data-location/

* "NFTs Are Legally Problematic ft. Steve Mould & Coffeezilla:"

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* "Tech Support Scams Need to be Stopped:"

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* "Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44B and will privatize company:" https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/elon-musk-buys-twitter-for-44b-and-will-privatize-company/XP2WOVZCARHGHJ6JPIPB7WP42A/

* "Musk's Twitter ambitions to collide with Europe's tech rules:" https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-boris-johnson-technology-business-online-safety-f687d652d41678e25575ba67119bba6b

* "Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/unprecedented-phoenician-necropolis-osuna-spain

* "A woman bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $34.99. It actually was a missing ancient Roman bust.:" https://phys.org/news/2022-05-woman-bought-sculpture-goodwill-ancient.html

* "Renaissance Antics – History Hijinks:"

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* "The Curious Tale of the Voynich Manuscript:"

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* "Sex Educators React to Sex History of Yore!:"

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* "History Summarized: Poland:"

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* "The Tragic Life of The “Monster” of The Palace | Eugenia Martínez:"

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* "Tulips and Onion Futures: The Gold and Silver you never knew:"

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* "Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet: The True History Behind Our Flag Means Death:"

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* "Exploring The Willard Asylum's History:"

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* "The Black Aerialist Who Dazzled Gilded Age Paris:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/04/19/the-black-aerialist-who-dazzled-gilded-age-paris/

* "The History of The Boycott:" https://thenib.com/boycott-history/

* "The History (and Return) of Company Towns:"

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* "Here's 9 LGBTQ+ Directors from Old Hollywood and the Lives They Lived:" https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2022/4/21/heres-9-lgbtq-directors-old-hollywood-and-lives-they-lived#media-gallery-media-9

* "11 (Fortunately) Retired Girl Scout Badges:" https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/retired-girl-scout-badges

* "Her Comics were Everything Jim Crow America Never Wanted Black Women to Be:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2022/03/18/her-comic-strip-characters-were-everything-jim-crow-america-never-wanted-black-women-to-be/

* "Kindertransport: Saving children from the Holocaust, 1938-1939:" https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kindertransport-historical-photos/

* "Looking at the Worst Towns in America: Sundown Towns:"

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* "The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii

* "Now We Know Their Names:" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2022/02/america-lynching-history-reckoning/621320/

* "The Dark Past of the Hollywood Blacklist:"

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* "Lee Grant Overcame the Blacklist and Won an Oscar:"

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* "There Were Lesbian Books in the 1950s?:"

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* "Emmett Till: Crash Course Black American History #34:"

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* "The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Crash Course Black American History #35:"

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* "Why JFK's Casket Stayed Closed:"

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* "The Real Life Silent Hill: Centralia:"

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* I really loved her as a kid. "Ruth Gordon's Unique and Defiant Journey to Oscar:"

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* "See the bold buildings that sprang up after South Asia regained independence:" https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/23/1088675284/photos-see-the-bold-buildings-that-sprang-up-after-south-asia-regained-independe

* "How Women—and Their Hair—Transformed South Korea:" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-hair-wigs-south-korea

* CW: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Eating Disorders "The Life and Death of Judy Garland:"

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* "How Murderer John Wayne Gacy Ruined a Young John Casey’s Life:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2022/4/27/how-murderer-john-wayne-gacy-ruined-young-john-caseys-life

* "Yuba County 5:"

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* "A Black Women's History of Pinup and Burlesque:"

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* "These Pet MLMs are Selling Untested Supplements:"

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* "Why Is Florida At War With Arithmetic? | Tucker's Testosterone Doc Is Too Stupid To Ignore:"

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* "Abortion Ruling: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Weekend Update: Roe v. Wade Leaked Draft Opinion, Vladimir Putin to Undergo Cancer Surgery:"

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* "Weekend Update: Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Overturning Roe v. Wade:"

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* "Israel Condemns Russia's Anti-Semitic Claims & Trash on Mars:" https://www.cc.com/video/m5vsny/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-israel-condemns-russia-s-anti-semitic-claims-trash-on-mars

* "Republicans Duke It Out in the 2022 Ohio Primary:" https://www.cc.com/video/9b0ues/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-republicans-duke-it-out-in-the-2022-ohio-primary

* "Roe v. Wade Overturned?:" https://www.cc.com/video/qhdgmx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-roe-v-wade-overturned

* "SCOTUS Leak Speculation & Archaic Abortion Laws:" https://www.cc.com/video/nbj8kp/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-scotus-leak-speculation-archaic-abortion-laws

* "CP Time - The History of Black Jockeys:" https://www.cc.com/video/oahthc/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-cp-time-the-history-of-black-jockeys

* "Are Progressive Reboots Any Good?:"

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* "The Tucker Testicle Tanner Is The Perfect Way To Re-Juice Your Carlsons:"

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* "It's A Covid Celebration:"

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* "Rescue Dog Rescue with Oscar Isaac:"

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* "The Understudy - SNL:"

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* "Chain Gang - SNL:"

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* "Hello Birmingham - Ani DiFranco:"

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* Monday I stayed up to get the aggregate out and for phone bureaucracy reasons. I have so many things I need to go before I go into semi-seclusion on May 26th. Assuming I don't get moved up, surgery is June 8th. I can't afford to catch anything, not even a cold, in advance of it of I spend all Summer in this hell awaiting another opening. Yes, head Millennial will still be working, but I am going full infection prevention at that point, so no grocery shopping even masked. No visitors except Head Millennial, who strictly masks in public for my protection in regular life. Windows open and masks when Millennial is here except for quick sips, that sort of thing. Squirrel's work has strict infection prevention protocols, he's triple vaxxed and is strict about masking when he's around Not Us. Given he didn't give me COVID last January, I am not that worried, but still, we will be careful, especially as thing like rhinovirus can linger on surfaces.

When I woke, my body was terrible for a host of reasons, all of them predictable, all made worse by the ongoing health crisis, but none life threatening, just ranging from nuisance to obnoxious. (For example: I lose two options for heading off/dealing with torso spasms, for example because the drugs are dangerous right now. This means for spasms I am left with things like bananas for limb spasms, hot epsom bath for body spasms, etc.. none of these are as fast or sure as meds. Ah well.) I think I counted like 6 things wrong when I woke up. My policy on these occasions is to do what I can to head off big things, which trying to sort out as many small ones as I can peel off. It's... time consuming and really unpleasant.

Still I schlep on. It's what my family has always done.

* We are planning to use most of Squirrel's tax rebate to get a working oven, but the dishwasher is also broken. (The dishwasher is a safety thing because I am medically fragile. Not having a working oven is playing havoc with my nutrition.) My share of the oven plus fixing the dishwasher will likely be in the $600-700 range.

(I am disabled and queer in at least three senses of the word and on a fixed income).

Why not all of his tax refund? he’s in a medical insurance gap and is having an emergent health crisis. He couldn’t have paid for both things anyway.

If you would like to help: paypal.me/Gwydion

* Re: the slow catch up. I am still slow from the covid booster, plus it is allergy season, plus the whole ongoing medical crisis, plus my ongoing attempts to properly cover both the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Abortion ban news, which are understandably labour intensives. As you can see, I am making progress. I made it well into the history section this time, with the Aidan laptop back log. Why are their things after the 1970's section? Because I pull out time sensitive things lower in the sort and because i scroll a bunch of stuff, particularly comedy and political comedy and about a third of the fluffier stuff every day or two off Klaus. Klaus and Aidan have mostly different jobs, but they do intersect where it comes to the aggregate post and a few other places, in part as a back up so I don't lose 2/3rd done aggregate posts.

Look, I have a lot of both in put and output going on and this is how work flow shook out after the last computer death a little over a year ago. Trust me, I have a system, which mostly works with my brain design and physical challenges.

If the balance seems weird the next week or two and there is a clump of older, lighter stuff, that is my finally gnawing through the back log. Knock wood.

* Timely. "ILU-486:" https://amandaching.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/67/

* All I really want to watch lately is queer people having adventures and Korean zombies. Why does no one make something with both?

In related news, yes, I watched Heartstopper. It reminded me a lot of the YA Book Boy Meets Boy, even though there is more stress around coming out and social acceptance in this. It is sweet and fluffy and happy for the middle and high schoolers who get to have something so warm and fluffy to watch.

Also in related news, I thought I was out of of Korean zombies, but I found another one hiding on Tubi. It means commercials (Yuck), but it also means I have Korean historical drama zombies to watch before bed. (I have seen Train to Busan, Peninsula, Seoul Station, Alive, All of Us are Dead, kingdom, and the kingdom prequel. I just started Rampant. Other suggestions? At this point I will happily branch out into other quality Asian zombies.

Similarly, Queer People Having Adventures suggestions? I have seen Black Sails. Trust me, my Byzantine Black Sails exegesis is still out there. I have seen Our flag. I have seen a TON of classic queer cinema. I watched Torchwood. Over and Over. Genres: historical drama, comedy adventure, Science Fiction, fantasy. suggestions?

* Bailey and Rowling at The Midnight Society: https://twitter.com/midnight_pals/status/1522978030062239744

* Gobbits: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/683653354177560576/limnaia-prismatic-bell-pens-and-paperbacks

* Mad Max and Blackbeard: https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/683655725319340032/it-may-also-be-worth-pointing-out-that-the-main

* The importance of the talent show subplo ib Our Flag Means Death: https://chucktaylorupset.tumblr.com/post/681290680024334336/it-is-actually-extremely-important-to-me-that

* "Vico Ortiz Talks 'Our Flag Means Death,' Being a Non-Binary Actor & Working with Taika Waititi:" https://remezcla.com/film/vico-ortiz-interview-our-flag-means-death-non-binary-taika-waititi/

* I loved Wilderpeople. "How Taika Waititi Expresses His Love for New Zealand in ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’:" https://collider.com/taika-waititi-hunt-for-the-wilderpeople-love-for-new-zealand-why-its-good/

* "Not Jared Leto: Meet Frederik Robertsson the Met Gala 2022 Standout:" https://www.out.com/fashion/2022/5/02/not-jared-leto-meet-frederik-robertsson-met-gala-2022-standout

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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.


* "War in Ukraine! Support LGBTQ people.:" https://secure.wayforpay.com/payment/s047412e502b6

* "DONATE TO EMILY'S LIST:" https://win.emilyslist.org/a/donate-to-emily

* "Supporting Abortion Funds in the South:" https://laughingacademy.tumblr.com/post/682207036936732672/supporting-abortion-funds-in-the-south

* "These Organizations Accept Donations To Help People in Ukraine:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/03/01/where-to-donate-help-ukraine/

* "Russia-Ukraine War: Info and ways to help:" https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/

* "This is where you can donate to support LGBT+ Ukrainians:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/25/donate-support-lgbt-ukraine/

* "Support OVD-Info:" https://beste-glatisant.tumblr.com/post/677388506851606528/hi-ive-donated-to-the-ukranian-refugees-and-now

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

* Help LGBTQIA+ people escape Afghanistan: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-lgbtq-afghan-refugees-rebuild-their-lives

* "The Rainbow Railroad:" https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/take-action

* We are drowning from one domestic disaster after another this winter. Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

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* "Could Greenland become China's Arctic base?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46386867

* "Derailed By Fire And Disarray, Congo Delays Presidential Election — Again:" https://www.npr.org/2018/12/20/678598019/derailed-by-fire-and-disarray-congo-delays-presidential-election-again

* "Ebola outbreak rises to 560 cases; Congo officials to try new response plan:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/health/ebola-response-strategy-africa-bn/index.html

* "The idea of Japan resuming commercial whaling is horrifying:" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/21/japan-resuming-commercial-whaling-butchers

* "Gatwick: man and woman questioned over 'criminal use of drones':" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/22/gatwick-drone-turmoil-pair-arrested-are-local-police-say

* "Fresh 'slave law' protests in Hungary:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46651428

* "Czech coal mine explosion kills 13:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46644793

* "2018 is the deadliest year in a decade in Kashmir. Next year could be worse. :" https://www.washingtonpost.com/493ff2e4-03bb-11e9-958c-0a601226ff6b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b801dee14340

* "Robert Mueller reportedly nearing end of Russia probe:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-faces-at-least-17-separate-investigations-1405338691758

* "Nayyera Haq: There will never be a wall because it’s not feasible or funded:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/government-shutdown-over-funding-after-trump-said-mexico-would-pay-for-wall-1405318211838

* "Trump, Dems at impasse over border wall funding president said Mexico would pay for:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/partial-government-shutdown-underway-over-border-wall-funding-1405351491546

* "81 children separated at border since executive order on dividing families:" https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/06/politics/immigrant-family-separations-children-border-undocumented/index.html

* "Rev. Dr. Barber joins Joy Reid to discuss morality in the Trump era:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/more-migrant-children-were-separated-from-their-parents-than-previously-stated-1405361219877

* "New Jersey investigating after a white referee forced a black wrestler to cut his dreadlocks:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/12/21/referee-high-school-wrestler-cut-your-dreadlocks-or-forfeit/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9fba6bf6759b

* "Unions, Millennials, and Their Ostensibly Liberal Elders:" https://prospect.org/article/unions-millennials-and-their-ostensibly-liberal-elders

* "Violence Against Women Act expires with government shutdown:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/violence-against-women-act-to-expire-with-government-shutdown/2018/12/21/b66f600a-0557-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2433e8e726e8

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

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

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

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

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

* Naral https://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/donate/supportnaral/#.W7nPzmNRfIU

* Planned Paranthood: https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/onlineactions/hkv0R7LN0E-Q-U5mXFaXRA2?sourceid=1004272&ms=4NALz1800K1N1A&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4I2IxID03QIVA7bACh3CCwHWEAAYASAAEgKlD_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

* "Resources for Male Victims of Abuse:" http://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/178933672694/resources-for-male-victims-of-abuse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "Yiwu: The Chinese city where Christmas is made and sold:" http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141218-the-hidden-home-of-christmas

* "The UN Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/foreign-women-assess-us-gender-equality_566ef77de4b0e292150e92f0

* "Neoconservative's analysis: Donald Trump, elites, and the GOP's future:" http://boingboing.net/2015/12/26/neoconservatives-analysis-d.html

* "How Our Corrupt Campaign Finance System Enabled Trump -- And Kneecapped His Rivals:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-gop-campaign-finance_5679fd64e4b06fa6887f66d1?wqyw4s4i=

* "This is the best paragraph I've ever read on gun control and mass shootings:" http://www.vox.com/2015/6/19/8807851/mass-shootings-gun-control-charleston

* "For Third Anniversary Of Newtown Child Murders, Give Classy ‘Christian Carry’ Pin To Someone You Love:" http://wonkette.com/596940/for-third-anniversary-of-newtown-child-murders-give-classy-christian-carry-pin-to-someone-you-love

* Seriously, whether your candidate wins the primary or not, turn out to vote next November anyway. A Republican President would be a disaster the proportions of which I hate to contemplate. "Eyes On The 2016 White House Prize, People:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/eyes-on-2016-white-house-prize-people.html

* The Prosecutor's office is not prosecuting the police officers who decided to murder Tamir Rice in a drive by shooting then lied about it. Apparently it is completely legal to murder children in cold blood for playing in the park as long as the child you murdered for no reason at all is black and you lied about it at length to the police despite video proving you lied. After all, why believe your eyes when you can believe literal murderers?

* "A Closer Look At Police Killings This Year Debunks A Big Myth About Community Violence:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/campaign-zero-debunks-police-killings-myth_5678c575e4b014efe0d6a2cd

* "No More Jim Crow Justice for Sandra Bland:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kali-nicole-gross/no-more-jim-crow-justice-_b_8870338.html

* A Sikh child arrested because a bully claimed his backpack was a bomb and continues to face charges for terroristic threats because that is just how racist they are in Texas. "Another ‘Clock kid’? Family outraged as 12-year-old Sikh boy arrested over alleged bomb threat at Tex. school:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/18/another-clock-kid-family-outraged-as-12-year-old-sikh-boy-arrested-over-alleged-bomb-threat-at-tex-school/

* "No indictment in Tamir Rice shooting:"

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* "Rice family attorney on non-indictment:"

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* "Indiana GOP Senator Files Unjust Anti-Trans SB 35:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/12/indiana-gop-senator-files-unjust-anti.html

* I think Hector had another stroke yesterday. He's so damned stubborn, insisting on leaping and climbing on hind legs that can't support that sort of activity right now. I'm still sick, but improving. I was meant to go out today for Post Office and bureaucracy, but I was too tired. I really have to go tomorrow.

* "Margaret Cho: Trolls Who Call Me ‘Fat And Ugly’ Are Admitting Defeat:" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/margaret-cho-trolls-who-call-me-fat-and-ugly-are-admitting-defeat_5601cd1ce4b08820d91aa305?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000030

* "Sunday Sweets: 11 Magical Castle Cakes:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2015/12/6/sunday-sweets-11-magical-castle-cakes.html

* "Sunday Sweets: 11 Gingerbread Houses To Make You Drool:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2015/12/13/sunday-sweets-11-gingerbread-houses-to-make-you-drool.html

* "A Defense of Tyrion’s ADWD Storyline, Part 5: Where Chains Are Cheaper Than Day-Old Bread:" http://poorquentyn.tumblr.com/post/136107162173/a-defense-of-tyrions-adwd-storyline-part-5

* "Star Wars: The Sweets Awaken!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2015/12/27/star-wars-the-sweets-awaken.html

* Want to help finance Hector's cat food and my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* 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

* Mohamed Morsey is refusing to back down on his takeover of the Egyptian government and the plan to introduce a Shari based constitution. The army and protesters continue to fight. The moderates refuse to negotiate until Morsey gives up the extra judicial powers and agrees to delay the constitution.

* Gov. Rick Snyder pushes an anti-Union bill against protests in Michigan:

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* More Anderson Cooper on the illogical Right Wing claims that extending our freedoms to people in other countries magically harms home schooled children here despite zero evidence that building a wheelchair ramp in France causes abortion in the US. I get that Evangelical Christians really hate disabled people, but I do not see that that's a rational reason for 650 Million people or more to be denied accessible accommodations:

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* SCOTUS, anti-miscegenation laws, and marriage Equality:

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* Why raising Medicare eligibility age is a bad idea:

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* "Evangelicals vs. Persons With Disabilities: The real dangers of fighting against imaginary monsters:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/12/06/evangelicals-vs-persons-with-disabilities-the-real-dangers-of-fighting-against-imaginary-monsters/

* "The catfish that strands itself to kill pigeons:" http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=8057#.UMKBMXfhdIr

* Australian Prime minister Apocalypse prank:

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* Pizza Perfume:

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* I got rear ended at a different intersection while trying to take Greenwick home. It was nearly the same accident. We were the second car at a light. The person in front braked due to a hazard in the intersection. We braked. The guy behind me had his brakes lock up and rammed us good. I'm in a stunning amount of pain. I'm on the bubble as to whether I should go to a doctor tomorrow. The car has a mysterious rattle, some more bumper damage, and damage more damage to the bumper brackets, but my car is mostly fine. The other car though? Jesus fucking Christ! The front end crumpled like it was made of paper. He had picked his kid up from an after school thing and was rushing home for dinner. The most important thing is that the boy wasn't hurt. The second is that he got to see a bunch of people acting link grown-ups over a car accident, including some good citizens who witnessed the accident and waited more than an hour for a cop plus all the extra time for him to gather data and write it up. It a good thing to model or someone who will be driving in a few years, that in a stressful situation, sensible people can behave decently to each other. We exchanged info and accident stories; we marveled over the extent of his damage; we laughed as he picked bits of my bumper stickers out of what was left of his grill.

I am rather glad I hadn't quite gotten around to fixing the bumper.

Now there's even more exhausting bureaucracy and errands to do. Sigh. But no one was seriously hurt and that's the main thing.

* Greenwick found, https://twitter.com/DeekyMD/status/276080962306187264/photo/1

* "“Homicide Victims Rarely Talk to Police,” and Other Horrible Headlines:" http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/12/05/homicide-victims-rarely-talk-to-police-and-other-horrible-headlines/

* In Arizona, they are pushing a bill to allow employers to fire women for using birth control. After all, whether or not a woman is sexually active is the employer's business, right?

* One of the tactics the bosses used to prevent Unionization in the early days was racial/ethnic division. They would hire scabs of a different racial/ethnic group during strikes and pay folks to yell about how those dirty *Insert racial/ethnic slur here* took our jobs! As long as a Union stayed whites only, or no Irish/Italian/whatever, there would always be angry folks they could use to break strikes. They'd finance/buy ads etc. to encourage racist diatribes. The more hatred, the better for those in power and the weaker the Unions. I wonder how much of this sort of thinking is behind the whipping up of racial hatred here in the twenty first century. Scream about how Mexico is invading us at a time when there is zero net immigration from Mexico. Use anti-black code words like Rick Santorum or out right claim African Americans have no work ethic like Newt Gingrich. Circulate racist cartoons or "jokes" and AstroTurf anti-Obama rallies where you know the most ignorant element will show up with racist signs. At the same time outlaw Unions, disenfranchise millions of poor white and POC voters, outlaw protests (Georgia), do everything possible to make it so ordinary people can't combine and stand up for their rights. Let's hope folks are brighter this time and see through all this deliberately divisive stuff. Let's hope this time the average person will be sensible enough to act in zir best interest instead of getting distracted by racial/ethnic scapegoating. I'm not sanguine, but I'd love to be surprised.

* Debunking "Climategate:" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#46754847

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* I was going to give you a beautiful CNN clip featuring female legislators fight back against the Republican anti-woman agenda, but CNN sucks as far as posting clips I'd actually like to link up in a timely fashion or at all. *Sigh*

* The Army has pulled advertising from the Limbaugh show.

* It always alarms be when the Daily Show breaks a story I don't see anyone else much covering. If you missed the 3/15 thing on us yanking UNESCO funding, I encourage you to check out the John Oliver segments.

* So there's another round of Wallis Simpson nostalgia going around in the culture, which always makes me queasy. I get it. A King abdicated for love of her. It sounds really romantic, until you remember the King in question was pro-NAZI in the 1930's. People were literally being herded into death camps and he was using what power and influence that was left to the English crown to push the British Government to support Hitler. I don't think being literally pro-NAZI is even vaguely romantic. Sorry, I just don't. Imagine what it would have been like to have a Hitler partisan on the throne while Germany marched across Europe, giving pro-NAZI speeches and stirring people up to vote for Mosely and his ilk. Eeeeeew! I'm glad he abdicated and went into exile; I'm just sorry he didn't take the Union of British fascists with him. (Or was it British Union of fascists? The name changed at some point). This is not Godwin's Law: These are actual fascists, actually pro-Hitler, actual pro-genocide people. So pardon me if I'm not jumping on the Wallis Simpson nostalgia train. I suppose she is a heroine, in that she got that disgusting pig Edward VIII off the throne, but the idea of him as a romantic lead makes me queasy, and I don't want to picture what she did to make that happen. Also, she herself was pro-NAZI and had lots of NAZI friends. Eeeeew! No thanks. I'm sitting out this wave of romanticization of two people who approved of atrocities.

* I am still trying to decide if tomorrow should be a rest day or a get stuff done day.

* It turns out I'm still not okay with 9/11 themed fiction. Sorry, David Leviathan.

* Rm recently said, "Kurt actively both aligns himself with a community and an identity and is also very interested in being what is, in Lima, OH, at least, something that seems like a species of one. " That's always how I felt growing up in Pennsylvania; I called myself "an alien anthropologist." In a lot of ways I am still a species of one and always have been.

Seriously, there's a reason I'm finding rm's writing on Glee more interesting than the show itself and this is exhibit A.

* O.o: http://instagr.am/p/HzDbMYkiRx/

* As hard as it is to watch or listen to the things going on in Syria, I think it is important to be a witness, to not forget that brave people are still risking their lives to report and smuggle footage out. It is easy to let this sort of news get lost in the shuffle of our own concerns, but I think it's important to not let that happen.

* A soccer riot with political overtones was brutally put down by the Egyptian government. (Footie fans have started organizing politically. It's sounding like there was a democracy protest angle to the riot, but the news reports I caught before bad last night sounded rather garbled. I need to look into it further, but it's not happening tonight).

* One of the guys Haily Barbour pardoned was in jail for his forth DUI arrest after killing an innocent teenager seven days previous. After all being a man with rich and influential friends trumps the death of a working class teenager saving money for college every day in an old boy network state like Mississippi. His record is wiped clean and they have set him free to kill more people. I mean, he said he'd quit drinking forever seven days before he killed her, and his word of honor is to believed above his measured blood alcohol level or the blood on his hands.

* Remember those girls with the movement disorder that they are blaming on "conversion disorder" in that Pennsylvania town? The first adult's come down with it. I'm wildly skeptical of this "mass hysteria"/"conversion disorder" crap, as I mentioned recently, especially given the experts keep comparing it to the Salem witch trials without acknowledging the role ergot poisoning and greed may have played. (There are several schools of thought on the witch trials. 1. "Mass hysteria" 2. ergot poisoning. It was the right weather for ergot, the colony is in the ergot belt, rye was a popular crop in the colony, most of the wheat crop failed that year due to excessive rain fall leading to reliance on rye whether moldy or not, there was ergot poisoning in Europe that year, and the symptoms fit. Alas, no samples of bread survived the centuries, so it's not provable. 3. Land grab. It turns out the fathers of the girls doing the accusing had been trying to get the land of many of the accused, but the accused used to sell. After the executions, the fathers of the accusers were able to get the land cheep. 4. I'm of the opinion that these are not mutually exclusive explanations. Let's say the ergot poisoning hit, and the families used it to their advantage to get land either consciously or subconsciously, and others joined in for safety or to settle scores. This fits human behavior and psychology and accounts for the medical symptoms as well as the land transfers. Just saying.) Anyway, it's as if the "experts" had missed the last twenty years of research on the witch trials, which makes me wonder if they'd seen the stats on psychosomatic illness as well. *ahem*

* A couple of teachers were arrested for( cut for triggers: )

* The protests worked! Susan B. Koman is backing down on it's Republican pro-cancer agenda. I still wouldn't give them money or participate in there events though. there are other organizations that spend a larger percentage of donations on actually fighting cancer and are less skeevy. It also looks like the strategy was coordinated with the reactionary senator starting an investigation without any objective reason to expect wrong doing at the same time SbK changed their policies. Grants are year by year and nothing is stopping them from going partizan republican again next year.

* I would like to thank Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York for refusing to stop pursuing banks over fraudulent foreclosures and filing a lawsuit against scofflaws Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase rather than settling for a slap on the wrist, as he was pressured to do. I wish this valiant man all the best in getting real damages for the harm they have done to so many. To contrast, Mitt Romney has repeatedly come out in favour of foreclosures, despite plentiful evidence that the banks involved had no right to the houses they were stealing. After all, as he points out "banks have feelings." There is yet no sign that he understands people do and that maybe we shouldn't let corporations steal their houses and other belongings that happened to be in the house.

* rm found, "One Town's War on Gay Teens:" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202

"Over the course of the 2010-2011 school year, 700 students were evaluated for serious mental-health issues, including hospitalizations for depression and suicide attempts. Kids flooded school counselors' offices, which reported an explosion of children engaging in dangerous behaviors like cutting or asphyxiating each other in the "choking game."

I think it's an evil sort of irony that laws designed to encourage bullying and specifically to harm a group of children are always promoted as protecting children. This is why I hate so-called "neutrality laws" as they always favour bullies.

Please, if this sort of thing is happening to you or your child, document it and the school's refusal to act, and get a lawyer. Lawsuits are often the only way to turn a school district like that around. It's better to sue before someone dies or is assaulted. (There have been cases in the past of LGBT kids beaten into brain damage or other permanent physical injury on top of the horrible psychological damage.)

* In Wenatchee Washington, they held a candle light vigil this evening for a middle school boy bullied into suicide for being gay (Apologies, I couldn't find any decent print sources except fox. The Spokane paper just did a notice it happened instead of anything like proper coverage. I only know about it because I was flipping past CBS evening news during the local item coverage and caught the caption): http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-candlelight-memorial-held-for-bullied-teen-who-committed-suicide-20120203,0,661533.story

* In Indianapolis, the Hyatt has fired a slew of workers for the crime of trying to organize a Union. After all cleaning 30 rooms a day for less than the workers cleaning 15 in Chicago is good for the extremely rich and bad for workers. "Right to work" means firing anyone for organizing and lower wages for all workers Union or no, both republican principles. This is what Republicans in the midwest are fighting for. This is their cause célèbre.

* The cats and I went to bed early, and as the maintenance guy was banging about a different complex today, we even got to sleep in. He is planning to come back and prevent us sleeping next week. I'm hoping it will just be hammering and yelling as they got all the support beams and are on to the railings and painting. In any case, I paid a bunch of bills and made a bunch of phone calls. Likely there will be money next week, which should help dramatically.

* I won't know who we can pay and how much until next Wednesday at the earliest. It may be a little longer, depending on how long funds take to transfer on my end. The three of you at the front of the line have already been contacted. If I haven't contacted you, trust me, I haven't forgotten. It's just been a ridiculously expensive few months. (I hate, hate, hate owing anybody money).

* Yesterday, I got to the episode of Glee where they finally gave Kurt and Mercedes long solos, and the episode after when I actually got to here what Artie's singing voice sounds like. I'm calling that progress on the musical front. There are still a number of core cast I haven't properly heard and would like to. To be honest, about half of why I'm watching is I would happily listen to Mr. Colfer sing the phone book. I'm still impatient with how little of the plot is actually interesting, but they've started spreading a little of it around to people who aren't Finn and Rachel and I'm hoping that will improve further. I'm still not convinced this show is to my taste.

* I spent all afternoon doing preliminary stuff on the hand surgery. There is only a 5% chance of cancer, but it's rapid growing and in a really annoying location. It means most of a week with only my walking hand and crappy hygiene, but not having the growth will be worth it in the long run. Anyway, it's scheduled for the 13tth. No word yet on the vastly more dangerous spinal surgery.

* In the first waiting room, I sat across from an elderly gentleman and his wife as they tried to fill out forms. They tried to remember when he he quit smoking. 1974? 1975? '76? And other dates of the like. He commented to me on how hard it was. I agreed and explained I carried all my pertinent medical documents with me in my medical bag as it was always a struggle to remember which procedure was when, medications, and the like, hence the messenger bag. He agreed that was wise.

* Among the things the Republicans want to cut is cutting meals on Wheels to home bound seniors. Letting sick old people starve to death is just one of the many sacrifices we are asked to make for the bonus tax cuts to the ultra rich.

* In memory of Andy Hallet: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/4185938607/remembering-andy-hallett

* Trump, though unwilling to accept Barak Obama's certificate of live birth, when challenged to produce his own, produced the wrong document, a hospital certificate of live birth, that unlike Mr. Obama's official document is not usable for things like passports.

* There's been a second injunction against the illegally passed Wisconsin Union stripping Law barring publishing and implementation. Walker still says he's enforcing it and will be cutting next week's paychecks on the strength of it.

* Michigan is paying for it's economy slowing giveaways to corporations by cutting economy improving unemployment benefits. This is intended to magically help unemployment even though every dollar they are cutting is worth $1.60 to economic growth. I do not understand why slowing economic growth is meant to reduce unemployment. It of cource is also cruel.

* Similarly, Congressional Republicans plan to cut food stamps, which will cause people to starve while also slowing growth to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Of course, the best their budget will do is slow the GDP by 3% and the economic damage could be considerably worse.

We've tried dramatically shifting resources from the poor and middle class to the rich for the last decade. To no surprise to the economists, this has done damage to the economy, what with people not being able to afford stuff. If people can't afford stuff, the jobs involved in making and selling that stuff go away, those people then can't buy things like food and the jobs making and selling that stuff go away. This process is clearly understood and there's plenty of real worlds recent data backing that up. Then, none of these people can pay taxes.

This is economic 101stuff, things easily explained to high schoolers and college freshmen. It seems to me that as it's so easily understood and well documented, that the only excuse for the Republican budget is that they are trying to deliberately destroy the economic system of the United state to benefit their corporate masters with no care for the large scale misery and long term damage they are doing.

* The Syrian cabinet resigned. O.o I'm not holding my breath for Bashar Assad doing the same.

* In Libya, government forces are kidnapping teenaged girls. As they are not being returned, details of their captivity are not available, but I suspect ugly things are happening, especially as they were also rounding up women at check points for gang rape.

Bastards.

* The personal bravery of Iman al-Obeidi just blows me away. Her family is also impressing the hell out of me. I hope they all survive.

* I am so sick of Russell Brand.

* On Gay Erasure: http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/03/on-gandhi-drama-and-famous-gblt-people.html

* Dilbert's Scott Adams is a douche. here's why: http://community.livejournal.com/inclusive_geeks/65813.html

* Help Artificial night stay in the running: http://www.bscreview.com/2011/03/5th-annual-book-tournament-round-2-westeros-bracket/

* The new pill should fit seamlessly into my existing med schedule. There are reasons to expect it will improve quality of life, so i am not particularly worried.

* Today in the forage line, I was in front of a tall, clean cut, very fit looking man who growled incredibly violent, explicit, specific, and creative threats against the women and children in the line along with muttered misogynistic rants. Charming. I must be reading male today, as none of the threats were aimed at me, though his body language expressed impatience at my lameness. He told a child between the ages of one and two about his plans to dismember and decapitate her. This was not playful, but delivered in a heart felt growl. The women in charge of her snatched her close. His threats against the women were neither sexual nor racist, but deeply disturbingly misogynistic. I kept a subtle eye on him, as did the rough looking, but polite, perceptive, and chivalrous gentleman in front of me. I figured he'd likely step in if the guy behind me tried to hurt anyone. I am not much use in a fight any more, but I was resolved to try if it came to it. It did not. It was a very long hour, not helped by being rained on.

* Breakout Kings has really grown on me.

* Today I started the first season of White Collar, I'm already liking it better than I did trying to jump in in the middle. I have two entirely personal issues with the leads that have nothing at all to do with their talent, the quality of writing, or anything else, just little things to do with old associations. It's stuff I can very likely get over, and I'll have a clearer idea if the show is worth watching for me after I've seen a few more episodes. It is unfortunately opposite something else I watch in my time zone, but the other show being Canadian, only appears in limited runs, so I can watch them in the gaps, though likely not in proper season order.

* Watching Kucinich and Weiner debate the intervention in Libya was like listening to the debate in my head. O.o

* In Syria, the government send men to beat protesters to death over the weekend.

* Newt Gingrich says we should vote for him because the atheists are taking over and planning to let the country to be dominated by radical Islamic extremists. O.o He shows no sign of understanding how utterly illogical and delusional that sounds. Atheists by definition wouldn't want Shariah Law. Um... duh. Perhaps he should look up Atheism in the dictionary. Or Islam. Is someone so ignorant, delusional, or hypocritical that he accuses Atheists of being pro-theocracy really suited to high office?

* Trump is now justifying his birther stance on the grounds that no one has come forward remembering the birth of a random baby in Hawaii more than forty years ago. All the documents are no proof. What are the chances anyone involved in my delivery remembers my birth specifically all these years later? Yours? It's not like they knew he was going to be president.

* Lawrence O'Donnell has pointed out there is more proof of Obama's birth in Hawaii (birth certificate, period announcements in the paper, and personal memory of the Governor of Hawaii who was friends with his parents), than there is of Lawrence O'Donnell's own birth.. Come to thgi8nk of it, there is more proof of Obama being a natural born citizen than there is of my own Mother's birth. She happened to be born in service member family housing in DC during WWII, so they didn't issue birth certificates, lest the NAZIs use them to figure out how many families were housed there. Instead, she has a proof of citizenship saying that she was born in American, but vague on the details. Of course, Lawrence O'Donnell, my mother, and Donald trump are all white, so above questioning by birthers.

* Gov. Walker's Union Stripping bill was supposed to cut 6% from the budget, yet actually will add 1%. "Budget repair" my hairy ass.

* Even though the law was passed illegally, is under a stay while the courts decide if the illegal vote makes it law, and not published by the office that publishes official laws, they are already "adjusting" pay checks to reflect it. Seriously, what do we have to do to establish the rule of law in Wisconsin? Working people are getting their pay checks garnished over this.

* A tool find in India is making them reexamine the chronology of humans coming out of Africa: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-stone-tools-link-early-humans.html

* "Roman graves uncovered in Canterbury:" http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/march/21/roman_graves_uncovered.aspx

* I haven't the heart to read the antiquities news from Egypt as the quantity of things stolen or damaged is simply too large.

* Seanan McGuire explains why she pulled out of the YA anthology: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/337562.html

* Y'all know my fondness for This Film is Not Yet Rated, so it should be no surprise I endorce Mr. gosling's statements about MPAA muisogyny: http://uryel.tumblr.com/post/4174871648/you-have-to-question-a-cinematic-culture-which

* I finished Late Eclipses. ( hardly any spoilers: )

I am really looking forward to the next one as the teaser was mad entirely of win.

* I spent all morning waiting for a tow truck that was meant to come 9-11. It arrived 12:30ish. Of course. I still feel like crap, which isn't helping. Also, how the fuck did I sprain an ankle in my sleep? The cop car coming to tax the poor with tickets for parking in front of their own homes trolled by just after the tow truck left. It was a close one. I wasn't able to salvage my car stereo this time, which seriously sucks, but the flu and fiances made rescuing it impossible.

* I really miss the car and it's only been gone since one. Rest in peace, Chevy Celebrity, you served well.

* Deusabscondum came last night and we ended up watching Velvet Goldmine and Lion in Winter Accidental gay culture movie night.

* I am fascinated to see how this intervention in Libya will play out, particularly if the French take the lead, given their own problematic history in north Africa. *cough* Algeria *cough* I am also waiting to see how the Arab League ends up responding, as that makes a huge difference one way or another. A mostly NATO intervention is one thing; and Aarab league/NATO intervention is something entirely different.

The UN has declared Libya in violation of the resolution because they are still shelling civilians.

Reports that the four reporters were freed turn out to be false.

* In Yemen, they are shooting unarmed, fleeing people in the head. In Bahrain, government attacks on Doctors and the wounded continue. The government is killing protesters in Syria.

* In Japan, their experts are arguing with international experts on what to do next.

* A judge has imposed a temporary injunction on them stripping union rights in Wisconsin. We'll see how it works out. One of Walker's "reforms" is to force the poorest to pay the largest portion of their income for health care. After all, it would be unfair to tax proportionally when you can punish the working poor.

* Wow this week's Bones was intense.

* In public on purpose: http://cdn02.cdn.gofugyourself.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/110395311-419x628.jpg

* Dude! http://gizmodo.com/#!5783409/amazing-lego-ball-contraption-breaks-world-record

* Why I'll never understand high fashion exhibit 7: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-12734584

* Libyan Government forces massacred demonstrators in Az Zawia, but the city still holds out. news teams trying to cover events there have been detained and beaten. They continue to fire on Ambulances and children.

* The latest Conservative backed poll is showing 63% of Wisconsinites want Walker to compromise. Meanwhile, the ethics violation case moves forward against Walker, and they have about half the names they need to hold recall election on five Republican senators. The Republicans pulled all the budgetary stuff out of their budget bill, leaving only the provisions to strip rights from Unions, and passed it without allowing 24 hours notice or Amendments in violation of the open meetings law. Democrats are contacting the state Attorney General in the hopes of blocking the law on the grounds that it was passed illegally, but I'm not sanguine as the AG is also Republican.

Really, I can't see much in the way of winning without recall elections. There is no point in negotiating with someone who has proved he won't bargain in good faith. Walker's said outright he is willing to win by any means necessary, including lying and dirty tricks, and the legislative tactics are ugly and now outright illegal. I don't think they can trust anything Republicans tell them at this point.

I wonder what's required to reestablish the rule of law in Wisconsin.

* In Idaho, Unions have lost their rights. In Indiana, the democrats have fled as they did in Wisconsin to prevent a vote stripping away rights. There are big Demonstrations in Michigan against the proposed law allowing the governor to dissolve local governments and hand them over to corporations.

* Why is it that contracts are sacred when they protect huge bonuses for the rich, but the contracts that protect the pension and benefits of people who agreed for lower pay in exchange for them? It seems to me a pretty big double standard.

* I'm still really sick; Squirrel is on the mend. Apparently enough test results are in to already start scheduling follow up tests for next week. I am told, likely something's really wrong with my adrenal system. Tomorrows test is a long, boring MRI, if I'm not confused. I'm not looking forward to this given how bad the flu is and the whole leg collapsing coughing fits. I'm not convinced I can lie still long enough.

* Someone decided to celebrate International Women's Day by going on the BPAL board to complain about the women in the feminism thread refusing to give in to his manslaining that really men are as oppressed as women in western culture. *facepalm*

* Il_volpe explains the purpose of hate crimes legislation: http://il-volpe.livejournal.com/16725.html?mode=reply&style=mine

* For those of you worried about Squirrel, here are the details: http://squirrelmh.livejournal.com/18305.html?mode=reply&style=mine

* Lawrence O'Donnell refutes claims Muslim Americans aren't turning in terrorists and discusses how not okay it is for a congressional hearing to go after them:

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