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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* "When Hollywood Came Out of the Closet:"

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

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

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

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

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

I hope he’s okay, wherever he is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Am I being blackballed? Inquiring minds want to know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The help links are at the bottom under the cut.

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

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

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

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

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

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* "Why People Are Protesting in India:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/world/asia/india-protests-citizenship-muslims.html

"All 33 million residents of Assam, a state bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh, had to provide documentary evidence, such as a property deed or a birth certificate, showing that they or their ancestors lived in India before 1971. Those who could not would be declared foreign migrants, at risk of being sent to huge new detention camps.

More than two million people, many of them Muslims, failed to pass the test and could end up stateless. The governing party of Mr. Modi has vowed to extend the test to other parts of India.

The government has said the test was intended to root out undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh. India’s home minister, Amit Shah, has repeatedly referred to these migrants as “termites.”"

* "The year in protests: What happened next?:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50822363

* "Hong Kong protest tide turns into sea of flames:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-poy-hong-kong-widerimage/hong-kong-protest-tide-turns-into-sea-of-flames-idUSKBN1YR1T4

* "U.S. Braces for Major North Korean Weapons Test as Trump’s Diplomacy Fizzles:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-trump-kim.html

* "Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-state-tv-calls-trump-their-agent

* "Trump airs his grievances as MAGA millennials mingle:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/21/trump-turning-point-usa-speech-089182

* "‘Who is Mar-a-Lago?’ Arrested Chinese woman appears confused after intrusion at Trump club:" https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article238538558.html

* "Trespassing Chinese nationals suggest an alarming pattern:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trespassing-chinese-nationals-suggest-an-alarming-pattern-75638341667

* "Rev. Barber on relationship between Evangelical movement and Trump:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rev-barber-on-relationship-between-evangelical-movement-and-trump-75629637959

* "Donald Trump’s vendetta against the wind:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/donald-trump-s-vendetta-against-the-wind-75631173743

* "President Trump’s written tirade to Nancy Pelosi, annotated:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/17/president-trumps-written-tirade-nancy-pelosi-annotated/

* "Battle lines harden over Trump impeachment trial witnesses:" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-idUSKBN1YQ0I6

* "House counsel suggests Trump could be impeached again:" https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/23/doj-impeachment-vote-undercut-house-mcgahn-testimony-089604

* "New evidence shows fears about legality of Trump Ukraine scheme:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-evidence-shows-fears-about-legality-of-trump-ukraine-scheme-75635781983

* "Sen. Van Hollen: Trump violated another law with Ukraine aid hold:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sen-van-hollen-trump-violated-another-law-with-ukraine-aid-hold-75630149899

* "Chris Hayes on the ‘damning’ emails sent right after the Ukraine phone call:" http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-on-the-damning-emails-sent-right-after-the-ukraine-phone-call-75631685829

* "Does media coverage appear to attack Democrats for impeachment?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/trump-impeachment-media-coverage-seems-to-criticize-democrats-75549765878

* "Millions of Americans Are at Risk of Losing Health Care, Yet Again:" https://www.hivplusmag.com/treatment/2019/12/23/millions-americans-are-risk-losing-health-care-yet-again

* "Trump adviser: Expect more aggressive poll watching in 2020:" https://apnews.com/af2f0ede054d8baebbe1bb6ca47b4895

* "Democrats strategize against renewed GOP vote suppression efforts:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/democrats-strategize-against-renewed-gop-vote-suppression-efforts-75637317560

* "50+ LGBTQ Women, Nonbinary Activists Back Elizabeth Warren:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2019/12/24/exclusive-50-lgbtq-women-nonbinary-activists-back-elizabeth-warren

* "Elizabeth Warren launches investigation into FOSTA/SESTA on International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/17/fosta-sesta-elizabeth-warren-international-day-end-violence-sex-workers-trans-rights/

* "Under secret Stephen Miller plan, ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/under-secret-stephen-miller-plan-ice-to-use-data-on-migrant-children-to-expand-deportation-efforts/2019/12/20/36975b34-22a8-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html

* "Does white nationalism remain a problem for active-duty troops?:" http://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/-white-nationalist-term-removed-from-military-screening-measure-75547717869

* "New Jersey Is Third State to Ban Discrimination Based on Hair:" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/nj-hair-discrimination.html

* "Antigay, Tax-Exempt Mormon Church Accused of Misusing Billions:" https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/12/17/antigay-tax-exempt-mormon-church-accused-misusing-billions

* "Modern Life: Crash Course European History #30:"

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* "Indonesia Is Trying to Screen Out Queer Teachers:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/12/23/indonesia-trying-screen-out-queer-teachers

* "U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Relieved of Duty After Denouncing Homophobia:" https://www.advocate.com/world/2019/12/23/us-ambassador-zambia-relieved-duty-after-denouncing-homophobia

* "An Open Letter to My LGBTQ Family This Holiday Season:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/23/open-letter-my-lgbtq-family-holiday-season

* "Will a Post-HB 2 North Carolina Elect Its First Trans Senator?:" https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/12/23/will-post-hb2-north-carolina-elect-its-first-trans-senator

* TW: Death Threat "High school student makes a powerful statement after being called a ‘f****t’ one too many times:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/17/high-school-student-pride-flag-cape-eastern-hancock-indiana/

* "'Lost crops' could have fed as many as maize:" https://phys.org/news/2019-12-lost-crops-fed-maize.html

* "‘Tis Impeachment Season:"

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* "Why Are People Protesting in Hong Kong? Part 1:"

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* "Why Are People Protesting in Hong Kong? Part 2:"

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* ""Once Upon Impeachment," A Late Show Animated Christmas Classic:"

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* The Refrigerator is officially fixed. It really was a very easy repair of yu have the right toolsand know what you're doing. It was absolutely nothing I could fix myself. It turns out Rubbermaid makes a kick ass cooler. As in, the large baby sized ice block I had put in the bottom was barely even a tiny bit melted and most of the loose ice stayed intact. It did fit in the storage unit with the small borrowed cooler inside. Like, all the perishables made it through from Friday to Sunday. I lost half my food at least in the initial emergency, but nothing over the weekend. It's nice and cool/cold and the ice maker is happily making ice.

I did my Solstice thing, but was too tired after to even touch a computer, hence Sunday being all preprogrammed stuff on tumblr and it being crickets on Dreamwidth. I am till finding things and returning them to their proper homes, as the table clearing had to be hasty.

The great fish migration is going to be next Saturday. *crosses fingers* I spotted a live whiptail in the by the door twenty and those are the worst to catch and transport. Current plan is to migrate the other twenty across to the thirty and what until I hear from the contractor in January to see if I actually have to move the door twenty at all. If I do, they will join their comrades in the office thirty. If not, after the renovation I'll move the tank with fish inside across the living room and put the thirty back on it's pedestal in the living room where the door twenty currently is.

Today I went out to do forage, library and pick up a few replacements for things that died in the fridge last week. It was a good forage in a lot of ways (pistachios!), but was light on bread and fresh veg. Then I went through a stack of yet more phone bureaucracy. They are not cancelling my medicaid, it turns out, but the COLA on Social security starting January was just enough to push everyone on Social Security out of the Categorically needy program into the Medically needy program, which despite the you are going to lose some benefits wording is essentially the same according to the Health and Human Services guy. I have not started the end of year bureaucracy packet, which came last Friday, but a lot of Friday's phone bureaucracy was me calling around to get people to mail me the documentation I need to do the packet. Obviously, none of that is here yet. The weekend ate all the spoons, and I'm wiped today from errands. Hopefully, I'll get my shit to do the parts I can manage with the paperwork I have in the next three days, and fill in the bits that need documents when they turn up. Then I laboriously put forage away. Squirrel emptied the dishwasher yesterday, so there was room for me to reload it. Which meant exhausting and painful prewashing. I still have one side of the sink worth of prewashed things ready for the next load. Sigh.

I still have a lot of last week's news to chew through on top of toy's stuff. My hope is, I'll have a chance to catch up this week.

* I want to thank all of my readers. no really, y'all make me feel less like a voice crying in the wilderness or Cassandra speaking prophecy to those who don't listen.

I especially want to thank those of you who helped keep Livia kitten alive through her medical crisis. Seriously, she would have died without you all coing together to pay her vet bills and get her the food she needed/s to stay alive. She seems to be doing really well on limited ingredient shreds and odds are I'll be getting normal limited ingredient turkey based grain free kibbles and try transitioning her off the prescription kibbles in January once I'm in funds again. She likes the shreds so much she looks forward to them every day, milling around excitedly when she thinks I'm making them and giving one small worried squeak if I'm too slow. I make the sounds that means it's coming and she is reassured. Elder kitty thinks the shreds are the best food ever, and I think they are helping her digestion. Elder Kitty is doing so well, it like the clock has turned back to when her cohort clowder were alive. she's still frail, but she's eating better, has taken back all her common area nap spots and seems to have mostly recovered from her long depression.

I also wanted to give a special thanks to everyone who helped keep the car, dishwasher, and refrigerator running. You are all super stars.

* "The 30 Best LGBTQ Films of the Decade:" https://www.advocate.com/film/2019/12/23/30-best-lgbtq-films-decade#media-gallery-media-31

* TW: Eating Disorders. "Why Can't Marvel Superheroes Have 'Normal' Bodies?:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/18/why-cant-marvel-superheroes-have-normal-bodies

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

* A small, cheap thing to help climate change if you have little money to spare: https://onetreeplanted.org/products/amazon-rainforest-peru

* How to donate to Rainbow Road: https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/donate

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

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

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

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

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

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

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

* HorrorMux is currently running a Max Mad type thing. Available Archetypes are here. I'm Martyr if you want to find me.: http://horrormu.com/index.php/Available

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

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

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

Or possibly this: https://www.chewy.com/instinct-by-natures-variety-limited/dp/44654

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

* White Nationislist/Neo-NAZI UKIP lost all their seats in parliament, but Conservative Theresa May is still PM, so there is reason to think the Tories will go ahead with plans to speed up their murder of disabled people through things like literally starving them to death, etc. as they have promised to do if they won. Think I am exaggerating? Google it. A couple thousand people have died of starvation, suicide, etc. because of current Tory austerity measures targeting disabled people. They have also been insisting terminal patients with less than a month to live are "well enough to work" despite being bedridden and literally dying. Now google "dementia tax." Tories feel disabled people aren't dying fast enough so think rendering them homeless etc. to pay for corporate tax cuts should do the trick.

Anyway, they kept enough seats to forge ahead on the economically disastrous BREXIT. *facepalm* I’m too exhausted to properly delve into coverage out of the UK tonight to see just how bad things are apt to get even for myself, but I’ve been worrying about this for weeks, so looked up the important bits.

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

* "Man caught getting beat by N.J. cops in critical condition:" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/man-caught-beat-n-cops-critical-condition-article-1.3231920

* "Chicago man spits, punches people during rant over spilled coffee:" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/chicago-man-spits-punches-people-rant-spilled-coffee-article-1.3231544

* Today I exhausted myself doing fish things and playing garden tetris. It is the time of year when things are growing so fast every trip to water them is a game of limbo and things entwine inconveniently. I was forced to harm the asparagus freeing it from lilies, but I think it will be happier in it's new lodgings.

* Tavy and the thank you roses I got Thursday for helping with the move.: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/161676650787/tavy-and-the-thank-you-roses-i-got-thursday-for

* For the record, I rather liked White Queen, despite the occasional problem and thing I disagreed with. White Princess has turned out to be rather a mess and has joined the Tudors in my too many things wrong with it to be good stack, which is a shame, as there are some talented people in the cast who I feel deserved better material. It's extra a shame as it's a really interesting period with a lot of real life people and politics that could have made great watching. The choice to show the York to Tudor transition had a lot of potential, and I've had a lot of thoughts I might not have otherwise had by looking at things from this angle in anticipation of the White Princess premiere, but the show didn't take me where I wanted to go that way. Instead it took me places I emphatically didn't want to got, and like the disappointing Tudors, they forgot that Henry VII was a real person with a personality and a lot of political acumen. His use of propaganda and pageantry to win hearts and minds, his subtlety... I do not recognize this lump of wood on the throne. I have long been of the opinion that Elizabeth I took strongly after her Grandfather personality wise. I can watch White Queen and clearly recognize Margaret Beaufort's personality, so they must know how to write characters, but it's like they did no research into Henry VII, and just dressed a manikin for Lizzie to act around. I accept a certain amount of change and telescoping and inaccuracy. I love both Vikings and the cheese that is the Borgias, even though I can give you a long list of things that are not true and people who are changed, displaced in time, etc..

I am way more forgiving of changes that increase representation. What little we know of RL Micheletto is nothing like show Micheletto, but you will pry my beloved show Micheletto from my cold dead hands. His arc is the most interesting thing in a show full of interesting things. Taking a very minor historical figure and doing this with him? Brilliant. Similarly Ivar likely wasn't "boneless" but a manuscript copying error gave them an excuse to add a character with a serious disability and who am I to argue with that even if sociopath paraplegic is not my idea of positive representation. And this doesn't get into things like messed up geography, Rollo and that siege where Katerina shows her genitals being misplaced in time, Cesaere's lack of disfigurement, etc.. Seriously, I'm not a purist if the art works as art and the characters, period, and events are...I don't know close enough? I will except wiggling around with period contemporary rumors, events in dispute, historical figures about which little is known, combining multiple RL people for obvious narrative reasons, interpretations I don't agree with but which are plausible. Tudors threw out Henry VIII's entire personality though which is a serious fucking problem, him being the main character. I admit to knowing not much about RL Lizzie, especially as compared to people like Margaret Beaufort, Richard III, Henry VII, Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI, etc.. I hadn't realized there WAS a gap there and that I would like to know more about her until I was thinking about White Princess before the premiere. (I DO intend to do something about that eventually, but not right now as I'm three or four years on a private project mostly about early modern France for my own amusement and I have stacks of entirely the wrong research materials stacked all over, many of which are ILL and have to be read before I do anything else.) So I can not state one way or another anything about this Elizabeth vs. the RL one. I can swallow them deciding to make the pretender real, but why can't they show not tell how Kingly he is meant to be instead of making him annoying and rather wooden. I had some serious issues with White Queen Costuming, but White Princess costuming is worse to the point of being constantly distracting instead of just being sporadically distracting. The characters were just frankly more interesting in Queen, whereas I don't really enjoy anyone much in Princess nor is there really anyone to like or root for except maybe the Grandmother hiding out in Burgundy? But she's hardly there. Or maybe the put upon cousin? And the politic are a complete mess. Not moving a few battles or an abbey around (I'm looking at you Borgias and Vikings) or simplifying enough so the viewers have a clue what's going on in a one hour show (ditto), which again, I'm cool with as long as you don't push it too far, but Princess needs an international context to make sense and it doesn't have enough of one to tell the political story they seem to be trying to tell. Yes, they go to Burgundy, and once to Spain (which I'd happily have forgiven for the reason I'm cool with Lion in Winter even though the family Christmas never happened. Lion in Winter gets the Characters right and includes enough politics to make sense, except that depiction of Spain is a complete stereotypey mess and that really didn't seem like Queen Isabella), but You need way more Scotland and France at minimum for the politics to make sense. You pretty much always need France and usually Scotland to make English medieval and Early Modern foreign policy and civil war type things make sense, just like France in that same stretch of about 1200 years needs England, Spain/HRE/various German states depending on period, the low countries, the bits that are often part of France or HRE/German state but sometimes independent, and often Italy. This stuff is entwined. Bits of France are England for a big chunk of time. English nobility was still speaking French centuries after that time a French invasion force conquered them back in 1066. French frequently sends support to Scotland and to various parties in English throne wars. They endlessly inter marry. Once you pull the focus out far enough to be talking about non-English alliances, you kind of need to at least properly sketch in the international context. They don't do it well or coherently in Princess. If they wanted to focus so heavily on the family drama, they needed to draw the characters better, the way they did in Queen. If they want to do politics, they needed to do the politics better. Instead it's all muddled and unfocused and messy in a way that has me glaring angrily at the costumes or wondering why scenes and whole subplots are their if they weren't going to do them properly.

I am told these are adapted out of novels. I had intended to try them after seeing Queen, but now I'm suspecting they aren't worth my time.

* "Sins of the Father:" http://cmdr-zoom.dreamwidth.org/1010038.html

* "Eight Movies to Add to your Must Watch List for Pride Month:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/eight-movies-must-watch-list-pride-month/

* "Archer Is Reinvented Under The Murder Mystery Genre:" https://www.thefandomentals.com/archer-dreamland/

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