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* I didn't get even half the election stuff up, but I'm losing the bottom of the post, so here we are. The air quality remains terrible and I an drowning in prepped links. Sorry.

* "'The worst is yet to come': IMF issues stark recession warning:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/economy/imf-world-economic-outlook/index.html

* "Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-journalist-who-broke-news-mahsa-amini-pays-heavy-price-2022-10-11/

* "Iran protests: Mahsa Amini's family receiving death threats, cousin says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63200649

* "Amini's first name and the devaluing of Kurdish lives :" https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-718982

* "Internet freedom activists scramble to help Iranians evade Tehran’s digital crackdown:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/internet-freedom-activists-scramble-help-iranians-evade-tehrans-digita-rcna50232

* "Lula brands Bolsonaro ‘tiny little dictator’ in Brazil TV debate:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/17/lula-brands-bolsonaro-tiny-little-dictator-in-brazil-tv-debate

* "The far-right is trying to stack school boards. Vote in your city election to make sure schools are safe for all kids:" https://www.benandjerrys.ca/en/whats-new/2022/10/vote-in-city-elections

* "Eddie Izzard officially launches Sheffield MP bid:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/11/eddie-izzard-sheffield-central-mp-labour-party/

* "Scottish Greens cuts ties with Green Party of England and Wales over transphobia:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/18/scottish-greens-green-party-transphobia-england-wales/

* "Gwynedd council calls for abolition of title Prince of Wales:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/07/gwynedd-council-calls-for-abolition-of-title-prince-of-wales

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* "What comes after Omicron? New variants are emerging.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/what-comes-after-omicron-new-variants-are-emerging

* "Medium COVID Could Be the Most Dangerous COVID:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/10/covid-symptoms-medium-term-post-infection-complications/671684/

* "US clears updated COVID boosters for kids as young as 5:" https://apnews.com/article/science-health-business-covid-daaf1a4e5223d3b1251c4606b422ee0d

* "House report alleges Trump aides blocked public health officials from providing accurate Covid-19 information during pandemic:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/covid-19-report-house-democrats-trump-health-officials/index.html

* "Report reveals greater extent of Trump admin interference in CDC than previously known:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/report-reveals-greater-extent-of-trump-admin-interference-in-cdc-than-previously-known-150916165763

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* "Would Lukashenko really throw Belarus into a war Russia is losing?:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/12/alexander-lukashenko-belarus-russia-ukraine-war-putin

* "Biden promises Ukraine 'advanced air defense systems' after Russian missile strikes:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/politics/biden-zelensky-advanced-air-defense-systems/index.html

* "Russian shelling cuts external power to Ukraine nuclear plant :" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-shelling-cuts-external-power-ukraine-nuclear-plant-kyiv-2022-10-17/

* "Ukraine says Russia has kidnapped two officials at occupied nuclear plant:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-has-kidnapped-two-officials-occupied-nuclear-plant-2022-10-18/

* "Putin warns of further retaliation as Ukraine hit by massive wave of strikes:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/10/explosions-kyiv-ukraine-war-russia-crimea-putin-bridge

* "30% of Ukraine's power stations destroyed by strikes; Zelenskyy urges troops to take more Russian prisoners:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/18/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html

* "Scholar: Crippling Civilian Infrastructure Has Long Been Part of Russian Generals’ Playbook:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/10/14/civilian-infrastructure-putin-russia/

* "Explosion on 12-Mile Crimea Bridge Kills 3:" https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/08/world/russia-ukraine-war-news

* "Ukraine says it recaptured 1,200 sq km of Kherson region in ongoing counteroffensive:" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-recaptured-1200-sq-km-kherson-region-ongoing-counteroffensive-2022-10-09/

* "Russia announces Kherson evacuation, raising fears city will become frontline:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/russia-announces-kherson-evacuation-raising-fears-city-will-become-frontline

* "Strikes Hit Staging Ground for Troops in Russia’s Border Region:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/16/world/europe/ukraine-russia-belgorod-donetsk.html

* "‘He joined the enemy’: a Ukraine soldier on fighting his father on Russian side:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/ukraine-soldier-confronts-father-fighting-russia-putin

* "Russian troops kill Ukrainian musician for refusing role in Kherson concert:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/16/russian-troops-kill-ukrainian-musician-yuriy-kerpatenko-for-refusing-role-in-kherson-concert

* "Russian women run Ukraine anti-war protests despite danger:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/russian-women-run-ukraine-anti-war-protests-danger/story?id=91378202

* "Russia’s antiwar movement goes far beyond street protests:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/russian-dissent-protest-ukraine-war/

* "Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin's war:" https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-lebanon-syria-87c3b6fea3f4c326003123b21aa78099

* "On the american left's love affair with failure:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1845936.html?view=6997424&posted=1#cmt6997424

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* "‘Enough is enough’: Dems rage at Saudis over oil cut, vow to block weapons sales:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/10/dems-rage-at-saudis-over-oil-cut-vow-to-block-weapons-sales-00061123

* "Biden administration to tap oil reserve again ahead of midterms:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/18/biden-spr-oil-reserve-release-fuel-prices-00062269

* "Biden acknowledges a 'slight recession' is possible, even if he doesn't think it'll happen :" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/recession-joe-biden-cnntv/index.html

* "Biden issues a 2023 pledge to Dems: Hold on to Congress and I’ll sign abortion rights into law:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/18/biden-to-pledge-legalizing-abortion-on-roe-anniversary-if-dems-expand-majorities-00062268

* "‘Americans need to make their voices heard’: White House Press Sec. on Biden’s midterms message:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-pledges-to-codify-abortion-protections-if-democrats-expand-house-and-senate-majorities-in-midterms-151030341670

* "Being good at your job is praxis:" https://www.tumblr.com/gwydionmisha/698527711939985409/being-good-at-your-job-is-praxis

* "1st lease sale to be held for offshore wind on West Coast:" https://apnews.com/article/business-california-rhode-island-providence-pacific-ocean-45834c87281b6f13acc9783b2d84f1e2

* "The Supreme Court's conservative majority wants to gut the Voting Rights Act—again:" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabma-racial-gerrymandering-roberts-alito/

* "Clarence Thomas could be sole justice to rule on Trump Mar-a-Lago case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/clarence-thomas-could-be-sole-justice-to-rule-on-trump-mar-a-lago-case-150431301954

* "Prices rose again in September, ensuring more interest rate hikes:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/13/fed-inflation-september-cpi/

* "Mortgage rates hit 20-year high:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/homes/mortgage-rates-october-13-2022/index.html

* "Rubio backs bill that would raise drug prices; odd move for an election year in Florida:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rubio-backs-bill-that-would-raise-drug-prices-odd-move-for-an-election-year-in-florida-150355525945

* "Republicans introduce NATIONAL "don't say gay" bill:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1846111.html

* "Dollar General Claims It’s A Discount Store. It’s Not.:" https://perfectunion.us/dollar-general-prices/

* "Perspective | They’re in federal prison, and they’re done staying quiet:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/01/federal-prisoners-speak-out-report/

* "Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-officials-invest-in-companies-their-agencies-oversee-11665489653?mod=hp_lead_pos7

* 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/

* "Ron DeSantis Has Confused Floridians Arrested in Yet Another Disturbing Political Stunt:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/ron-desantis-florida-voter-fraud-arrests

* "New body cam footage sheds light on DeSantis ‘election integrity’ arrests:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-body-cam-footage-sheds-light-on-desantis-election-integrity-arrests-151026245638

* It needs to be for all or none. Making it easy to vote only in Republican counties is unfair."Anger as DeSantis eases voting rules in Republican areas hit by hurricane:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/14/ron-desantis-florida-hurricane-ian-voting-rules

* "Scholar: Challenges to Voters are Growing Before the Midterms – and Pose a Direct Threat to Voting Rights:" https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/10/12/challenges-to-voters-growing-before-midterms/

* "Eligibility challenged for hundreds of Cobb County, GA voters:" https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/10/06/cobb-county-georgia-voters-challenged

* "Truth Bomb From A Professor On MSNBC- "They Do Not Want Democracy. They Want White Rule.":" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/12/2128443/-Truth-Bomb-From-A-Professor-On-MSNBC-They-Do-Not-Want-Democracy-They-Want-White-Rule

* "Another way of laundering credentials and citations:" https://solarbird.dreamwidth.org/1845757.html

* "'I've gone too far to turn back': Maddow reveals threat to U.S. 'lost to history':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-i-ve-gone-too-far-to-turn-back-maddow-reveals-threat-to-u-s-lost-to-history-150349893948

* "Across time and place, authoritarians share some common features:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/across-time-and-place-authoritarians-share-some-common-features-150445125911

* "What could happen if GOP candidates refuse to concede in races across the country?:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/arizona-s-kari-lake-is-just-one-of-hundreds-of-republican-election-deniers-on-the-ballot-this-fall-150907461660

* "McCarthy signals GOP-led House likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/house-republicans-ukraine-mccarthy/

* If you do not vote for Democrats in November you are voting for this. "Chris Hayes: What a Kevin McCarthy-led Congress would mean for America:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-a-kevin-mccarthy-led-congress-would-mean-for-america-151025221619

* "GOP tips hand on House majority plan: cut popular programs, investigate Biden, sow chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/gop-tips-hand-on-house-majority-plan-cut-popular-programs-investigate-biden-sow-chaos-151034949866

* "Warren: GOP 'loud and clear' on plan to blow up economy if they hold Congress:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/warren-gop-loud-and-clear-on-plan-to-blow-up-economy-if-they-hold-congress-150523461797

* "Trump, election denial, QAnon and Dan Cox: In Maryland, the GOP marginalizes itself:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/07/cox-qanon-trump-gop-maryland/

* "Calamitous GOP candidates keep control of Senate within Democratic reach through midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/calamitous-gop-candidates-keep-control-of-senate-within-democratic-reach-through-midterms-150357061920

* "Some Republicans are saying ‘my Democratic opponent is demon-possessed’ during midterms push:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/election-deniers-pose-big-threat-to-midterms-as-some-republicans-accuse-democratic-opponents-of-being-demon-possessed-150615621666

* "Abortion on the ballot: here are the US states voting on the to choose:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/us-midterms-abortion-initiatives-california-michigan-kentucky-vermont-montana

* "‘Michigan could become Texas’ — Voters see stark choice on abortion referendum:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/17/michigan-abortion-referendum-00061952

* "Rep. Eric Swalwell premieres ad ‘Lock Her Up’ on what's at stake as abortion bans are enforced:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/abortion-bans-will-lead-to-women-s-arrest-as-depicted-in-new-ad-lock-her-up-premiered-by-rep-eric-swalwell-150897733915

* "Opinion | Republicans can’t keep getting away with racist and sexist comments:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/11/republicans-racism-sexism-tuberville-bolduc/

* "From Kanye to Trump: The mainstreaming of antisemitism on the American right:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/from-kanye-to-trump-the-mainstreaming-of-antisemitism-on-the-american-right-150898757725

* "Republican authoritarianism adds familiar antisemitic accompaniment:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republican-authoritarianism-adds-familiar-antisemitic-accompaniment-150915653617

* "Racist 'white replacement theory' runs parallel to conservative political issues:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/racist-white-replacement-theory-runs-parallel-to-conservative-political-issues-151035461935

* "Midterms see Democrats pit practical, small-ball politics against GOP demagoguing racism:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/midterms-see-democrats-pit-practical-small-ball-politics-against-gop-demagoguing-racism-150913605853

* "It’s a historic year for Black women candidates from Val Demings to Stacey Abrams and many more:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/black-women-are-running-for-competitive-races-in-historic-numbers-from-val-demings-to-stacey-abrams-and-more-151031365508

* "Two Democrats could be first lesbian governors in US history:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/18/lesbian-governor-gubernatorial-election-us-tina-kotek-maura-healey/

* "Behind Oz’s Crime Attacks Is a Play for the Philly Suburbs:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/us/politics/oz-fetterman-crime-philadelphia.html

* "Dr. Oz Staged a Photo With Someone Who Lost Family Members to Gun Violence:" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/dr-mehmet-oz-staged-encounter-with-a-victim-of-gun-violence.html

* "Bolduc raises unsubstantiated possibility of 2022 election impropriety ahead of New Hampshire Senate contest:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/new-hampshire-senate-don-bolduc/index.html

* "Republican Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Calls Embryo Disposal “Disgusting Practice,” Leaves Door Open on National Ban:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/don-bolduc-calls-embryo-disposal-disgusting-practice

* "Michigan governor debate features accusations of lies, with abortion front and center:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/13/michigan-governor-abortion-debate-00061810

* "School Board Candidate Posts Nazi Rainbow Flag Online:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/22/school-board-candidate-posts-nazi-rainbow-flag-online

* "Gay Democrat & Gay Republican Face Off for Congressional Seat:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/22/gay-democrat-gay-republican-face-congressional-seat

* "Moore and Cox shake hands, then gloves come off in lone debate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/12/maryland-governor-debate-moore-cox/

* "Wisconsinites have a negative view of Sen. Ron Johnson. It may not hurt his reelection chances.:" https://www.wpr.org/sen-ron-johnson-wisconsin-reelection-republicans-democrats-mandela-barnes-polling

* "Blake Masters Is the Most Dangerous Candidate in America:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/blake-masters-arizona-republican-senate-nominee-is-the-most-dangerous-candidate-in-america

* "Woman says she had to press Herschel Walker to pay for abortion he wanted:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/11/herschel-walker-abortion-payment/

* "'Hypocrisy': Stacey Abrams rips Kemp response to Herschel Walker report:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-hypocrisy-stacey-abrams-rips-kemp-response-to-herschel-walker-abortion-report-150346309508

* "Walker, Warnock clash over abortion, trustworthiness at Georgia debate:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/10/14/walker-warnock-debate-georgia-senate/

* "Walker and Warnock square off in Georgia Senate debate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/walker-and-warnock-square-off-in-georgia-senate-debate-150706757964

* "Stacey Abrams encourages GA voters to vote early to neutralize Kemp’s voter suppression policies:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/stacey-abrams-says-georgia-voters-must-vote-early-to-neutralize-kemp-s-voter-suppression-policies-150524997718

* "Warnock says Georgia Senate opponent Walker has a ‘problem with the truth’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/warnock-walker-georgia-senate-race-debate-sees-sparks-fly-150710853698

* "Scandals immaterial to Walker's supporters seeking Senate control:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/scandals-immaterial-to-walker-s-supporters-seeking-senate-control-150708293830

* "Joy Reid on why Herschel Walker is the 'perfect Black candidate' for Trump Republicans:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/joy-reid-on-why-herschel-walker-is-the-perfect-black-candidate-for-trump-republicans-150708805946

* "7 Times GOP Sen. Josh Hawley Has Been the Worst:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/26/7-times-gop-sen-josh-hawley-has-been-worst#media-gallery-media-1

* "Chris Jones running to be governor of Arkansas:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/chris-jones-running-to-be-governor-of-arkansas-150778437919

* "Ex-Republican congressman Riggleman appears in ad supporting Spanberger:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/10/spanberger-riggleman-campaign-ad/

* "Can Cheri Beasley build a winning coalition in North Carolina?:" https://19thnews.org/2022/10/cheri-beasley-north-carolina-senate-race-voter-coalition/

* "Five takeaways from the second Ohio Senate debate:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/ohio-senate-debate-takeaways-tim-ryan-jd-vance/index.html

* "J.D. Vance Defends Texas Abortion Ban, Calls Rape ‘Inconvenient’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-defends-texas-abortion-ban-calls-rape-inconvenient

* "Ohio Senate debate with Ryan, Vance descends into attacks:" https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-ohio-donald-trump-rob-portman-cleveland-4e6027437b2632eb244c805de200dda6

* "Ohio U.S. Senate nominee Tim Ryan: J. D. Vance is an absolute fraud wearing a tin foil hat:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/ohio-u-s-senate-race-democratic-nominee-tim-ryan-calls-out-gop-opponent-j-d-vance-as-absolute-fraud-150437957883

* "Fourteen members of Laxalt family endorse Democratic rival, Cortez Masto, in Senate race:" https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/fourteen-members-of-laxalt-family-endorse-democratic-rival-cortez-masto-in-senate-race

* "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says:" https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1126453612/in-utah-trump-backed-independent-evan-mcmullin-challenges-incumbent-sen-mike-lee

* " Ken Paxton is America’s worst attorney general. He’ll win anyway.:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/11/ken-paxton-worst-attorney-general-texas/

* "Texas AG Ken Paxton's legal troubles are a campaign issue. What's behind them?:" https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2022/10/17/ken-paxton-legal-troubles-are-a-campaign-issue-in-2022-election/69547902007/

* "Tuberville, Greene slammed for racist rhetoric at Trump rallies:" https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2022/10/10/tommy-tuberville--marjorie-taylor-greene-push-racist-rhetoric-at-trump-rallies

* "Democrats call Sen. Tuberville’s comments about crime and reparations racist:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/10/tuberville-reparations-crime-black-americans/

* "“I’m Not Going To Say He’s Being Racist”: Fellow Republican Defends Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s Reparations Remarks:" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/fellow-republican-defends-sen-tommy-tubervilles-reparations-remarks

* "Tuberville, Greene slammed for racist rhetoric at Trump rallies:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/11/republican-states-crime-rates-tuberville/

* "Mehdi: Openly racist Republicans like Tuberville face no backlash from GOP :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-openly-racist-republicans-like-tuberville-face-no-backlash-from-gop-150341701876

* "5 Takeaways From the Utah Senate Debate:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/us/politics/utah-senate-debate-lee-mcmullin.html

* "Fact check: Mike Lee's own texts contradict his debate claims about his effort to overturn the 2020 election:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/18/politics/fact-check-mike-lee-january-6-texts/index.html

* "The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/magazine/marjorie-taylor-greene.html

* "Analysis | Welcome home, Marjorie Taylor Greene:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/10/greene-mccarthy-house-republicans-trump/

* "Los Angeles Confronts Racial Divide Anew After Leak of Racist Comments:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/us/los-angeles-city-council-race.html

* "Kyrsten Sinema Touts Friendship With McConnell as Popularity Dips:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2022/9/26/kyrsten-sinema-touts-friendship-mcconnell-popularity-dips

* "Governor voids territorial orders targeting Native Americans:" https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-native-americans-michelle-lujan-grisham-11b5023cc1557bae38a565d0b27fea6d

* "Trump's conspiracy theory collides with reality in another embarrassing Durham failure:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-conspiracy-theory-collides-with-reality-in-another-embarrassing-durham-failure-151034437792

* "Trump's Durham probe backfires, also damages national security:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/trump-s-durham-probe-backfires-also-damages-national-security-151036485592

* "House inquiry: Trump charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates for hotel stays:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/house-inquiry-trump-charged-secret-service-exorbitant-rates-for-hotel-stays-150898245756

* "DOJ has witness who says Trump ordered moving of Mar-a-Lago boxes:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/doj-has-witness-who-says-trump-ordered-moving-of-mar-a-lago-boxes-150530629669

* "Report of Trump's hand in moving documents 'a game changer':" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/report-of-trump-s-hand-in-moving-documents-a-game-changer-150530117931

* "Expert: Reported Trump worker account on Mar-a-Lago boxes could mean obstruction of justice charge:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-worker-allegedly-told-fbi-mar-a-lago-documents-boxes-were-moved-on-former-president-s-orders-washington-post-reports-150524997867

* "Investigators concerned Trump took documents on trips to New York, New Jersey:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/investigators-concerned-trump-took-documents-on-trips-to-new-york-new-jersey-wsj-150716485621

* "Mehdi: Kevin McCarthy among most ‘cowardly, duplicitous, hypocritical’ politicians:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/mehdi-kevin-mccarthy-among-most-cowardly-duplicitous-hypocritical-politicians-150435397557

* "'Oh, wow!': Brian Sicknick's brother reacts to Trump subpoena by January 6 Committee:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-oh-wow-brian-sicknick-s-brother-reacts-to-trump-subpoena-by-january-6-committee-150622790002

* "Jan. 6 Committee raises specter of criminal referrals including for Secret Service members:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/jan-6-committee-raises-specter-of-criminal-referrals-including-for-secret-service-members-150624325778

* "Security or something else? Questions linger about Secret Service intentions toward Pence:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/security-or-something-else-questions-linger-about-secret-service-intentions-toward-pence-150626885610

* "Alex Jones ordered to pay almost $1 billion in damages after trial exposes his depravity:" https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-almost-1-billion-in-damages-after-trial-exposes-his-depravity-150531141888

* "At Least 5 Killed, Including Off-Duty Police Officer, in Raleigh Shooting:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/us/raleigh-shooting.html

* "Kansas City Police Called Reports of Serial Killer Targeting Black Women 'Unfounded.' Then a Woman Escaped.:" https://jezebel.com/kansas-city-police-called-reports-of-serial-killer-targ-1849664650

* "Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops:" https://qz.com/1872176/half-of-us-network-tv-dramas-are-about-cops/

* "Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-americans-recall-torture-hatred-boarding-schools-rcna52470

* "Coiner of the term "critical race theory" brings banned books to voters:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/coiner-of-the-term-critical-race-theory-brings-banned-books-to-voters-150778949852

* CW: Abuse, Disordered Eating, Hate Speech. "The Bizarre Cult Who Mummified Their "God":"

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* CW: Rape. "Gay Comedian Reveals He Was Raped in a Sauna:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/9/20/gay-comedian-adam-kay-reveals-he-was-raped-new-zealand-sauna

* "New York judge rules in favor of polyamorous relationships:" https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/10/new-york-judge-rules-favor-polyamorous-relationships/

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* "Football boss quits over shameful ties to anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion church:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/04/essendon-football-club-ceo-andrew-thorburn-church-homosexuality/

* "Tokyo edges towards marriage equality – but LGBTQ+ campaigners aren’t happy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/11/tokyo-same-sex-partnership-scheme/

* "Gay former monk has dream wedding after being forced to quit Catholic church:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/10/gay-former-monk-wedding-catholic-church/

* "Top surgery improves quality of life for trans people, according to science:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/top-surgery-trans-young-people-study/

* "Trans people share moving stories of how chest binding helped them find joy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/09/30/what-is-chest-binding-trans-mermaids/

* "Trans women must sign up for US military draft under 'irrational' rule:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/11/selective-service-system-trans-women-us-military/

* "Christian teacher fired after hate campaign against queer 'propaganda':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/11/christian-teacher-fired-objecting-same-sex-parents-childrens-book/

* "Southern Baptists Votes to Expel LGBTQ-Affirming Church:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/9/21/southern-baptists-votes-expel-lgbtq-affirming-church

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* "‘Everything is saturated’: what’s driving the latest floods in eastern Australia:" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/18/everything-is-saturated-whats-driving-the-latest-floods-in-eastern-australia

* "Homes inundated by swollen rivers in Australian floods:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/flood-warnings-as-southeast-australia-lashed-by-heavy-rain/2022/10/13/9b139a5c-4aad-11ed-8153-96ee97b218d2_story.html

A friend of mine who lives (luckily on high ground) in the area suggests donations if to this homeless shelter if you are moved to help. They can always use money and they are about to be even more necessary in the immediate aftermath: https://www.mcm.org.au/donate-now

* "Venezuelan rescuers search for missing as flood death toll grows:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelan-rescuers-search-52-missing-after-deadly-floods-2022-10-10/

* "Hundreds of homes are already underwater, and this river is expected to stay flooded through Thanksgiving:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/weather/florida-flooding-st-johns-hurricane-ian-climate/index.html

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* "This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage:" https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/02/us/solar-babcock-ranch-florida-hurricane-ian-climate/index.html

* "Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury dies at 96:" https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63221326

* "Let’s not forget what Angela Lansbury did during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic:" https://www.queerty.com/lets-not-forget-angela-lansbury-worst-years-aids-epidemic-20221012

* Please don’t do this. It hurts real people. "Jeffrey Dahmer victim's mum heartbroken over people dressing as him for Halloween:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/10/17/jeffrey-dahmer-halloween-costume-victim-tony-hughes-netflix/

* "Crime Reporting:"

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* "Putin's Bridge Of Dreams Blown Up | Fox Backpedals On Kanye | Dr. Oz Poses With Hitler's Car:"

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* "Transgender Rights II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:"

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* "Vlad Gone Mad - Hackers Target U.S. Airport Websites:" https://www.cc.com/video/yf4h9b/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vlad-gone-mad-hackers-target-u-s-airport-websites

* "The Amazing Racism - Tommy Tuberville, Kanye West & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/4srygd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-amazing-racism-tommy-tuberville-kanye-west-more

* "Votedemic 2022 - Our Crumbling Election Infrastructure:" https://www.cc.com/video/oxtq48/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-votedemic-2022-our-crumbling-election-infrastructure

* "Gig Economy Upended, Votedemic 2022 & Fat Bear Scandal:" https://www.cc.com/video/j2opaq/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-gig-economy-upended-votedemic-2022-fat-bear-scandal

* "So Much News, So Little Time - Alex Jones Verdict & More:" https://www.cc.com/video/ntyah0/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-so-much-news-so-little-time-alex-jones-verdict-more

* "Trump's Truth Social Problems & Herschel Walker Prop Badge:" https://www.cc.com/video/dlr0ot/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-trump-s-truth-social-problems-herschel-walker-prop-badge

* "TikTok for Grownups & Wild Political Ads:" https://www.cc.com/video/3jgv8v/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tiktok-for-grownups-wild-political-ads

* "Women's Charity - SNL:"

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* "We Got Brought - SNL:"

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* "Kim Jong Un Is Flexing His Fashion:"

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* "Fat Bear Week Scandal | Russia Launches Cyberattacks Against U.S. Targets:"

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* "Alex Jones Is Out A Billion | Walker Changes The Subject | Zuck Bets Legs Will Save His Metaverse:"

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* Monday morning over a week, the apartment smelt like a forest fire. I was really exhausted and struggling with lungs and sinuses all day. After midnight, the long absent breeze blew in from Alaska to clear the smoke away. Tuesday was much better.

* Wednesday, I collected Head Millennial and Techie Millennial downtown. We did errands and after techie Millennial worked on outside decoration while head Millennial dis assorted other things. This was a lot of excitement for Tavy, but also a confusion for both cats. Livia kept hearing it was quiet and coming out to see if they'd gone only to find one or more still there. The horror! Tavy did not know which of the three of us to follow around.

At one point Head Millennial went off to a local shop on break while techie and I were working on patio decoration. From Tavy's perspective, we all three went out the patio door and were doing something interesting, only Head Millennial had disappeared. He kept escaping to try to check the bushes. He was so concerned, Livia came out and was peering worriedly over his shoulder to try to work out what was upsetting him. we still have a bunch of interior stuff to finish, but most of the boxes are back in their closets, and at this point, exterior stuff is the priority, since the interior stuff stays up until the first week of January.

REMINDER: We are doing my Birthday party Saturday. an out of town friend arrives for it Friday intending to spend the weekend. I am going to be terribly busy and this will effect posting.

NOTE: I am super behind on the aggregate as the air quality issue is messing me up. This means news is going to me sporadic and often late. Apologies.

* I had hoped to post the aggregate before going offline for several days. Obviously, that didn't happen. I'm also dealing with terrible air quality and a massive amount of pain, and I just kept needing to go to bed early. I am doing my best to catch up on all the stuff that didn't get done here and elsewhere. Bare with.

Oldest Continuous friend, aka the Pseudo-Sibling, arrived safe Friday and we hung out all afternoon and Evening. Saturday's party was excellent. (Everyone vaccinated. Four of us Omicron boosted, the others careful maskers). Sunday, Head Millennial made Lasagnas and the three of us had a really nice dinner. I picked up the Pseudo-Sibling after my morning appointment and we hung out until it was time for them to go. A grand time was had by all except Livia, who gave up and decided to pretend the guest wasn't here as there was important cat business she was putting off.

Testing went as expected for the most part, but yielded interesting new data regarding the Cantaloupe incident. I am wildly, wildly allergic to grass. I was mildly allergic as a kid, but it was mostly a matter of itching when forced to sit on it, but living for years in Eugene surrounded by grass farmers and burn clouds, I started really getting sick. This is no surprise. Two previous allergists treated me for grass, weed, and tree allergies, but after my mother died there was no way to cover the copay, so I stopped getting treatment. Modern Medicare covers it free, so here I am.

Apparently, in a tiny percentage of adults allergic to the two types of grass I am wildly allergic two (as opposed to somewhat or mildly allergic to), the pollen can bind to the proteins in certain fruits and vegetables anfd one can get a very bad reaction. The most common of these sets of fruit and vegetables this can happen with in the case of my worst grass species is cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, and cucumber. My instinct not to test honeydew and watermelon was the correct one. The cantaloupe that nearly set me to the hospital was from the height of grass season, thus the very worst time to eat one. The good news is there's a chance I'll get melons and cucumber back if I eat them early in the season and the treatments are successful, as I'm not actually allergic to the foods themselves. It was the equivalent of me swallowing fistfuls of grass.

It is so like me to have a rare reaction.

In other allergy news, we knocked out the tree I was allergic to last go round, which just leaves grasses and a couple of weeds. I am still not allergic to cats, dogs, and mites. I am never allergic to indoor anything, which allergist usually never believe and insist on retesting. This doctor believed me and the results of testing. I am so allergic to perennial rye that the big raised ball of rash was still driving me crazy at bedtime even with all the meds. It was dramatically worse than the positive control and the other really bad grass, which barely itched by that point.

Weird thing that came out of it. My previous allergic apparently moved and now shares a practice with current allergist, but all the old records are lost. O.o

When I went out for my free birthday pumpkin chai, it looked almost like the Dustbowl from wildfire particulates. I had to go inside because they closed the drive thru for air quality. It was that bad. Seriously do you know how bad it has to be out there for Starbucks to start caring about health and safety? It's hard not to stare at the sun when it's that shade of red. It's mesmerizing.

In other news, I'm still behind on bills, but I do have money to sort out the car for winter. It will be tight, but I have hopes of November working out.

* My oldest continuous friend is running this. They are an amazing GM and it's an excellent premis. Trust me, it will be worth your time: https://startplaying.games/adventure/cl8z5uk6t000n09l885zn2z4f?fbclid=IwAR1AYySxY3q0rqYki_z3C3myk_PitoKzPxEkbeDSJKjGesUQeo67Ax2fkJs

* "The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex:" https://www.tor.com/2020/07/29/the-mysterious-study-of-dr-sex-tamsyn-muir/

* Humans and Aliens vs Food: https://iodhadh.tumblr.com/post/161207695888/repost-of-my-humans-as-aliens-story-snippet

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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.

* "Plan Your Vote: 2022 Elections:" https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-2022-elections/index.html?language=english&state=WA

* "How to help Pakistan’s flood victims:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-to-help-pakistans-flood-victims

* "How to help victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida:" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-to-help-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

* "A List of UK Trans Charities:" https://katymontgomerie.medium.com/a-list-of-uk-trans-charities-2e26fb4032fd

* How to help Puerto Rico: https://rubynye.tumblr.com/post/695979319094394880

* Important 2022 Senate Races and how to donate: https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/694338688722796544

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

* Fundraiser for final costs for a long time internet friend's mother: https://www.gofundme.com/f/annemarie-kergis

* Person in severe economic crisis: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover-bills-and-pay-down-debts?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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* "Afghanistan women: 'I felt anxious going back to university':" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60236826

* "Evidence police in Belfast colluded with loyalists in the Troubles, report finds:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/08/evidence-police-in-belfast-colluded-with-loyalists-in-the-troubles-report-finds

* It sure looks like a transparent ploy to whip up a lynch mob against the opposition in order to distract from his COVID Party scandal. "MPs blame Boris Johnson’s ‘poison’ after protesters mob Keir Starmer:" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/07/police-rescue-keir-starmer-after-protesters-surround-him-near-parliament

* "Misogyny in Met played key role in downfall of Cressida Dick:" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/11/misogyny-in-met-police-played-key-role-in-downfall-of-cressida-dick

* "Cressida Dick steps down as Met Police commissioner amid scandal:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/10/cressida-dick-metropolitan-police-resign/

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* "An Omicron subvariant gains in Europe, but is unlikely to alter the picture very much, experts say.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/world/europe/omicron-subvariant-ba-2.html

* "New Zealand authorities deploy Barry Manilow against Covid protesters:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/new-zealand-authorities-deploy-barry-manilow-against-covid-protesters

* "As state medical boards try to stamp out COVID misinformation, some in GOP push back:" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/14/1077689734/as-state-medical-boards-try-to-stamp-out-covid-misinformation-some-in-gop-push-b

* "Alabama hospitals still battling Omicron COVID-19 surge:" https://www.wbrc.com/2022/02/07/alabama-hospitals-still-battling-omicron-covid-19-surge/

* "3 Alabama inmates die shortly after testing positive for COVID-19:" https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/3-alabama-inmates-die-shortly-after-testing-positive-for-covid-19/

* "New Jersey, Connecticut, others to lift statewide school mask mandates:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-governor-end-school-mask-mandate-rcna15168

* "Louisiana Covid-19 cases are trending down, while Mississippi is seeing significant challenges in the ICU.:" https://wgno.com/news/health/louisiana-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-while-mississippi-is-seeing-significant-challenges-in-the-icu/

* "COVID-19 challenges persist in minority, rural communities in Tennessee:" https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/covid-19-challenges-persist-in-minority-rural-communities-in-tennessee/

* "Rep. Joyce Beatty discusses Rep. Hal Rogers apologizing after "Kiss my a**" comment regarding mask request:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-joyce-beatty-says-rep-hal-rogers-poked-her-said-kiss-my-ass-over-mask-request-132819013797

* Why would someone go to a plague rat for dentistry? "Cranston dentist who defied RI COVID vaccine mandate sues for right to see patients again:" https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/02/04/dentist-defied-rhode-island-covid-1-vaccine-mandate-health-workers-lawsuit/6650356001/

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* "U.S. says 'no wiggle room' on Lebanon holding May elections:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-no-wiggle-room-lebanon-holding-may-elections-2022-02-07/

* "Iran timeline to nuclear weapon 'frighteningly short' after failed Trump policy:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/iran-timeline-to-nuclear-weapon-frighteningly-short-after-failed-trump-policy-132831301974

* "Ottawa truckers' convoy galvanizes far-right worldwide:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/ottawa-truckers-convoy-galvanizes-far-right-worldwide-00006080

* "Ottawa declares a state of emergency over truckers' growing anti-government protests:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/07/1078861392/ottawa-protest-state-of-emergency

* "Ted Cruz gushes: Canadian truckers ‘defending America’:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/ted-cruz-gushes-canadian-truckers-defending-america-132652101735

* "Canada afflicted with right-wing American Covid conspiracy chaos:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/canada-afflicted-with-right-wing-american-covid-conspiracy-chaos-132832325668

* "Joy Reid explains American right-wing co-optation of Canadian anti-Covid vaccine mandate trucker protest:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/canadian-anti-covid-vaccine-mandate-trucker-protest-co-optation-by-american-right-wing-explained-by-joy-reid-132821061640

* "COVID-19 protests threaten border trade between Canada, US:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ottawa-truckers-canada-protest-c49a25da25cd2f5e81f1eac5664e37ad

* "US urges Canada to use federal powers to end bridge blockade:" https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-detroit-canada-20f273b32bfa8ef695fdabcc7e11321e

* "Canada's Trudeau invokes emergency powers in bid to end protests:" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-response-protests-spotlight-after-key-bridge-us-cleared-2022-02-14/

* "U.S.-Canada bridge reopens but protests persist in Ottawa:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080548576/u-s-canada-bridge-reopens-but-protests-persist-in-ottawa

* "Anger and fear among Ukrainians in Russia's crosshairs:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anger-and-fear-among-ukrainians-in-russia-s-crosshairs-133178437580

* "Lesson of 'little green men' prompts U.S. strategy of radical transparency on Russia:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lesson-of-little-green-men-prompts-u-s-strategy-of-radical-transparency-on-russia-133177925806

* "Volunteers and veterans train for war in Ukraine:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/ukraine-russia-volunteers-training/

* I admit, I downgrade my assessment of any pundit's expertise if they pronounce Kyiv the Russian instead of the Ukrainian way. It is heartening to see so many presenters flipping their own pronunciations. I know it may seem like a small thing, but it shows bias, I think, if not outright ignorance.

* "White House approves plan for US troops to help Americans leave Ukraine if Russia invades:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/white-house-plan-troops-help-americans-leave-ukraine/index.html

* "U.S. sending 3,000 more troops to Poland amid fresh Ukraine invasion warnings:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/11/us-sending-3000-more-troops-to-poland-00008357

* "US suspends Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl:" https://apnews.com/article/business-mexico-global-trade-agriculture-drug-cartels-7c6bb7ef83bada375692ba890c413ce5

* "U.S. unveils $5 bln plan to fund EV charging network:" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-detail-5-bln-plan-fund-ev-charging-network-2022-02-10/

* "Michael S. Regan - Seeking Solutions as Head of the EPA :" https://www.cc.com/video/jsv3ed/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-michael-s-regan-seeking-solutions-as-head-of-the-epa

* "Brilliant gender-fluid nuclear expert and LGBT+ activist lands key energy job:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/sam-brinton-gender-fluid-joe-biden/

* "Biden’s top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/07/eric-lander-white-house-investigation-00006077

* "House passes short-term government funding bill that would prevent shutdown, sends it to Senate:" https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/government-shutdown-house-passes-funding-bill.html

* "Joy Reid: Prices will keep going higher and higher until the consumer says ‘enough!’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/inflation-caused-in-part-by-corporate-price-raising-and-profit-seeking-expert-says-132911173796

* "Jill Biden acknowledges free community college has fallen out of her husband’s Build Back Better agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/jill-biden-says-free-community-college-out-of-bbb/

* "House OKs bill easing budget strains on Postal Service:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/house-oks-bill-easing-budget-strains-postal-service-82756382

* "Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi sued the Biden administration for raising federal contractors' minimum wage to $15 an hour:" https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-federal-contractor-minimum-wage-texas-louisiana-mississippi-2022-lawsuit-paxton-2

* "Nurses Who Faced Lawsuits for Quitting Are Fighting Back:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-02/underpaid-contract-nurses-who-faced-fines-lawsuits-for-quitting-fight-back

* "‘This is a national movement’: union drives surge at US Starbucks stores:" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/11/starbucks-union-organizing-drives-across-us

* "Why Congress is moving against sexual harassment, 4 years after #MeToo:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/congress-sexual-harassment-metoo-00007493

* "Rep. Porter on Congress stock trading ban: We must earn back public trust:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-porter-on-congress-stock-trading-ban-we-must-earn-back-public-trust-132819525583

* They are planning to make the entire Internet Child Safe: https://butlerbookbinding.tumblr.com/post/675770052789862400

* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

* Tuesday they nullified the Voting Rights Act and possibly the 14th Amendment on the Shadow Docket so as to allow racial gerrymandering for the Midterms. "Activists on Supreme Court declare open season on voting rights of people of color experts say:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-ruling-validates-racist-gerrymander-in-alabama-132738117970

* "Supreme Court guts yet another provision of the Voting Rights Act:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/supreme-court-guts-yet-another-provision-of-the-voting-rights-act-132735557936

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

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

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

* "The Push to Restrict Voting Rights Continues:" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/push-restrict-voting-rights-continues

* "North Carolina Supreme Court strikes down GOP-drawn congressional map:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/north-carolina-congressional-map-struck-down-00005974

* "Arizona panel votes to require excuse for early voting:" https://www.abc15.com/news/politics/arizona-panel-votes-to-require-excuse-for-early-voting

* "Supreme Court stops lower court order requiring Alabama to draw a new district voting map favorable to Black residents:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/supreme-court-alabama-racial-gerrymandering/

* "Supreme Court conservatives help Alabama GOP keep biased map for next election:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/supreme-court-conservatives-help-alabama-gop-keep-biased-map-for-next-election-132660293929

* "Republicans see early success at damaging elections with new voting restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-see-early-success-at-damaging-elections-with-new-voting-restrictions-133179461628

* "As GOP seeks to usurp control of elections, Wisconsin Democrats are mobilizing locally:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/as-gop-seeks-to-usurp-control-of-elections-wisconsin-democrats-are-mobilizing-locally-132744773645

* "WWII Vet, 95, Says Mail-in Ballot Application Rejected Twice Under Texas Law: 'I've Never Missed a Vote':" https://people.com/politics/mail-in-ballot-application-rejected-veteran-95-texas-voting-law-sb1/

* "A judge has kept in place his ruling that says absentee ballot drop boxes can't be used in Wisconsin:" https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/21/wisconsin-judge-keeps-place-ruling-bars-ballot-drop-boxes/6584338001/

* "People Who Think Trump Won in 2020 Are Trying to Run Elections:" https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v57v/people-who-think-trump-won-in-2020-are-trying-to-run-elections

* Can we take a moment to appreciate that the only 'proof' Marjorie Taylor Greene has that Nancy Pelosi is somehow using cold tomato soup against Republicans is that after hours Capital police saw a congressman's door was a jar and checked to make sure there were no intruders before closing it? Like that's it. They didn't touch any of his stuff. It was exactly the sort of routine security check you'd want capital police to do if they spotted an open congress critters door. "Marjorie Taylor Greene says Nancy Pelosi leads ‘gazpacho police,’ causing collective spit take:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-gestapo/

* "GOP rep professes loyalty to Trump at his Tower after he endorses her opponent:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-rep-professes-loyalty-to-trump-at-his-tower-after-he-endorses-her-opponent-132908101582

* "GOP candidate says her aides were among January 6 "heroes":" https://www.newsweek.com/gop-candidate-lynne-torgerson-says-her-aides-were-among-jan-6-heroes-1678290

* "Meet the candidates running on 'explicitly pro-coup platforms':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/meet-the-candidates-running-on-explicitly-pro-coup-platforms-132992581513

* "Republicans try to straddle the ‘pro-coup’ line after RNC censure:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-try-to-straddle-the-pro-coup-line-after-rnc-censure-132735557601

* "Gay Billionaire Peter Thiel Exits Meta Board to Fund Trump Candidates:" https://www.advocate.com/business/2022/2/08/gay-billionaire-and-republican-donor-peter-thiel-leave-meta-board

* "How one small town fought off a QAnon invasion :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-one-small-town-fought-off-a-qanon-invasion-133166149895

* "With little evidence, felon tells Assembly committee there were thousands of illegal votes:" https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2022/02/10/with-little-evidence-felon-tells-assembly-committee-there-were-thousands-of-illegal-votes/

* "Republicans credulously present convicted fraudster to spin stolen election tale:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/republicans-credulously-present-convicted-fraudster-to-spin-stolen-election-tale-132921413827

* "Deputy Virginia Attorney General Resigns Over Posts Praising Capitol Rioters:" https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/deputy-virginia-attorney-general-resigns-over-posts-praising-capitol-rioters/2968067/

* "Trump backer, 4 others charged with voter fraud in Wisconsin:" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-backer-charged-voter-fraud-wisconsin-82806728

* "Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/02/09/giuliani-antrim-prosecutor-voting-machines/

* "Trump Organization's accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/politics/trump-mazars/index.html

* "‘Big blow’: Accounting firm dumps Trump over dubious financial statements:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-big-blow-accounting-firm-dumps-trump-over-dubious-financial-statements-133163077859

* "Banker who tried to buy his way into Trump administration gets a year in prison :" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/banker-who-tried-to-buy-his-way-into-trump-administration-gets-a-year-in-prison-132746309540

* "Stephen Calk: Banker sentenced to prison for bribery scheme in chase for Trump administration job:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/politics/stephen-calk/index.html

* "National Archives had to retrieve Trump White House records from Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/trump-records-mar-a-lago/

* "Presidential Records Act: From Nixon’s Watergate tapes to Trump’s ‘burn bags’:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/07/presidential-records-act-trump-nixon/

* "Trump flouting of Presidential Records Act leaves National Archives scrambling:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-flouting-of-presidential-records-act-leaves-national-archives-scrambling-132663365612

* "Trump used ‘burn bags’ to destroy docs, took records to Mar-a-Lago:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump-used-burn-bags-to-destroy-docs-took-records-to-mar-a-lago-132651077571

* "Records retrieved from Trump by National Archives may include classified material: reports:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/records-retrieved-from-trump-by-national-archives-may-include-classified-material-reports-132828229549

* I bet if I’d stolen boxes of classified documents from the government they’d arrest me right away. Just saying. "New legal entanglement for Trump as DOJ, intel community assess mishandling of documents:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-legal-entanglement-for-trump-as-doj-intel-community-assess-mishandling-of-documents-132919877762

* "Trump's odd toilet flushing fixation reconsidered after reports of document dumping:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-s-odd-toilet-flushing-fixation-reconsidered-after-reports-of-document-dumping-132920901985

* "Flush away the evidence?: The Trump toilet obsession takes a crooked turn:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/flush-away-the-evidence-the-trump-toilet-obsession-takes-a-crooked-turn-132905541770

* "Glenn Kirschner: Between Navarro and draft executive order this is like 'Sedition for Dummies':" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/national-archives-asks-the-department-of-justice-to-investigate-donald-trump-for-handling-of-white-house-documents-132820037635

* "Steele: I don’t want to hear another word about Clinton’s emails after Trump doc eating allegation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-accused-of-eating-torn-up-documents-in-the-oval-office-according-to-former-white-house-aide-132910149987

* "New details on Trump’s reported document stealing, destroying, flushing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/new-details-on-trump-s-reported-document-stealing-destroying-flushing-132992581872

* "Trump denies flushing documents down White House toilet:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/10/trump-denies-flushing-documents-down-white-house-toilet-00007710

* "White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/trump-white-house-records/index.html

* "January 6 Committee adopts prosecutorial style in hope of prompting Garland to action: NYT:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6-committee-adopts-prosecutorial-style-in-hope-of-prompting-garland-to-action-nyt-132661829905

* "January 6th probe tracing chain of command despite resistance from Trump entourage:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/january-6th-probe-tracing-chain-of-command-despite-resistance-from-trump-entourage-133001797604

* "Federal judge orders John Eastman to detail legal work for Trump:" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/14/john-eastman-jan-6-investigation-00008560

* "Jan. 6 panel 'fully' expects Giuliani to cooperate with subpoena, Kinzinger says:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-fully-expects-giuliani-cooperate-subpoena-kinzinger-says-rcna16059

* "January 6 committee subpoenas one-time Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/politics/peter-navarro-january-6-subpoena/index.html

* "Prosecutor exposes another facet of Trump scheme to seize voting machines after 2020 loss:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/prosecutor-exposes-another-facet-of-trump-scheme-to-seize-voting-machines-after-2020-loss-132832837738

* "Unifying power of January 6th for extremist groups being examined by congressional panel:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/unifying-power-of-january-6th-for-extremist-groups-being-examined-by-congressional-panel-132745285796

* "Capitol rioter gets prison as feds reach 100 sentencings:" https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-iraq-middle-east-elections-amy-berman-jackson-59d2550b3036ed48d8d4e41a84617d73

* "Anti-vax doctor Simone Gold reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/anti-vax-doctor-simone-gold-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-john-herbert-strand-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-ivermectin-americas-frontline/65-06593dc8-7f9a-47ec-93f0-f507e3c1b2a7

* "Anti-vax doctor reaches plea deal in Capitol riot case:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/anti-vax-doctor-reaches-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case-132817989652

* "Amir Locke's family calls for a full ban on no-knock warrants as the Minneapolis mayor answers City Council questions about city's policies:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/07/us/no-knock-warrants-minneapolis-shooting/index.html

* "Amir Locke and the Second Amendment:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/amir-locke-and-the-second-amendment-133066821537

* "School leaders say HBCUs are undeterred after a series of bomb threats:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079294424/hbcu-bomb-threats-black-colleges

* "FBI investigating HBCU bomb threats as a hate crime, suspects juveniles may be involved:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/02/fbi-hbcu-bomb-threats-investigation/

* "8 DC schools cleared following threats; police, FBI investigating:" https://wtop.com/dc/2022/02/3-dc-high-schools-evacuated-after-threats/

* "Second gentleman Doug Emhoff evacuated from D.C. school following bomb threat:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-evacuated-dc-school-bomb-threat-rcna15403

* Anyone surprised Elon Musk is Henry ford level racist? "Tesla sued over alleged racial discrimination:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60330296

* "Elon Musk’s car company Tesla faces allegations of racist discrimination against Black employees:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/elon-musk-s-car-company-tesla-faces-allegations-of-racist-discrimination-against-black-employees-133168709936

* "What about Black students’ ‘discomfort’?:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/teaching-history-discomfort-black-students/

* "Nikole Hannah-Jones: These bills say we need to ensure White children are not uncomfortable:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/florida-gov-desantis-proposes-stop-woke-act-132740677637

* "Parents organize to fight back against GOP's classroom culture war:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/parents-organize-to-fight-back-against-gop-s-classroom-culture-war-133065797695

* "A Gay Man Burned a Bible in Protest at a Tennessee Book Burning:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2022/2/07/gay-man-burned-bible-protest-tennessee-book-burning

* "Super Bowl halftime show showcased Black artists yet NFL diversity issues persist:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/super-bowl-lvi-halftime-show-sparks-right-wing-freak-out-133167685837

* CW: Sexual Abuse. "The Sheltered Lives of Jehovah's Witnesses:"

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* Tell me you get turned on by dead fish without telling me. "Ohio mayor concerned ice shanties could lead to prostitution:" https://apnews.com/article/ohio-cleveland-bf6a9817a5d910411679a2781e23210c

* "Governor Glenn Youngkin accused of ‘toxic culture’ after aides attack teen on Twitter:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/07/virginia-governor-glenn-youngkin-aides-attack-teen-on-twitter

* "Fla. Republicans ditch Texas-style abortion law for what they call a ‘generous’ 15-week ban, drawing criticism from all sides:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/07/abortion-ban-florida-texas-roe-supreme-court/

* "Florida Republicans move toward abortion ban with new proposed restrictions:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/florida-republicans-move-toward-abortion-ban-with-new-proposed-restrictions-133003333930

* "Vermont moves forward on becoming first state to guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/08/abortion-roe-vermont/

* "BBC's 'transphobic reporting' called out in international human rights review:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/15/ilga-europe-transphobia-uk-bbc/

* "Netherlands could be next country to ban 'medieval' conversion therapy:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/14/netherlands-conversion-therapy-ban/

* "Staff quit UK's so-called equalities watchdog en masse over relentless 'transphobia':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/04/ehrc-baroness-falkner-staff-quit-transphobia/

* "Queer students feel ‘betrayed’ after Cambridge college bans Pride flag:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/02/05/cambridge-college-pride-flag-gonville-caius/

* "The Importance of Seeking Social Security Survivor's Benefits:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/2/04/importance-seeking-social-security-survivors-benefits

* "South Dakota Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law:" https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/2/03/south-dakota-governor-kristi-noem-signs-anti-trans-sports-bill-law

* I'm so happy for them both! "Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta Marries Fiancé Dr. Matthew Jordan-Miller:" https://www.advocate.com/people/2022/2/06/rep-malcolm-kenyatta-marries-fiance-dr-matthew-jordan-miller

* "Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60258620

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* "Study finds Western megadrought is the worst in 1,200 years:" https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/1080302434/study-finds-western-megadrought-is-the-worst-in-1-200-years

* "Venezuela opens probe into table-top mountain 'party':" https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220210-venezuela-opens-probe-into-table-top-mountain-party

* "Plastic crisis needs binding treaty, report says:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60026748

* "The fast fashion graveyard in a desert:" https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-60249712

* "SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm:" https://apnews.com/article/spacex-space-launches-storms-science-business-4ac79ca2d9341f91f9c2897cb07363d4

* "Texas sues Meta's Facebook over facial-recognition practices:" https://www.reuters.com/technology/texas-sues-meta-over-facebooks-facial-recognition-practices-report-2022-02-14/

* CW: Animal Death. I really hope it works! "Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60222464

* "The Actual “Assassins” Were Not What You Think:"

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* "10 Facts: Black Patriots in the American Revolution:" https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-black-patriots-american-revolution?fbclid=IwAR23B3fedgZUszN1wcJgIypLZCIRumPBqPCxtKAKkNZBGJ-sgGp_eZwN6l4

* "Zora Neale Hurston: Crash Course Black American History #30:"

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* "Chernobyl, The Worst Nuclear Disaster in History:"

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* "432 Park Ave: Luxury Apartments From Your Worst Nightmares | Corporate Casket:"

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* "Why World’s Finest Chocolate Isn’t So Sweet :"

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* "Russian skater Kamila Valieva can compete, but medal ceremony won't be held | CBC Sports:" https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/figure-skating/doping-hearing-russian-figure-skater-kamila-valieva-ruling-expected-mondady-1.6350402

* "Russian anti-doping agency allowed Kamila Valieva to compete in Olympics despite failed drug test:" https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/sport/kamila-valieva-roc-drugs-test-olympics-spt-intl-hnk/index.html

They need a hard ban. Last time it was a slap on the wrist, so of course they are still doing it.

For the record, I don't blame an abused 15 year old for doing what her abuser told her to do. I blame every single adult involved.

* "U.S. Figure Skater Vincent Zhou Addresses COVID Diagnosis In Tearful Video:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vincent-zhou-covid-winter-olympics_n_6202353fe4b0500424322946

* Every time that piece of shit Dick Button would body shame Irina Slutskaya, I'd throw up in my mouth a little and think about stabbings. https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1492547898390708224

* We need to talk about Zhu Yi.

So here's the thing, in both the elite sports and the ballet world, people have been switching countries significantly longer than I've been alive. It a thing that happens. It's normal. There are a lot of reasons for it. sometimes, as during the Cold war, people outright defect(ed) because they think they will have a better life in the other country. This is an extremely familiar narrative even to people who don't follow figure skating (or ballet, or certain other sports), but it's not the only reason people do this.

In figure skating, it's incredibly common for people who are good, but live in a country with a large number of good skaters to, you know, move somewhere where they have more opportunities. People with duel citizenship will often pick the country with less competition for top slots because things like the Olympics max out a countries entries at three. If there are say four or even five of you vying for a limited number of slots at say Worlds or the Olympics, maybe it's worth staying, but what if you have an option to grab the one spot some other country has instead of fighting your way into those limited slots?

Keep in mind, a lot of those smaller countries very much want an elite skater to help build a program in their country and for the international prestige. They will welcome a duel citizen with open arms. Similarly, the child of emigres. Some of them will actively recruit athletes who've signaled an interest in leaving despite a lack of ties. (This happens in lots of Sports. Remember that Belarusian runner who defected in a Japanese airport who got taken in by a third country?) So if your country has no potential Olympians, or only very weak contenders, it really does make sense on both sides.

Last I checked eight Russian figure skaters were expected at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, five of them skating for other countries because the Russian women's single skate program is so incredibly dominant right now. If you are in the top four or five, might as well go be the best woman's single skater in some other nearby country.

You also get good skaters from smaller countries moving to live somewhere else without changing citizenship to be where the best coaches are. This is incredibly normal. you also get pairs and dance skaters who end up deciding to partner with someone from another country, who have to change citizenship so they can skate together. My point is, a lot of people live and train in one country and compete for another, or have moved between countries as they think is best for their development as skaters.

Would I want to pick China to switch to? No. Surveillance, genocide, concentration camps, rising anti-queer sentiment, etc., but I can see why the level of state support china gives their elite athletes might attract someone who was talented but not likely to get much support or exposure in the US. It's not the choice I would likely make, but I can understand someone who did, especially someone with her background. This really likely was her best option, possibly her only option besides skating here. Keep in mind, most athletes above a certain level have lived and dreamed and sacrificed most of their childhood and teen years to try to do this one thing very, very well. It's easy for people who never were that kind of choice to judge that choice harshly. I prefer exercising a little empathy.

Last winter Olympics, there was a Kazakhstani ladies single skater who was good enough to score two slots for her country. There were not two women at the right level to fill those slots and there was a controversy, because the second best Kazakhstani lady figure skater came anyway instead of that slot to the next eligible person from another country. and yes, it sucked that that other woman didn't get to go, but realistically, neither of these women were going to medal. So picture for a second if you were an amateur Kazakhstani skater and you had a once in a lifetime chance to travel to Korea to skate on televisions all over the world wearing your tiara. Realistically, I'd guess 99% of us would have been skating in our tiaras even if the world called us selfish. It's nice to say, oh, you'd cede that slot, but no one offered you one. I don't think any of us know we'd for sure say no.

Also, you know why Zhu Yi was skating for China in Beijing? They literally had no woman single skater better than her. No really. When I heard China was going to the team event, I thought, "Huh. Who's they get for the woman's single skate?" Because I could think of anyone this cycle at that level to take the slot. when I saw who it was, I was like, oh! I vaguely remember her from pre-pandemic. Which means she was good enough for me to have seen her and for to have made some sort of impression though not a strong one either way. If China had a woman with a 60+ short, she'd have been in that slot. Ask yourself seriously, in her place, given a chance for better coaching and a ticket to the Olympics, would you really say no? Because I think a whole lot of armchair skate fans would say yes, even with all the stuff going on in China.

And then there is the extreme cyber bullying which makes me furious. She was clearly doing her best in the short. I have been listening to Canadian skate commentators every year since I moved up here in '98 and I have never heard them as quietly furious as they were during the long program at the harm people on social media heave done to this young woman. She is nineteen. A teenager. her whole life has been about trying to do this one thing she loved. She's not a murderer, like Kyle Rittenhouse, or a monster. She is a teenager who wanted to skate more than anything in the world and now hate is pouring down on her from all sides with no thought at all to her humanity or her youth. The cruelty of it. I just have no fucking words.

Of course she couldn't skate well under those conditions. Could you? Could anyone?

I don't know her. I'll never meet her, but oh do I have empathy for her, because this is a terrible thing for anyone to have done to them, especially a young woman with all the pressures that the world piles on young women just in general.

Fuckssake, can we think before we pile on? Expend a little empathy like the Canadian Skate commentators, instead of being the gears of hate grinding up young athletes trying to do their best in one of the most high pressure situations is possible for an athlete to be in.

* "Kamila Valieva and Zhu Yi are victims in Winter Olympics’ puppet theatre of pain:" https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/11/kamila-valieva-zhu-yi-victims-winter-olympics-puppet-theatre-pain-beijing-2022

* "Vladimir Putin Blames the West & Inside the U.N.:" https://www.cc.com/video/jrahoy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-vladimir-putin-blames-the-west-inside-the-u-n

* "The NFL's Black Coaching Crisis:" https://www.cc.com/video/nfqbdg/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-nfl-s-black-coaching-crisis

* "Tesla's Auto-Pilot Problem & Road Rage Ends in Gunfire:" https://www.cc.com/video/fx5bsb/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-tesla-s-auto-pilot-problem-road-rage-ends-in-gunfire

* "Sexual Harassment in the Metaverse & Pence vs. Trump:" https://www.cc.com/video/9ztvhd/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-sexual-harassment-in-the-metaverse-pence-vs-trump

* "Joe Rogan's N-Word Controversy:" https://www.cc.com/video/2kdhuy/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-joe-rogan-s-n-word-controversy

* "Project Conspiracy - Sewer Tunnels:" https://www.cc.com/video/853gsx/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-project-conspiracy-sewer-tunnels

* "Black in Business - Legacy Cereal Company's Nic King:" https://www.cc.com/video/qy6ri6/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-black-in-business-legacy-cereal-company-s-nic-king

* "‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Universalized the Trans Experience (& Why Its Great):"

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* "Why Gay Men Love WandaVision:"

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* "Andrew Lloyd Webber on Roller Skates!? | The Painful Spectacle of Starlight Express:"

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* "Drunken Ghost Hunters: Sydney Quarantine Station:"

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* "True Facts: Proboscis Monkey:"

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* I had one of my perennial plague dreams. (I'm a life long plague watcher. 1 was a 14th century specialist before I parted ways with academia. I was dreaming about epidemics since the mid-to late 70's. So no, it's neither an AIDS thing nor a Covid thing.) In this one there was an outbreak of a weaponized... okay, not really small pox, but best described as some sort of Anthrax/smallpox cross? But not really. It was sort of an Anthrax timeline on latency and infection, with both pox and lesions and a small pox like rash following the lesions by about 12 hours, and lung symptoms.

A High school was the target, so the authorities locked it down and were trying to do quarantine and triage, but given how infectious small pox is... yeah. which is why the small town also had perimeter quarantine, since people could be infectious before the fever started and airbourne pathogens are bad.

I was lucid dreaming as is often the case. so I took to the air on the theory that a couple stories up was safer, grabbed a bedroll, provisions, etc. and was setting up camp on a roof top with a structure that could provide an overhang, as is a thing I often do in zombie outbreaks and epidemic scenarios in my dreams.

So I'm up on this roof top watching a massive crowd of parents and families gather in the sports fields around the school, all breathing on each other without masks and trying to press up on the National Guard as they worked themselves into an angry frenzy and it suddenly dawned on me: Anti-vaxxers are panicky nonsense south Park parents.

Bear with me. I hate south Park. I used to watch it while I was teaching because the kids were watching it, and it's good practice to read, watch, and listen to what they are consuming. It was essential to watch south Park in particular because 1. They'd tried to get around you using stuff from there and catching them every time taught them you were hard to trick that way. the more pop culture one was up on, the more they assumed one was basically omniscient and it solved a lot of problems before they started, and 2. The middle Schoolers would come in Monday morning with serious questions and concerns about what they saw and if they knew you knew south Park they'd ask you and you could use it for teachable moments, and things like that were where I did some of my best work as far as media literacy and getting kids to really think about what they are consuming.

But I fucking hate South Park for all the ways it's regressive and toxic. It's fed antisemitism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and science denial and a whole host of toxic things in American culture. I hate it.

But, this connection I made in this dream has haunted me for two days. There's this thing the adults in South Park do where they hear something or something happens and they don't actually listen properly and they just panic and wildly over react and lose their shit and the next thing you know there's this mob of incensed nonsense spewing people who are violent or borderline violent.

I can't say one way or another if 25 years of this shitty regressive show being on the air and popular has caused this or merely reflects the shittiness always under the surface in American, but I saw that irrational nonsense and pathogen spewing crowd reacting exactly the wrong way in a pandemic and I thought of the anti-semetic South Park show with it's hysterical nonsense adults and the Neo-NAZIs making Ottawa unlivable right now and and Trumpist swastika waving anti-vaxxers beating up teachers and storming American state capitals and trying to overthrow the government and it just... felt like the same thing. idk. It's not deep, just an image stuck in my head from a dream.

* Classical Valentines: https://twitter.com/eduardo_garcmol/status/1492438829768269828

* Jorts and Jean, Please never change: https://twitter.com/JortsTheCat/status/1492226999360040960

* "Sunday Sweets: Be My Valentine:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/2/13/sunday-sweets-be-my-valentine

* "Reverse Plots:" https://www.thechatner.com/p/reverse-plots?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjEzMzc4LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0ODc0ODkzOCwiXyI6IngwWHkwIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQ0ODkwOTM2LCJleHAiOjE2NDQ4OTQ1MzYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi01Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.rTPZ7J68L5ieYr9Zg329mFgOVZCx7LJN1XAL3eAyaRk&r=ykw2

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

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* "Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Privacy:" https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-earn-it-act-to-save-our-privacy

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* 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

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* "UN Peacekeepers Fathered Dozens Of Children In Haiti. The Women They Exploited Are Trying To Get Child Support.:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/karlazabludovsky/haiti-earthquake-un-peacekeepers-sexual-abuse

* "Deadly unrest reported in Myanmar after opposition urges 'defensive war':" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/deadly-unrest-reported-myanmar-after-opposition-urges-defensive-war-2021-09-10/

* "Myanmar shadow government calls for revolt against military rule:" https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/myanmar-shadow-government-unveils-new-strategy-oppose-military-rule-2021-09-07/

* "Why payment apps that thrive in India struggle to succeed in Mexico:" https://restofworld.org/2021/mexico-payment-apps-india/

* "Return of migrant vessels: a violation of maritime law and moral duty:" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/09/returning-migrant-vessels-violates-maritime-law-and-moral-obligation

* "Guinea military consolidates takeover, opposition leader signals openness to transition:" https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guinean-junta-replaces-provincial-governors-after-coup-media-say-2021-09-07/

* "Bitcoin crashes on first day as El Salvador's legal tender:" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58459098

* "Rallies for and against Bolsonaro on Brazil national day:" https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/9/7/photos-rallies-for-and-against-bolsonaro-on-national-day

* "Lebanon’s power problems: serious talk but no easy fixes:" https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/9/8/lebanons-power-problems-serious-talk-but-no-easy-fixes

* "Lebanon Is Facing One of the Worst Economic Crises in History:"

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* "The Man Who Gets People Out of the Hospital:" https://nowiknow.com/the-man-who-gets-people-out-of-the-hospital/

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* I saw the earlier tests in other countries went well. I’m glad we’re starting to implement it here. "Coronavirus-sniffing dogs unleashed at Miami airport to detect virus in employees:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/09/covid-sniffer-dogs/

* "Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/10/moderna-most-effective-covid-vaccine-studies/

* "How does COVID-19 affect the brain? A troubling picture emerges.:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-does-covid-19-affect-the-brain-a-troubling-picture-emerges

* "New Study Finds Yet Another Health Benefit Of The COVID Vaccine:" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-vaccine-mental-health-benefits_l_6138c73be4b0aac9c01ea4c2

* "Fight-or-flight response is altered in healthy young people who had COVID-19:" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210809144104.htm

* "Vaccinated People Who Get COVID Have These 3 Things in Common:" https://bestlifeonline.com/vaccinated-people-who-get-covid-news/

* "New study finds people with COVID-19 have antibodies that target their own immune systems:" https://massivesci.com/notes/covid-autoantibodies-immune-system/

* "This Is How Long It Takes to Get COVID in a Room, Research Shows:" https://bestlifeonline.com/close-contacts-covid/

* "Keeping indoor air clean can reduce the chance of spreading coronavirus:" https://knowridge.com/2020/11/keeping-indoor-air-clean-can-reduce-the-chance-of-spreading-coronavirus/

* "How your diet can impact the severity of Covid-19 infection:" https://www.fitandwell.com/news/how-your-diet-can-impact-the-severity-of-covid-19-infection

* "TMH docs break down COVID side effects, pediatrics, ivermectin, death, and, yes, vaccines:" https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/tmh-docs-break-down-covid-side-effects-pediatrics-ivermectin-death-and-yes-vaccines

* "‘Assume the worst’: coronavirus variants in Africa worry scientists:" https://www.smh.com.au/world/africa/assume-the-worst-coronavirus-variants-in-africa-worry-scientists-20210911-p58qtc.html

* "Turkey's COVID-19 deaths up to mid-May levels as new cases dip:" https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-covid-19-deaths-up-mid-may-levels-new-cases-dip-2021-08-27/

* "U.S. covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/03/delta-deaths-us-fourth-wave/

* "Biden administration's September 20 booster rollout may be scaled back to just Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at first:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/politics/booster-shots-covid-19-vaccines/index.html

* "Sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-executive-branch-18fb12993f05be13bf760946a6fb89be

* "Biden flexes executive power in Covid vaccine push; leaves GOP, pundits sputtering:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/biden-flexes-executive-power-in-covid-vaccine-push-leaves-gop-pundits-sputtering-120557125773

* "Elie Mystal: Government can require people to be healthy, but cannot require people to get sick:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/biden-initiating-federal-covid-19-vaccination-mandates-praised-by-experts-120546885656

* "Biden presses states to require vaccines for all teachers:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-c4db6f7f3f63d0083581ac9eeb576077

* "As American as apple pie: Vaccine requirements aren't new—and they work:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-vaccine-requirements-and-why-they-work-120627269552

* "Hayes: GOP tantrums over vaccine mandates are ridiculous—and getting people killed:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-gop-tantrums-over-vaccine-mandates-are-ridiculous-and-getting-people-killed-120622661891

* "Solid legal basis for Biden vaccination rules less certain with radicalized Supreme Court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/solid-legal-basis-for-biden-vaccination-rules-less-certain-with-radicalized-supreme-court-120641605695

* "'You have to give people the tools': Biden boosts supply of at-home rapid Covid tests:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-you-have-to-give-people-the-tools-biden-boosts-supply-of-at-home-rapid-covid-tests-120555077921

* "First responders nationwide resist COVID vaccine mandates:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-f459b8d187cd915e17588873e07e8bdf

* "Dr. Fauci: People want to say we're done with COVID. But COVID's not done with us:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-19-delta-variant-and-need-to-vaccinate-75-million-eligible-americans-discussed-by-dr-anthony-fauci-120373317703

* "Monday Florida COVID update: 1,064 more deaths, hospitalizations, ICU patients decrease:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article254037598.html

* "In Florida, a summer of death and resistance as the coronavirus rampaged:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09/05/florida-coronavirus-delta-surge/

* "Florida Schools Are Fighting the Governor for Kids to Mask Up:"

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* "Court rules for Florida governor, reinstates ban on mask mandates in state's schools:" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/appeals-court-rules-favor-florida-governor-reinstates-ban-mask-mandates-florida-2021-09-10/

* "North Texas school districts feel COVID-19 surge, report thousands of new cases:" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/09/06/north-texas-school-districts-feel-covid-19-surge-report-thousands-of-new-cases/

* "Texas Reopened Classrooms for Students... and COVID-19:"

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* "Hospitals in crisis in least vaccinated state: Mississippi:" https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-cbc4d9aa87d4f74991f9bea959bf0939

* "'We’re taking it day by day' | COVID-19 numbers spike in South Carolina after holiday weekend:" https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/covid-spike-south-carolina-holiday-weekend-dhec-quarantine/275-4533de91-1de4-4284-82e9-71452e4bf9e3

* "Two South Carolina schoolchildren die of COVID-19:" https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/two-south-carolina-schoolchildren-die-of-covid19/101-3a1447e8-c653-4461-83cf-fd1ed47f8501

* "The Latest: N. Carolina has 170 clusters in schools, centers:" https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-health-elections-germany-977669b0af4fb346d05ddf407bd14e73

* "COVID-19 numbers climb among Oklahoma school-aged children:" https://kfor.com/news/coronavirus/covid-19-numbers-climb-among-oklahoma-school-aged-children/

* "Crisis Standards of Care activated in North Idaho:" https://www.kivitv.com/news/crisis-standards-of-care-activated-in-north-idaho

* "'Reconsider high risk activities': Overcrowded Idaho hospitals forced to ration care:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-reconsider-high-risk-activities-overcrowded-idaho-hospitals-forced-to-ration-care-120465989786

* "Idaho suffering tragic mismatch of severe Covid crisis and misguided political leadership:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/idaho-suffering-tragic-mismatch-of-severe-covid-crisis-and-misguided-political-leadership-120639045736

* "Tennessee sets record for COVID hospitalizations for 7th straight day:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/tennessee-sets-record-for-covid-hospitalizations-for-7th-straight-day

* "ICU doctor 'frustrated' as COVID hospitalizations spike in Tennessee:" https://www.newschannel5.com/news/icu-doctor-frustrated-as-covid-hospitalizations-spike-in-tennessee

* "Alabama man dies of cardiac event after 43 hospitals with full ICUs turned him away:" https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/10/cullman-al-man-dies-hospitals-full-icus-turn-away-covid/8281712002/

* "Los Angeles mandates Covid vaccine for students over 12:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/los-angeles-mandates-covid-vaccine-for-students-over-12-120543813555

* "Mormon vaccine push ratchets up, dividing faith's members:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-religion-coronavirus-pandemic-f42772097cf7557086f12b549e03b18a

* "Central District Health ratifies Dr. Cole's appointment to health board:" https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/central-district-health-ratifies-dr-ryan-cole-appointment-health-board/277-a25d9dc9-a6b3-41c0-8059-8fa496197c9d

* "Jewish Ohio Senate candidate compares Biden’s vaccine mandate to the Gestapo:" https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-ohio-senate-candidate-compares-bidens-vaccine-mandate-to-the-gestapo/

* "NIH director debunks ‘personal freedom’ argument in wake of vaccine mandate:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/nih-director-dr-francis-collins-debunks-personal-freedom-argument-in-wake-of-vaccine-mandate-120542277508

* "Chicago’s Resurrection Medical Center resists pressure to provide unauthorized ivermectin treatment for COVID-19:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-resurrection-hospital-covid-ivermectin-20210908-3cencoxuiza6jmwb5fjatbchhq-story.html

* "Student mocked by adults after sharing personal Covid-19 connection at school board meeting:" https://www.wsmv.com/news/local/student-mocked-by-adults-after-sharing-personal-covid-19-connection-at-school-board-meeting/article_6c18121e-1115-11ec-9a36-37576ac1e7e8.html

* "Parents urge maskless kids to enter Michigan school, violating order:" https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-urge-maskless-children-enter-michigan-school-violation-health-order-n1278803

* "Three Schools Forced Into Lockdown After Anti-Masker Proud Boys Try to Infiltrate:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-mask-protests-and-proud-boys-shut-down-three-schools-in-vancouver

* "Mask mandate clashes show GOP is now a party of grievance McCaskill says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/covid-19-mask-mandates-spark-clashes-with-conservatives-at-local-school-boards-120374853608

* "Grand Blanc woman facing 20-year felony for alleged death threat over mask mandate:" https://www.abc12.com/2021/08/27/grand-blanc-woman-facing-20-year-felony-alleged-death-threat-over-mask-mandate/

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* "Taliban Say They Took Panjshir, Last Holdout Afghan Province:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-09-06/taliban-say-they-took-panjshir-last-holdout-afghan-province

* "Taliban form all-male Afghan government of old guard members:" https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-pakistan-afghanistan-arrests-islamabad-d50b1b490d27d32eb20cc11b77c12c87

* "Photos: Afghan Women Are Protesting For Their Rights:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/09/1035214735/women-afghanistan-protest-taliban

* "Taliban fighters use whips against Afghan women protesting the all-male interim government:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/asia/afghanistan-women-taliban-government-intl/index.html

* "Afghan Family Says Errant U.S. Missile Killed 10, Including 7 Children:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/world/asia/afghanistan-drone-attack-ISIS.html

* "Afghanistan's last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover:" https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-religion-israel-afghanistan-evacuations-c616b5b847da79f0cfc1de6f0f37b0b7

* "How the US created a world of endless war:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/31/how-the-us-created-a-world-of-endless-war

* "The US Is Scrambling to Resettle Afghan Translators:"

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* "President of Ukraine vows to fight for LGBT+ equality after Joe Biden meeting:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/02/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-joe-biden-lgbt/

* "20 States Sue Over Biden Administration's LGBTQ+ Rights Guidelines:" https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/8/31/20-states-sue-over-biden-administrations-lgbtq-rights-guidelines

* "White House competition council seeks lower consumer prices:" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-economy-prices-consumer-prices-7ea68c9157a0c72403a8e3da5fae8bcc

* "Trump Loyalists Push Back As Biden Ousts Them From Military Academy Boards:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/09/1035508121/trump-administration-officials-military-academy-boards-spicer-conway

* "Why is this former Democratic senator trying to help millionaires avoid taxes?:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-is-former-democratic-senator-heidi-heitkamp-trying-to-help-millionaires-avoid-taxes-120625221717

* "Biden Asks Congress For $30 Billion To Help Disaster Relief And Afghan Evacuees:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034923509/biden-asks-congress-for-30-billion-to-help-disaster-relief-and-afghan-evacuees

* "Millions in U.S. lose jobless benefits as federal aid expires, thrusting families and economy onto uncertain path:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/05/unemployment-benefits-economy/

* "Manchin calls on Democrats to ‘pause,’ cut $3.5 trillion spending plan, dealing potential blow to Biden agenda:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/09/02/manchin-senate-democrats-reconciliation/

* "Extreme weather amplifies calls for Congress to pass infrastructure legislation:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/extreme-weather-amplifies-calls-for-congress-to-pass-infrastructure-legislation-120236613854

* "Schumer rejects Manchin’s ‘strategic pause’ on $3.5T bill:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/08/schumer-manchin-megabill-510446

* "Biden administration says solar energy has the potential to power 40% of US electricity by 2035:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/solar-energy-doe-report-climate/index.html

* "Dems vow to pass Biden’s budget, despite internal setbacks:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/dems-vow-to-pass-biden-s-budget-despite-internal-setbacks-120698949995

* "Democrats near a compromise on a federal voting rights bill:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/democrats-near-a-compromise-on-a-federal-voting-rights-bill-120700485560

* "This Town Was Paradise, Then Everyone Started Working From Home:"

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* "Ohio House Republicans propose voter photo ID law, ending most absentee voting:" https://www.10tv.com/article/news/politics/ohio-house-republicans-propose-voter-photo-id-law-ending-most-absentee-voting/530-a09063ea-a47c-424d-801e-2cac6a25b29e

* "Texas governor signs voting restrictions bill into law:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/politics/texas-greg-abbott-voting-bill/index.html

* "Mess in Texas: A Theocracy That Enshrines White, Male Power:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/02/mess-texas-theocracy-enshrines-white-male-power

* "State GOP leaders push new 2020 election reviews as Arizona report looms:" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/07/state-gop-2020-election-review-510023

* "Arizona's Election "Audit" Isn't Done, But Two Trump-Supporting Republicans Are Declaring Victory Anyway:" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/arizona-election-audit-trump-decertify

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* "The Bye Line: Don’t sit out the midterms:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-don-t-sit-out-the-midterms-120238149594

* "California's recall election 'threatens to roll back years of LGBT+ progress':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/05/gavin-newsom-california-recall-election-lgbt/

* "California holds recall election this month for Gov. Gavin Newsom:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/california-holds-recall-election-this-month-for-gov-gavin-newsom-120237637923

* "Fmr. California Gov. Jerry Brown says California recall ‘is all about money’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/california-recall-election-gavin-newsom-larry-elder-analyzed-by-former-california-gov-jerry-brown-120629317645

* "24-year-old gun reform activist runs for Rep. Val Demings’ House seat:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/24-year-old-gun-reform-activist-runs-for-rep-val-demings-house-seat-120237125832

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* "Neguse reacts to redistricting map that would put Boebert against him in 2022 :" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-joe-neguse-reacts-to-redistricting-map-that-would-put-rep-lauren-boebert-against-him-in-2022-120372293605

* "Aaron Schock and Richard Grenell to lead Republican Pride event:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/10/aaron-schock-richard-grenell-republican-pride/

* "‘There is no legal authority McCarthy has to issue threats’ to telecom, social media firms expert says:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/kevin-mccarthy-s-phone-records-are-subject-to-preservation-requests-jan-6-select-committee-issued-reports-say-120178245982

* "GOP not conducting own Jan. 6 investigation despite McCarthy's vow:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-not-conducting-own-jan-6-investigation-despite-mccarthy-s-vow-120370757678

* "McCarthy flirts with felony by threatening telecom companies on Jan. 6 Committee request:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mccarthy-flirts-with-felony-by-threatening-telecom-companies-on-jan-6-committee-request-120556101722

* "Threats, harassment inspired by Trump's Big Lie terrorize election officials: Reuters:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/threats-harassment-inspired-by-trump-s-big-lie-terrorize-election-officials-reuters-120468037922

* "Lawyers organize to protect elections officials threatened with violence:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/lawyers-organize-to-protect-elections-officials-threatened-with-violence-120469573765

* "The increasing danger of America’s domestic terrorism:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-increasing-danger-of-america-s-domestic-terrorism-120699973588

* "Capitol Police memo warns of potential for violence during September 18 rally:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/capitol-hill-security-september-18-rally/index.html

* "Ex-Marine held without bond in shooting of Florida family:" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/marine-held-bond-shooting-florida-family-79858656

* "How to Persuade Americans to Give Up Their Guns:" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/responsible-gun-ownership-is-a-lie/619811/

* "9 steel gates of Arizona's border wall ripped off by monsoon storms, 5 completely missing:" https://www.12news.com/article/news/special-reports/at-the-border/9-steel-gates-of-arizona-border-wall-ripped-off-by-monsoon-storms-5-completely-missing/75-d1140599-f255-4b95-ad58-79f8b65cdce0

* CW: Suicide "The U.S. Must Release All LGBTQ+ Immigrants From Detention:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/8/31/us-must-release-all-lgbtq-immigrants-detention

* "Biden administration appeals ruling that found DACA unlawful:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/politics/daca-biden-administration-appeals-ruling/index.html

* "Stuck at the border, migrant mothers confront a complex maze:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/stuck-at-the-border-migrant-mothers-confront-toughened-us-policies

* "A mother and her four daughters were separated at the border in 2018. This is what they lost:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/us/us-mexico-border-family-separation-mother-daughters/index.html

* "How True Crime Reveals the Corruption and Failures of the Legal System:"

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* "Teacher under investigation for lessons on LGBT+ rights and Black Lives Matter:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/03/illinois-teacher-lgbt-tiktok/

* "Hayes: What Robert E. Lee's statue says about battle for multi-racial democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-what-robert-e-lee-s-statue-says-about-battle-for-multi-racial-democracy-120456261554

* "Antiracism educator questions celebrating Lee statue removal 156 years after Civil War:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/robert-e-lee-statue-removal-sign-that-right-wing-fringe-is-losing-culture-wars-120459845960

* "The Bye Line: Donald Trump and Robert E. Lee:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/the-bye-line-donald-trump-and-robert-e-lee-120699461792

* "QAnon & Sovereign Citizens Are Coming for the Child Welfare System:"

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* "California poised to become the first state to outlaw ‘stealthing’:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/11/stealthing-remove-condom-sex-california-outlaw/

* CW: Domestic Violence and Domestic Homicide. "Ending the Myths about Domestic Homicide:" https://daily.jstor.org/ending-myths-domestic-homicide/

* "Mexico Supreme Court strikes down abortion ban in contrast with neighbor, Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mexico-supreme-court-strikes-down-abortion-ban-in-contrast-with-neighbor-texas-120383045554

* "UN experts condemn Texas abortion law as sex discrimination ‘at its worst’:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/07/un-experts-condemn-texas-anti-abortion-law

* "Justice Department will 'protect' abortion seekers in Texas:" https://apnews.com/article/abortion-business-health-texas-738cfb097227037ac0ce33ccb79c2e4f

* "Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on Supreme Court's abortion ruling and 'shadow docket':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/politics/senate-judiciary-hearing-supreme-court-shadow-docket/index.html

* "Late night Supreme Court decision on Texas abortion law spotlights controversial shadow docket:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/supreme-court-decision-on-texas-abortion-law-sparks-calls-for-democrats-to-pay-attention-to-courts-120179269793

* "Supreme Court upholds restrictive abortion law in Texas:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/supreme-court-upholds-restrictive-abortion-law-in-texas-120236613838

* How to help clog the snitch line: https://magnesiumflare.tumblr.com/post/661634297427542016

* "How the case of one bar's liquor license could bring down the new Texas abortion ban:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-the-case-of-one-bar-s-liquor-license-could-bring-down-the-new-texas-abortion-ban-120383557676b

* "Rep. Jayapal: We must 'enshrine' women's right to choose as federal law:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/texas-abortion-law-and-enacting-federal-legislation-to-protect-women-s-right-to-choose-discussed-by-rep-jayapal-120461381814

* CW: Rape. Greg Abbot insists that Republicans have had a secret magic power that stops all rape all this time and they’ve been refusing to use it, just like they don’t prioritize rape kit processing and rape prosecution. "Texas governor defends abortion ban with promise to ‘eliminate’ rapists:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/texas-governor-greg-abbott-defends-abortion-ban-with-promise-to-eliminate-rapists-120456773657

* "Justice Department sues Texas over six-week abortion ban:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/politics/biden-administration-texas-abortion-law/index.html

* "Texas abortion ‘whistleblower’ website forced offline:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/07/texas-abortion-whistleblower-website-forced-offline

* "This Black Queer Woman Counsels Texas Women on Terminating Pregnancies:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/09/black-queer-woman-counsels-texas-women-terminating-pregnancies

* "Garland meets first challenge of defeating Texas abortion ban: getting the law into court:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/garland-meets-first-challenge-of-defeating-texas-abortion-ban-getting-the-law-into-court-120556613595

* "Tucker Carlson targets trans men in unhinged abortion rant riddled with falsities:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/03/tucker-carlson-fox-news-trans-abortion/

* "Stephen Breyer calls Supreme Court decision on Texas abortion law 'very, very, very wrong':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/politics/stephen-breyer-texas-abortion/index.html

* "DOJ sues Texas over restrictive abortion law:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/doj-sues-texas-over-restrictive-abortion-law-120699973615

* I haven't been covering this much because so much is speculation and she said vs she said vs untrustworthy cops said, and I'd like way more facts before commenting. However, this does a decent job of laying out the complications in a reasonably nuanced way. "Sex Offender Charged In Wi Spa Incident... Let's Talk About It:"

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* "I've Been Targeted & Doxxed By Transphobic Hate Raids:"

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* "Bible passages justifying homophobia have been woefully 'misinterpreted':" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/05/catholic-church-lgbt-gay-relationships-bible-wigngaards-institute-study-mary-mcaleese/

* "China Bans Effeminate, 'Sissy' Men from Television Broadcasts:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/9/03/chinese-bans-effeminate-sissy-men-television-broadcasts

* "Tens of thousands march for same-sex marriage in Switzerland ahead of national referendum:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/05/switzerland-pride-march-same-sex-marriage/

* "Six Men Convicted of Killing LGBTQ+ Activist and USAID Worker:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2021/9/02/six-men-convicted-killing-lgbtq-activist-and-usaid-worker

* "Bisexual, non-binary student scared to leave home after hateful street attack:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/10/non-binary-zerhanah-galway/

* "Anti-trans protesters in suffragette colours boo Nicola Sturgeon without irony:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/03/nicola-sturgeon-anti-trans-protest-suffragette-holyrood-edinburgh/

* "Couple beaten and stabbed in another homophobic attack in Birmingham Gay Village:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/06/birmingham-gay-village-homophobic-attack-2/

* "Police ‘stepping up’ presence in Birmingham following violent attack on gay couple:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/04/birmingham-police-patrols-attack-gay-couple/

* "Violent homophobe pushes man into canal in dangerous, 'despicable' hate crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/06/liverpool-canal-hate-crime/

* "Teen walks free after violently attacking gay couple while singing song from Frozen:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/02/lancashire-attack-gay-couple-homophobia/

* "Preacher who called gay man 'worse than a terrorist' convicted of hate crime:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/02/omar-mohamad-hate-crime-speakers-corner-preacher/

* "A Message for Black LGBTQ+ Youth:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/9/03/message-black-lgbtq-youth

*CW: Suicide. "I'm a Doctor: Gender-Affirming Care Saves Trans Lives:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2021/5/03/im-doctor-gender-affirming-care-saves-trans-lives

* "California passes America’s first bill tracking violent deaths of LGBT+ people:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/04/california-passes-ab-1094-violent-deaths-lgbt/

* "Trans Makeup Artist Pooh Johnson Murdered in Louisiana:" https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/9/01/trans-makeup-artist-pooh-johnson-murdered-louisiana

* "Killer who strangled trans teen Nikki Kuhnhausen to death sentenced to 20 years:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/10/nikki-kuhnhausen-killer-sentenced-20-years/

* "Gay teacher forced to quit after school banned him from discussing his sexuality:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/09/missouri-teacher-resigns-gay/

* "Todrick Hall tears into wedding venues refusing gay couples over religious beliefs:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/02/todrick-hall-boycott-wedding-venues/

* "LGBT history exhibit pulled from Missouri Capitol after just four days following complaints:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/04/lgbt-history-exhibit-missouri-capitol-museum/

* "Parents of queer teen ‘stopped loving’ them when they came out. Now, they’re looking for a new family:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/11/queer-teen-new-family-dax-oklahoma-come-out/

* "Skater Amber Glenn on How Coming Out Changed Her Life:" https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/8/26/skater-amber-glenn-how-coming-out-changed-her-life

* "Former HRC president Alphonso David says he was unjustly fired:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-sunday-show/watch/former-hrc-president-alphonso-david-says-he-was-unjustly-fired-120700485568

* "How Transphobes Weaponize Burnout Against Neurodivergent Trans People:"

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* "Study: Combining PrEP With U=U Yields Incredible Results:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/news/2021/9/01/study-combining-prep-uu-yields-incredible-results

* "The Gruesome Tale of the Laughing Death Epidemic:"

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* "Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Family’s History Shows Why.:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/magazine/life-expectancy-racial-gap.html

* "The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once:" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/coronavirus-pandemic-ventilation-rethinking-air/620000/

* CW: Elder Abuse. "Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes:" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/health/nursing-homes-schizophrenia-antipsychotics.html

* "Smallpox and the photos anti-vaxxers don't want you to see:" https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/smallpox-and-the-photos-anti-vaxxers-dont-want-you-to-see/24MJGHWAIJRJYD6LIPQ6ZTBKHI/

* "Will Americans wear masks to prevent sickness beyond COVID-19?:" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/will-americans-wear-masks-to-prevent-sickness-beyond-covid-19

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The World is basically on Fire/Melting. I'm putting stuff to do with it here.

* "Climate change: Big increase in weather disasters over the past five decades:" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58396975

* "16 die as floods swamp public hospital in central Mexico:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/flooding-central-mexico-kills-10-hospital-79877433

* "Floods sweep cars into sea, damage homes in northeast Spain:" https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/floods-sweep-cars-sea-damage-homes-northeast-spain-79784040

* "Growing wildfire near Penticton sparks evacuation alerts by First Nation and regional district:" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires-sept-4-2021-1.6165208

* "Nearly 1 in 3 Americans experienced a weather disaster this summer:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/04/climate-disaster-hurricane-ida/

* "Engineers Bent the Rules, and May Have Saved New Orleans:" https://time.com/6094221/hurricane-ida-engineering-protection/

* "Ida and COVID-19: 'Twin-demic' slams Louisiana hospitals:" https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-ida-environment-and-nature-louisiana-pandemics-health-e1ba589ce2b70b6fb3994fbe101c514f

* "What a hurricane means when you live in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley':" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/06/us/hurricane-ida-cancer-alley-pollution/index.html

* "Louisiana areas hardest-hit by Hurricane Ida need a fundamental change in how they're protected, official says:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/us/hurricane-ida-aftermath-louisiana-friday/index.html

* "Shortages of supplies and workers will delay Gulf rebuilding:" https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-1ebb836d454ad09b0da429e0ba10e98a

* "New Orleans: Seniors left in dark, hot facilities after Ida:" https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-dd7efb4ba9b29389fa5888fd930dec5a

* "New York City's illegally converted apartments proved deadly in Ida's path:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/us/new-york-city-flooding-illegal-basement-apartments/index.html

* "New York City was never built to withstand a deluge like the one Ida delivered. It showed.:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/new-york-infrastructure-climate-change/index.html

* "Scenes from Ida’s Chaotic, Tragic Night in New York City:" https://www.curbed.com/2021/09/tropical-storm-ida-new-york-city.html

* "NYC's Subway Flooding Isn't A Fluke. It's The Reality For Cities In A Warming World:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1021185475/climate-change-means-more-subway-flooding-worldwide-like-new-york-just-experienc

* "Climate change’s ‘fingerprint’ seen in Ida flooding, including in Pennsylvania:" https://www.witf.org/2021/09/07/climate-changes-fingerprint-seen-in-ida-flooding-including-in-pennsylvania/

* "One week later, some Phoenixville flood victims still taking stock of damage:" https://6abc.com/phoenixville-flooding-pennslvania-chester-county-hurricane-ida/11009127/

* "Satellite Photos Show Just How Bad The Flooding From Ida Has Been In New Jersey:" https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/09/05/1034459845/satellite-photos-flooding-ida-new-jersey

* "Responders Are Gaining On The Caldor Fire, But Now They've Got New Blazes To Battle:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/07/1034711477/updates-wildfires-california

* "Lightning threatens California as fires continue to burn across the state:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/09/california-fire-weather-caldor-dixie-latest

* "An Unprecedented Fire Season Is Devastating California… Again:"

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* "‘They just forgot about us’: a US motel of climate refugees with nowhere to go:" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/26/oregon-wildfires-climate-change-motel

* "Watch Pets And People Run For Cover As A Powerful Earthquake Strikes Mexico:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035108690/mexico-earthquake-video-acapulco-damage

* "Imagine If We Had Spent the Last 20 Years Fighting Climate Change Instead of the War on Terror:" https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-change-floods-war-on-terror-crisis-china

* "Climate change: Shetland's power struggle between oil and wind:" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58464439

* "The snows of Kilimanjaro:" http://www.bbc.com/storyworks/travel/fit-for-purpose/climate-change-kilimanjaro

* "Ancient fleece paving method used to protect soft peatland route:" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/ancient-fleece-paving-method-used-to-protect-soft-peatland-route-1.4659414

* "The World’s First Underwater Veggie Garden is Growing Lettuce, Tomatoes & More. Because, Waterworld.:" https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/09/01/the-worlds-first-underwater-veggie-garden-is-growing-lettuce-tomatoes-mushrooms-and-more-because-waterworld/

* "The lost generation of ancient trees:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210908-the-lost-generation-of-ancient-trees

* ""The unlikely protector against Bangladesh's rising seas:" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210827-the-unlikely-protector-against-rising-seas-in-bangladeshCare at Scale:" https://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/care-at-scale/

* "There’s One Surefire Way to End Big Sewage Spills: End Big Sewage:" https://undark.org/2021/09/02/end-big-sewage/

* "Is Mycelium Fungus the Plastic of the Future?:"

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* "Judge loosens Apple's grip on app store in Epic decision:" https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/judge-loosens-apples-grip-app-store-epic-decision-79942612

* "DoorDash, Grubhub And Uber Eats Sue New York City Over Price Caps:" https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035905604/doordash-grubhub-uber-eats-lawsuit-sue-new-york-city

* Not Okay. "Bar live-streams footage from bathrooms for rest of patrons to see, says it's for "safety":" https://www.newsweek.com/bar-live-streams-footage-bathrooms-rest-patrons-see-says-its-safety-1627171

* "UN hails end of poisonous leaded gas use in cars worldwide:" https://apnews.com/article/business-health-environment-and-nature-united-nations-d59bba0c54004966f16e4af38246194d

* "Streamers angry at Twitch changes that force them to work long hours or lose money:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/11/twitch-streamers-local-subscription-pricing/

* "One man’s plan to resurrect the animal species we can’t save:" https://www.wired.co.uk/article/natures-safe

* "In the Absence of Cruise Ships, Humpbacks Have Different Things to Say:" https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/in-the-absence-of-cruise-ships-humpbacks-have-different-things-to-say/

* "DNA of Giant ‘Corpse Flower’ Parasite Surprises Biologists:" https://www.quantamagazine.org/dna-of-giant-corpse-flower-parasite-surprises-biologists-20210421/

* "New pumpkin toadlet species found—and it secretly glows in the dark:" https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-pumpkin-toadlet-species-found%E2%80%94and-it-secretly-glows-in-the-dark/ar-BB1gehYu

* "Worms found to share "memories" by swapping RNA to warn of danger:" https://newatlas.com/biology/celegans-worms-share-memories-rna/

* "Researchers complete first-ever detailed map of global coral:" https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/researchers-complete-first-ever-detailed-map-global-coral-rcna1943

* "‘Genetic fossil’: intact DNA from woman who lived 7,200 years ago discovered in Indonesia:" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia

* "Prehistoric human bones in Guernsey discovered by coastal walker:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-56663491

* "Dig in southern Spain reveals decapitation, trepanation and other extraordinary burial rituals:" https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/03/dig-in-southern-spain-reveals.html

* "The far-reaching effects the Vikings had when they settled down:" https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0406/1208207-vikings-anthropocene-settling-effects/

* "Archaeologists uncover evidence of Northumberland fishing community dating back 900 years:" https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/people/archaeologists-uncover-evidence-of-northumberland-fishing-community-dating-back-900-years-3192422

* "Getting dressed in the middle ages, while Jewish: 11th century medieval Jews, England vs Spain:"

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* "How Exactly Did One Become an Executioner in Medieval Times?:"

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* "Medieval gold coin hoards and skull ring discovered in Wales:" https://www.livescience.com/uk-metal-detector-medieval-treasures.html

* "Aztec Pictograms Are the First Written Records of Earthquakes in the Americas:" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aztec-code-earthquakes-pictograms-180978534/

* "Princess Susana: The Colonial Con Woman:"

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* "Like Washington and Jefferson, he championed liberty. Unlike the founders, he freed his slaves:" https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/robert-carter-iii-deed-of-gift-slavery-anniversary/index.html

* "The Dred Scott Decision: Crash Course Black American History #16:"

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* "Margaretta Peter vs The Devil:"

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* CW: Pedophilia, Child Abuse. "The Cult That Made Your Grandmother's Fine Silverware:"

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* "3 Black People You Should Know!:"

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* "Wyatt Earp: The Great American... Villain?:"

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* "The Crystal Palace: An Omen of Things to Come:"

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* "The Erie Strangler: Michigan's Accidental Pirate:"

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* "How the Airline Industry Got Wise to Seat Belts:" https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/how-airline-industry-got-wise-seat-belts-180978271/

* "How Bicycles Caused the Downfall of the British Empire:"

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* CW: Cannibalism "The Acid Bath Murderer: No Body, No Crime (Not Quite):"

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* "Bible John: Scotland's High-Minded Jack the Ripper:"

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* "The Stone of Scone: A Very Scottish Heist:"

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* CW: Stalking "The Circleville Letters:"

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* "Mona Fandey: The Pop Princess Turned Black Magic Killer:"

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* "Hassan and Abbas O: The Perfect Crime:"

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* "The Phantom of Heilbronn:"

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* CW: Stalking "The Westfield Watcher:"

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* CW: Rape, Cannibalism "The Chijon Family: The Korean Cannibal Clan:"

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* "Actor Michael K. Williams, Omar on 'The Wire,' dead at 54:" https://apnews.com/article/michael-k-williams-dead-ee851aa32e91c879c89952eb431a2869

* "Forgetting My First Language:" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/forgetting-my-first-language

* "Racist and Sexist School Dress Codes Continue to Fail Students:"

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* "Tenacious Unicorn Ranch Is Pioneering a New and Queer Wild West:"

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* "Was Cloris Leachman Television's First Beard?:"

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* "Disney's Gay Cultural Appropriation (1/2):"

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* Wednesday, the Nearby Millenial did her first training shift under the supervision of caregiver Millenial, now promoted to Head Millenial. It was charming. The plan is we all forage Wednesday afternoons, and then Nearby Millenial clocks in for her two hours. Wednesday's are crazy busy work wise for Head Millenial at it's a huge help to everyone involved. The goal is for nearby Millenial to register to work other caregiving gigs in the area, but also be available if Head Millenial gets sick, etc..

Tavy is on day three of nightmares and high anxiety, which I am doing my best to help him with. I long for good sleep though. It'll pass eventually.

I need to take the car in again. *fingers crossed*

* Tavy was feeling much better by Friday. I alas, had crap for sleep. I had to get up mid sleep cycle to take the car in to get poked at by the honest mechanics. I was lucky. It was the lower end of the range, rather than the high end. They can't actually fix it properly until the 20th, as they are swamped and short staffed, but they patched it together so I can drive it until then if I am careful and don't drive it too much. The fix is going to be about 90, which means I can't pay a bill this month, but luckily, I have not paid it yet, so the money physically exists.

Want to help fund the car repair? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

Friday was also forage food delivery. It arrived while I was out and I brought it right in and unpacked it. No mice. It was also pharmacy delivery day. I was also double booked to finish a scene on line I'd started Wednesday that was rather important for both plot and character reasons, while I was also supposed to get a visit from a Millennial to do a thing. Luckily, the timing worked pretty well and everything got done.

From the time I got up for pharmacy delivery to the actual arrival of the Millennial, poor Tavy was in an agony of excitement. From my behavior, clearly a Millennial was coming, possibly his personal favorite Millennial. Unfortunately, said Millennial arrived two hour after the usual Millennial visitor arrival time, so every time he heard a small noise or caught movement out of the corner of his eye through one of the windows he went running over to check. He was too worked up to settle. At one point he escaped onto the patio to see if the millennial was out there gardening.

The Visitor was only here for about an hour, and the Emperor tried to leave with him. Poor Button. Saturday game will be more satisfying as he likes both Millennials who are coming and they will arrive at the usualish time. (Don't worry, we mask. we are taking delta seriously. These are also the ones who literally work in the apartment and they follow proper infectious disease protocols when in public and visiting me or each other. So basically a bubble with masks.

* Saturday's game the players planned a raid/heist against the Imperial Palace of the East Roman Empire. Initially, we had four mages (plus a mortal+ henchperson), and three assorted shifts. Two of the shifters had to drop off over the summer for assorted life reasons. Last season one of the characters acquired an NPC through play, but they are still not sure what he can do. This means we have 1 Garou Ragabash in a group of mages. <.< >.> They were not a fight heave group as the other two shifters were not werewolves, so the game is designed with the best fighters in the group being the mortal plus and a literal goose. (Long story on the goose. Basically this is a group that gathers information, and ideally sneaks rather than fights.

The way I world built, some places tend to be one or another species dominant, but the big, cosmopolitan centers are generally neutral by treaty and often have mixed defenses made and maintained by mixed species. there is also some cross species cooperation, particularly between certain groups in cosmopolitan settings. (Some factions, tribes, species, etc. don't cooperate ever. Some do in limited emergency circumstances. Some are way more open and relaxed. When I run mixed groups we select for backgrounds tribes, factions, clans, traditions, species that would ICly be more open and for play balance. shifters are first level to start. mages are arete two to start which makes sense if you've ever played mage. You can do A Lot with arete two, arete one not so much. A level one shifter is about as competent as a level two mage for dealing with starter character challenges). My general way of running things is to put makes sense and fun over often conflicting source books.

The Palace is species neutral by treaty (between a limited number of species), defended by multiple species, with a whole lot of political faction ebb and flow within. The group was working as outsiders to the city power structure so the important faction heads could have plausible deniability. They infiltrated the palace and have been spying basically. Studying the physical and political layout, trying to track down the mystical source of a virulent fever that had been burning off and on for a couple of years. they discovered that and more. So much more.

In the previous session they'd found something so big it really did require a city wide response. A council of the assorted friendly Shifter and Mage faction heads from various species was called on neutral ground. The group reported the fever source and called for help with some taint cleansing in the Palace, because one Ragabash with a cleansing ritual was not going to cut it. The mage PCs couldn't go inside because the Euthantos PC had done what amounted to a plague return to sender type thing. The mystic fever did not effect Garou, but is a pain in the ass to heal in the few mages likely to catch it. (level two and up life mages aren't catching it, but not everyone has two levels in Life.) Also, the mages needed to make and hold a temporary opening in a weak place in the wards to allow Garou in the penumbra through. They also reported the threat big enough to destroy the whole city they'd discovered.

The initial higher up plan to deal with the big threat turned out to be likely worse than doing nothing when it turned out the NPC had information about a similar previous attempt a very, very long time ago. That got tabled, but the raid/heist went ahead. Mages got the cleansing party in lead by our Garou who had found the taint and knew how to get to both sites. Some of them held the hole open, while the others fought the guards who inevitably found them and a cluster of mages come to investigate the hoopla. There had been a tiny combat once before, but this was their first multi-wave, multi-round combat. Meanwhile, the Garou used a thing he'd gotten in the umbra previously to bribe some small spider spirits into helping. They stealthed about, did their cleansings, avoided spirit guardians, and did some nice looting. A guard was beheaded. a mage was cleaved in two. A couple people were battered and bitten unconscious by a Horrible Goose. (Unleash the goose of war. Some others ran away. The group escaped.

They are now at the point where they are ready to formalize the group. Progress!

* After Saturday game, I needed to get gas so I could take Head Millennial home. I usually budget $30, but prices were so high it was just short of $50. This on top of the repairs I need to the car. I was just loading back into the car, when an out of breath man jogged up. He had very little English. I have even less Spanish, since it's just random words and phrases I picked up living here over the years (slowly deteriorating since I quit teaching), plus things I can deduce from what is left of my deteriorating French and Latin vocabulary. Plus Mime.

I worked out his car had run out of gas and he'd left his family there to come try to get some. He seemed legitimately freaked out and desperate for help. I gave him one of my cheap emergency cloth masks I keep in the car so we could go inside. At some point I had a gas can, but Skye gave it away in a move, and they were now charging 18+tax for a one gallon plastic can. (Jesus, Fuck!) Luckily he had it, because I didn't, having just blown it gassing my car. I negotiated the purchase. He only had cash and the change wasn't enough, so I bought him the gallon of fuel with what was left on my card, which legitimately startled him. I kept saying and miming zero when he asked how much. I was imagining he'd need what else he might have to gas up and possibly find food and lodging for his family, and it was the least I could do. There was no question of me not offering him a ride. I've been rescued by strangers when I had car trouble before and there was simply no question of me not doing the same.

Now we had to figure out where his car was. O.o Luckily Head Millennial had taken a little Spanish via language learning program, so had about as much as the gentleman had English. This was not enough for anything like clear directions, but we did manage to work out he wanted us to get on the highway going south, which was odd, because he was definitely saying North also, but I worked it out.

They'd been travelling North through the twisty, foggy, mostly unlit mountain pass at night, which can be scary on it's own. Also, there is a very long stretch of farmland with no gas South of the mountain, and literally one place to get gas in the pass. It's not as bad as the 40ish miles of farmland on a stretch further south where I got stranded on a shoulder at night once, but it is bad and waaaaaay the fuck scarier. The shoulder is narrow, and people get nervous driving a twisty two laner that high up. especially in fog. (South bound is far lower of the slope and nowhere near as alarming at night). No one was going to stop for a latino man, even with kids anywhere up there. Odds are no one would much notice them, being too busy driving and not tangling with trucks. If you runout there you are fucked 'til morning and there is a non zero chance of someone messing up and clipping you or your car. Jesus fuck! No wonder he was so happy to see us and grateful for our help. It was a massive relief to him when I mimed turning around. he must have been terrified. I'd suspected that when he was willing to get in a beat up old car with two strange white people at night).

It was a very, very long drive to the next exit south of the gas station where we collected him. I'm not kidding about how little flatland there is on that stretch of coast. The small ass community where the last gas station before the really rocky bit is well past the high bits. We found the north on ramp after a bit of fumbling with shitty signage in the dark. (I've pulled off here maybe three times since I moved up here in '98. I know how empty the passes are, so I am super careful about enough gas. A non-local wouldn't know that though). Then there was the long drive back, with us not sure how far they'd gotten before their gas ran out.

I spotted the car in time to stop. They cleverly owned flares (I don't) and had blinkers going. He must have jogged two to three miles for help, luckily down hill, but if I hadn't offered the ride, he'd have had to do that uphill going the wrong way. I just kept thinking how scary this would have been for him even without the language barrier and not knowing if American convenience stores carried gas can. They were so happy when they saw him get out of the car with the gas, I was incredibly happy they were all safe. (We could have easily been a car full of MAGA monsters or Proud Boys with guns or bats instead of someone bringing their husband and father back).

Yes, I've had people try to scam me with out of gas stories. Yes, the PNW has a history of robbing people who stop to help stranded drivers. Yes, there is always a risk taking a stranger into one's car. It's just I am good at reading people, and I absolutely believed him. He was clearly trying very hard not to freak the fuck out and was just as clearly out of breath. He had way more reason to be frightened of approaching white strangers at night. I'm glad it was us, a couple of mild mannered goth weirdos and not some asshole he approached in his desperation. We’re a blue state because of the cities strung like necklaces on the highway strings, but scratch blue here and you get red. I hope wherever they are going, they get there safely.

* "The Creepy Doll Adoption Agency:" https://www.neatorama.com/2021/09/08/The-Creepy-Doll-Adoption-Agency/

* "Sunday Sweets: Sweet Things In Small Packages:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/9/12/sunday-sweets-sweet-things-in-small-packages

* "Sunday Sweets: Taste The Rainbow:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2021/9/5/sunday-sweets-taste-the-rainbow

* "‘Game of Thrones’ type Michigan home hits market with moat, drawbridge, dungeon, secret passageways, grotto:" https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/09/game-of-thrones-type-michigan-home-hits-market-with-moat-drawbridge-dungeon-secret-passageways-grotto.html

* ToS: Season 2 Rewatch:

- 3.3: The Paradise Syndrome.

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to an 'improbably' earthlike planet. ('Improbable' despite lots of AU planets they've landed on already). They find an ancient advanced large metal artifact. They need to deflect an asteroid from the planet in thirty minutes, so clearly faffing about on the surface instead of solving the problem at any time before the last minute. They find a mix of Navaho, Mohican, and Delaware native Americans living traditional lifestyles there. There is a lot of extremely unfortunate dialog here, but it's nothing next to the appropriation, use of red face, and white savior crap to come.

Spock wants them to stop wasting time while a planet is at stake. (I agree, Spock, I agree). Kirk insists on futzing about with the obelisk for fun and to raise the stakes by wasting more time and gets sucked in. The search parties fail. Spock beams everyone up to go save the planet. McCoy has hysterics about abandoning Kirk even though logically saving the planet will save Kirk, while not saving the planet will definitely kill Kirk. Um, duh! Despite supposedly being a Doctor, McCoy somehow couldn't grasp this without it being explained as if to a three year old. McCoy gives no fucks that the entire planetary population of Native Americans will die if they don't stop the asteroid hitting the planet.

Kirk has amnesia. When he emerges from the obelisk the locals take him for their long awaited Savior God which...*head desk* Seriously, this is painful to watch. The local Elders want Kirk to prove he's a God. Kirk is supposed to rouse the Temple spirits to save them from the asteroid. Kirk vaguely remembers being from the sky and saves a drowned child with CPR, thus proving his white savior godhood. If you can not hear my disgust with this whole plot line in my typing, trust me, it's there.

Spock exceeds the safety margin to make up time for the time Kirk and McCoy wasted for no good reason. Scotty tells him off. Whatever they are paying Spock is clearly not enough. They try to deflect the asteroid, but the engines are damaged and they don't deflect the asteroid enough. Spock puts the ship in front of the asteroid in hopes of breaking it up. McCoy is still hysterical and obstructionist, unable to grasp that they need to save the planet or everyone on it dies, including Kirk.

Apparently the white lady made up in red face named Miramanee was engaged to a local named "Salish," which is the name of a real tribe near where I live. I have so many questions this episode will never answer. She breaks up with him to be Kirk's lover, because of course. Somehow Miramanee isn't bright enough to pull a tunic off using the head hole. Way to depict a grown woman as childlike. The Elders grovel in a way that turns my stomach and want to know how to advance and improve to please the Sky Gods. Ugh. I just... Why even is this episode? Kirk is happy and relaxed for the first time ever.

Miramanee is betrothed to Kirk because tribal law demands it. Suuuuurrrre. Anyway Kirk is into it, so they are to be married tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is reduced to impulse power and they need to go to a repair base. The Rock is still headed for the planet. They will arrive in months, but four hours ahead of the asteroid. McCoy has more hysterics and berates Spock.

Salish attacks Kirk. The blood proves he's not a God. Kirk refuses to kill Salish. He and Miramanee marry. Months later, he's having nightmares and believes he doesn't deserve this happiness. Miramanee is pregnant. He invents irrigation and a lamp even though they would have had that technology.

Spock refuses to go to sick bay, being busy deciphering the obelisk. McCoy berates Spock and threatens to call security. Spock pretends to rest, then goes back to work. The symbols are both notes and an alphabet. The Preservers seeded "primitive cultures" throughout the galaxy. Their asteroid deflector has become defective. They need to fix it fast.

The asteroid approaches. Kirk tells them to go to the caves, but the locals say the caves aren't safe and he needs to go rouse the temple spirits. He prays fruitlessly. Chaos ensues. The mob stones Kirk and Miramanee. Spock and McCoy beam in, terrifying the locals. They save Kirk, but let Miramanee and her unborn baby die with only palliative care. Spock mind melds with Kirk to bring back his memory. Kirk resists, but it eventually works.

Spock catches Kirk up on the plot. He repeats his original message which accidentally opens the trap door. They try to figure out what Kirk did to screw up the system. Spock sorts it. Zap! Miramanee dies still believing in Kirk. They all bugger off having endangered a planet and contaminated another culture because they like site seeing.

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